Regarding the Red (Umineko Full Series Spoilers)

Erika’s requests are irrelevant as they were applied ex post facto; there is no intimation that they apply universally and retroactively nor any indication that Beatrice intended them to be so.

My point is that one cannot selectively apply ambiguities. If Shannon and Kanon can both be “victims” – which is impossible if they are also the culprit, unless “victim” can refer to something other than the legitimate victim of an actual crime – while remaining alive, then one can construe statements like “dead,” “corpse,” and “victim” to be roles in a game. And if we have proof that a roleplaying or theatrical definition was applied in one case, we cannot discount the possibility that it can be applied to other cases as well. The very notion of “personality death” as some kind of magical inherent property of only one character (who can reverse it, somehow, which is a giant gaping hole in the notion) is absurd and not even worth seriously considering when a much simpler explanation is available.

I worked at a haunted house one Halloween. People found my corpse, then I came back as a zombie.

I was not actually dead, my body was not actually a corpse; I played the role of a corpse. My red is not untrue.


Bear in mind too that I’m not even touching on the voluminous textual evidence that backs up the theory, such as numerous references to wounds as “makeup,” the Second Twilight killings being logistically impossible to execute for real, the way Jessica appears to work against her own mother’s argument at times, and so forth. People are just trying to quibble over how they think red should work and getting caught up in a tangent.