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[holeful]

PLAYER INFORMATION

PLAYER: Caitie
ARE YOU AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD?: yea
CONTACT: caitie#6024 on discord, agentmaine
CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A

CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Tamotsu Fukuda
CANON: ID: INVADED
CANON REFERENCE: here
CANON POINT: end of series (where he is in a coma)
CRAU HISTORY: N/A
AGE: 33
APPEARANCE: local man wearing suspenders in 2019
He's a broad shouldered but otherwise very skinny guy. Sickly victorian boy energy despite being a 6'2" adult man. Also he has a hole that goes entirely through his head and that side of his head is like entirely scar tissue, with some weird seemingly cosmetic X shaped stitches I can't explain.
CONTRACT PAYMENT: Fukuda's desires are pretty simple. He wants to be understood. When Hondomachi forces him to drill into her head, he thanks her for helping him realize that what he really wanted wasn't to drill other people but for someone else to drill a hole in their head the same way he did. He wants someone to arrive at the same conclusion as he did. And he wants to be seen for who he is, as whole. Even though he's glad for the clarity his hole gave him, he doesn't feel complete or like he's a full person, as shown in how fragmented he appears in his ID well, and how when Hondomachi tells him that she stopped seeing his hole, he said his wish was granted. I'm not entirely sure how this would manifest as a grantable wish but ??? It's fine.

QUESTIONNAIRE: -How important is loyalty to you? What does it take to earn your loyalty? What extents are you willing to go through to maintain loyalty, and respect the loyalty others might have invested in you?
Fukuda is a weird case because he's simultaneously incredibly easy to win over and I'd sell you to Satan for one corn chip depending on the context of the situation. He clearly has very limited experience (if any) having or maintaining close personal relationships, so it's an exercise in extremes, even among people he allegedly respects such as his fellow "brilliant detectives." After having attempted suicide previously to escape his arithmomania, Fukuda will prioritize his own comfort should he be put into a situation where this condition returns (as seen when, again suffering from the condition as Anaido, he chooses to doom Sakaido to being trapped in his own well to try and get him to kill Anaido), but can and will frame that as willing to sacrifice himself. Even when not in that situation, he is still willing to throw his life away to protect Hijirido, after feeling connected to her as a kindred spirit when she drilled her own head the way he did. Fukuda is a person who struggles to relate to others due to feeling like a flawed and incomplete person himself, and thus will cling to anyone who expresses understanding or acceptance towards his true self. So between his extreme yearning for close connections with other people and his own very cavalier attitude towards his own mortality it's very much this sort of situation. That said, if someone were to betray him, he wouldn't be mad. He's almost expect it? He's used to not being accepted or to only being used to serve a purpose. When Togo expresses concern for his health after repeated failed well dives, he comments that she doesn't need to pretend that people like him aren't disposable. Tl;dr, his undying loyalty is easily won by genuine connection, and his highly conditional loyalty is easily won period. Easy to boss around, hard to truly count on no questions asked. Doesn't care if he himself is betrayed because he has no self worth.

-Your Faction leader, not just your boss but the leader, has asked you to carry out a hit. The target is a non-affiliated public leader, well-liked by the people of the city. Do you carry it out? Why or why not?
Fukuda has already (semi-accidentally) killed six innocent people, and his base level loyalty (or perhaps more accurately, obedience) is easily won, so yeah, as long as they have a reason for it. He likes to help! He likes to be useful! If the leader is asking him personally to drill a hole in some random persons head, then he'll do it!!! While Fukuda's drive in his serial killings was abstractly altruistic, with him having found relief from his mental illness via the hole in his head (or more accurately, the brain damage it caused) leading him to "help" others by giving them the same hole, he's mentally cognizant enough to realize that most of them died and doesn't seem to have much remorse or guilt over his actions. He was likely socially isolated for most of his life, and thus wouldn't really value the concept of someone being well liked by the general population, and would be entirely more concerned with the approval following these orders could net him. Sometimes people just gotta die!! And it's not like the fault lies with him since he's just following orders.

-What is your favorite diversion? Hobbies, indulgences, vices? Would you put off important things for that diversion, or would you be more strict about how you spend your time and/or money?
As said previously, the strong implication is that Fukuda was socially isolated, with the police stating that he had no known family or friends as social connections when he was apprehended. While this likely preceded his injury, it was presumably exaccerbated by an unwillingness to go outside with his facial disfigurement following the injury, as he is seen wearing a hood to partially obscure his face before being taken into custody. This is to say, Fukuda was someone who engaged in a lot of solitary pursuits, with his house being full of books in a wide variety of subjects. He expresses a particular interest and familiarity in mystery/detective fiction (ironically), and may also be a fan of tennis?? Anyway, Fukuda is a guy who's simultaneously thinking like three different things at once and also (MII SHOP MUSIC 10 HOURS IN PLACE OF BRAIN) level dissociating since the misery of his previous mental illness was intrusive and repetetive thoughts. (This is reflected when at one point he comments that Narihisago's problem is that he "thinks too much," a problem that Fukuda claims he could solve by drilling a hole in Nari's head, of course. Fukuda's natural state is Too Much Thoughts which he's course corrected via brain danage.) That is to say that his natural state is sort of just vibing and following whatever whim strikes his fancy, and he's not exactly self disciplined. He's also not good at communicating any of this, choosing to intentionally die in wells over 70 times (which causes actual serious health issues such as arrhythmia) pretending it's by chance rather than telling the well staff that being in wells returns him to his suicidal pre-hole mental state. In general, if there are outside sources dictating his actions, as long as he has his hole he will prioritze directions from an external source, though he might get a little distracted by Weird Fukuda Trains of Thought along the way.

