#my only regret is that i look less like Beatrice the golden witch now

[cryptid-crusader]

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[batbeato]

The wildest thought just came to me.

Meta-Beatrice's (our golden witch) birthday is November 29th, because that is the day Sayo solved the epitaph and learned of her heritage. Ultimately, it was Genji who gave her the hint on how to solve the epitaph in the first place.

Why would Genji chose that specific date? Kinzo was already dying, could literally die at any point in time, so it wasn't as though the time to reveal Sayo's survival was limitless - Kinzo's days were numbered, likely since around the time he hung Kuwadorian Beatrice's portrait within the mansion. They had no way of knowing when the man would keel over, regrets un-atoned for.

Which leads me to thinking that November 29th was Kuwadorian Beatrice's birthday. As far as I'm aware, though we have Bice's birth date, we don't have Kuwadorian Beatrice's.

Genji, Kumasawa, Kinzo, and Nanjo would know, though. They'd be able to possibly orchestrate a meeting just for Kinzo.

For Sayo to appear in front of Kinzo on that day, the day her mother was born and her grandmother possibly died, is the closest thing to the resurrection of the 'witch' in a magic-less world - at least, for Kinzo, in the twilight hours of his life.

Because this time, Kinzo isn't directly seeking out Bice's reincarnation - he's now entreating for his daughter Beatrice to call for him, and to at last seen Lion - his child, his grandchild - alive, when they'd been thought dead for over decade.

Repeating not the sin of rape, but superimposing the spirit of the mother over the child as a selfish form of repentance, to grasp what is no longer there for Kinzo to reach out to - ultimately, the only person who gets relieved by this is Kinzo. Is it even true repentance, regardless of the genuine guilt and remorse he felt after the death, and Sayo's presumed death (as Lion), because he is still in-part repeating the cycle of sin that started with Bice's death?

Kuwadorian Beatrice is dead, didn't even truly understand what Kinzo had done to her. His words won't reach, possibly wouldn't even make sense to her.

Which then had me start wondering on whether Sayo knows this to be her mother's birthday? Considering it doesn't seem like Genji or Kumasawa ever challenged Kinzo's narrative of Kuwadorian Beatrice being anything other than 'the reborn golden witch' or 'the ruler of kuwadorian', they might have just said 'it is your birthday' or something, half-in-habit of obscuring the truth before (or maybe after, when Sayo is just wondering why? Why did they save her, why did it happen, why that day to give her a hint -) delivering the whole sordid truth and history behind Bice, Kuwadorian Beatrice, and Sayo herself.

Either way, whether it's brought up or not, this was a really random headcanon that popped into my head.

Hm. I think the timeline is that after Genji gives the hint, Sayo goes ASAP to the library to check (or at least, there isn't any indication of time passing). I can imagine she might have to wait until after work, it does seem like it's nighttime by the time everything finishes up, so... The timeline does check out in terms of planning for it to be on a specific date. I'd say Genji could be aware that Sayo is looking into solving the epitaph and thus would know she'd be interested in a hint like that, and would look into it immediately. There's still the chance that Sayo wouldn't look into it or solve it right away, but... The odds are good.

Adding on, if we add Lion into it, it could be that Lion's birthdate is also Kuwadorian Beatrice's. Lion had to have papers made, so it would be easy for Kinzo or Genji to set that as the birthday, especially if Lion/Sayo's actual birthdate was within a few months (to avoid inaccurate age). So it could be that neither Sayo's given birthdate (presumably chosen as a coverup to avoid suspicion) nor her November birthdate are her birthday, but that the November birthdate is their mother's birthday.

It might also be that November 29th is Sayo's birthday, and that's why Genji picked that date in particular to give them a hint.

Regardless I think the idea of Genji picking November 29th due to it being a significant date makes sense, especially since Sayo struggles with the epitaph for a few months first. Thank you for sharing!