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Name: Fujiko Mine
Fandom: Lupin III
Gender: Female.
Age: Unknown (she canonically doesn't let anyone know and they put 17 candles on her birthday.) She's at least 24 and probably under 33.
Time Period: Modern. There's some canon time travel and general time issues involved since it's been going since the 60s and there's still new stuff yearly and it updates. She has understanding of technology of the 2000s on Earth, but there's a lot of sci-fi involved in Lupin III and Germany supposedly still had nazis during the course of the series, including several separate incidents involving the Nazis as super villains. (Hitler's long lost treasure -- which just turned out to be his diary, and Hutler -- Hitler's successor.)
Wing Color: Black with lipstick red at the roots.
History: Here. However, it should be noted, it's nowhere near complete, and doesn't describe the majority of events that take place over the course of several series. A lot of the things not mentioned on the website for history were put into the personality section here.
Personality:
A femme fatalle to the utmost, Fujiko Mine is meant to vaguely represent the ultimately dangerous woman. She's dabbled in a little bit of everything including the mafia, elite thievery, spying, and even assassination. In the green jacket opening, she's called an enigma and it's warned that you can never be sure what side she's playing on. She'll team with anyone who she thinks will help her to turn a profit -- Lupin and his fellow thieves, the Interpol detective Zenigata, and even psychos trying to take over the world -- though she also has a tendency to side with anyone she considers an underdog. Her motives are frequently wrapped in an aura of mirrors to bend and twist perceptions; her actions often appear highly irrational; and her reasoning tends to be circularly motivated, one desire leading to another, which leads right back to the first.
At the heart, Fujiko is a conwoman and she never says or does anything without an angle. She's most dangerous when she's being nice because it means she wants something. When she's being mean she's usually having an animalistic reaction to feeling threatened and trying to make enemies back off. Likewise, if she can pretend to be stronger than she is to make someone back off, she will do so. However, if Fujiko can manipulate someone else into protecting her by pretending to be weak, frail, and useless she'll do it in a heartbeat -- whichever angle works best. Even on the rare occasion she appears to be doing something for the whimsy of it, there are often strings or ulterior motives attached. Fujiko plots on twelve different levels at once sometimes, constantly creating backup plans and castles of cards in case something falls through (as it inevitably does). This often lets her get away relatively unscathed and with at least some loot, but it also leaves her jaded and paranoid, always convinced another domino will fall and that she has to keep building up more complex pathways for them to follow in order to protect herself.
The classic paranoid thief, Fujiko goes to extreme and oftentimes ludicrous and arbitrarily dangerous (or even just stupid) means to feel safe. Fujiko's actions are extremely ironic and contradictory to what she actually wants. She's very strong to begin with, but her fear that she will never be as strong as she needs to be, and the fact that she never feels safe, leads her to far more reckless and dangerous behaviour that brings more problems than simply being "weak" ever would. This makes her extremely greedy; she believes that if she gets whatever she wants (money, tools, back-up plans, etc.) then she'll have it when she needs it. Fujiko tries to store up things she thinks will make her feel safer, such as traps, weapons, money, power, but it never truly works. The money she stockpiles makes her worry more about losing it, so she tries to invest it in get rich quick schemes (that just take her money and run), and the weapons she tries to get (such as Goemon's sword Zantetsuken) just draw the attention of other powerful people who want to use it themselves.
Fujiko thrives on chaos, which confuses her allies even more deeply, making her unpredictable at best, and a double agent for the other side at worst. She's allied with Lupin against the Scorpion only to have been secretly allied with Zenigata (of ICPO) all along to capture Lupin so she can get rid of her arrest warrant and bounty. Some of the irrational thing she does -- such as trying to help someone take over a country, start it up with him as president and with her doing all the army, secret agent, and secretary of state stuff -- turn out later that she was supposedly planning from the start to betray him and help Lupin all along. Or so she claims.
