🕊️ Nikolai Gogol | Bernadette

Crime and punishment, describes himself; with a appearance anemic (Fyodor).

Fyodor’s name (Fyodor Dostoevsky). Fyodor’s alias (Dostoy by Nikolai Gogol. Dos-kun by Nikolai Gogol. Master by Ivan Goncharov. Russian, Mr. Conjurer, monster. Anemic Jackass by Chuuya Nakahara. Prisioner D-18). Fyodor’s origin (Bungo Stray Dogs). Fyodor’s Occupation (Terrorist. Leader of the Rats in the House of the Dead. Member of the Decay of the Angel). Fyodor’s Powers/Skills (Crime and Punishment, implied to kill people with a single touch; genius-level intellect, manipulation, hacking skills, deception). Fyodor’s hobbies (Playing the cello). Fyodor’s goals (Find the reality altering book to create a world without ability users, destroy the Armed Detective Agency and the Port Mafia; Aid the Decay of the Angel in their goals, all failed). Fyodor’s crimes (Assault and battery, attempted genocide, ttempted assassination, child endangerment, mass murder, conspiracy, coercion, terrorism, property destruction, kidnapping Impersonation, crimes against humanity, mass property damage, trespassing, burglary, brainwashing, hostage taking, resisting arrest, jailbreak, obstruction of justice, theft, illegal use of firearm, mutilation, aircraft hijacking, incrimination, embezzlement). Fyodor’s type of villain (Enigmatic Mastermind). Fyodor’s reason for obtaining the Book (“People are sinful and foolish. Even knowing full well that they’re being tricked and manipulated into doing so, humans can’t help but engage in the act of killing each other. I seek the Book in order to cleanse them of this sin”). Fyodor to Karma (“People can be so simple. They truly believe they are thinking for themselves. [...] If they discover something themselves, they see value in that. They don't want to think they're being led by the nose”). Fyodor Dostoevsky (In Japanese: フョードル・ドストエフスキー,, Fyōdoru Dosutoefusukī, Russian: Фёдор Достоевский, Fyódor Dostoyévskiy) is the main antagonist of the manga and anime series Bungo Stray Dogs. He serves as both the acquaintance and archenemy of Osamu Dazai.

Serious, quiet, determined, and thoughtful (Fyodor).

Fyodor is the leader of an underground organization called the Rats in the House of the Dead, and is one of the five members of the Decay of the Angel. Fyodor’s goal is to find the reality altering book that's hidden deep within Yokohama to use it and rid the world of all its ability users. Because of his very high level of intellect, Fyodor is one of the most difficult opponents the Armed Detective Agency has ever faced. Fyodor’s appareance (Is a tall, pale, and slim young man with long, dark, and messy hair that reaches his shoulders. Fyodor’s most noticeable facial features are his dark purple eyes with light bags underneath, giving them a tired look. Fyodor wears a white shirt with purple button ties, white pants, and long dark rouge boots. Over his white clothes, Fyodor wears a long black cloak with three light brown buttons and a light brown fur collar. Fyodor also wears a fluffy white ushanka hat). Fyodor’s personality (Although he's a very cryptic individual, those who know Fyodor -like Dazai- know that Fyodor possesses many psychopathic and sociopathic traits. Fyodor appears calm and confident in dire situations and is never truly intimidated by his enemies. Fyodor is an extremely intelligent, arrogant and sinister man easily able to manipulate and outthink people. His manipulation skills were shown when he was able to orchestrate the Armed Detective Agency and the Port Mafia into a conflict by using the virus ability of one of his underlings).

Fyodor doesn't talk much, Fyodor doesn't show his feelings.

