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The name, Sumu, has no specific meaning to other people, but Sumu himself likes to believe that it means "unique", as it is truly a unique name. Despite the troubles of pronunciations and spelling, Sumu is still fond of the real pronunciation and spelling. Other ways it has been spelled are: Soomoo, Sumuh, Soomue, etc. It has been pronounced as "Suh-muh", "Sue-muh", "Syu-mue", and other completely absurd ways. Sumu reminds the people who spell it wrong and say it wrong that it is simply S-U-M-U and that it is prounounced: "Suemue".
When Sumu isn't bothering about the his name, he likes to draw and write stories. Ever since he was small, he has been into art and writing. Sumu remembers when the caretakers at the orphanage would read him and the other children "The Land of Stories" and in his own time, reading "The Witch Boy". Those books were his very favorites and he long aspired to follow their paths in his own stories. But as many writers know, writing a story, especially a good one, is very hard.
He came up with many ideas for books, and the titled ones consisted of "All Hallow's Year", "The Random", "Me, Myself, and Many Others", and "Run"*. But these ideas ended up fading away and seeming obscure and boring. When he would make up small comics, he would compare his art to other comic artists and be discouraged. Sumu was stuck in a loop of inspiration and lack of it. He desperately wanted to get out of that.
Luck was with him for at least that in life. An orphanage caretaker noticed his determination and was able to tutor Sumu on writing and get Sumu help with his art and improving it. After a couple of years of lessons in both fields, Sumu began his first book: "The Demon's Apprentices", a comic book.
It was to be about a group of apprentices that, to further their magic, decide to become apprentices to this cheerful young wizard. But all turns out to be too good, some of the apprentices start disappearing and before it's to late they have to find out what is happening and stop it.
He finished it just as he came of age to leave the orphanage. The orphanage caretaker helped Sumu publish the book and they bade farewell to eachother. The first few years, the book copies of "The Demon's Apprentices" rested unnoticed in the dusty corners of libraries. But all of a sudden it was being checked out of libraries at the rate that the libraries needed more and so did the book stores. It seemed to be a spontaneous success. Sumu speculated that one child had actually read it, showed it to a friend, and that kept happening. He was very grateful for that if that was how.
From all the money that Sumu received, he donated 1/10 of it to the caretaker, 3/10 of it to the orphanage aside from the caretaker, and 4/10 of it to other causes he saw worthy. Sumu didn't seem to need a full time job and began working on more comic books. That became his career for a very, very long time and gained him fame, money, and a lot of fans. He could care less about the fame and the money, but he loved his work, the enthusiastic fans, and the freedom.
Then came the trouble. A youngster by the name of Jie claimed that all of Sumu's books had ideas from him. There were major reasoning issues with that, aside from the fact that all of Sumu's books were written before Jie was born, but skeptics became abundant. It cost Sumu nearly a fourth of his profits, causing him to need to get a job. True fans posted awareness of this and how Jie was lying. It didn't help much but at least made Sumu happier.
Sumu's works went through times of abundance and times of failure and provided a mediocre income for Sumu. He was depressed that he had lost so many fans from Jie's antics and that he had to do other work aside from what he loved. Sumu eventually was able to sue Jie for causing emotional distress and lying for the purpose of hurting him. The news of this gained him some fans back but Sumu's confidence was lost.
His books grew less interesting, lazier, less colorful. He started losing fans. Sumu didn't seem to notice. Depression distracted him. All day everyday he just wanted to curl up into a little ball and give up. But his old caretaker came to him and took care of him. The caretaker forced Sumu's spirits to rise, for Sumu to live again. With the help of the caretaker, Sumu was able to go back to being a special author in the hearts of many. If the caretaker never existed, who knew what Sumu would have ended out to be?
*These titles are all from books that I started and gave up on or are incomplete.
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