I really love this interpretation of Bernâs behaviour. Iâm happy people like this exist, because whenever I read posts about her, most of the people bash her for literally every misfortune in Umineko.
Itâs sad to see that more people would rather excuse (for example) Kyrieâs actions than Bernâs (even though there are much less clues regarding theories about Kyrie not being so bad).
Personally, I am currently a supporter of âTohyaâs avatarâ theory, and I suppose there are sufficient clues for it [At least for Bern not being that badâŚExamples? Well, they were there since EP6 â the first being the fact that Bern knew Beato would come (âI bet she comes miraculouslyâ) that Battlerâs logic error could be solved, the second is the meat on the plate changing into a plate of biscuits and, at the end, back into meat in ??? â of course, that could be interpreted other way than I do â and Bernâs disgust at the task Featherine gave her, and of course âfellow monstersâ. Then weâve got the very nature of EP7 â hiring a competent detective (known from his focus on motive and âheartâ!), going through all the trobule of finding Lion from one Fragment of 2,578,917, even introducing Lion, and giving an avatar so that Sayo âwouldnât have to expose the pitiful formâ, and, of course, a very tactful treatment of difficult issues of Sayo and giving her opportunity to confess her sins.
During the EP7 Tea Party, when Lion asked the reason for the reason for doing what Bern did, she said it was because âshe wanted to get back at herâ. Then, she said she would send Lion to the moment just before Kyrieâs murder and sheâll make Beato watch that. Honestly, I find it odd. After all, Clair (Beatrice) was already long dead at that point. Isnât doing all of this for getting back at someone, who canât even witness the revenge, a bit of overkill, even for Bern?
When we add Willâs comeback, everything becomes even more fishy. Also, at the end of EP7, he said âI thought decent witches didnât exist, but I might have to change that theoryâ, and in TP â âThere was no way youâd end things on a happy note.â While this may not be an argument in itself, if we combine this with the fact that Willâs actually a Bernâs piece and Bern has the ability to close off any part of a Fragment she desires (she showed it at the beginning of EP7) it seemsâŚstrange, doesnât it?
Why would she do something like that to Lion, though? If we consider that Lion, as Will stated, was the main character of the episode and the fact that it was never specified in red that Lion died there (especially that the Fragment is suddenly cut off), AND what Bern told at the end (âcollect dust, unable even to die, and disappearâ, and then âCome kitties, I wonât tell you to kill themâ â I think that was Bernâs way of refusing to tell the viewers what happened later to Lion after Kyrie pulled the trigger)⌠I think I may have a certain theory about that.
And thereâs of course whole Angeâs arc (EP8). There is a good quote Iâve recently spotted â âI promise to release Ange after the game ends. I swear it on our relationshipâ (sth along these lines) â Bern to Lambda â and then â âMy game is far from overâ (or sth like that). Thereâs the thing about Lambda seeing the script â if Bern is Featherineâs âReaderâ, and she also is a Voyager, I donât think it is a big stretch to say that thereâs a big possibility that Bern also saw it. And, of course, the thing at the end â both Battler and Ange âdyingâ, and of course the way the things end in â???â.
And, obviously, the well-known quote 'It was fun being an antagonist"âŚwait, wasnât she claimed to be a sore loser? Or maybe, she has achieved her goal? Combining all of the above facts(or clues?) with all the things people said earlier in this topic about Bern-chanâs backstoryâŚfeel free to make your own conclusions ] (Sorry for disorderliness, Iâm in a hurry)
These things might all be my presumptions⌠However, I think I just canât bring myself to hate Bern :> Still, I can understand why people donât like her.
Even Ryukishi himself said in an interview that our view of Bern can change drastically, depending on whether we have love for her or not. I hope her character will be expanded upon in the next WTC series (she is supposed to appear, isnât she?) and she wonât be playing the villain next time, as Lambda said it :>
âWithout love, it cannot be seen.â