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obsessed with characters who were written for one another. like, what do you mean the reason for my existence is to be by your side? what do you mean our divine purpose is to belong to one another, for better or worse?

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the thing is i do believe kyrie has genuine romantic affection for rudolf like i do think she does actually like him quite a bit. but she hates asumu a lot more than she likes rudolf

what's that post that's like "you can throw darts at it all you want, you still hung a picture of your enemy in your house" like that's. that's really the thing about kyrie

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umineko characters will be like "i'm fighting demons" and the demons are just bisexuality

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love this insight bc imagine being so obsessed with another woman that you spend 20 years trying to steal her boyfriend just to own her. kyrie the woman you are

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she's fun to rag on. utterly detestable little wretch of a character. but i pity her too, which is maybe worse

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erika as a character rocks because you meet her and she fucking sucks she's the worst and everyone hates her and she's a brilliant arc villain because of it. and then with, a horrifying offhandedness, umineko reveals that this fictionalized erika furudo is there because witch hunters found out some random teenager fell off a boat somewhere around rokkenjima that weekend and went missing, and she got roped into the conspiracy. as far as we know the witch hunters know nothing about the real erika furudo's personality and we learn nothing about what became of her family

and that's not like, a criticism of umineko - the "real" erika isn't really relevant to the story umineko is telling. but it's incredible to even process that this, like, cartoonishly evil detective is a complete fabrication based on a girl we know literally nothing about except that she drowned near an island that blew up

she's like the distilled essence of the idea that characters are tools. erika is awful because the rokkenjima incident story needed a new villain. she is awful because bernkastel made her that way. on all layers of meta, she only exists in the story when the witch hunters/bernkastel/the current territory lord (depending which meta-layer we're talking about lol) need her for something, and she's discarded just as easily when her role is fulfilled.

and like, this lack of agency is not unique to erika. all pieces kind of work that way. but it's with erika that it becomes the most obvious because she's an uninvolved party who was jammed into the story to shake up the narrative

like it's kind of sad. erika is the villain because the writer made her the villain. she, like every character in all of fiction, is nothing more than a mechanism through which the story flows, and she acts in whatever way she needs to act for the story to happen. but the nature of umineko is such that she's sentient and aware that she's a piece in a story. and she is exactly as powerless as all the other pieces to change her nature or her fate.

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like it or not, every day we get a little better at jealousy

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I’m kind of obsessed with the reading of Eva-Beatrice being Eva’s inner child bc she’s still mean as hell. Like yeah this is the girlhood that growing up as a socialite in a deeply misogynistic household stole from me. I am still kind of a cunt tho that’s unrelated

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rewatched the scene last night where jessica talks to kyrie in episode 6 before their fight and it really is fucking hilarious the extent to which kyrie is completely unaware of how insane she comes across in that specific conversation

jessica is like "is it wrong to pursue my relationship if it would mean other people i care about would have to break up..." and this woman tells her teenage niece about how rudolf was sleeping around but he wouldn't get attached just from fucking someone so she had to be more sly to manipulate him

gets done saying this and then goes "sorry am i boring you?" and when jessica, visibly mortified, says "n-no, but -" she's like "great. so anyway i was going to kill asumu but it worked out because she croaked on her own anyway! all this to say love is really about who you're willing to kill and die for. don't be careless with your heart. does that help?" and it is only at this point that kyrie sincerely goes "okay maybe that was a bit much."

as much as this is kind of The scene that makes it explicit that kyrie is a decently successful manipulator and certifiable yandere for her 3/10 husband, it somehow also completely demolishes any concept of kyrie as a person who is capable of reading the goddamn room despite her analytical prowess. what an incredible character

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there is genuine tragedy to kyrie's character i should probably mull over one of these days. like the whole context of the family she comes from probably does a lot to inform her character. but i have so much appreciation for even the simple facts of ushiromiya kyrie. this woman has spent so much of her life obsessively devoted to baby trapping the most 3/10 guy you'll ever meet and it's not ever really made clear what she sees in him

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i think a lot about when i was watching a playthrough of kyrie and jessica's conversation in ep6 and one of the youtube comments was "well i guess i like kyrie less now." and to this day i'm baffled. you like kyrie less after one of the funniest things she ever does?

sure it's when she goes from "a bit much but she seems to have it under control" to "oh she's fucking crazy" but like. she reveals this in the funniest possible context. jessica fully did not ask about all this and she's visibly mortified by the amount of detail in kyrie's answer to a fairly simple question. at the very same time kyrie reveals herself as a machiavellian yandere manipulator mastermind she is also being so deeply socially unaware that she thinks she's boring jessica with all this talk of preparing to murder asumu so she could have rudolf to herself

six episodes in kyrie reveals to her 18 year old niece almost entirely unprovoked that she, the apparent previous title holder for Most Normal Umineko Parent, actually might be the single most unhinged person on this entire island. and you like her LESS for this?

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I don't think I can convay in words how important this scene is to me man

I love that Ange is letting herself play into the game board. I love that Eva knows that this will end and Ange will probably learn/accept the truth she shielded her from. I love that Eva knows and accepts that she deeply destroyed and hurt Ange because she couldn't handle her own grief. I love that she reflects on all of this and you can see so clearly in her face that she wants in this moment to give Ange what she should have all along. I love that Eva despite how Ange sees her and despite her failings and harm to her still wants to protect her from the truth of what happened so she can remember her parents as loving people and not monsters. I'm obsessed with the grief and regret and love in this scene I'm gonna be sick. I love that love persists despite the horrors. I love that even though Eva was hated by Ange she still loved her enough to protect her even though her shield became a spiked casket that trapped Ange in rage and grief. This scene makes me so ill I love it so much.

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becoming the first person to date ushiromiya rosa ethically by finding a kakera where she says she doesn't have any kids first

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late happy birthday to Kyrie!! 💖💖

Her birthday was 8th btw

art under cut cuz I'm shy

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she would be so insufferable in these arg thingies with emails and puzzles and whatever idk