Bsd Fyodor - Blog Posts

what is with me and stinky little black haired liar characters. fyodor and kokichi i am coming for your families.

doodle from english class today. can you tell i like to draw fyodor?

spoilers for anyone not caught up with the manga

I wouldn’t really consider the excessive ‘deaths’ (i say this with heavy air quotes) in bsd ‘death bating’. i’m pretty sure asigiri wants us to believe they’re not really dead and considering the most recent chapter this was confirmed. can we stop assuming that every time a character dies and it’s unbelievable that it’s ‘death baiting’? it’s literally just foreshadowing you media illiterate fool. on another tangent, i love how much of a stinky little manipulative liar fyodor is.

fyodor drawing! not sure if i want to add anything.

THE FRAME WAS SO HARD 😭😭😭😭😭 I HATE USING SYNTHETIC PAINT WHY DO I KEEP DOING THIS TO MYSELF. anygays, i think it turned out okey.

got bored and drew fyo during class

colored pencils yippeeeee

random doodle i found in my sketchbook

pov fyodor when he sees a tall well dressed man with long pale hair and also dazai. (sorry the quality’s shitty. lol)

fyodor drawing i did with my new markers! (it’s one in the morning for me and i have a test today) here’s a few pictures.

art dump!!! these are just sketches cuz i don’t have enough energy to shade.

here’s the full page under the cut

drawn after a math test yesterday :3 it’s not great, i know, i’m trying to fight off the art block.

‘bram stoker is fyodor dostoyevsky’s goth wife!!’ is such a deranged sentence unless you have consumed one certain piece of media.

hmmmmmmm,

i kinda need an au where fyozai are teachers and they absolutely despise each other. it’d be like an annoying long slow burn. maybe fyodor as a psychology teacher and dazai as a band teacher. i’ll draw this when i have motivation again. they’d be so silly.

and here it is, after 2 days of procrastinating, my finished fyozai drawing!! :3

what the fuck did tumblr do to my quality.

i’m rereading some of the earlier bsd chapters and i really miss when it felt like a silly little dark humour sitcom revolving around the ADA and the PM. i realize that it’s not going to be like this forever and that asigiri is just building tension for the fight with fyodor, but i really want some of the silliness back.

finished with fyodor, still gotta draw dazai. sigh.

wip i’m probably never finishing.

some older digital art. i made fyo look a little too feral. i don’t post my digital art enough. :3

season three spoilers:

my face after i stabby stab a mafia boss then run away.

both of them are my gender goals

like, what do you mean i was born as a woman and not a black haired man in business casual that commits war crimes?? i wish. god.

i posted this to the bsd community on here

fyodor won, which is unfortunate because i don’t really like him, so i had to doodle some of my favorite concepts. i hope you like these :)

quick rant

i hate in whenever people say ‘fyodor has a god complex!1!1!1’ NO he has a savior complex. he wants to save humanity from sin (ability users). he does see humanity like a god would, but he doesn’t actively think he’s a god. i also hate in when people say he truly cares about nikolai or sigma. he doesn’t. he’s a low empathy being that isn’t above manipulating others for his cause. but he still does have feelings (for example when things don’t go his way he kicks things and he gets actively angry when people say dazai is smarter than him) i don’t agree with the twinkification of fyodor if you’re actively mischaracterizing him, but if you’re making him a little nicer for a fic (if you do understand his character) I don’t mind. thank you for coming to my ted talk, please tell me if i got anything wrong.

Not Fyodor fooling Google's AI overview in the real world despite not even existing... Man is just that smart lol. And AI is just that stupid.

Would be super interesting to see an analysis on your top 3 favorite characters. If you want to of course!

My top 3 favourite characters huh? Honestly my favourite characters tend to very depending on my mood but if I had to pick a top 3 I guess it would be....

Chuuya

Akutagawa

Fyodor

Not necessarily in that order. I'd love to write an analysis for all three but at the moment the only one I have ideas for is Fyodor so I'll stick with him for now. Honestly this man is a big question mark to me, we don't know anything about his background or what made him the way he is. We don't even know if he's human. All the same I'll see what I can do.