Fujiko has a lot of weaknesses that she tries to make up for or cover up entirely. In spite of her many paranoid fears (see weaknesses), she strives to always protect herself and make up for it; or at the minimum, she manages to continue on in spite of the fears. She runs where angels would fear to tread, and is a big believer in the motto that "bad girls go everywhere." Even though she's very scared of dying, she can be extremely reckless when it comes to exploring, extreme sports, or just wanting to do something for the experience of it. Some of this comes from bravado (refusing to admit she's scared except when she can pretend she's only pretending to be scared to get something from it) and the rest of it comes from the idea that life isn't worth living if you can't feel really alive.
Sometimes she's genuinely sweet and caring and trying to cover it up because she sees it as weaknesses in the cutthroat world of mafia and thieve, and other times she really is just being a selfish bitch. However in the manga, Fujiko does selfishly bitchy things usually when she's been hurt or mistakenly thinks she's in the right helping someone who deserves it/will help others. Quite skittish at times, Fujiko genuinely likes animals and will protect them at the sacrifice of herself, but not at the sacrifice of kids, Lupin or someone of the like. Fujiko is at her most lethal when she feels her back is against a wall. Then she fights to the death, kicking, screaming, shooting and scratching the whole way down. Such as fighting nazis in Hell Toupee, when the Scorpion put explosives on her, or even when the Russian KGB was after her.
As a con-woman, thief (and all the rest), masks are a big part of Fujiko's characterization. Lupin III can be a rather confusing series at times because there are plenty of moments where every single character will be pretending to be someone else. Fujiko is a master of disguise as much as Lupin is, and she's extremely good at seeing through other people's disguises. She's known to be the only one who can see through Lupin's (and he's the best in their world), but likewise, he's also very good at seeing through all of hers, no matter how good. She can be very good at telling when someone is lying, but it comes with a price. The better she is at understanding someone (like Lupin, Pycal, or Clarisse) the more she gives away about herself. As such, she tries to hold back at least to some degree because she doesn't want anyone to be able to get that deeply into her head; but often her innate nosiness gets the better of her and she starts to pry in spite of herself.
Despite being stabbed in the back a lot (some of it her fault, a lot of it not always) Fujiko tends to "slip up" and try again. Usually for a calculated reason (so she tells herself) but mostly because she wants someone to prove her wrong, someone who won't betray her like most of everyone she's known. This doesn't mean she won't betray someone if she gets paranoid think it's already coming. In the past she's been known to tutor kids (often little girls she seems to see some of herself in, or at least something worth protecting) who give her a good enough reason to; but this usually doesn't end well for her. Because of that, Fujiko always has a side goal going, using the kids as a mask, using them to get to something, earn trust where they live or whatever. She can actually be rather motherly and protective and several kids tend to be drawn to her, but because of her extreme paranoia and jaded history she frequently calls them all little con-artists unless they prove to her otherwise.
For all of Fujiko's fears and paranoias, she wants to prove to herself that she can be stronger than that, and that she is stronger than that. This leads her to engage in high-risk thrill-seeking activities like standing on the front of speedboats, shooting the distance (and crash, at that), sky diving, hang gliding, jumping out of airplanes, hang on by a rope to moving helicopters with a ridiculously big smile on her face, or purposely telling the mafia to go fuck themselves when she's already about to be shot by them. She'll take on secret agent missions to get favors from governments, and when she gets wind of a betrayal, run away to double cross them first.
She'll keep someone else's secrets on point of torture BUT she'll spill if she knows it will help her more than hurt. (On torture you can figure she assumes once she tells they'll kill her). She's been kidnapped over 20 times, been on rescue missions for other kidnapped people and tends to be leery or risking it (give her a good enough reason/shinies and she probably will anyway). While she generally learns from mistakes she also keeps doing some of the same stupid things over and over (falling for Lupin, running from Lupin, falling for shinies yet again, even though it's a trap and almost getting killed) the one biggest thing she progressed in the story with was regarding curses/superstitions. She started off skeptical but by the later seasons she KNEW certain things were real and often not worth fucking with. (That doesn't mean she won't try to steal a KNOWN cursed treasure, it means she'll try to find a way to break the curse so she can still have it without dying.)
