#rokkenjima massacre

[actual-haise]

[cartyrs]

Roulette

[jichanxo]

Help me, Lord, from these fantasies in my head / They ain't ever been safe ones

[vtomleni]

[grassoftunnel]

Hideyoshi is Eva’s lighthouse emotionally bc he loves/cares/protects/provides (in his own flawed often inherently misogynistic ways) within his role as a husband/man but he is also her anchor to Society (and all of its ills) bc being with him means performing her prescribed role as a wife/woman…multiple things can be true, and in this case, MUST be true for the story to make sense. Like by their society’s standards, in their time period, he is a good husband! Like their relationship stands out among the siblings BECAUSE it is Successful in the eyes of society (compared to say Krauss, Rudolf, Rosa’s situations). Which is not a good thing! Even if they have sweet moments (and I want to have sex with them both who said that). Like this is as good as it’s going to get for Eva within the framework of the society she lives in. And it’s still Not Good. #tragedy

[black-klok-youth-pastor]

First time in a while that my main is more active than my side due to re-entering an Umineko hyperfixation. If only because I don’t know how the hell to crossover that with Metalocalypse.

…Toki would get along with Maria though, let’s be real 😂

[blueredyellowart]

A referenceless Beato for your perusal.

[kushanna]

i hate this type of red truth cause it's not specified whether the red sentence by itself is a truth for the murder we're talking about atm or for the game board as a whole. genji and nanjo were not killers? if you're telling me they can't be killers at all in the first game board then that's a huge bummer for me

also hate this one cause yeah?? does she guarantee that the unidentified corpses are actually corpses though?? i do understand that yes, since she did say "there were no body double tricks", but GOD that's such a ridiculous play with words. get out of here

[ushiromiyacestcentral]

Maria: “ hey so you are going to tell us the truth about what happen on Rokkenjima that day right?”

Eva: “ No LOL”

The public: * first believed Eva to be the culprit but after her passing they believe it’s Maria.

Maria: “ Oh shit-“

[akihatohnoofficial]

My dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “the Rokkenjima Massacre” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear I just saw some magical fighting in the garden

My buddy Battler pacing: BEATRICE is lying to us

[nyaagolor]

Found this audio and dropped everything to make this. Anyway this is basically the Rokkenjima massacre right

[toskarin]

nah why does bro think he is playing WITCH'S GAME? this is due to he is listening to witch's game music while playing an app called the Rokkenjima Massacre

[heartgold]

sometimes I think about how these monologues from Sayo and Natsuhi from eps 2 and 5 respectively directly parallel each other and feel ill

it's not just clueing the reader through association into realizing that Sayo is the baby in question, but also speaking a lot about their characters and their connection

Natsuhi committed murder because she couldn't cope with feeling humiliated by being given a baby to adopt, a denial of her worth as a woman in a family like the Ushiromiyas where bearing an heir is her role. passing her pain forwards, she kills an innocent servant and (fails to kill, but severely mutilates) a baby. this action changes the world itself as it starts a snowball towards the family's destruction. Natsuhi is tormented by guilt over her actions and tries to convince herself she is innocent so she can live on. she foists her sin onto the vague concept of a witch and demons that haunt Rokkenjima, trying to believe her own actions aren't to blame, the servant got lured into walking off the cliff through supernatural means. Natsuhi doesn't know about it but that's one of the foundations of magic in Umineko: constructing a fantasy narrative to paint over a harsh reality to make it easier to cope with. Natsuhi is shown to do this by picturing scenarios where Kinzo acknowledges her worth so that she can stand strong whenever the cruel reality of her circumstances tries to bring her down. she is also shown to feel a vague connection towards the concept of the witch of Rokkenjima, a bird that was trapped in a cage just like herself (by Kinzo, nonetheless). ep5 even points out that Natsuhi has a lot of latent magical potential and the makings of a witch

so, Natsuhi coped with that fateful day by removing it from her mind, she tried to completely shut away the memory and the guilt and the feelings that drove her to commit murder. she could distance herself from her own actions. but what about the victim on the other end, the baby who survived a murder attempt?

Sayo's monologue at the prologue of ep2 is fascinating because it stands for a lot of things at once and it gets continuously recontextualized through the story. initially it's shown as Shannon fulfilling her pact with Beatrice by smashing a sacred mirror in order to be granted success in love with George, but that's an obfuscated narration of what is actually happening. later it's revealed that Sayo tested Rokkenjima's old explosives by blowing up that crag with the shrine and torii, this being the point of no return for her in her resolution to actually carry out the family's massacre and ascertaining that she had all the means to accomplish that, putting that plan into motion. this is one of the meanings of her "old fate being smashed"

