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Fami, a young woman with short purple hair and glowing red spiral eyes, wearing long dangling triangular earrings, glancing back over her shoulder with a faint smile before a blurred stained-glass window.
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Fami is the cap-wearing Famine Devil of the Four Horsemen, a cold and gluttonous schemer who secretly runs the Chainsaw Man Church and bends other devils into pawns in her bid to halt the prophesied apocalypse.

Alias: Famine Devil, Hunger Devil, Hunger
Group: Four Horsemen
Gender: Female
Status: Alive
Concept: famine and starvation
Species: Devil
Occupation: High School Student (cover), Wild Devil
Affiliation: Four Horsemen, Chainsaw Man Church, Fourth East High School
Manga Debut: Chapter 84 (mentioned), Chapter 108
Power Source: Ypositismosphobia (fear of hunger or starvation)
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Appearance

Fami presents as a young woman in a high school uniform topped by the Devil Hunter Club's black cap. Her hair, a muted mountbatten pink, falls to about the neck, and small moles dot her face. She shares the ringed, layered eyes of her fellow Horsemen, rendered pink on colored covers, and wears four green earrings, two of them beads on the right and two unusually long ones tapering to triangular tips.

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Personality

An opaque, guarded figure, Fami keeps her feelings hidden behind a cool, unflappable calm and reads people with unsettling accuracy, sizing up both Asa and Denji at a glance. She knows things she has no business knowing and cares so little about exposure that she barely bothers to keep up her student disguise. People are tools to her: she strands Asa and the Devil Hunter Club to starve, looses the Falling Devil on the world despite the carnage, and drives masses of civilians mad through the Fire Devil to push her plans forward, all while sparing those she judges beneath her notice.

Like the late Makima before her, she is a tireless schemer who works events from the shadows, lies freely, and tailors her story to each listener; she secretly leads the Chainsaw Man Church and stands ready to betray every ally she courts. By Nayuta's account her true aim is to kill the Death Devil and head off the apocalypse, a goal she chases by stoking fear of both the War Devil and Chainsaw Man, since a more dreaded pair grows stronger. For all her cold calculation she is warm toward Yoru, vowing she would go to any length for the girl even as she works to turn her into a pawn, and as the embodiment of famine she is a colossal glutton who shovels down enormous meals with her bare hands, dreading the end of humanity partly because it would wipe out the foods she loves.

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Abilities

Like every devil she holds the baseline devil powers, but her real gift seems to lie in bending other devils to her purpose rather than fighting head-on. She can pull a passenger devil from its host, as she briefly did in separating Yoru from Asa, while still leaving Asa her weapon-making power and speaking to her across distance through another devil's pocket world. Her healing can do more than mend, swelling its recipient with fresh strength and size, as it did for the dying Yuko.

Above all she enslaves: fitting for the devil of famine, she turns the hungry into pawns, an enthrallment that grips even a Primal Fear like the Falling Devil and lets her shrink her thralls into pocket effigies for easy transport. She admits, though, that her summons are restricted and that her controlled devils cannot fight at full strength, so she spends the ability sparingly. Among her collected pawns are the Falling Devil, the contract-hungry Fire Devil, and the willful Guillotine Devil, which now and then flouts her orders. She also appears able to teleport on a whim, snapping her fingers to vanish from a sealed aquarium and materializing inside locked rooms.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Fami in Chainsaw Man?

Fami is the cap-wearing Famine Devil of the Four Horsemen in Chainsaw Man. A cold, gluttonous schemer, she secretly runs the Chainsaw Man Church and bends other devils into pawns in her bid to halt the prophesied apocalypse.

Is Fami good or evil?

Fami is a morally ambiguous schemer who treats people as tools, stranding allies to starve and loosing the Falling Devil on the world despite the carnage. By Nayuta's account, however, her true aim is to kill the Death Devil and head off the apocalypse.

Is Fami related to Makima?

Yes, Fami is counted among the sisters of Makima, the late Horseman who shared her schemer's nature. Fami is also the older sister of Yoru and Nayuta and a younger sister of the Death Devil.

What are Fami's powers?

Fami's real gift lies in enslaving other devils into pawns rather than fighting head-on, an enthrallment that grips even a Primal Fear like the Falling Devil. She can also pull a passenger devil from its host, heal recipients into greater strength and size, and appears able to teleport at will.

Why does Fami eat so much?

As the embodiment of famine, Fami is a colossal glutton who shovels down enormous meals with her bare hands. She partly dreads the end of humanity because it would wipe out the foods she loves.

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