thing with trish postcanon is that so much of her (to me) is about wanting to prove herself but not being given the chance to so she has to do it retroactively. because i do think it's more interesting when popstar trish is for all intents and purposes an industry plant (thanks no thanks giogio). & when it comes to passione she's a person of high value but nobody wants to entangle her in mafia and that Includes not letting her learn how things work. & everyone says she's a powerful and capable stand user but she never was in a proper fight. and what now
the thing about giorno is that he'd be just like his mother if he ever raised a child but would deny it hard with a veneer of "im doing what's best for the kid" (despite the fact that his mother also thought that by staying away from giorno she was "doing whats best") and then the same chasm forms between him and his child because he is his mother and his daughter is him
Kira "I can fit most of a woman's hand in my mouth, no problem", "I don't remember what it was like to have a gag reflex", "this is a normal way to eat finger-shaped foods, everyone does it" Yoshikage demonstrating a neat trick for ingesting 9% of your daily recommended potassium in under ten seconds. Wow!
Original sketch by @filthyguts / @filthyguts2, fellow Kira scholar 🙇♂️
im rereading purple haze feedback and imagining passione pre-golden wind.
bruno goes from pretty much an absolute nobody (within the mob), to at 17 recruiting fugo (who is 13 , mind you). so naturally everyones not taking either of them seriously.
then their first stand battle assigned from polpo together and suddenly theres all these rumors popping up about this crazy deadly ability (purple haze's) & not to mess with polpo because there were no survivors.
eventually bruno starts getting a lot of recognition and other passione people start linking the deadly ability rumors to bruno's "'team of children'" (fugo and eventually narancia lol)
i bet that first fight with bruno and fugo was especially bad because fugo probably hadn't tried to use his ability very much before hand (he probably figured out it was pretty bad) and bruno gave him the goahead to do whatever as he was curious too.
wait so with the ger revival au is fugo just in the bar. did they not wanna get her??? or did she fully skip town on italy as a whole?
SEE OKAY long post incoming bc this requires sooo much explanation of my fugo take i should clarify bc i'm unsure if i ever have; i actually don't apply phf to my fugo concepts.
this is for a couple watsonian/in-universe reasons but the main reason is that phf retroactively makes me hcing fugo as african insanely loaded on multiple counts n i just don't wanna deal w that. also i still have not read phf all the way through in one go but by virtue of being a light novel, i feel it's about as canon as any other non-araki fugo concepts out there. (see 'golden ring golden heart' for why i refuse to take 'araki-artwork sponsored light novels' as canon or accurate to the characters).
under the cut is every fugo thought ive ever had. you're welcome
i've actually always felt very confused as to why people including the author of phf assume fugo straight up left passione when by all accounts fugo is the only one who... didn't? like fugo's whole thing, at least to me, read as fugo at least intending to remain in passione/criminal life and continuing to find work there somehow someway.
tl/dr w my fugo stuff: it's schrodinger's cat. i've never had a reason to fully solidify my fugo take and since i'm a manga truther first basically everything abt fugo is open-ended and undefined to me n i take from the anime as i please but don't use it for like, araki's-intentions character analysis since everything added in the anime (contrary to popular belief) was written by the anime's scenario writers n simply given the go ahead to make shit up by araki.
in my mind, the anime backstory is real up to fugo getting kicked out of law school but since i love making these characters who are in the mafia more mafioso:
after we first watched gw my qpp wife was writing a longfic called "the sweet escape" that is like. mid 2000s rewrite of golden wind, qpr fugio centric, with getaway driver fugo, n then i personally decided fugo being so good at math lends itself to bets-taking and oddsmaking ("you can't go against the boss the odds are entirely out of your favour its suicide" vs "no matter the odds or risks i must make a move to do what's right" and the idea that doing the right thing is almost never profitable, but should be done anyway.)