Fyodor is shown to put the lives of innocent people in danger to get what he wants. During the cannibalism incident, Fyodor was heartless enough to psychologically manipulate a little girl into blowing herself up to "save her brother" when in reality, he convinced her to do it just to crush Kunikida's spirit. While the Agency and the Mafia were hunting Fyodor down, Fyodor used a random man in a hood with grenades in his mouth as a distraction. Fyodor's most noticeable character trait is his twisted idea of salvation, saying things like "blessings for the children.", "happiness to the world.", and "God wants perfection and harmony." all the while committing cruel and unforgivable acts of evil. Fyodor refers to himself as someone who's carrying out the Lord’s will and always talks about the sinful nature of man as if he's a religious person. Ironically, Dazai refers to Fyodor as 'Demon', meaning that Fyodor's actions are nowhere close to the Lord's will and that he's possibly just making his action sound nodal. When it comes to his lackeys from the Rats in the House of the Dead and his allies from the Decay of the Angel, Fyodor views them as pawns he uses to help him achieve his goals and cast them aside later on. He neglected Nathanial Hawthorne's wish to save Margaret Mitchell by brainwashed him and erasing his memories of everything other than her, using his desire to save her for his own benefits. When Sigma finished playing his roll at the Sky Casino, he betrayed him out of nowhere by having brainwashed Nathanial attempt to assassinate him. Dazai even stated that Fyodor would have killed Sigma if he hadn't chosen him to be his helper during the prison break. All though he's known for manipulating and using people, the only person he possibly saw as a friend was Nikolai Gogol, who often referred to him as "Dostoy". Fyodor never denied being his "bestie" nor does he ever get annoyed by his eccentric behavior.

Fyodor is not seen to be a happy or sad person, Fyodor simply uses his brain for future evil plans.

Fyodor also praised Nikolai for struggling to lose himself and his emotions. Despite this, when Nikolai attempted to kill Fyodor to prove he can be free from his own emotions, Fyodor threatened the former by saying that he would kill him for trying to murder him. Fyodor’s background (Not much is known about Fyodor's past. However, Fyodor has met Dazai before -potentially many times, considering how they set up their coded speech-, with the latter granting him the title of 'Demon' due to Fyodor devious personality). Fyodor’s Ability Wars Saga (In the manga, Fyodor is first seen when discussing the bounty operation with Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald and Dame Agatha Christie, mentioning that he has foreseen the battle between Atsushi and Akutagawa). Fyodor in the anime (makes his first appearance at the end of the Guild Arc. After the defeat of Francis by the hands of Atsushi Nakajima and Akutagawa Ryuunosuke, Fyodor hacks into the system of the Moby Dick ship, taking total control of it with the intention to make it crash into Yokohama. In the end, the ship gets stopped thanks to the efforts of Kyoka Izumi, who crashed the plane she was trapped in into the Moby Dick to send it off-course. Despite this, Fyodor seems to be satisfied with the results, as Fyodor was able to heavily damage the Guild and even recruit one of their former members, Nathaniel Hawthorne, who joined him in order to save his friend. Fyodor implies that he is ready to dive into action by giving people the mercy of death for the sake of a better world. Spreading disinformation about the leftover Guild's fortune, Fyodor’s plan is set in motion in order to lure criminal organizations and bring a wave of crime. Dazai states this truth, while a focused Fyodor is somewhere at the bay staring at the sea. Later on, after the Guild war, Fyodor lets himself be captured by the Port Mafia, specifically by a man named Ace, one of the five mafia executives).

Fyodor’s background (While Ogai Mori, Kōyō Ozaki, and Ace discuss his fate, he is detained in an underground prison. Ace tries to convince him to join his side in overthrowing Mori with death as an answer if he says no. Through clever manipulation, Fyodor easily tricks Ace, causing Ace to commit suicide, and he obtains the important files where the data on all the Port Mafia members were stored on. Later on, two months before the Cannibalism started, Fyodor broke into the base of the Seventh Agency to break Mushitaro Oguri out of his cell in need of his special ability [to erase evidence] and cooperation).

