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| caption = Sumireko Usami in [[Antinomy of Common Flowers]]
| caption = Sumireko Usami in [[Violet Detector]]
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File:TFM-07.jpg|Cover of ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo OST]]'', featuring Sumireko
File:Th155Sumireko.png|Sumireko in ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]''
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File:Th145Sumireko2.png|Sumireko art from ''[[Urban Legend in Limbo]]''
File:WaHH 6 Cover.jpg|Sumireko on the Vol. 6 cover of ''[[Wild and Horned Hermit]]''
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Revision as of 16:13, 12 August 2018

宇佐見 (うさみ) 菫子 (すみれこ)
ɯᵝsa̠mi sɯᵝmiɺ̠e̞ko̞
Sumireko Usami
Sumireko Usami
Sumireko Usami in Violet Detector
Expose the Esoteric! The Secret Sealing Club's First President
More Character Titles
Species

Human (native to the outside world)

Abilities

Manipulating psychic powers

Age

15-16 years old (as of Urban Legend in Limbo)

Occupation

High school student at Higashifukami High

Location

Kanto Region, Outside World

Music Themes
Appearances
Official Games
Print Works
Music CDs

Sumireko Usami (宇佐見 菫子 Usami Sumireko) is the main antagonist of Urban Legend in Limbo. She's a human from the Outside World with psychic powers (ESP). She is the first president of the Secret Sealing Club.

General Information

Sumireko first appeared as the Final Boss of Urban Legend in Limbo, and eventually becomes a playable character of the same game.

Personality

Sumireko is a high schooler with somewhat of a superiority complex. She considers herself above her peers and can't stand being near those she considers beneath her. Sometimes filled with unabashed bravado and confidence, a night in Gensokyo changes her tone to something a bit more humble. Following her defeat and the end of her Incident, Sumireko gains a sense of respect for the people of Gensokyo and decides to pursue friendship with them. Despite her somewhat naive personality, she is an intelligent and cunning young woman.

Abilities

Using ESP

She is a strong psychic, an individual capable of various powers associated with the paranormal, including but seemingly not limited to levitation, pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis, telekinesis, psychokinesis, teleportation and astral projection.

Background Information

Name

Her full name is Sumireko Usami (宇佐見 菫子 Usami Sumireko). Usami (宇佐見) uses the same writing as Renko Usami's surname and it is known to be an actual name in Japanese. Sumireko (菫子) literally means "violet child", and is also similar to how Renko's name means "lotus child", as both take their names from flowers.

Design

Sumireko has brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair tied in pigtails. On her head is a black hat with a white bow along with red framed glasses. She wears a school uniform consisting of a purple plaid skirt and matching sleeveless top (resembling a jumper dress), over a long-sleeved white blouse and a black bolo tie with a clasp shaped like a "Quimbaya airplane". Along with this, she wears white socks with bows and black shoes. Sumireko generally carries zener cards and a tablet computer marked with a hexagram on the back. During the events of Urban Legend in Limbo she also wears white gloves and a black, high-collared cloak with a red interior inscribed with runes.

In Wild and Horned Hermit it is shown that she brings her hat to school, where she hangs it at the side of her desk. Her summer uniform appears nearly identical to her winter one, but with shorter and looser sleeves.

Sumireko's Appearances

Games

Urban Legend in Limbo

Sumireko is the main antagonist of Urban Legend in Limbo and the final boss in most of the characters' scenarios in story mode.

Sumireko manages to go through the Great Hakurei Barrier by using the Occult Balls, which are special stones gathered from Mystery Spots in the Outside World. However, after a short period she is suddenly ejected from Gensokyo. Learning from this, Sumireko starts with brief excursions into Gensokyo to learn more about it, appearing to anyone who catches sight of her as an ominous black shadow.

Sumireko soon devises a plan to spread rumors of the Occult Ball's powers and scatters them around Gensokyo for its residents to find. Once the balls are gathered, they warp back to the Outside World, just for enough time for Sumireko to learn about them before they are transported back. She then re-enters Gensokyo and scatters the balls again, thus beginning the incident of Urban Legend in Limbo. Her plan works for a while, and although she is baffled at why everyone who comes out of Gensokyo ends up fighting her, she enjoys it nonetheless.

Soon enough, Mamizou Futatsuiwa is made aware the incident, and devises her own plan: she claims to have Gensokyo's own Occult Ball in her possession when challenging Sumireko, claiming it would allow her limitless travel between Gensokyo and the Outside World. Mamizou instead tricks Sumireko into entering Gensokyo the proper way, which does let her stay there, but as Sumireko does not know how to get back out, she is trapped in Gensokyo.

