#battler x beatrice

[nicetoart]

Praise my noble name!

#umineko #wtc #when they cry #umineko no naku koro ni #beabato #battler ushiromiya #battler x beatrice #beatrice #my art #waterolor #watercolor #watercolour art #watercolour illustration #watercolour #watercolor art

[uneasywolf]

first umineko episodes //

the source of a meme is chainsaw man manga edit

#umineko fanart #umineko #umineko no naku koro ni #battler ushiromiya #battler x beatrice #umineko beatrice #umineko battler #umineko shannon #sayo yasuda #wtc #umineko when they cry #when they cry #chainsaw man

[manikas-whims]

the entirety of Umineko is just Battler yelling some BS arguments and Beatrice just cackling madly in his face 😂

#umineko #umineko no naku koro ni #umineko when they cry #battler ushiromiya #beatrice the golden witch #ushiromiya battler #beatrice #battler x beatrice

[neko-when-they-cry]

Trick of the Golden Witch Chapter 3

Read Chapter 1 here Read Chapter 2 here

When the blinding light disappeared, Ange was welcomed by a light blue sky and a bright sun. She then looked down to discover that the boat was now floating on water. Ange tried to look around but all she could see was water with no land around.

"Where are we? Where's the Golden Land?" Ange asked.

"This ocean as no limit, no matter of much you row, you'll never find land… except the Golden Land. Here, take a look," Erika said as she handed a field-glass to Ange.

Ange took it and looked where her witch guardian was pointing. She saw something far away, it looked like… an island. It was with shock that Ange recognized it.

"But that's… Rokkenjima!?" she exclaimed.

"The Rokkenjima of 1986, October 4 and 5 to be more precise," Erika said. "This is the Golden Land where time is frozen and those illusions and ghosts are kept alive thanks to the catbox. Those who live there are nothing more than pieces that had lost their purpose, they are no longer useful."

"This is why I'll expose the truth. I won't let my family be pieces in that witch game anymore, I'll free them and let them rest in peace," Ange said with determination.

Ange put the field-glass away, feeling a little bit conflicted. She was determined to expose the truth, but she didn't know how she would feel if she saw her family again, even if they were nothing more than illusions. She was worried that her determination may waver.

"Ah, I need to teach you how to use the Blue Truth," Erika suddenly said.

"The blue… what?"

"This," Erika started. "Your name is Ushiromiya Ange and you're 18 years old."

"Whoa… what's that? Why are you talking in blue? How is that even possible?"

"This is the truth that both humans and witches can use. Well, it's not always true, Blue Assumption would have been a better name. You can use the blue to say your theory and what you believe to be true, as a way to fight back against witches," Erika explained.

"Ah, I see, let me try… Your name is Furudo Erika and you are a detective, you are uh… how old are you?"

"Hehe, I'm a witch, my age is irrelevant. Now, I'll show you how to use the Blue Truth to fight," Erika said as she opened her hand, blue light appearing in her palm, "your family died in 1986 on October 4 and 5, you're the last Ushiromiya still alive!"

This statement hurt to hear. The blue light turned into some kind of blade made of blue energy that Erika was holding in her hand.

"This is a Blue Wedge. You can use it to attack your enemies and strike them with your truth," Erika said before she made the wedge disappeared.

"I understand… my family was killed by Eva oba-san!" Ange declared as she made a blue wedge appear in her hand. "This will be my weapon to fight the witch."

"I see that you already have your theory planned, very good. You need to be careful of the Red Truth, the truth used by witches. This one is the absolute truth, but can be used in a deceitful way."

"I see… the witch is playing dirty, using such a strong weapon. But as long as I have the blue, I won't fail. I'll expose her no matter what and shatter her illusions!" Ange declared.

"That's the spirit! Now let's speed up and murder some ghosts, shall we?" Erika said with an awful grin.

