#Character: maria

[polling-sonic-fans]

How long do you think Shadow and Maria had together before the ARK incident?

A few weeks to a few months

1-2 years

3-4 years

5-6 years

7+ years

Thanks anon! I added an option, I hope this is okay.

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[do-these-eyes-look-human]

Technically, Clarence hadn’t actually been Vi’s husband since her death. Til death do they part, and all of that. But even all these decades on, old habits die hard— and they had twenty years of habit.

All of which is to say, between that, and his own position in the company, there’s few people who would be in the penthouse he’s not acquainted with to some degree. But he doesn’t have a clue who the woman sitting at the counter is.

“You’re not my wife,”

Maria expects to hear the shuffling of feet as she makes her breakfast. What she does not expect, is the strange voice and the person those feet belong to. She has her own habits, especially when startled, and the stranger would find a knife to his neck by the time he finished his sentence. It still has peanut butter on it, but never mind that.

"And you're not my fiance," she responds.

[knoxs2nd]

i looove how parent/child love is handled in umineko, and the differences between everyone's perceptions of how to show their love, and how to view other people's loves

krauss was always told he had to become a suitable heir by kinzo and was raised accordingly, even though he really didn't want to. krauss shows his love for jessica by being more hands-off, unlike his own childhood, and even encouraging "un-heir-like" hobbies like her boxing.

natsuhi was given away by her family in a marriage she didn't want. she shows her love for jessica by being strict and controlling. natsuhi wants jessica to always feel that she supported and cared about her future and success, and to never feel "given away" without a second thought.

meanwhile, jessica sees natsuhi's "love" as stifling and has to deal with it by running away to school and hiding her true self from her mother. while they don't go deeply into jessica and krauss's relationship, the vibe i get is that she gets along better with him.

compare that to lion, who thrived with the strict parenting style and always recognized how natsuhi loved and cared for them. as an alt!yasu, what matters to them is having family/unconditional love in the first place and not necessarily how that love manifests.

eva was always told she would never amount to anything, and to stop trying so hard. so she shows her love for george by telling him he'll amount to great things, and to always try his hardest. she will always support his journey. hideyoshi lost his whole family so he shows his love by always striving to be friendly with others, and to always bring positivity to other's lives, because being together with family is the most important thing. so he steps away from strict parenting and lets eva handle it.

and we know about george's feelings on eva's love for him, even though he, just like jessica, recognizes that their mothers love them. however, he admires his father and wants to be just like him!

rudolf got ignored and had to carve out his own place in the world - and it wasn't with his family. he loves battler by letting him do his own thing, so much so he lets battler leave the family register. if being away from them will make battler happier, then rudolf'll accept it.

meanwhile, battler has a complicated relationship with rudolf whose parenting style makes him think rudolf doesn't actually have any familial feelings at all, and resents him for it. he adores asumu though, who was outwardly kind and loving to him!

battler even forgives rudolf and agrees to return to the ushiromiya family when he realizes that rudolf actually DOES love his family, after spending so many years convinced rudolf never actually cared after all

and rosa...also ignored, but also bullied to kingdom come by her siblings for being "stupid." so she sees maria, who's also susceptible to being bullied, and tries to make her into being someone who would NOT be bullied. who could be "normal."

maria though...she's the only one who can actually see rosa's love for what it is, though, past all the layers of abuse, control, and trauma, that the other ushiromiya cousins struggled so deeply with. so she resolves to love her mama, regardless...

[fragmentsofthelore]

[ochi06]

your wish for everyone to have a chance to be happy

[redpapercraness]

i wanna see that girl DEAD on the GROUND

[sonknuxadow]

[enigmaedid]

..wow

[tizeline]

T!Leo with his sonic/shadow obsession?

You know how some people in the Sonic fandom yell and cheer whenever they see Maria die? Yeah that's Leo XD which Donnie and April only find out when they go to watch the Sonic 3 Movie and Leo embarasses them in front a whole movie theater audience.

[stellarnat]

Saying goodbye to The Fearless Year of Shadow :( HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!

[pretzlforpresident]

So you know how roboticization was meant to be used for healing right

[polling-sonic-fans]

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[do-these-eyes-look-human]

Look at my beautiful stabby princess

[knoxs2nd]

kumasawa, yasu's teacher, passing down the name of beatrice because that's a series marker for perpetuating generational trauma. and yasu taking maria as her disciple but maria keeps the name MARIA because she creates her own magic full of love. she doesn't need beatrice's name.

*vibrating* battler also learns the truth but gets named BATTLER instead because he has the magic of golden truth fjfjfjjsfsjdksjdlkjsdfkljadsfl;as

only eva-beatrice carrying on the name of beatrice cause she takes on the burden of bearing the family sins. ok!!!

also, ange-beatrice shows up in the trick ending! *insert my essay on how the trick ending is ange continuing to choose to live by harming others to feel superior, hence taking the name of beatrice, as opposed to the magic ending where she changes her name entirely*

[fragmentsofthelore]

hey sorry about your girlfriend. yeah she found out her mom gave her ex wife cancer and went ballistic. yeah so she murdered her mom the night her ex wife died. sorry yeah she's dead now and its been left unclear whether it was a suicide or an unintentional overdose. yeah, i know, im really sorry, this is all my fault

on the bright side though your other girlfriend - no, the goth one - no, no, no, im about to tell you, he's fine - your other girlfriend who was the original source of the cancer got off scot free. yeah shes totally fine. dont even worry about it

yeah no dude fortune tellers are bullshit, theres no way your second girlfriend is doomed a second before midnight on the eve of his eighteenth birthday from eating expired birthday cake, thats ridiculous, dude

[susanoois]

Alucard Era 🦇