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Admittedly, a good positive for the former is that Bernkastel is an excellent villain.
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Arguable. She's good at being EVIL, but she's not a very compelling character because she's being an asshole bitch for the sake of being an asshole bitch and she's motivated by pure malice out of fucking nowhere when she was neutral at worst in the earlier part of Umineko. From EP5 onwards she's so angry and spiteful that she can't really hold it back if she's pushed even slightly, which contradicts earlier characterization and implies that Ryukishi changed her mind about her midway through (which we technically know is true since he's admitted she was originally just gonna be a cameo callback to Higurashi).
And ontop of all that, she doesn't get any sort of comeuppance and her loss at the end of the story doesn't even cause her to learn anything or change as a character.
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Assuming a Rosa Prime theory
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Rosa Prime theory is stupid. It's not thematically or symbolically supported in any way and your blue about Eva's motives don't work since
Eva was specifically motivated in part by protecting Ange's feelings, which implicates Ange's immediate family. However, that Eva never cracked under pressure and used the truth to hurt Ange despite their extreme bitterness, and that Eva took the secret to her grave for all time,
implies that the truth was more hurtful to Eva than it was for Ange. There's only one person on Rokkenjima that Eva would put over her own happiness and heartbreak...