Sumire Yoshizawa (Violet) | Persona 5 Royal

Name: Sumire Yoshizawa Codename: Violet Age: 18 Ethnicity: Japanese Height: 5’4 Affiliation: Phantom Thieves of Hearts School: Shujin Academy Skin color: Fair Eye color: Dark Red Hair Color: Maroon Melee Weapon: Rapier Ranged Weapons: Antique Rifles Breasts Size: B-Cup Persona: Cendrillon Occupation: Phantom Thief, Gymnast.

Information: Sumire Yoshizawa is first-year transfer student at Shujin Academy and a talented gymnast who gets involved with the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. She was overcome with guilt after her older sister Kasumi gives her life to save her.

Appearance: 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 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.

Personality: 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. 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; 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.

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.

In reality, her cheerful mannerisms are merely a facade; Sumire is actually a reserved and introverted person, in addition to being so suicidally depressed and convinced of her own worthlessness to the point where she resents any attempts to cheer her up. She suffered from an inferiority complex towards her near-perfect sister, fueled by being helped throughout her life by her. Her sister Kasumi did most of the work for the sisters by preparing dishes, including arranging her very own bedroom. Her self-loathing created a despondent reaction to Kasumi's attempt at consoling her, believing it to be patronization rather than the genuine care she had. Her negative reactions to Kasumi ultimately resulted in the tragedy that ended her sister's life. The trauma of the incident instilled even more negativity and added survivor's guilt to her piling self-deprecation. Even long before Kasumi died, she was already suffering from severe mental problems, including an escapist desire that she should become Kasumi, or die. Her encounter with Takuto Maruki ultimately provided an out by confiding in him her wish to become Kasumi, granting her mental stability by becoming her sister whom she both loved and was jealous of.

Sumire's suicidal depression manifested itself as constant feelings of worthlessness and suicidal/self-defeating thoughts, believing that she was so worthless after her sister's death, that if she couldn't become Kasumi, she should rather just die. It's also implied that she suffers from depressive fatigue, and later on, after her survivor's guilt had taken form after Kasumi's death, a lack of enthusiasm in daily activities that she used to enjoy, such as cooking or gymnastics. Due to her near-nonexistent self-esteem, she also apologizes a lot even concerning unnecessary situations, sometimes even apologizing when somebody tells her that she doesn't need to apologize for something.

Despite Sumire's inferiority complex towards Kasumi, she is by no means lacking as she can place high in competitions, even achieving 1st and 2nd place ranks, indicating that she is actually above average at it. Many have noted, including Kasumi herself, that she is not lagging far behind Kasumi. It is only due to her tendency to greatly underestimate her abilities that she is does not reach her full potential. Sumire fails to notice that Kasumi's self-confidence is the key to her success and that she can achieve similar results if she tries to be herself rather than emulate her sister as her coach has stated. In the Metaverse, Sumire is a significantly different person. She acts much more aggressively and determined, being a confident and focused fighter without any traces of her introverted tendencies in the real world. Her fighting style is graceful and precise, not dissimilar to the gymnastics she practices in the real world.

Both Sumire and her Kasumi identity do not react to supernatural occurrences as one would expect to. In the Kasumi identity's case, she was completely oblivious to the fact a cat was talking until Morgana drew attention to it. In Sumire's case, she was very underwhelmed at Morgana's transformation into a van, albeit this could also be explained by her claustrophobia over the thought of being crammed into a confined space.

Persona: The French name of the titular heroine of Cinderella, an oft-retold tale of great renown in which a mistreated waif gains luxury, beauty, and a single night's dance with a prince through the power of magic.

Abilites: Cendrillon is the initial Persona of Kasumi Yoshizawa. She specializes in Bless and Physical skills, and her trait is "Veil of Midnight," which increases allies' chances of not being Downed. Unlike most Personas, her awakening does not follow the usual sequence; when Kasumi awakens her by tearing off her mask, no blood gushes from her face, and a much more flashy and elaborate transformation creates her Metaverse outfit and manifests the Persona.

Appearance: Cendrillon appears as a woman with ash-black skin and blue crystalline glass clothing. Her torso is covered by a glass dress, with a teal rhombus/diamond-shaped centerpiece covered in black numbers, with a diamond-shaped jewel in the center. Her waist is surrounded by a floating circle of golden armor with ornate heart and wing designs. Her legs are completely covered by what seems to be a pair of glass thigh-high boots with sharp gold spikes at the end. She has blue eyes and blonde hair, with her hair tied in a light blue ribbon, whose ends seem to float in the air. Cendrillon's white cape flows down to her waist from a set of floating glass hearts that levitate just behind her neck and red lipstick.

Phantom Thieves: The Phantom Thieves are a group of Persona users. Sick of the deception, hypocrisy and corruption around them, the Phantom Thieves are devoted to "stealing" corrupt hearts, usually of adults in positions of power, in order to reform society.

The Phantom Thieves of Hearts is a group of persona users largely consisted of former victims of Suguru Kamoshida and Masayoshi Shido (or his co-conspirators). Their goal is to confront "corrupt adults" by stealing their "corrupt hearts," and change the world in order to rebel and fight against the complex, sophisticated and well-ingrained system of slavery they are trapped in, reinforced by the General Public's selective apathy which enables abuse against them to go unchecked and unopposed. They are willing to exploit the supernatural if it means bringing freedom and liberation to the masses.

To combat this injustice, they surpass the preconceived notions of morality: although it is subjective as to whether the Phantom Thieves are "right" or "wrong," they reject both inability and hypocrisy by carefully establishing their tools while working together towards the same vision of righteousness.

Members: The Members of the Phantom Thieves are Ren Amamiya (The leader. Codename: Joker), Morgana (Species: Cat. Codename: Mona), Ryuji Sakamoto (Codename: Skull), Ann Takamaki (Codename: Panther), Yusuke Kitagawa (Codename: Fox), Makoto Niijima (Codename: Queen), Futaba Sakura (Codename: Oracle), Haru Okumura (Codename: Noir), Sumire Yoshizawa (Codename: Violet).