The boat continued its way until it reached the island, Ange feeling her heart beating more and more fast. The boat accosted on the dock and both witches of truth got out from the ship and went on the beach. Ange couldn't help but feel nostalgic. She remembered when she used to play here as a little girl with her cousins, making sandcastles and various shapes. But it was over now, and she had to accept it. She wasn't here for remembering the good old time, she was here to learn the truth.

As they headed for the Ushiromiya manor, two people suddenly approached them, looking surprised by their arrival.

"Ange-chan!?" George exclaimed. "Why are you back?"

"With Erika… she's not welcomed here!" Jessica said with disdain.

Ange froze for a moment. George and Jessica, her cousins. They looked exactly the same as the last time she saw them, they didn't age at all. After all, ghosts don't age, they were nothing more than illusions. Realizing that, Ange clenched her fist in anger, mad that the witch was using them to deceive her.

"Have no mercy, my comrade Ange-san. Reminds to those illusions the truth," Erika told her.

"What are you talking about… Ange-chan? Those clothes… Are you really Ange-chan?" George asked, starting to be worried.

With no more hesitation, Ange raised her hand and blue light appeared in it.

"Ushiromiya George and Ushiromiya Jessica died during the Rokkenjima Massacre!" Ange declared.

A blue wedge appeared in her hand and she swung it, cutting in half both George and Jessica. Their corpses fell on the ground, in two pieces, their guts and organs spreading on the group and blood spilling in the sand. Ange felt horrified by what she had just done and started to shiver, while Erika put a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"You didn't kill them, you just reminded them that they were already dead," Erika said softly.

Ange took a deep breath to calm herself. She didn't kill anyone, they were already dead. As if it confirmed it, George and Jessica's corpses fade away.

"Now let's not lose any more time and let's meet the Territory Lord," Erika said.

Ange nodded and they both continued their way to the manor, Ange determined to get the truth out of the witch who was toying with her family for far too long.

***

In the rose garden, Battler and Beatrice were enjoying a game of chess while drinking tea, with Virgilia and Ronove as spectators. The two spouses seemed to be equal, neither of them had an advantage over the other. With a cocky smile, Battler wiped a drop of sweat from his forehead and moved his queen to take out one of Beatrice's pieces.

"Take that Beato!"

"Oh, you shouldn't have done that, Baaaattler~"

Battler's expression turned into despair when Beatrice took out his queen with her rook.

"You're 1000 years too young to defeat me, Battler! HAHAHAHAHA!" Beatrice exclaimed as she cackled madly.

"The game isn't over, I can still win!" Battler declared, not losing up hope.

"You really are living up to your name, don't you. Very well, but I'll still crush you!"

"Don't talk too fast-"

Battler stopped when he noticed Beatrice's expression of shock.

"Beato, what's wrong?"

"Two of my pieces… had been killed," Beatrice said.

"What?!"

Now that she mentioned it, Battler could feel it too. As Territory Lord and Endless Sorcerer, he was as much linked to the pieces as Beatrice.

"It's… Jessica and George," Beatrice said.

"Someone intruded the Golden Land! Let's go!" Battler exclaimed as he rosed up.

Beatrice nodded and rose up too, both of them ready to face anyone who dared to intrude on their Golden Land and hurt their friends.

***

Ange stepped inside the rose garden. She remembered the last time she saw it when she was only 5 years old. She had always been amazed by the variety of roses of all colours, it felt like it was coming straight from a fairy tale. But this garden was different. Goodbye to all the colours, all the roses were now golden. An unnatural colour, a reminder that this place was nothing more than an illusion. It was a travesty, an insult to what her family built, a mockery from the witch.

"Comrade Ange-san, are you okay?" Erika asked.

"Yeah, I'm just… disgusted. Let's just find the Territory Lord and put an end to this tasteless joke."

Erika simply smiled at that statement and they continued their way in the rose garden, until their path got blocked by two individuals.

"Ange-sama, what is the meaning of this? Why come here with Erika," Shannon asked, defensive.

"Did you… did you really kill Jessica!?" Kanon shouted, barely keeping his composure.

Ange recognized them, they were part of the servants. It was the first time Ange saw them together, for an unknown reason she had until now always saw them separately.

