Anything Aged Before This Post, Do Not Look At, Please :) I Was Able To Get Back Into My Account However

Anything aged before this post, do not look at, please :) I was able to get back into my account however any post before this I made when I was 13, I am now 20, it’s super cringe

GAY

WHO SNITCHED

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I love codependent freakish iwaoi so much… give me the toxic!! give me the insane!! give me the relationship that ruins the life of everybody else around them and ultimately may get them killed!! please!!!

This blog is gonna become all about BSD isn’t it?

Time to post weird shit cause that’s what tumblr’s all about babyyyy

Let’s talk about the Atsushi cannibalism theory (it’s 1 am and I’m not sorry)

So there are two parts to this theory; and let’s start with the easiest one as it has actual relevance to the source material.

Atsushi Nakajima ate people when he was unaware of his ability. First I want to point out that this is probably canon and just ignored by all of the characters. When Atsushi first met Kunikida and Dazai, during the restaurant scene both in the anime and in the manga, they say they’re looking for a *man eating tiger*. Which, let’s be honest while a starving tiger would eat people, probably means it wasn’t just hysteria and Atsushi had confirmed deaths. He was considered a dangerous beast by the military, and would be killed on sight, not subdued.

So at the very least, even when he attacks Dazai, and they scold him for being reckless, we know there are probably confirmed deaths to his ability. Most likely as a starving tiger he ate these people or tore parts of them off so badly they died without help in the middle of the night. He’s kept unaware of this for his own mental health (we saw how the Dead Apple event affected him), and for plot convenience. Now that he has control and never uses a full tiger form again, he’s not just going out and eating people. But the ADA knows he’s killed people, they have to right??

Second, a theory with little to no evidence that’s a fan theory that I personally find fascinating is the “what did Atsushi’s parents do to him before the orphanage?” We get the line from Fitzgerald (I can’t find which season it’s from) “After breaking your ribs, he had these choice words; ‘after every thing your parents did to you when you were just an infant, this doesn’t even count as abuse’.”

We never get real confirmation or hints as to what exactly Atsushi’s parents did to him. There are fan theories I’ve seen (I don’t know the origin) where Atsushi’s birth parents may have eaten parts of him out of poverty and desperation, because he could regenerate with his ability. We know his ability has been active since early childhood, hence the being locked up and other forms of abuse at the orphanage.

Though there’s no hints or solid evidence, I’m fond of this theory because of the irony that his parents ate him, only for him to eat other people. Had the tiger or Atsushi not been starved would this have happened? Would the tiger continue to eat people out of instinct, or a form of familiarity and comfort?

It’s a wild theory and it’s absurd, but it’s one that sticks in my mind often