[GoldenLand]

Originally Posted by Cheerful Orange

I'm sorry, but is there any way you could rephrase this? I'm not quite following.

Ah, yes. That was probably a bit too train-of-thought. I'll explain.

Spoiler:

One popular thing that I've seen people arguing on the forums here is that there's no actual need in Umineko's storyline for Yasu to genuinely be Lion, the baby that Natsuhi threw off the cliff, and that she could just be a random orphan Genji arranged for after the baby's death.

Given the way that Redaction is treating Lion, with no obvious Beatrice and the Summoner (somebody nobody on Rokkenjima seems to know) there and working on Lion's behalf, I was thinking it would be interesting to look at the turn of events on the assumption that Ushiromiya Lion somehow survived but wasn't living on the island, and was interfering with the events at the family conference in 1986 using the Summoner as his agent.

I'm curious about whether that interpretation could explain some of the servants' behaviour earlier in Redaction, and whether it could provide a good enough reason for an apparent "outsider" to be meddling with the family. Of course, this is only a theory. I just think it would be entertaining to test it out.

(An alternative view, I suppose, is that it's all a plot of the servants, or that there is an outsider meddling in the conference for their own purposes, but it's not Lion.)