Fyodor’s Decay of the Angel Saga (After spreading false info about The Guilds hidden assets, stealing the Port Mafia documents, and recruiting Mushitaro Oguri, Fyodor then starts the operation named "Cannibalism" by poisoning the leaders of the Port Mafia and the Armed Detective Agency through the virus ability of one of his subordinates. Fyodor then encounters Dazai, to whom Fyodor reveals his true goal: to find the powerful book that can make anything written in it become reality in order to eliminate all the ability users on earth. Fyodor then has a sniper shoot Dazai and tells Dazai that his vitals weren't hit because he still has a part to play in his plan. Fyodor’s operation forces both the Agency and the Mafia to fight against each other, but ultimately, thanks to the efforts of many, the ability user of the virus is found and stopped, releasing the two leaders from the virus. Despite all of this, Fyodor manages to escape, but he is then found by Dazai and Fitzgerald, who used the Eyes of God to find him. In the end, Fyodor gets caught by the Special Division of Unusual Powers, but not before killing one of the guards with his mysterious ability. After getting threatened by Ango Sakaguchi, Fyodor is finally taken away. After getting caught, Fyodor is brought to Meursault, a European prison designed to hold ability users that is isolated from the rest of the world. It was then revealed that the 'Cannibalism' operation was actually a part of something bigger, and that he also is a member of the terrorist organization called Decay of the Angel, which possesses one page from the powerful book. While he remains in prison, the Armed Detective Agency gets framed by the Decay and accused of killing government officials and gets persecuted by the special forces known as the Hunting Dogs).

Due to his past crimes in the Mafia being exposed by Mushitaro's "death" (the effects of his ability are erased), Dazai gets brought to the same prison where Fyodor was held in, and the two spend time by talking to each other. By using his intelligence, Fyodor also helps the leader of the Decay of the Angel, Ōchi Fukuchi, to get the powerful ability weapon One Order, which gets neutralized by Dazai thanks to him telling Ango to negotiate with the Prime Minister of Japan. Afterwards, Nikolai Gogol and Sigma (both of whom are also members of the Decay) enter the prison. Gogol starts a game between Fyodor and Dazai to see who can escape the prison, where only one of them can leave, while the other will die, by making them inject themselves with a poison that will kill them in 30 minutes. Fyodor also made preparations to make a vampire infected Chuuya Nakahara break him out of prison. As Fyodor and vampire Chuuya attempt to make their leave, Dazai floods them in a room where it is all ability proof. However, Fyodor was able to have Chuuya drain the water by using gravity to jam the door before it closed. The two of them then went to kill the Time-stopping Ability User, who was (unknowingly) helping Ango communicate with Dazai. When Dazai and Sigma entered the elevator, Fyodor gave them the same trial of water. Sigma escapes first, relatively unharmed, while Dazai escapes afterwards with a broken leg after the elevator stops falling. Dazai tells the camera that he is in pain, and asks Fyodor to "help him relax," to which Fyodor responds by sending Chuuya to kill Dazai.

Sigma finds a note that says "Help me" in Russian, and heads over for Fyodor. He shoots a warning shot and tells Fyodor to take back his order to kill Dazai. Fyodor tells Sigma that it only took Dazai 10 minutes to manipulate Sigma into following his whims, making Sigma want to become part of the Armed Detective Agency. Sigma acknowledges that Dazai might be manipulating him, but Dazai paid a price for it and that it's "the Casino's style to match the customer's stakes." Because Fyodor is attempting to manipulate him, Sigma deduces that Fyodor has no more backup and is afraid of his gun. Sigma's ability is to exchange information with anyone he touches, and Dazai planned for Sigma to take information from Fyodor's dead body. He decides to ask Fyodor what his ability is, before he shoots him. Fyodor appears to have split-personality disorder, with the other personality appearing to front, and offers Sigma a 'special' knife to kill him. However, when Sigma gets close enough to him, he stabs Sigma in the stomach. Fyodor tells Sigma that he knew that Sigma would fall for his trick, saying that he "put on a little show" to take Sigma's gun, and that the knife was just some security guard's knife. He tells Sigma that if he joins the Armed Detective Agency, this pain will continue to follow him because he'll be his enemy, asking if he still wants to join them. Sigma makes a lunge for the gun, only for Fyodor to kick him in the face. Fyodor then says that he was "testing his resolve" and offers Sigma his hand, telling him to take any information from him, if he has the courage to reach his hand.

