#fyodor ability

OK SO U WAS REWATCHING THE FIFTH SEASON AND REMEMBER THIS SCENE?

BRO

NOW HEAR ME OUT-----

So this was all an act, right? BUT WHAT IF IT WASNT?

WHAT IF- What if the original owner of that body took possession? Just for a moment? Doysotevsky could have let the shift happen, only for a moment to make it genuine. It would also explain "what year is it?"

ANDDDD LISTEN---

Guys. LISTENNNNNN.

I may spouting bullshit here, but thing is: fyodor had no reason to write that note. None at all. So, what does it mean? It wasnt ever explained in the actual story. It's possible that the original owner of the body is still alive even after fyodor takes possession.

This could mean Bram is alive.

Also the fact that Bram could feel fyodor taking possession a bit before it happened? Oughhhh. Ouooooghhhh. Meaning: something tells them it's going to happen. With the guard, we didn't see much other than him tweaking out, but Bram? Bram was aware he was being taken over and had the time to warn aya (probably due to his experience with abilities).

Does this mean that the hosts can detect fyodor, and even still be in there? Is it possible their consciousness- or perhaps even their soul- still remains?

Stabbed Fukuzawa

He hit Ranpo

He blinded Tachihara

He killed Akutagawa

He probably killed Jouno

He started a vampire epidemic

FYODOR DOSTOIEVSKY IS FUCKING ALIVE

His ability is not based on "killing someone when he touches them", but rather taking the body of whoever kills him.

Crime and Punishment - Crime: Killing Fyodor / Punishment: Becoming Fyodor.

Now it makes sense why his ability didn't attack him when he was separated from him during the events of DEAD APPLE, and he clearly said so: "I am the crime, I am the punishment."

And as a consequence, even though another vampire killed him, he had to take Bram because he is the one who has control of the vampires' actions. And according to Dazai, the antidote would not even have killed him by hand, because what Fyodor wanted was to get to Bram and do the same thing he did in DEAD APPLE: welcome singularities.

This is a continuation of my theory on Fyodors true ability here

Most of the evidence is in the linked post.

TL;DR Fyodors ability manifests with a face and a different outfit which no other ability does... except Elise. It also doesn't attack him and is able to merge with him without its gem being destroyed.

If Elise manifests with a face because she has one even outside of the fog, could that mean that Fyodors ability is able to manifest as a copy of him even outside of the fog as well? And if so how will that play into the current arc?

This panel is what really convinced me something was up

"...You can't kill me."

not "You can't kill me, like this" or "This won't be enough to kill me" just simply "You can't kill me"

Why? why can't Dazai kill him, even if he had a skill of immortality Dazai would only have to touch him and he'd be defenceless. So why...?

*spoliers for chapter 114 of Bungou Stray dogs manga*

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME ?! Fyodor is somehow still alive?!

But at least we have new information about his ability and can possibly narrow it down.

In the latest chapter, it was revealed that the solider who died when he touch Fyodor likely died from Hawthorne’s ability that was transferred into a bullet and the blood on the bullet transferred to the soldier, that’s what killed him. So Fyodor unaliving people by touch isn’t his true ability.

But that begs the question, how Karma died ?

If you don’t remember Karma, he was the boy that works under Ace (a port mafia executive) he met when Fyodor was captured before the Cannibalism Arc. He touched Karma (or we assume that he did) and Karma died. In both the manga and anime show a similar scene

(anime: the entire hand was around the his face and there was a glow from the hand. Manga: Fyodor touch his forehead and in the next scene we saw him remove his hand as he was walking by Karma)

We can see or assume that he died because of Fyodor making direct contact with him.

But this and the last chapter raises the old question that fandom has since we saw Fyodor: what is his ability ?

Earlier when I was reading the chapter on Tumblr, someone commented that Fyodor’s ability was the same ability that was involved with the death of Kyouka’s parents (the blood manipulation). I do agree with them because in the chapter we saw Fyodor “die” and some of the blood got in to the soldier’s eye and something started happening to him. So maybe his ability is related to blood and that would explain the anemia. Fyodor in BSD has anemia but I was looking up if the real author Fyodor had it but he didn’t. His health wasn’t the best but it wasn’t because of anemia, it was because of epilepsy. So maybe in BSD, the blood being related to his ability and how he used it might be the cause of why he had anemia.

But it doesn’t explain the immorality. I still like to believe it was the transfer theory I suggest in my last BSD post ( the one where the more lives had passed because of Fyodor’s ability, he gains the remaining years of those people ). But since we had to factor in the possibility of Fyodor’s ability relating to blood or being the same ability as the one involved with death of Kyouka’s parents, it’s possible that it is a mind control ability or relating to the mind. Like consciousness. It’s possible to be both. Like he could manipulate blood to control people or transfer his consciousness to someone else.

The reason I mention the transfer of consciousness is because at the end of the chapter, Dazai dug up Fyodor’s “body” and it doesn’t look like him anymore. It looks like a puppet or Frankenstein body because underneath the eyes, it looks like there are stitches. But if that’s the case, where is Fyodor ?

That’s all for now

I’m putting this in an analysis of his full Ability, but it’s taking a long time, so here’s the exerpt about what we can see his Ability doing:

“(...) Personally, I think it kills people (please be patient with me ^^;). As we can see with the two times his Ability has been used right in front of us, it has been almost exactly the same:

Both times, blood is seen spraying from the victim’s face, and a moment later they fall dead. That being said, it doesn’t appear to work instantly, as we see the boy Fyodor killed reflecting for a moment here:

The only difference between the two is that we see the boy reflecting on his life, but we can’t say definitively that Fyodor’s Ability also causes people to reflect on their lives, since we never see what the swat man thought.

So, Fyodor’s Ability seems to kill in a few seconds by some method that involves blood spraying from the face.

Furthermore, I don’t believe that it automatically kills on skin contact. As we can see here, the moment Fyodor activates his Ability to kill the swat man, there is absolutely no skin on skin contact:

That being said, Fyodor’s Ability doesn’t automatically activate whenever the act of touch, clothed or not, occurs upon him. We can see an example of my point here, when the boy from the ship towels off Fyodor’s hair and, subsequently, lives:

Call me crazy, but I highly doubt that the slightly thicker volume of the towel was the one thing that saved this young boy from his early bloody doom.

He’s often seen biting his thumb/fingers which causes bleeding. If his ability allows him to manipulate others through blood then all he needs is a tiny prick - something he more than enough had when Ace hit him with the wine bottle and likely with the agent since he was probably still biting his fingers during the base assault. Since it’s blood he does not necessarily need to have skin to skin contact - just a way to get the blood from him to another.

So if this is the case then couldn’t his connection to the outside world be through Hawthorne when he drank that cult wine with Fyo’s blood in it? Kinda a leap there considering the distance but then while rewatching episodes something else came up.

Kyouka’s parents were killed by an unknown ability user who manipulated others through blood. The anime showed it as a red eye but the manga makes them look normal. Since I’ve always found the manga to be more accurate than the anime, I’ll stick with that interpretation and corresponding thought that spurred this random theory.