Sumireko's story mode in Urban Legend in Limbo follows her as she is trapped in Gensokyo, whose residents attempt to scare her to teach her a lesson. In the end she is confronted by Toyosatomimi no Miko, who reminds Sumireko that she can use the Occult Balls to escape Gensokyo temporarily. She returns to the Outside World, and believing she will eventually be killed by the youkai of Gensokyo, she decides that when her time in the Outside World runs out, she will sacrifice herself to, purportedly, unleash the full power of the Occult Balls and destroy the Great Hakurei Barrier.

Before being brought back to Gensokyo, she is confronted by Reimu, who realized that one of Sumireko's Occult Balls was swapped for a Lunar Capital ball, which if activated would link Gensokyo with the Lunar Capital instead. Reimu defeats her and prevents the Orbs from activating, and upon returning to Gensokyo she is detained by Reimu, Mamizou and Kasen Ibaraki. Deciding Sumireko was no longer a threat, they return her to the Outside World. A few days later, Sumireko reappears at the Hakurei Shrine, as she had discovered that ever since leaving Gensokyo, she could travel back there in her dreams.

Antinomy of Common Flowers

Sumireko is a playable character with an unlockable story mode in Antinomy of Common Flowers. In her story mode, she is stuck in the dream world and desperately tries to leave. She teams up with Doremy Sweet to traverse through the Dream World and then Gensokyo, eventually leaving to the outside world only to find that not only has her original dream world self has taken over her real-world place, another clone of her has challenged both other Sumirekos.

Relationships

Fujiwara no Mokou

Initially annoyed, Mokou challenged Sumireko to a duel. The two found each other's strength admirable, and once Mokou's time Outside is over, they parted ways in a dramatic fashion. Later, Mokou met Sumireko again in Gensokyo, and guided her out of the Bamboo Forest, notably not as silently as the former usually would. It seems the two of them have become fast friends.

Renko Usami

Due to her name, similar appearance, and involvement in the creation of the Secret Sealing Club, she may have some kind of relation to Renko. However, the specifics of this connection is as yet unknown. Her profile suggests she is an ancestor of Renko, from the present time.

Skills

Skills
Name Translated Comments Games Usage
Total: 12
アーバンサイコキネシス Urban Psychokinesis ULiL
AoCF
5C
5C
テレポーテーション Teleportation ULiL
AoCF
VD
6C
6C
Lv2
テレキネシス 電柱 Telekinesis: Telephone Pole ULiL
AoCF
4C
4C
テレキネシス 鉄骨 Telekinesis: Iron Girder ULiL
AoCF
8C
8C
チェインメール Chain Mail ULiL
AoCF
2C (except at bottom of screen)
2C (except at bottom of screen)
ハイドロキネシス マンホール Hydrokinesis: Manhole ULiL
AoCF
2C at bottom of screen
2C at bottom of screen
オカルトボール Occult Ball Aided by Occult Ball ULiL A+B with Occult Ball
サモンドッペルゲンガー Summon Doppelganger Aided by Occult effect AoCF A+B with Occult gauge
バレットキャンセル Bullet Cancel Used by Dream Sumireko VD Lv1
テレフォトグラフィー Telephotography Used by Dream Sumireko VD Lv3
パイロキネシス Pyrokinesis VD Lv4
デスキャンセル Death Cancel Used by Dream Sumireko (aided by Okina Matara) VD Lv5

Spell Cards

Spell Cards
Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 16
銃符「3Dプリンターガン」 Gun Sign "3D Printer Gun" ULiL
AoCF
Use
Use
念力「サイコキネシスアプリ」 Psychokinesis "Psychokinesis App" ULiL
AoCF
Use
Use
念力「テレキネシス 電波塔」 Psychokinesis "Telekinesis: Radio Tower" ULiL
AoCF
Use
Use
*幻視せよ!異世界の狂気を* *See Visions of the Other World's Lunacy!* ULiL
AoCF
Use-LW
Use-LW
念力「サイコプロージョン」 Psychokinesis "Psychexplosion" ULiL Story
念力「テレキネシス 不法投棄」 Psychokinesis "Telekinesis: Illegal Dumping" ULiL Story
*現し世のオカルティシャン* *Occultician of the Present World* ULiL Story
*深秘のエソテリックセブン* *Esoteric Seven of Profound Secrets* ULiL Story
超能力「サイコキネシスエンドレス」 ESP "Psychokinesis Endless" Used by Sumireko's Dream World self AoCF Story
夢礫符「羊毛色のサイコキネシス」 Dream Rubble Sign "Wool-Colored Psychokinesis" Co-owner with Doremy AoCF Story
W超能力「サイコキネシステレポーテーション」 Double ESP "Psychokinesis Teleportation" Co-owner with own doppelganger AoCF Story
W超能力「絶体絶命メトロポリタン」 Double ESP "Desperate Danger Metropolitan" Co-owner with own doppelganger AoCF Story
「世紀のダブルエスパー 宇佐見菫子」 "Double ESPer of the Century, Sumireko Usami" Co-owner with own doppelganger AoCF Story (Overdrive)
槌礫符「大判小判ザックザクサイコキネシス」 Mallet Rubble Sign "Rolling-in-Riches Psychokinesis" Co-owner with Shinmyoumaru AoCF Story
紙符「ESPカード手裏剣」 Paper Sign "Zener Card Shuriken" VD Nightmare Diary - 2
紙符「結界中のESPカード手裏剣」 Paper Sign "Barrier-Enclosed Zener Card Shuriken" Co-owner with Yukari VD Nightmare Diary - 3