"Well look at that, Kinzo's own personal furniture to welcome us, what an honour," Erika mocked sarcastically.

"We are not furniture anymore! We're humans!" Shannon replied.

"See? A place of illusions where even furniture think they are humans," Erika said with a smile full of disdain. "You're both nothing more than Beatrice's imaginary friends. Out of our way now, we have to speak with your master!"

Shannon and Kanon took an offensive posture, showing their intent to fight. Erika grinned madly as she conjured a scythe, ready to fight too.

"Stop! There's no need to fight, we'll take care of this."

Ange froze when she heard that voice. It had been 12 years since she hadn't heard it, but she still recognized it.

"Onii...chan…" Ange mumbled.

Battler was standing in front of them, looking stern and serious, with a blonde woman wearing a fancy dress next to him who looked equally severe who she recognized at the woman from the portrait, Beatrice. This Battler looked just like her late brother, even wearing the same clothes as the last time she saw him. Well, not exactly. He was now wearing a black cape. Could he be… a witch too? This thought filled Ange with anger.

"Onii-chan… you became like her… like the witch who stole you away from me, don't you!?"

"Ange, what are you talking about? Why are you back? Especially with this outfit?" Battler asked, confused.

Ange remained equally confused. What he was talking about? It was the first time she ever came here.

"I understand… she's an Ange from another fragment. If I had to take a guess, she's from the one where she would have chosen trick as the answer to my final riddle," Beatrice said. "She's basically Trick Ange."

"I have no idea what you're talking about, I'm Ushiromiya Ange and no one else! I'm here to learn the truth about the Rokkenjima Massacre and destroy the illusion of the witch!"

Battler and Beatrice looked uneased by this statement as they glanced at each other.

"Looks like we're going to go through that again," Beatrice complained.

"Erika… this is your doing, right? Is Bernkastel behind this again?" Battler asked with hostility.

"My master has nothing to do with this, I'm Ange-san's witch guardian. And everything is according to Ange-san's desire, I'm simply helping her," Erika replied with a disgustingly sweet smile.

"You… fine. What do you want?" Battler said.

"We just want to play a game with you. I'll even let you be the game master, but I'll choose the gameboard," Erika said as she threw him a kakera.

Battler caught the fragment and looked at it with Beatrice. Their expressions widen in shock when they saw what happened in this kakera.

"This world, this is…" Battler began to say.

"Almost," Beatrice added.

"I would have gladly shown Ange-san, but, being part of this catbox, only the Territory Lord can show her. Feel free to add all the illusions and 'magic' you want, we'll just crush it regardless and expose the truth," Erika taunted.

Both Battler and Beatrice looked uncertain and hesitating. Ange wasn't sure she understood what this game would be about, but she guessed that the Red and Blue Truths would be relevant. She would probably have to face their Red Truth with her Blue Truth in some kind of twisted game. And she was ready to face anything in order to expose the truth.

"Fine, we accept your challenge. We'll use this kakera as our gameboard. Just let us time to prepare the next game," Battler finally agreed.

***

"I swear honey, I didn't cheat on you!" I love-"

The man wasn't allowed to finish his sentence, he was violently slapped in the face by his wife (and future ex-wife), who was red with anger.

"She showed me everything!" the woman shouted. "The detective showed me the pictures, you slept with all those sluts! You bastard, I hate you, you're nothing more than a pig!"

The man suddenly turned towards Erika, who was simply standing there, smiling, and he glared at her furiously.

"You… this is all your fault, you bitch!" the man shouted.

But before he could do anything, his wife slapped him again, heavily crying, while the man fell to his knees, sobbing pathetically.

"I'm so sorry honey, I'm so sorry," he mumbled between his sobs.

