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* Eva's vehement refusal to accept George and Shannon's relationship makes a hell of a lot more sense when you consider the ''ie'' system: her main ambition is to become head of the Ushiromiya family household (aka the ''ie''). The primary goal of people within the ''ie'' is to keep the ''ie'' in existence for as long as possible. Eva's spent the entirety of her life and [[My Beloved Smother|her son's life]] trying to prove to Kinzo that the existence of the Ushiromiya ''ie'' will be far safer in her and her decedents' hands than in Krauss's, and thus that the best plan is take a slightly less ideal route of succession to ensure the ''ie's'' preservation. The only problem? George. By marrying Shannon out of love instead of a more "suitable" woman out of duty, he's demonstrating to the rest of the family that he doesn't have the ''ie'''s best interest in mind, probably ''won't'' be terribly concerned with keeping the ''ie'' in existence, and thus showing that succession through Eva is ''not'' the best option for ''ie's'' succession. Say bye-bye to any chance at headship, Eva. In short: Eva's pissed at the relationship because ''decades of planning just went down the drain.''

** And also, though neither Eva nor, presumably, George, know it, {{spoiler|Shannon (Yasu) is implied to be unable to have children. Yasu may not even be female. Even if Eva was still able to get the headship after George married an unsuitable bride, that line would go extinct after George died.}}

* Despite having a general hatred of, well, ''everyone'', {{spoiler|Bernkastel}} regards Beatrice in particular with considerable contempt. It is later noted that {{spoiler|a witch's age is metaphorical, and refers to how long the time they've suffered ''felt'' to them… However, 'Beatrice' only lived through what would actually be six years of longing and general disrespect, whereas Bernkastel lived through what is implied to have ''actually'' been more than a century (in the very least, it is heavily implied to have been at least a few decades) of the people precious to her being horrifically murdered by the ''other people precious to her'', through no fault of their own, culminating invariably in her own gruesome murder by the people she believed to be protecting her. Furthermore, she never managed to find happiness, even after all of this — the Rika identity/identities that succeeded in preventing the murders ''never integrated into Bernkastel'', leaving her with the memories and combined identity of what is to be implied to be ''thousands'' of the Rikas who failed. In comparison, Beatrice's self-proclaimed "thousand years" seem incomprehensibly insignificant}}.

* Bernkastel's game piece in ''Alliance of the Golden Witch'' is Ange. In ''End of the Golden Witch'' we're introduced to her new game piece Erika, who's hair is done up the same as Ange's except that her hair is longer and blue: just like her master's.

 

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