Sumio Mondo

Sumio Mondo is the protagonist of Flower, Sun, and Rain. He is a "searcher" who finds lost objects for people, sent to Lospass Island on a mission for hotel manager Edo Macalister. Apparently unbeknownst to him, he is actually an amnesiac Sumio Kodai.

Appearance and Personality

Although Sumio snarks at the various strange events he finds himself confronted with, most of the other characters in the game regard him as a pushover who is too trusting and willing to help. Many characters insult him or find him to be a loser, yet rope him into helping others regardless. As the game goes on, Sumio becomes progressively more jaded with reality. Sumio has an eccentric relationship with his "partner", a briefcase computer known as Catherine. Sumio treats Catherine as if she was a person, which confuses the other characters; it is unclear whether he realizes his behavior is odd or not. Similarly, he also has an obsession with his car, Giggs, but he doesn't seem to find Giggs to be sentient like Catherine. When separated from Catherine, he ignores all else to retrieve it.

Sometimes, particularly annoying individuals incur his anger, most notably Stephan Charbonie, who messes with Sumio in an antagonistic way, and Shoutaro Kai, who criticizes the game itself. Sumio seems to find attacking Flower, Sun, and Rain and lampshading its problems to be the most abhorrent thing imaginable, referring to Shoutaro's actions as "worse than the terrorist" and stopping what he's doing to hunt him down.

Sumio sometimes refers to a lonely past, saying that he can't meet the woman he loves, and that he's "always been alone". These would seem to reflect on the truth behind his identity of Sumio Kodai, a very depressed and lonely individual who has lost many people he loved. It is suggested that Sumio might be remembering more and more as the game goes on, as he at one point brings up the name Kamui without it being stated by anyone else. Sumio Kodai's transformation into Sumio Mondo seems to be a way of repressing his depression and past, and taking on the persona of a more positive person in a significantly lighter and less tragic world.

History

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Flower Sun and Rain

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Official profiles

A good natured guy. Tends to get caught up in things around him. Occupation: Searcher Place of Birth: Far East

Trivia

Mondo in the Playstation 2 version of Flower Sun and Rain

Mondo's ingame model does not seem to resemble his character portrait or artwork at all. There are numerous theories as to why this may be but it should be notable that his ingame model does in fact seem to resemble Sumio Kodai much more than his portrait.

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