Sumire • "Violet"

Sumire Yoshizawa is a playable character from Persona 5 Royal. She is a first-year transfer student at Shujin Academy and a talented gymnast who gets involved with the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. She is overcome with guilt after her older sister Kasumi Yoshizawa gives her life to save her. For most of the game, thanks to Takuto Maruki's cognitive intervention, she believes she is her sister Kasumi.

With the help of the Phantom Thieves, she recovers her true identity, faces up to her guilt, and finds faith in herself. She helps to take down Maruki, who has rewritten reality in an effort to erase all pain and suffering. Her code name is Violet. Sumire Yoshizawa has long red hair tied into a ponytail with a red ribbon bow or a green, checkered ribbon instead with bangs over her forehead, matching red eyes, pink lips and fair skin. She wears a Shujin Academy wintertime uniform with black pantyhose and red loafers. Her summertime school uniform is modified; she wears a white dress shirt under a beige button-down sweater with vertical lines, white socks with black lining and orange loafers.

In midwinter, Sumire wears a red overcoat, black pantyhose and black high heeled Mary Jane shoes as her casual clothes. During regular wintertime, she wears a knitted cream-colored sweater with a knee-length orange skirt and black ankle boots. Her summertime casual outfit consists of a celeste blouse with black polka dots, white shorts and blue and brown sandals.

In the Metaverse, Violet wears a black mask with silver highlights and has a black ribbon tied to her ponytail. Her main outfit consists of a strapless black leotard with a sweetheart neckline, a chain belt with two silver rose motifs, and a scabbard for her rapier attached to it, a black choker and red gloves. Her black bolero jacket has gold buttons, ruffled flared sleeves and three floor-length coattails. She wears thigh-length hose and stiletto lace-up pumps that resemble ballet shoes on the top. Violet's Metaverse outfit remains the same no matter her current attire or mental state in the real world. Her attire in the Metaverse is similar to Joker's, as noted by Morgana.

Sumire Yoshizawa is a cheerful, elegant and friendly person with a seemingly perfect life, as she received a Shujin scholarship and was (supposedly) nearly uncontested in gymnastic competitions. She also appears to be quite clumsy and careless, as she is shown outright missing the mark at the batting cages even if her reflexes are usually excellent, and she lets her phone's battery run out while texting the protagonist. Despite the fact that she can cook, she is unpredictable and somewhat awkward at it, since she isn't sure about the ingredients, and she often uses stamina replenishing food due to her gymnast tendencies. She has high metabolism, and as such can put away a large amount of food and still ask for seconds. She always refers to her fellow friends as "Senpai" no matter the situation, since she's the youngest member of the Phantom Thieves who has an educative degree.

Despite her supposedly cheerful and bold personality, she sometimes experiences bouts of depression for no apparent reason; usually if the protagonist meets with her, she will end up with a gloomy mood for the slightest of mistakes, regardless if said mistakes are real or perceived. When practicing gymnastics, she also often feels like her body isn't hers and she cannot execute complicated moves properly despite knowing how to perform them.

At first, she dislikes the very idea of the Phantom Thieves, as she believes that people should learn how to solve their own problems instead of relying on them. Although she acknowledges that the Phantom Thieves do good by helping people, she worries that people may become too heavily reliant on the Thieves to solve their problems. Despite this, Sumire adores the protagonist because she considers him as a mentor figure towards her, causing her Phantom Thief outfit to resemble his.

Sumire is fairly smart. Her initial reasoning for disliking the Phantom Thieves was based on a reasonable, well-thought-out argument that she acknowledges doesn't account for extreme circumstances, and she was able to quickly wrap her head around the concepts of Personas, Palaces and the Metaverse after only one explanation.