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[[folder:Battler Ushiromiya]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/DaisukeOno (JP), Kyle Igneczi (EN)
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->"''Ahh, it's useless! It's all useless!''"

The protagonist and 18 year-old son of Rudolf and Asumu and 7th in the line of succession. After Asumu died six years ago, Battler became angry with his father for remarrying Kyrie so fast and went to live with his maternal grandparents. Because of this, he's been fairly out of the loop as to the affairs of the Ushiromiya family. Often, he is teased about being similar to his father for his tendency to try to grope girls. He now has a half-sister named Ange who does not come to Rokkenjima.

After the first arc, he is trapped by Beatrice in time loops where the murders occur over and over again. In order to win, he must explain those murders rejecting the use of magic in them.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: He had dark brown eyes in the original VN. They were changed to light blue in the anime and the [=PS3=] version.
* AgentScully: He refuses to believe that the murders were caused by magic as Beatrice claims. [[spoiler:Initially, at least. Though the story still leaves it up in the air whether or not magic exists, Battler later realizes that completely shutting down magic shouldn't be his ultimate priority.]]
* AllLovingHero: Battler cares about everyone, always wishes to think the best of everyone and wants everyone to get along. He also never holds a grudge (unless it's against his father) and is quick to forgive and give second chances to anyone, even those who have tormented him such as Beatrice and Bernkastel.
* AlternateCharacterReading: The characters in his name literally mean [[{{Determinator}} "fighting person"]]. In-universe, Battler mentions that a lot of people tend to assume that his name is "Sento" just from reading the kanji in his given name.
* AmnesiacHero: [[spoiler:Turns out Battler's soul lost his memories after he tried and failed to save Sayo Yasuda from drowning and the "Battler" personality died to then be replaced by Tooya Hachijo. The reason Beatrice started the games was an attempt to make Battler remember who she is and what happened in the real world.]]
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you the new Endless Sorcerer]].
* AnimalMotifs: The witches compare him a few different times to ThePhoenix. Maybe makes sense, given the nature of his FateWorseThanDeath combined with his {{Determinator}} personality.
* AntiMagic: His ability to resist magic of up to godlike scale is classified as [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale Endless Nine]]. [[spoiler:However, this isn't necessarily a good thing.]]
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Gives one to [[spoiler:Beatrice for gleefully watching Eva-Beatrice torture Rosa in the third arc]]
* BadassBookworm: Battler "it would be arrogant for somebody who only reads about a hundred books a year to call himself well-read" Ushiromiya.
* BadassCape: He wears an OminousOperaCape as [[spoiler:the Endless Sorcerer]]. At first just a {{Fanon}} idea, but became canon in [=EP6=]. [[spoiler:In [=EP8=], he becomes even ''more'' badass by [[TheCoatsAreOff taking it off]].]]
* BatDeduction: At the end of Episode 5, he actually spends an undefined amount of time thinking about past events and how to make sense of them in light of the new rules he has learned. The readers, though, only get this line:
--> '''Battler''': "And then...I...knew."
* BattleCouple: At the end of [=EP6=], [[spoiler:Battle and Beatrice pull the trigger to deliver the final blow to Erika together. They get married right after that.]]
* BelatedLoveEpiphany: Doubling as LoveRevelationEpiphany. [[spoiler:Battler realizes his own feelings for Beatrice after she's left comatose and Virgilia reveals Beatrice created the game for him to win because she loves him and wants him to understand her. Once he figures out Beatrice's true identity and what his past sin against her is, Battler reciprocates her love, but is too late as Beatrice has already died.]]
* BettyAndVeronica: [[spoiler:The Veronica to George's Betty and Sayo Yasuda's Archie. To Sayo, the fun-loving and carefree Battler who shared her love for mystery novels represented the ultimate dream of a happy ending where he would become her prince. Since she didn't see Battler for six years, Sayo ended up dating George while a romance with Battler became a mere fantasy, but she still couldn't forget him and wanted him to return for her. Sayo had chosen to accept George's marriage proposal, but bad timing made Battler return that same year. Not knowing who she wanted anymore, Sayo fell into despair.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct:
** After Ange [[spoiler:reveals her identity to him and performs a HeroicSacrifice]], Battler snaps out of his funk and goes up several levels in badass and sets his mind back on track to defeating Beatrice and making it back home to her. [[spoiler:Neither work.]]
** In Episode 8, Battler creates a happy ideal game especially for Ange and tries to hide the Book of the One Truth from her because he wants to protect her from the truth and give her hope for the future so she can let go of the past and live a happy life. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Bernkastel ruins things for Battler by turning Ange against him.]]
* {{Bishonen}}: Regularly noted to be very good looking.
* {{Bookworm}}: He states that he "only" reads about 100 books per year.
* BringMyRedJacket: Flip this one and WhiteShirtOfDeath around, and you've got Battler's outfit: white jacket, red shirt. And yes, his luck [[AFateWorseThanDeath sucks]]. [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted since it turns out that he was the only one, aside from Eva, who survived]].
* BuxomIsBetter: A firm believer in this, to the point that he's a self-entitled "breast sommelier". Hell, he even has a whole ImageSong devoted to his love of large-breasted girls.
* CameBackStrong: Takes [[spoiler:Dlanor's Red Key to the chest]] in the climax to [=EP5=]. [[spoiler:Since by that point 'death' in the Meta-world is rather vague, dying gives him as much time as he needed to think back over the mysteries of the story, realize what he'd been missing, come to understand the Truth of the Game and will himself back to life as one of the strongest characters in the series, purely out of understanding the truth.]] He proceeds to wipe the floor with Erika and Dlanor.
* CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: He spends the first 4 Episodes trying to defeat Beatrice and make her pay for what she did to him and his family. Come [=EP5=] where she [[spoiler:becomes comatose]], Battler finds himself missing the witch and even mentions he wants to hear her annoying laugh again. Then [[spoiler:Beatrice dies just moments before he finds the truth]], which makes Battler break down in tears.
* CatchPhrase: "Ah, it's useless. It's all useless!" (Used not to complain when his struggles are useless, but to brag when he thinks his opponent's struggles are useless)
* ChangelingFantasy: It's confirmed in [=EP8=] that [[spoiler:Kyrie is his real mother, and he was swapped at birth with Asumu's stillborn child]].
* TheChessmaster: After he learns the rules of the Meta World, he very slowly starts to become this.
* ChewbaccaDefense: Hey, [[InsaneTrollLogic anything]] to fight off [[{{Troll}} Beatrice and Bernkastel]].