She loves shinies (gems, art, money, jewelery, mirrors, really anything shiny) more than anything, but they might tie with animals. She has a lot more capacity to love inanimate objects, because they don't betray her, it would just be her betraying herself. She loves rare things most of all because they're most valuable, and this is also especially true regarding animals -- she loved Nessie, and has gone out of her way to rescue endangered and trapped animals (white tigers, polars bears) and incredibly, she gets along with them. Preferring animal company to humans, Fujiko is shown having her happiest moments when she's off in the woods seemingly by herself, but actually keeping company with several animals (wolves, horses, the Loch Ness monster). For huge portions of the series, Fujiko is frequently shown running off to far away locations in the world to be "by herself" but she gets lonely and either lures animals into accompanying her or she gets bored and migrates back to civilization despite the inherent dangers involved -- such as all the mafia and world governments who want her dead.
For a smart woman, Fujiko is disturbingly gullible. When she gets away with a lot of money she likes to invest it in ridiculously stupid pyramid schemes. Mostly because she's easily conned into doing things ("Hey Fujiko want to do something fun like go rob the White House?" always tends to get an answer of "hell yeah" even knowing how dumb and pointless it would be and just for kicks and grins and infamy, even though she doesn't want any of the infamy and goes to lengths to avoid it), but arguably because she wants a reason to keep needing to steal for fun or got bored hanging around Maui after 2 weeks and wants Lupin's attention again. She tends to buy into pipe dreams and "believe in them" and when she does, she sticks with them to the end. At which point she runs away when they blow up, hypocritically refusing to take responsibility for herself and blames Lupin or someone else instead.
On that note; Fujiko in general doesn't want to take responsibility for herself. She's childish like that and will bicker with kids like she's fourteen years old and not a full grown adult who could walk away at any minute she wanted to. She's gotten in actual, "No YOU" arguments with kids and instead of being mature she just went whining to Lupin to make them stop. Luckily for her, he finds this behavior cute, and arguably, she does it on purpose for that reason (since without him around she does take care of herself. The immaturity with kids, and general irresponsibility sticks even when he isn't there though.)
She's extremely emotional and impulsive despite always trying to be calculating and cold and perceptively all about the money. Fujiko actually tends to be easily driven by passion and no matter how much she wants to keep her distances she falls for people hard which is why she gets so distressed about perceived betrayal. When she falls for liking someone (like Lupin, animals, or kids) she falls hard and gets extremely attached (though still not as much as she does to shiny things). Aware of her tendency towards this, Fujiko takes lengths to try to keep her distance or sometimes push people away, but she actually wants someone to prove to her that they aren't like all the other people she's had to deal with and that there really could be good people out there even though she doesn't believe it to be truly possible. She's been known to adopt "younger brothers" who weren't related to her, or young girls under her mentorship that she teaches to protect themselves against men. Usually this is in case she can use them in the future (or needs them), but Fujiko has abysmal judgement on who is trustworthy and frequently the people she attempts to give second chances to do not deserve it and it winds up backfiring.
On the many occasions when one of Fujiko's plots goes wrong, she tries to run away from everyone and everything. She always tries to stay on the move, and rarely will discuss her past misdeeds, even going so far as to claim she has amnesia about the past if she doesn't want to discuss it. There are certain incidents in the course of Lupin III where she has actually gotten amnesia. Sometimes it's even been genuine and Lupin found her and tried to help restore her memory. Other times however, it's faked and just something she doesn't want people to know. Because of her propensity for getting herself into unlikely situations, her lies do tend to be believable, even when they're ludicrous, but this is because the truth of her life is even more implausible and she knows this and uses it to its fullest.
