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| “ | Power is not meant for saving the weak. Why you ask? Because making money is all about exploiting them. Even if you use that money to help the powerless, it's simply one more jaunt around the revolving door. Power must be used for loftier goals. | „ |
| ~ Fitzgerald's view on power. |
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is a major antagonist of the Bungo Stray Dogs franchise, serving as the main antagonist of the Ability Wars Saga.
He is the rich and powerful leader of The Guild, a secret society of ability users from America and is later the head of Manhasset Security that controls inescapable surveillance. He is based off of the American author with the same name.
He voiced by Takahiro Sakurai in Japanese and Chris Hackney in English. His stage play portrayal is Yuki Kimisawa.
His evil ranking[]
What makes him heinous?[]
In General/background[]
- He's an arrogant man who couldn't care less about the innocent people he puts in danger in order to achieve his goals.
- Before he became a rich man, he killed four people in order to get his hands on some companies.
- As stated by John Steinbeck, he uses people for money which add on to how greedy he can be.
Present[]
- He placed a bounty of seven-billion-yen on Atsushi's head which resulted in the Port Mafia attacking him and the Armed Detective Agency and a few civilians getting caught in the crossfire.
- He attempted to bribe Fukuzawa into giving him the Skilled Business Permit --and in a way buy the Detective Agency-- by offering him money.
- When Fukuzawa refused, he declared war on the Agency by having Lucy kidnap two of their members and the Mafia by steeling the building holding their weapons.
- He kidnaps Atsushi himself.
- He uses Yumeno's (aka Q) mind breaking ability to spread mass chaos in Yokohama. When Atsushi begged for him not to do it, he said he would form a cooperative with the people lucky enough to survive the event all the while gleefully ripping apart Q's doll to activate the curse.
- After the plan with Q failed, he attempts to crash the Moby Dick into Yokohama, and he stated that the flying fortress weighs a total of 29,000 tones and would explode if dropped from 6,500 ft destroying the whole city and killing thousands of innocent people.
- After overpowering Atsushi in a one on one, he tries to pull his limbs off to prevent him from running away.
- While he does help T.J. Eckleburg clear his name for suspected murder, it was mostly pragmatic as he needed him to gain access to the Eyes of God system. He even said that he didn't care if he committed the crime or not.
- Despite wanting to nurse Margaret Back to health, he only wants to do it so she can be in good enough condition to end the life of the brainwashed Nathanial. This reason disgusted Atsushi as he was aware that the two of them put their lives on the line to save each other.
- Despite the high heinous standard of the series and the "the destruction of Yokohama for the Book" not being new, Francis stands out with his wealth compared to even the Port Mafia who control Yokohama's criminal underworld and even the main villain Fyodor (with the series admitting that Fyodor doesn't have the wealth or manpower that Francis has). Francis' act of committing mass psychological torture on the citizens of Yokohama was unique feat he pulled compared to other antagonist in the series.
What makes him Inconsistent?[]
- Although the characters haven't overlooked all of the bad things he's done, after his defeat, he has some comedic moments that detract from his actions:
- In the cannon omake, when Lucy made a crap ton of dolls in the chopper, he was gleefully thinking about how he can commercialize it and make a brand of choppers for women. This was way before his defeat and before the events in the Guild Arc started.
- While he was financially recovering from his battle with Akutagawa and Atsushi, he was spending money on some of the simplest things like too many pots and pans because they were on sale, showing that because he's so rich, he doesn't know how to shop, and his assistant Louisa said to herself that she would return them when she can.
- There's a running gag in the series where he has a hard time pronouncing Japanese names, something that Atsushi, though not out loud, called out.
- He's a tragic character and has some moments that are played for sympathy:
- His daughter's death was hard for his wife Zelda to handle, and she couldn't bring herself to accept her death. She lives in a fantasy that their daughter is studying abroad. Francis' reason for wanting to destroy Yokohama comes from the fact that the city holds a book deep within it that makes anything written in it come true. He simply strives to make the fantasy of his daughter studying abroad a reality by bringing their daughter back to life with the reality altering book and rebuild his family. He also said himself that he will spend all of his money and go broke if it means achieving his goal (and gone broke he did).
- After he lost all of his money in his fight, he was depressed due to his failure of a achieving his goal of fixing his family.
- He became on & off after his defeat:
- He helped the Detective Agency, Port Mafia, and the government capture and arrest Fyodor. After that, he gifted the Agency with his cruise ship as reward for their success.
- When the Agency was on the run after they were framed by the Decay of the Angel, he helps them because he respects how they managed to get back up on their feet after their defeat in such a short time compared to him.
- He has standards when it comes to how people in charge treat their employees. He showed disgust toward Tom Buchanan when he heartlessly chose not to prove Eckleburg's innocents after he was suspected of murder, treating him like he's biohazard.
- He cares about his family and subordinates:
- While he had a twisted way of putting it by saying that everyone in The Guild is his property, after that, he says that he has every right to protect them because of that and won't allow harm to befall upon them. Hence why he wanted them to leave Yokohama during both of their operations to decimate the city.
- He has a normal and healthy relationship with his loyal assistant right-hand woman Louisa May Alcott, even going as far as to save her from a grope of thugs.
- He occasionally calls his wife and still has love for his deceased daughter.