Józefina Korzeniowska

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* **Main**
* BEAST

"*Me? Extraordinary? For what reason? I'm just an ordinary woman from Poland who moved to Japan. I don’t see anything unusual and excellent in me to admire.*"

## Józefina Korzeniowska

### Also Known As

„Simple” Woman
Jose-chan, Fina-chan, Józia, Józka* *For appellations, see Relationships*

### Namesake

 Joseph Conrad (Polish-British novelist and short story writer)

## Personal Information

### Hair Color

Dark/Chocolate Brown (Dyed)
Red (Natural)

### Dislikes

her job and ability, understatements, cold temperatures

## Professional Information

### Reference

Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad’s most popular novella)

### Occupation

Inventor
Technician
OtCT messenger
Café Uzumaki worker

### Affiliation

Skamander (former)
 Order of the Clock Tower (secret agent)
Café Uzumaki
Rats in the House of the Dead, Decay of the Angel (unofficial member/OtCT messenger)

## Relationships

### Family

Apolonia Korzeniowska (mother)
Konrad Korzeniowski (father)
Urszula (adopted younger sister)

## Portrayal

### English Voice

Judy Alice Lee

**Józefina Teodora Korzeniowska** (ジョセフィイナ・テオドラ・コジェニョフスキカ, *Josefiina Teodora Kojenyofusuka*) also known as **Aniela Zagórska** (アニエラ・ザゴルスカ, *Aniera Zagorusuka*) and **Jessie George** (ジェシイ・ジョオジ, *Jeshii Jooji*) is mysterious, young woman who arrived to Yokohama with her “half-sister” Urszula. She is the wielder of ability named **„Heart of Darkness”**.

## Appearance

Józefina is a petite, young-looking woman with fair skin and gentle presence, making her appear younger than she actually is. She has wave, dyed dark brown hair with bangs covering her forehead, which is naturally red. Her hair reaching up to her shoulders. In the past they’re braided - braid usually was falling on her back or her left arm. Her eyes are dark blue, which are described as melancholic and pensive. Her overall appearance is described as "cute, but common". Most often she has a "neutral" face, especially when speaking and meeting with unknown persons, but sometimes she has a genuine smile. After Urszula’s death she almost always wears owned by her a silver necklace with a butterfly-shaped pendant with a blue crystal - she is extremely emotionally attached to this souvenir.

## Personality

Known primarily for her introverted disposition and, at the same time, extremely developed technical competence, Józefina at first seems to be the epitome of a well-bred woman from a so-called "good home." At least this impression is somehow not particularly misleading, although Adam's disturbing message to an unknown sender suggests that her curtness stems more from her desire for sanity and her apodictic mother's upbringing than from actually wanting to be polite. Even so, thanks to this trait, she is rather positively perceived the first time around by the people around her. However, despite her kindness, her secretive nature means that it is rare to hear about what troubles her, as she is not eager to share it with people, and she also seems to be very awkward in social interactions. Even when she does speak, she hesitates to express herself or her opinions, tends to speak in short statements and will try to break away from a conversation as quickly as possible. What she dislikes most is talking about her past and sensitive things, such as her ability.

Despite her seemingly aloof and detached nature, Józefina actually cares very deeply about those close to her, and often shows sympathy and understanding to people who have experienced similar things to her or worse. Nikolai said that "she wants to feel like a hero to someone," but at the same time "she considers herself the biggest threat." She is very afraid that through her ability or lack of brakes in her behavior she might hurt someone severely, as happened to her "close friend whom she can no longer recognize," having here in mind Gogol, who went mad through the negative effects of her ability. She considers her ability to be her greatest shortcoming and sincerely hates it when someone tries to extract information about her from her - she then reacts extremely defensively, and may even go as far as passive-aggression towards the interlocutor. One can also speculate that at some point, like Fyodor, she began to perceive abilities as a threat - when Sigma asked her why she joined to his plan at one point, she replied that "life has taught her about how dangerous people who hold supernatural power in their hands can be”.

