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==== Voiced by: [[Natsuko Kuwatani]] ====
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{{quote| ''"...Without love, it cannot be seen? ...Hah. That's backwards. Because of love, you end up seeing things that don't even exist."''}}
 
A cute young detective who [[Contrived Coincidence|happens to wash up on the shore of an island with an impending murder mystery.]] She calls herself an [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|"Intellectual Rapist"]]. She is the piece set by Bernkastel on the board of Rokkenjima. {{spoiler|It turns out that she was never in the island in the first place. She ''did'' wash up on the island, but she was apparently dead, and her accident was forgotten due to the "Rokkenjima Explosion Accident".}}
 
At the end of Episode 5, she was named the "Witch of Truth" by Bernkastel, {{spoiler|but was stripped of the title shortly after by Battler, who had ascended to Endless Sorcerer}}.
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* [[And Now You Must Marry Me]]: Complete with wedding dress.
* {{spoiler|[[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]}}: {{spoiler|1=She comes back in EP8}}
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: She {{spoiler|helps Battler solve the puzzle of the epitaph}} for no reward at all, and then cracks up about the chaos it unleashes in the family (well, not like it wouldn't have been unleashed without her, but...).
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "[[Gratuitous English|GOOD!]]" and "Simply by XX, this level of reasoning is possible for Erika Furudo. What do you think, everyone?"
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* [[Crazy Prepared]]: The tape seals. Not to mention how she got them all placed...
** [[School Swimsuit]]
* [[Deconstruction]]: Imagine what type of personality would develop if everywhere [[Little Old Lady Investigates|someone normally harmless]] went; [[Mystery Magnet|someone always]] [[Always Murder|kills another human being]]. It takes the [[Conviction Byby Contradiction|flimsiest]] and occasionally [[Conviction Byby Counterfactual Clue|technically wrong]] reasoning to cause the killer to break down into a [[Motive Rant]] and everyone praises her for it; so this person came to enjoy her life. She has never been wrong ever; even when actual facts didn't match up. The above description [[Murder, She Wrote|should]] [[Agatha Christie (Creator)|sound]] [[Detective Conan|very]], [[Columbo (TV)|very]], [[Encyclopedia Brown (Literature)|familiar]]. This is possibly a [[Flanderization]] or [[Satire]], but given [[PoesPoe's Law]] it is hard to tell.
** She could also be seen as a deconstruction of [[Conviction Byby Contradiction]].
* [[The Dragon]]: To Bernkastel.
* [[Duct Tape for Everything]]: Especially for creating closed rooms. In fact Erika is so good at solving everything with duct tape that in her second game {{spoiler|she was forbidden from using it and had to haggle just to get enough duct tape to cover three rooms.}}
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: Deconstructed, as her analysis of the deaths as if they were from a novel is used to make her come off as evil and insane. You just don't tell a mother her child died in a way that sounds like from a third-rate mystery.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]
* [[Girl Withwith Psycho Weapon]]: [[Sinister Scythe|A giant scythe]].
* {{spoiler|[[Go -Karting Withwith Bowser]]}}: {{spoiler|1=Wandering the realms of nothingness doesn't stop Battler from wanting to invite her to his party in EP8.}}
* [[Great Detective]]: Actually tries to refer to herself as such, and if you look at the description, she does match. {{spoiler|Although the description doesn't necessarily include being, you know, right}}.
** [[Amateur Sleuth]]
* {{spoiler|[[Heel Realization]]}}: Near the end of EP6.
* {{spoiler|[[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]}}: To Battler in EP6.
* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]: Seemed this way at the end of EP6 when she declares to Dlanor that she is happy that someone finally protected her.
* [[Insufferable Genius]]
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Flipping her name around makes it read similarly in Japanese to "Frederica," which was the first half of Bern's name in ''Higurashi''.
* [[Munchkin]]: Of the Metagamer variety. She ''knows'' she's playing in a murder mystery game, so she does things that would be insane and illogical if she didn't know she was in a murder mystery.
* [[Nice Hat]]: {{spoiler|Dons a pirate hat while raiding the Golden Land, which we see in its full glory in the [[PSPlay Station 3]] port.}}
* [[Photographic Memory]]: Proclaims herself to have one.
* [[Pimped -Out Dress]]: Which was originally Jessica's when she was younger. Natsuhi lends it to Erika since she had nothing suitable to wear.
* {{spoiler|[[Puff of Logic]]}}: {{spoiler|Disappeared at the end of ''Dawn'' because she couldn't figure out how she could be the 18th person on the island if, including herself, there are only 17 people on the island.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]}}: {{spoiler|1=Subverted by EP8.}}
* [[Shy Blue -Haired Girl]]: Completely [[Averted]].
* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Her [[Weapon of Choice]] is a blueish-colored scythe made of light.
* '''[[Smug Snake]]'''
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==== Voiced by: [[Hiroki Takahashi]] ====
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{{quote| ''"We are Inquisitors of Heresy. Felling evil witches is our job. However, we must not risk hurting the innocent. We must not suspect them...!"''}}
 
