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Originally Posted by ~Ayane~

I think for Ryuukishi writing about bullying and child abuse is important altogether. Even in Higurashi

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Remember little Miyo, or Satoko?

Even Rika had

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strict father who was beating her for stupid things (but that wasn't as important to the story, and later he was rarely alive at the same time when she was, lol.)

But neither of those names are obviously tied to the name "Mary." One of them only shares two letters with the name, and another has one, but that's it.