Ange was witnessing this scene. With Erika, they managed to get pictures of the husband's infidelity and went to his house to show his wife. Erika was watching the scene with a smile full of satisfaction, there was even lust in her eyes. She was clearly enjoying what she was seeing. Ange did feel some satisfaction to see the husband so destroyed, she considered that he deserved it for being a cheater, but she knew her feelings and Erika's were different. Erika was an intellectual rapist, she wasn't exposing the truth for the sake of justice or to help, but simply to prove she was smarter and hurt others. She would do the same to even an innocent person.

But despite that, Ange couldn't hate her. She felt like Erika herself had been hurt and that it was why she was so cruel to others, as a way to cope with her own misery.

"Ange-san, let's go, there's nothing else to do," Erika said as she walked away, the husband and wife still crying and arguing.

They exited the house and headed for Erika's car. Ange had something she wanted to say, but wasn't sure if she should say it. She took a deep breath and decide to take the risk.

"Erika… is it me or this case… seemed personal to you?"

Erika froze for a moment, stoic, before she smiled softly.

"We could say that. I can personally relate to that woman's pain," Erika replied.

"So… you were just enjoying the man's suffering, right?"

Erika remained quiet for a moment until her smile turned into a grin.

"Both of them are guilty, they both had it coming. The husband for being dishonest, the wife for being naive enough to think he loved her. I have no sympathy for either of those morons, all I cared about was exposing the truth and get money out of it."

Erika then suddenly stopped smiling and turned serious as they reached the car.

"I'll never… be like that woman ever again," Erika mumbled.

Ange could hear the bitterness in Erika's voice, but didn't insist. They both get in the car and Erika was back to smiling, this time in a mischievous way.

"Now that this is done, we can finally start the real fun," Erika declared.

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Erika let out a giggled before continuing.

"Isn't it obvious? Exactly what you were waiting for for 12 years! We're going to investigate the Rokkenjima Massacre!"

***

You can read the full fic here

#umineko #umineko no naku koro ni #umineko when they cry #furudo erika #erika furudo #ange ushiromiya #ushiromiya ange #jessica ushiromiya #ushiromiya jessica #george ushiromiya #ushiromiya george #battler ushiromiya #ushiromiya battler #golden witch beatrice #battler x beatrice #beabato #my fic

[maripr]

Ironic things I'm realizing in my reread of unineko

SPOILERS for the entire series

EP 2 and 3 basically spell the solution for you.

Kanon's body disappearing is so blatant already.

Btw i think rosa totally suspects or knows the murders are happening for real in EP 2. She's way too anxious about getting the servants tf away from her.

Battler in EP 3: "what if Beatrice was just Shannon in a dress"

Also Battler in episode 3: "I'm weak towards Beato because she has XX chromosomes". This said immediately after he pisses Beato off saying he doesn't care about her backstory, managing to hurt her in the two things she's most sensitive about. Great job, Battler

#umineko no naku koro ni #beabato #I'm tagging it that way #battler x beatrice #umineko spoilera #when they cry #mari reads things

[burntuakrisp]

I just had an Umineko dream.

So basically Kinzo has made a deal with enemies of the Golden Land, known as the Silver Soldiers, to help him trap Beatrice so he can have her forever. Now all of the family members are in a new location, a castle in a place called the Sapphire plane. A new Witch comes and leads battler to where Beatrice is so he can save her and stop Kinzo. A confrontation in the ancient castle has Beatrice being powerless to the Silver Soldiers (who are beings of anti magic) Kinzo is given a weapon to stun Beatrice’s power and trap her with Kinzo for eternity. Beatrice curses at Kinzo but he just laughs. But before he can fire, Battler comes charging in on a Silver Horse to stop Kinzo and save Beatrice.

#umineko #dream #battler x beatrice #battler ushiromiya #kinzo ushiromiya #beatrice umineko

[orangememesicle]

beabato is just het l/light. like, vibes wise.

#umineko #beabato #battler ushiromiya #beatrice #battler x beatrice #i’m on episode 3 don’t spoil shit for me #my friend Katie cannot be the only person cursed with this take #original post

[tofudomination]

Happy Birthday Battler and happy end of Beabato Week!