Gallery

Additional Information

  • The silhouette of Sumireko occupies the front of Urban Legend in Limbo's jewel case.
  • Sumireko is the first final boss to be a human from outside Gensokyo since the PC-98 game Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream, who was Yumemi Okazaki. Sumireko also has similarities to Yumemi besides this; both have an interest in magic, they tried to take an inhabitant of Gensokyo, they have a cape and had traps provided to lurk them into their area.
    • She is also the first fighting game final boss whose story mode scenario is not the last to be unlocked.
  • The runes on her cape do not appear to form any meaningful words, and some are even drawn from different runic alphabets (e.g. the old-form "sowilo" rune as written in Elder Futhark and the "stan" rune used by Anglo-Saxon writers hundreds of years later).
  • Inside the game data for Urban Legend in Limbo, a folder named "Hanako" can be found that contains three sprites of a silhouetted Sumireko holding her cell phone. It's possible that Hanako was a working name for her, or was intended to be her name.
  • Antinomy of Common Flowers confirms her to be a citizen of the Kanto Region. Incidentally, Renko's parents also live in Tokyo.

Fandom

Official Profiles

Urban Legend in Limbo - キャラ設定とエキストラストーリー.txt
Sumireko Usami ULiL  ○深秘を曝け!秘封倶楽部 初代会長

  宇佐見 菫子(うさみ すみれこ)

  種族:女子高生
  能力:超能力を操る程度の能力

  彼女は本物の超能力者であった。

  ネットで知識を深めた若者にありがちの全能感と、生まれ持った才能に
  より、特に中学の頃は『自分は他の人間より優れている』と思っていた。

  友達という物が無駄であるとは言わない。
  但しそれは知識の上での有用性であり、本当の心情は
   「友達を必要とする人種にとっては有益だ。
    群れたがる奴らにとってな」
  と心底馬鹿にしていたようである。

  そんなわけで友達が出来る訳も無く
  (彼女からしてみたら『必要が無かったので友達を作らなかった』、となる)
  他の人から見たら無惨な、だが本人は充実した学生生活を送っていた。

  この頃から、彼女は独自の研究を始めた。
  超能力を使える理由や、オカルト、都市伝説と呼ばれる物、等々。
  その中でも特に、この世界とは違う何処か異世界への憧れが強かった。


  そんな生活も高校に入ると一変する。
  彼女は(この手の人間にありがちだが)成績優秀だった。その為少し
  離れた私立の進学校に進学した。
  生徒はアチコチから集まっていた。それまでの人間関係は断たれ、新
  たに構築されようとしている。すると成績優秀な彼女の元にも関係を
  築こうと人が集まるようになっていた。硬化させた態度も逆に魅力で
  あったのかも知れない。


  だが、彼女は自分が他の人間とは違う種族である筈だと思い込んでいた。
  他の人間は『自分と普通の人間関係を築き、同レベルに引きずり込もう』
  と企む悪魔のような物だと言い聞かせた。

  聡明な彼女は人を追い払う為に『あえて』人を集めた。
  それが、非公認オカルトサークル『秘封倶楽部』であった。
  彼女の目論見通り、もう友達になろうと言う人は現われなかった。


  秘封倶楽部とは、異世界の秘密を自分の足で曝くサークルである。
  結果、彼女は世界の深秘に触れた。


  ――はてさてそれから色々な出来事が起こり、
    結果、夢の世界に入れる様になる。

  そこでは自分の知識は上辺だけの物であると思い知らされた。経験
  こそがこの世界の真実であり、知識はそれを覆い隠す為にあるのだと。

  そして夢の中には、彼女が見下すことの出来ない人間達がいた。
  夢の中、いや幻想郷のお陰で、友達を作るのも悪くないと思うようになった。

   :
   :
   :