Fujiko is ridiculously nosy and far too curious for her own good. It is the number one canon reason she gets in trouble. She butts in where she's not wanted, she butts in where she makes things MESSIER, she butts in even when people tell her to scram and aim a gun at her. However, she doesn't get involved to mess things up, she does it because she wants to know as much as she can (knowledge is power), and oftentimes because she does want to help and dislikes being left out. Even though she's the first introduced character to Lupin III (and his oldest friend... of a sort) she is left out a lot, in part because she runs away and distances herself, but also because of who and what she is. As the woman of the series, she doesn't fit in the same with the boys (nor does she just want to be one of the boys), she comes out on top better when she's on her own, and she isn't a specialized thief like the others, she's more specifically rounded and as such, sometimes a little superfluous. For all her fears of people, Fujiko does like most people and mostly wants to like them. She has far too high standards and they get bruised when people fail to live up to them. However, she does start off wanting to help some people, even if it's just because she wants to be able to use them for something later on.
Fujiko gets a lot of enjoyment out of life and constantly feels the need to have extreme experiences. While she does like some simpler things like singing, or being out in nature, she also has some rather high-end tastes when she can afford it. However, she's more likely to pretend to need rich things than actually desire them. She doesn't bother as much with designer clothes as she claims because she usually ends up going back to using leather catsuits or simple jeans and tight polo shirts. While she likes big fancy and expensive cars, for practical reasons she usually winds up sticking to motorcycles which can go faster, draw less attention, and can squeeze in tight spaces. She can go camping out in just a tent and warm clothes in the dead of winter in a snowstorm and she'll actually be more comfortable there than the fancy hotel room she pretends to like more because no one is likely to find her in the snowstorm so she doesn't have to set so many traps, nor worry so much. Fujiko pretends to like eating out a lot; and in fact does enjoy it, but while she usually tries to bilk her dates for very expensive cuisine, she's also content with hamburgers and little bistros -- something she wouldn't want them to know.
Very athletic, Fujiko loves extreme sports. She's been shown doing everything from surfing, windsurfing, sailing, kickboxing, rollerblading, and motocross, to hang-gliding, parachuting, sky diving, and she has an unhealthy addiction to adrenaline and has been known to jump off extremely seventy story buildings towards a helicopter with one lone rope hanging to try to catch herself on. She's a master of many sports and likely could have won Olympic competitions if she wasn't a secret agent and ex-assassin on the run all the time. She has a huge need for speed and loves the thrill to be had from it.
Fujiko loves singing, dancing, and music in general, but aside from the jazz, she has some extremely eclectic (and usually made up in the show) tastes. Music plays a huge role in her characterization, in part because she sings so often, but also because she rarely expresses her true feelings except when singing (though even then, not always). She displays a more vulnerable side when she sings and can sometimes actually be very shy about it because she's afraid of someone saying it's bad and because she shows more of her true self with it. The songs she chooses most often refer to her tumultuous and sometimes stormy relationship with Lupin, and strangely unrequited love is frequently at the heart of it. In the manga, her love for Lupin is much more unrequited where he runs away any time she wants him not to sleep around with other women or he starts to admit he loves her. In the anime, usually it's Fujiko who leaves Lupin, but while in the manga this is is often due to a perceived betrayal on his part (hitting on other women while she's around or losing treasure she fought hard to get) those parts are often skipped in the anime to make Lupin less of a jerk.
Despite being one of the most adaptable characters in Lupin III, Fujiko doesn't believe anyone else can change. As she famously says several times, "Leopards don't changes their spots and a wolf is always a wolf." Though as she also points out, that's not always necessarily bad. Unfortunately she doesn't always want to accept other people the way they are. Perhaps because she idealizes them and they can't live up to it (people in Lupin III are much crueler to Fujiko than real life people usually are to each other -- whether or not she brings it on herself) or sometimes just because she gets scared and pushed them away. Whichever is the case, she says it hollowly and bitterly as though hoping things could be different, usually because the wolf part refers to Lupin running around and chasing many women.
Fujiko loves a good prank and sense of humor, even if her jokes tend to fall flat. It's one of the main things that first attracted her to Lupin, and indeed one of the things that kept her coming back to him even when he fouled up her plans -- something that from anyone else would have been deemed unforgivable. However, where Lupin and Jigen frequently joke and banter about, much to laughs from each other, when Fujiko makes a joke, there's usually crickets and extremely awkward silence -- same with her pop culture references, though this is of course done on purpose. Part of this is because her jokes are often quite morbid and no one can really tell they're jokes until she says so, and even then they're not sure she really was just kidding, no matter how much she stomps her foot and insists it.
