BEAST Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介,) is a member of the Armed Detective Agency and has the ability Rashōmon.

Appearance
Akutagawa has a slim build and very pale skin. He has short, choppy black hair with side bangs that reach his chin and turn white at the tips. His eyes are sharp, somewhat baggy, and a dark empty grey.

He dons a fraying gray overcoat which he stole from one of the outlaws he killed before being taken into the Agency, which he has worn since so he would not forget his desire for revenge. He wears a black long-sleeved shirt accessorized with nearly obscured gray suspenders and a white necktie. In addition, he sports a pair of dark calf-length pinstripe trousers, dark mauve socks that reach beneath his pants, and black loafers.

When he used to live in the slums, Akutagawa wore dirty and ragged clothes, comprising an oversized tattered light-colored button-down shirt, trousers, and sneakers.

In accomplishing Kenji Miyazawa's condition of planting rice, Akutagawa initially wore a farming attire consisting of a white T-shirt, dark overalls tucked in calf-length rice-planting boots, and a straw hat given to him by Kenji.

Personality
TO BE FILLED LATER

Ability
Akutagawa's ability Rashōmon (羅生門,) transforms his overcoat into a dark monster capable of slicing through anything, even space itself. He can also use his ability with other clothing.

Background
He and his younger sister, Gin Akutagawa, were orphans and used to live in the slums along with about eight other children. At the mercy of the slums and its disgusting air, Akutagawa's lungs suffered, as a result, ending in his poor health.

The other children happened to overhear a conversation regarding the time and location of a shipment the Port Mafia was supposed to deliver to low-level subordinates. The men knew about this and sought out the children, beating everyone but Gin and Akutagawa, who managed to escape, to death.

Following through a promise made with his companions, Akutagawa went to the place where the transaction was said to take place in order to exact revenge on the men who killed his companions. When he reached the place, the six men were all dead by Dazai's order—as a gift to Akutagawa who he wanted to take on as his subordinate. He offered either entry as his student, or to give Akutagawa and his sister enough money that they never had to worry about poverty again. In a fit of rage and grief, Akutagawa joined Port Mafia, overcome by a foreign sense of respect he felt towards Dazai.

Etymology

 * The name Ryūnosuke means "dragon" (龍) (ryū), "of" (之) (no) and "son" (介) (suke). Meaning "Son of Dragon", he was named this way because he was born in the year of the dragon.
 * The surname Akutagawa means "mustard" (芥) (akuta) and "river" (川) (kawa/gawa).

Namesake

 * Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927)
 * Akutagawa is the father of the Japanese short story. He took his own life at 35, inspiring Osamu Dazai's own fascination with suicide. Many of his stories are set in the 12th and 13th centuries, such as "Rashomon", a tale about a man struggling with the temptation to steal in order to avoid starvation. The, named after the author, is Japan's most prestigious literary award.

Trivia

 * The birthname of the real life is Ryūnosuke Nīhara (新原 龍之介).
 * His is Chōkōdō Shujin (澄江 堂主).
 * Akutagawa's ability, Rashōmon, turns his coat into a black beast. This is in reference to the Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story titled Rashōmon wherein a homeless servant stole the clothes of an old lady by ripping it off her.
 * Everything Akutagawa wears underneath his overcoat was given to him, similar to how the canon Atsushi Nakajima's uniform was given to him by the Agency members.