#beabatoweek #beatrice x battler #my art #beabato #umineko #steppy #右代宮戦人生誕祭2022

[ushiromiyacestcentral]

Maria: “ cause in the back of my mind…”

Ange: “ you died….”

Both: “ I killed you!”

In the background.

Battler: “ I have the oldest Xbox known to man”

Beatrice: “ you have Uno you little bitch!”

Battler: “ what-“

Beatrice: “ you have Uno!”

#umineko #maria ushiromiya #Umineko Maria #ushiromiya maria #ange ushiromiya #Umineko ange #ushiromiya ange #Maria x ange #ange x Maria #Marige #Mariange #ushiromiyacest #Shitpost #umineko shitpost #battler ushiromiya #beatrice the golden witch

[gothamcityneedsme]

People You'd Like to Get to Know Better

Tagged by @abysskeeper yayyyyyyyyy

⟡ FAVE SHIPS ⟡

Also Trick x Tavon

Beatrice x Battler

Flynn x Nanashi

Satoko x Rika

Bruce Wayne x Weiss Schnee (yes i am serious)

Myn Donas x Kirney Slane

many others...impossible to list my fav ships

⟡ LAST SONG ⟡

Anyone's Ghost - The National

⟡ LAST FILM ⟡

Aquaman 2! I haven't seen the first one but I thought it was really fun. It felt like. It was made for women? Which is a weird thought to have during a film but I noticed the lack of male gaze and was sort of transfixed by that lack. The themes of the movie were fun and it was very eventful with tons of shit happening, which was a blast.

⟡ CURRENTLY READING ⟡

'The Adventures of Superman' the 1942 novel (1995 reprint version). I'm still just in the beginning parts but I really enjoyed its depiction of Krypton. It's wild to be reading the first superhero novel.

I also pulled out the FE Chess zine i have, but I haven't actually cracked it open yet. Both are in my 'active reading pile' on my nightstand :)

⟡ CURRENTLY CRAVING ⟡

a couch for my room so i can watch tv again

the ability to finish the third chapter of the dc fic i really want to post

the energy to fix the damage in the wall of my room and my bathroom (not major i just. dont. feel like it)

a nightwing poster.

more ops catalysts in swtor...

i would put a food here but i am just not a food motivated person so thats hard for me.

OK. Tagging just for funsies (do this if u want to): @roseofcards90 @shadeslayer @enterlameprofilename @yoursupremeruler @yarrayora @salamancialilypad @halsaph, and anyone else that wants to do this!

#shitpost #u do not know how hard it was to pick which name I used for Kirney lol #this was a fun one. i like these tag games :)

[aidyhdee]

please enjoy this extremely niche au that i cannot stop thinking about and drawing art for. so uh, yeah. umineko x files au. Mulder is Beatrice and Scully is Battler.

#x files #the x files #umineko #umineko no naku koro ni #dana scully #fox mulder #my art

[nicetoart]

“Do you, as furniture, plan to force me to unbutton myself? ......Stand. And undo the buttons. One by one, carefully. Quickly. Beautifully.”

#Umineko no Naku Koro ni #BeaBato #Battler Ushiromiya #beatrice #battler x beatrice #When they cry #wtc #my art

[ultimate-fucked-up-ship-tourney]

Most fucked up ships:

Yes I am including some old ships from previous tournaments, I haven’t gotten enough new ships otherwise, apologies.

1. Dolph Laserhawk x Alex Taylor from Captain Laserhawk

2. Niji Red x Ramon from Captain Laserhawk

3. Dolph Laserhawk x Rayman from Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix

4. Sarah Fisher x Dolph Laserhawk from Captain Laserhawk A Blood Dragon Remix

5. Yuuji Itadori x Mahito from Jujitsu Kaisen

6. Jiang Cheng/Qi Rong, from 'The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation' and 'Heaven Official's Blessing'

7. bingqui (luo binghe x shen qingqiu) from scum villain's self saving system.

