Talk:Takako Sugiura/@comment-397235-20141205123207/@comment-397235-20141207014807

Maybe, or maybe not.

Izumi shows up about three seconds after she died. The only reason Izumi went after Mei is because she thought Mei had killed Takako; like Tomohiko, she's hiding her hatred of someone she blames for her loved one's death behind trying to end the curse. So if Takako isn't dead, Izumi's priorities are different. At her core, Izumi is a protector, and so long as she has someone to protect, she's not going to waste time going after Mei; she'd have gotten her friend to safety instead.

If Izumi had openly told Takako to stop, I suspect she would have. In her deranged state, she'd still probably have listened to Izumi, so she might've been able to talk some sense into her.

For that matter, if Mei, who she's just tried to kill, had rescued her, that might've been enough right there. I mean, would you have it in yourself to kill someone who's just saved your life after you were nearly killed trying to kill them? If you look at her eyes when she gets hanged, they're completely dilated (they are when she attacks Mei the first time; Keiko's are when she tries to kill Naoya outside as well). The only thing that's going through her mind at that point is "Oh my God this hurts and I don't want to die! Had Mei rescued her from that, if anything, she might've picked up a creepy fixation on her the way she did on Izumi. To be honest, that probably would've been less scarring for Mei than watching her die.

As for her getting worse...maybe. She'll know what she did to Mei was very, very wrong and I suspect she'd feel terrible about that; plus, she'd have Yumi's death hanging over her head. (That was a very poor choice of words -_-). So she may have gotten worse...but she may have gotten better as well, especially since she's still got Izumi around to take care of her. Fictional characters have gone through far worse and done more harm than she did, and been alright in the end.

Plus, I think she'd rather be insane and medicated then insane and dead.