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Originally Posted by LyricalAura
"So little time" was the two years that she had the gold where we have no idea what she was doing. She didn't think either of her relationships with George or Jessica could work in the long term, and we know that a mysterious incident would have occurred even if Battler hadn't returned to the island. I don't think it's a huge stretch to think she was contemplating vanishing from the island long before the incident actually occurred.
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Yasu tried with George and even took the ring. A relationship with Jessica is the only one she considered impossible. So she tried to take George's proposal and wait for him, the incident was sparked by Battler returning and Yasu's furniture crashing violently. 'Beatrice' was the powerful witch that wouldn't just step back and let Shanon marry if her man returned. Shanon wasn't letting George go, even with all her insecurities about being an uncultured maid. There was fire.
What I'm trying to say is that Shanon was ready to let George take her away and marry him. I believe the great incident that was going to happen anyway was she giving the siblings the opportunity to solve the epitaph and get the Headship. If she gave George the gold, there was a possibility of hurting the moron's dreams about him building his perfect castle by himself. And Yasu didn't want to hurt anyone's dreams.
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Originally Posted by LyricalAura
She may have considered actually blowing up the island, in the way that Kyrie considered murdering Asumu. We'll never know if she really did consider it, or whether she would have gone through with it, but we can at least conclude from Battler's behavior toward Beatrice and the epilogue of EP8 that she didn't actually kill anyone herself during the murder game.
So yes, she felt guilty enough to commit suicide over the deaths that occurred, but that's not quite the same thing as being determined to blow everyone up along with herself. In the former case, she might choose not to commit suicide if she had the opportunity to save somebody else. For instance, what if Battler was responsible for the murder game escalating into actual murders, and he tried to commit suicide out of guilt himself after learning the truth from Yasu?
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Originally Posted by jjblue1
Well, not that Umineko cares much about realism but a real person might think she's ready to do something and long to do it and when faced with said something backpedal as fast as he/she can especially when said something involves dying. So PrimeYasu can honestly believe she will kill herself/will let herself die and yet, when faced with the whole thing just lose her guts and do the opposite.
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There is something. But maybe Yasu didn't intend to kill anyone to begin with, then she fell under a lot of stress with Battler's return and the rebellion of her funiture. So, while Yasu was intending to do some weird ceremony to choose the next head, Battler arrived and awakened the dormant witch and all her doubts. Then she screwed up somewhere (I believe giving the greedy siblings those shotguns and more important the information about the bomb) and when shit hit the fan (someone got money-madness and started murdering everyone) she felt like it was all her fault.
On a side note about the X-Sibling-that-found-gold as killer theory: Why take the burden of killing individually everyone if you could just run away and wait for the bomb to go off without telling them about Kuwadorian? I think some spontaneous blast that nobody expected is better and safer than the possibility of someone making a call or finding a way to comunicate about some mad serial killer. Surely one misterious vanishing or two would make less scandal that 6+ people being brutally murdered...