something I still find striking which no one seems to talk about is that Silence Suzuka is like. literally everything Grass Wonder desperately wishes she was
in the first place, unlike Grass' whole situation with Maruzensky, Suzuka is widely respected on her own merits rather than by comparison to another
second, Suzuka genuinely is that relaxed and mostly that demure - she has nothing remotely like the barely concealed roiling cauldron of hypercompetitive rage that Grass has
and third, and perhaps most importantly: Suzuka is actually Japanese