She is very hardworking and stubborn in what she does as an engineer. She is generally doesn't seem to be interested in climbing the career ladder, valuing far more the satisfaction of the people she values than titles and honors. Therefore, she did not accept the position of Supreme Engineer in the Order of the Clock Tower completely content with her current position in the ranks. Dutifulness and task-mindedness at work, however, is unfortunately mixed very often with procrastination, which makes her sometimes postpone things to the last minute and in a hurry and stress she completes this sentence, losing more nerve than necessary. Because of this, she recognizes that she would not be a good leader and prefers to be an employee, not wanting to carry the burden of responsibility for the entire group. For the sake of balance, however, it can be noted that she is a very quick learner and quite a smart person, but very often ignores her own abilities and hunches in favor of the opinion of others, believing that they know better (especially if she sees them as placed higher than her). While she simply sees herself as a person who realistically assesses her abilities and sees her weaknesses, in reality she has very low self-esteem, usually because she has not been able to prove to herself that she is enough and is constantly looking for - sometimes imaginary - flaws to point out and hide in herself.

Despite being generally very calm and amiable on the surface, she has much more sinister and ruthless tendencies on the inside of her mind - when she is emotional or feels betrayed and cheated she can resort to very drastic and ill-considered measures acting mainly under the dictates of her emotions. She hates this side of her personality and tries to hide it as much as possible and suffocate it within herself. In the past, she was also much more obedient and submissive, but - according to Ursula's words - she has now become a bit more courageous and stands up for her opinion more strongly.

## Ability

Her control-type ability named **Heart of Darkness** (闇の心, *Yami no kokoro*) is a roughly unknown, but it's certainly known that it gives her totally mind control of every person whose can hearing her voice and she has the intention to control them. Józefina’s voice should be clear and well audible and her language and way of speaking understandable for the controlled subject. Depending on her order the character of the ability can change, e.g. an order can be activated with a specific command or when a specific thing or person appears.

According to Mickiewicz, her ability wasn't so much created to control the minds as to drive people insane, but in its first phase, it is meant to benefit its possessor.

## Skills

* **Enhanced intelligence and fast teaching:** Korzeniowska is a resourcefulness and clever woman - she was even in the school and during her mother’s teaching. She was learning new things in very fast rate and - what’s most important - she understanded this, so it wasn’t stupid slapped formulas without understanding. So it can be inferred from this information that her intelligence manifests itself mainly through the very rapid adoption of new knowledge and a very quick to draw conclusions from available informations - even currently she also learning new things very quickly, mainly the Japanese language and the culture of this country. The first one is going really well, and as time goes by many people can see that her knowledge on grammar or pronunciation is increasing, although at the beginning many people (especially Dazai and Chuya) said that her skills were severely average.
	+ **Great memory:** In addition to her high intelligence, Józefina has an extremely good, almost photographic memory - she's able to remember something even if it was a very long time ago - however, it is worth noting here that her memory is very selective, as it concerns in the “bigger picture” or things that are very distinctive (or those things are distinctive for her, for example Gogol’s braid). It has also been shown that she can recognize people by their voices, quite quickly recognized the voices of Gogol, Dostoevsky and Mickiewicz when she heard them for the first time in a very long time.
	+ **High creativity:** Józefina, as the chief technician and engineer working under orders Staff and Dame Agatha in the past, repeatedly showed great creativity in creating new innovations for machines or technical solutions to facilitate their plans. She was the one who created the fancy multi-stage traps in the corridors leading to Leopold Staff's bedroom and office, and later create verification methods to protect Christie's top secret documents; for example, in addition to the standard ones, there was, for example, a riddle, and when one answered it wrongly one was doused with an unknown black substance and pepper spray was sprayed too.
* **Hight skills in technical matters:** Józefina was a very brilliant technician in the „Skamander” group, when she was in - she often repair devices in the Mickiewicz’s office or for other group members, when it was needed by them. Occasionally they tested new technical solutions or even create new inventions - but it's only speculations from other ability user organizations. But it’s known that Józefina together with her mother, before joined to Skamandrites, created new security system to Staff’s home. She also put her talents to use when she work for Dame Agathe Christie as her most trusted technical researcher and engineer - there are reasonable indications that she participated in or was even the main person responsible for the improvement of the One Order, the powerful ability weapon currently possessed by the Order of the Clock Tower, and created by her mother and her team during the Great War. She is also well informed about the latest trends and technological innovations, although she herself isn't the most eager to incorporate them into her life without a clear need. Also has been strongly suggested that she may have limited ability on hacking, mainly how to defend against it, but it isn't excluded that he has some skill in other aspects.

