Ok I Need To Get This Ramble Off My Chest Before I Forget: I Feel Like People Completely Misunderstand

Ok I need to get this ramble off my chest before I forget: I feel like people completely misunderstand Sumi's motivation and breaking point for her first/false awakening. Why? Well let's dive in!

I've seen people complain about it and how seems like it's all about losing her scholarship but dialogue after that awakening actually painted a different picture. I can see WHY it seemed that way but then this part happened:

She WAS upset about it but even she admitted that the school wasn't exactly wrong in this (As assholish as the VP was, he wasn't entirely wrong either sadly).

Instead, contrary to popular belief, she was more upset that she caused trouble for and dragged Maruki into this mess to begin with.

Not only that but she overheard the vice principal basically insulting her behind her back:

Now keep in mind he had a point and didn't know she was in earshot but still it was completely out of line for him to even say that, about a student who already lost her twin not too long ago no less.

On top of that not only did she feel horrible for Maruki but she also horrible for even Joker getting dragged into her mess...

She felt useless and a huge burden to everyone. A failure... Even to her deceased twin sister. Now regardless of which sister died, it had to be a massive blow to her mentally. Especially when you consider that Shujin might have aware of who she really is but still said all those things and did all this to her... Now with Sumi's overall mental state combined with the filter occasionally slipping... Little wonder she finally snapped during that awakening. It's even showcased after it too:

So while the dialogue leading up to her awakening can seem like it's all about the scholarship and losing her special treatment, it really wasn't. She really didn't care about the treatment at all as she had said previously, it's just that she feels that she's hurting and letting people like Maruki, Joker, and her sister down.

Hell, even this dialogue is less about the scholarship too! It's mostly about she's been treated and how much the school is pressuring her and how it's effecting her loved ones and it's valid! Fuck Shujin!

Now the only downside is that she's awakening as a fake, a fraud, not Sumire Yoshizawa but Kasumi Yoshizawa and that was the biggest thing she was missing hence Cendrillon's words during that one:

"So adamant... Rather than accept a life in cinders... You'd strive towards splendor-- you know the risk... Well, if those really are the shoes you've chosen... Then we'll dance to the end. Iam thou, thou art I... Accept this contract... The spell cast upon you."

Regardless though, to boot: She wasn't actually being "whiny," she was just being empathetic and felt worse about herself and this was when she was being Kasumi! It later perfectly ties into her dynamic with Maruki and why she felt empathy towards him after regaining her true self as Sumire!

She had been in his shoes and understands! She's a strong girl! She had FUCKING EMPATHY!! And that's even when she was being someone else. Her awakening as Kasumi wasn't about a dumb scholarship, it was more about her feeling like she's a burden and letting people down... Especially those she cares about like her sister, Dr. Maruki, and Joker to name examples!

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Quick Announcement

You all remember my Striker redesign edits series? Well... I'm gonna redo the whole series, though not by much. Just namely altering Futaba and maybe Haru's redesigns and use the rest of the PTs outfits as opposed to just their regular and Thief ones. That's all, I'll start with Futaba like last time so stay tuned!

Sumi is so fun to draw I have so many doodles of her ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

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Ok... So, this was in my files for a while since I wanted to make this a small project but this will be slow coming. So here's what I have so far! An attempt to redesign Sumi once again (old design) but this time with a new outfit! I will probably do a couple more outfits and her PT outfit redesign that I brought up a while back later down the line but here!

Notes:

I've seen people often give her bright colors along with blue for her new wardrobe which I love but... Idk, I feel like her wardrobe wouldn't be so... I guess loud in tone. It just seems more like Kasumi's thing (and I can't help but get the feeling that some of her wardrobe was originally Kasumi's along with her phone). So, I gave her more neutral/warm tones.

I did give her a purple crystal necklace as a reference to her codename and to add at least a splash of color while not being too loud.

Black feather earring is a reference to Odile/Swan Lake (and a gift from Akechi for AkeSumi shippers).

I've been falling in love with the idea/fanarts of her wearing thin framed and rounder glasses! She looked so cute!

I kept the hairstyle that I did relatively the same except it feels shorter and a little choppy. Closer to how I imagined it really now that I had more practice.

Like I said I will probably do more eventually, but this is it for now! Look at our girl! Growing up and independent!

It's funny when Maruki haters think he should have turned himself in after the events of his palace as if Ichinose doing such in Strikers didn't show how useless that would have been. The fact that Maruki loses his life's work and gets reduced to a minimum wage level worker for a taxi company should be punishment enough for his overbearing and unethical attempt at world peace. If Maruki was a cute girl like Takemi or Makoto no one would be acting like he's Satan incarnate regardless of how questionable his motives are. Akechi only gets a pass cause he has twink and pretty privilege despite being far more dangerous and murderous towards the thieves than Maruki was. Akechi and Ichinose only ever saw the thieves as obstacles in need of removal while Maruki warred with his desire for a perfect world and is disdain at the idea of having to fight the thieves while grappling with mental health and trauma in a country that gives little to no fucks about adult mental health and even less about the children he was trying to help.