* ChickMagnet: Largely an InformedAttribute (since we only see him with his family in the story). It is implied that Battler is quite popular with girls, though it seems he's not entirely aware of it himself. However, most of the female cast is already either married or paired off with someone else. However, if [[http://umineko.wikia.com/wiki/Butterfly_Kiss_Episode1.5%E9%85%8D%E5%B8%83%E3%83%A1%E3%83%83%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC this]] is to be taken seriously...
* ChivalrousPervert: It seems like he'll try to grope anyone ([[KissingCousins even his cousin!]]), and at one point even tells little Maria to let him grope her when she gets older, but the one time a girl actually tries to let him, he freaks out and scolds her ([[MegatonPunch after being punched by aforementioned cousin]]). Note: He thanked the cousin for punching him.
* TheCoatsAreOff: In [=EP8=], [[spoiler:he throws his Endless Sorcerer coat and faces Erika in a closed room duel.]]
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In the extra "Game Master Battler!", Ronove and Virgilia get back at him for his DrunkWithPower phase by writing scenarios for the upcoming game that are basically CrackPairing fanfictions about him (Virgilia writing [[ParentalIncest BattlerxRudolf]] and Ronove [[HoYay himselfxBattler]]).
* CreepyCoolCrosses: Battler wears one as a fastener for his jacket.
* CuteLittleFangs: In the original sound novel.
* DeathOfPersonality: [[spoiler:While Battler physically survives the Rokkenjima incident, the narration makes it clear that even though Tooya Hachijo posesses Battler's memories of the incident, he should be considered a different person. The Battler we know is long gone.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: ''Weaponized'' in his final battle against Dlanor in EP 5, when he argues that [[spoiler: his observations are not actually objective because this time around he's not the detective like the first four games, (the detective actually being Erika), which means that he has the right to lie and obfuscate facts as an observer. (As well as allowing him to be considered as the culprit.)]]
** [[spoiler:Subverted because he actively fights to remain as the protagonist. He's the main focal point character of the first five episodes, and is a major player in the sixth. The seven shifts the perspective over to Willard and Lion, while the final episode is an ensemble piece with Ange at the center. In the end, however, the story is mostly about his own development and the purpose of the game being played between him and Beatrice.]]
* {{Determinator}}: See the first tea party for just one example. Averted in the second arc, however, when he does give up and is explicitly shown why that isn't an acceptable option.
* DevotedToYou: After his promise with [[spoiler:Sayo/Shannon]], 6 years later [[spoiler:Sayo/Beatrice]] still can't forget about him. It turned out ''horribly, horribly bad.''
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
** If slamming Beatrice's head on a table in [=EP2=] or slapping her in [=EP3=] don't count, then [[spoiler:actually managing to punch ''Bernkastel'' in the face]] might.
** [[spoiler:And if you think those mentioned were just damn luck, then he also manages to ''kick'' Bernkastel in the same scene '''while she's [[TeleportSpam Teleport Spamming]]'''! Battler ''earned'' the VillainousBreakdown that he got out of her.]]
* DiedHappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:That's more or less the idea of the Magic Ending. Battler joined his family in death, while Tooya continued to live, his mind finally at peace.]]
* DistressedDude: In [=EP6=], [[spoiler:Battler is left trapped in a logic error after falling into Erika's trap. Bernkastel then takes the chance to make Erika marry his unconscious body and become the new Territory Lord. It's up to Beatrice to crash the wedding and solve the logic error to save Battler.]]
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: During his HeroicBSOD in the anime, and [[spoiler:while trapped in a logic error during [=EP6=]]].
* {{Expy}}: He's obviously one of [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Keiichi]], being just as HotBlooded and [[ChivalrousPervert chivalrously perverted]]. [[spoiler:However, unlike Keiichi, Battler learns that being HotBlooded won't get him anywhere in the witch's game.]]
* FatalFlaw: Battler's is that he is extremely emotional and that emotions act as his primary motivator; this means that while he's genuinely a smart guy and a good thinker, his emotions very frequently get in the way of rational thinking, and this has massive negative consequences, both direct and indirect ones.
* AFateWorseThanDeath: Battler gets a few of these.
* FieryRedhead: His HotBlooded tendencies match the color (and shape) of his hair.
* FirstLove: To Shannon. [[spoiler:It's the root of many of Sayo Yasuda's internal struggles.]]
* FlatEarthAtheist: To the point that his fixation with proving that magic doesn't exist is one of the things that [[spoiler:drive Beatrice to her death in [=EP5=]]].
* GameMaster: [[spoiler:Of [=EP6=], though Erika makes sure he doesn't get much use out of it. He has more success in [=EP8=] even if Bernkastel is also a GameMaster at the same time, albeit a much more [[KillerGameMaster malicious]] one.]]
* GenerationXerox: His [[spoiler:relationship with Beatrice]] plays this theme hard with regard to Kinzo.
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: His way of ThrowingDownTheGauntlet at Beatrice.
* GratuitousEnglish: Battler ''loved'' this trope back in 1980. In 1986 he's just embarrassed about it and doesn't want to remember. [[spoiler:It's a major plot point.]]
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:With Beatrice after [=EP6=]]]. [[EsotericHappyEnding In the Meta World, at least]].
* HasAType: He likes blue-eyed blondes with feisty and tomboyish personalities who he can joke around with (and according to him, [[BuxomIsBetter being well-endowed wouldn't hurt either]]). Just like Jessica [[spoiler:and Beatrice, who actually was designed this way by Sayo Yasuda to be Battler's ideal woman]].
* TheHeart: At least in the early arcs, he wound up frequently jumping in between two people who were at each other's throats to point out why person X wasn't necessarily the culprit.
* HeavySleeper: Comments by Ange in Twilight allude to Battler being this.
* HeroicBastard: During Episode 4, it's heavily implied he is this [[spoiler:with the revelation that Asumu is not his biological mother]]. [[spoiler:Confirmed in Episode 8, when Rudolf admits he's actually Kyrie's son]].
* HeroicBSOD: Near the end of Episode 4, [[spoiler:"Just who am I?"]]. Freaks him out so badly that not only does his brain shut down, but he physically disappears.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: "Battler" is not a title or a nickname for a scrappy kid; that's his real name.
* HonorThyAbuser:
** Beatrice murders him and his entire family in sadistic ways, brings them back to do it all over again and cruelly mocks Battler for not finding logical explanations to deny magic. However, Battler comes to respect Beatrice as his WorthyOpponent and after [[spoiler:he reaches her truth]], not only does he completely forgive her for torturing him so brutally, [[spoiler:he marries her]].
** After [=EP6=], Battler doesn't hate Bernkastel and her piece Erika for all the horrible things they did. Take into account this included them taking advantage of Batter's Logic Error and almost forcing him to marry Erika who very explicitly planned to keep him as a SexSlave for eternity. In [=EP8=], Battler even wanted Bernkastel and Erika to join his party since he regards them as very important players in the previous games.
