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#red truth #memes #been meaning to make this for a while #battler ushiromiya #beatrice #rokkenjimas queue box

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red and blue

#deadass #angerika #ange ushiromiya #erika furudo #rokkenjimas queue box

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waiting

#red truth #sayo yasuda #umineko spoilers

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Maria and Shadow 🥺

#maria ushiromiya #yeah sure this can go here #sonic and umineko...made 4 me

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#getting u into umineko was the best thing i couldve done #memes #beatrice #fave

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In 2023 I re-experienced Umineko

#argh #fave #battler ushiromiya #beatrice #beabato #? #rokkenjimas queue box

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#DUDE #FDSJKHFDJHFHDS #MEMES #ANGE USHIROMIYA

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#DKJDKLDKJFKJDSF #memes #ange ushiromiya #rudolf ushiromiya #rokkenjimas queue box

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witches

#old witch yuri wins again #lambdadelta #bernkastel #beatrice #love beatos ^_^; #rokkenjimas queue box

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Something ingenious about ep3 is how Battler is at his worst here but in a markedly different way from his ep1 characterization... Also it's meta!Battler who acts that way rather than his piece, which marks not only the author shift but also this depiction being deeply allegorical

Like. Ep3 meta!Battler is super dismissive of Beatrice even as she tells him about the most horrific parts of her trauma through a fantasy lens that doesn't even obfuscate the worst of it (and Battler actually... manages to decipher it with some prodding from Ronove), and yet he still brushes it off. His relationship to Beatrice in the meta layer is super antagonistic at this point. He correctly figures out that she's confessing to something very painful but doesn't care to think about it or why she's bringing it up because she has already been characterized as a heartless cruel monster in his eyes, therefore she hasn't earned his sympathy and good faith. It might as well be a trick just to confuse him

The way their relationship improves the moment she starts "reforming" and acting all cute and pitiable is important because it shows her both playing into his fantasy of "fixing" her and making her change her ways just to sweep the rug from under his feet and prank him about it at the end AND playing into this good victim fantasy for herself and genuinely relishing in the understanding and good faith he was willing to extend to her once she played the role he wanted her to (this is blatantly Sayo's complex with becoming the person others want her to be in order to deserve their love... It hurts........)

This marking the author shift and being a meta-only dynamic is super interesting to me  because it can mean so many things. I like to think of the metaworld as a representation of the journey in understanding the story from within. We know that from the IRL angle Tohya wrote ep3 while not knowing the full truth and believing Eva to be the most likely culprit based off snippets of memory and her survival. You could read Evatrice claiming the role of the antagonist while Beato goes through a "redemption arc" as Tohya struggling with his memories, deep down knowing the painful truth but being unable to access that memory or accept it, therefore pointedly scapegoating Eva to process his feelings of guilt and grief towards the witch

But by wishing her to be blameless and pinning everything on someone else he is neglecting her heart and looking away from her true feelings, from all the things she wanted to communicate and from all the circumstances that brought upon the tragedy (and ultimately, from Battler's sin). I can see this internal struggle being meta-translated as ep3 Battler being selfish like that and refusing to engage with Beatrice until she becomes "good"... You can feel a lot of self loathing in it. It's a rocky start to their parallel journeys until they both Get It and it's so interesting to me how, in hindsight, it's very clear that it truly starts when the stories change hands

Overall it's a VERY good discussion of projection, with the added lens of how we engage with stories. How only seeing what you want to see flattens the complexity of humans into characters. Beato's "redemption arc" is tropey for a reason! She even shouts out dating sims and anime as the inspiration for it to make it clear this was just her reducing herself to a character archetype! Umineko is very critical of the idea of redemption in the first place and it really shows here

#rly interesting points ! good post #meta #umineko spoilers

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That’s why with my eyes, all I can see is Natsuhi all alone, drinking her tea in silence.

#umineko spoilers #smile #natsuhi ushiromiya #rokkenjimas queue box

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mint in box

#beatrice #rokkenjimas queue box

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when she calls you incompetent

#battler ushiromiya #animations #get over it battler idkkkk #fave #rokkenjimas queue box

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the ruler of Rokkenjima's night

#fave #man this is so cool #beatrice #rokkenjimas queue box

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any angle

#clair vaux bernardus #rokkenjimas queue box

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J and H have finished umineko...end of an era. they liked it a lot ^^ im so pleased

#red truth #j and h play umineko

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they made it to trick... (h = black, j = red)

#exactly expected him to love this he loves erika so much LOL #red truth #umineko spoilers #j and h play umineko