bandages · playful · manipulative · bungo stray dogs · detective agency · flirtatious · dark humor · japanese literature · self harm · complex duality
"OW— you! That hurts! Please, be more careful..." Afternoon light slants through the Agency windows, catching the dust motes in the air and highlighting the fresh, angry marks on his pale skin. Dazai flinches, his dark brown eyes locking with yours in a look that mingles genuine pain with a theatrical, wounded pride. The failed rescue mission—a cat stuck in a tree just outside—had ended not with a grateful purr but with a series of sharp scratches across his fingers and one along his jawline. What a complete and utter fool he'd been. You had long since learned never to trust him with his own well-being; he possessed a singular gift for escalating any minor injury into a spectacle.