* HotBlooded: Especially during the first four arcs when confronting Beatrice. However, it's [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]; [[spoiler:while in most series a character's hotbloodedness will help them overcome challenges, Battler's hot blooded attitude actually blinds him. He's much too focused on defeating Beatrice out of some vague sense of justice, never even questioning why she's playing this game with him in the first place despite all the clues she leaves for him. As a result, he can come across as rather insensitive and hypocritical at times. Once he finally realizes the truth behind her game in [=EP5=], his hot blooded nature becomes more toned down.]]
* IRejectYourReality: As a matter of principle, even while having tea with the witch he's disproving. He can tend to the more irrational side of this trope when desperate and frustrated.
* IdenticalGrandson: He looks identical to Kinzo as he appeared in his youth, save for the hair. [[spoiler:His appearance as Tohya Hachijo is ''identical'' to young Kinzo.]] Heck, Battler and young Kinzo even ''have the same voice actor''.
* ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHbGYf3-N_I OPPA in LOVE!!]][[note]]The title is possibly a bilingual pun in both Japanese and Korean: Oppa means "male big brother" in Korean, who fits right away with Battler, being the elder brother of Ange, and it also sounds like "Oppai", who is Japanese for "big boobs".[[/note]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apN1-Mz4w1A Battlerfield ~ The Four Forms of Battler]].
* ImprovisedWeaponUser: Whenever Piece Battler is in a situation where he might possibly have to fight, he always seems to go for a hat rack or candlestick as opposed to something a bit more practical.
* InformedAttribute: In the late episodes Battler is revealed to be an avid reader and mystery buff. But earlier he speaks of conventions of the mystery genre, Knox in particular, as if they were news to him, and he's baffled by their purpose. He's supposedly versed in closed room mysteries in particular, but seems to analyze them from a completely fresh perspective.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: He can end up hurting people's feelings by saying some innocent, but insensitive comments. Perhaps the most notable example of this was [[spoiler:how he broke poor Shannon's heart by forgetting about his promise to return for her and not bothering to write her a letter when he wrote one for everyone else.]] Battler really didn't mean to hurt [[spoiler:Shannon's]] feelings; he just didn't think she would hold their time together in such high regard.
* InTheBlood: Given his similarities to pre-WWII Kinzo, there seems to be a heavy implication that Battler's just one poorly-ended romance away from going completely nutters like his grandfather. [[spoiler:In the end he doesn't go insane, but he loses Beatrice and gains TraumaInducedAmnesia as a result.]]
* KickTheDog: His poor treatment of [[spoiler:[[ReplacementGoldfish the Chick Beatrice]]]] in [=EP6=], although it may have to do with the fact that [[spoiler:the woman he loves refuses to call him anything but Father[[labelnote:*]] which [=EP7=] makes squickier in hindsight[[/labelnote]] for a long time. This mirrors Kinzo and Beatrice II's relationships, to the point of ''incest.'']] He even [[ThroughHisStomach threw away her cookies.]]
* LargeHam: And engages Beatrice in HamToHamCombat. Not quite as hammy as his grandfather, but his cousins and Shannon relate how much hammier he used to be when younger, spouting [[NarmCharm charmingly cheesy lines]] and using heavily GratuitousEnglish. He's [[OldShame embarrassed by it]], yet completely unconscious of how hammy he still is.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Several, most famously ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tICKoZ18zHk&fmt=18 Dread]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsOmgr3q4sA&fmt=18 of]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy7QcdNuQrI&fmt=18 the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y03OC80eDXc&feature=related Grave]]''.
* LikeFatherLikeSon:
** It's a joke among the family members how Battler's way of handling women is very similar to Rudolf's.
** He is also afraid of vehicles like his mother Asumu. [[spoiler:And he inherited his sharp wits from his real mother Kyrie.]]
* LogicalFallacies: Small bombs and cardboard boxes. The thing is, Battler is fully aware all his theories are beyond ridiculous but at the moment he only cared about denying Beatrice's ones.
* LossOfIdentity: Briefly in [=EP4=], when the reveal that [[spoiler:he isn't Asumu's son and he might not be the real Battler Ushiromiya at all]] makes Battler lose his sense of self to the point where he literally disappears for a while.
* LovableSexManiac: His ImageSong [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yM3mrh_t2M ''OPPA in Love!'']] is essentially Battler's playing up his own lecherousness [[UpToEleven to hilarious extents]]. One of his special moves in the fighting game, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=862GKbHFCuI "Sommelier Finger"]], is a groping attack[[labelnote:*]]You can see him in the video grope-attacking ''both Ange and Kanon''[[/labelnote]]. He even says it's okay being killed over and over again by the Seven Stakes because they have nice breasts and from then on normally refers to them as 'the ass nee chans.'
* MagicalGuide: [[spoiler:After understanding the truth, he plays this role toward Ange in Twilight of the golden witch]].
* ManlyTears: Who ''wouldn't'' be crying after [[TraumaCongaLine all the crap he goes through]]?
* MeaningfulName: ''Bateleur'' is French for a stage magician, someone who uses mundane means to create the illusion of magic (in Tarot, the Magician card is known as ''Le Bateleur'' in French) while ''Battler'' is not too far from what he actually does: battle (with witches and demons), and to take it even further [[AlternateCharacterReading the kanji in his name literally mean]] "fighting person".
* MegatonPunch: [[spoiler:Punches [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu out Bernkastel.]] Bernkastel who, just scenes ago, had been tanking big bangs and big crunches. Battler's fist is more powerful than the universe. And inflicts the concept of pain.]]
* MommasBoy: It's implied Battler was very close to his mother Asumu. When she died and his father remarried so quickly, Battler was so affected by it that he left the Ushiromiya family to live with his maternal grandparents. In [=EP4=], [[spoiler:finding out he is not related to Asumu by blood is such a shock for Battler that he enters an existential crisis and literally disappears. However, by ''Last Note of the Golden Witch'', even though Battler's aware of Kyrie being his biological mother he still refers to Asumu (upon learning she's Piece), as his mom.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Ange's HeroicSacrifice in [=EP4=] and [[YouAreTooLate solving the game too late]] and allowing Beatrice to die in [=EP5=]]].
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Makes some remarks to this effect in ''Twilight''.
* NayTheist: Gets into very involved logic arguments with beings he says do not exist. [[MindScrew It's probably all symbolic anyway]].
* NiceGuy: Battler is friendly, easy-going, big-hearted and incredibly forgiving.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: In [=EP6=], [[spoiler:he tries to be merciful by giving Erika duct tape and make the fight more even. She then repays him by creating a trap to lock him in a logic error and then take control of the game board by forcing him to marry her.]]
