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Originally Posted by Renall
Maybe her name was always Kanon. Or the "model Shannon" wasn't named Shannon, but was just the image of one of the older servants she knew that she tried to emulate along with a "perfect servant" fantasy that she cooked up, with Shannon being her own servant name.
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We would have then Battler messing up the names. He would have made a promise not to Shannon but to Kanon.
The irony of Shannon being her ideal look would be that afterward she would return to her prior look as the one she deemed 'ideal'.
Honestly I like to think at it like that.
Real Yasu started as a kid with long hair and a fringe (let's ignore hair colour, we already know it's not relevant in Umineko) that was named Shannon.
She built up a role model who might have or might have not based on a real person (or a bunch of real people as she could have taken the hairstyle from someone, the ability from someone else, the kindness from some other person and so on) and that represents who she thinks she wants to become.
While she works toward it she ends up trying to ignore/change some parts of her to become Shannon instead.
In the end she pushes away whatever she could push away that wasn't fitting of Shannon on Beatrice and pretended those sides of her just left her.
She likely cut her hair so as to signal the change.
However she doesn't feel Shannon. Deep inside her she believes her true self is the one that 'left her to become Beatrice'. In short, deep inside herself she perceived herself still with her previous look, not with Shannon's look.
As in Ep 7 Yasu showed up in a magical scene she showed up with what she perceived was her real look... that's not the one of Shannon... but not the one of Beato either as she knows she's not a witch.
So we've the maid uniform as she knows she's a maid, the flat chest as that's how her body is and the look she had before she began to wear the 'mask' of Shannon, whom she perceived as her true self even if probably it doesn't match anymore with her.
A bit like how Eva-Beatrice still looked like a teenager even if Eva wasn't anymore with the only difference Yasu acknowledged her age as hers... but not her look.
So I'm starting to think the blond Yasu is nothing else but a representation of how Yasu sees herself. Likely blond Yasu and Shannon share the same face so visually it's just a matter of different haircut... but on the psychological level the difference can be as striking as between day and night.
As for Kanon he too shares the same face with Yasu and, therefore with Shannon.
His haircut isn't too different from Shannon but of course the body looks different.
I'll say that since Shannon existed prior to Kanon, if we assume Ep 7 told us something true, when Yasu creaded Kanon she merely changed a bit her hairstyle in a way that wouldn't require haircutting or wearing a wig.
Probably the only time she wore a wig was when she took the role of Beatrice.
Of course the manga can end up proving me wrong and we'll learn that Yasu not only began wearing padded bras when Battler was around 12 if not younger, but she also already wore wigs to hide she was a natural blonde as this was frowned upon. Who knows.