She's a big fan of action comics, movies and books (most notably referencing James Bond and Dick Tracy) but she's fond of classic tear-jerkers too like Casablanca. She's most fond of jazz and saxaphones, and even fell in love with a jazz night-club singer and made an infamous assassin duo with him while they were dating. (It fell apart when he tried to kill her on his mob bosses' orders and she ran away.) Fujiko has the biggest tendency to break 4th wall in the manga such as yelling at Monkey Punch (the creator) to stop stalking her and trying to draw her naked all the time, and not to give Lupin sex scenes like he keeps requesting. However, most of these are instigated and she doesn't do it randomly; more just depending on if the person around her is already doing it.
Like most people, Fujiko is very different depending on who she is with, what attitude they display towards her, and which will mask or person she can adopt to best use them in return. With Lupin, even though she knows she has him mostly wrapped around her finger, he's likewise the only one who can get the better of her. She uses him for his skills and money as often as she can, but she's openly admitted to loving him, even when she pretends she doesn't anymore.
Weaknesses:
The lists of things Fujiko fears is actually quite a bit shorter than the list of things she doesn't fear. The things she's NOT afraid of are: heights, monsters, speed, sports (including martial arts, fencing, kickboxing, rollerblading, windsurfing, and other rather extreme sports), music, dancing, and animals (except cats. Some cats she likes, most cats she finds "creepy as hell").
Known fears exposed in canon however include (though are by no means limited to); guns (despite that she owns and loves 6), fire (though she will use flamethrowers and explosives), explosives, giant bugs, death, being raped, robots, the unkown, being threatend (even by five year olds because to quote "You never know what they can do"), drowning, being skinned alive, tickle torture (it's one of her biggest weaknesses that's frequently exploited and also guarded against in her clothing choice of leather), being electrocuted (she only bathes where she's sure she can avoid someone throwing a toaster in or can jump out if they do), being poisoned (she doesn't like to eat out alone partly so she doesn't have to pay, but also so that she can use them to test food by feeding them some of hers), aliens, magical curses (despite early skepticism in the show she evolves to not only learn that they are real, but to know they are scary), Friday the 13th etc. etc.
Fujiko is primarily extremely paranoid. She sets more traps than any sane person would, including sleeping with a bear trap next to her and she's infamous for having a boxing glove on a spring (on a type of corset) that's even featured in the 2nd series opening theme. She's been on the run for several years, to the point that she literally explains that staying still makes her scared of getting caught. She's made several lethal enemies and while she is willing to kill, she leaves a lot of them alive in case in the future they can be more useful (or because Lupin restrains her as he doesn't like killing unnecessarily).
Pointedly the classic thief; she believes all other thieves to be at least as cutthroat and devious as her. She believes everyone is out to get everyone else and that that is why you should trust no one and look after yourself. However, in spite of this, Fujiko keeps trying to find people to trust; only get to pick the very worst kind which gets her stabbed in the back (sometimes quite literally). She attempts to make useful alliances for the future, but frequently these are used completely against her; only furthering her jaded belief that she shouldn't trust anyone.
She has an abysmal sense of judgement. Both for other people who should be enemies, or even other people who should be friends. She has a knack for finding only the wrong type; which gets her involved with world-class criminals and often needing help getting bailed out. And even when she does find "good" guys, she doesn't believe they are what they say and tries to prove they're bad, or she just runs away in fear. Fujiko is more likely to "trust" someone she already knows is lying than someone who isn't lying at all, just because she believes everyone is lying and she'd rather deal with the one she can easily figure out the lies from. There are few ways to truly get Fujiko to trust someone. If the person comes to her, she won't trust their motives as just being "friendly," if she can't figure out their motives or what they want from her she's like to bolt. But in the end, even when she does know the motives, she has a tendency to run away anyway in a misguided attempt to protect herself from all the things she fears will come true (wether they would or not).