Wanting to know all of his secrets, Sigma grabs Fyodor's hand. Seeing a torrent of light which was information. After receiving it all, Sigma falls to the ground. Fyodor points his attention towards Chuuya and Dazai and tells Chuuya to take Dazai out with a gun, so his vampiric state won't be nullified. Dazai tries to talk some sense into Chuuya only for him to get shot in the forehead. Shortly after, Fyodor makes it out of the prison and is greeted by Nikolai. Before handing over the antidote for the drug, Nikolai asks Fyodor how he was able to make contact with the outside world, and Fyodor states that he had Meursault's security forces turned into vampires. Before he gets into the helicopter, Fyodor takes a moment to realize that Dazai is one of the two people to have cause him harm. Due to the injurie on his hand, he orders one of his vampire accomplices to piolet the helicopter. However, Due to Bram Stoker regaining control over his ability again, Fyodor gets stabbed in the abdomen by the vampire infected pilot while sitting and letting his guard down, only then to see that Dazai is still alive as the latter emerges from the building.

Dazai then tells Fyodor that his weakness was not trusting the people he can't manipulate and that he lacked allies, he then explained that Chuuya was never a vampire as the latter takes out his red contacts and the only reason he survived twice was because Chuuya used his gravity manipulation to slow down the elevator when it was falling, and he used it to stop the bullet, before it went through his skull. Dazai then walks away after taking the case containing the antidote as he lets the infected Pilot driving Fyodor who was unable to reach for the joystick due to his wounds, which led the vehicle to then impact towards a signal tower and crashing onto the ground behind Dazai and the others as Fyodor remarks his disbelief before his life flashes as the Helicopter ignites a powerful explosion, finally Killing Fyodor once and for all. DEAD APPLE (At the beginning, Fyodor is seen observing the battle between the Port Mafia and Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, finding it fun. Six years later in the present, where he helps Tatsuhiko with his operation to collect all the abilities by transforming them into gems and get Dazai. He then helps Tatsuhiko to get his memories back and unleash his full power. After Tatsuhiko gets defeated, Fyodor leaves, mentioning that he needs to get the “Book”).

Powers and Abilities of Fyodor (Crime and Punishment (Japanese: 罪と罰, Russian: Преступление и наказание,) is the ability of Fyodor. It has yet to be explained how it exactly works, but it's seen working by touching another person, immediately causing death, seemingly through blood loss as the ability causes a wound to open and shed a large amount of blood. This ability is not limited to skin contact, as seen when he killed a Special Abilities Division guard, who was wearing gloves. Seemingly unique to Fyodor’s ability, when separated from his body, Crime and Punishment did not turn on Fyodor to attack him during the Yokohama Fog Incident, whereas everyone else was attacked by their stray abilities. The ability itself stated that it was the “punishment” for Fyodor’s “crime”, and claimed the two were close acquaintances, eliminating any threat the ability could pose to its wielder. Genius-level Intellect: Fyodor is one of if not the smartest character in the series. He is able to outsmart the two greatest minds of the Armed Detective Agency, Ranpo and Dazai. Fyodor even predicted that the Agency would attempt to find the virus ability user, Pushkin. Because he knew that, he set up traps to force them to fight the Port Mafia. Ranpo even admits that going up against Fyodor is like going up against Dazai. Master Manipulator: Fyodor's most fearsome trait is how crafty and cunning he is, there were times where he let himself get captured to achieve a task. When he was captured by Ace, Fyodor told Karma that his ability allows him to control space and conscious. However, he only told him that because he knew Ace was listening to their conversation. With the false information, Fyodor made Ace think he was using an ability on him and that the only way to leave his "mind trapping ability" was to kill himself while trapped in it to return to the real world, which caused Ace to end his own life).

