Dr. Stylish

Dr. Stylish was a doctor and scientist in the service of the Empire as well as a member of the Jaegers.

Appearance
Dr. Stylish was a tall man with spiky black hair with a white patch and blue eyes. He wore glasses, a yellow suit with a blue shirt, a tie, and a white trench coat.

Personality
Dr. Stylish was obsessed with two things: his experiments and anything he considered stylish. His preoccupation with the latter is exemplified in the first meeting of the Jaegers, where he has Seryu scatter rose petals through the air as he enters the room so that he may have a ‘stylish’ entrance. However, his main overriding focus is on his experiments. In this regard he is shown to be both self-serving and duplicitous, going behind the backs of his superiors to obtain materials for his research (such as his attack on Night Raid) and conducting experiments that even the imperial capital has no knowledge of (the creation of the humanoid Danger Beasts). Additionally, he feigns sympathy for any of his test subjects that are injured or killed in his service but in reality he cares nothing for any of them, seeing them only as bodies to experiment on.

He has also been heavily hinted to be homosexual and enjoyed hitting on fellow male Jaegers (except for Bols) and also offered his own test subjects “a night alone with him” if they did well.

Lastly, he seems to have been fairly well known and very well connected, having worked for several imperial agencies over time. His contacts included the unnamed commander of the Assassination Squad, Captain Ogre of the Capital Guard, the imperial spy Bolic, and the Prime Minister’s son Syura. Wild Hunt’s Dorothea also came to the Empire with the sole purpose of meeting Stylish but he had already perished by the time she arrived.

Events prior to the main story
In the prequel, Akame ga Kill! Zero, Dr. Stylish was shown handing the Assassination Squad’s commander a vial of poison that would be used to help uncover spies hiding in the villages near the capital. He demanded ten male prisoners in exchange for this.

Although it is not known exactly when his experiments to transform humans into Danger Beasts took place, it was almost certainly before his introduction in the main story. The subjects of this research were changed into mindless, flesh-eating monsters and confined in Stylish’s hidden laboratory. There were also at least two research subjects that were turned into colossal versions of these creatures and were kept on an island far to the south-east of the empire. Prime Minister Honest’s son Syura knew something of this but to what extent he was involved has not been revealed.

Stylish is also known to have done research on a blood sample from the leader of the Path of Peace (discovering that the man was half Danger Beast) and was the one who performed the modifications to Seryu’s body both before and after her first battle with Night Raid.

Becoming a Jaeger
When General Esdeath requested the formation of a new force of Teigu users to maintain order in the capital, Dr. Stylish is among those recruited for the group. Upon arriving at the designated meeting place he immediately takes a liking to Wave and asks that they get along well (Wave does not appreciate the sentiment). As the meeting progresses Stylish decides that Bols is definitely not his type but things are soon disrupted when Esdeath arrives and proceeds to test her new subordinates. The doctor is one of the only ones who is not attacked by nor tries to attack Esdeath and the group soon moves on to an audience with the emperor. Before arriving, however, Stylish suggests that they decide on a name for their new team and Esdeath decrees that they will be known as the Jaegers.

Later, after Tatsumi had been brought to the palace by Esdeath, the Jaegers’ first big mission arrives: the elimination of a large group of bandits hiding near Gyogan Lake. When Esdeath queries the group on their willingness to proceed with the mission, Dr. Stylish responds that his guiding principle is the pursuit of style. Esdeath does not immediately understand so Dr. Stylish elaborates; he believes that Esdeath’s unparalleled power and ruthless personality are the epitome of style and he wishes nothing more than to study her. With Esdeath satisfied (if somewhat flabbergasted) by this answer the Jaegers move out.

During the ensuing battle Stylish does not directly participate but is quick to boast that the weapons being used by Seryu were created by himself through the use of his Teigu. He then proceeds to show off his personal army of enhanced soldiers and states that creating weapons that can rival the strength of the Teigu has always been a dream of his.

Finding Night Raid
The next day, when Esdeath decides to take Tatsumi, Wave, and Kurome hunting at Mt. Fake, Dr. Stylish is shown eavesdropping on the conversation. After Tatsumi escapes he is among those that search Mt. Fake and its surrounding area for the missing boy. Although his minion Hana is able to pick up Tatsumi’s scent trail he does not inform the other Jaegers as he had been suspicious of Tatsumi from the first. As he continues to follow the trail two more of his modified soldiers, Me and Mimi, begin to warn him of tread traps and voices from up ahead. Once Stylish catches sight of a large building he knows he has found Night Raid’s hideout.