### Weaknesses

* **Weak condition:** Józefina has a very weak and fragile body as long as she can remember - from childhood she has had to stay home many times due to frequent illnesses, which was also one of the key reasons why it was decided at one point in her life that she should be homeschooled. Currently, her sickness has normalized, but she continues to be quite weak when it comes to things related to physical fitness - Lucy once complained that she has trouble lifting weights, yet she stubbornly wants to do it. In general, she tires very easily and can't run fast or long - her strength also leaves much to be desired. For this reason, too, she doesn't fight and is usually kept out of situations where she would have to use force.
	+ **Low pain threshold:** Very related to her weak body is her very low pain threshold - it isn't difficult to hurt her severely. Nikolai suggested that as soon as he start torturing her she'll very soon not be able to stand it and faint or her screams will be unbearable.
* **Motion sickness:** Caused of this disease, she has a very hard time withstanding long-distance travel and has to recover fully for some time afterwards. She gets weak even when she hears that she’ll have to go somewhere in any vehicle, and she is especially bad at traveling on crowded trains or other modes of transportation where there are a lot of people in a very small space. She always carries pills in her bag, but - by her own admission - it's help her to a very limited extent.

## Creations

**WIP**

 **N01-109279 "Narcissa"** | Humanoid Bio-Android

## Background

Born during the Great War in a south-eastern, mountainous region of Poland, Józefina was the daughter of two respected capability engineering scientists. Her mother, Apolonia, was remembered most strongly for developing and later perfecting one of the most advanced yet feared weapons her field had created - the One Order capable of forcing anyone to obey her in a second. This both made her respected in the community, allowing her family to live quite well, and brought various suspicions about where she had managed to get the material necessary to create this impressive technological marvel. However, in the absence of any evidence, the search was abandoned.

For a while, little Józia (as she was called in the family home) lived a fairly normal life, although it wasn't exactly carefree - her mother had always wanted her to take over her inheritance, so she was apprenticed to her profession from childhood. One thing that is known is that at some point her family adopted little Urszula Kochanowska after the mysterious death of her father. When her own mother died in equally mysterious circumstances she joined the Skamander group working for some time under the orders of Leopold Staff. This lasted until, due to a certain incident that went down in the history of the Gifted as the 'Dark Anomaly Incident', she leaved the organisation as well as Poland with Urszula. The incident was supposed to be investigated by Europole on the basis of an anonymous report of an anomaly, but due to the lack of available evidence the investigation was dropped. The whole affair, however, caused the international police to begin to look a little more closely at the mysterious Skamandrites group, and especially at Józefina herself, who, due to her departure from the organisation, began to come under increasing scrutiny due to her unclear links to the incident. At one point she joined The Order of the Clock Tower so that Europole would not bother her or Urszula in normal life. However, in unknown circumstances, she left the UK and contacted Special Division for Unusual Powers for equally mysterious purposes....

