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| ~ Fujino Asagami |
Fujino Asagami is an anti-villainess from Kara no Kyoukai. She is the antagonist of the third chapter, "Remaining Sense of Pain". She is a classmate and friend of Azaka Kokutou, both of whom attend Reien Girl's Academy.
Outside of Kara no Kyoukai, she was given the nickname Fujinon by fans. It was later adopted by Kinoko Nasu, and he has mentioned that he considered her the most straightforward "moe character", citing her angst as a personal favorite.
Profile
Background
Born Fujino Asakami, she is the daughter of Miyuki and Hanefune Asakami, a descendant of the Asakami Demon Hunters and inheritor of their telekinetic abilities. She became the eldest daughter of Asagami after her mother remarried. She has been taking medication since childhood, as her stepfather wanted to seal her powers; over-dosage led to her developing insensitivity to pain.
She is a student of the Reien Girl's Academy. Although the Academy rarely allows students to go outside, Fujino is allowed to enter the city twice a month due to periodic medical appointments.
Personality
She is noted to be a model student, being kind to classmates, never causing trouble, and frequently achieving the highest scores, except for Literature, as she "lacked expressiveness".
Despite her mild and passive personality, she is the type that cannot stop on her own accord after straying once. Due to lacking some type of sensation, she cannot truly experience things despite having knowledge and common sense. Compared to Shiki who lacks a sense of existence, Fujino is someone who is similar yet different. According to Souren Araya, she is "an existence unfit for society, who found pleasure in coming in contact with death".
The reason she walks onto the bridge is in order to feel beating of the memorable summer rain.
Role
Kara no Kyoukai
Chapter 3: Remaining Sense of Pain
Around six months before her appearance in Kara no Kyoukai, she was harassed and periodically raped by a local gang. This continued until one of the delinquents struck her from behind, causing her sense of pain and her powers to sporadically return.
The story begins when she sought to kill all of the members of the gang, believing that her abdominal pain was from one gang member stabbing her with a knife during rape. Only one managed to escape, Keita Minato, and as she wandered the town fearing what he might reveal, she met Araya, who healed her spine. Shortly afterwards, she was found by Mikiya Kokutou, who allowed her to stay at his apartment for the night, thought neither of them properly introduced themselves to the other. Despite this, Fujino recognized Mikiya as the kind senior who helped her after she sprained her ankle during a track meet when she was in junior high school.
As she killed Keita's acquaintances in an attempt to find him, she unwittingly found pleasure in the action, and later on killed an innocent passing-by driver. Hearing about this, Shiki resolved to kill her.
At the climax of the story, Mikiya revealed that he learned that Fujino had a terminal case of appendicitis, causing her abdominal pain, and Touko concluded that she had actually killed the wielder of the knife before he stabbed her. What caused her to seek revenge was a misunderstanding.
Shiki triumphed over her during their final battle when she became able to perceive, and destroy, Fujino's telekinesis with the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. In an act of desperation, Fujino destroyed the bridge above them, though she came out injured and dying from the debris of the collapsing structure. Shiki found her and stabbed her, but at the last second, Fujino lost her sense of pain, and her powers, and Shiki lost interest in killing her, instead destroying her appendicitis.
Numb with pain, Fujino mentally regressed to a child and was taken care of by her mother and Mikiya; she also seemed to have lost her sight, and it took her several months to recover. She has become somewhat famous for her apparent connection with both the serial killing and the collapse of Broad Bridge.
Chapter 6: Oblivion Recorder
When school starts again following the main events of the chapter, Azaka meets with Fujino and asks her to tell her roommate that she is leaving the campus for the day.
Abilities
Her ability, the Mystic Eyes of Distortion, straddles the line between ESP and Magecraft: an innate ability that was tampered by human hands. She can create an axis of rotation anywhere within sight and warps them telekinetically, which causes gruesome dismemberments and deaths. Her left eye twists leftwards and her right eye twists right; a channel is needed for each direction. When perceived by Shiki, the bending appears as red and green spirals. Note that the 'Distortion' Fujino possesses is far more powerful that the average - by comparison, a normal user of Distortion would take several days just to bend a human arm. Her powers do not work on conceptual things, and magical barriers and bound fields cannot be bent, but what they are built on certainly can. Fujino cannot effectively adapt her bending abilities because she has no knowledge of magecraft, but she could become very powerful with the aid of a good teacher. In addition to her Mystic Eyes, Fujino also achieved Clairvoyance during the battle with Shiki; combined with her Distortion, this allowed her to bend objects outside of direct eye contact, making her a fearsome opponent. She achieves the greatest ability within the story when looked at from pure statistics.