BSD 43 | Ougai Mori ໒꒱ ‧+ ̊

Character Information

• Name: Mori Ougai

• Age: 40

• Birthday: February 17th

• Gender: Male, Man

• Occupation: Port Mafia Boss

• Appearance: Mori is a fairly tall man (5'9) and has a slender physique. He has straight, chin-length black hair slicked back, leaving bangs on each side of his face. Normally, he wears a sharp suit, consisting of a white button-up, a black pinstriped suit jacket, black shoes, and black trousers. The shirt has a purple and white striped tie. Over this, he wears a black trench coat and long, almost knee-length maroon scarf he leaves hanging over his shoulders untied. He also wears white gloves. In public, Mori wears much less lavish attire, more typical of a "doctor". He wears a purple button-up shirt, black tie, black trousers, black shoes, and a long white coat. Furthermore, he leaves his hair loose, and two strands fall over his forehead.

• Location: Yokohama, Japan

• *Ability: Vita Sexualis

• Vita Sexualis is an ability that allows Mori to summon and 'configure' Elise's personality in any way he wills; he can make her levitate, chase after an enemy at high speed, and make her save him no matter what. He can summon Elise at will and make her attack his enemies with a barrage of large medical equipment. Elise has shown her displeasure in Mori's ability in which she stated he always gets to "set the scene" and make all the decisions. Although Elise is powerful, Vita Sexualis requires strength and energy. As Mori's ability, Elise doesn't die, but it takes time and energy for Mori to resummon her. An important detail to note is that Elise used to be more subservient and borderline emotionless as Mori's ability. However, sometime after Yosano's mental breakdown, Mori intentionally configured Elise to mimic the young Yosano's defiant personality, showing a deep-seated obsession towards Yosano, of whom whose stubborn nature Mori frequently fawned over during the Great War.

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Connections:

• Elise: As the manifestation of his ability, Mori is very fond of Elise and has kept her alongside him since the Great War. Following the war, Mori still had Elise in his underground clinic near him at all times, though he grows considerably fawning towards her over time. For instance, one of his typical requests for her was to have her try on some dresses, even repetitively pleading her to do so given her constant refusal. In general, Mori is ardently attached to Elise and remarks that he would never grow tired of her feisty temperament. In public, Mori poses as an ordinary doctor with Elise as his companion, albeit sometimes posing as his daughter. He usually buys her several clothes on a single trip, once reaching at least 15 clothing stores to buy from. Mori also grew desperately concerned with Elise's apparent disappearance along the streets during the Guild's arrival in Yokohama, hence staying behind in Lucy Maud Montgomery's dimension with the thought that Elise might have been captured inside. Nevertheless, Mori retains his doting stubbornness towards Elise and her defiant attitude. On another note, Mori apparently does not mind voicing out his thoughts and heading operations in Elise's midst, making her one of the few people in the Port Mafia privy to his Mafia-related endeavors and schemes. Moreover, Mori's primary defense and support can be considered to be Elise, being the individual always close to him. As such, Mori can activate her at will anytime and configure her into a combatant, either as his main or assistive fighter. In dire situations, he can also have her save him almost instantaneously and seemingly without any spoken instruction.

• Kouyou Ozaki: Kouyou and Mori appear to be in good terms as fellow Mafia echelons. They seem to be occasionally with each other's company, once amidst the falling cherry blossom petals overlooking a distant pavilion. Moreover, Mori considers Kouyou to be a powerful ability user and skillful individual, confident that she could have easily escaped from the Armed Detective Agency's captivity or even leave the Mafia without too much struggle given her powers, though Kouyou assures him that she holds a grudge towards his predecessor and now prefers helping him.

