Honestly don't know what part of this fanart aludes to Sugimoto, but the source tags him so I can only accept... for now, I'll just add the tag of the fgo character.
You'd never know it from the majority of her fandom depictions, but Mika's actually one of the principal villains of Volume 3, where she tries to take over Trinity General School via a violent coup with the aid of Arius Satellite School's troops, all to thwart the signing of a peace treaty between Trinity and Gehenna Academy. Her plan after taking over Trinity is to declare all-out war with Gehenna, because she simply hates Gehenna and its students that much. She gets a redemption arc in the back half of the chapter, but having not played the game myself (I just read the character profiles on TV Tropes), I don't know whether she truly gets over her anti-Gehenna bias or merely decides that her relationships with Nagisa, Seia, and Sensei are more important.
Also, on the subject of "things about Mika that a lot of the fandom gets wrong", Mika actually hates roll cake. The reason she's seen as always eating them is because Nagisa saw to it that Mika was fed exclusively roll cakes as punishment while she was imprisoned in the middle act of Volume 3, which is why you sometimes see Nagisa force-feeding Mika roll cakes (plus the force-feeding bit is literally a special animation that can play when you have both girls in your party in-game). Fanworks will sometimes get this right, but far more often seem to assume that roll cakes are Mika's favorite food, which couldn't be further from the truth.
She gets a redemption arc in the back half of the chapter, but having not played the game myself (I just read the character profiles on TV Tropes), I don't know whether she truly gets over her anti-Gehenna bias or merely decides that her relationships with Nagisa, Seia, and Sensei are more important.
Neither. She's far from the only Trinity student to despise Gehenna to the point of welcoming all-out war with them. It's a fairly popular sentiment, as well as mutual.
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Her redemption begins with the revelation that everything she did was the machinations of an abusive, manipulative adult, resulting in a rapidly declining mental state and increasingly poor decisions as her life spiraled out of control. Her arc culminates in a self-sacrificing stand against the Saint Justina Mimesis horde while Sensei deals with Maestro and his Hieronymus Mimesis.
What really seals the deal on her redemption is the epilogue, in which she, unlike a certain someone, faces severe consequences for her actions. She narrowly escapes being expelled, loses her position in the Tea Party (Trinity's ruling party) and all the perks that come with it, is transferred to a "common student" dorm that treats her like a convicted criminal (I mean, she kind of is), and is relentlessly bullied by the entire student body while the school's staff are as useless as real life school staff.
Compared to Rio (until she gets a proper redemption), she's extremely sympathetic and it's hard not to support her.
Neither. She's far from the only Trinity student to despise Gehenna to the point of welcoming all-out war with them. It's a fairly popular sentiment, as well as mutual.
Other students sharing Mika's sentiment doesn't actually answer my question, which is whether Mika's own stance on Gehenna changes following the events of Volume 3. Does the subject ever come up in a later volume, or perhaps a relationship or event story that takes place after the end of Volume 3? Obviously, Mika's not trying to take over Trinity General School in order to overthrow the Eden Treaty anymore, but is that because she's genuinely turned a new leaf regarding Gehenna, or is it just because she doesn't want to strain her relationships with her friends (Sensei included) who do support warmer Trinity/Gehenna relations (or, you know, get expelled)?
Other students sharing Mika's sentiment doesn't actually answer my question, which is whether Mika's own stance on Gehenna changes following the events of Volume 3. Does the subject ever come up in a later volume, or perhaps a relationship or event story that takes place after the end of Volume 3? Obviously, Mika's not trying to take over Trinity General School in order to overthrow the Eden Treaty anymore, but is that because she's genuinely turned a new leaf regarding Gehenna, or is it just because she doesn't want to strain her relationships with her friends (Sensei included) who do support warmer Trinity/Gehenna relations (or, you know, get expelled)?
I literally answered that question. "Neither." Her stance doesn't change nor do her feelings for her friends or Sensei have any impact on her stance. She hates Gehenna and makes it abundantly clear that she will always hate Gehenna. She ceases being the villain of the chapter and gives up on her genocide plans because she was beaten, no longer had the Arius support, and was talked down by Sensei. She's not trying to take over Trinity anymore because she literally can't, and never personally wanted to anyway.
The only reason she was trying to take over Trinity in the first place is because an adult manipulated her into doing it. I feel like I explained these things pretty cleary in my coverage of her redemption.
I literally answered that question. "Neither." Her stance doesn't change nor do her feelings for her friends or Sensei have any impact on her stance. She hates Gehenna and makes it abundantly clear that she will always hate Gehenna. She ceases being the villain of the chapter and gives up on her genocide plans because she was beaten, no longer had the Arius support, and was talked down by Sensei. She's not trying to take over Trinity anymore because she literally can't, and never personally wanted to anyway.
The only reason she was trying to take over Trinity in the first place is because an adult manipulated her into doing it. I feel like I explained these things pretty cleary in my coverage of her redemption.
"Neither" isn't a valid answer to the question I was actually asking, but I guess I was wording the question poorly. It's just that I know that Mika later tries to take out Saori and the rest of Arius Squad while also going into a depression spiral where she considers herself to be irredeemable, but eventually learns to forgive both Saori and herself with Sensei's help, and I was wondering if that forgiveness also extended to Gehenna - apparently it did not, though if the subject genuinely hasn't come up since the conclusion of Volume 3 then I'd say the answer is still up in the air. Even if she "made it abundantly clear that she will always hate Gehenna", did she say that before or after her conflict against and later mercy towards Saori and the Arius Squad?
