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I've really no problem with the siblings failing to recognize Beato from Shannon... it's when it comes to no one at least noticing that Shannon and Kanon have the same face although they're no siblings I think things are poorly written. Quote:
Though the point is: if Beato's plan is just a story that's supposed to stay as such maybe she can work into it an explanation for which George won't wander around or anyway keep George from doing it... if she planned to put it in action and really stage it... Well, she planned it rather poorly... Quote:
Basically the idea was that Shannon and Kanon would both be Kinzo's servant so one of them would nearly always be around him or be able to tell 'I was with him doing his bidding when you couldn't find him' and things like this. This would give the illusion that Kinzo was still alive because between Shannon and Kanon you can have someone who can always testify he 'was with Kinzo' when Kinzo was nowhere to be found. The plan however backfired when we reach 1986 but still... all the adults had seen Kanon in 1985 and knew him and, since Jessica doesn't know Kinzo is dead and Shannon is playing two roles, she can still fall for Kanon and at the same time root for George and Shannon's romance. Quote:
If I think Battler even thanked Jessica when she stopped him from touching her breasts... I agree that sometimes Agatha Christie did some things that well... I found hard to swallow... expecially a certain suicide... but on a general line I found her characters had better motivations and generally, unless the victim was a monster, she generally didn't ask us to feel sympathy for the assassin, though the assassin can be charming, especially in minor stories. Though she liked to break stereotypes... as having multiple murders or subjective narration or detectives who were the killers or a 'servant' who was a murderer. Quote:
We've been discussing prior to this about how it was possible to realistically fake some deaths... though some might work others would require a really good make up and a professional working at it. Though it's true maybe the accomplices believed the death to be fake merely because the other option was too horrible so they unconsciously rejected all the signs that screamed 'this guy is dead you idiot, the body isn't a fake one, it's not a trick, it's a corpse!' Last edited by jjblue1; 2012-01-01 at 16:12. |
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They are also unaware that the five people in the study were actually killed. Beato explains that it's easier to control them this way under the current circumstances, although it's a case-by-case thing. They currently believe that they're just going to play dead for a while. Piece-Beatrice convinces Kumasawa to lie face down so she can check whether it looks more realistic. Then, she takes a cord out of her bag and throttles Kumasawa with it. She apologizes to the corpse, explaining that the location for this twilight is the ankle, and leaving Kumasawa to die just from that would make her suffer unnecessarily. Piece-Beatrice takes takes out a rifle and shoots the corpse's ankle with it. Unlike the movies, the gunshot is only about as loud as popping a cork from a wine bottle. She then digs out the bullet with a pair of forceps and puts it in her bag, which already contains several other bloodstained bullets. so yasu is a ultra serial killer and mad guy? this destroy the theories that yasu DON'T kill |
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2012-01-01, 17:21 | Link #26805 | |
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Also, other family members might have been tricked into thinking Kanon worked there PRIOR to Kinzo's death but incidentally, they didn't meet him. "Oh, the last year he wasn't Kinzo's private servant yet and he wasn't on his working turn and he wasn't expert enough so there was...(insert random servant name here) but this year he'll be the one on service." The one who will be the hardest to trick would be Jessica (Gohda was hired after Kanon) because she should have noticed Kanon and could have questioned the other maid servants about it: "Hey, that boy who's working here by a year... how come I never saw him?" "He's working here by 2 days as far as I know, milady..." "But he and mom and Shannon said he was here by a year...@_@" ... however it's possible that: a) Kanon was 'hired' while a lot of servants were replaced (in EP 7 there seem to be a moment in which all the maids apart from Shannon leaves) b) as Natsuhi, Krauss, Genji, Kumasawa, Shannon and Kanon would be the first Jessica would question she wouldn't really come up with a sentence like the one I tossed in with another random servant who could have noticed Kanon wasn't working there by more than 1 year. Again we'll be trusting the roulette of fate. I'll agree it's hazardous but to me is more logic than a house built over a mountain of explosive and with a self destructing mechanism in. I really wish for this one to be fantasy and that the island exploded in another manner. |
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By the way, about the accomplice (or what I used to call the Key of the Epitaph (EDIT: Augggghhhh!)) figuring things out in the end; you can see this in EP2 and EP3. Natsuhi fails to figure it out until the very, very, very end, probably, when she read that last letter. But she's ditzy like that and we all love her for it.