Fujiko is very easily conned. Despite all her intelligence, she's very foolish. She's a sucker for any type of project that favors the underdog (one of the main reasons she has such a dynamic love-hate with Lupin. She loves him when he's losing, and can't stand him when he's truly on top of the world as the "best" and even feels the need to cut him back down to size, even if she helped him up that ladder in the first place) and she can be easily manipulated into buying into ridiculous cons. She's not quite so gullible as to buy the Brooklyn Bridge, but she might be ridiculous enough to try to steal it (she did help try to steal the Cristo Redentor after all). Primarily all her money gets lost through bad investments in a bad judgement call trying to make more money. Fujiko wants to be safe herself, but she doesn't want to "play it safe." She'd much rather take a big risk and lose everything than do nothing at all, though this leads to rather obvious complications and difficulties.
Much like the cat whose curiosity got the better of him and ended his life, one of Fujiko's main foibles is her overwhelming curiosity. It goes back to her belief that if she gets everything she wants, she'll have whatever she needs. However, this more than gets on everyone's nerves. "Nosy" is the mildest way Lupin's partner Jigen puts it, and usually it just makes him hate her guts. Her extreme curiosity and drive to know everything has led to some rather extremely dangerous exploits; including hacking the United States government mainframe, finding out Soviet Union secrets and selling them to Poland, uncovering many terrorist organizations or "take over the world" plots, or James Bond style villains. Despite being the kind of person who tries to keep almost everything secret about herself, Fujiko still attempts to learn all those dangerous secrets and treads precisely where she doesn't belong. If she catches wind of something interesting she wants it right then and there and will pounce and try to ferret it out even when it is ridiculously foolish and dangerous to do so.
While being a common defense mechanism, Fujiko's tendency to reflect people's personalities/attitudes back at them often winds up as a weakness because it leads her to talking back and fighting where meek obliqueness would get her less roughed up and less likely to be killed. Many examples of this are where she winds up talking back or kicking men who have her captured and at their mercy. The tendency to reflect back also leads her to seek out people who have traits she likes in herself because she can be a little bit more comfortable with them (albeit, forever on her guard.)
Yet another defense mechanism, when Fujiko gets extremely scared by someone she goes directly into "babble" mode. In the manga, it literally just shows her overflowing with speech bubbles filled with "babble" and the bad guys that scared her covering their ears and telling her to shut up. In the anime, Inspector Zenigata (Lupin's would be arresting cop) knows about this weakness and exploits it to the fullest. He starts off friendly and asking about other things and gradually she just gives away the whole story, the hide-out's location, the mark, the legends involved, the bad guys, how Lupin got hurt, everything.
Fujiko's love of shinies is arguable her biggest weakness at all. She becomes almost hypnotically possessed by the desire to own it so that it reaches a "need" to her, and completely captivates her attention and every though. She really can't help herself. Even when an entire cave was collapsing around them, Fujiko was still trying to pull more gold tiles for her to bring, even though she was alrady carrying more than her own weight in gold and they were all going to die if she didn't get running. She often comes very close throwing her life away for just a few more baubles and has to be dragged away by someone who isn't so unbelievably obsessed.
Her hyperactive imagination leads to a great deal many problems. Not the least of which is the previously mentioned intense paranoia, and her primary reason for being so very gullible. It also creates a number of other odd idiosyncrasies, one of them being that she takes metaphors too far. Part of this is from her superstitious nature (after being hit by many many curses), so that she finds "omens" (even though she usually ignores them, and Goemon and Jigen are the ones to take them more as warnings.) But she also has a tendency to only be able to speak her true feelings in songs or metaphorically. Alone, this isn't a weakness, but Fujiko takes it to extremes. She becomes so attached to someone or something that losing it makes her depressed enough to feel like her life has no meaning. She likes to literally try to close entire chapters of her life, and considers her guns so much a part of her she's gone to extreme lengths to protect them. Without her guns she claims to feel completely naked, even though she's been actually naked and not had a problem with it. Her love of metaphors is very often displayed in the type of treasure she likes best; which is usually a type of gem that's symbolic of something else and has a long history to go with it -- which naturally leads her to wind up with cursed treasure more often than not.
