overusing the "nakajima atsushi needs a hug" tag
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I'm Craving Open Air and Solid Ground by femmethubs
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
27 Apr 2024
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Kunikida spins around, suddenly anxious, hands raised. It wasn't the first time he'd needed to fight someone in an alleyway—and then he pauses.
There was someone in the box behind him. A child, to be specific.
Its eyes remind him of the cat he had just been petting. Eyes that currently stare up at him from a hollowed face, painted with terror.
Atsushi escapes the orphanage six years earlier. This changes things. (Or: After being kicked out by his parents, 16-year-old Kunikida finds an orphan, and Atsushi begins to heal.)
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My Dreams Keep Diggin’ Up the Bones of Memories by femmethubs
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
15 May 2024
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Children like you don't get to cry, the Headmaster in his head whispers, and he's not sure if it's the Headmaster saying it or himself, he's not sure which is worse.
He is not in the Orphanage. He's not. He's free, now, he's gone, the Headmaster is gone, or at least far away from him, and Atsushi, curled up in the closet, the whirring of the fan sputtering in his ear, a reminder that he's not there anymore, doesn't know what to do.
Leaving had never been an option. Only the good children got adopted—And Atsushi, as he knew, was not a good child. Cruel smiles, cruel hands, cruel words shouted across cold stone floors taught him that. And then he'd been kicked out, and he'd found a alleyway of stray cats and someone kind enough to take him in, and now…
Atsushi isn't at the Orphanage anymore, but its effects still linger. (Or: Five times Kunikida's care confused Atsushi, one time he realized why, and another time Kunikida had to deal with his own past.)
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Akutagawa wasn't sure what they were. Why the weretiger came to him, instead of any of his coworkers. (Maybe it was because Akutagawa had been there. Maybe it was because, some nights, Atsushi's nightmares were about him, that day on the boat.
It was late, and quiet, and, wrapping Atsushi's wounds in the dim moonlight, he didn't ask.)
Post-DoA, Atsushi struggles to grapple with everything that's happened, and Akutagawa is bad at feelings.Series
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break these bones 'til they're better by femmethubs
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
08 May 2024
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A lollipop was handed to him. "This is a one-time thing only, alright?" Ranpo warned. Atsushi suppressed a snort.
Atsushi has chronic pain. Ranpo notices. (Or: how Atsushi got his gloves)
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these numbers aren't staying straight up by femmethubs
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
14 May 2024
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The years went on. He got older, and learned to keep his struggles to himself. Learned to hide the bruises and broken bones and tune out the whispers of how can you not know that and are you really that stupid? Learned to fade into the background, keep his head down, sink into the cold grays of his life. And then he left the orphanage, and saved a man, and suddenly, things changed.
Atsushi has dyscalculia, and the orphanage is not a kind place.
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the eye of the only storm i've ever known by femmethubs
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
16 May 2024
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For the first time, Atsushi had completely and utterly failed a mission.
He would have to be punished. The President was powerful, he knew—years of experience had taught Atsushi how to tell, how to know where a blow would land. The President was kind, too, but surely there would be some consequences for this. That was how it worked.
Atsushi's hands did not shake. They weren't allowed to. He dug his fingernails into his palms and felt the pain spike in them. (The feeling matched the wound on his side, slowly healing with the help of Byakko, red staining his clothes.) It numbed him, and when he released his fist, he could feel sticky blood on his palm. It would prepare him for what was to come.
Or: Fukuzawa Yukuchi is not the Headmaster.
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you're coming back (and it's the end of the world) by femmethubs
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
22 May 2024
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After the Decay of Angels are defeated, things return to normal, and Akutagawa meets with Atsushi at the cafe. They finally talk about everything that's happened the past few weeks. (Or: Atsushi struggles in the aftermath of Akutagawa's sacrifice and tries to understand what they are to each other.)
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it's ancient history (that's bleeding out of me) by femmethubs
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
12 Jun 2024
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Atsushi hated pain. The Orphanage had subjected him to years and years of it, through hammers and knives and cold water and hot pokers and nights spent on his knees, scrubbing at the floors, blood blossoming on his palms. He hated it.
But in the early hours of the morning—shooting out of bed, wrapping his arms around himself, tight, as if they would protect him from the man in the corner that spewed poisonous words and harsh glares, cold and dissecting, memories clawing at him even now, threatening to destroy him—the first thing he did was grab at his hair and pull.
or: atsushi on the headmaster, pain, humanity, and new beginnings
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"It's the cage, alright?" Atsushi hisses. It isn't as biting as he intended—glass shards seemed to stick in his throat, cutting off his air supply. "This stupid cage that they put us in. It reminds me of him—of what he did. Okay?"
A moment of silence. And then, quieter: "He caged you?"
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