Rosa seems to have figured it out also nearer to the end without help from the letter, as she intentionally dumps Battler and goes off with Maria. Eva seems to have figured it out even earlier, although this could be in conjunction with her solving the epitaph. Kyrie in EP4, I'm unsure of still. What surprised me is how Yasu thinks how easily each 'family' will protect 'their own' rather than thinking of the entire group of people as one family. Although now that I think about it, I'm not too surprised at this as I've seen rich families act like this sometimes. I think in Rokkenjima Prime things may be different though. Oh by the way, about George wandering around, even though this particular scenario doesn't have him successfully finding Shannon, I think we can take EP3 as a scenario where he *does* find Shannon and she's not truly dead yet. In that case Shannon is forced to shoot him, it seems. In EP2, if George won't 'let go' of Shannon, it seems she's forced to shoot him and anyone else as soon as there's a chance. So I think that's the answer to that question. Oh, and the interesting thing is that there's a sawed off shotgun and a handgun in play it seems. Last edited by Kylon99; 2012-01-01 at 23:44. |
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Oh, by the way, I find it interesting that in this manuscript and Dlanor's intro that there's no mention of "Yasu." The primary actors are Beatrice (Piece or Meta), Shannon or Kanon. If you ask "Yasu" where her "Yasu" name came from, I bet she wouldn't actually acknowledge that name at all. I still believe it's something that was meant to have been made up from Bernkastel. i.e. "Yasu's" actions and motives are always divided amongst Shannon, Kanon and Beatrice and nothing is truly "Yasu's." In addition, Yasu is clearly a copy of the "Hanin ha yasu" meme and this is why Ryukishi was bragging about creating a culprit that you couldn't copy and paste. (Because if you kept saying 犯人はヤス for Umineko, people would think you were joking with the meme when Episode 7 came out.) So maybe we ascribe too much to the entity of "Yasu" sometimes. Maybe we can think of any actions her body takes as being subdivided into Shannon, Kanon or Beato only and she never takes an action as "Yasu"? By the way, I've been thinking that "Yasu" suffered some kind of damage to her brain that caused her to disassociate from her ego. As in she lost the ability to feel *who* she is and instead her creative impulses allowed her to come up with these false personas as a way of representing herself in an attempt to compensate. I could find no mention of such a disease on the internet, although I suspect it would involve damage to the periaqueductal gray area of the brain stem. (The part we now know provides consciousness and interconnectivity to the cerebral cortex; was watching a TED video on this a few weeks ago. Usually damage to this part just renders people unconscious/coma.) Anyone have any comments? EDIT: Murphy's Law; Once you post a question asking for answers, you find the answer on the internet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderl...ality_disorder Yasu does sound like she has some mild form of this particular disorder. The thing is Ryukishi never mentioned any details regarding this outside of the story and in the story, the idea of being dropped doesn't necessarily include brain damage. If he did have this in mind, I'm sure he would've mentioned it, like he did with Tooya's condition (in the story.) Last edited by Kylon99; 2012-01-01 at 18:42. |
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Yasu is more likely to have this personality disorder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissoci...ntity_disorder Even the development theory in that link seems to fit what happened to her in the stories. |
2012-01-01, 18:56 | Link #26809 |
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Well the main thing is, is there a form of DID where the different identities are *not* compartmentalized? It's usually been said that DID ends up with different personalities (and not personas) who cannot access the memories of other personalities.
Beatrice, Shannon and Kanon seem to be able to access each other's memories in order to execute the master plan. 8) EDIT: I suspect, ultimately, we can find something similar to Yasu's situation in the many different types of Disassociative disorders... |
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Unfortunately that scene only makes it more likely to believe George simply wouldn't give up on it. Surely he'd at least go to the mansion first and look around rather than walk back to the guesthouse.
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That's basically your stereotypical emo. In addition this disorder doesn't explain Yasu's delusional behavior nor her multiple personalities or her living in her own world. I think Yasu bends definitely more towards the psychosis spectrum rather than being in between psychosis and neurosis as in the case of Borderline personality disorder. Also where's the constant shift between hyperidealization and devalorization of others? The lack of mention of the name "Yasu" might be because our confession is basically Beatrice's legacy. She always hated that name, and anyway I think Beatrice/Yasu are basically the same person. No I mean not like Shannon and Kanon, but the same personality.