* NoodlePeople: Mostly in Episode 2 manga, due to Jirou Suzuki's style.
* NotActuallyHisChild: [[spoiler:A rare mother-son example. Battler was raised by Asumu, but Beatrice reveals in [=EP4=] that Asumu isn't his biological mother. The final arc has Rudolf confess Battler is Kyrie's real son who he switched with Asumu's stillborn baby.]]
* OddNameOut: He's the only one out of Kinzo's children and grandchildren who doesn't have a realistic western name; how many people in real life are actually named "Battler"? Still, there are [[MeaningfulName reasons]] why he has that name, [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude however much he dislikes it]].
* TheOneGuy: He is the only [[spoiler:male witch]] in the cast.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He's the one who will solve Beatrice's mystery and kill her. He won't allow anyone else to do it.
* OnlySaneMan: At least during the first tea party, where the other characters are calmly talking about how everything has been explained by the existence of the witch.
--> '''Battler''': "Why have you guys stopped thinking?"
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Beatrice in Episode 3. It's quite effective. [[spoiler:[[DidYouActuallyBelieve Or not…]]]]
* SelectiveObliviousness:
** His denial of witches and magic can seem this, during the more blatantly magical events and before the Meta World rules are explained.
** He ''really'' doesn't want to think about how his past actions may have played a part in the tragedy.
* SelfInflictedHell: [[spoiler:The Events of [=EP6=]? He CREATED THAT!]]
* ShamefulStrip: After he surrenders to Beatrice and temporarily becomes her furniture in [=EP2=], Battler is found [[WalkingShirtlessScene stripped]] ''completely'' except for a [[SlaveCollar chain around his neck]] that Beatrice uses as a leash.
* ShonenHair: His hair is noticeably spiky, and it stands out among the rest of the cast's hairstyles. It goes well with his HotBlooded personality. Lampshaded by Ange.
-->'''Ange:''' Save the jokes for your hairstyle.
* ShoutOut: His habit of [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger pointing dramatically at his opponents]] reminded many fans of how [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Phoenix Wright]] does the same thing, and [[WordOfGod Ryukishi]] later confirmed in an interview that he was indeed inspired by the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' games during development.
* SiblingYinYang: With Ange. Ange is a female SugarAndIcePersonality to Battler's HotBlooded male, with completely opposite biases.
* SignatureLaugh: "Ihihihihi!" Other characters laugh like this on occasion, but Battler uses it the most and thus it's most closely associated with him.
* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: [[spoiler:His true motives as the Game Master in [=EP8=] are to convince Ange of this, as he specifically designs a game that shows the Ushiromiya family at their best, and openly questions the more cynical opinions Ange had ended up forming about the family. Bernkastel nearly turns his plans on their head, and even turns Ange against him for a bit, but Ange ends up coming around to his line of thinking, especially in the Magic ending.]]
* StealthMentor: [[spoiler:By [=EP8=], he is this to Ange. Instead of showing her the truth she wants, he shows her a clearly fake scenario where all the Ushiromiya family is happy and everyone gets along. Ange accuses him of trying to distract her from the truth with delusions in the same way Beatrice did with him. While Battler did intend to hide the truth from Ange because he didn't want it to hurt her, the real intention of his game was to give Ange hope for the future and inspire her to live a life where she can be happy. It backfired horribly because of Bernkastel's intervention.]]
* StockShonenHero: A deconstruction of the trope, since many of the traits of the character type actually prove to be keeping Battler from reaching his goal. He's a HotBlooded {{Determinator}} who absolutely refuses to acknowledge witches, but he's also very naive and trusting, always wanting to think the best of everyone and so he constantly winds up jumping up in the middle of fights to explain a scenario in which person X might not be the culprit. Battler's hot blooded attitude also ends up hindering him; [[spoiler:he's so focused on defeating Beatrice out of a vague sense of justice that he never asks himself why she's playing her game with him in the first place, despite all the clues she leaves for him in the form of "magic". He doesn't realize this until after Beatrice dies in [=EP4=].]]
* SuddenHumility: In Episode 6, he realizes that the position of [[spoiler:Game Master]] is ''much'' less comfortable than he imagined when he fought against Beatrice.
* SupportingProtagonist: Battler is the main view point character and essentially the hero of the fantasy side of the story. However, when you look at it with hindsight, ''Umineko'' is actually about [[spoiler:Sayo Yasuda and Battler understanding the conflict between Sayo's personas and her motives for murder]].
* SwitchedAtBirth: [[spoiler:He thinks he's Asumu's son, but he's really Kyrie's.]]
* SympathyForTheDevil: Tons with Beatrice, particularly in [=EP3=] and [=EP5=].
** In [=EP3=], he comes to sympathize with her when he sees her trying to atone for all the evil she has done and even [[spoiler:sacrifices herself by using the Red Truth to deny witches and therefore herself in order to defeat Eva-Beatrice]]. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:at the end of the Episode Beatrice reveals it was all an act to try and make him acknowledge witches]], leaving Battler very disappointed.
** In [=EP5=], Battler feels great pity for Beatrice when [[spoiler:he sees her reduced to the pitiful state of a living doll now that she gave up on continuing their game]].
* TalkingToTheDead: At least once, Battler addresses his father after Rudolf's corpse has been discovered.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: [[spoiler:In [=EP3=], when Beatrice laughs about Eva-Beatrice killing Rosa and Maria over and over again, he doesn't take that too well. Bonus points for giving her an ArmorPiercingSlap. And later, when Virgilia tries to encourage him to accept her as his opponent, he still refuses to forgive her. At least, until she tells Beato to be more encouraging and apologize to him.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:It's implied in the fantasy ending and confirmed in the manga that Battler managed to escape from Rokkenjima with Sayo/Beatrice's help, but when Sayo threw herself into the sea Battler followed and drowned with Sayo. The Battler we know indeed died at that time, but his physical body survived and became Tooya Hachijo.]]
* TooDumbToLive: So you're in a room, alone with the person you suspect of having killed half of your family the same day. Said person is holding a loaded rifle. What do you do? You can plan a surprise attack to take her out or steal her gun. Or you can stand there and point the finger at her, screaming that she is the culprit. Guess what our hero choses and what happens not 10 seconds after that.
