Sumiko Kaya

Sumiko in her school uniform. (Illust: ElizaDearest)

**Sumiko Kaya** is not a canonical character from the game Love Letter: My True Feelings, But she’s still a cute oc nonetheless.

## Appearance

Sumiko is described as having fluffy, short, brownish copper hair, and soft blue eyes. She often is seen wearing a pink and black butterfly hair clip. On days when Art Club meets, she can be seen wearing her hair up in a small ponytail.

## Personality

Sumiko is described as being a kind, older sister of the group. She’s oddly mature for her age, cautious and secretly doubtful of other’s intentions (though this may be due to her being a partial liar herself), but wanting to see the good in other people.
She’s oddly protective of younger students, mainly girls, for a multitude of reasons, often going to defend them from verbal harassment.
She’s seen as annoying by some due to how much she likes to talk, but never talks about herself. She can always find a question to ask someone else, but if someone asks her something she’ll usually be coy and vague with her answers.
Sumiko also pays heavy attention to detail, noticing little changes in her environment. Kind to everybody, she tries her best to thrive in her high school years, and tries her best to keep the persona of the perfect student she is alive.

## Backstory

Sumiko came from a broken home, her family having fallen on hard financial times by the time she reached the age of 8. Her mother abandoned her father after draining his bank account, and her father had no choice but to raise her on the streets with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the clip in Sumiko’s hair.
She survived by sleeping and riding the trains around Japan, taking work when she could and learning to the best of her abilities.
By the time she was 12, Sumiko and her father had managed to gather enough money to join a group home with other struggling families. Though, due to not really being in public school for those four years, she was placed in a catch up program at a local middle school. This resulted in Sumiko being horrifically teased and excluded. It wasn’t until she went into high school, now caught up with her education and excelling in her classes, that the teasing stopped.
Though, she is still highly paranoid of rumors and bullying starting up again. To combat this, Sumiko does her best to be seen as a perfect girl. She joins Art club so she doesn’t go home with everyone else, spends time in less crowded places like the library or the school gardens near the butterfly bushes, bakes cheesecake for her fellow peers, is seen as highly talkative and curious, chatting a lot to distract them from asking her personal questions, and keeps a high grade point average while applying for lots of scholarships in order to go off to college.

## Relationships

While Sumiko does describe herself as having a lot of friends, she never gives out any names or classes her friends are in. It is believed she truly is close to nobody.

## Trivia

* Sumiko Kaya Enjoys baking, particularly cheesecake, particularly her signature white chocolate raspberry cheesecake, and can be seen giving it to classmates, teachers and club mates. It is believed this cheesecake was the first thing she had ever learned to make by herself.