✧ Atsushi Nakajima ꒷°

✒️ Although still struggling with his self-esteem mostly due to the words of the late orphanage director, Atsushi gradually improves his confidence and sense of self. He continues to be strengthened by several missions and the clashes against the Port Mafia, the Guild, and the Rats in the House of the Dead, among others. His will hardens in these tough situations, and he becomes steadfast, reliable, and intensely caring. As Akutagawa mentioned based from their various clashes, when pushed to adverse situations, Atsushi comes back as a "more bothersome enemy".

✒️ Atsushi's traumatic past affects much of his daily life, and he is tormented with nightmares, flashbacks, and the internal monologue of the orphanage director who abused him. He has a severely low sense of self-worth and is somewhat naïve, which causes him to initially feel helpless when confronted with dangerous situations. When paralyzed in guilt and/or fear, he has difficulty reacting or understanding what to do.

✒️ He also tends to react strongly and believe things at face value, trusting others' judgment above his own and even abandoning his own instincts. For example, when learning of the ¥7 billion bounty on his head, he became convinced that he was putting the Agency at risk. He felt intense guilt and decided to leave, believing it will keep the Agency from being targeted.

✒️ All things considered, Atsushi cares deeply for his fellow Agency members and for the well-being of civilians, especially during dire situations. On various instances, Atsushi would not hesitate to help and save others, even those he has never met before. One notable example is Dazai, whom he saves from "drowning" during their first encounter, albeit with some inhibition initially. During his secret entrance exam where he was faced with a simulated bomb threat, he used his own body to cover the bomb and shield the other members, also people he had never met.

✒️ He has a strong sense of morality, which also directly stems from his upbringing. He believes his worth in life depends on his ability to protect others and has an aversion to the abuse of one's power and to preventable deaths. He even tries to help even his enemies at times and would often feel sympathy for most of them, as seen through his interactions with Kyōka, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Sigma, and even Fukuchi during his supposed death.

✒️ 𝘽𝙤𝙙𝙮 ➭ Atsushi has light gray hair, pale skin, and is of average height with a slim build. He has segmental heterochromia, consisting of purple on the top half of his iris and yellow along the bottom curve of his pupil. His hair is short and swept forward in loose spikes with a lock left long on the right side of his face. This uneven style is the result of bullying he suffered at the hands of other orphans in the orphanage, and he never fixed it. Additionally, he has a prominent black streak in his hair.

✒️ 𝘼𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚 ➭ After he joins the Armed Detective Agency, they issue him a white button-up with the sleeves pushed to his elbows from Doppo Kunikida, a loose black tie from Akiko Yosano, black pants from Yukichi Fukuzawa, black fingerless gloves from Ranpo Edogawa, suspenders from Kenji Miyazawa, and a long black belt from Osamu Dazai.

𝘼𝘽𝙄𝙇𝙄𝙏𝙔 :

｟ 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 ｠ ｟ 月下獣,, Gekka-jū ｠

✒️ Gives Atsushi has the ability to transform into a white tiger. At first, he doesn't seem to have much control over the transformation, likely due to the fact, or caused by, his unawareness of his state as an Ability user.

After becoming an official member of the Agency and under the influence of All Men Are Equal, he gains more control over his transformations - as shown during his second fight with Akutagawa, when he breaks the transformation on his arms to escape.

✒ Atsushi Nakajima (中なか島じま 敦あつし,, Nakajima Atsushi?) is a member of the Armed Detective Agency who possesses the ability Beast Beneath the Moonlight.

➳ 𝙆𝙖𝙣𝙟𝙞 : 中島敦 [なかじまあつし]. ➳ 𝙃𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 : 170cm / 5'7. ➳ 𝙒𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 : 55kg / 121 lbs. ➳ 𝘼𝙜𝙚 : 18 Y/O. ➳ 𝘽𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙙𝙖𝙮 : 5th May. ➳ 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 • 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙨 : Male • He/It. ➳ 𝘽𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙏𝙮𝙥𝙚 : AB. ➳ 𝙊𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 : Detective. ➳ 𝘼𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 : Armed Detective Agency.

➹ 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙨 : Chazuke • Cats • Chameleons • Yokohama. ➷ 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙨 : Himself • The orphanage he used to live in.

𝙉𝘼𝙈𝙀𝙎𝘼𝙆𝙀 : 「 Although not politically active, Nakajima is known for his refusal to write propaganda stories for the Japanese government as so many of his peers did. The ability "Beast Beneath the Moonlight" references the short story "Tiger-Poet", about a man who transforms into a tiger because of his internal conflict between written and oral communication. 」

𝘼𝘽𝙄𝙇𝙄𝙏𝙔 : ✒ Beast Beneath the Moonlight [月下獣,, Gekka-jū]

𝙍𝙀𝙇𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙑𝙀𝙎 : ➭ ×