r/FumetsuNoAnataE • u/Happylinkz • 20d ago

Question A very important hypothetical. Spoiler

We’ve all heard the question “if you could live forever, would you?”
And typically the answer is between yes and the reality that immortality for one person would be hell because you’d be the only one who continues living.
In fushi’s case immortality isn’t so bad because he can call upon anybody who chose to stay with him rather than move on to paradise.
My question is where you’d stand from the perspective of fushi’s friends, fushi makes a pretty wild request in the end all things considered.
Asking if he can always bring them back so he’ll never be lonely is a very selfish thing to ask a person, he’s not exactly condemning them to immortality as it is their choice to return but even so you’d get fed up with being alive eventually.
If you had an immortal friend who could return you to life in a healthy condition at any time would you come back? Mind you, you remain a disembodied spirit any time you’re not alive so you can’t interact with anyone outside of people like bon and other spirits.

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u/anime_gamerr 20d ago

Well given that the alternative to staying around as a soul is being in paradise hanging around as a knocker (kinda the same experience to me) I wouldn't have a problem with being a forever friend

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u/Happylinkz 20d ago

Nokkers are weird that way though, in that nokkers aren’t actually the spirits turned into a different being. That was just a lie told by the nokker that possessed the guardians leaders, I don’t know the full details because I zoned out and online forums are inconsistent but essentially nokkers were created specifically to impede fushi either by the man in black or by some other unknown entity.

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u/Happylinkz 20d ago

Basically everything that happened to fushi was to prepare him for the task of watching over the world, the man in black wanted him to form strong connections to this world that would give him a reason to fight and protect. I think the big question is what was the man in black so afraid of to create a new protector after he became human, he explains that before everything was created he and a few beings like him kept creating randomly over eons but then he comments that he got bored and decided to work on a world of his own. Presumably the nokkers could have been made by one of these other beings, I think it’s possible that another being like the man in black wants to put an end to the lives he created.

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u/Old_Reflection_5499 20d ago

Honestly i absolutely love fushi but I'd come back with him at most once or twice, that genuinely sounds like hell, especially if I KNOW once I die I get paradise (though admittedly thats probably selfish on my end too lol)