* Me? Some kind of hero or something?
* You've got the wrong person.

This might be an odd way to start this, but I feel like DELTARUNE has one of the more realistic depictions of bullying I've seen in media, which might be a self-report but whatever. And no, I'm not necessarily referring to how she treats Kris. Susie is a bullying victim herself, but the alienation she endures is a much more insidious variety. Her very presence is enough to sour people, even when she's doing very little to harm or even inconvenience them.

I'll always think of Monster Kid (teen?)'s anecdote about Susie somehow ruining a game of handball, and then describing her exhibiting anxiety disguised as her being aloof. It's such a small moment, but it speaks volumes at how people perceive Susie as purely a danger.
(screenshots from greytezi on youtube)
And it's sad! Really sad, for obvious reasons, but also because of an observation I'd like to mention by autistictransbiankumatora (SPOILERS IN THE FULL TEXT!):

"I’m thinking about how despite her best efforts to be a jerk and a bully, despite having the highest attack stats in gameplay, Susie is a girl with more love in her heart than maybe any other character in the game. She loves her friends so goddamn much, no matter how much she tried to downplay it."

Susie isn't the brooding, bully archetype she pushes herself as in Chapter 1. She's a goofy, crude, but incredibly caring teen who's really trying to let her walls down, y'know?

And this love goes both ways, too. Kris won't hesitate to say they'll go with Susie to the festival, Noelle and Berdly are in their awkward love triangle, and Ralsei admits to warming up to Susie's rough edges, rather than trying to sand them down (well, more than he has :v). Susie loves everyone, and god damn it, everyone loves her back.

* I mean, if I went, obviously you'd be there too.
* That goes without saying, right?.

Another post I'd like to highlight is ariadnesweb's analysis of food in UNDERTALE/DELTARUNE. In short, food is a symbol of kindness, which must also mean hunger is a symbol of alienation, or lacking kindness toward oneself. For a girl who's implied to have a rough background--likely homeless, living off whatever scraps of scraps of food she can find, seemingly afraid to interact with her parents, and being branded as a "problem child"--I really hope she gets shown more kindness by the game's world, without losing what makes her... HER, y'know?

Something else about Susie that's fascinating to me is her role in DELTARUNE's metanarrative. I've seen it discussed before, but Susie seems to be innately at odds with the mechanics of the game; She ignores your commands for most of Chapter 1, she disregards your choices in both Chapters 1 and 2, and she straight up wills S-Action into existence. It makes me wonder how she'll react to the eventual in-universe revelation of what's going on with us and Kris. Would she want to be our friend? Would she beat the shit out of us first? Only time will tell.