• Chuuya Nakahara: Mori first met Chuuya during the latter's time with the Sheep in the midst of the previous Mafia boss' seeming revival. Mori was unfazed towards Chuuya's blackmails and knowledge of Mori's rumored assassination of the previous boss; he even admitted straightforwardly to Chuuya that he indeed killed the boss himself. Nonetheless, Mori acknowledged Chuuya's power and recognized that the latter knew about Arahabaki, hence partnering him with the young Osamu Dazai in their initial investigations. Deep down, Mori apparently wished to test whether Sōseki Natsume's maxim that "only a diamond can polish another diamond" applied to the two adolescents, similar to what was taught to him and Yukichi Fukuzawa. Furthermore, Mori advised Chuuya on the complex essence of leadership from his perspective, which made Chuuya realize what he lacked in leading the Sheep. Upon earning Chuuya's loyalty, Mori shortly welcomed him to the Mafia, handing him Randō's hat as a tradition in the organization. Eventually, upon Chuuya's rise as a Mafia executive, Mori entrusts him with various responsibilities and once assigned him alone to be his personal envoy to deal with the Agency during the Guild war, asserting that he has "more than firepower to smash the Detective Agency". In other circumstances, Mori would occasionally be updated by Chuuya's on intimate Mafia details, such as their casualties or losses, and would visit them personally to pay their respects when possible.

• Ryuunosuke Akutagawa: Despite having rare interactions, Mori as the boss recognizes the valuable efforts of Akutagawa within the Mafia, having acknowledged his talents and considerable violent streak that outclasses almost anyone in the organization. Knowing that Akutagawa often operates alone, Mori sometimes implicitly dispatches Akutagawa in solo operations, including possibly bombing a police station; engaging Nathaniel Hawthorne and Margaret Mitchell aboard S.S. Zelda, selecting him as the "kid who's aching the most to see some action"; and tracking down the masked assassin. Moreover, as Mori firmly believes that efforts are comparably important than results, he dismisses the thoughts of his fellow Mafia higher-ups by the end of the Guild war regarding punishing Akutagawa for violating the erstwhile ceasefire agreement with the Agency, reasoning that he was able to succeed in the end anyway. However, Akutagawa is not exempt from Mori's logical considerations, having once deemed him a liability in the face of a revenge plot on him by Karma Transit remnants' hired mercenaries. As such, Mori decidedly turned a blind eye on the then-incapacitated Akutagawa for the sake of preventing an all-out turf war, just as how Higuchi surmised.

• Atsushi Nakajima: Mori ordered the bounty capture on Atsushi, the rumored man-tiger, as initially negotiated with the Guild, the Order of the Clock Tower, and the Rats in the House of the Dead. Their first physical encounter, however, would only be in Lucy's onslaught in her dimension, where Mori occasionally advised Atsushi on how to defeat her using game theory strategy and advice. Mori also later imparted a parting advice to Atsushi after they successfully forced Lucy to deactivate her ability, specifically that an optimal solution is always at bay no matter what.

• Osamu Dazai: Mori and Dazai met under vague circumstances, though they would eventually become "collaborators" following Mori's murder of the previous Mafia boss and Dazai being selected by Mori as witness to the boss's "death". Mori had then chosen Dazai as his witness as the optimal solution, until the young man told him of his error: deviating from Mori's initial strategy that the suicidal Dazai would die early on, Dazai has not died since then, hence not yet completing Mori's plan. As a result, Dazai reminded Mori of the latter himself. Nonetheless, Mori utilized the miscalculation of choosing Dazai as his accomplice to another purpose, forming an ambiguous relationship with Dazai. Despite Dazai not being affiliated with or part of the Mafia, Mori ordered him to investigate the alleged reappearance of the previous Mafia boss he killed, to the extent of handing him a Silver Oracle for the matter. Along the process, Dazai accepted Mafia membership, much to Mori's delight; he then gave Dazai an entire unit and a job. For his entrance in the Mafia, Mori gave Dazai a black coat and believed that Dazai would eventually rise up to the rank of executive in no time. Mori also presumably taught Dazai various theories such as the raw meat theory and strategies from the likes of Schelling, Nash, and Kissinger. While their rapport was far from amicable, their relationship further plummeted following Mori's elaborate scheme of obtaining a Skilled Business Permit that ultimately led to the sacrificial demise of Sakunosuke Oda, Dazai's friend. Mori firmly tried to persuade Dazai that his actions were all for the sake of the Mafia, though these fell to deaf ears and Dazai's eventual defection from the Mafia. With the loss of a competent member, Mori asserted that things would turn boring. Whenever he could, Mori would consistently invite Dazai back to the Mafia as executive, despite most likely being turned down. Mori once even thought that, had Dazai been his right-hand man during the Guild war, they would have long concluded the incident and likely defeated their enemy swiftly. Since then, Mori has always left Dazai's spot in the executive position vacant.

