Nikolai Gogol

Male Age 26 Height 184 cm (6'0)

Nikolai has white layered, sharp hair swept to the left side of his face. However, as short as it seems, he also has a long braid of hair that often rests on his right shoulder. A scar is slit vertically down his left eye. Compared to his left eye, his right eye appears vacant, bearing no highlights in it.

Over his right eye appears to be a card-styled mask or eye patch. Nikolai's attire is just as eccentric as his personality and closely resembles that of a circus ringmaster. He wears a mostly black jacket, the right side being solid black, black-and-white striped trousers, a shirt with a ruffled, round collar akin to a loose elaborate turtleneck, and dark gloves. He completes the outfit with a top hat with a diamond pattern.

Nikolai is sadistic and loves to speak in great theatrics. One of his main traits is his tendency to pose questions (oftentimes rhetorical threats) as "quizzes".

Nikolai hints that his eccentric persona may or may not be real. The side of him feeling no remorse in murdering others is just as real as the side that feels guilt, well aware of how wrong and cruel his actions are. He claims to want to soar as freely as birds do. Nonetheless, both sides appear evident. However, even if he does feel guilt, he acts as if he bears no hard feelings.

Nikolai's ability, The Overcoat, allows him to use his coat to manipulate spaces and what comes out of them. That is, it acts largely like a portal, capable of relocating objects, as well as a 'pocket dimension' where he is able to store objects. He can use this to make his hand and gun appear in a space completely unrelated to him or drop a pillar through a portal before holding it there and opening the other end at a later point in time. The ability works on living things as well. He uses it to 'sever' Atsushi's leg from his body, trapping it on the floor. However, Atsushi is still able to move his leg and receives pain signals from it. The Overcoat's range is upwards of 30 meters.

Nikolai Gogol is one of the major antagonists in Bungo Stray Dogs. Nikolai is one of the 5 members of the Decay of the Angel.

Personality In Nikolai's first appearance, he establishes himself as a sadistic and theatrical jester. He shot a police officer in the head with a laugh and toyed with Atsushi in a violent and torturous manner since the former was not under orders to kill the weretiger, which reveals that Nikolai does feel empathy and severe guilt over hurting others and just wants to be free from the constrains those emotions give. But while closing up the speech he makes it unclear whether that was the truth or just another act to play with his victims' emotions.

He greatly enjoys giving fun-fact pop quizzes to the point he often ends up spoiling the answer in excitement.