Sima Fu

Steps out of the wailing ranks at Yejun to demand the mourning stop and the heir be invested before the empire shakes itself apart.

High Minister, and the second name on the memorial: he and Jiang Ji copy out the document Sima Yi has prepared, and the memorial cites them both - 'My colleagues, Jiang Ji and Sima Fu, agree that Cao Shuang is disloyal at heart, and great military powers should not be entrusted to him or his brothers.'

Sima Shi's uncle, and the voice that closes the succession question: when the Empress Dowager names Cao Mao, 'Then spoke one, saying, "Her Majesty speaks well: Cao Mao should be raised to the throne." All eyes turned toward the speaker, who was Sima Fu, uncle of Sima Shi.' A family member conceding the point is what makes it settled.

The one genuine mourner in a room of pretenders. 'When Imperial Guardian Sima Fu saw the dead body of the Emperor, he threw himself beside it, his head resting thereon, and wept, saying, "It is my fault that they slew Your Majesty!"' He has a coffin brought, has the remains carried to the West Hall, and afterwards proposes that the murdered Emperor be given a royal funeral - which Sima Zhao allows.

Refuses the new dynasty to its founder's face and is admired for it. When the deposed Cao Huan withdraws in tears, 'Sima Fu, Imperial Guardian, wept before the deposed Emperor and promised eternal devotion. "I have been a servant of Wei and will never turn my back upon the House!"' Sima Yan does not take it amiss and offers him the princedom of Anping; he declines that too.