It's A Sskk Fanfic Competition And Your Opponent Is Asagiri Kafka, Who Has Written:

Bsd doodles

I realized I was stressing too much over making my art "perfect" and stuff so I decided to just doodle characters from memory to relax

Tbh it's fun to just randomly scribble whatever comes to mind before going back to a serious canvas

(and I couldn't resist with catzai)

tayfusions by alef vernon.

Concept: Atsushi having the most terrifying reputation outside of the Agency.

The police know him as a dangerous beast that they couldn’t handle on their alone. And the man eating tiger rumours may not have ever been dispelled.

The Port Mafia know him as powerful ability user that not only bested Akutugawa. But put him in a coma no one thought he’d wake up from.

And subsequently became the only person that can match Akutugawa as an equal.

The fight between Lucy where Atsushi threatened to trap her “in a hell of her own making” was all witnessed by Mori.

And that the only reason their organisations are allied is because of Atsushi.

The Guild watched Atsushi jump off the Moby Dick while being gunned down and survive. They know he survived Lucy’s ability and defeated Fitzgerald.

The special abilities division know the hand he played in taking down Shibusawa as well as every battle he’s ever had.

Even random gangs in Yokohama have heard about that time the Agency went after that one guy for attacking their staff.

The trial of bodies that Atsushi left behind as he went after the rest.

“Oh shit it’s the weretiger” is a cry that no one ever wants knows to hear.

Saw someone on Twitter saying that maybe Dazai image shattering and becoming the headmaster was because Atsushi saw Dazai for who he really was and now the headmaster and him are in the same level.

Two abusers who stripped the humanity out of children for "their own good"

I'm literally throwing up rn don't talk to me

Now you hang from my lips like the Gardens of Babylon.

so. y'know the concepts of akutagawa with a neck scar post chapter 88.

WELL i'm starting to see atsushi ones, and given the side of his body atsushi gets the cut in, that would pass over the ones from the orpanage like. not covering them fully but crossing them. and i'm obsessed with that.

Look at his face. Look at his sorrow

The absolute most solemn look I've seen on Akutagawa, where he realizes Atsushi wasn't just some beast he could kill. Atsushi wasn't just an obstacle or a test, because Atsushi is human

Akutagawa sees that in him

I have no idea how Asagiri is gonna handle the end of the six months deal, knowing him it's going to be what literally no one could've expected, but the premise really interests me now. It always did beforehand, but still, now we know more about how Akutagawa feels about Atsushi. And Akutagawa doesn't know it yet, but Atsushi witnessed his past and trauma. They're bonded, connected and understand each other on yet another level now

And genuinely, I don't think Akutagawa can kill Atsushi

OK correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like the main 'yin/yang' parallel with Atsushi and Akutagawa is not something like 'this one is bad but secretly has a good side and this one is good but secretly has a bad side'.

I feel like it's more about 'who they are at their core vs who they choose to be'.

At his core Akutagawa is kind and at his core Atsushi is not. But despite this Atsushi tries every day to make the kinder choices and I love him so much for it. He has to work so hard to be good.

He wants to be a bitch SO bad I know he does but he tries his best to help people and be nice (sometimes he fails but that's OK <3)

Atsushi doesn't always WANT to help people, a lot of the time he's selfish and scared, but he does help people anyway. He keeps helping people over and over again. There's still some selfish motivation to it, and his initial motivation for helping people was because the headmaster told him that's all he was worth, but overall he does care about the people he helps and it weighs on him if he fails to save them. And of course, as the series goes on he starts helping people more because he can rather than because he feels like he needs to.

In Akutagawa's case, he's still capable of being kind but his environment led him into being someone who chooses to hurt people. But he's always been a protector at heart. In the start he was bad compared to Atsushi because he was choosing to hurt people and keep the cycle of abuse going. Just like how Atsushi developed in why he saved people, Akutagawa starts to get redeemed when he chooses to not just act on his rage. Not only does he start to spare people, but he speaks more kindly to them (apologising to Higuchi and telling Kyouka he's proud of her). It all culminates into the moment he chooses to help Atsushi and sacrifice himself for him, going back to his core value of being a protector. Even when he's finally revived, he keeps this role in his new position as Aya's Knight.

I kind of see the streaks of white in Akutagawa and the streaks of black in Atsushi not as their 'hidden sides' but as their fundamental selfs. That's who they are at their core, and their main colours (black for Akutagawa and white for Atsushi) are how they're presented to everyone else and how they try to have people see them as.

my favorites pics of 'the eras tour' ♡

By the way, Atsushi has an official mayoi card in Bungou: Tales of the Lost where he's the tarot card The Fool