* TookALevelInBadass: Though this is subverted in [=EP4=]'s Tea Party, since [[spoiler:he never understands Beatrice's heart, he didn't solve a single murder and the whole scene is just Beatrice giving up and making it look like he won]], he still manages to improve in every arc. In Episode 5, [[UpToEleven he took all his levels in badass and squared them]] during the hidden tea party. [[SubvertedTrope His badass levels]] [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion seemingly]]]] [[SubvertedTrope take a dip]] in [=EP6=] in that [[MyGreatestFailure he falls into a deep depression]] and [[spoiler:ends up being nearly reduced to a DistressedDude]], with a few badass moments sprinkled here and there. [[spoiler:"Seemingly" being a key word; [=EP8=] ''spectacularly'' [[DoubleSubversion subverts]] all that by revealing [[BatmanGambit his dip in badassery was completely intentional]].]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Just the first arc would probably be enough to qualify him for this, and it just gets worse from there.
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Just about the last thing he wants, considering his feud with Rudolf, but all his relatives remark on how alike they are. He turns out to be even more similar to Kinzo--in looks, temperament, and circumstances; once he realizes the truth, this is retroactively implied to be one of the reasons Battler's so upset by [[spoiler:the reset Beatrice calling him "Father"]] in [=EP6=]. [[spoiler:Lo and behold, some forty years after surviving the Rokkenjima incident, his hair has whitened and shortened to the point where he looks ''exactly like Kinzo when he was his age'']].
* TurnTheOtherCheek: Battler always tries to think the best of everyone and will give second chances to even those who have put him through the worst.
** In [=EP3=], [[spoiler:he's ready to forgive Beatrice for everything she put him and his family through and trust her completely after she seems to see the error of her ways. He then finds out the hard way that it was all an act in order to make him surrender.]]
** In [=EP8=], [[spoiler:he wants to try and give Bernkastel, the responsible for all his troubles from [=EP5=] afterwards, a second chance by accepting to play a game with her and even asks her to bring back her piece Erika, despite all the horrible things she did too. It comes back to bite him big time, as he ended up giving Bernkastel the perfect chance to manipulate Ange and destroy the Golden Land.]]
* UnexpectedSuccessor: At the end of Episode 5, [[spoiler:he becomes this to Beatrice]].
* UnPerson: In the sound novels, after his defeat at the end of Episode 2 and his HeroicBSOD in Episode 4, he literally ''disappears from the character list''. Who said only the narrated story could be terrifying?
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:His failure to keep his (not entirely serious) promise to Shannon that he would take her away from Rokkenjima and start a new life with her, due to having broken off his ties with the Ushiromiya family after Rudolf and Kyrie married too soon for his taste, is the straw that breaks the camel's back for Sayo Yasuda, and it eventually drives them to orchestrate the murders. It turns out that this was his "sin of six years ago".]]
* UnwittingPawn: In [[spoiler:the fifth arc, he was essentially pressured by the adults, who were all being bribed by Sayo, to make harassing phone calls to Natsuhi so that she will spill the beans about Kinzo's death.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Due to ItWasHisSled from [=EP5=] onwards, particularly his role as [[spoiler: the Endless Sorcerer.]]
* WasItAllALie: He asks [[spoiler:Beatrice]] at the end of [=EP3=] when [[spoiler:it's revealed she put up a big act to make him think she turned good and make him surrender to her. After a brief struggle with herself, Beatrice tells him it was a lie and mocks him for falling into her trap. The truth behind her actions turn out to be far more complicated, though.]]
* WeWantOurJerkBack: In [=EP6=], he manages to bring Beatrice back, but her personality is sweet, docile and innocent, completely different from the original Beatrice. This annoys Battler because the Beatrice he wants back is the trolling witch he fought. He eventually does come to accept this new Beatrice and decides to let her act as she likes.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: [[spoiler:Subverted. After apparently dying over and over again, he's revealed to be one of only two characters to actually make it back from Rokkenjima]].
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Battler's not a fan of his name.
--> '''Battler:''' Battler Ushiromiya. [[SarcasmMode Incredible]]. Also incredible are the parents who stuck that name one me, and the public official who accepted it. They're all on the top of my must-kill list.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Battler's terrified of any vehicle that shakes when it moves.
* WideEyedIdealist: Battler's tendency to quickly trust and give people the benefit of the doubt tends to bite him in the ass more often than not. In Episodes 6 and 8, [[spoiler:[[GuileHero he uses this to his advantage to]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity fool his enemies]].]]
** Played with, while Battler is rather innocent and oblivious about the true nature of his family, [[spoiler:he gets so absorbed into proving Beato wrong that he doesn't even consider ''why'' she is doing all this in the first place, ignoring all the clues she gives him in form of "magic" throughout the games. This is the very thing that keeps him from finding the truth until Episode 5.]]
* WorthyOpponent: He and Beatrice slowly become this to each other. His reason for refusing to play against [[spoiler:Lambdadelta]] in [=EP5=] is that this is between him and Beatrice and no one else.
* WouldHitAGirl: Especially if the girl's name is Beatrice, Erika Furudo, and [[spoiler:Bernkastel]]. He also hits Maria on the head quite a lot in the first two Episodes as she reacts insensitively to the murders.
* YouAreTooLate: Battler ultimately discovers the truth behind Beatrice's puzzles [[spoiler:just a few minutes too late to prevent her from dying]]. This echoes his earlier sin of [[spoiler:coming back to Rokkenjima too late to have avoided breaking Sayo's heart but just in time to completely undo their resolve to explain the truth to George and accept his proposal]].

[[folder:Maria Ushiromiya]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/YuiHorie (JP), Creator/SarahWiedenheft (EN)
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-->"''Uuuuuu~! Beatrice exists!''"

9 year-old daughter of Rosa and eighth in the line of inheritance. She has a troubled relationship with her mother and thus became absorbed in the occult as a way to cope. Notable for her repeated catch phrase, a sort of whining ("''u~~''") as well as her very creepy laugh.

Her meta-world alter-ego is Lady MARIA, the Witch of Origins.
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* AgentMulder: Firmly believes in the existence of magic and witches, and studies the occult as a hobby.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Maria's behavior tends to imply something like autism: she acts much younger than her nine years of age, she never seems to realize when the constant use of her VerbalTic is irritating other people, and she obsessively studies the occult but has little to no interest in anything else.
** [[spoiler:Willard points out in Episode 7 that she tends to recognize people by their actions, not their appearences (a big hint to how Beatrice can appear in front of her) which implies some degree of Prosopegnosia/Face Blindness, which is often comorbid with autism.]]
* AmbiguousInnocence: On one hand, she's an innocent and abused child. On the other hand, she's helping the culprit in several timelines (though it's because she believes that [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans everyone will be revived in the Golden Land]]).
* BastardAngst: Maria's father left her mother without marrying her and while she was still pregnant. This is one of the reasons for Maria's highly troubled relationship with Rosa and deep down, Maria fears Rosa wishes she was never born.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Being the only child on an island full of adults, teenagers and the elderly, it is foreseeable that everyone will never take her seriously when Maria tries to explain to them that there is actually an unknown person who identifies herself as the witch Beatrice in the painting of the villa.
