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* '''Time/space nexus.''' Like the island from a popular television program, Rokkenjima sits at the crossing point for multiple parallel universes. Hence why characters can be alive, dead and absent simultaneously, why Kanon gets more screen time dead than alive, how the killer can walk out of a locked room and murders can happen when every enamed character has an alibi. The murder from arc X might have been perpetrated by the murderer from arc X+ 1. The mutually-contradictory message bottles are remnants of worlds that were 'collapsed' when the typhoon passed. Kinzo knew about the island's 'magical' properties, of course: he's depending on them for his one-in-a-quadrillion miracle to occur.

* '''Demon possession'''<ref>(Keiichi had to be right eventually)</ref>'''.''' Rokkenjima's alluded-to previous reputation as Akujishima, ''island of soul-eating spectres''. 'Beatrice's' confusion as to her identity. The constantly-shifting roles of killer and victim. Ange deciding to avenge the tragic murders on Rokkenjima by...murdering seven people with stakes. Don't breathe the air at Rokkenjima: Beatrice might be catching.

 

== Kyrie killed Asumu ==

 

== In the [[Adaptation Decay|anime]], Lambdadelta is pretending to be Maria. ==

* Interesting. Would explain why she's a fucking psycho in EP1.

 

== Maria is the only witch in Umineko. ==

It's been suggested that Maria is a Creator witch, so why couldn't she "Create" other witches?

 

== Seven Parents, Seven Stakes ==

The only scene of a not-proven-fake Kinzo was the one flashback in 'Banquet' when he went off at Eva for not being womanly enough. Which makes him kind of an asshole, but not a foaming-at-the-mouth mad warlock. It's not even a representative sample of his personality; just the one act that made the biggest impression on Eva.

* {{color|red|In that flashback, it was stated that that was not a representative sample of Kinzo's personality and attitudes. In said flashback, he also went off at Krauss for laziness.}} {{color|blue|Kinzo meant to say something like "You are quite an impressive person, but unless you learn how to cook without burning water, you're not going to land a man worthy of such an impressive person, and dammit Eva, [[I Want Grandkids|you're the only one in this family likely to produce a grandchild worthy of the Ushiromiya name]]!", but due to both his senility and the Racist Grandpa principle, it came out sounding like [[Stay in the Kitchen]].}}

{{quote|'''Krauss (to Eva, after Kinzo's outburst):''' ''Eva, take your leave. It's not his true feelings. I'll calm him down.''}}

 

== The stakes were originally less sinister objects (oversize chess pieces?) ==

They were introduced to an angle grinder and became murder weapons. Fits the series theme of innocent things being repurposed to sinister ends.

 

== The reason why the murders are so brutal, and the reason why Beatrice acts the way she does, is because the game is being played during Beatrice's time of the month. ==

We never actually get to see what the original Rika in that arc was like, but we did hear from Mion that she was rather selfish and manipulative, forcing all the boys in her class to fight over her. Also, in this arc, Rika manages to leave that world without dying. It's possible that after returning to own world, the 'Rika' in the world she left behind regained its old, selfish personality. She also had to kill her mother in order to return to the world she desired, so it's certainly possible that she had to hide from the authorities, and maybe even change her name to stay hidden. Even her experiences with the boys in her class could explain the origin of Erika's cynical view on love. This could also be plausible from a non-fantasy standpoint as Erika's interactions with her 'master' and other fantasy characters only happen within the "Rokkenjima catbox" and it's hinted in Episode 6, when it's stated that she's a human in red, that she existed as a real person.

 

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