#utaha kume

[kyuziipon]

Some of the side characters from tpotcb

[pissfizz]

I wanna talk about Utaha and madoka rq. Mostly Utaha tho.

So like. Their mom? She fuckin sucks. She was married and had Utaha and things were good (mostly)… until three years later she cheated on her husband with her coworker and got pregnant. She managed to play it off as his (tho he was totally suspicious at first), until madoka was born. It is extremely clear that he is not his, what with the bright blonde curly hair and all, but hes willing to accept “hey maybe it’s a recessive gene from her side! Maybe I’m just overthinking the fact that his face doesn’t look like either of ours and he’ll grow into it more!” Until he questions his wife about it and she cracks. He gets extremely pissed off and says this is the final straw with her and leaves and they get divorced. He doesn’t want to see her ever again she can keep Utaha full time he doesn’t care. Their mom is fucking ruined over this. She decides to blame it all on madoka, saying it’s his fault for existing and it’s his fault for looking so different and she hates him and he ruined her life and refuses to accept that this is her fault and could’ve been avoided. She essentially denounced him as her son, even though he’s literally an infant, and neglects the shit out of him and pretends he doesn’t exist. The only reason he lived is cuz her mother was there to help her out after the divorce. She assumes her daughter will get over it in time and eventually fucks off back to her place and doesn’t think much of it. Soon, Utaha is at an age where she is aware of how her little brother is being treated by their mother and can tell that it’s bad. So she, a little elementary schooler, takes it upon herself to start taking care of him. As the years go on she becomes more and more of a caretaker for him to the point she essentially raises him on her own and is basically his parent. Their mom will only provide for Utaha, if even that, and the only time she will acknowledge madoka is to tell her to stop wasting her time on him. But Utaha doesn’t, and takes her role taking care of him very very seriously. As a kid she had been enrolled in dance lessons and had serious potential, and it was something she knew she wanted to pursue even at five years old. However after a few years, she quits and sets this dream aside entirely so she can take care of madoka. She’s extremely protective over him, and goes out of her way to make sure he doesn’t hear how their mother talks about him. She’s extremely aware of his usually optimistic and naive personality, and she does her best to nurture it so he can grow up to be a good kind person, but is also very aware of how much protection he needs to prevent bad things from happening to him, and goes above and beyond to provide it. Honestly, how sheltered she keeps him and how protective she is of him probably isn’t good, but she’s literally a kid who was thrust into this at like four or five years old. Most of her life decisions revolve around him, even down to the clothes she wears because she knows she will likely pass them on to him at some point. She becomes even more protective over him as grows increasingly aware of his mental disabilities as well. Sometimes madoka feels a bit suffocated by her, but he also feels guilty for feeling that way because he knows the toll caring for him takes on her and how much she’s given up for him, but also knows that he is not equipped for taking care of himself and that he needs her support, which is where his arc of wanting to become stronger and more independent starts, from that feeling. Utaha though, she doesn’t resent him or blame him at all, in fact she prefers it when she’s with him and caring for him and is anxious when she doesn’t know what he’s doing or thinks he might be in trouble. She cares about him more than anything in the world, to the point it’s honestly detrimental to her own life.

In middle school she befriends Kiriko Suzuki (yes she is one of Suzukis big sisters), who is constantly trying to convince her to step back and live her own life and stop worrying about him. She doesn’t take her advice most of the time, as her anxiety about his well being and her fear of their mother doing something to him completely overwhelms any other desires she has. Until finally, when picking a high school, Kiriko convinces her to enroll in her dream school, a private all girls school with an extremely good academic program and even the option to take dance related classes. Utaha didn’t want to, she wanted to go to school where Madoka could also enroll, if even continuing on to high school at all. But Kiriko got her to cave, and she loves it there, and hates herself for loving it there and constantly worries about madoka.

I’m thinking about promoting Utaha to main cast status so I can pursue her arc of learning that even though madoka needs a lot of extra help and a good parental figure, she is also just as important and doesn’t deserve sacrificing her entire life for him, and learning to step back and live her own life and trust madoka, especially now that he has a bigger support system. I didn’t mention in here, but in middle school she was also friends with Soga (the captain) who is in a similar situation to her and like. I just think. Between him and Kiriko she could grow a lot.

GOD THIS IS LONG I JUST LOVE THE KUME SIBLINGS

[kyuziipon]

Utaha spends most of her time worrying about madoka. This makes Kiriko and Soga worried about her

ID: [a sketchy digital drawing of op’s ocs, Kiriko Suzuki, Utaha Kume, and Soga Umeno standing side by side. Kiriko is of average height with a thin build. She is blasian and wears her hair in a bun on top of her head, and is wearing a pink sweater and green skirt. Utaha is shorter than her also with a thin build, and has pale skin and long straight black hair and green eyes. She is wearing a blue sweater and jeans. Soga is taller than both of them and has a large muscular build, tan skin and short dark reddish hair and red eyes. He wears a yellow hoodie, jean jacket and black pants. Utaha is worriedly saying something while Kiriko and Soga exchange worried looks.] /End ID

[kyuziipon]

I love Utaha a lot god. She makes makes me feel so many emotions

ID: [a digital drawing of op’s oc Utaha Kume, a teenage girl with a thin build and pale skin with long straight black hair and green eyes. She is wearing a blue sailor uniform and the background is green with her name written next to her.] /End ID