Before you read this analysis though I would like to make it very clear that I DO NOT CONDONE THE PHILOSOPHY EXPLAINED IN THIS ANALYSIS.

Spoiler alert: This analysis contains spoilers for chapters 120.5 and 46 of the BSD Manga as well as Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky inspired by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky and his well-known work Crime and Punishment is one of the principal antagonists in the multimedia series Bungo Stray Dogs written by Kafka Asagiri and illustrated by Sango Harukawa. Arguably the only intellectual rival to Ranpo and Dazai, Fyodor’s plans often cause the Agency and Mafia alike quite a bit of difficulty ostensibly for the purposes of creating a world without sin and ability users. However, upon closer inspection this goal doesn’t really make sense given Fyodor’s behaviour. That is, unless the reader takes into account a particular section of the novel Crime and Punishment, the namesake of Fyodor’s ability. This essay aims to explain how this section of Crime and Punishment informs Fyodor’s behaviour and goals in Bungo Stray Dogs. This will be done by first exploring Fyodor’s motivations based on what he says in the manga series, second by analysing the section of Crime and Punishment in question and third by explaining how these link together. For clarity Fyodor Dostoyevsky the character will be referred to as Fyodor, while Fyodor Dostoevsky the author will be referred to as Dostoevsky.

The first instance where Fyodor talks about his goals and what he wants with the book takes place in chapter 46 of the manga, The Masked Assassin. During his conversation with Dazai, Fyodor states, ‘Man… is sinful and foolish. Even if they know it is all an artifice, they cannot help but kill each other. Someone must purify them for their sins. That is why I seek the “book,”.’ Then again in the same chapter he states, ‘And I will use that book… to make… a world free of sin and skill users.’ Once again in chapter 120.5 Fyodor talks about his goal saying, ‘I, his humble servant, shall take up his dream… and go on to build a truly lasting peace.’ If what he says is taken as fact—Fyodor has lied even to the audience before—then it makes his goal quite clear. His goal is to create a world without sin, specifically it seems the sin of killing each other given he talks about creating world peace and what he says about humanity being unable to help killing each other. He also seems to want to create a world free of skill users. This is a fairly straight forward goal. However, there is one key problem. If Fyodor were to succeed, he himself would be unable to live in this world for two key reasons. Firstly, Fyodor is a skill user. Secondly, his methods to achieving world peace and a world free of sin have caused countless deaths as any reader will know. Additionally, on being asked by Fukuzawa during chapter 120.5 how he will go about creating world peace he states, ‘By triggering a world war.’ Arguably, what he means is that instead of uniting the world through virtue and goodness as Fukuchi was going to, he is going to unite the world against the common enemy of skill users. He himself says in the same chapter, ‘I will build a millennium of peace. Not with “good” and “virtue” but with the ugliness inside every man. And I will build it atop the corpses of skill users.’ Now given that Fyodor is telling the truth about his goal, the question is raised: how can someone as intelligent as Fyodor not see the contradiction behind what he is doing. He is going to cause suffering and blood shed, cause humanity to commit a multitude of sins, in order to eliminate suffering and bloodshed and sin. The answer is that he can see this contradiction but according to his philosophy what he’s doing is ok and not contradictory to his goal at all.

