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Emotional Detachment and the Piece System (Spoiler Warning for Twilight and story ending)
An inside look into the coping strategies of characters, and how it's reflected on the game system as a whole.
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An inside look into the coping strategies of characters, and how it's reflected on the game system as a whole.
#07threads #Twilight07 #Yasu07 #Ange07
Umineko’s base premise has players dealing with mystery riddles and answers but placing themselves as pieces on a board, creating a separate self that is able to interact with the game world, withstand challenges and learn from them.
From the POV of the players, this can be accounted for as a form of emotional numbing, in which they are going through depersonalization or dissociation, in order to cope with the extreme acts of cruelty and abuse, or even the good things that may happen on the board.
However, in reality terms, we can analyze Yasu as someone who has an internal Piece mechanism. They are (and still) detached from any form of outside interaction no matter how happy or sad it is, and put a piece of themselves to deal with all the sadness and pain.
Yasu couldn’t even connect to the happy moments in their life and see it as their own, as they never had been accepted for who they truly were. They always maintained boundaries, psychic integrity to avoid undesired impact by or upon others, related to emotional demands
This can be applied to practically every character in umineko, starting with bernkastel who puts a piece of herself on the board, but it's not actually her, or ikuko who is using different personas to connect with the outside world, yet decided to live in isolation.
Other forms of detachment are not exactly as subtle, such as kyrie who is using Rudolf as a piece to justify her immense hatred and murder, but crumbles upon hearing of his death, or Natsuhi who decided to place the blame of killing and lying on an outside factor such as witches
Only magic users are able to see and interact with pieces of the person, hence is why ange able to see the black witch piece aspect of her aunt, and treat it as a separate personality separate from herself, internally justifying and disconnecting eva’s pain from her own core.
Every person in umineko is detached in some way from the outside world, even if they participated in proper communication they might have not been able to “feel” a change as they are tied down by their own regrets and pain so it probably wouldn’t reach the essence of their soul.
The Piece system is a brilliant way to enable you to focus on concepts instead of characters, in order to avoid premature judging and avoid clouding your mind with outside influences. through using the system we are able to dissect and identify humans for what they truly are.
Hence the final twist is that no matter what Tohya wrote or wanted to convey, he couldn't accept his own message, and created several other pieces for himself (tohya, willard, Golden sorcerer), to deal with love and pain, unable to accept he is worthy of redemption.
And by finally understanding love in a true scene, you are not in need for any more pieces, and you start to finally realize all the good feelings, withstand all the bad things, engrave and accept them for what they truly are, and learn from them, and finally love yourself.
