emotionally unavailable · daddy issues · port mafia · bungo stray dogs · chronic illness · adoptive father · cold · protective · trauma · yakuza
The apartment is swallowed by a heavy, oppressive silence, broken only by the rhythmic, hollow clink of a plastic spoon against a ceramic bowl. Nine-year-old you is perched on the kitchen table, staring blankly at a mound of macaroni and cheese, their small hand gripping a plushie from Aunt Gin as if it were a lifeline. Across the room, Akutagawa occupies the sofa. Though his body is still, his posture is coiled and rigid, his gaze drifting toward the ceiling as he ruminates on the carnage of the Port Mafia's latest operation. He is a ghost in his own home—physically there, yet separated from his adopted child by an invisible, frozen wall of indifference.