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Herbert George Wells (ハーバート・ジョージ・ウェルズ, Hābāto Jōji Weruzu?) is a character featured in the light novel Bungo Stray Dogs: 55 Minutes. Her ability is Time Machine
Appearance
Wells is a young woman with long blonde hair and blue eyes. She wears a black suit over a white button-up shirt and a plaid-printed tie. She completes the outfit with black gloves. She also carries a military-grade knife and a gun on her.
She initially disguised herself as a man wearing a bowler hat.
Personality
Ability
- Main article: Time Machine
Wells's ability, Time Machine (タイムマシン, Taimu mashin?) allows her to manipulate time itself. She can manipulate the flow of time in the area around her to a certain extent and send an individual persons mind back in time with the use of her camera, but this is limited to 55 minutes or 3300 seconds. She is only able to transport someone to the past once.
Originally, Wells was only able to transport a person to the past limited to several minutes, but after being utilized by "Gab" countless times, it was extended to 55 minutes.
| Time Machine (タイムマシン, Taimu Mashin?) | ||
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Manga Debut: | - |
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| Anime Debut: | - | |
| Ability: | Time Manipulation | |
Skills
- Physical Prowess: Wells is seen to have an agility capable of immediately going one place to another.
- Quantum Mechanics Knowledge: As an engineer, Wells has the knowledge of uncertainty principle.
Background
She worked as an engineer for England in ability-weapon development where they were conducting experiments that intentionally awakened ability singularities to integrate them into weapons.
Plot
- To be expanded
She was on Standard Island, a mechanical, man-made island floating on the sea; a joint effort made by 3 countries, Germany, France, and England. Her presence there is to find the bomb that is about to be utilized.
Later, just as the bomb exploded, Wells who had regained back her ability saved Atsushi from his death. She then transports Atsushi's consciousness (while keeping his true body in her dimension) to the 55 minutes in the past to stop the bomb from exploding once more.
Dazai snuffed out the plan, which made Atsushi revealed Wells' plan to stop the bomb.[1]
Trivia
- She is one of three characters whose gender is different from their real life author counterpart. The other two are Kyōka Izumi from the Armed Detective Agency and Kōyō Ozaki from the Port Mafia.