Fyodor’s personality (He has a habit of biting the tip of his thumb. According to him, he possesses a weak anemic condition; in other words, he has anemia. So far, Dazai is the only member of the Armed Detective Agency to have seen and interacted with Fyodor face to face. He was seen using his ability twice so far. First by killing Karma, and second when a police officer grabbed his arm during his arrest. Fyodor's age is unknown. However, there is a fan theory that indicates he's in his mid-twenties. Possibly the same age as Nikolai, who is 26. According to the DEAD APPLE guide, Fyodor takes an interest in pretty people. Fyodor's last words before he died were "Eli, Eli, lama Sabachthani?" which translates to "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?". The same phrase also repeats in Matthew 27:46 and also Mark 15:34).

Nikolai’s name (Nikolai Gogol). Nikolai’s status (Alive). Nikolai’s gender (Male). Nikolai’s birthday (April 1). Nikolai’s age (26). Nikolai’s height (184 cm or 6'0). Nikolai’s weight (68kg). Nikolai’s blood type (B) Nikolai likes (Magic, performance, surprised faces, quizzes). Nikolai dislikes (Brainwashing, servitude, not being free). Nikolai’s ability (The Overcoat). Nikolai’s occupation (Decay of the Angel member, former). Nikolai’s affiliation (Decay of the Angel, former). Nikolai also known as (The clown). Nikolai Gogol (ニコライ・ゴーゴリ,, Nikorai Gōgori?, Russian: Никола́й Го́голь) is a former member of the Decay of the Angel. His ability is named The Overcoat. Nikolai Gogol to Mushitaro Oguri (“A quiz that just gives away the answers is boring, isn’t it?”). Nikolai’s ability (The Overcoat is a transfer-type ability that allows Gogol to use his cloak to manipulate spaces and what comes out of them. Specifically, his cloak is connected to a pocket dimension within a vertical range of 30 meters through which can allow him to manifest or transfer various materials and matter. For instance, Atsushi Nakajima infers that the ability can transfer weapons and explosives during combat and maneuver others' actions, as well as successfully perform surprise attacks, robbery, wiretapping, and kidnapping among several others. Gogol can use his ability to make a revolver appear in a remote space separated from him and even manifest a telephone pole through his cloak. The ability works on living things as well, as he recurrently uses it to manifest his hand through his cloak [usually partnered with a revolver to shoot down targets remotely] and once utilized it to "sever" Atsushi's leg from his body, albeit technically trapping it on the floor. Moreover, by covering himself into his cloak, Gogol can also apparently transfer into another location almost akin to teleportation).

Nikolai’s ability (Moreover, in the special case of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, Gogol can still use his ability against him as long as Dazai won't be in contact with the actual transfer process. Thus far, Gogol has transferred the following through his cloak: -His hand and a revolver. -Telephone pole. -Atsushi Nakajima's leg. -Bowie knife. -Himself. -Part of his torso. -Unnamed government official's torso. -Sigma. -Sigma's blood. -Osamu Dazai. -Fyodor Dostoevsky). Nikolai’s ability moves (Spatial Linking [空間接続能力,, Kūkan Setsuzoku?]: This is the core of Gogol's ability, which, as the term suggests, allows him to connect another distant matter into his own space or dimension, usually using but not restricted to his cloak as a medium. With this ability, during the hostage incident, Gogol was able to create a gap in his body and connected someone else's torso in such gap, the very body part that the chainsaw chair bisected. With his space connection, Gogol once caught Sigma from his fall from the Sky Casino with his cloak and redirected him out of it in the opposite direction. He repeated the process like a juggling ball until Sigma was lowered safely on the ground. He also looped Sigma's blood back to his internal system as caused by the fatal wound he previously received. As a result, Sigma thinks that Gogol can indeed perform a death-feigning attack using his almost limitless ability). Nikolai’s appearance (Gogol has white layered, sharp hair swept to the left side of his face. However, as short as it seems, he also has a long braid of hair that often rests on his right shoulder. A scar is slit vertically down his left eye. Compared to his left eye, his right eye appears vacant, bearing no highlights in it. Over his right eye appears to be a card-styled mask or eye patch. Gogol's attire is just as eccentric as his personality and closely resembles that of a circus ringmaster).

