#and kinzo and the complicit servants were always people who did not deserve her respect
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Choice Theft in the second degree, with utter disrespect
“To take the choice of another … to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. ”
from Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
The way Genji, Kumasawa, and Nanjo constantly refer to the rape as being like…The One Sin that Kinzo ever did in regards to Beatrice 2. As though they weren’t there actively helping him to raise her in isolation, imprisonment, lying to her about the world, about herself. As if that’s not also a nightmarish abusive situation already, just on it’s own. We have so little of Beatrice 2, but it’s an undeniable fact that she was a human utterly devoid of agency in every single way.. They stole from her even the choice to be angry or upset or aware about what was happening to her, what had happened to her. Of the choice to be a human and not a witch. Of the choice to be a daughter and not a wife. Genji’s half-truth phrasings during the games too when dodging confirmation from the siblings about whether Kinzo had a child with his mistress are especially disgusting. Since he’s not just outright lying like Nanjo, but denying Beatrice 2’s personhood as an individual, and slyly using Kinzo’s grooming logic that she was not really herself, but someone else (her mother), even if he did genuinely feel bad for her. I’m sure Genji, Kumasawa, and Nanjo contented themselves by thinking that a bird in a cage doesn’t long for the outside. But that’s a theft in itself. And this choice theft is only continued with Sayo. Robbed of her own unsurgically-altered body. Robbed of the context of her life. Robbed of the ability to make choices based on those two things. And then in telling her, far too late, she is robbed of the mundane, uncomplicated love that had existed in her heart for Battler. Robbed of a lineage not tainted by the most horrific abuse. Robbed even of the ability to look at her own father, at the people who raised her, with respect. Like…HELL IS NOT HOT ENOUGH!!!!
#tw rape#tw incest#tw grooming#tw abuse#umineko#umineko spoilers#genji ronoue#kumasawa chiyo#terumasa nanjo#beatrice ushiromiya#sayo yasuda#kinzo ushiromiya#the last line is worded oddly about ‘looking at her father with respect’ but by that i mean. how she had a kind of somewhat positive view-#-of kinzo before#since all those last few things are stuff that she never really had#as in she was always related to battler#she was always the product of incestuous rape#and kinzo and the complicit servants were always people who did not deserve her respect#but that was her reality which they destroyed. again.#the way the servants try to have their cake and eat it too by subjecting her to all of this to ease their and kinzo’s conscience about-#-her mother is so insane. like after all this fucking insanity. yes let’s deliver the bombshells that will shatter her whole pitiful world-#- weve forced her to live in. okay mission accomplished!#and they did it all with those smiles on their faces they thought they’d finally reached the happy ending to their twisted little story#of course sayo has a right to know and SHOULD know but the servants i feel were not telling her for her sake#but for their own. like their way of showing contrition#rather than finding some better way to do this than destroying her life in one fell swoop#text
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