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thinking about how much sumire’s wish says about both her and maruki’s reality. how even once maruki has the power to do it he doesn’t bring back kasumi. sumire doesn’t want her sister back, she wants to be her sister. sumire doesn’t just hate herself–she’s jealous of kasumi. she resents her for being the perfect elder sister when sumire consistently failed at being the perfect younger sister. sumire idealizes and hates kasumi all at once. the only way she can be happy is if she becomes her. if kasumi simply came back to life sumire wouldn’t be happy, because that would return her to the self loathing hell sumire nearly killed herself to escape. maruki can’t bring kasumi back if he wants sumire to be happy, even if bringing her back would create a more just world. maruki’s priorities are always for the people already alive. akechi isn’t brought back because he wants to live–far from it. he’s brought back purely because that’s what joker wants. same for wakaba and okumura–they aren’t given any agency whatsoever in maruki’s reality. their existences are wholly for the phantom thieves. notice again how yusuke’s mother isn’t brought back–madarame is simply a good sensei. maruki isn’t doing what is the “right” or “just” thing by reversing death. he’s picking and choosing whose wishes to fulfill and how according to their whims.

but the thing is, maruki only pretends to respect the wishes of the people in his reality. he wants there to be a pretense of choosing, hence why he’s so desperate to get joker to agree to his reality, but the truth is that maruki’s will always prevails regardless of whether anyone else is okay with it. if its what he decides is best he will override the will of his victims, as seen in his palace when he forces people to give up their dreams for another if he thinks it is what will make them happy. maruki is capable of changing sumire’s cognition so that she’ll be happy with a living kasumi, but he chooses not to, because his goal isn’t to erase every injustice in the world. it is to make everyone happy in the way he deems necessary whether they like it or not. he doesn’t care if akechi would rather be dead than his puppet. he only cares if joker, the boy he’s personally grown attached to as someone who helped him with his research, got his wish. he doesn’t care if kasumi is still doomed to a tragic early death so long as sumire, the living girl he’s personally grown attached to as his patient, is personally happy.

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