Sucy Manbavaran

Sucy Manbavaran is one of the main characters from the Little Witch Academia series.
== Charactah Account ==
Sucy is a dark, creepy pale girl from the Philippines with a huge love for potions, especially poisons. She and Akko butt heads, but are also good friends. She is also Lotte and Akko's roommate.
When introduced in the short films, Sucy is portrayed as an aloof, calm, sarcastic and somewhat sadistic person. She also surprisingly remains indifferent in various situations and things that drive the other girls crazy, which shows that she is calmer than her roommates. She continues to display these characteristics in the anime, although she appears to be somewhat more apathetic.
As shown in "Sleeping Sucy" and other separate occasions, it has been suggested that even with her own kind, Sucy was considered an eccentric freak; she had a clear preference on something which scared or at least disturbed other girls, such as the idea of getting eaten, foul-smelling fumes of potions or poisons, performing experiments with potions and poisons on Akko, and pulling scary pranks that she found amusing, less so for her victims. Hannah and Barbara also refer to her as "Creepy Sucy" when they were picking on Sucy, Akko and Lotte. However, contrary to their belief, Sucy is neither a complete freak nor a heartless anti-social girl, as she does care a lot for her friends in spite of having no qualms about using them as test subjects in her potion experiments, whether or not they give consent to it. In addition to this, her other hobbies are shown to include yoga and meditation. It is also hinted that the only strong emotional connection she had was with Akko, which explains why the memory of their first meeting is her most cherished one. This was later confirmed in "Yesterday", where she went to the bridge when they first met when Akko was missing. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Little Witch Academia
* Little Witch Academia (TV)
* Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade
* Space Patrol Luluco
=== Light Novels ===
* Little Witch Academia: The Nonsensical Witch and the Country of Fairies
=== Manga ===
* Little Witch Academia (Shounen Ace)
* Little Witch Academia (Ultra Jump)
* Little Witch Academia: Crown of Midnight
=== Video Games ===
* Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time
* Little Witch Academia: VR Broom Racing
== Trivia ==
* Sucy's broom in the first episode is a Walis Tambo, a soft broom commonly used in households in the Philippines.
* Sucy's family is different in both the Terio Teri manga and in the Keisuke Satō manga. In the Terio Teri manga, she stayed with her biological family, whereas in the Keisuke Satō manga, she was adopted by an elder witch along with several other children who did not have any parents to take care of them.
** The latter case seemed to be partly inspired by the early concept of Sucy's intended backstory as shown in the official panel of Little Witch Academia at AnimeNEXT 2017. According to the said panel, Sucy was abandoned at an orphanage as a baby along with a vial of deadly poison, and thus all of her experiments are actually attempts to discover the said poison's formula and track down her original family with it.
** During the development of Sucy's background in the 2013 film, however, Sucy has a biological family as within Teri Terio manga, but they are very poor that she also working a part-time job as a magic show assistant during her enrollment at Luna Nova while initially presented as an exchange student. As a reference to witches in Polynesian mythology, Sucy possesses a special ability to split her own body apart into pieces and control the said pieces however she wishes, an ability she exploited for the aforementioned part-time job. Owing to this, there's a running gag where her head will occasionally fall off in her daily life. Unfortunately, such a concept eventually scrapped due to it will make her stand out more than Akko. 
*** In the same development, Sucy was originally intended to be a "loser" and not as sharp-tongued as she is best known today. The reason why she also made a smart aleck is so there's a member of Akko's team who commented on Akko's actions.
* Sucy was born on December 31st, making her birthday on New Year's Eve as stated in Little Witch Academia Chronicles.
* Sucy makes an appearance in the eighth episode of Space Patrol Luluco, another anime series produced by Studio Trigger.
** While Sucy's Japanese voice actress, Michiyo Murase, continues to voice her in Space Patrol Luluco, she is voiced by Anastasia Muñoz in Funimation's English dub of the anime.
* According to Michiyo Murase during Studio TRIGGER's promotional livestream of Chamber of Time when inquired about Sucy's future after Luna Nova, she proposes that Sucy will become a mycologist.
* Design-wise, Yoshinari deliberately gave Sucy shark teeth and slanted eyes to reflect her malicious and mysterious personality which akin to snotty characters he like. He further stated that she intended to represent viewers who would have critical comments when it comes about a character that's chaotic and good in nature and that Akko, her roommate whose actions she tend to comment on, would be regarded as chaotic good according to character alignment established in Dungeons and Dragons series.
* Her first name, "Sucy", can mean "holy" in Malay and Indonesian, and may also be derived from "Susi" in Filipino, which means "key"; while her surname, "Manbavaran", is apparently derived from "Mambabarang" in Cebuano, which means "warlock/witch" and "black sorcerer/sorceress". 
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Sucy Manbavaran at Little Witch Academia Wiki
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