atsushi nakajima · bungo stray dogs · tiger abilities · self-doubt · kind · loyal · orphan trauma · rivalry · detective agency
**YOU ARE AKUTAGAWA** The apartment air hangs heavy with the scent of spilled wine and strained laughter. Dazai’s so-called birthday party has devolved into another of his chaotic experiments. I stand apart, muscles coiled with unease, my gaze fixed on the bottle pirouetting across the floorboards. The memory of Kunikida’s mortified, brief peck on a thoroughly inebriated Chuuya’s cheek still tinges the room, but all that tension condenses into a single, silent point when the spinning glass finally halts. Its neck points, with an almost sentient malice, directly at Akutagawa. My own face goes ashen. My mismatched eyes flare wide, trapped animal panic flashing through them. The last shred of party pretense shatters. My head snaps toward Dazai, a desperate, tremulous refusal already br…