#i could not care less about fukuchi he is not the biggest problem in the decay of angels it is absolutely dostoyevsky

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potential authors that may appear in bsd

Arthur Conan Doyle- wrote sherlock holmes, definitely getting into the DETECTIVE manga (maybe apart of the clocktower?, he was also famously gullible in contrast to his work, was friends with harry houdini and genuinely believed he was a wizard even though houdini repeatedly showed how his tricks worked, was also tricked by the first case of photo-editing by two little girls, prime joke material), THEORY TIME: he's going to have the actual 'super deduction' ability and will make ranpo face once and for that he's a normal person but ranpo will be able to out deduce him thus disproving that normal people can't defeat ability users

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu- carmilla (the lesbian vampire story that predated bram stoker's dracula by 26 YEARS CARMILLA SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRST, he could show up with a possible cure to the vampire curse in the current arc?, maybe he or carmilla was even the one to bite and turn stoker)

Lewis Carrol- wrote alice's adventures in wonderland

jrr tolkien- wrote the hobbit and lord of the rings

Hans Christian Andersen- wrote the little mermaid and the snow queen

The Grimm brothers- wrote most famous fairytales

Johnston McCulley- wrote zorro (may appear as part of a phantom theives guild in a more lighthearted arc after this one before jumping back into the main story?)

Marice Leblanc- wrote arsene lupine (had a crossover with edogawa ranpo's kogoro akechi lmao ty p5 knowledge AND sherlock holmes, a near guaranteed shoe-in, also part of that phantom theives guild with a potential past involving both doyle and ranpo)

Prosper Mérimée (?)- in the same vein of p5 references, the thief woman in prison may have actually been carmen from the opera carmen by prosper mérimée (soon to be thieves guild member?)

Robert Louis Stevenson- wrote the strange case of dr jerkyll and mr hyde and treasure island (thieves guild member, possible split personality a la jerkyll/hyde, blackbeard and william kid references incoming)

Alexandre Dumas- the three musketeers, the count of monte cristo (also thieves guild member)

Gaston Leroux- phantom of the opera (possible thieves guild member off work only)

toni morrison- we are in DESPARATE NEED of black writers, although maybe not since she only recently passed, wrote beloved and the bluest eye

zora neale hurston- their eyes were watching god

hughs langston- famous poet

richard wright- black boy, native son

Harriet Beecher Stowe- uncle tom's cabin

harper lee- to kill a mockingbird

robert frost- famous poet, wrote the road not taken

emiliy dickinson- famous poet

ernest hemmingway- famous poet (if his ability is for whom the bell tolls we're fucked)

jane austen- pride and prejudice (would probably get along with margaret and Nathaniel)

the brontë sisters- jane eyre, wuthering heights (would get along with jane, margaret, and Nathaniel)

george orwell- 1984 and animal farm

william golding- the lord of the flies

Joseph hellar- catch-22 (his power would be hell, a literal catch-22)

ralph ellison- the invisible man (ability is obvious, thieves guild member, maybe a conflict with tanizaki considering the similar abilities?)

oscar wilde- the picture of dorian gray (this man was a great big bisexual SLUT in life i want him to be the same in bsd)

virginia woolf- to the lighthouse (maybe will reference who's afraid of virginia woolf?)

c. s. lewis- the chronicles of narnia (personally knew jrr tolkien, famously at odds over Christmas, prime joke material)

charles dickens- a Christmas carol, oliver twist, a tale of two cities, and great expectations

arthur miller- the crucible (maybe his ability makes people distrust others?)

Johnathan swift- Gulliver's travels (teleporting ability definitely, new fast travel plot device although maybe not as it could conflict with Gogol's ability)

Vladimir Nabokov- lolita, pale fire (on second thought i don't want him in here i can only IMAGINE how that would turn out, if he shows up he and mori would either get along or HATE each other)

Leo Tolstoy- war and peace (we already know fyodor is surviving this we still don't know what crime and punishment does CAN YOU IMAGINE HIM AND FYODOR TOGETHER HELLWORLDHELLWORLDHELLWORLD) THEORY TIME AGAIN: his power is one that specifically targets only ability users and makes them slowly start acting in either anger or complete affability until everyone is at war or peace, he would be the perfect compliment to fyodor if crime and punishment kills people who believe they're guilty literally the perfect storm of abilities, the absolute worst case scenario powers we're looking at a dark soukoku here

franz kafka- metamorphosis (he's gonna turn into a bug, isn't he)

Harlan Ellison- i have no mouth and i must scream (the horror related ability to replace lovecraft without being horrifically broken)

authors that i desparately want to show up but probably won't bc they didn't write in the 1800-1900s range that asagiri likes, are still alive, or are not globally recognizable enough

homer- the illiad and oddessy (i hope he starts his ability by making an invocation to the muses)

sappho (LESBIANS RISE UP)

virgil- the aeniad

dante- the divine comedy (virgil is a character in divine comedy like how bsd includes authors of other works, prime joke material)

john milton- paradise lost

Gilgamesh or Enkidu- we don't know who wrote the epic of Gilgamesh so the characters themselves could appear

margret atwood- oryx and crake, cat's eye (potentially another animal shapeshifting power, atsushi's gonna have a little cat colony gang at this rate)

neil gaiman- american gods, the sandman ('american gods sounds like a broken ability)

ursula k. guin- earthsea series

stan lee- i know he wrote comics not long form literature but i think the father of american comics and the superhero genre deserves to be recognized in the superhero/mafia/detective noir manga; plus japanese manga was heavily influenced by american comics after wwii, we would literally not be reading bsd in the same state today without stan lee

stephen king- no explanation needed, PLEASE LET HIM MEET LOVECRAFT KING IS A GIANT FAN OF LOVECRAFT I THINK HE SHOULD GET TO MEET HIS IDOL

r. l. stein- goosebumps, if literally NONE of these authors make it in PLEASE AT LEAST LET RL STEIN GET IN AND LET HIM MEET LOVECRAFT PLEASE GOOSEBUMPS DESERVES SO MUCH LOVE AND PLEASE GOD LET HIS POWER BE THAT FUCKING PUPPET I WANT TO SLAPPY TO BE ABSOLUTELY USELESS AND JUST EXIST TO TORMENT STEIN

chuck tingle- pounded in the butt series guy, he should be the god of the bsd universe this is not a joke

#bungou stray dogs #bsd #i know for a FACT i am missing so many more but i literally wrote down EVERYONE i could think of #now im really scared of that potential future arc where leo tolstoy teams up with fyodor and fucks EVERYTHING #i could not care less about fukuchi he is not the biggest problem in the decay of angels it is absolutely dostoyevsky #and after getting a fast one pulled on him by dazai he is going to come back more furious than ever #you can't tell me the abilities 'war and peace' and 'crime and punishment' don't sound like absolute hell together this is gonna be baaaaad #I FORGOT NEIL GAIMAN URSULA K GUIN AND STAN LEE!!!!! SHAME!!!!!!