Claire Veux Bernardus - Narrative Identity

One cannot fully grasp the complexity of another person's life unless its told in a convenient way with some amount of coherence to help the meaning-making process. This is what Requiem of the golden witch is all about.

If I told you I like a certain place, you would have no idea why I am so fond of it, but if I tell you it contains some of my childhood memories, your mind will connect the facts and establish an understanding of the circumstances.

This was not a normal backstory, but a narrative therapy aimed at connecting the scattered dots of Beatrice's life in order to give them meaning, an act of compassion she couldn’t have done in her life, or may have connected them in the worst possible way.

After tying many of the past themes into a traditional model of a story to help the normal reader understand, it can be deduced that every detail in Yasu's life is inherited or acquired from someone else, and she doesn't really have an identity of her own.

This is probably because of the case of having no upbringing and no moral code of conduct to compare the situations she faces to in her mind. This somewhat explains why she thought of herself as Beatrice as it was kinzo who saw her in this way and didn't love her for herself.

Everything Yasu does is acquired from somewhere, even her identity and role in life are taken from the epitaph and not her own decision, that’s why she is able to perform a plot line murder and become fully convinced it’s the resolution to all her problem.

She was in full belief it was the right thing to do, or it was her only calling as a person who decided to leave everything to fate, without moving forward and trying to grab happiness by the hand. Who am I? It is a plea for help to have someone decide what the person she is.

And so it happened, it was decided by Tohya that she is lion, a graceful courageous form of her that is able to be their own character without relying on outside interpretations, but that doesn't mean that beatrice was a wrong pitiful orphan, but the total opposite.

Just finishing it at this point means Beatrice's life was meaningless, but the goal is to turn Beatrice's life into a positive version of itself, instead of a negative mistaken one, and I will use multiple upcoming threads to comment on that.

If you have the time, please google the term "narrative identity" and read about it, you will realize how much went into creating this episode and the different types of narrative content that was being discussed in very simple but effective ways.