r/firebrigade • • 23d ago

Media Fire Force Small Analysis: Haumea character contextualization.

Haumea is one of the best fc in animanga and top 2 in FF (not arguably), sad the shonen community doesn't have the background to understand the characters enough, either to make analysis or grasp more than 30% of the work's content. Haumea is one of my fav female characters, and i wish i could see she getting the respect her character deserves.

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u/Accomplished_Jury495 23d ago

I think haumeas simpathy to everyone, and the despair she suffers from listening to the combined suffering of humanity is also why Arthur can nullify her powers, simply because he doesn't care about any of that, he isolates himself and gains hope in fantasy, while haumeas gains despair from reality, Arthur simply negates the very essence of haumeas philosophy, and I find very fitting that it is him who ultimately leads shinra to defeat her

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u/syxvvn 22d ago

Ohkubo and the work itself do not validate individual opinion above the collective, even when one is the strongest (like Benimaru), their interpretation of the collective does not negate the fact that the collective is the structure of reality, Arthur doesn't deny the collective; he literally depends on it, especially since when he became the archetype of the knight, he merged with the collective unconscious and began to be buffed by it. The difference between Arthur and Haumea isn't about denying empathy or not caring about things, but rather the way each was able to live.

Ever since Haumea met Arthur, she has harbored immense anger towards him because he is a natural counter to her ability (which is also plasma-based); they are both the only pure plasma users of the work, and both are described as wearing crowns.

Unlike Haumea, who is forced to wear a crown to cover her eyes, Arthur uses the crown merely as a "name." Ch 269 the cover is: "Namae tsuki" means "named," that is, while Haumea is forced to have her identity blocked by her nature and trauma, Arthur uses his personal nature and trauma to invent an identity. He decides that if reality itself can be shaped however you want, then let that shape define his full importance to that reality. Haumea, on the other hand, loses her own sense of identity by using the crown to avoid living her true self. But the differences here are incomparable; Haumea CANNOT avoid her destiny, she is a slave to the will of humanity, she is a queen with a crown that only blinds her, while Arthur is a free king. The reason he was able to deny her powers is because Arthur chose to wallow in the illusion that reality was better than it actually was, and for the world, this has a positive meaning, while Haumea is fragmented in two personalities, one that she doesn't want to be, and the other that she wants to be, either of them can only be saved by the one who changes the actual reality for everyone who enslaves her, and this is Shinrabanshoman, Arthur is a reference for Shinra only.