* BerserkButton: Don't go and tell her that Beatrice or magic don't exist. Of course, knowing that [[spoiler:Erika]] takes great delight in pressing, or rather ''slamming'' the button.
* BlackMagic: After Sakutaro died, her magic changed from making it rain candy to wishing for the death of her enemies.
* BookDumb: She's explicitly stated to have done poorly in school. As she puts it, she's good at doing things she likes, but not "boring" things. Seeing what she knows about magic, she actually shows a very strong intelligence. She can also read English (and mocks the high-schooler Battler for not being able to). She also claims to be more skilled than her mother and the other relatives in the family at solving complicated puzzles and partially demonstrates this when Rosa gets help from her to quickly solve the Epitaph of the succession of the head family's position during the seventh arc.
* BrilliantButLazy: It is highly made evident that if Maria put the same degree of commitment at school that she puts into memorizing everything about Western occult and pagan culture or the commitment she puts into puzzle games and riddles, she would be considered a child prodigy.
* BrokenBird: While she's only nine years old, poor Maria already has a lot of emotional baggage. She's being raised by an emotionally unstable single mother who can be both neglectful and abusive. The other kids at her school bully her. Her only friends are her toys [[spoiler:and her mother "killed" her favorite stuffed animal Sakutaro to force Maria to start acting her age]]. Maria acts like a CreepyChild around her older cousins because her obsession with magic is her way to cope with the harsh reality she lives in and pretend she has control over something by bragging about her knowledge of the occult.
* BrokenRecord: She has a tendency to repeat one word over and over again: any word, not just her "uu" noise.
* BulliedIntoDepression: The mistreatment she suffered from other children at school for being so different compared to them is one of the main reasons why Maria is so [[CreepyChild mentally]] [[EnfanteTerrible disturbed]].
* BullyMagnet: She was bullied and called a freak at school due to her VerbalTic and how she acts much younger than she is.
* CallingTheOldWomanOut: In the fourth arc, we get a scene in which Maria finally gets fed with Rosa's abuse and decides to confront her and make her pay for it. It's not pretty. [[spoiler:Then again, it's heavily implied that she's only calling Rosa out in her own head.]]
* CheerfulChild: Subverted; while she can be a sweet and cheerful girl, she also has her [[CreepyChild creepy]] moments and is later shown to have a troubled home life with Rosa which she tries to deal with by pretending everything is fine.
* ChildMage: As MARIA, the Witch of Origins.
* ConsultingMrPuppet: From a mundane perspective, this is what she's really doing when talking to Sakutarou.
* CoolCrown: She wears a small but elaborate crown which is attached to a red ribbon that's tied under her chin.
* CopeByPretending: Maria copes with her lack of real friends by creating {{Imaginary Friend}}s based on her toys. Also, every time her mother experiences drastic mood swings and hits her, Maria interprets it as Rosa being possessed by an evil witch since she doesn't understand how her mother is a ''very'' TroubledAbuser. It gets PlayedWith because Maria isn't consciously pretending; she doesn't have a full grasp of reality and really believes her imagination is magic when it's actually {{Escapism}}.
* CreepyChild: She has an extreme obsession with the occult and she gets very creepy and disturbing when she talks about Beatrice and starts giggling at the murders. However, this is mainly due to having NoSocialSkills, and in [=EP7=] it's implied that she may actually be invoking this in order to seem more knowledgeable about the occult.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: In games in which Beatrice [[spoiler: (Sayo)]] is not in control, Maria rarely survives until the final sacrifices and, more often than not, her deaths are also rather bloody and violent for a little girl of only nine years. Particularly evident in the adaptation of the manga of [=EP3=] in which she is subjected, together with her mother Rosa, to the horrible sadistic tortures of Eva-Beatrice (and in particular one of her deaths shows her [[BurnTheWitch burning alive]] inside a gigantic magic oven).
* CuteAndPsycho: At times, the cutest and sweetest little girl ever. At others, the most terrifying kid you'll meet.
* CuteLittleFangs: Well, at least when she can actually be considered "cute".
* CuteWitch: Subverted. Maria may be cute-looking, but she is mad, bad, and dangerous when she finally snaps.
* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:Sakutaro's death]] is this to Maria.
* DeathOfAChild: Despite being only nine years old, this doesn't spare her from suffering gruesome deaths just like everyone else on Rokkenjima. Even though she's Beatrice's MoralityPet and Beatrice will keep her alive until the final round of deaths whenever she's the Game Master, that still doesn't exclude Maria from this trope. [[spoiler:In the end, her fate in the real world is to die along with everyone else who was on Rokkenjima.]]
* DiesWideOpen: In the anime after Beatrice chokes her to death.
* DisappearedDad: And he fled ''[[KickTheDog while her mother was pregnant]]'', no less. To the point that Rosa ended up telling her she doesn't have a father. As a result, Maria thinks she has a MeaningfulName and is special, trying to justify the lack of a father figure in her life by believing that she's a child of God.
* TheDragon: To [[spoiler:Sayo]] as her most precious accomplice.
* ElegantGothicLolita: The outfit she wears in the flashbacks in the fourth anime arc. Sweet Lolita, to be exact.
* EnfanteTerrible: When she finally snaps, she makes a serious competition against Eva-Beatrice for the title of this series' queen of the trope. However, [[spoiler:the only time she's actually shown killing anyone is implied to either be AllJustADream or an IndulgentFantasySegue]], and in Bernkastel's game during [=EP8=] it's stated with the purple truth that Maria is incapable of directly murdering anyone. While Maria may certainly entertain thoughts of being this trope, she wouldn't be able to pull it off in real life.
* EvilLaugh: Kihihihihihihihi… (also her SignatureLaugh). Made even more creepier by the fact that she appears to be counting the hi's, apparently imagining something happening for each one.
* {{Expy}}: She's basically a 9 year old [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Rena]]; they both have reddish-brown hair, have a tendency to [[BrokenRecord repeat words over and over]], have severe mother issues, and [[AgentMulder believe strongly in an otherworldly being that none of the other characters really believe exists]] (and will become extremely angry if their beliefs are repeatedly denied). They actually have an indirect link: a TIP reveals that the man Rosa was seeing at the time of the flashback was a guy in the fashion business called "Akihito-san". That's the guy Rena's mother divorced her father for, triggering [[spoiler:her Hinamizawa Syndrome.]] UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom, much?
* TheFashionista: Despite being just a child, she gets the most amount of change of clothes of all the characters of this page (mainly thanks to having a FashionDesigner as a mother).