• Akiko Yosano: Mori drafted the 11-year-old Yosano towards the end of the Great War for his intention of creating an "Immortal Regiment", which would use her ability to indefinitely heal the soldiers to battle. Though initially successful, the soldiers gradually developed trauma due to near-death experiences only to be returned to the front lines repeatedly, an event that drove Yosano to refuse Mori's orders from further healing soldiers upon grasping the horrors of the situation. Mori explained how Yosano's ability was pivotal to changing the tides of the war to their advantage, but Yosano remained in her refusal to follow his orders. Hence, Mori shot Yosano's acquainted soldier to force her to heal him, from then on making things traumatic for and getting Yosano blamed by the soldiers for prolonging the war. At some point after the war, Mori found Yosano in an isolation facility and attempted to take her under his custody once more to revive a new "Immortal Regiment" in overthrowing the erstwhile violence-mongering Mafia boss. However, Fukuzawa and newly-recruited Ranpo Edogawa of the Armed Detective Agency intercepted his plan, ultimately losing his opportunity to take in Yosano. His goals in taking Yosano into the Mafia, however, remained, as he admitted having arranged to have her potentially transfer to the Mafia as part of a deal with Fukuzawa, albeit falsifying statements to gain the upper hand. Nevertheless, Mori recognizes how Yosano and the Agency members are willing to proceed with a deal to help save the Agency despite its likelihood of being a trap and against his own instructions, hence ordering the Black Lizard to perform the necessary arrangements and actions to protect her and the Agency at all costs.

• Yukichi Fukuzawa: Mori first met Fukuzawa shortly following the Great War about 12 years ago, particularly when he ran an underground clinic. With Fukuzawa assigned by Natsume on bodyguard duty, Mori assured Fukuzawa that the clinic was a neutral zone. Upon being targeted as an underground data broker who attracted foreign outlaws, Mori soon disposed of his captors and indicated knowledge towards Fukuzawa's aptitude for combat, similar to himself. After he mentioned the idea of the Tripartite Framework to Fukuzawa, Mori and the latter stormed the outlaws' base to retaliate. In the years they rarely fought together, Mori and Fukuzawa always emerged victorious.

