#Umineko Spoil

Umineko’s characters all lead such a tragic life but the thing is since it’s not heavily portrayed on screen you have to chew on the story again and again to connect with their internal misery

-Erika’s intellectual sadism has immense self-reflective pain to it
When something causes you pain and you have no one to help you deal with it, you obsessively try to negate your own pain/frustration by exposing the truth that THIS specific person hurt you - you want only 1 single truth that counterattack in any other alternatives, you find «
« comfort »/satisfaction through it. Imagine when you lose an argument against someone, instead of just letting it go and maybe erase such frustration by interacting with other of your fav mutuels that will lighten your mood, a lot of people would rather find pleasure/satisfac
tion by winning their argument and exposing that THEIR truth IS the only correct one. I am using this example cos it is the most relatable one among anitwitter.

In Erika’s case, this started with her past love relationship when there were rumors of her bf cheating on her.
Instead of letting it go or maybe find a friend to help her go through this painful experience, she chose to confront him constantly in other to find that ephemeral satisfaction of winning the argument (that he confess his deceit on her ) and counterattack any of his claims.
Erika’s character is about people that choose to cope with pain/frustration through just an ephemeral pleasure. Her obsession with finding her truth is the only correct one in order to cope with the frustration/pain of an hurtful experience.

All the games 5 & 6 in Umineko’s c
case can be considered an hurtful experience from Erika’s POV. Not being able to win the challenge would hurt her pride as a detective, the same way our own pride get hurts when we lose an argument. she is the eccentric version of our own internal misery whenever we get obsesse-
d to expose a truth instead of moving on/through the care/support/interactions with our friends...

AND THIS is where Dlanor gets highlited. When Erika’s truth got defeated on episode 5, she felt so hurt and DLANOR standing up for her was the first time this has happened in her
life.

She said: «  even Bern never did that, Bern only gave me a way to erase my pain by exposing the truth to counter other’s truths ». BERN lead her to live Such a miserable life. Bern is the REAL villain of this series. DLANOR offering support to Erika was, for this,
the most touching moment of her character arc. Erika’s character is self-reflective and I hope ppl can stop being intellectual r*post on their everyday life and learn to LET go of hurtful/frustrating experience and accept their friends’ support to ease the process cos if you-
don’t youe just hurting yourself

Bernkastel by giving that power to Erika MISLEAD Erika to keep hurting herself for eternity, she didn’t even fucking realise it... and Dlanor offering support was the choice we all should embrace and offer that same support to our friends too❤️
I forgot to mention how the « without love you end up seeing things that don’t exist » has developed her character from ep 6-8 :(🥲
Something very important I forgot to say. Instead of obsessively proving you’re right in an argument and that only your version is the correct one, you need to develop the ability to accept the fact that multiple truths can exist over the same topic..
both you and the person you’re debating with can be right...
This what Beatrice made Erika realize at the end of episode 6

So basically, there are 2 aspects Erika needed to learn out of her obsessive intellectual saddism: (one is philosophical and the other is more social)
1-ppl should accept multiple truths can exist upon a given topic and amiably end the argument (instead of stubbornly try to WIN the argument cos by doing so, you’re blinding yourself to other truths/possibilities in life )
2-rely on good friends to make u erase the pain of a hurtful experience (instead of lusting for a temporary satisfaction -this is what Erika opted at the time where she wanted her bf to confess his cheating instead of healing herself through support of friends)
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