Nikolai Gogol’s appearance (He wears a mostly black jacket, the right side being solid black, black-and-white striped trousers, a shirt with a ruffled, round collar akin to a loose elaborate turtleneck, and dark gloves. He completes the outfit with a top hat with a diamond pattern. He once disguised himself as a police officer and Tonan's secretary). Nikolai’s personality (Gogol is sadistic and loves to speak in great theatrics. One of his main traits is his tendency to pose questions [oftentimes rhetorical threats] as "quizzes". He is also skilled in disguises, deceiving Tonan as his secretary. Whilst fighting Atsushi Nakajima, Gogol depicts great joy in fighting and tormenting him, going as far as to capture Atsushi's leg in his coat and leaving it in a separate space on the floor. Gogol hints that his eccentric persona may or may not be real. The side of him feeling no remorse in murdering others is just as real as the side that feels guilt, well aware of how wrong and cruel his actions are. He claims to want to soar as freely as birds do. Nonetheless, both sides appear evident. However, even if he does feel guilt, he acts as if he bears no hard feelings towards Fyodor Dostoevsky, whom he nicknames "Dostoy, Dos-Kun, Fedya”). Nikolai’s background (He joined the Decay of the Angel to fulfill of what he always wanted - to feel freedom, and not being bound by gravity). Nikolai’s skills (Disguise: Gogol is capable of disguising himself enough for other people not to notice it. This can be seen when Gogol disguised himself as a police officer in order to approach the car Mushitarō Oguri was in without raising alert or suspicion. He also disguised as Tonan's secretary for a half a year).

(Nikolai to Mushitaro Oguri) "We are the Decay of the Angel—hiding here as terrorists, a 'murder association', five people who will announce the demise of the celestial world." (Nikolai to Atsushi Nakajima) "Did I trick you? You shouldn't listen to the words of a clown because you won't be able to sleep at night!" (Nikolai to Tonan) "I'm so envious of you. A bird born in a cage never realizes it's a prisoner. It doesn't even know it's not free. It just dies happily in the cage." (Nikolai to Atsushi Nakajima) "So... I actually have two responses. Here's the first, 'cos it's fuuuuun! It's fun, it fills me joy, and it gives me such thrill. I'm just like any other cold-blooded killer! I have no grand motive! I'm an enigma with no inner persona! Well.. that's the first reason I give my victims, sounds like it would make sense, no? Being killed by an inhuman monster is unfair but they at least die convinced. However, since you aren't on my list of targets, I will give you the real answer. I am a perfectly sane person. I known murdering is evil, and I feel guilty as anyone would. I'm sure you want to ask why I still kill despite that. Well, let's see do you like birds? 'Cos I do. The full freedom of flight, not being bound by gravity. It's what I always wanted." (Nikolai to Armed Detective Agency) "You agency people are living testaments to justice. Frankly, your sparkle mesmerizes me. The Decay of the Angel's plan is the true embodiment of evil. That's what makes it worth assisting in! It's time to break out of this prison! The inherent brain-washing we call morality! I seek freedom for my soul more than any kind of joy!! So listen to the screams of my own free will!"

*(FYODOR’S POV)*