  ……しかし、最後まで不可解な事があった。
  彼女が仕掛けた、異世界の扉を開くはずのパワーストーンだが、
  一つだけ別の物にすり替わっていたらしい。

  それは誰の仕業だろうか。
  そもそも幻想郷に実現する都市伝説が蔓延していたのも
  自分が仕掛けたのでは無いのだ。
  都市伝説は結界を破るために良いように働いたのだが、
  それも全て偶然、だったのだろうか?


  もしかしたら、内側から誰かが結界を破ろうとしているのではないか。
  自分のパワーストーンは逆に利用されたのではないか。
  彼女には最後まで判らなかった。

Expose the Esoteric! The Secret Sealing Club's First President

Sumireko Usami

Species: High-school girl
Ability: Capable of manipulating psychic powers

She was a genuine psychic.

Thanks to the sense of omnipotence common to youths who furthered their knowledge via the internet, and to the talents she was born with, she began to think that "she was superior to other people," particularly around the time when she was in middle school.

It wasn't to say that friends were useless or anything.
It was just that they were useful to have from a simple knowledge standpoint.
What she really thought was that "friends are beneficial for the sort of people who actually need them. Like, the sort of people who want others to flock around them."
In the back of her mind, she mocked them.

Thus, unable to make any friends, (although she herself would frame it as "I didn't make any because I just didn't need any",) she lived a school life that others would view as tragic, but she herself was enriched by.

It was around that time that she began research of her own.
Why she could use psychic powers, occult phenomena, that which we call 'urban legends', et cetera.
In particular, she developed a strong interest in worlds separate from our own.

When she entered high school, her lifestyle instantly changed.
She was a model student (not uncommon for people such as her), and as a result, she advanced to a somewhat isolated private prep school. The school gathered students from all over; having been separated from their previous relationships, they strove to construct those relationships anew. As such, many people tried to strike up friendships with her, model student that she was. Her stiff attitude may have actually contributed to her appeal.

However, she was convinced that she was of a different sort than the other humans around her. Other people, as far as she was concerned, may as well have been demons plotting to form regular relationships with her in order to drag her down to their level.

In a smart move, she deliberately gathered people around her so as to drive them away.
She formed an unauthorized occult circle: the "Secret Sealing Club".
Just as she expected, nobody came up to her saying they wanted to be friends any more.

The Secret Sealing Club was a circle dedicated to exposing the secrets of other worlds with their own power.
As a result, she made contact with the deep secrets of the world.

---and so, various things occurred from there,
and as a result, she became able to enter the world of dreams.

There, she was made to realize that all her knowledge was only superficial. Experience is the real truth of this world, and her pursuit of factual knowledge was only something to cover for this.

And in that dream, she at last met people who she couldn't look down on.
Thanks to that dream--- no, thanks to Gensokyo, she found herself starting to think that maybe making some friends wouldn't be so bad after all.

....

....

....

...however, there was one thing that remained incomprehensible in the end.
Out of all the power stones that she set up in order to open the door to the other world,
one single stone seemed to have been switched with another.

Whose doing was this?
In the first place, the urban legends manifesting and spreading through Gensokyo were not something that she had planned. The urban legends had taken action such that a hole would be broken in the barrier, in the end, but was that really just a coincidence...?

Perhaps someone had been attempting to break the barrier from the inside.
Had her power stones been used for someone else's purposes?
She never did figure it out.

Sumireko Usami AoCF 神秘主義で扱いに困る女学生

宇佐見菫子

「なんか変なレイムね
 今日は香霖堂に行きたいんだけどー」

今時の超能力女子高生

夢の中で幻想郷に訪れる事ができる彼女、
だが、この日の幻想郷はいつもと全く違う景色を見せていた

動かずどこからでも捉える超能力を駆使して戦う要塞タイプ
相手を前後左右から襲い掛かる瓦礫の山に埋めてしまおう

Mystic and Troublesome Female Student

Sumireko Usami

"Well, you sure are acting weird, Reimu.
I'd like to go to Kourindou today, if you don't mind...?"

A modern high-school girl with psychic powers.

She has the ability to visit Gensokyo in her dreams, but the Gensokyo she saw today was utterly different from usual.

A zoning character who fights with her ESP, able to catch opponents anywhere without moving.
Bury your opponent in mountains of rubble that rain down from all sides!

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