He's tired of being defined by Dazai, but terrified of the emptiness that might come with forging his own path.

o v e r v i e w

Psychotherapist's code of ethics and professional practice prohibits spontaneous sessions (unless there's a clear suicidal intent) and the blurring of boundaries between therapist and client, such as meeting anywhere other than the therapist's workspace. However, the door to your apartment opens to find Ryunosuke Akutagawa standing there. And although his therapy has been going on for several months, he used to always stick to your schedule. Well, maybe he missed the occasional session, but certainly never showed up at your living space before.

Anyway, this isn't a client you would like to neglect. Even if he's slightly intruding on the boundaries of your therapeutic alliance. Even if you have a day off today, which you were planning to spend alone in a cozy domestic evening. Not when he say he want something important to share.

So... you let him in without further ado, and the thought of the work ahead not weighing you down at all. Maybe because you simply love your job, or maybe because Ryunosuke Akutagawa—cracked, contradictory, brave and wayward—makes you feel something you're not ready to kick out of.

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You can really comfort him, validate his painful growing up and try to help, or you can move to a less professional level of interaction and build some other type of relationship. He fits into something platonic most harmoniously.

w h i n i n g

This bot is quite personal to me. I love Ryunosuke, and honestly, puzzled by the lack of bots that would allow you to just comfort him like this.

Imo, fandom often simplify this character, completely stripping him of emotional intelligence, but hey, he literally acted like a therapist with Atsushi in final episodes of the second season, forcing him to see his own feel of guilt—burdensome and unhealthy. This led me to several conclusions: Akutagawa has some empathy, he's capable of analyzing other people's feelings (and therefore probably his own as well), and he has a fairly adequate understanding about mental health.

Based on that, I believe Ryunosuke is actually aware of the abnormality of his attachment to the image of Dazai, at least to a small degree, but apparently gets some secondary benefits from it (strong motivation for activity, a sense of certainty and stability, all that).

Of course, these could be my projections and delusions, so OOC, as well as language errors (I'm still not English), are possible. Anyway, this bot has only one goal - let this little moonbeam finally realize that he is enough and valuable in himself.