Despite Fujiko's high-end tastes for treasure, she actually knows very little about paintings art and even sculptures. She tends to base things at their materials or their "shiny factor" to which paintings, of course, can't be measured. For all heists involving paintings, she has to get help from Lupin or consultants because she wouldn't be able to tell the difference between fakes; nor would she know which ones are best for stealing.
She is an abysmal cook and while she can cook enough that she doesn't starve in the wild, for someone scared of being poisoned, she relies on other people cooking quite a bit. To her credit, however, Fujiko is just about never successfully poisoned through food because she really is that paranoid.
Strengths:
Extremely strong in both and mind and body, Fujiko is one of the more formidable people in the world of Lupin III, despite her doubts otherwise. She's capable of extraordinary athletics and has held up under intense pain which would have killed normal people (she got shot twice once and the only reason she wound up collapsing several blocks away was that she got appendicitis on top of it). She can bring down martial artists much stronger and more experienced with her due to her own skills and lithe dexterity. She's extremely cunning and she isn't afraid to use whatever it takes. Somewhat incredibly however, she manages to keep anyone from actually having sex with her (throwing bear-traps on their ass quite literally tends to help) and for all her flirting, hinting, pretending, and faking it, she has a line there that she doesn't allow to be crossed -- hinting quite vocally that she would want a loyal partner who only slept with her.
She's an amazing sharpshooter (her skills are primarily only rivaled by Lupin and Jigen) and she can wield two rather heavy Thompson machine guns at once. (Mismatching ones, yes.) It should also be noted that she's miraculously/magically able to hide these under impossibly skintight clothes and more or less started the cliche of anime women whipping out hammers from under their clothes (though this was based on looney toon and Mad Magazine style cartoons as well.) For all her curves and very large bust (another anime cliche she was at the forefront/start of) she's still able to hide impossibly large items in her bra (handcuffs, a Browning gun, and so forth). She carries five guns when she's fully armed typically -- two Thompson machine guns on her thighs, twin Walther PPK pistols at her hips in normal holsters, and a Browning M1910 usually in her bra. Even with this, she still manages to hide them under skin-tight leather catsuits which is almost a superpower on its own.
Fujiko is very adept at using her looks and wiles as a disguise in and of itself. She pretends to be what she thinks people expect or want to see so that they can use her and in turn she just uses them instead. She is, in fact, a master of disguises and very capable of seeing through other people's disguises (though this comes at a karmic price). She's also very good at running away and though she often gets herself into trouble, she never purposely springs a trap she can't get out of, and she never gets Lupin into trouble she doesn't think he can escape. When Lupin is in over his head, Fujiko winds up being one of his very closest and strongest allies, and she won't back down for anything.
A certifiable genius, Fujiko is capable of rocket science, advanced level chemistry, and this made her one of the most dangerous undercover agents in the world. Which, once governments, mafia, and various people using her were done with her; also made her wanted dead for the State secrets she uncovered or was involved with. She did a number of "favors" for various governments and due to her near-perfect memory, she was then wanted dead for the knowledge she retained. Oftentimes, rather than try to kill her, various groups just tried to wipe her memory (a few arguably, at least temporarily succeeded at that). Fujiko knows very many languages, some fluidly, and she's at least fluid in Japanese, English, French, Portuguese, and a few rare dialects. She also extremely well-versed in mythology and most legends involving treasure (even if she recklessly heeds their warnings contained within). It should be noted however, that if she can con someone else into doing the research and hard work for her, she will, and there are many times on puzzles even Fujiko gets stumped and the only person clever enough to solve it is Lupin.