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But yeah, I'd just assume that he would search the mansion or guesthouse but not something like that Chapel. Unless someone told him they found her body there. He'd for sure would want to break in there if that was the case. But I would agree with Beato in Confessions, that his search would not include some other places due to weather, like the forest. In addition, thinking to EP4 now, there surely was some kind of confrontation between George and Shannon before she shot him with probably the sawed off shotgun. I bet Shannon told George what was going on and he agreed to go off with Shannon and forsake the rest of his family to death, before she killed him. (And that would have proved that they would have been able to achieve their love. And thus the scenario was over. This is as per Ryukishi says in his interviews... ) Quote:
The hyperidealization and devalorization of others seems to me to be in her portrayals of the rest of the Ushiromiya family. Although not really to such extremes as the article describes, the stories seem to be say things like, "Rosa's the greatest mom in the world" who "slaps and mistreats Maria all the time." Eva and Natsuhi also have their own opposite characterizations too. Kinzo (not EP8, of course) also has his 'Great Genius' and 'Cruel Old Man' portrayals as well. But I can't decide if this is just the concept of realizing that people are both good and bad instead. Anyways, I'm thinking it's possible to fit her into *some* kind of disassociative disorders. What I saw in the article was: "as well as a disturbance in the individual's sense of self. In extreme cases, this disturbance in the sense of self can lead to periods of dissociation." So I guess there may be other disorders that share this point, but I don't know enough of the field to find all the different kinds of disorders. Last edited by Kylon99; 2012-01-01 at 19:20. |
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Here are answers for EP2
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And here are my answers for EP4 Spoiler for My Answers to EP4:
And that's it, I don't have one for EP3 because I can't recall some moments. So am I close or not? |
2012-01-01, 19:33 | Link #26814 |
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Erensel, didn't you read all the spoilers from the Our Confessions booklet these last few pages? Or are you trying to avoid them still?
If you are, then ... um... Spoiler for Do we need Umineko Confessions Solutions spoilers?:
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a) someone with the habit of creating immaginary friends b) requested to play the role of Shannon c) forced to close in a corner her childishness and mischievous spirit as well as to keep hidden her negative feelings d) create a new immaginary friend and then ended up with the chance to impersonate/give life to it. a) creating immaginary friends is not so uncomon in childs. Consider Yasu is an orphan, affection starved, forced to work from childhood, bullied by some of her coworked and can't show openly her friendship with Jessica. She also seem to have lot of immagination. By 1986 she's a little older for immaginary friends but she can have kept the habit to pretend she had an immaginary friend (like talking on her own as if she were talking with someone else). In short she knows there's not Beatrice but she still might be talking to herself pretend she's here. There's adult people who talk with cars and pc... so she should have outgrow it but it's still believable if she hasn't. b) Yasu started working as a child, a work that required her a specific behaviour. Likely she was required to keep that behaviour when she was going to school as well. In addition she couldn't live on her own with a loving family but was forced to live in the house of her master. She probably felt a costant pressure into behaving in a certain way that, apparently, didn't match with her true inner self. c) When she 'parts from Beato' the first time it's after Beato made a prank and because Beato wanted to be a witch. Though Beato in the story left on her own since the body is Shannon/Yasu, it's more likely that's a nice story and that in truth Yasu decided to close away/keep hidden that part of herself that was a prankster and had childish dreams (Beato will continue to play pranks). When she 'lost' Battler she was likely forced not to act as sad and glomy as she felt. I doubt she had the chance to close herself in her room and cry for a day. If she were to do it there would have been explanations to make and they would be unpleasant. So she had to keep it hidden ence again to push it to Beatrice. Same goes for her anger. d) Since she was giving to Beato another role she probably pretended in her mind someone else would confort her, ence Kanon. I've already said how I think Kanon took a body. Giving in to Beatrice, obeying to her for me means that Shannon is merely doing what she really wants and not playing a role in which she was forced from childhood. Now a good question would be why not to grab the gold and escape/track Battler? An answer might be fear. She was probably scared to face reality. Now the problem is: In Rokkenjima Prime did she really try to stage the murders? Or they were all merely tales and Rokkenjima was destroyed due to an incident unrelated to her? That's something only Ryukishi knows. However if they're only tales it's still not a sign of a dissociative disorder if she has more than one character representing her in the tale. She's just fullfilling some of her fantasies. |
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Well, my speculation is from an earlier post, where I was saying it seems like Yasu doesn't actually have a real identity, like in the same way that you and I have one. We can all create personas that we can pretend to be, but at the same time we all have actions and motives that come from our real selves.