## Battles

Chaos Arc

Decay of Angels Arc

Aftermath Arc

## Quotes

* (To Ango Sakaguchi): "*I remember perfectly what happened when my ability got out of control… Then I realized how dangerous it can be - how I can be dangerous without brakes and inhibitions. That's why I don't want to let that happen again*."
* (To Atsushi Nakajima): "*No, I am not strong - every win I have had is simply because it was the enemy who was weak, not that I was strong*."
* (To Nikolai Gogol): "*In the math, there are numbers like Googol and Googolplex that are very large. Based on your reasoning and thinking, I'm wondering if your brain isn't operating on a frequency of one of these numbers. It’s even matches with your pseudonym*."
* (To Sigma confiding him about her attitude to her work): "*I don’t like my work for my own… personal reasons. But I like a few things in this, for example… ehhh… nevermind, I shouldn’t say this*..."
* (To Osamu Dazai) "*I'd rather be faithful to a nightmare of my own choice than to a beautiful dream someone else imposed on me*."
* (To Fyodor Dostoevsky) "*I think that the belief in a supernatural source of evil isn’t necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness*."

## Etymology

* Józefina is a Polish variation of Josephine and female variation of Józef meaning "god will increase".
* Teodora is a Polish variation of Theodore/Theodora meaning “the gift of god”. Names with a similar and/or the same meaning are, for example, Fyodor, Bogdan, or Bożydar.
* Korzeniowska is the last name.

## Trivia

### Real life counterpart

* Real life Joseph Conrad was man and his birth name was „Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski”.
	+ Her two false identities were inspired by two important women in real-life Joseph Conrad’s life - Aniela Zagórska was his cousin, who translated his work from English to Polish. Jessie George was Joseph Conrad’s wife, who was with him until his death.
* The real-life Joseph Conrad was reservations about Dostoevsky's philosophy - mainly by because of the "too much Russianness" of this and he praised Leo Tolstoy's more pro-Western views. In Bungou Stray Dogs' world they're a close co-workers - it was at his urging that Józefina joined Rats in the House of Dead and Decay of the Angel. However, despite supporting most of his philosophies, Józefina seems to be slightly suspicious.

### Bungo Stray Dogs Universe

* She has motion sickness, what’s irronical, cause fact that her real-life counterpart was sailor for most of his life.
* She is farsighted - in theory, she should wear corrective glasses, but in practice she wears them usually to work and reading.
* She’s very good at cooking - she likes the most cooked meals from her home country.
* She has good contact with children and she likes them, but she wasn't interested in raising any of them, at least until she had to take care of Urszula.
* Despite her mixed feelings in relation with animals, she doesn't seem to have anything against animals widely recognized as dangerous or unpleasant to the eyes, for example spiders, snakes or rats.
* According the first official guidebook:
	+ Her favorite type is a person who doesn’t ask about her ability, past and connections (i.e. none). She also likes people with pleasant voice.
	+ She spends her time reading, cooking and resting for a new day at work.
	+ Her sleeping pattern is irregular.
	+ Similar to Dazai, she’s bad at driving.
	+ She thinks that her victory comes from another weakness.
	+ She thinks her strengths are her good memory and she has high adaptability, thanks to which she can adapt to many circumstances, what's helps in her job.
	+ Her weakness is that she often doing something on impulse.
	+ Her motto is „I spend my life like I dream - alone”.
	+ In the general consensus, her MBTI personality type is INFP, while her enneagram type is 9w1.

## References

1. ↑ Unfortunately, I couldn't identify the seiyuu, but I can say that the character saying this line is Luna Nox from Soulworker.
2. ↑ She is known by role of Yun Jin from *Genshin Impact* and Wild Marie from *Arknights*.
3. ↑ By her own admission, she isn't proud of her past and the few things she has done and created - in addition to driving Gogol to insane, the improvement of One Order may be one of those things, if considers the rumors to be at least a little bit true.
4. ↑ Propably somewhere in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, this is where the Bieszczady Mountains are located. Another likely location is Lesser Poland Voivodeship, where located is Zakopane (it could be a reference to the movie "Niebezpieczni Dżentelmeni" (The Dangerous Gentlemans)), Cracow, and the Polish part of the Carpathian Mountains.