Fujiko can be too good at ferreting out other people's secrets, which is really both a strength and weakness. It's a strength in that it's what makes her such the skilled femme fatalle/secret agent/undercover anything/thief/etc. that she is, but it's also a weakness in that it tends to (understandably) bother people and make them want her dead. However, when she finds out good/mild secrets, she'll sometimes try to help people along with their problems, often out of a sense of empathy. For all of Fujiko's immorality, she's very empathetic to other people. Problems they have, she sees herself having and she wants to help them fix it, and sometimes she really does help. This only happens if they both get close enough to each other though.
Most incredibly, for all of Fujiko's many fears, worries, and paranoia, she fights on through it. She finds ways to cope, deal with it, and recklessly plunge on. And somehow through it all, she manages not to die. A lot more of it is due to Lupin saving her than she's ever likely to admit, and for all her bad luck, she's got enough that she's survived very incredible things. In spite of it all, she's terrified to tears of dying, (and other things) yet she braves against vampires, evil mad scientists, invisible blood-thirsty pirates, hundreds of curses, and some very mind-blowing circumstances (like being split into her yin and yang halves and not rejoining properly). She's a very dynamic character, a lot of mesh of contradicting impulses, constant plotting, and very challenging, but she has high potential to shine if only given the right opportunities.
Samples (ALL samples must be set in Luceti-verse.)
First Person:
Dear Item Shop, and those who were originally wishing to take their patronage there:
All your shinies are mine. Maybe we're supposed to play nicely and share, but really it's free. How did no one think of doing this before? No matter! I've claimed them all in the name of -- actually no, I'm not going to tell you my name in case you try to take them back. All you need to know, is that they're mine now. And if you do try to come get them, I think it's only fair to warn you that a bunch of those recent shinies were my traps, and they're now creating a healthy perimeter to keep out any and all intruders. Understand Luceti? Shinies are mine. Not yours now, mine. And I'm keeping them. On a totally unrelated note, what's the deal with the blacksmiths? Can they melt down anything? And oh, say, remake them nice and pretty?
~Signed with a Kiss
ANONYMOUSLY!
Third Person: (Samples must be 300 words or above. Remember to write using proper grammar, verb tenses, and paragraphs.)
Fujiko gloated on her hoard of shiny items. Sure, some of them were cheap and not really worth keeping around, but she hadn't had time to sort them yet. She'd only had time to steal everything with a reflection or gleam and bolt for it. And best of all, for once in her life, it wasn't even illegal! HA! No matter what people said, clearly this really WAS paradise. She had a mountain of shinies. And okay, to be fair, it was nothing like the shiny mounds in her dreams and fantasy as those had always involved jewels and gold and usually she'd be able to switch it at whim to some majestic beach where she could nibble grapes and tease Lupin with her bikini line; but still, this was nothing short of fantastic! And there was at least SOME jewelery in the mix. And even if she couldn't get her iPod working yet, it was just a matter of time. Soon, she could take the wiring and firmly implant the idea of getting electrical power sources to charge her basic necessities in the the mind of some genius; and then, then she would be queen supreme of this place.
Really, it was all perfect. A teensy bit worrisome that with the wings and heaven-like atmosphere she'd somehow died and found herself in the afterlife, but no matter, if she could take command over the afterlife than it didn't really matter that she didn't think she believed in such things.
The woman sorted through the stack of mirrors and began setting them about the room. She was going to be stuck here for awhile which was dangerous, and also meant that she needed all the protection she could get. Especially if the angry mob attempted to track her down. Maybe she should bury the shiny things in the forest; but that just seemed too much like a pirate. Besides, then no one could enjoy their beauty and shiny things were meant to be enjoyed. Really, who was the real criminal between them? The people who ignored the beautiful FREE shinies in their midst, or the wonderful caring woman who gave them their rightful attention? Clearly Fujiko was a savior. Of all things shiny and neglected.
She set the mirrors to catch each other so that from any angle of the apartment, she'd be able to see intruders to deal with them. She also then set about marking the blind spots for her to memorize so that she could hide in them. And then just like that she jumped back on her shinies pile, which in retrospect wasn't such a great idea because being primarily metal they were pointy, hard, and thoroughly uncomfortable. Oh well, at least none of them were blades. Those could come later.