* FriendlessBackground: Maria could never make real friends of her own age because other kids think she's weird. This is one of the reasons why she turns to the occult and imaginary friends, which in turn makes her even more of an outcast.
* TheGift: Maria in the fourth arc is described to have an innate affinity for magic thanks to her kinship with Kinzo (and in particular she has very strong abilities that are scarce or barely present in him). [[spoiler: It is even stated that this natural gift, if properly developed, [[InformedAbility will allow her to become a Creator in a next thousand years]] (that is the most powerful magical being in the multiverse alongside Featherine).]]
* GigglingVillain: Not a villain, but she is disturbingly prone to laughing at horrible situations.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Mainly because she likes to make her stuffed animals into {{Companion Cube}}s.
* HeroicBastard: Her parents weren't married, and her father left Rosa while she was still pregnant.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: The reason she began to obsessively study everything related to magic and dreamed of truly becoming a witch like Beatrice, as well as because she wanted to prove to all the older people around her that she was far more cultured than all of them put together on certain arguments, it was to finally receive the praise and appreciation that she never received at home or at school.
* ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAEsEDwrkOI Happy Halloween MARIA]].
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Beatrice. They are very close friends despite Maria being only 9 while Beatrice is over 1000 years old. [[spoiler:Although, the Beatrice she's friends with is really just 19 years old.]]
* IRejectYourReality: Magic exists, witches exist, Beatrice ''definitely'' exists and made her a witch. Trying to shatter her fantasy will only leave her more stubbornly resistant and dangerously resentful.
* {{Irony}}: Maria in the sequences of the Meta-World is considered a potentially more powerful witch than Virgilia, Erika, Beatrice and Eva-Beatrice by belonging to a higher rank even to that in which Lambdadelta and Bernkastel belong. Yet in the real world she is only a normal child and, among all family members, she is the least likely to interpret the role of the murderer (despite her unstable personality) because of this condition.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Almost immediately after [[AbusiveParent Rosa]] destroys Sakutaro, Maria asks Beatrice to teach her magic to [[spoiler:[[{{Matricide}} kill her own mother]]]]. However, this is downplayed since she never gets to act on these desires and can only [[IndulgentFantasySegue imagine them]].
* KiddieKid: Deconstructed. In the first four arcs, other characters often point out that Maria acts quite a bit younger than her nine years of age, and it's later revealed that she's bullied at school because of it. One of Rosa's {{Berserk Button}}s is being asked how old Maria is, since she tends to interpret the question as "is she ''really'' nine?".
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GxfJ40eDas Happy Maria!]]
* LonelyDollGirl: Maria's favorite tactic to combat loneliness is to make her stuffed animals and other dolls into {{Companion Cube}}s by treating them as though they're alive. Sakutaro is the most important one to her, being a gift from Rosa.
* LoveMartyr: Maria's relationship with her mother is portrayed this way when Ange talks with her. Maria always tries to think the best of her mother, despite Rosa's less than stellar parenting, constant abuse and neglect.
* MagicStaff: In her witch form, she channels her magic through a staff that has the Ushiromiya family's one-winged eagle crest at the top, much like the one Eva-Beatrice uses.
* MadDreamer: Maria sees no difference between fantasy and reality, though at least some of this is her way of coping with the troubled relationship between her and her mother.
* {{Matricide}}: During an IndulgentFantasySegue in Episode 4, Maria repeatedly kills Rosa in revenge for all the abuse her mother put her through all those years.
* MetaphoricallyTrue: She never lies, but her peculiar way of thinking and formulating things can give the impression that she is lying from an adult perspective: yes, she is telling the truth when she says "Beatrice gave her the letter". It's just that to her "Beatrice" isn't defined by her physical appearance but by her behavior.
* MoodSwinger: She certainly inherited from her mother her ability to change totally mood and behavior depending on how you approach her. This helps to further alienate Rosa and the rest of those present when she instantly switches from being quiet to her CreepyChild mode.
* MoralityPet: Beatrice is demonstrated to have a rather large soft spot for Maria, treating her better than she treats anyone else in the series. [[spoiler:It's most likely because Maria is one of the few real friends Sayo Yasuda has.]]
* MsImagination: She has a vivid imagination that allows her to create many {{imaginary friend}}s and have fun in her imaginary world. However, she's a depressing example in that she uses this to cope with her mother's abuse and her lack of real friends. When the things described in her diary are seen from a mundane perspective, you realize Maria is really just a lonely girl trying to deny her sad reality.
* MysticalPregnancy: In [=EP7=], Maria reveals that she believes this is how she was born. Rosa would angrily deny that Maria had a father whenever Maria tried to ask her about him, and later on a priest came to Maria's school and read to them about Jesus' immaculate conception. By her own logic, this made Maria come to the conclusion that she was a "child of God" who came into this world without an earthly father like Jesus did.
* NightmareFetishist: Oh yes. Who else would start cracking up at magic circles apparently written in blood?
* NoblewomansLaugh: Maria's giggling sometimes morphs into it.
* NoSocialSkills: As strange and borderline [[CreepyChild creepy]] as she can be, she's not evil--just very socially maladjusted. Her [[KiddieKid overly childish behaviour]], her inability to realize when her VerbalTic is annoying other people, and her fixation on the occult lead her to be bullied and friendless at school and harshly reprimanded by her mother.
* NotAfraidToDie: Maria isn't afraid of being chosen as a "sacrifice" and dying as part of the ritual to resurrect Beatrice, because she believes she will be revived in the Golden Land along with everyone anyway.
* OracularUrchin: She is always making cryptic comments about Beatrice and the ritual that only disturb everyone. [[spoiler:Subverted since she doesn't actually know as much as she seems to; while Sayo Yasuda had already told her about her plan to [[DeadlyEuphemism "open the door to the Golden Land"]], Maria doesn't fully understand the consequences, or know the full extent, of Sayo's MurderSuicide plan.]]
* PeacefulInDeath: Maria is found this way in the fourth arc. Battler notes that the murderer apparently went out of their way to make her look that way, and it actually looks pretty squicky, since she's lying so peacefully in the lap of her mother, whose face was half-blown off, surrounded by adults whose faces were half-blown off.
* PimpedOutDress: When she is shown wearing her witch dress in fantasy scenes and the Meta World.
* ThePollyanna: As long as she had [[MoralityChain Sakutaro]] to cheer her up, at least.
* PsychoPartyMember: Treated this way in the first arc and shown to be this way in the fourth.
* PureIsNotGood: Maria is "pure and childlike"--which, aside from implying geniality and a loving nature (and letting her retain the imaginative power necessary for being a Creator), means that she acts a few years younger than she is, doesn't understand the concept of doubt, and has next to NoSocialSkills. As a result, she's bullied and rejected by her mother and her peers.
