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Originally Posted by haguruma
'd say it's possible, but it's not necessary and not actually hinted at within the stories.
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As far as I'm concerned it's screaming at us. Perhaps you should reread earlier arcs?
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This'd make the end of Twilight into yet another big bowl of fiction...and the epilogue about Kotobuki Yukari would be basically just an additional frill at the huge lace-dress of the fantasy portion of the story.
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What makes you to treat that scene as any more real then any other such scenes in the entire serie beside that it came out later?
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But then again Ryûkishi could have just stopped after Requiem and made an ending in which we see child Battler and child Yasu having their little logic battles at some beach.
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I don't think you get what I mean at all if you're suggesting that.
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Maybe you are trying to hard to fuse together "our world" and "the world of Tôya's logic battle". Your level is not wrong...but I think it would just insert a layer between the readers world (our reality) and the reality of after 1986 in Umineko (Ange's and Tôya's world). It doesn't really solve anything, it just makes the ramifications less cruel...because you can say that beyond the Tôya and Yukari who lost everything, there is a Tôya who's just having fun with Yasu.
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I think you get it even less by reading this later part.
We are told in Umineko that it is (within the fiction) a fiction. When you read any given fiction, how much does the author hints at their real world? When you read the Divine Comedy, how much of it is actually based on the real Dante and Beatrice? What can you learn about them?
While the majority of fans turns in circles over "truths" that cannot be proven and might not even exists to begin with, I suggest approaching the story as one where we are supposed to unlock the heart of the author through their work rather then finding an objective truth that we'll never get a clear glimpse of. It certainly does not complicate things.
From my point of view simply said "what came before arc 1 and led to it being written" is more pertinent then whatever Rokkenjima prime murders, and that arc 4 is a sequel written atop of the previous stand alone arcs, and as such is a level built "over" the previous ones.
Obviously it could be that there's no level between Ryuukishi/us and the "lower fictions", but it at least feels to me like we are supposed to unlock the heart of a fictional writer (and not Ryuukishi's), or possibly many in later arcs, so we need such a level.