![]() Why? Because when Maria sees someone act differently than usual, she sees them as a different person. They were not written by her, as explained in Episode 4, yet Yasu pretended like they were written by her anyway. Though the message bottles acted as a way to hide the truth of what happened on Rokkenjima, I think Yasu also wanted work in her own hardships so that Battler would figure out what these fake characters represented and understand what she was going through.Īnother explanation is something that I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere (though I’ve actually only just started looking at theories recently): the messages in the bottles are signed by Maria. Determining that the choice that character represented is incorrect or otherwise less desirable than the others would lead to the “death” of that aspect of Yasu’s internal conflict. “Killing” these characters can be seen in a similar way as in the DID explanation, however. ![]() By this theory these were not intended to represent actual personalities distinct from Yasu’s own born of a psychological disorder. The latter was further compounded with the additions of George and Jessica, and Yasu depicted the conflicting aspects of her personality and her internal debates about these issues by creating the characters Shannon, Beatrice, and Kanon solely for use in the message bottles. ![]() Yasu faced a fair bit of stress in the form of peer pressure from the other, older servants, the headship and wealth of the family being forced upon her and, once Battler entered the picture, love. As you said, someone who was insane would probably not have been able to carry this whole thing out. Yasu was obviously a troubled individual, but I don’t think that she was insane. Yasu wrote the first games, and though her (assuming female for simplicity) motive in doing so might be debatable, it seems to me that in addition to masking the truth, there are bits of truth hidden here and there for people (Battler?) to find. This allows for the existence of people who were not actually present on the island at the time in question (like Shannon and Kanon). Secondly, I guess recently I’ve been taking the “cynical” approach and thinking a lot about how all the games are really just written stories, and how any given “fact” in them does not necessarily have to link to the truth about anything that happened on Rokkenjima. Therefore, I am free to interpret the events described in a different manner. It’s pretty much just semantics, but hey.įirst of all, as far as I know the term “dissociative identity disorder” is never mentioned in Umineko, nor do people mention Yasu killing off identities/personalities as such. I have a theory that (unfortunately?) would still let the mysteries be solved with the conventional Shkanontrice theory, but without relying on a mistaken portrayal of DID. So, I’ve noticed that there are people taking issue with Ryukishi07’s misrepresentation of DID.
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