The detective of EP7. He is the former head of the SSVD, the 8th District Repentance Agency. He is first mentioned in EP5 in the TIPS, where he is referred to as "Wizard-hunting Wright". He has since then resigned from his post. He is called to Rokkenjima by Bernkastel in order to solve {{spoiler|Beatrice's murder}}.
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* [[The Ace]]: And how.
* [[Always Someone Better]]: He is this to Dlanor, being not only competent at using his own rules, but also a mighty detective himself. Adding that he has twice the amount of rules she has to that result...Subverted that when they do meet, she seems to regard him with respect and a hint of admiration.
* [[Back -to -Back Badasses]]: {{spoiler|with Dlanor in the [[Last Stand]].}}
* [[Badass Longcoat]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: Do not, DO NOT insult the mystery genre. {{spoiler|You'll get HEADBUTTED TO DEATH IF YOU DO.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Brought Down to Badass]]}}: {{spoiler|1=In EP8, he and Dlanor face a gigantic goat who nullifies their rules. As they are both without any power to face the goat, he proceeds to do the next logical thing and defeat him with a HEADBUTT because that's what he does.}}
* [[But Thou Must!]]: He initially attempts to refuse to play along with Bernkastel's game; she promptly responds by trapping he and everyone else on the island until he cooperates.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Don't think too hard about it. You'll get a headache."
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: He got a mention in the TIPS section of EP5.
* [[Cool Sword]]: Will's [[Weapon of Choice]], which he uses to separate truth from fiction. Often portrayed as a [[BFS]] in fanart, though it isn't made clear in the games just how big the sword is.
** The [[PSPlay Station 3]] port depicts it as a narrow-bladed, one-edged sword.
** Now that he's in ''Ougon Musoukyoku CROSS'' his sword is quite clearly a one-handed sword of realistically sensible size.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
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* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: His introduction has him kicking down doors to rescue an innocent maid from a sham trial run by his own SSVD. Talk about leaving a first impression.
* [[Eyes of Gold]]
* {{spoiler|[[Facing the Bullets One -Liner]]}}
{{quote| {{spoiler|It's about time someone trimmed your claws! My name is Willard H. Wright, this will be the last time I will draw my sword!}}}}
* [[The Fettered]]: In spite of his irritability, Will is probably the most unabashed example of [[Neutral Good]] in the series.
* [[Great Detective]]: The smartest character in the series by far.
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* [[Hidden Heart of Gold]]: He's got a gruff demeanor, but he's actually an incredibly good person, becoming disgusted with his own inquisition agency for their brutality, being incredibly kind to Rosa, and {{spoiler|eventually turning against Bernkastel for Lion's sake.}} Not exactly what you'd expect from the guy who banned love from his detective novels. Or the guy who was brought in by a [[Complete Monster]] ({{spoiler|Bernkastel}}).
* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]: Dotes on his pet cat, Diana, to the point of referring to her as his ''girlfriend''.
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: Referred to almost exclusively as Will by both the characters and the narrative.
* [[Rage Against the Author]]: He eventually explains that his reason for quitting the SSVD was due to becoming sick of dealing with nothing but tragic mysteries, which seems to partially fuel his [[spoiler:impassioned defiance of the idea that a happy ending is impossible for {{spoiler|Beatrice}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Retirony]]}}: {{spoiler|1=Subverted by EP8.}}
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==== Voiced by: [[Ayako Kawasumi]] ====
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{{quote| ''"I'm the embodiment of the one hope held by the Beatrices of a million worlds... So, even at times like this, I have to be everyone's hope. I'm not giving up on this game yet."''}}
 
