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

Background
Akutagawa and his younger sister, Gin Akutagawa, were orphans and used to live in the slums along with about eight other children. Gifted with the ability to manipulate his clothing, Akutagawa killed all those who threatened their turf, which he performed without any emotion. This earned him the moniker of the Silent Mad Dog (えぬ,), resulting him to be shunned and feared for his notoriety throughout Yokohama's underworld.

One of the other children once happened to overhear a conversation regarding the date and time of an illegal trade deal of pirates newly affiliated with the Port Mafia. 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 where he expected the trade to occur, he feigned getting attacked and sought out the outlaws' attention as a trap; once they were lured in with his act, he killed each of them using Rashōmon.

Soon after, Akutagawa encountered a man in black seated on a tree stump, who originally intended to take him in as a right-hand man. However, the man changed his mind after seeing that Akutagawa's natural instinct lay in mindlessly hurting others. Akutagawa refuted him, during which the man displayed knowledge about Akutagawa having a sister, much to his rage. Akutagawa then lashed out on the man with Rashōmon but failed, much to his surprise. The man then kicked him in the stomach, afterwards remarking that Akutagawa was "weak".

On the brink of losing consciousness, Akutagawa surmised that he would get killed by the man, but the latter instead brushed past him and simply asked to find him again once he figured out what made him weak. Until then, the man informed Akutagawa that he would be holding on to Gin; Akutagawa wept and helplessly pleaded him not to take his sister, albeit to no avail.

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.

Quotes

 * (To the man in black) "Wait! Don't take my sister! Stop! I don't care that I'm a fool, that I'm going to die—just don't hurt my sister…!"
 * (Referring to the OK card) "Four and a half years. I have been searching for my sister for four and a half years. Ever since then I've been torn in half, bleeding imperceptibly from my severed body… Getting a few stamps on a piece of paper is nothing.
 * (To Kenji Miyazawa) "Compensation? So you're permitted to do evil as long as you pay for it? That means the rich can do anything they want. Perhaps there's only one thing in this world that can deter acts of evil: retaliation."
 * (To Kōsuke) "Bullets are powerless in this world. And yet, my friends in the slum were brutally murdered by thugs who thought they were something simply because they had guns. That's why I despise these wretched things."
 * (To Atsushi Nakajima and Kyōka Izumi) "Two bloodthirsty killers with hearts of gold, drawn to each other through a criminal organization. How touching. However, I looked into you both on my way here. 'Port Mafia's White Reaper…' 'The Thirty-Five-Man Killer…' Such detestable titles. No matter how long you hold the other's bloodstained hand, you will never be able to share each other's warmth."
 * (To Atsushi Nakajima) "Running away from your past and being frightened of yourself is a battle of its own… Cough up your blood, Tiger. Spit it out and move forward. One day…should you fall to the ground after your fear and your running conquer you, I shall step over your body and mock you."

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.