the other meanings that surface with full context of Sayo's circumstances are that of the day she was almost killed and the day she learned the truth and her entire world crumbled. obviously she can't literally remember the former, but the snowball of effects that that day brought upon her was something inescapable even before the truth came to light. her entire life was set on a completely different path thanks to it! the marks of it were literally inscribed upon her body! that's why when Natsuhi thinks about that day, she wants to forget, to shut the memory away, to convince herself she is blameless. a dead person is the perfect victim. Natsuhi can forget about everything with enough time. but Sayo survived and cannot forget or evade the effects of what Natsuhi did to her. the lies she was told about herself were short lived and she was already under severe distress before the bomb of truth finally detonated all her hopes and dreams for the future and ultimately set her on the path of exploding herself along with the entire family. the dynamic where one can move on after coping with guilt while the other has to deal with the material consequences of everything forever says a lot. Natsuhi is the Ushiromiyas' victim in many ways, but Sayo was even beneath her as the ultimate vessel of all the pain and trauma cycling through the family. Natsuhi was powerless before the Ushiromiyas but had power over the servants. she even got away with murdering one! still, while Sayo bore anger and resentment upon learning the truth, she wasn't motivated by revenge like ep5 makes it out to be. more than anything, she pities Natsuhi's circumstances and understands her pain better than anyone and grieves the possibility of a world where she could have been accepted and loved by her from the start. but that's not Her world. Sayo has many very complicated feelings towards Natsuhi and intentionally makes her suffer in her tales but also writes heartfelt parallels between Natsuhi and Beatrice. they are intrinsically connected right down to Natsuhi's predisposition to dealing with the fate of being a caged bird with magic. ep1 culminates with them facing each other in a duel, Sayo's trademark symbolic depiction of settling internal conflict. they are one and the same in many ways. even the framing of the monologue scene as "smashing the shrine's mirror to release Beatrice" is interesting considering that beyond Sayo's entire relationship with mirrors, Natsuhi owns a sacred mirror as a memento of her birth family (that she was forcefully torn away from) and this is brought up multiple times. it's a small but neat connection that feels meaningful

it makes me heartbroken to think about how both of them had the experience of having their lives and agency torn away from their hands and having to cope with the aftermath on their own. at the peak of her pain, Natsuhi smashes Sayo's fate. at the peak of her pain, Sayo smashes her own fate along with everyone else's. umineko is a cacophony of mirrors shattering mirrors like a trail of dominoes

[izunias-meme-hole]

One Villainous Scene - Confession of The Golden Witch

Umineko No Saku Koro Ni is a visual novel and manga that I highly recommend on so many levels. Between starting strong with a horrific first episode, being a great yet wild deconstruction of both the mystery and fantasy genres, and balancing out so many different flavors of villainy and antagonism. Though it also happens to be a tiny critique of conservatism, a commentary on the problems women face, and carries some transgender/intersex allegories, which is surprising to see from a Visual Novel from 2007. So how are these points expressed? Through one single tragic villain of course.

"Beatrice" is the witch who haunts the entirety of Umineko, and when you first read the piece you rightfully assume that she's the main villain since she's responsible for the massacre of the Ushiromiya family. Then as the story goes on, we kinda see that's not the entire picture, especially when we slowly remove all the fantasy elements and piece together the truth until we finally learn about the real mass murderers, the history behind the original Beatrice alongside her daughter, and the person behind the witch with her name. A suicidal androgynous "trans" person named Sayo Yasuda.

Sayo didn't have the best life. Between having her privates becoming non-existent thanks to a life threatening injury she suffered as a baby, being looked down upon by others, living in a very conservative area, slowly having her heart shattered, and figuring out that something seemed "off" about herself, things weren't the best. However, she still carried hope. She found love with 2 different people, and it was the hope of at least some happy romantic ending that kept her going. Then, she decided to solve Kinzo Ushiromiya's Epitaph, the path to the Ushiromiya's mythical gold... and that sealed her fate.

Sayo processed the cold harsh truth that was she was being told, and denied it at first.

But it reached the point where she couldn't deny it... and she broke down.

With the knowledge from before about what little details we had about the IRL Rokkenjima incident, along with the entire family history and the drama within it, it's clear that Sayo Yasuda was a fckin' scapegoat. While she did set up the tools for the demise of the Ushiromiya family, and made Rokkenjima into one big catbox, she is ultimately a byproduct of Kinzo's greatest sin against his daughter and by extension, the first Beatrice. She's been doomed from the start thanks to a shitty old man, and when she learns that she breaks. It drove her to make up a million plans to kill herself, the Ushiromiya family, and the servants that basically "raised" her (Who funnily enough were willing to help her!). To think that this was who the Golden Witch was all along.

Happy Rokkenjima Massacre Day Eve everyone.

[tinyfantasminha]

Happy 4th and 5th of october aka the day of the ushiromiya family conference and the rokkenjima massacre for the 4 umineko enjoyers that follow me

[puzzlefaggot]

happy rokkenjima massacre day REBLOG if your entire family was murdered on a private island