A version of the man from 19 years ago, as in the baby {{spoiler|Natsuhi}} was given by Kinzo, who exists in alternate universes where they weren't thrown of a cliff and where he grew up to be the future successor to the Ushiromiya family instead. Lion teams up with Willard H. Wright in his investigation of {{spoiler|Beatrice's death}}.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: When around Will, who's also quite the snarker.
* [[Determinator]]: Has definitely become this by the end of the EP7 Tea Party.
{{quote| {{spoiler|"I'll definitely survive...and so will you...!"}}}}
* [[Etiquette Nazi]]: Woe betide anyone who doesn't act politely enough in front of Lion's relatives.
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: As previously stated, Lion is {{spoiler|Natsuhi}}'s first child if s/he wasn't thrown off the cliff. Bernkastel actually states that the probability of that was [[Million -to -One Chance|1/2578917]]. It's also interesting to note that in the world where he exists {{spoiler|Beatrice, the epitaph, Shannon and Kanon do not exist, Battler does not go back to the island, and the murders do not occur}}.
** Not so much on {{spoiler|that last one, as Bernkastel takes great delight in revealing...though the reasons are completely different this time.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Happily Adopted]]}}
* [[Heroic Bastard]]: {{spoiler|Lion, like Yasu, is the child of Kinzo and Beatrice II, [[Parental Incest|Kinzo's daughter]]}}.
* [[Running Gag]]: Has quite the reputation as a butt-pincher in the Ushiromiya family, and winds up doing this to Will whenever he gets out of hand.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Is referred to as Lion, Leon, or even Lyon. But [[Word of God]] says that Lion is the correct spelling.
* [[Student Council President]]: Was this in middle school and high school, according to George.
* [[The Watson]]: Will H. Wright calls him/her this.
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{{quote| ''"Battler Ushiromiya. That's supposed to be my name. I've been called that many times... I guess it's obvious, since it ''is'' my name. But me and the Battler Ushiromiya I know... sad to say, we're pretty different."''}}
 
A version of Battler that appears only in the [[All There in the Manual]] short story "[http://umineko.wikia.com/wiki/Forgery_no.XXX Forgery no.XXX]" and the [[Fighting Game]] ''Ougon Musoukyoku Cross''. He represents the idea that Battler is responsible for the Rokkenjima murders.
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* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: Of the belief that Battler is the culprit.
* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Card -Carrying Villain]]
* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: The story where he appears in basically says he's powered by ''in-universe [[Wild Mass Guessing]] and [[Fan Fiction]]''.
* [[Creepy Monotone]]: When he's not hamming it up.
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* [[Evil Laugh]]
* [[Evil Redhead]]
* [[Expy]]: He is very similar to Shiki Nanaya in ''[[Tsukihime (Visual Novel)|Tsukihime]]/[[Melty Blood (Video Game)|Melty Blood]]'' in that he's the evil counterpart to the protagonist.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: Culprit!Battler
* [[For the Evulz]]
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* [[Mythology Gag]]: His [[Palette Swap]] in ''Ougon Musoukyoku Cross'' gives him a black suit, white shirt, green tie, and white hair, mirroring the color scheme of {{spoiler|Battler's appearance}} in the Episode 8 ???? as {{spoiler|Toya Hachijo}}.
* [[Obviously Evil]]: [[Dissonant Serenity]]? Negative palette swap of Battler? His name is "Black Battler" and his special ability in ''Ougon Musoukyoku'' is "Massacre"? [[Sarcasm Mode|He's obviously the most trustworthy person on the island!]]
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
* [[SNK Boss]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrFx_JRstoY&feature=related Just watch.]
 
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