CHARACTER PROFILE
Sumire
- Primary work
- Baoh the Visitor
- Age
- 9↗
Sumire (スミレ) is a primary ally featured in Baoh the Visitor. She is a young girl with psychic abilities which Dress seeks to exploit for their own gain.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
02Appearance
03Personality
Sumire can be summed up as a bright but impertinent little girl.↗
Sumire is remarkably clever for two reasons. The first is her natural resourcefulness; for instance she was able to use the items in her cell to make an elaborate trap and trick Sophine and she is proactive in acting out plans for her and Ikuro to make money. The second reason is that her psychic powers give her an edge in foreseeing dangers and predict the next best course of action. Her strong intuition allowed her to figure out that she was being drugged but also that Ikuro was a trustworthy partner.↗
Sumire is also quite rude and has little respect of authority. She is remarkably impertinent to adults she doesn't like, notably Sophine who was her handler but also the old man who she insulted repeatedly. Perhaps because of her youth, Sumire is also indifferent to the law and doesn't hesitate to steal or cheat at gambling, excusing it by the urgency of her situation.↗
04Abilities
Sumire is a remarkable psychic whose powers revolve around divining relevant information. The nature of the information and the method by which she obtains it is irrelevant, but is instinctive and automatic. Sumire has manifested her divining skills in the following ways:↗
Instinct: Sumire has a strong instincts and she can usually feel the truth of precise matters.↗
Automatic Writing: She can write unconsciously to produce words or numbers which can be used to access codes to locking mechanisms.↗
Precognition: She occasionally has visions of future events, which allows her and Ikuro to act ahead of time.↗
Table Turning: She can gain information with this power using a coin and notepad with numbers and "Yes" and "No" on it.↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Before Dress captured Sumire, it is explained that she used to live in an orphanage. She openly manifested her psychic powers when she divined the license number of a car involved in a hit-and-run for the police, catching the attention of Dress who took her in and put her on a train to their secret laboratory. Incidentally, a Baoh was being contained in another wagon.↗
At the beginning of the story, Sumire tries to escape the train. Waiting for her handler Sophine to eventually check on her, Sumire makes a mess to hide a trap. Sophine comes and Sumire asks her to activate the ventilator, which turns and causes a rope to bind Sophine. Sumire exits her room and tries to escape Sophine. She is caught when she reaches a wagon where a special weapon is contained.↗
Afterward, Sumire decides to stick by Ikuro, trusting him and having a crush on him too. When the pair are attacked by a knife wielding assassin, she warns him of the incoming threat and subsequently flees with him on a motorbike. When they arrive to a gas station, Ikuro is ambushed by the same assassin and seemingly killed. Witnessing the murder, Sumire faints from the shock, but Baoh manifests itself and kills the assassin. He returns to normal before Sumire wakes up.↗
Later, Sumire and Ikuro take refuge at an old couple's house in the countryside. In here, they are attacked by another assassin named Dordo, a cyborg who can also command bats. Dorudo is beaten but he escapes and takes Sumire with him as a hostage and a bait to lure Ikuro to Dress's laboratory. In here, Sumire is tested for her psychic powers but resists. Dr. Kasuminome decides to torture her so that Baoh is lured in by her pain.↗
Years later, it is shown that Sumire was subsequently adopted by the old couple. Sumire impatiently waits for the day Ikuro will awaken from his slumber and get out of the sea.↗
06Plot details
SPOILERS
Personality
However, Sumire has a soft heart and wept when a women and her child were murdered by one of Dress's monsters.↗
Abilities
For instance, she automatically trusted Ikuro but also was sure that Ikuro was merely slumbering at the bottom of the sea rather than being dead.↗
Profile details
Status: Alive↗
07Sources & attribution
- Sumire
Source text: JoJoWiki and its contributors. This entry has been reorganized and condensed for readability under CC BY-SA 4.0. Archived records reflect their capture dates. Referenced manga, anime, and artwork retain their respective copyrights.
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