Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (フランシス・スコット・キー・フィッツジェラルド,) is the current leader of the American Organization known as The Guild. His ability name is known as The Great Fitzgerald.

Appearance
Fitzgerald is a tall and slender man, has short combed blonde hair, and clear blue eyes. He wears a properly buttoned white shirt with a tie, and creamy yellow tailored suit and trousers.

After activating his ability, he generates some kind of black stripes-like-tattoo over his body.

Personality
Being the wealthy person that he is, Fitzgerald is very proud, boasting a lot 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.

Ability
The Great Fitzgerald (華麗なるフィッツジェラルド,) is an ability which allows Fitzgerald to gain more power according to the money he spent. Simply by throwing off his cheques is also counted as 'spending' his wealth.

Background
Fitzgerald mentions that "before being rich," implying that he was poor, he worked for two whole years in order to buy a gun; later, he killed four people to get more money.

At some point, he married a woman named Zelda, and had a daughter. Nevertheless, his daughter died, and unable to accept this, Zelda fell ill and still believes that she's still studying abroad. Resolved 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 and five hotels under his name; and an airline, and a railway company.

Plot
Fitzgerald made a brief appearance at the end of Chapter 12, showing that he is the one who hired Port Mafia to catch Atsushi, and mentioning that his organization will claim "The Promised Land". Showing himself the main antagonist as of The Guild arc.

He reappears on Chapter 15, arriving together with Montgomery and the Senior secretary at the Armed Detective Company on a helicopter. After introducing himself and boasting about his resources, he is asked by the President whether the rumor about hiring the Mafia was true. He calmly answers the truth while belittling said organization for his failure. Then later 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. Being angered by this, he proceeds to threaten the Company, then leaves together with his subordinates.

He's seen again on Chapter 19, where he is practicing skeet-shooting on board of his extravagant cruiser together with Steinbeck, both of them chatting about their oppositors. But after Steinbeck hands him a Revolver gun, he gives a stern look to the gun, and mentions a little about his past. Once he finishes, he gives a last speech; and then makes use of his awesome feats to break every plate on the air just by throwing the bullets with tremendous strength with his bare hands, and declares his determination to take over Yokohama.

Trivia

 * Since he was interrupted by Fukuzawa, it's possible that he may be the owner of more companies, or whatever else.
 * He shares many traits with Jay Gatsby, the protagonist from the actual Fitzgerald's work.
 * Personality wise, both are arrogant; too optimistic, and flawed; nonetheless, they are determined and hardworking in order to obtain what they desire.
 * Background wise, it is unknown where their fortune came from, other than the commits of illegal activities.
 * Both Fitzgerald and Jay are set to get what they want. Through the use of money as their power.
 * Zelda, was in real life, the actual Fitzgerald's wife.
 * His animated charater design appeared in the bungou stray dogs facebook website prior to his appearance to the anime.