Fumiko
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 Fumiko, from Ultima V: Lazarus | |||||||||||||||
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Fumiko is a farmer living in New Magincia during the events of Ultima V.
Description[edit]
When the Avatar met her, Fumiko spoke of how she pitied those who thought that Blackthorn’s ethics still gave them freedom. Without freedom, people are enslaved, she told the Avatar, wondering how the ones following the tyrant could still believe to be free.[1]
Ultima V: Lazarus[edit]
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A shepherdess by trade, Fumiko worked the communal fields of New Magincia alongside her husband Yasuda, Katrina, and Tomoka, while her son Tetsuo was usually busy with academic pursuits. She noted that there were few predators on the island, and the seasons were mild, so her flock was mostly self-sufficient. Fumiko especially praised the climate of the island, with mild summers and winters, and how the citizens of New Magincia held feasts to celebrate the new seasons, the greatest being the Feast of the Harvest held on the autumn equinox. Fumiko praised Katrina's helpful attitude, and was quite proud of her son's academic accomplishments, feeling he could give advice to even the mot wizened sage, although she did realize such Pride was not aligned with the Virtues. She attributed her family's success to her husband Yasuda, who had chosen to come to work the fertile land New Magincia, after some minor success in the Drylands. Fumiko was unwilling to talk much about Tomoka, only noting that she liked to keep her hands busy, and they had known each other before coming to the island.[2]
Fumiko told the hero how all those who worked the fields strove to improve the community as a whole, and it was each citizen's personal choice to benefit as they saw fit, humbly striving to improve the community. Still, Fumiko worried what would happen to their Humility if the choice to follow the Virtues was removed from them, believing that individuals only acted in a virtuous manner if they were virtuous by choice, not law. Fumiko felt no one was more helplessly enslaved than those who falsely thought themselves to be free, and that Blackthorn’s Ethics enslaved the citizenry.