For Yasu, it's like it's Beatrice, Shannon and Kanon that has all the actions and motives. I haven't actually seen anything that can be ascribed to a Yasu (or a fourth personality, basically.) Except for maybe her dislike of the Yasuda name, but I'm not sure any of the backstory in EP7 for Yasu is real, or can be believed. (See below for what I mean.) So I was thinking if there was a particular disorder where you lose the sense of self. There seem to be some people describing this feeling as a part of suffering some other psychological disorders though, so I'm thinking it's plausible. By the way, regarding why I don't believe in EP7's back story... I believe in it's theme, but not its details. I believe it was a correct idea, by Bernkastel, to think of one actual woman behind the three different personas, but I believe she made up some extra details that weren't really fact checked. Her excuse, of course was that, "Well, all the info was lost in a big explosion, so hey, I can make up anything I want to fill in the gaps." In essence, this goes back to when I was talking about the Author Theory and why it wasn't useless, when I talked about the Historical Method Theory. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_method) Basically, when historians are presented with pieces of information, they can discover the existance of a primary source. For example, if there were two biographies of Caesar 500 years later on his conquering of the Gauls, then they reasonably assume that he existed and probably went to west Europe and fought the Gauls. But if they claim that Caesar killed 500,000 Gauls and only lost 90 men, they tend to not believe the specific of the claims. They say that, perhaps it was a decisive victory, but not so one-sided and was exaggerated by the biographer. In the same way for EP7, I believe it's general themes are correct, but it (perhaps purposely for the sake of cruelty on the part of Bernkastel) gets the details wrong. |
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My impression on "our confession" so far....
It's like the "making of" of Umineko. If that's the extent of the mystery story, I'm not even sure I'd call it a story period. It sounds really like fantasy is the real story in mind, but she decided to make a fantasy story built atop of a mystery working, that works in a similar way as actors in a play would. Interesting thing to me: No mention of Shkanontrice being based on disguise whatoever. Another interesting thing: I dare hope that the fricking confirmation that Shkanontrice piece has no motives outside of meta, that whoever was trying to find a logic for Erika's behavior on the board that didn't count on meta will just give up doing so. All in all this is pretty much, as far as I'm confirmed, a confirmation that Rokkenjima prime doesn't even exist. Edit: A theory of sort. Shannon and Kanon both count as different human pieces because they are strickly speaking different humans. They are like characters in an MMOrpg only these two happens to only have a single player behind them, so he can't play both at the same time. In Shkanon's case it sorta sounds like "both are logged on" (until she disconnects one) but she can't really control both at once. |
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So to me her personas are more like identities she gives to the part of herself. Sort of like... well, usually is used for comic effect but have you ever seen those scenes in cartoon in which there's a guy with a guardian angel and a devil on his shoulders and he talks with them? Though for a more 'realistic feeling' there was a novel of Stephen King in which a woman chained to a bed labelled each though that came to her mind as if they were quotes from different people when in fact they represent different parts of her personality (though she's in an insane situation). Quote:
In short there was really an Ushiromiya family and, due to a coincidence, something went wrong and nobody apart from Eva and possibly Yasu and Battler survived but that's all. On Rokkenjima no epitaph murder took place nor any other type of killing. |
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You're drawing a pretty vast conclusion from something that doesn't even really address that matter at all.
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I'm drawing conclusion on it not addressing it at all and implying just way too much meta (including that the whole thing is what Dlanor released after Meta-Beatrice's death).
I havent said that it confirmed it for everyone either. To me however it really did so. I think at this point Rokkenjima Prime is a devil's proof. However it's really time for us to take conclusion cause there won't be any more material. I look at the overall of everything and I am certain from it that "the coin" is a meta-story, and one side is the game's workings, a mystery, while the other is the game's narrative, a fantasy. So that really doesn't leave much place for a prime. I believe Ange's story to be a story, a tale like any others, which could be considered a "prime" story I guess, but I don't see it as any more important to the overall story then any other arc's story. I think in that logic that our confession can pretty much sum up a lot of mysteries like the money sent to the relatives. Yet that there is connection between what happens "in the story" and "in Ange's world" only makes me assume even more that the later is not any more real then the others. I should probably say it the other way around tho. It's not that Ange's story is not any more real then the others, it's that the others aren't any more fake then Ange's story. |
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