[Renall]

Originally Posted by CrystalStarlight95

First of all, they both have the same (last) name. Is Ryukishi07 just screwing with our minds then, or is there a connection? Frederika's only featured in Higurashi as an author of poems placed around the different games and mangas. And Bernkastel is simply just a character from Umineko.

Personally, I think there's no connection, and Ryukishi07 only really loves the character design of Rika (Hence we now have Bernkastel, Erika, and even Featherinne looks very similar, if you look closely)

And does even discussing the connections make a difference? If we put the pieces together, it won't help the Umineko truth, I guess xD.

My personal line of thought is that Bernkastel is literally a "character" and her presence is meant to represent the sort of things her character does and says and stands for. Whether she is the Frederica Bernkastel of Higurashi doesn't really matter.

Spoiler for Umineko Off-Topic Ep6 Question:

Last note: Totally off topic, but does anyone have any idea what trick Beatrice did to help Battler escape the logic error? I simply can't understand it, unless she really did use magic...

Cups inside other cups. That's about as much as we know.

Spoiler for One of the more recent takes...:

Beatrice was talking about a different thing. It was a bluff. That's what Kanon meant by going on the offensive: Create a new puzzle rather than getting tripped up in the existing one.

Or that's one theory, anyway.