#Umineko spoilers

[huesofvioletandpurple]

[ID: a series of images focusing on Maria and Rosa Ushiromiya from Umineko

1: a manga panel where Rosa is hugging Maria tightly. Maria says "uu, Maria is perfectly fine... I don't hate Mama" and "Uhm... Uhm..." as Rosa says "...Mama was just being possessed by the bad witch again... But I'm back, so I'm fine... Mama was... Being possessed by the bad witch... Sorry, sorry"

2: a screenshot from the visual novel. Rosa says "...l made it look like I was putting you first, ...but I was always putting you off. I went to your athletic meet, I went to Parent's Day, ...but I was always thinking about how I appeared to the world, and you were never in my eyes. ...Are you saying... that you want to stay with that kind of mother...? Even though, ...l've been such a bad mother......?!!"

3: another screenshot, where Maria says " Hey, Mama...Did you know? You're my only Mama in this world. There's no good Mama or bad Mama. ...There's just one Mama. So I don't need any other Mama in this world. And I wanna be your one and only Maria."

4: two consecutive manga panels. Rosa tells Maria "No... It's not that... I just wanted to take a look at the envelope... Mama will keep the promise. Maria responds "Yeah, Mama is a good girl..."

5: a screenshot from the visual novel of Rosa's inner monologue when she's in purgatorio in episode 4, which says "I suddenly grew nervous about Maria not being there. Why am I alone in a place like this? Where is Maria?! I'm only able to be me because Maria's there for me...!

6: a manga panel where Maria happily holds a rose up to Rosa's hair and exclaims "Mama, you look like a princess!" Rosa then says "Oh, this girl..."

7: a visual novel screenshot of Maria saying " Yeah..!! We'll be able to see each other soon. We'll be together forever...!! ...We'll be able to see each other...in the Golden Land...!! And then we'll play together! Play with the 'Wolves and Sheep Puzzle'!! Mama hasn't solved more than one of the puzzles, but l've solved them all. So I'll be the riddle-giver!!"

8: two consecutive manga panels. Rosa cries into Maria's lap. Sakutarou says "I remember a day when Mama spent the whole night next to Maria, while she cried" Maria responds "... Yeah... I didn't know why Mama was crying, but it's sad when mama feels sad. Maria could do nothing but to stay in silence by Mama's side then..."

8: A manga page of Maria retelling a story. She says "When I came back home, I told Mama that Maria doesn't have a papa, and Mama gave birth to Maria by herself with the power of God." Rosa within that flashback responded "Maria... Hoo" and knelt down to hug her.

9: a montage in a manga showing Maria taking care of a bedridden Rosa. She narrates "I'll bring home some chilled vegetable juice because she'll drink the juice and feel refreshed. Mama will be smiling right from early in the morning. I'll spread some jam over some toast, and leave morning papers on Mama's seat.

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Where the mother ends and the daughter begins

Maria was often criticized for her childish ways and lack of maturity, especially from her projecting mother who herself never felt like a grown woman. We're however forced to see that the line between mother and daughter was always blurred between those two. Every time Rosa lashes out, she apologies after like a child who made a mistake, she begs to be forgiven, she begs to not be hated. And like a child, she is terrified of punishment and does everything to avoid it, therefore never actually thinks about her own actions.

Maria grew up understanding her mother was someone to be soothed and managed, and all her life she did just that. Maria is fine because if she was not Mama would be distressed. Mama is sensitive. Mama is lost, she can't care for herself. Rosa doesn't control the witch inside her unlike Maria who could teach her. Maria finds solutions for her own pain to appease her mother's. Maria forgives her every single time because her mother is scared and needs to be reminded she will be loved no matter what. Maria cared for Rosa but not only, she comforted Battler, she comforted Beatrice, she loved and cared until she died and even after she then became Ange's guide. Like a parent should, she understood and forgave all those children, they don't know any better.

[teratomatica]

[gavinom123]

i started episode 6 i feel SICK

[wikigabis]

Umineko Characters as bottles rolling down the stairs

[notalicorn]

That explains why Sayo wrote only two bottles XD

do you think the ange plothole (there's no way seen in the story for sayo to know ange wasn't attending until after the cousins touch shore) has legs as a funny SHE WROTE ALL THE BOTTLES IN 12 HOURS thing? looking at your art made me think of it, ehehe

while that's extremely funny and I totally think it happened, I also think part of it was that she was still salty at Ange and just. Didn't want to include her in anything. After all she can be ridiculously petty at times 😂

[kumzorg]

bearer of the curse

[peachducy]

The King

[alto-tenure]

yeah

the amount of other people that could understand this is like, negative numbers of people, but Ceroba really dodged a bullet with Chujin's death if he'd lived she would have been just like Natsuhi Ushiromiya

[cartyrs]

MAJOR UMINEKO SPOILERS

All of the individual frames from my BeaBato Animatic <3

[happy10thousandyears]

happy birthday my dearest witch

[anawkwardlady]

[teratomatica]

triptych in decay

[blayarka]

[misamxsa]

language of the lost

[nyaagolor]

I was thinking about the fact that Natsuhi canonically uses the correct pronouns for Lion and how the hell that went down