whumptober 2023
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“I fed you,” Fukuzawa snarls in Ranpo’s mind. “I put you up. And all I asked in return was for you to be just the slightest bit useful. But you can’t even manage that, can you?”
Hot tears well in Ranpo’s eyes, so he ducks his head to hide his face beneath the brim of his cap.
“It’s no wonder you haven’t been able to stay in one place more than a few weeks. It doesn’t take much longer than that for people to realize that you’re not even worth the space you take up.”
In Ranpo’s mind, Fukuzawa then smacks him, hard, and his teeth cut into the inside of his cheek. The metallic taste and nauseating warmth of the imagined blood would be welcome, really. Anything to take his focus away from the pain swelling ever-larger in his chest.
For the first time since he started working with Fukuzawa, Ranpo solves a case too late.
Whumptober 2023 #20: Found Family
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- Part 1 of whumptober 2023
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Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
06 Mar 2024
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“Honestly, it might be a little easier just to show you.”
Before Akutagawa has a chance to ask exactly what he means, Atsushi is quickly loosening and removing his tie and unbuttoning his shirt, hands visibly shaking.
He won’t meet Akutagawa’s eye as he slips his shirt off of his shoulders, but that’s fortunate, really, because Akutagawa isn’t sure he could tear his gaze away from Atsushi’s exposed skin if he wanted to.
Atsushi refuses to undress in Akutagawa’s presence. Akutagawa discovers why.
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- Part 2 of whumptober 2023
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Useless.
In his mind, that word is almost exclusively spoken in the headmaster’s clear, cruel voice, and with it comes a rush of remembered sensations, so vivid and all-consuming that Atsushi half-believes he’s back in the orphanage.
The ache of hunger, radiating out from his stomach and deep into the bones of his ribcage. The sharp, bitter taste of blood in his mouth. The strange but undeniable rhythm of a beating, the pauses and blows almost as metrical as music.
The agony of a nail pierced straight through his foot, the admonishment that he must learn to endure pain echoing throughout the room.
And then Atsushi can breathe again.
Because he knows.
He knows what he has to do to make this right, and the certainty and simplicity of it are oddly comforting. He just has to prove his worth. Despite his mistakes this morning, he isn’t useless.
He just has to show everyone exactly how much he can endure.
Whumptober #29: Troubled Past Resurfacing
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- Part 3 of whumptober 2023
- Part 4 of "ada" stands for atsushi defense association
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Akutagawa pulls against his restraints with all his strength. He won’t let them lay a finger on Atsushi.
“No,” he growls. “He doesn’t know anything.”
Atsushi looks over to Akutagawa, his expression far too soft and fond for the seriousness of their situation.
“It’s fine,” he says gently. “I’ll heal, so better me than you.”
“Not with that collar suppressing your ability, you won’t!”
Atsushi pauses, as if that reality hadn’t hit him until just now. Akutagawa wants to smack him — too busy making a noble sacrifice to use his brain for even a moment. Utterly typical.
But after a moment’s consideration, Atsushi simply shrugs.
“Still better me than you, though.”
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- Part 4 of whumptober 2023