#Umineko no Naku Koro Ni Chiru

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Welcome to Rokkenjima We do hope you enjoy your stay What happened on October 4th and 5th, 1986 on the small private island of Rokkenjima, during the Ushiromiya family conference? A heck of a lot. So I got through the Umineko VN over the span of a few years, and finished Chiru finally in 2021, and let me just say this story had so many fun twists and turns and moments and so many characters. Doing a mosaic for it has been on my to do list since then, but the excitement generated by my Beatrice charm at the last con I attended convinced me to bump it to the top of the list like my last mosaic. We are here for longstanding fandoms, I am part of a bunch myself, even the ones I joined late! SPOILER WARNING IF YOU ARE STILL PLAYING UMINEKO There is a lot of late revealed cast in this art, and while there’s no blatant plot spoilers cast reveals are fun in this and hopefully you are filtering the tags. If not DON’T LOOK TOO CLOSELY...

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Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - resurrected replayer

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playing umineko chapter 5

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2010

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After finally finishing the question arcs for Umineko, I'm playing the answers arcs, and so far...

My respect for Krauss has fucking PLUMMETED. You really did use the Inheritance as collateral AND SOLD YOUR FATHER'S POWER OF ATTORNEY?!? FOR MONEY?!?! YOU DUMBASS THOT. YOU ABSOLUTE BUFFOON.

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Video Game Track Bracket Round 2

The Grimm Troupe from Hollow Knight

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The Great Detective Knows from Umineko When They Cry Chiru

Propaganda under the cut. If you want your propaganda reblogged and added to future polls, please tag it as propaganda or otherwise indicate this!

The Great Detective Knows:

Erika's theme song. She's a self proclaimed Great Detective so obviously she has a violin song.

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pic goes hard tbh

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Umineko & Gender Expression

I recently played through all of Umineko no Naku Koro ni, and I was honestly taken away with the themes it explored in Chiru. It's not a topic I would have expected to see from Ryukishi07 after Higurashi, but then again I guess he has always played with identity issues, albeit in a different light.

I knew that Ryukishi was always very knowledgable in psychology, but given the nature of Higurashi and even earlier parts of Umineko, I couldn't have expected the series to become such a stellar example of gender identity issues.

The catbox that is Yasuda Sayo may be hands down the most interesting and intricate thing he's created.

And because it's so fascinating and complex--it boggles my mind that I see a large chunk of the community lean towards only one interpretation of Yasu. Or feel they need a direct answer.

One of the biggest themes surrounding Yasu as a whole is indecision. Interestingly, the fragment meant to represent their hope is in the form of Lion, who takes on an ambiguously gendered identity. I can't see this as a mere coincidence.

I ruminated on the topic for quite a while after I finished the game, and came to the realization that no matter which answer I tried to choose, none felt quite right. And that's when I realized--an answer isn't needed. Yasu doesn't require a label to be understood. What Yasu was born as, what their gender is or their current genitals--just does not matter. As Will said, it's an answer that lies outside the catbox (of the game). We don't need to know it to understand Yasu as a character and the struggles they go through.

I think ultimately, what Yasu was born as is irrelevant. Yasu's birth genitals existed for a very short amount of time, and there is a strange importance placed on something that may not have even existed for a year and did not impact their gender. Damaged or removed sex organs leads to a hormonal deficiency, and affects the development (or non-development) of sex organs and whether or not your body goes through puberty. Yasu was raised female and believed to be so, until their body failed to show signs of puberty. Dysphoria can be caused by a number of factors, and not all have the exact same symptoms. Yasu's dysphoria appears to be a symptom of lacking those organs entirely, rather than due to a gender assignment given to them. However, we do not have enough information to determine if that is the sole factor.

Due to Lion's existence, we can surmise that regardless of the incident, Yasu would have issues with their identity to some extent. Hence, the cliff incident is irrelevant in the overall picture--and thus to the story at hand.

The key factor here is ambiguity and indecision. Yasu was unable to choose whether to pursue their lifelong view as what they considered to be a normal girl in the form of Shannon, or to find a new life and happiness in the form of Kanon. Kanon was not necessarily born out of want; but as a means to cope with the reality of their body and lack of expected development. Despite Kanon initially being a persona that Yasu shoved all their ugly and negative feelings on, Kanon eventually gained importance as a person due to Jessica, thus leading to further identity struggles.