Dr. Stylish then gathers the entirety of his personal army, called Team Stylish, and directs them to attack. When asked by Me if it’s wise to take on Night Raid without telling Esdeath, Stylish replies that it would be terrible if she refused to let him have the Night Raiders and their Teigu for his experiments. He also expresses to himself his disdain for Esdeath’s blind love for Tatsumi and contemplates killing him as punishment.

As Team Stylish begins its assault the doctor professes supreme confidence in his strengthened soldiers and at first things go as he had planned they would. Kaku, who he equipped with the Teigu Extase, proved effective against Tatsumi’s Incursio and Toby, whose whole body had been turned into a machine, was unable to be killed by one strike from Akame&apos;s Murasame. However, as his casualties mount and his foes prove more durable than expected, it soon becomes apparent that Night Raid will not be defeated so easily. This nearly causes Stylish to order a retreat but before he can do so Najenda, the leader of Night Raid, arrives in the area on an Air Manta with two new members for her team. The doctor is momentarily distracted by the ‘stylishness’ of this entrance but goes on to say it’s a fortunate turn of events as he can now use his trump card to make everyone into his research materials.

Meanwhile, all of the Night Raiders who were present at the beginning of the attack have gathered outside the base and are facing down the last of Team Stylish’s infantry. They appear set to finish off their much-reduced enemy until most of them collapse without warning. Dr. Stylish proudly proclaims this to be his first trump card, an undetectable and extremely powerful paralysis poison. As Team Stylish’s infantry have an immunity to this poison it appears that they have regained the advantage. However, one of Night Raid’s new members then attacks from the sky and is soon revealed to be an organism-type Teigu, The Speed of Lightning: Susanoo, now owned by Najenda.

Realizing that poison will not work on an organism-type Dr. Stylish attempts to run but is intercepted. Left with no choice Stylish resorts to his second trump card: injecting himself with a serum that changes him into a huge Danger Beast. As he is changing he also absorbs the last of own troops to further increase his power and then attempts to deal with Susanoo. Now a match for the Human-Teigu, Stylish is somewhat amused when he notices Tatsumi carrying Akame to the battlefield. He quickly attempts to finish them off but is surprised and knocked over by a shot from Mine. Tatsumi and Akame then scale his enormous form and move toward the one part that is still vulnerable: his original body that is perched atop the head of the giant one. Stylish tries to swat them away but Susanoo interferes and Tatsumi throws Akame the rest of the way, allowing her to slash him across the chest. As Murasame’s poison takes hold Dr. Stylish laments that he still had many human experiments that he wanted to do and curses his misfortune. Akame states afterward that because Stylish was able to die quickly and easily he was still fortunate.

Legacy
Dr. Stylish’s experiments, his attack on Night Raid, and his subsequent death all had lasting impacts. Night Raid was forced to abandon their hideout after killing Stylish and spent about a month’s time away from the capital before returning to resume their missions. Seryu was greatly saddened by his death but soon found comfort from Esdeath, who promised to grant her wish of exterminating her enemies.

However, Stylish’s most far-reaching legacy is almost certainly his humanoid Danger Beast experiments. Sometime after his death Syura, knowing where these creatures were contained, set them loose on the countryside as a game. Several of these were later recaptured by the Jaegers for Prime Minister Honest while the rest were destroyed. These sample creatures would prove very useful to the Minister, however, when Syura later brought the alchemist Dorothea to the empire as part of Wild Hunt. Dorothea’s original purpose in coming to the empire was so she could meet Dr. Stylish and see if his science and her alchemy could be combined. She was frustrated when she learned of his death but, after gaining the patronage of the Minister who had a workshop built for her and gave her one of the remaining Danger Beasts, she has stated that she will be able to research and use Stylish’s techniques for herself regardless.

Equipment and Skills
As a scientist Dr. Stylish had great intelligence and powerful observational skills. He was the only member of the Jaegers to discern that Tatsumi’s skill in combat was too high for him to be a simple blacksmith. Stylish also possessed great skill in the creation of poisons, with one of his most powerful being an invisible, odorless gas that could paralyze even trained assassins. He was a capable strategist as well, equipping several of his enhanced soldiers to combat specific enemies as well as preparing various hidden moves ahead of time.

Stylish was in possession of the Teigu "Perfector", a set of gloves that increased the speed and dexterity of his fingers dramatically. This Teigu, along with Stylish’s medical knowledge, enabled him to heal any injury, short of death itself. The Teigu was also the tool with which Stylish performed the enhancement surgeries on his minions and created the weapons known as the ‘Judgment of the Ten Heavenly Kings’ used by Seryu Ubiquitous. After Stylish’s death the Teigu was taken by Night Raid who then sent it on to the Revolutionary Army’s headquarters.

Trivia

 * In some scenes he (and his minions) makes various JoJo Poses.

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