Raskolnikov, the main character of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment sets out this philosophy during his conversation with Porfiry in Chapter 5 of Part 3 of the novel. The conversation they have is about an article that Raskolnikov had written in which ‘a certain hint is presented that there supposedly exists in the world certain persons who can…that is, who not only can but are entitled to commit all sorts of crimes…’. At first glance this seems like a totally illogical idea, but this is simply Porfiry’s ‘forced and deliberate’ distortion of it. In his article Raskolnikov has stated that he believes that people are divided into two categories: the ordinary, and the extraordinary. ‘The ordinary must live in obedience with the law […]. While the extraordinary have the right to commit all sorts of crimes and in various ways transgress the law,’ Porfiry summarises in Chapter 5 Part 3. Raskolnikov states that this is almost correct but that he doesn’t think that all extraordinary people must break the law or commit crimes. What he believes is that an extraordinary person has the right to break the law or commit crimes if it is for the sake of benefiting humanity. The example he gives is as follows, ‘If […] Newton’s discoveries could become known to people in no other way than by sacrificing the lives of one, or ten, or a hundred or more people who were hindering the discovery, or standing as an obstacle in its path, then Newton would have the right, and it would even be his duty… to remove those ten or a hundred people, in order to make his discovery known to all mankind. It by no means follows from this, incidentally, that Newton should have the right to kill anyone…’. What this means is essentially that Raskolnikov believes that an extraordinary person, as he defines it, has the right to commit crimes if the end goal is the greater good of humanity. He goes on to explain that he believes that all ‘lawgivers and founders of man kind’, one of the examples he gives is Napoleon, have spilt sometimes quite innocent blood in their path. He states, ‘It is even remarkable that most of these benefactors and founders of mankind were especially terrible bloodshedders. In short, I deduce that all, not only great men, but even those who are a tiny bit off the beaten track—that is who are a tiny bit capable of saying something new—by their very nature cannot fail to be criminals…’. With this philosophy in mind, Fyodor’s actions and motivations start to make a bit more sense.

It is likely then, that Fyodor not only believes this philosophy but also sees himself as one of these extraordinary people and therefore believes that he has the right to commit crime because creating world peace and a world without sin would be a benefit to all of humanity. That is why to him, his actions and goals are aligned and do not contradict each other, to put it simply, to him, the ends justify the means. Because he is benefiting humanity, he has the right to commit crimes, at least in his mind. With this in mind his actions make a lot more sense. The way he sees it, he is simply carrying out his duty to humanity as one of these ‘extraordinary’ people. Therefore, he is not committing any crimes and were he to succeed he would be able to live in the world he had created.

To conclude, Fyodor’s actions and goals are aligned if one views them through the philosophy set out by Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment. If it is assumed that Fyodor believes this philosophy then in his mind, he is simply carrying out his duty and is therefore not committing any crimes, thus he would be able to live in the world free of sin that he intends to create.

Have this meme I made while you wait for my Fyodor analysis.

Also, I know Fyodor says 'Dazai-kun' but it's funnier this way.

Warning BSD manga spoilers

Imagine if Fyodor did get on that plane at the end of the chapter though.

Fyodor: Randomly shows up, murders a bunch of people, flattens the air port, expounds theories of world peace, refuses to elaborate, leaves.

In Episode 4 of Season 3 when Fyodor is introduced he consistently refers to himself with 'boku' from memory, which I thought was weird given his age, but then during the prison break arc he uses 'watashi'. Why the change?

Did anyone else notice that fanfiction authors seem to think Tchaikovsky is the only Russian composer in all of time? Like seriously whenever Fyodor is listening to or playing Russian music it's always Tchaikovsky!

Fyolai! Or rather a more one-sided version

I think that's my first time drawing Fyodor.

And a sketch where fyodor looks very annoyed at the camera

I originally wanted him to write something, which gave me an idea

:What if Fyodor was actually left-handed but made himself use his right hand because being left-handed was seen as a bad and a devilish(?) thing

Idk, I have nothing to base this on

but I'm pretty sure that people used to teach their kids to write with their right hand even if they were left-handed

I also don't know how true that is, but I know that my grandma did that with my dad

Okay can someone pls help me find that one Fyodor x reader fic series in which apparently we both are immortal? I remember the first chapter was "Angel, he calls me" or something like that but I neither remember the writer nor the rest and I can't find it anymore-

Bsd 114.5 is WILD but like, someone pls explain how did that rat kill Karma then????

oh my god he decided to adopt a second one

Teacher: the test is not difficult

Test: Wich one is Aya's father?