2010-08-17, 00:42 | Link #161 |
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I remembered another strange thing about the chapel scene with Shannon: Will and Bern were talking in the upper layer chapel, and Will remained there all the way up until Leon arrived. How did Shannon even hear them from the lower layer reception area in the first place, let alone actually get inside?
Maybe she was deliberately moved there by Bern to feed Will some information?
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2010-08-17, 01:52 | Link #163 |
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I just want Ange to have a happy end. Let Battler come home! Lol, not really. I'd be fine with a 17 survivor, or 0 survivor ending. As long as it's done well. I'm really hoping against how the Tea Party went down. Especially about Spoiler for Tea Party:
One thing I though of though... When George was handing out Battler's letters. What's the chance that he didn't give Shannon a letter that was actually there? Like, he took his, and Shannon's. Then passed the rest out. ------------ I have some questions I hope someone with a better understanding can help me with though! Spoiler for Yasu, and relationship between characters:
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Finally, they mentioned that problem with Battler's leaving wasn't that he left. But that he came back. I didn't catch if they expanded on -why- Battler came back would trigger the catastrophe. I mean, I guess I can try to infer it for myself, but did they flat out mention the reason and did I miss it? Last edited by Realus; 2010-08-17 at 02:13. |
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Basically, it's how you put it. The one who solved the Epitaph and became Beatrice was Yasu. Then when she meets Kinzo, he calls her Lyon, because that's the name he intended to give her. About Shannon during 1980's, it's possible there was a real Shannon at some point, but after she left, Yasu made up an imaginary one. The miracle Lyon was the one from the happy world - i.e. the one in which Natsuhi decides to adopt that baby. Quote:
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2010-08-17, 02:43 | Link #166 | |
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Spoiler for ep7:
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2010-08-17, 04:45 | Link #169 | |
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All Kumasawa did, quite likely, was to introduce Yasu into the whole magic deal.
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2010-08-17, 05:13 | Link #171 |
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Yeah, that's possible. Considering she even had pictures about the chapel's door in her house.
Anyway, during EP7's Tea Party, was Battler's death confirmed? Kyrie was set to kill Maria and Rudolph was supposed to convince Battler to join them or kill him if he refused. However, Eva killed Rudolph and then she killed Kyrie after Kyrie had killed Maria. Do we have any info on Battler's status?
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2010-08-17, 05:26 | Link #172 |
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There is none. Actually, it is perhaps yet another mystery about Battler.
The point is that Battler sure took his time to join Rudolf, before the latter got revenge killed by Eva. I first thought it was Kyrie who killed him, stalking behind him when he left the guesthouse (even if she put that test on Rudolf, perhaps she just didn't bother in the end), but the narration certainly didn't hint that one bit. So it is very likely that Battler found something that distracted him or even made him avoid being killed. The problem is to figure what or... "who".
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2010-08-17, 05:30 | Link #173 |
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I should say that given the entire extent as to how Yasu apparently suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder, even though many of the patterns do not fit the classic profile that R07 is apparently using for his own ends, it suddenly hit me that when you consider the possibility of a "controlling personality" (Yasu?) that has some degree of control over the subservient personalities (Shannon/Kanon?/Claire/Beatrice/etc.), it reminds me of a character from a video game:
Fei Fong Wong of Xenogears Considering that the profiling for Fei is complete, similar patterns might be derived from them. Fei, and apparently Yasu, from their base personalities use a method of "layering" personalities on top of each other as a response to external stimuli. Yasu layers newly created personalities as a response to events around him/her, all the while a base personality is able to control the manifestations from behind the scenes. Psychological speaking this is probably not unheard of. A strong omniscient personality governing them, like Fei did in the form of Id, would have had the ability to control not only who manifests when but also control the access of each personality to the collective memory pool of the individual: some might only have memories when they are the manifested personality, some might get bits and pieces, while the dominant controller has access to everything. This might be the explanation as to how, throughout the games, there seems to be a radical shifting between personalities almost at will and yet hinted that the manifested personalities are not aware of each other, because a controller is consciously planning who is presented, when, how, for some means to an end. Similarly to Fei, his original personality hid away and abandoned control and exposure to the sub personalities while still maintaining an observership role that can see the experiences of the other personalities but itself no longer made manifest. For Yasu, the suggestion of a hidden observer personality might not be far fetched, as a personality who has abandoned an active role and let the other personalities take control. The question becomes, if the real Yasu of 19 years ago that had been abandoned has locked himself away, which of the other personalities is the dominant one? Again, this is all speculation on the assumption the multiple personality shtick is valid. Crap I may be on to something here. Time to finish the game and get my psychiatry textbook.
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2010-08-17, 05:37 | Link #174 | ||
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Either way, perhaps this confirms that Battler is Amakusa? Quote:
I've actually asked several people who I believe knowledgeable on the subject, and all of them have told me DID doesn't work this way. At best, and this is rather rare, you get a personality that may be aware of the other ones, but that's as far as it goes. If Yasu indeed suffers from DID, then Ithink we'll just have to accept that this is R07's own take on the matter and changed the way it works, as most writers in fiction do.
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2010-08-17, 06:30 | Link #176 |
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I don't know where I should post this into, but...
On a talk show, Ryukishi mentioned that Umineko would be complete this winter. Whole text in Japanse is here. I believe you guys already read EP7 can read this. Sorry for my laziness. Spoiler for size and Higurashi:
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Assuming R07 plans to stick to actual psychiatry, the most probable explanation of an overarching personality would be purely incidental, as in while we could consider Yasu as the core personality, it was only by pure chance that the core personality ended up being capable of being witness to the other personalities he formed as defense mechanisms to his experiences. Direct control is likely to be completely impossible even in fiction, and it is just as likely that whoever the more dominant personality is, his awareness at most only allows him to use the switching situations to his advantage even if he does not control them rather than being able to switch them in and out at will. Now assuming Ro7 decides to go pure fiction and rewrite the concept for his own ends, then all bets are off. But this doesn't erase the fact that even in real psychology, a person with DID can have one of the personalities to be more subjectively dominant than the rest. As I questioned before, who is the more dominant one? There are times when I don't even think Yasu is the dominant personality.
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2010-08-17, 06:46 | Link #178 |
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That's an interesting point Meo. I think it seems to imply that the Beatrice personality is dominant as it always knows what the others are thinking before even they do. They only seem to try to 'resist' when they have a full fledged love with George/Jessica, but they seem to be aware that even if they don't do what Beatrice wants it probably will not matter anyways. Thus they just say they'll ignore her as a form of resistance or try to disrupt her image.
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2010-08-17, 06:58 | Link #179 |
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Is that whole Kannon= Shannon thing confirmed by a red text?
I mean its obvious that she was Beatrice in EP one , but it somehow doesn't sound right... There is a limit to naivety, even if we are talking about George.... It would work much better if it was the the other way around, but still questio Edit: i also have a problem with some with it due to some Red-Blue conversations between Erika and Beato |
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No, but it was made clear as day when Will asked Shannon to call for Kanon, and she BSOD'd.
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