8. Heaven Official's Blessing. Ships He Xuan and Shi Qingxuan.

9. Ives and Boyd from Ravenous 1999

10. Eve and Vilanelle, Killing Eve

11. cain/abel, the Bible

12. Xue Yang/Xiao Xingchen/Song Lan (songxuexiao), The Untamed / Mo Dao Zu Shi

13. Sephiroth/Cloud (FF7 Compilation)

14. Clary and Jace from the Mortal Instruments

15. Rika Sasaki/Yoshiyuki Terada, Cardcaptor Sakura,

16. The Folgers Coffee ship. From the Home for the Holidays commercial from 2009.

17. Veralidaine Sarrasri/Numair Salmalín, from the Immortals Quartet

18. Eli/Oskar, Let the Right One In (2008).

19. Lavan Firestorm/Kalira, Brightly Burning

20. Lapis/Jasper (Steven Universe

21. PearlescentMoon/SMajor, the Life Series

22. Christine/The Phantom (Phantom of the Opera

23. Distracted Boyfriend/Jealous Girlfriend, Distracted Boyfriend meme

24. The Brain/Julia (Animaniacs 2020)

25. Veronica Sawyer/JD (Heathers)

26. Sterek, Teen Wolf

27. Jonathan Sims/Elias Bouchard, The Magnus Archives

28. Fyodor and Nikolai, Bungo Stray Dogs

29. Beatrice and Battler, Beabato, from "Umineko”

30. Father Paul/Riley Flynn; Midnight Mass

31. Edward Teach/Izzy Hands; Our Flag Means Death;

32. Misa Amane and Light Yagami - Death Note

33. Batman/Joker

34. Mark Hoffman/Peter Strahm

35. Cesare Borgia/Lucrezia Borgia - The Borgias

36. Dean/Sam Winchester from Supernatural

37. will graham/hannibal lecter (hannigram) from nbc hannibal

38. Vegas/Pete (Kinnporsche: The Series)

39. Hitori Uzune and Nanaki Kazuaki from Hatoful Boyfriends.

40. Lanze/Bluepool and Anan from Beauty and the Beasts

41. Blade and Dan Heng from Honkai Star Rail

42. Spuffy

43. Elisabeth and Der Tod, Elisabeth

44. Isaac and Finn, I’m Dating a Psychopath

45. Lenore and Annabelle, Nevermore

46. Estelle and Khalid, From a Knight to a Lady

47. Layla and Matthias, Cry or Better Yet Beg

#polls #most fucked up ship tournament #submissions #most fucked up ships

[deoxygenated]

finished legend of the golden witch

so far i really like umineko

its hard to gather all of my first impressions at this point, i'd have to check my notebook i've been keeping

but the dynamics of the ushiromiyas remind me a lot of my family (lol)

especially when we go to my tias house during the winter holidays. at least we don't have the stress of a giant inheritance looming over us. it is really scary how i can go this character is just like x person i know though... well with less rich person bluster.

i think maria, battler, kyrie, kanon, and chiyo are my favourites so far.

disliked george off the bat, who doesnt hate krauss, and genji is perhaps ikea's bestseller

the character i dithered the most over was eva because at some points i did really like her and at others she turned up the ushiromiya bloodline ability of being a huge bitch way too high

the narration style is really interesting, sometimes it feels like an omniscient other, sometimes it felt like battlers thoughts. makes me wonder how much is stated that is true.

I did have a lot of trouble though when something happened and then the narration is like slo-mo woah this thing happened. here is bit 1, 2,3 and 4 of what already happened. they couldn't believe this happened! here on rokkenjima with the ushiromiyas it happened!

dutifully i did pay attention because theres a mystery to be solved but i really got all the information as it happened and didnt much need the recaps.

the story is excellent i love the character dynamics its so fun to get the drips of their pasts as we move throughout

definitely a few things that didn't get resolved in the legend but im hoping i'll perhaps get more information in the turn

music is great, spotify showed me goldenslaughterer in my recommendations and then i had to purposely avoid the rest of the soundtrack just in case but i was hyped when it played

disliked the tea party bonus scene greatly for being as previously mentioned very ff.net arguing in the authors comment

im also desperate to know more about beatrice. i came into this not knowing much and i don't think its because of prior bias but this beatrice i saw at the end here doesn't quite feel like beatrice to me?

anyways excited to start turn of the golden witch tonight or sometime soon

#umineko lb

[whenthechickencry]

BERNKASTEL's Letter

The immediate thing that stands out here is who the letter is meant for, when you think of Bern's beloved friend the only person I can think of would be Lambda but... that's the one person it can't be due to the content of the letters. I don't think she would describe Featherine as her friend, either...

