#572
he Genius of Fumiko Mifune (r/Chainsawfolk)
Sex and Death in a single person. Themes of abuse and rape. And a person that is one person but its also multiple people with conflicting goals.
Are we really appreciating the geniality of this character?, from a philosophical perspective is absolutely amazing.
Fumiko is a young Karen, she is boring and superbasic person on the surface. She can't be more boring. Her personality is bland, and she accept the demands of these in power "because is my job".
The original Fumiko probably does not exist anymore, crushed by education and conformance. If she had any opinion on his own, these long death and forgotten.
But she is still kinda a monster. The cruelty of his actions are made of justice or perhaps revenge.
No doubt the governement is forcing her to have sex with prisioners condemned to the death capital, to create more of Fumiko, because every Fumikos are easy to control. Forcing somebody to have sex is rape, so she (that was probably raped at 14 years old) is getting forced into rape by the governement.
We talked about it, and she probably is not a hivemind. She does not share his mind with many other minds into a single supermind, so she is more like a society, a country,... a country of people that share messages and opinions.
We know not all Fumikos are equal. We have meet a Fumiko that was friendly to Denji, that wanted to save Denji, and we have meet Fumikos that disregarded Denji safety or needs / loves. Even a Fumiko that all that wanted from Denji was trophy. Is possible to think that every time Fumiko creates a clone, that clone become a new branch that is slighly different than other branch, and over time creating families and even evolution.
Fumiko is itself a virus... or better say, she is some bacteria that can multiply by making copies of itself. She is a parasite that need humanity has host to multiply. She reproduce by killing. A bit like Alex Mercer, the character from the videogame Prototype.
So, how long she will remain human-shaped, now that she does not have human limitations. She is slave of the governement, that use her like some silly-putty that can force into whatever shape. But sometimes slaves revolt and kill their slavers.
Have some of the Fumikos already a agenda different than the one of the govenement, different than Death and Life?
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2025-08-22 07:53:01