Fukua

Evil-doer
Full Name	Fukua
Alias	None
Origin	Skullgirls
Occupation	Unknown
Powers / Skills	Using Shanmone to attack opponents.
Hobby	No information
Goals	Skin Filla's head and Become one (implied).
Crimes	Murder Attempts to steal identity
Type of Villain	Envious Clone

“	Movies? When, Saturday? Nah, can't. Yeah, I'm busy. Cloning. YES, really! Sorry, maybe next week.	„
	~ Fukua

Fukua is a minor antagonist from the 2012 indie combat game Skullgirls. She is the experiment of Brain Drain, who created her to be a doppelgänger of Filia. A clone of Filia (along with the parasite Shamone, a clone of Samson), which contains two souls: one, the strongest in melee combat, and the second, the strongest in the distant. While twisted and violent in nature, Fukua is written as a joke character and her existence is considered to be non-canon to the story.

Creation

Fukua was created as a test for Robo-Fortune and was originally only a joke on April 1, 2014. On May 13, she became a regular character.

Her combat style is based on unused movements of Filia ("Zoner Filia" and "Grappler Filia"), because she was the very first character and there are quite a few things left for her.

She is a parody of the concept of "clones", repainted characters in fighting game rosters with often similar move styles. The name Fukua is a typo in Filia. The name "Shamone" comes from the song of Michael Jackson "Bad", where instead of "come on" it was sung as "shamone".

The design is completely identical to Filia, but the color scheme is different. It is based on the old game bug of when a character suddenly turns green (Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Mortal Kombat).

History

One of Brain Drain’s less-socially-acceptable hobbies is cloning, and often he forces the souls of dead warriors to inhabit these clones. Fukua is the result of a fortunate – or unfortunate – Lab Zero accident: a union of two souls. One, a once-proud warrior known for her brute strength in close combat; the other a silent assassin who specialized in ranged weapons for her kills. Together as one, Fukua possesses the best of both specialties… but relationships formed under intense circumstances often don’t last.

Personality

Fukua, unlike other characters, smiles when she is finished off with a super blow. She enjoys the fight and loves to tease her opponents. All this suggests that she has some masochistic inclinations, in addition to showing extreme sadism in her overall goal of killing and replacing Filia.

Abilities

Since Fukua is a clone, most of her movements are the same as in Filia, but they work a little differently and the general style of combat is different. She has no dodging in the air, but there is a double jump. She has two shots, one of which cannot be knocked down. It can send forward projections of clones and energy balls, which allows you to keep the enemy at a distance.

All this makes it a universal fighter.

Attacks

Fukua is a zoning character, but once she gets a hit, her clones enable very unique and powerful setplay.

• Her 214K specials, the clones, are duplicates of Fukua who move forward and attack on the release of the button. The LK version hits low, the MK version is a hit grab which can be canceled into another clone, and the HK version hits overhead. Creatively working the clones into your combos and setups is key to playing Fukua at a high level.
• While she may not be very mobile, she controls space very well. Her fireball specials can be done in the ground and air, and each button controls a very different trajectory. She also have some choice air buttons, such as j.LP which is a fantastic air to air and chains into j.HK, allowing for a full follow up combo. To top it off, she possesses a double jump, allowing to get above her opponent and challenge them vertically.
• To further complement her mixups, she has a command grab, as well as a slow, armored command grab. She's the only character with a c.LK that chains into itself, allowing her to hit confirm and stagger lows easily.

  

  Shamon the Fukua's parasite

• Her only meterless reversal is the strike invulnerable H drill (236HK). Her metered reversal (BFF) is fully invulnerable but extremely slow.
• Her HK drill special (236HK) is a very good assist, providing multiple hits for lockdown as it travels forward. Unlike the point version, it is not strike invulnerable.

Important moves:

• j.LP - very potent air to air, confirm with j.HK
• j.HK - divekick type move that pulls Fukua towards the opponent. Use as a reversal against throws and in scrambles.
• c.LK - only c.LK into the game that can chain into itself. Complement it with her command grab, Tender Embrace (236LP+LK).
• c.HP - long range ground poke, confirm with M fireball
• c.MP - great anti-air option with head invuln and quick startup
• Fireballs (236P, air OK) - use for space control, get comfortable with the trajectories of each version
• H Drill (236HK) - strike invulnerable reversal

Gallery

Fukua stalking Filia in the mirror.

Fukua dresses as Filia.

Fukua wakes up from her dream.

Trivia

• Just like some fans mistaking Fukua for being canon, they may also mistake her two souls for being actual people as well. Neither of the souls are real people and just references to her being made up of two scrapped playstyles of Filia interpreted as "souls" to sound cooler or add more to her fake lore.
  • There is also a misconception that the two souls are in separate bodies, one in Fukua and one in Shamone. The two are just in Fukua. There is another misconception that Shamone has two souls of his own but this was never stated either.
  • A semi-common fan theory is that the soul of the warrior is Delilah, but again neither of the souls are meant to be actual people.
• Some fans may incorrectly refer to Fukua as "black" but she is just a dark skinned clone of Filia who is a white girl and skin color does not equal race. In earlier art of Fukua she was even seen being light skinned with no makeup so her dark skin and makeup may just be added on to make her look even more distinct from Filia.
• There is a meme in the fandom called "Banana Fukua" which technically became "official" as when Black Dahlia's cake to represent her shows up it is a banana cake.
• A lot of Fukua's attacks name have references to love and relationships, going with how she is a fusion of two souls trying to work in unison.
• Aside from the obvious clone theme, some of her skin names have references to souls, ghosts, spirits and dreams or nightmares. This goes with how not only she has two souls but also how she was a part of Filia's nightmare.
• While never officially stated, as a character who isn't even canon anyways, it is assumed by some that Fukua's "most canon existence" is just a bad dream that Filia had. So by this theory, Fukua both exists and doesn't exist as she isn't a real person but "exists" as a "real" dream Filia had.