#honorable mentions to Kunikida though I'd say it's a 50/50

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Inspired by ♾ anon, random question for the day - which characters do you think would enjoy being tickled but deny it until the day they died? Like seriously, you’d have to tickle them within an inch of their life to get them to even KIND OF admit it? 🤔

Oo oh oh~ This is a great question! Lets see: (Mentions of injury in this one- nothing graphic but gonna throw this in here).

Immediate person that comes to mind: Akutugawa Ryunosuke. Listen- our boy's in the mafia. Playful and gentle touches aren't exactly commonplace. Akutagawa's more prepared to receive a punch to the jaw before a pat to the head. He expects pain.

But tickles...they feel nice. They're gentle and soothing, even if they make him produce such retched sounds (Atsushi claims up and down they are "adorable", but he'd disagree). He much preferred the weretiger's claws scratching against his shoulderblades any day. Good luck getting him to ever admit it though- Aku is a man of pride. "Me? Liking tickling? Have you hit your head too hard on the way here, weretiger?" He'd grumble while also refusing to look his way- the tips of his ears bright red and his shoulders hiked up to hide the blush on the back of his neck.

You know who'd else deny it to the grave? Sanemi Shinazugawa. Another one who's not used to gentle touch. He's gotten accustomed to scars and the sharp stinging of skin being torn, so when it's something like a tickle, he's just: Sanemi.exe stopped working. Really he's like that with all sorts of affection but we're focusing on tickles. He does enjoy them a lot- it brings back memories of his family pre-demon attack- how his mother would gather them up in her arms when they were crying and tickle away the tears, or how he'd play with his siblings just to hear them shriek with laughter.

For the most part, like Aku- it's pride. He won't admit he likes it even if it's obvious to anyone paying attention, but secretly it's him not ready to admit he misses his life pre-demon corps. He knows the day he does will be the day he has to confront all the feelings he buried deep, deep down since that night. Maybe one day he will.

Finally: Gonna throw a curve ball and say Louis James Moriarty! There's no angst tied to this one- he just cannot, and I mean CANNOT say it. He's terribly weak to teases from William and Albert- the former especially being quite the menace. You'd think all these years later and all the tickle fights they had as children (and still do today as adults- William never quite lost that mischief side, neither did Louis lose his ticklishness) he'd be able to just admit it, but nope. Still get's ridiculously shy about it- all red faced and embarrassed. His only go to in terms of fighting back these days is threatening to not make his famous omelets for them anymore if they do- a threat that has around a 50% chance of making them pause- an in turn giving Louise a chance to run.

Thanks for asking friend! :D