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Best Supporting Character Tournament: Post-Mortem

In defense of Genkai, she spoiler[dies. How many supporting characters do that? ]

I have a question to those who know Clannad. Does Ushio Okazaki actually do something? I mean in an active, not in a passive way by just being there. What is this tragic event in which she is involved that some write about? Has she done something memorable or is it limited to spoiler[her being a dying girl?]

I don’t mind spoilers I have no intention of watching this show anyway.

spoiler[Later in the series, Nagisa winds up dying while giving birth to Ushio after marrying Tomoya. As a result, the guy gets in a deep depression where he becomes an alcoholic (behaving much like his father after his mother's death) and leaves his daughter to be adopted by Nagisa's parents. Five years later, Sanae (Nagisa's mother) arranges for Tomoya to meet Ushio and his grandmother. This encounter, combined with learning of his father's sacrifices to ensure his happiness, leads Tomoya to raise Ushio again and reconcile with his father.

Shortly after this though, Ushio catches the same disease her mother had and Tomoya does what he can to support her. In her final day alive, Tomoya takes her on a trip and as she slips into unconsciousness and dies, Tomoya hugs her and dies from grief from her death shortly afterward. The tragedy of the situation being that as much happiness Tomoya tries to gain for himself, he keeps losing it when those he deeply cares for (his mother, Nagisa, Ushio) wind up dying.]

Ggultra2764 wrote:

spoiler[Later in the series, Nagisa winds up dying while giving birth to Ushio after marrying Tomoya. As a result, the guy gets in a deep depression where he becomes an alcoholic (behaving much like his father after his mother's death) and leaves his daughter to be adopted by Nagisa's parents. Five years later, Sanae (Nagisa's mother) arranges for Tomoya to meet Ushio and his grandmother. This encounter, combined with learning of his father's sacrifices to ensure his happiness, leads Tomoya to raise Ushio again and reconcile with his father. Shortly after this though, Ushio catches the same disease her mother had and Tomoya does what he can to support her. In her final day alive, Tomoya takes her on a trip and as she slips into unconsciousness and dies, Tomoya hugs her and dies from grief from her death shortly afterward. The tragedy of the situation being that as much happiness Tomoya tries to gain for himself, he keeps losing it when those he deeply cares for (his mother, Nagisa, Ushio) wind up dying.]

Thanks but it’s not exactly what I asked for. When I asked whether she influences the story in active way I mean whether, for example, the things that happen around her are her intentions because from what I have read so far everything she has done is outside her control, for example: the fact that she is born and later she is a sort of tragic victim of circumstances that she hasn't shaped and couldn’t shape in any way (positive or negative). Tomoya has changed but it appears that it has never been Ushio’s intention to change him to begin with.

It seems to me that if anyone is responsible for change in Tomoya’s attitude it is Sanae (Nagisa's mother) as she is the one who has arranged the meetings that has greatly influenced Tomoya.

So does she have an active impact on the story, does she take any action or does her role in the story remain passive to the very end?