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Old 2009-06-30, 13:46   Link #2141
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Originally in my above theory, I had Jessica listed as 2nd, George as 3rd and so on. But then I remembered the siblings, and then I just wasn't sure about the specifics (concerning sucession) anymore...

So uh, I dunno.
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Old 2009-06-30, 14:11   Link #2142
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This is how I'd put things:

"is dead": The person is dead at least as of the time of the red announcement. Thus "Kinzo is dead" is equivalent to "Kanon is dead" even if Kanon died just now and Kinzo's been dead a year. This doesn't preclude any reason for death, like accidents or natural causes, unless Beatrice adds more to it.

"killed": A human being (or possibly an animal) caused the death of the person by some affirmative act. The important thing here is they didn't necessarily have to intend to do it, and they didn't necessarily have to mean for the person to die. Of course, it also encompasses intentional killings.

"murder": A human being killed the person intentionally and with the desire that the person die. There are other legalese definitions of murder but I think this is the one Beatrice means. If a person was murdered, note, their death cannot be an accident or unintended. If Kumasawa tripped and fell down the stairs, she cannot have been murdered; if Kumasawa was pushed down the stairs, it may not be murder (if it was a bump or something); if someone decided to kill Kumasawa by pushing her down the stairs, THAT is murder.

Note that a consequence of this is that "x did not commit murder!" does not mean "x did not kill anyone!" It just means they didn't kill anybody intentionally.

Oh, and I wouldn't personally define a self-defense killing as "murder." However, Beatrice might. I'm not sure.
I'm not sure about your definition of "killed". I think natural events should be included. It is perfectly okay to say that a person has been killed by a thunder or by a landslide. If we accept your definition the last Beatrice's riddle cannot be explained with anything but humans and animals.


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I notice that in regards to motives, a lot of you are being too "easy" on the kids. This is mostly due to us knowing their personalities more, but still.....

POTENTIAL motives: (by "potential" I mean, if we didn't know this kids personally, but more as possibilites if we just know "situations.")

George: 6th in line to be the head. He would benifit the most (probably)from the death of both Krauss and Jessica. Deaths of Eva, Rudolph and Rosa would also be benificial towards succession. May hold a grudge against his mother for opposing his relationship with Shannon.***

Jessica: Resents her parents (in a sort of normal teenage way though.) 5th in line to be head. She would directly benefit if Krauss, Eva, Rudolph and Rosa died.
HOWEVER- She also doesn't have much interest in becoming head of the family in all. In that case, she would sort of benifit for a dissolution of the "Ushiromia family" in general.

Battler: Holds a grudge against his father for Asumu's death. Kyrie is the woman his father was having an affair with while still married to his mother (probably.) So "revenge" is a motive.
Is the seventh in line to be family head. So he would benifit from the deaths of George, Jessica and all of the parents. (but at that point, if only those people died, he would be suspicious as all get out XD....)

Maria: (the only one who is really "too young" to be a mastermind ^^; .) Holds grudge against mother. All the other parents tend laugh at her.
Oh, but if someone else wanted her to be heir, that person would need to kill the parents, and the other cousins (Including Ange? Technically, Ange is higher ranked than Maria.....)



**** A note about George.
.... okay, more like a crazy ass theory....


Spoiler for Crazy theory for epi I fun fun time 8D .:
Even crazier theory about George:
-George gives the ring to Shannon
-Eva sees him and goes berserk
-George kills Eva, but there are witness so George needs to kill them all
-However at this point George knows that the police would find him so he needs to create an "unfortunate incident" to cover everything up.
-Of course everyone must die for that".
-So George kills everyone but then he says: where's Kanon?!
-and so Shannon says: "It's me I'm actually Kanon, I like to dress in drag!"
-George kills Kanon and then he kills himself
-When the seagulls cry no one is left alive

Jokes apart I think there is a possibility that Jessica and Maria are the masterminds of this tragedy at least partially, but the fully explain I'd have to think they got the servants in it as accomplices. Jessica being Beatrice can explain a lot of things about the mariage sorciere.

On semantics. I agree with everyone that if we start using semantic as way to destroy the red truth then we are back to square one without any ground to create our theory from. However

-I am the Golden Witch Beatrice. And I opened this game in order to fight with Ushiromiya Kinzo's grandson, Ushiromiya Battler.
-This is my Golden Land. A world where any magic other than my own definitely cannot exist.
-With my magic, Sakutarou could not be revived.


If we don't start talking about semantics we can give up to the witch already.
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Old 2009-06-30, 15:21   Link #2143
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Maybe there's a difference between a red truth for the normal world and one for the meta-world. Those you pointed would only apply to the meta-world, because of all the "magic" and stuff there (a guy supposed to be dead is playing chess with a thousand year-old witch and eating cakes prepared by a demon butler).
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Old 2009-06-30, 15:23   Link #2144
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from the anti-fantasy perspective the meta-world doesn't exist. Acknowledging its existence is like acknowledging the existence of witches. Therefore you can't accept a red "truth" that is valid for a world that doesn't exist.
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Old 2009-06-30, 15:25   Link #2145
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True enough, Ryukishi did say semantics were a focus, however, it's probably safe to assume that if Beato says something like there are no more than three culprits responsible then it's true. I mean let's not get ideas here

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Old 2009-06-30, 15:27   Link #2146
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Old 2009-06-30, 15:28   Link #2147
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yeah probably but you know what. If in Ep3 we would have been shoved in our face:

Battler Ushiromiya is born from Asumu Ushiromiya

Pretty much everyone would say that this is 100% proof of the fact that Battler is Asumu's son.