more importantly though. watch the opening scene of baby driver. this is and has always been fugo to me
in my head fugo basically does all of the non-lethal white collar mafioso jobs in place of not really getting to use purple haze. between the two of us west (qpp wife) was the fugo/gio fan so a lot of my takes on those two up until recently (~last few months) were word of god from him
ive always kind of imagined fugo as one of the team bucciarati members who could've survived as a mafioso even without stands (which :( i mean. not that it's good but yknow). i've talked abt how i see fugo and bucciarati as luna and celestia mlp before and this is kind of my basis for that. fugo is genuinely if misguidedly excited to grow in the mafia. she's bruno's attorney chaueffer accountant and on and on and on and next to that she is also, through overachieving, trying to set herself up for longterm success in passione. but bruno's concept of this job and passione are disillusioned from that n i think to fugo it comes across as bruno purposefully stifling her or holding her back in favour of bruno's own development
(this is also my sympathetic fugo justification for traitor fugo; you stay in the game you win the game type of deal, bruno's capo position is open, etc. traitor fugo works if youre willing to get into the open sores)
all of this is more so in service of my "what if golden wind was rewritten to actually focus on the mob" concepts, which also involve such schrodingers cats as "what if doppio and diavolo made any fucking sense at all and they were just heirs to passione, existing mafia, and the stand arrow was what put passione ahead of rival mafias" and occasionally toying w the idea of *collectively* aging everybody up (as in they've been in this group together longer, everyone except giorno and trish joined the team at the same ages in canon).
for simplicity's sake none of my "change canon" ideas apply to a concept unless i say they apply so anime backstory is fine, in most cases it works.
SO. ROOT OF THE QUESTION. when it comes to post-canon (without revivals), fugo is still m.i.a from that group for more than a couple years. in that time fugo continues to work on the borderline of passione (mainly unaffiliated white-collar crimes and casino work, which also teaches fugo the necessary business know-how to be giorno's consigliere) and maintains a low profile. in my head the boss that no one knows the name or face of getting killed is not something that gets out, so fugo doesn't get any update or notification on how things all played out.
from there, there's two ways i imagine fugo reacquainting herself with giorno, mista and by extension trish:
*he/him for my fugo bc as of my last updates to my thoughts he is metrosexual boy fugo but everything w fugo is a flipflop to me
a) canon-compliant. giorno is privately watching/stalking fugo for a while ala phf and deliberating on bringing him* back into the fold, yada yada yada something something fugo gets thrown in the harbor by some rival-to-passione gang members he pissed off and almost dies before getting rescued by mista (who was put on stalking fugo duty), yada yada giorno gives fugo the most insane nepotism hireup/promotion of all time.
from there fugo is tasked w giorno's white collar duties exactly like he was with bucciarati until giorno, unlike bucciarati, gives him the leg up he always wanted and lets him be consigliere. control freak finally gets to control things #thank god. it's messy and made messier by the clashing unresolved grief (this is also when fugo gets the mista phf-style rundown of what all happened) but they do need the numbers.
b) FIA GARO MY BELOVED. oc x canon with fugo. i have yet to draw her she's my only oc who has remained in text/story form without a concrete design. tldr rundown of fia (3000 screenshots)
first two images aren't fully accurate anymore: fugo and mista remeet AT this wedding. it's terrible for all involved. giorno was already stalking fugo at this point and was going to put mista on fugo watch duty soon but mista finds fugo naturally so its more of a segue. terrible for all involved though
her existence is wrapped in my extensive "mista's family was big and suffers from the exact problems a big lower to middle class european family has -> mista is a bastard child who was raised by his maternal nonna and mostly interacted with his cousins but never rlly felt accepted (they had too many guidos and mista is the only one w the last name mista instead of garo so it just made sense to call him that) -> decent family but nobody except one or two relatives (mia, fia's older sister/bucciarati parrallel and mista's older cousin who is getting married) helped mista when he needed it and he kinda thinks about that" lore so it's hard to explain without derailing. ANYWAY.
the root of this post:
"with the ger revival au is fugo just in the bar. did they not wanna get her??? or did she fully skip town on italy as a whole?"
giorno and bruno are both aware of fugo. no one else is. giorno wants fugo back and bruno, in an attempt to overly respect fugo's stance on the matter previously (read: not confront it and all it entails), does not want to sway fugo back into passione. the work fugo does is in murky waters/vaguely criminal AND on the cusp of passione but technically not *officially* passione territory bc he was never reassigned anywhere after he left team bucciarati. he might work in a passione protected establishment for example
where gio sees no difference between this work and their work, bucciarati (struggling and refusing to face her own guilt about getting narancia and abbacchio killed) doesn't want another frayed wire to prod at her. so to everyone else, including fugo, fugo is m.i.a, but both giorno and bruno know where he is. they've come to a standstill on it and basically the second giorno takes over as don (vaguely in the plans but bruno keeps pushing it back) fugo is going to be recruited back in. but for now... for now...
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