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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 to Atsushi. |
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 leader of The Guild, a secret society of ability users from America and is later the head of Manhasset Security. He is based off of the American author with the same name.
He voiced by Takahiro Sakurai in Japanese and Chris Hackney (who also voiced Ghiaccio in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind) in English. His stage play portrayal is Yuki Kimisawa.
Personality[]
Being the wealthy person that he is, Fitzgerald is very prideful and proud, boasting about his fortunes very often. He is extremely arrogant and possesses a lot of confidence in himself.
He dislikes when his offers are rejected. But he is a determined man who would do anything in order to get what he wants.
Nevertheless, he is not outright evil, because it's seen that he cares about his subordinates, always taking the best course of action for their safety, and he does even more for his family, caring genuinely about his beloved wife and his deceased daughter.
Despite his arrogance, Fitzgerald shows respects towards those with a lot of willpower and strength, especially towards a foe like Atsushi Nakajima. He acknowledges how compared to himself and the Guild when they fell into bankruptcy, Atsushi and the Armed Detective Agency were able to get back up on their feet in a short amount of time after being framed by the Decay of the Angel and because of that, he decides to help them in clearing their name.
Biography[]
Past[]
He has been mentioned to be poor and this leads him to kill four people to get money. At some point, he married a woman named Zelda and had a daughter. After his daughter died, Zelda went in denial and still believes that she's studying abroad. Determined to bring her back to life with the power of The Book, he plans to raid Yokohama in order to find it to bring happiness to his family once again. It is known that he is the owner of three conglomerates, five hotels, an airline, and a railway company.
Bungo Strays Dogs[]
In the anime, he appeared in the tenth episode and in the manga, he appeared at the end of chapter 12. He is responsible for putting a seven-billion-yen bounty on Atsushi Nakajima's hiring the Port Mafia to capture him. He reappears on Chapter 15, arriving together with Montgomery and the Senior secretary at the Armed Detective Company on a helicopter. He was asked by the president whether the rumor about hiring the Mafia was true to which he confesses. He then offers a great amount of money to the President as a proposal in order to buy the so-called "Ability Business Permit," only to be rejected. Francis, angered by this, proceeds to threaten the Company, then leaves together with his subordinates.
He appears with Steinbeck to arrange other plans and determine where the Armed Detective Agency is located. Fitzgerald is pleased by this, stating how hunting is no fun if the prey is a sitting duck. Francis is given a Revolver gun by Steinbeck and reminisces about the past. During the battle of Yokohama aboard the Guild's flying ship, the Moby Dick, Fitzgerald engages Nakajima Atsushi and Akutagawa Ryuunosuke. In an intense battle with the two, Atsushi manages to completely drain Fitzgerald of his power and defeats him. Fitzgerald then falls from the descending ship into the sea, only managing to survive using his expensive wedding ring to enhance his durability.
After a time-skip, Fitzgerald washes up in a foreign country and ends up completely broke and on the streets. Alcott finds him and agrees to try and recover the guild after the heavy losses. Fitzgerald and Alcott's new base is in a hovel called Wonderful Manor.
They decide on following a strategy to meet a doctor named TJ Eckelberg — who also works as an engineer in Manhasset security company — and get the codes from the device of his called Eyes of God. He uses the doctor and his device to further exploit the system and make a fortune to recover from the money lost in the fight with Atsushi and Akutagawa.
Powers and Abilities[]
The Great Fitzgerald is an ability which allows Fitzgerald to gain more power equal to the amount of money he spends. Simply throwing off his cheques is also counted as 'spending' his wealth. It is noted that to activate his ability, it is not restricted to his own wealth.
Trivia[]
- In real life, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author during the "Jazz Age".
- His power, The Great Fitzgerald, is a reference to the novel The Great Gatsby written by real-life Fitzgerald.
- Fictionalized Fitzgerald has many parallels with the lead character in The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby. The replacement of "Gatsby" with "Fitzgerald" seems to signify this was intentional.
- Both are millionaires.
- They both started poor but gained an immense fortune through ambiguous, illegal means.
- They both abuse their wealth.
- They share the arrogance trait.
- Fictionalized Fitzgerald has many parallels with the lead character in The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby. The replacement of "Gatsby" with "Fitzgerald" seems to signify this was intentional.
- In real life, Fitzgerald's wife was also named Zelda.
- Both the fictionalized version and Fitzgerald in real life go to immense efforts to support his wife. They also both had one kid, but in real life, the kid outlived his parents (although real life Fitzgerald is almost equally tragic).
- In real life, Zelda needed immense financial support from the start. His first engagement with Zelda was cut off because he failed to convince her he would be able to support her financially. She only re-engaged after Fitzgerald made thousands of sales with his book "This Side of Paradise".
- In real life, Zelda was also diagnosed with schizophrenia some time into their marriage and underwent heavy treatment. This schizophrenia is reminiscent of fictionalized Zelda's inability to accept her child's death.
- Both the fictionalized version and Fitzgerald in real life go to immense efforts to support his wife. They also both had one kid, but in real life, the kid outlived his parents (although real life Fitzgerald is almost equally tragic).
- There's a running gag in the series where Fitzgerald has a hard time pronouncing Japanese names.
- His power, The Great Fitzgerald, is a reference to the novel The Great Gatsby written by real-life Fitzgerald.
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