Mark Twain
Mark Twain is a character appearing in the series Bungou Stray Dogs. He serves as a twenty-two-year-old sniper within the North American gifted organization known as The Guild. Characterized by his cheerful, energetic, and highly adventurous personality, he provides long-range fire support for his team. Mark approaches combat assignments with a casual mindset, often treating his missions as hunts or entertaining games. Despite his lighthearted attitude toward his work, he remains a highly competent marksman who accepts outcome gracefully when defeated.
Overview
Mark Twain is a character appearing in the series Bungou Stray Dogs. He serves as a twenty-two-year-old sniper within the North American gifted organization known as The Guild. Characterized by his cheerful, energetic, and highly adventurous personality, he provides long-range fire support for his team. Mark approaches combat assignments with a casual mindset, often treating his missions as hunts or entertaining games. Despite his lighthearted attitude toward his work, he remains a highly competent marksman who accepts outcome gracefully when defeated.
Appearance
He is a young man with messy orange hair featuring a noticeable ahoge along with slanted, center-parted bangs. His eyes are bright green with distinct eyelashes. For his attire, he sports a long-sleeved shirt that is left widely open at his chest, and he wears comfortable sandals on his feet.
Personality
Mark possesses an upbeat, energetic, and adventurous personality. He highly values praise, holds himself in high self-esteem, and intensely dislikes plain, boring tasks. He views his missions and fighting as an enjoyable hunt or game. However, he is not overly obsessed with the outcome; when he recognizes his defeat, he cleanly accepts it without clinging to bitterness.
Abilities
He possesses the ability named Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer. This power allows him to attach two miniature sentient ability creatures, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, onto bullets to execute completely accurate, pinpoint marksmanship. Because Huck and Tom share a linked consciousness, Mark can also utilize the fired bullets to perform long-distance reconnaissance.
Background
Upon arriving in Yokohama alongside The Guild's leader, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Mark sniped Nakajima Atsushi and Izumi Kyouka using rubber bullets. He later attempted to prevent Nakajima Atsushi from taking Yumeno Kyuusaku's curse doll back to the surface, though this effort failed. Subsequently, he partnered with John Steinbeck to capture Lucy Maud Montgomery. Following the destruction and crash of the Moby Dick airship, he discussed his future plans with Louisa May Alcott and John Steinbeck, expressing his intention to return home to write his own autobiography. He later returned to Yokohama alongside Guild members to join further battles.
Relationships
He serves under Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, the leader of The Guild. He frequently works alongside John Steinbeck, collaborating with him to capture Lucy Maud Montgomery and reflecting together on their future after the airship battle. Mark notably misheard Nathaniel Hawthorne's name as "NASA," mistakenly assuming he could communicate with extra-terrestrials, which became a long-running joke among his colleagues in The Guild. He also encountered Nakajima Atsushi and Izumi Kyouka as combat targets.
Trivia
His namesake and historical inspiration is the famous American author Mark Twain, best known for classic novels such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In the series, Mark displays an eagerness to document his own exploits in an autobiography.