#really big fan of characters who are uber powerful but just dont care. susie wants to be a hair dresser :)

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I joke about Susie frying Count Bishmer alive but I really do like how they had Quercus stop Susie from killing someone in a moment of anger because it does show that even if you absolutely hate the person and are every bit justified in your anger, it's still not right to take a life for any reason, and that despite her power Susie isn't fundamentally a fighter.

During Caladon the characters around Susie are aware of her Originum Arts and are equally aware of how strong they are, but they also go out of their way to ensure that Susie is never caught in the line of fire. Quercus, Grani, Red, the bar goers, all of them are far more willing to fight for Susie than Susie is for herself, and throughout the event it does weigh on her that everyone around her keeps getting caught up in so much trouble just for her sake after her shop burned down. Obviously Susie didn't know the full scope of events going on behind the scenes, but she spent so many years learning from and making friends with all these mistreated Infected workers who weren't allowed a dream, saving up for years in order to buy the shop from Quercus and give a little back to the Infected community, all to learn that her own dream was destroyed just for money. She almost killed herself, and she learned that Count Bishmer ruined so many lives with his scheme just to make a quick buck.

Of course Susie is furious, and rightly so, and in a moment of cold, blinding anger she almost fries Count Bishmer alive. But Quercus stopped her because Susie didn't deserve to have that blood on her hands, no matter how justified it could be. She isn't a fighter, and she shouldn't have ever been forced to fight for her life the way she did.

The same anger that made her amost murder Count Bishmer is the same type of anger that Kashchey was able to manipulate into becoming the violent Reunion that destroyed Chernabog, because it was righteous at first, the anger that Reunion had at the treatment of the Infected is justified, but it was so easily manipulated into destroying itself.

Goldenglows profile constantly mentions that her Arts has the potential to make her one of the strongest casters on Terra, but that's all secondary to the fact that Susie had a dream of being a hair dresser and making the Infected feel worthwhile and presentable, because being a good fighter is not what you need to be an operator for Rhodes Island. Rhodes Island lives and dies by its creed of humanitarian goodwill, and odd-job operators like Susie aren't really uncommon, with operators like Scene and Click providing photography and journalism as contributing talent to Rhodes Island compared to the many genius doctors and pharmacists under its employ. Rhodes Islands goal as a whole isn't solely to treat Oripathy, but to ensure a better future for the Infected as a whole, regardless of wether or not the Oripathy condition is cured. And Susie said it herself, sometimes people care about their appearance and want to look presentable, and giving the simple right of presentability to the Infected is her big contribution to Rhodes Islands mission.

Rhodes Island has many Many powerful fighters and casters, but it didn't have a hairdresser before.