....but the description here makes it hard to think of it as anyone BUT Featherine. Also talking about Beatrice as if she is stronger than them is interesting, too, since later parts of the story make it obvious the voyager witches are on a higher level than her, but this was released with ep3 so, so both the audience's and Bern's knowledge is limited.

Bernkastel identifies rule X, which in Higurashi was Himamizawa Syndrome, obviously, that isn't in Umineko but I think we can take that to mean Bernkastel realized the rotating cast of accomplices in each tale.

Rule Y in Higurashi was Takano/Tomitake's death, but in this case, I think it can mean that everyone dies at the end ie the bomb, the fact that she mentions that Lambdadelta touched it but didn't reach it, it is probably referring to Emergency Manual 34. Emergency Manual left a bunch of people who did know the answer while the bomb leaves none, so you can certainly say that it is stronger than it.

Bernkastel has no fucking clue what Rule Z is, though, which certainly puts a hamper on this approach to solving Umineko haha.

The maze having an indefinite, ever-changing shape is a good description of the catbox, though, so I guess she got that the goal she wanted to be reached is a lot fuzzier than the goal Takano had for Higurashi.

Bern has understood that Beatrice is only a witch because of the catbox, though. Bernkastel's feelings on Featherine are a lot more mixed than she would admit to her face, it seems.

This letter gives a pretty strong hint about the roulette accomplices and some early hints at the bomb, as well as set up for future characters... weird that it is locked to post-game in this version though. Also makes it a bit more clear how much Bernkastel knew at the time, it's a little hard to gauge in just the episodes how much the witches know.

The above poem is some interesting early theming that I think can help hint at Battler's promise, especially if coupled with Shannon's words later.

This poem feels kinda Erika coded, haha.

#umineko #UmiTsubasa

[rocketmantis]

The thing about Ikukotrice is--

Okay, the thing is, the thing that is so convincing to me about the theory is, even magical scenes always get shown for a reason. Even if they aren't physically true, they're always emotionally true in some way. For a lot of them, it's pretty straightforward to understand what's happening just by summarizing the events. "Genji confers with the family head." "Kumasawa goes into the garden and has a big argument about 'who Beatrice is', and she ends up falling in line." Stuff like that, you know?

And the thing that gets me is, once you start thinking about Ikuko as maybe being Sayo, a number of things in the meta layer start lining up.

What is Battler's sin? He forgot.

Why is she telling these stories? She wants him to remember.

Why doesn't she say it more clearly? Because it only has meaning if Battler remembers it himself.

What specifically is the question she wants him to answer? "Who aaaaaam I?"

What happened on the boat? Beatrice died (like how Shannon died, and Kanon died), Battler jumped in after her, and Battler also died. But we know that Battler didn't physically die, like how Shannon and Kanon often didn't physically die despite having it in red. He just... stopped being Battler.

There's a bit of wish fulfillment in some of the things that happen too. Some things get shown more positively than the physical reality, in the spaces in the margins where there's no proof one way or another. (Natsuhi's conversations with Kinzo, for the most obvious example.) And Battler's most defining characteristic? Well, he's incompetent, of course, but after that... he's fine. He goes through hell, he screams and cries, his whole family dies and he doesn't understand anything... and then he takes a deep breath, and he's fine. Battler always comes out of it okay.

It fits the methodology. There's no hard proof. Maybe Ikuko is just Mystery Writer X. But...

Sometimes, all you need is the motive.

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