I think that to label Yasu is to take away their struggles. The fact that they hadn't decided what kind of life to lead. That they were unstable, swaying between sides, unable to choose just one identity to go forward with.

Not everyone in this world fits cleanly into a box, into one single label. Many reject it outright for their own idea of freedom. So who are we, to label Yasu, who was still in the midst of figuring out who they were? To deny their indecision and decide it must be one way? There is a lot of discussion about agency regarding LGBT+ characters, yet all the talk of interpreting what one must be, to have one, true labeled identity, erases that very agency.

Yasu is interesting and complex because there is no answer. There are many works of LGBT+ characters coming to terms with their identities, but not very many where one dies in the midst of that journey.

Many themes in Umineko are left up to interpretation--including many things regarding Yasu--so while it's not necessarily wrong to think on it, I also want to present the avenue that not coming to a clear answer can be an answer in and of itself.

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What I read in 2023 :

The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

finished Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Choderlos De Laclos

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison

No Longer Humain, Osamu Dazai

Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, My Soly Exchange Diary, My Alcoholic Escape from Reality, My Wandering Warrior Existence, My Pancreas Broke But My Life Got Better, Kabi Nagata

Pink, Kyôko Okazaki

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Eric LaRocca

Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni/Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Kai, Ryukishi07

Umineko No Naku Koro Ni/Umineko No Naku Koro Ni Chiru, Ryukishi07

And thats it, I read less that I thought I would tbh.

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Umineko Episode 5 Solution: Rosa Speedrunner Theory

Spoilers for Umineko Episode 5: End of the Golden Witch

At first glance, Erika's whole Natsuhi Culprit theory makes no sense. She says the murders in the cousins' room could only occur during the hour between midnight and 1:00 AM when she was talking with Nanjo in the archive, with Natsuhi being the only one with the opportunity to enter the cousins' room and murder Jessica, George, Maria and Rosa. However, she sees Rosa enter the guesthouse at 1:00 AM when she leaves the archive room and from that moment on has the stairway under constant observation.

On the face of it, this is a contradiction. Even if Natsuhi was in the cousins' room at 1:00 AM to kill Rosa when she arrived, it's impossible for her to then escape without Erika seeing her. Even if she hid somewhere until 3:00 AM, Erika was listening and she couldn't leave without being heard, right?

Wrong. There's a big hint in the red text.

From 1:00 AM to 3:00 AM, Erika, Nanjo, and Gohda spent their time in the lounge on the first floor of the guesthouse.

During the short break at 1:00 AM, the first two to leave the dining hall were Rosa and Eva. Until Eva returned, everyone in the dining hall remained there. After seeing Rosa off, Eva went to the waiting room and sealed it. Of course, she did not enter the room at all at this time.

And in Erika's testimony

After that, we walked out of the archive and into the hallway at 1:00 AM. When we did, we just happened to bump into Rosa-san as she returned. I then told Gohda-san about that. I figured it was probably a servant's responsibility to welcome in a guest. Gohda asked if he should bring a towel, but Rosa refused. She quickly headed up to the second floor.

I think it's obvious what happened.

A break is called in the family meeting. Rosa rushes to the door. She cancels out of Eva's dialogue and exits the mansion, sprinting to the guest house at top speed. By starting a dash as soon as she sees Erika, she exploits a glitch allowing her to retain her momentum when the "Gohda offering a towel" cutscene finishes. She slides up the stairs, enters the cousin's room, and runs neck first into Natsuhi's knife. Due to Rosa's death animation not disabling her colliders until after she hits the bed, she collides with Natsuhi causing her to clip out of the cousins' room. This puts her out of bounds and the game respawns Natsuhi in her bedroom. Rosa completes her Dead% run of Umineko no Naku Koro Ni Chiru in 15 hours and 37 seconds.

Just from the existence of that 1:00 AM, this level of reasoning is possible for Furudo Erika. What do you think, everyone?