When the Mountain Goats Cry
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When the Mountain Goats Cry is a fanfic sequel to Umineko: When They Cry by "Green Capsule", focusing on Will, Lion and Erika. It's beautifully written, full of well executed shout-outs and has a pretty interesting plot going on. It expands on Will and Erika's characters much more than the canon did while Beatrice and Battler are reduced to basically side characters.
While the writing gets (apparently on purpose) cheesy at times, which can put off some people. It's definitely not for everyone, but it keeps the cast amazingly in character despite some very, very unexpected plot twists.
It should be noted that while the series seems to go the extra mile to keep things in canon, the author's interpretation of some events might put off some people.
Think of it as how And Another Thing is to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. The writing tone is definitely different, but it's still the same characters you have grown to know and love.
At one time it could be found here on Fanfiction.net, but by 2012 it had been removed from the site (the author him/herself doesn't know why that happened). An effort to rewrite it was begun here, but it only reached two chapters before it was abandoned after a week.
- Awesome Moments: Will's memetic badassery gets taken Up to Eleven here.
- Big Damn Heroes: A much less dramatic version between Will and Erika.
- Flanderization: Will is the only one who suffers from this at times, being much more of a jerk here than in canon at times when talking to Lion. It is justified in that he has been basically living with Lion (and therefore getting buttpinched) for days.
- Funny Moments: This is one area the fic excels at.
- "Bro."
- Him...and her?
- Freak-Out: Will's backstory that explains how he became Wizard-Hunting Wright
- Heartwarming Moments: Everything in Chapter 5. Weeeell, the first half of chapter 5 anyway.
- Heterosexual Life Partners: Will and Battler.
- Magnificent Bastard: Van Dine, if the logical conclusion is to be believed.
- Mood Whiplash: Chapter 5. Oh god chapter 5.
- Original Character: Sort of. Meta-Van Dine.
- Out-of-Character Moment: Will....sorta...it's complicated.
- Shout-Out: The fanfic contains a lot of direct quotations to S.S Van Dine, and attributes them to Will's gestures or speaking. It seems sort of overdone at first, but once it sets in that Will is Van Dine's successor everything turns into Fridge Brilliance. It also has a few Shout Outs to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. which is also Fridge Brilliance after Will's freakout..
- Wham! Episode: Chapter 5.
- Xanatos Gambit: Unless the author is throwing a curveball, Van Dine had one hell of a plan prepared.