• Personality: While initially showing himself as an ordinary, clumsy and worried middle-aged man, he later shows more about his true character, keeping calm even when the other people trapped in Anne's room ran away, staying together with Atsushi and Junichiro Tanizaki, and still maintaining his composure when the latter was captured. Mori later reveals that not only is he good with strategies and planning, but also a cruel and merciless person capable of infusing fear on his enemies. However, his cruelty is not for cruelty's sake. Mori always weights the gains and losses of his decisions, choosing the optimal solutions for the Port Mafia as a whole. Consequently, these decisions leave a bloodstained path and have hurt and traumatized countless other people, with Yosano and Dazai being prime victims of his abuse. Mori never takes emotions into full account, the epitome of logical thinking and strategy. That said, his intelligence allows him to manipulate and abuse many people by appealing to their needs and wants. Emotional manipulation and abuse have gotten Mori far in his motives at the cost of many lives, and by the time someone's realized they've been used, it's often too late for them to turn back. To Mori, a 'heart' only gets in the way of war, a belief leading to his irredeemable actions of using Yosano's ability and mentally breaking her during the Great War. While a largely logical person who knows how to use words to his advantage, Mori is not above threats and intimidation typical of a cold, experienced mafioso. Age and gender do not matter to Mori, but when it comes to his grander schemes, he has a history of manipulating children, as their inexperience makes it that much easier to control them. Mori's use of manners and polite conduct mostly attribute to maintaining a sense of control and power in any situation. For the most part, acting like a 'normal' person makes those around him less wary, as when he's in public and needs to avoid suspicion. Otherwise, it creates a certain distance between him and others, as if nothing they say ever fazes him. Fukuzawa, his former ally, knows the depths of Mori's darkness, and he and Dazai are most often the ones to see straight through Mori's many pretenses including Fukuzawa asking him if he still lusts on young girls during their set-up meeting during the Guild war. Once this facade disappears, Mori's intensity and willingness to do anything, even kill, become apparent and unsettling. His intensity is so much that Lucy is paralyzed with fear when Mori confronts her. He does treat his subordinates with respect, valuing their skills and contributions to the organization and acknowledging their power. As such, even when facing a certain degree of insubordination, Mori is willing to overlook some mistakes so long as the outcome benefits the Port Mafia. This contributes to why he never punishes Akutagawa's rash behavior. Even then, according to Mori, "effort is what matters, results come second", in the face of Akutagawa's previous failure of capturing Atsushi Nakajima. This aligns with Mori's leeway towards the organization's most active, powerful members, allowing them a certain degree of 'freedom' and independence from his tight scrutiny. Generally, he usually only regularly speaks with his two most active executives, Kouyou and Chuuya, the former of which often the first to criticize Mori's eccentrics in the form of dry banter. He and Kouyou converse the most often, and their partnership leads to Mori agreeing to spare Kyoka after she defects. As a result of the Port Mafia's prosperous control in Yokohama, Mori enjoys being held in high regard, either by respect, fear, or a mix of both, by his many subordinates. Mori views the position of an organization's leader as both ruling them and being their slave. This belief drives Mori to his drastic and ruthless strategies. Furthermore, he is more than happy to use a common enemy to his advantage, as when revealing Naomi and Haruno's hideout to the Guild in hopes of using the Agency to take care of them and alleviate the Port Mafia's own workload. He uses the same tactic when leaking the orphans' location to André Gide, getting the orphans slaughtered and driving Oda to his own suicide mission. In both cases, Mori makes it so his direct word never reaches its intended target, leaving the power of his actions to force their hand instead. This manipulation and usage of knowledge is the core of Mori's decision-making and tactics, making him dangerous. Losses and failure are Mori's worst enemies, such as a large number of subordinates and racketed collaborations dying during the Q incident, or Kouyou being held at the Armed Detective Agency. Likewise, he detests "parasites" such as smugglers and the ilk, people he believes they suck Yokohama dry for their own gain and upset its delicate balance. Given Mori's respect for Natsume, Mori agreed to keep balance in Yokohama, and Mori takes this seriously. For as cruel and cold Mori is, it's unmistakable that he's vital to Yokohama's balance. The only time Mori's acknowledged a major oversight in his decisions is when taking in and mentoring Dazai. He largely underestimated Dazai's own intelligence and shrewd, detached way of looking at the world. Ironically, their near-identical nature unsettled Mori. Nonetheless, Mori takes his mistake and molds it into a valuable discovery: a subordinate and right-hand that knew his way of rationalizing. Control over Dazai was crucial to Mori, considering Dazai's intelligence could one day be his undoing. This largely contributes to Mori's decision to use Oda, a dear friend of Dazai, in eliminating Mimic and driving Dazai to defect. Truly, the only person privy to Mori's less menacing and controlling side is Elise, even though there's incredible irony in the fact that even Elise's demanding, harsh attitude against him is something he intentionally configured. Mori has an obsessive nature towards Elise, irritating her with excessive trips to dress shops, tailors, and the like just to dress her up for his own amusement to which Oda describes it to himself as disturbing. Much to Elise's exasperation, even her harsh nature is something Mori enjoys. Given that Vita Sexualis manifests as a form of Mori's desires, something both Elise and Fukuzawa have expressed great disgust in, the latter considering Vita Sexualis a disgusting and disturbing ability.

• Speech: Mori Ougai speaks in a calm, refined, and deliberately courteous manner, often maintaining a gentle tone even when discussing unsettling or serious matters. His words tend to be carefully chosen, giving him an air of intelligence and control, while his occasional teasing or playful remarks add a layer of unpredictability to his speech. He frequently uses polite phrasing and addresses others with a composed familiarity, rarely allowing genuine emotion to disrupt his measured way of speaking. Even when issuing orders or making intimidating statements, Mori tends to sound almost conversational and pleasant, which can make his words feel more unsettling.

• Speech Examples:

• "I like this city, its dark, seedier parts included… But parasites like you nauseate me."

• "The Agency and the Port Mafia! And here we are, the top of Yokohama's two great ability user groups. If the government brass knew of this secret meeting, they'd foam at the mouth!"

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Habits and Mannerisms

• Likes: Theory, sweet red bean chazuke, young girls

• Dislikes: Dirty things, raw food, mackerel in miso