If someone then would say that maybe there is another Battler Ushiromiya, everyone would tell him to shut up and not state ridiculous sthings.
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Old 2009-06-30, 15:29   Link #2148
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Um... well... Not that I checked, but some definition from an online dictionary would probably work

P.S. I guess so, but then that depends on your interpretation of the words.

Edit: got confused myself here, misunderstood Jan-poo's post. Well maybe I didn't, either way I deserved it.
I'm afraid to admit it, but I may have flamed him a bit here >_> Apologies, was just tired. Does this break my red truth? You decide.

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Old 2009-06-30, 15:41   Link #2149
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We are not supossed to break the red truth, but rather use it as a tool to find out the truth.
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Old 2009-06-30, 16:28   Link #2150
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If you put together all of the absolutely confirmed deaths and alibis in Episode 1, I think the only female character who could have shot Natsuhi and posed as the witch at the end is Shannon. I've been kicking around an idea that the red text guaranteeing the identity of all unidentifiable corpses was meant to distract from the possibility that one or both of the identifiable corpses might be fake. If that's the case, then the same fake corpse could be used to explain the Episode 3 locked room.

Spoiler for Alibis for Episode 1 9th Twilight:

All survivors have alibis for Natsuhi's murder, but Shannon may not count as a survivor since everyone thinks she's dead. Technically Eva could also have faked her death somehow and died later to satisfy the red text, but that would mean she had stakes, which seems difficult to support relative to the other episodes.
to support your theory "having an alibi" is VERY different from being innocent
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Old 2009-06-30, 16:29   Link #2151
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from the anti-fantasy perspective the meta-world doesn't exist. Acknowledging its existence is like acknowledging the existence of witches. Therefore you can't accept a red "truth" that is valid for a world that doesn't exist.
Wrong. The anti-fantasy doesn't have to deny witches- we just have to deny that any magic was used in the murders of any Rokkenjima (and not accept Beatrice as a witch, but that's another matter).
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Old 2009-06-30, 16:35   Link #2152
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I'm not sure about your definition of "killed". I think natural events should be included. It is perfectly okay to say that a person has been killed by a thunder or by a landslide. If we accept your definition the last Beatrice's riddle cannot be explained with anything but humans and animals.
You're right, I just forgot about that. Basically if an act happens that affirmatively kills someone, they were "killed." Although note that "killed by other people" obviously disallows non-human causes. Though no such requirement existed in the end of ep4.
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Old 2009-06-30, 16:41   Link #2153
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from the anti-fantasy perspective the meta-world doesn't exist. Acknowledging its existence is like acknowledging the existence of witches. Therefore you can't accept a red "truth" that is valid for a world that doesn't exist.
are you gonna deny metaphors??????? I didn't think anyone could hate literature this much ç_ç

ok jokes aside I think denying the meta-world in umineko is like denying the existence of any kind of comparison like Light and L standing on top of skyscrapers in Death Note.... True anti-fantasy should just think of meta-world as a METAphor (lol same root).

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Wrong. The anti-fantasy doesn't have to deny witches- we just have to deny that any magic was used in the murders of any Rokkenjima (and not accept Beatrice as a witch, but that's another matter).
I also think Battler is wrong here... The only surefire way to deny witches is unveiling the truth... all of it.
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Old 2009-06-30, 17:06   Link #2154
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to support your theory "having an alibi" is VERY different from being innocent
Yeah, that pissed me off. alibi is one thing, but why mention that, since an alibi can be false, like eva's in the third twilight.
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Old 2009-06-30, 17:07   Link #2155
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are you gonna deny metaphors??????? I didn't think anyone could hate literature this much ç_ç

ok jokes aside I think denying the meta-world in umineko is like denying the existence of any kind of comparison like Light and L standing on top of skyscrapers in Death Note.... True anti-fantasy should just think of meta-world as a METAphor (lol same root).



I also think Battler is wrong here... The only surefire way to deny witches is unveiling the truth... all of it.
I'm not going to deny metaphor but isn't a metaphor by definition something different than the truth?
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Old 2009-06-30, 17:23   Link #2156
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Sorry that wasn't meant to be rude or anything...
Anyway a metaphor is truth, just put in another way to give it a literary value so we can't deny Battler is having an intellectual fight with Beatrice (trying to solve the case or maybe just trying to deny witches...). This is maybe happens in his head (his mind is denying the existence of magic maybe) but that doesn't mean the metaworld is a utter lie at all... it exists but on a different level than material reality.

PS: no, no magic involved. it's just philosophy XD
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Old 2009-06-30, 17:27   Link #2157
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As put by bern and lambda, beatrice can't win, the only reason she could not win (at least for me) is because witches do not exist in rokkenjima. so the only thing a person could win by having the fight with battler is discovering the real culprit.
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Old 2009-06-30, 17:40   Link #2158
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Sorry that wasn't meant to be rude or anything...
Anyway a metaphor is truth, just put in another way to give it a literary value so we can't deny Battler is having an intellectual fight with Beatrice (trying to solve the case or maybe just trying to deny witches...). This is maybe happens in his head (his mind is denying the existence of magic maybe) but that doesn't mean the metaworld is a utter lie at all... it exists but on a different level than material reality.

PS: no, no magic involved. it's just philosophy XD
Uh I didn't mean to sound irritated, no prob °°;

Anyway we could start a debate about metaphors. What's the limit of acceptable metaphors in the red truth?

For example:

this pain is killing me

Is it acceptable? Isn't acceptable? If it's acceptable does that mean I can use "Kill" as metaphor? Then what if Beatrice says

Kanon killed Jessica

meaning that Kanon by refusing her caused her to die inside?
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Old 2009-06-30, 18:01   Link #2159
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We need to apply Japanese metaphors on this one if it is accepted.
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What about:

I'm dead serious
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