#deengoblue

Pick a character I’ve written and I will explain the top ~three to five ideas/concepts/etc I keep in mind while writing that character that I believe are essential to accurately depicting them. Request: Furiosa

1. Furiosa is a warlord. She’s an Imperator. She’s not Imperator Prime, but she’s arguably more important to Joe, since she’d been assigned to guard his wives and she’s responsible for protecting his cargo. There is SO MUCH depth to her character that’s barely touched upon in the movie. Her status alone infers that she’s done absolutely barbaric and terrible things, and being a gremlin of a human being, that was something I really really loved exploring in L&B. She’s a prisoner as much as the Wives, but she’s survived by participating in an incredibly cruel regime, and that’s gotta leave a mark.

2. Seven thousand days. She counts in days, and she’s counted for years. Me, I can’t do simple math in my head, so the amount of dedication and concentration it takes to remember every single one of those days speaks to how painful the experience has been for her. She’s not looking forward. She’s just surviving. 

3. She doesn’t hesitate. When she and Max get into that first fight, she’s not trying to subdue him. She’s trying to kill him, as quickly as she can. She doesn’t have the luxury of mercy, and that ties in with the two earlier points. To survive and succeed in the brutal, hypermasculine Citadel culture, she’s had to hit first and hit hardest, without any hesitation. 

4. She cries when she kills her crew. She isn’t a mindless murder machine. She knows exactly what she’s doing and what it costs, and she does it anyway. The movie makes it clear her crew trusts her - see: Ace - but she doesn’t hesitate to drive them into the storm, and that ruthless is fascinating. 

5. When she calls out her Vuvalini affiliation, she declares herself without being aggressive. Her arms are open. Her posture is unthreatening. She lets the Vuvalini come to her. She lets them touch her. She’s very soft in this scene, and it’s a complete contrast to the violence of her fight with Max and the upcoming fight through the Armada. Even after seven thousand days, even after doing whatever she’s done to rise in Joe’s regime, she’s not so deeply embedded in the Citadel’s culture that she can’t codeswitch when she needs to. 

Furiosa is probably the most complex and fascinating character I’ve ever seen onscreen. She’s more villain than she is hero, and she really doesn’t have a redemption arc. She’s a vehicle for the Wives’ liberation, but her own trauma is hardly explored. 

Thank you so much, Tirseden! OK, so:

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I’m a little late, but Congratulations!

What a great name. Did he come with it, or did you name him?