> (ch3 soon... brief 10 minute break 2 get more alcohol before i get back to doomtyping tho)
I am a Patchwork_Chimera of my word.
Chapter 3 - , , and
At last! Now that we understand Rika's connection to Bernkastel, what the Witch's Game is and how it is played, what the Metaverse and Sea of Fragments are, what a Game Board and Pieces are, and have a bit of context regarding the events during the October 4th-5th, 1986 on Rokkenjima Island... the final piece of your profane ignorance can be torn apart and discarded for <
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To start, there are technically two Furudo Erikas in Umineko - the Game Piece/Detective Erika and the Metaverse/Witch of Truth Erika.
After the events of the 4th Episode, and as the game transitions from
Rondo of the Witch and Reasoning (Question arcs) to
Nocturne of Truth and Illusions (Answer arcs) - Beato is no longer the Game Master, and the game is no longer about Battler and Beato/Beatrice. You see, Bernkastel is very easily bored, so she and LambdaDelta - Witch of Certainty (who I am 2 lazy to cover, but she's basically Satoko's Bern counterpart, and is the manifestation of Satoko's will to trap Rika in a Game Board in order to never have to part ways) wander from Fragment to Fragment observing the events and playing The Witch's Game with unsuspecting humans for fun.
Unfortunately for Battler et al. - Bern and Lambda happened upon this Game Board while Beato was the Game Master, and with her... suddenly unable to fill that position, Bernkastel takes over as Game Master. However, unlike Beato's games, Bern has no deeper motive or purpose behind the stories she waves, and couldn't care less about how closely her "Truth" conforms to the Single Truth as long as she wins. So, where Beato's games had everybody acting the way they would have in reality, and her Game Boards only contained pieces that were actually present during the events - Bernkastel's game is set up purely to stack the odds against her opponent, and to destroy Beato's "Truth" in the process.
To that end, there happens to be a very spoiler factor which - in lieu of a certain character being present - opens up a "vacant" spot for somebody to have been on the island during the massacre. Bernkastel uses this opportunity to create her own "Piece" to put on the Game Board and to act as the Detective. Her piece is, as you can likely guess, our beloved Furudo Erika!
Created as a "self-insert" for Bernkastel, sharing an unmistakable resemblance, she is a being designed from inception to most effectively rip and tear into others' secrets and False "Truth," and to expose the falsehoods within them!
A
ssorted examples of her making this very very clear:
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On the Game Board, her "Piece" is introduced as a passenger who fell overboard from the pleasure boat
"Eternal Maid II" and washed up on the shore of Rokkenjima. As she is the Detective, she is naturally well received and welcomed into the Ushiromiya Mansion as a guest until the storm passes and she can head home. While dining together, she reveals her
, and impresses the Ushiromiya Family with her charisma, charm and manners!
Her Metaverse self simply instantiates when Bernkastel creates her, so she doesn't have much additional backstory here - but she is
deeply loyal to Bernkastel as her Master (despite being deeply
by her).
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Beyond this, I will allow the wiki to describe her personality, as I believe it would be a conflict of interest for me to attempt an objective summary of my BELOVED Erika's traits:
She has
(I remain unsure of which brand... maybe one day one of the manufacturers will put "Erika Approved" so I'll know), and on more than one occasion
Another example of unconventional Crime Scene Investigation is when, as morning breaks, those in the Guest House make their way to the Mansion and realize all the adults had been killed (omg!!). Naturally, as an outsider, Erika isn't very welcome to meander around where the others' family members had just been killed, but after invoking her Detective's Authority (remember, the Detective cannot be stopped from investigating!), she goes room to room checking everything out.
, so we later find out that -
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(but left the rest of them where they were!) and threw them in the Ocean. Very reasonable!
Her other hobbies include:
- - such as when she spends 20 minutes curbstomping Ushiromiya Maria's belief that magic tricks are real ()
- Climbing up your walls in a Typhoon and to confirm you never left your room, since she can hear u breathing (Detective's Authority means any observations made by the Detective are by definition infallible)
- Enriching her community with
- Gaslighting the Ushiromiyas (and the reader...) into was her in order to avoid losing the game
- that lead to smuggled out after WW2 and
- Hosting a , and ceremony with related to on
- the and uh...... ... in it the MC
After thoroughly dunking on and outwitting everybody else, and managing to construct an unassailable truth in a single Fragment - she is recognized as more than just a Piece, and is bestowed the title of Furudo Erika - Witch of Truth.
Truly, she is far above a mere Voyager Witch like Bernkastel... and CERTAINLY above an elemental uwutist like Rika!
So, unless I forgor something, I think that's all the context you would ever ever want ever for why your statement, even if sarcasm, is detestable!!! to insult a kreatur defined as the distilled, physical form of the values i hold dear, u may as well be insulting me!!! how rude!!
but anyhow im bored, so have a couple more erikas before i go find some other carpal-tunnel-inducing prompt to reply to (or fall asleep in front of)
Never forget! She's always with you as long as you don't stop investigating!!
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