-You've worked with your Faction awhile now and you feel like the reward of your contract is within reach. But at the last moment, you are told you have even more service to pay beforehand, an obscure clause in the contract being exploited to keep you under your boss's thumb even longer. Your Faction Leader hasn't spoken on this, and might be able to dispute it. Do you go to your leader? Do you argue the dispute yourself? Do you begrudgingly accept the additional work? Something else?
As said before, he's a serial killer and he's well aware of how others view his worth as a person because of that. He would probably take this as like, the most logical course of action. Oh, of course you're going to continue to use someone like him for your own means and goals. While he is no longer actively suicidal, he already met the point in his life at which he was prepared and willing to die, so anything that happens beyond that point is like, whatever. It's fine! He's happy to help. Not because he is an altruistic person really, but because to him, being useful is one way to get other people to care about you. Before he "dies," he tells Hijirido that she granted him three wishes. This may include Hondomachi's initial action of showing him that he was "doing it wrong" by drilling others, when what he really wanted was to see someone else drill themselves the way he did (that is to say, he wanted to feel like someone else was like him, he wanted that sense of connection and being similar to others and thus not alone). But if not, the wishes were wanting to save someone else (again, a form of human connection), wanting to say a cool line when he did so (because he's a dumb weirdo who mostly has interracted with society through media), and then most importantly, when Hijirido told him she "stopped seeing his hole" and to her, he was a whole person. At the core, Fukuda just wants to connect with others despite his many mental impediments that make this difficult. It doesn't really matter to him where he does this, whether it's at home or in Jigoku. So it's fine! He'll stay longer.

POWERS & ABILITIES: Fukuda is pretty much a normie, particularly on a surface level, where he comes across as someone who is entirely out to lunch. (re: MII SHOP MUSIC 10 HOURS)
This is, to some extent, a front. Fukuda is incredibly intelligent, boasting a genius-level IQ prior to his brain injury. It is unclear how much the brain damage affected this, but it is clear that he is still someone with a wealth of knowledge and a fairly strong ability for deception. While his social acumen is not especially high, he plays up his haplessness to disarm and will withhold information if it advances his goals.

Additionally, on a more specific note, while Fukuda "cured" his arithmomania through his head injury, he retains an incredible memory, specifically relating to numbers and patterns.

SUITABILITY: I mean he killed six people. While it was under some level of hypnotic suggestion, he contends that his intentions were to help his victims (by drilling a hole in their heads,) and while he considers it a shame they did not survive, clearly doesn't feel guilt over it due to his psychosis. He was also willing to resort to violence and kidnapping to evade arrest. While he will happily cooperate with others, he is not above throwing them under the bus if it suits his own goals. While not actively maliciously evil, he is a chaotic weirdo who can be easily talked into doing pretty much anything with enough justification.

FACTION SUITABILITY:
Shuten
While Fukuda is far and away not an actively aggressive person, he is incredibly willing to resort to violence if need be due to having a moral compass of (wobble noise). He'd be a great underling in a yakuza-type organization due to his readiness to fall in line and accept orders from a position of authority. He is not a person who naturally seeks out vices but he's also not opposed to them and would easily be dragged along on whatever Shuten clan chaos people got up to. He is just vibing here!! He is down for whatever!!! Also, while he is someone who lies easily and frequently, he's also pretty good at not getting caught in it.

Tamamo
If you were to compare Fukuda to an animal, on a base level it's "dog," but on a deeper level it's a fox playing at/choosing to be a dog. On one level he is just vibing, but he's also a person who has demonstrated an immense capacity and willingness for deceiving others for his own benefit/edification. He kept the fact that he was immune to the id well's forced amnesia until it suited his purposes to reveal it, and attempted to escape the police by framing his latest victim as the culprit while he was taken away in an ambulance as the "victim." On top of that, Fukuda is arguably intensely delusional between his own psychosis and the hypnotic suggestion inflicted upon him. He maintains his delusion that his "holes" are helpful to people even after being put into police custody. Also as a fun bonus he might have previously worked in the restaurant industry??? It's ambiguous.

Sutoku
Fukuda is both an underdog, as a pretty severe example of a social outcast, and someone who has a lot of Knowledge about Things. He has an exceptional memory and has read a lot of books, giving him approximate knowledge of many things, and he's more than willing to share it with anyone who asks. Or, for that matter, anyone who doesn't ask but he feels could use the information. He is just a reedy weirdo nerd who is ready to infodump on you at a moment's notice. Fukuda is a person that, whether he thinks about it or acknowledges it himself, was failed by the current system of society. As a person whose untreated mental illness and lack of any sort of social support systems drove him to attempt suicide, and then inevitably, drove him to his killings, some of the blame rests on the society he existed in.

Enma
While he is himself a criminal, Fukuda seems to regard detectives in particular highly, perhaps at least in part due to his fondness for detective novels. He seems to in particular respect those that will stop at nothing to achieve their ends, such as Hondomachi's willingness to injure herself in order to apprehend him, or Narihisago pushing other killers to their deaths. While Hondomachi's actions led to him being arrested, he seems to respect her above all else, and gives his life to protect her. He is also, technically, within the id wells, a "brilliant detective" in his own right as Anaido. As he is uniquely immune to the amnesia inflicted on the other "brilliant detectives", Anaido's deductive reasoning is a reflection of Fukuda's own skill in solving cases. Fukuda is inherently a malleable entity due to his lack of self worth and thus a lack of interest in the integrity of his own identity. He'll take orders from anyone as long as they show him the barest modicum of consideration.

SAMPLES

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NOTE: Mods feel free to ask for clarification on anything because Id: Invaded is a weird confusing canon that I love so much but it is in fact confusing.