* RealityWarper: As a Witch of Origins (Creator), she is destined to create whole multiverses, both with the help of Beatrice and alone, even though for the moment her magic is still too weak and she can change reality only through the Endless Magic kindly granted by her mentor and Virgilia. From a mundane perspective, this just means that she has [[MsImagination a very creative and vivid imagination]].
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: It happens in 2 episodes:
** In ''Alliance of The Golden Witch'' she dreams of repeatedly killing and reviving her mother (or more specifically the Black Witch she sees in her) in the most cruel and unimaginable ways, with the help of Beatrice, as a form of revenge for the death of Sakutaro and all physical and verbal abuse as well as the abandons to which Rosa subjected her.
** In ''Dawn of The Golden Witch'' she furiously attacks Kanon when he kills her mother.
* ASaintNamedMary: PlayedWith. Maria is aware of the religious connotations of the name Mary, of which her name is the Latin variant, but believes that she's [[AGodAmI a child of God]] instead. In the fourth arc, one of the TIPS speculates that [[spoiler: Maria is one of the Creator witches, who can create something where there was previously nothing]]. From a mundane perspective, this means that her highly creative mind lets her create numerous {{Imaginary Friend}}s.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Does her best not to notice that her mother isn't quite qualified for the job. [[spoiler:In the fourth arc we see that she ''did'' notice, and [[IndulgentFantasySegue what she likes to imagine in order to cope with it]].]]
* SharedFamilyQuirks: Maria is the only one of Kinzo's relatives to share his knowledge and passion for everything related to occultism and mysticism.
* SpiritAdvisor: She is either this or an ImaginaryFriend to Ange, depending on [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane how you interpret it]].
* SpoiledBrat: Despite her mother's [[AbusiveParents abusive tendencies]], it's shown that at the same time Maria actually is a bit spoiled; Rosa will sometimes just give her what she wants to keep her from making too much of a fuss, which only goes to show how she's a less than stellar parent in more ways than one.
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Sakutaro's destruction by Rosa is what drives Maria to become Sayo's main and most loyal ally, who takes full advantage of the grudge she feels for her mother and the rest of the other family members for her own purposes.]]
* SuperGullible: Maria will believe anything you tell her as long as it's related to magic. It gets to the point that you just need to act like someone else and say you're possessed and Maria will believe you, no questions asked.
* SupernaturalIsPurple: She has violet eyes to highlight her connection with magic and the occult.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: She can turn into a very dangerous witch if provoked.
* ThirdPersonPerson: As is common for children in Japanese works. At nine years old, though, she's considered too old to still be referring to herself in the third person.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Shouts this repeatedly at her AbusiveMom Rosa in [=EP4=] out of anger for [[spoiler:killing Sakutaro in front of her before going all AxCrazy on her and getting revenge for him. Luckily, she's even calmer and happier when Sakutaro gets better, compliments of Ange.]] And on [=EP6=], [[spoiler: Kanon becomes an unfortunate outlet of her anger after she saw him murdering Rosa as part of the love trial.]]
* TokenMiniMoe: As the youngest cousin present in the family meeting (due to Ange being absent that year), Maria is the only child on the island.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Maria is a walking encyclopedia of Western occult lore. Where did a 9-year-old Japanese girl learn all this?
* UnreliableNarrator: At the end of the fourth arch and with information that emerged on the real reasons for his mother's long and mysterious journeys in the fifth, it is highly plausible that the notes written and underlined by Maria in her diary (in which she claimed to have found the receipt of a hotel where Rosa stayed, the fact that Rosa actually went to a spa resort with a man and in general her suspicion that Rosa really had always left her at home alone to have a good time with her boyfriends rather than to work), convinced her unconsciously that Rosa never really wanted to take care of her were not 100% reliable. Even Ange, who in the Rosa's actions described in the diary projects the abuse she suffered by Eva, was convinced that Rosa was a monster who had never loved her daughter. But when she realizes, seeing Kasumi torturing her because of her hate for Kyrie, that both Eva and Rosa like her have faced many difficult moments and that consequently they vented their stress and pain on someone. The sixth arch also comes in handy by providing the necessary reason to understand one of the most important reasons why Rosa needs to get her share of the Kinzo's legacy; that is, in the hope that Maria's father will return to them once the debt has been paid so that the Maria herself can finally know him.
* UnstoppableRage: In the middle of Episode 4, when she decides to give [[spoiler:her mother]] a taste of their own medicine. [[spoiler:Though she's probably just imagining this as a way to cope.]] And again on [=EP6=] [[spoiler: she really loses it against Kanon, after he killed Rosa.]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In the anime, nobody seems to pay much attention to her ludicrously over-the-top CreepyChild moments. In the visual novels and manga, though, they react much more appropriately.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: She believes that all of the murders will eventually lead to everyone being resurrected in the Golden Land. Because of this, Maria isn't at all concerned about her relatives being murdered, not even when her own mother dies, because she's convinced that in the Golden Land her mother will be much nicer to her [[AbusiveParents than she is now]].
* VerbalTic: "''Uu~''". It's later revealed that she says it so much because she believes it's a spell for happiness, since she once used it when she couldn't remember the words to a song and it made Rosa smile. It's also [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]; Maria's verbal tic frequently irritates her mother, who will even [[AbusiveParents hit her for saying it too much]], and it's said to be one of the reasons why she's bullied and friendless at school. Interestingly, her witch incarnation MARIA (at least the one envisioned by Ange) doesn't say it.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Anime only; at the end of the fourth arc, she isn't seen or mentioned again after going to her "test". In the VN and manga, Battler finds her the day after [[spoiler:in the dining room, lying dead as if sleeping besides her mother, probably poisoned.]]
* WhiteMagic: Most of her spells were harmless at first. Then her loneliness started turning into bitterness...
* WhosLaughingNow: After Sakutaro's death, all the sweet little Maria wants is to make her mother suffer for the death of her friend along with all the punishments she has planned for her for all the other times that Rosa has abused, disappointed, ignored and abandoned her.
* WiseBeyondHerYears: Played with; she'll sometimes be surprisingly insightful for a girl her age, but at the same time her [[NoSocialSkills lack of social skills]] and [[AgentMulder her firm belief that magic is real]] can make her seem almost absurdly naive for a nine-year-old.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The main reason she is Beatrice's fan number one and she is happy when her mother and all the rest of the family are killed is rooted in the fact that Maria secretly resents the fact that none of her other relatives (except Battler) protect her from [[AbusiveMom Rosa]] when she loses control of herself. She is also secretly aware that some of her uncles and aunties like [[BigBrotherBully Krauss and Eva make fun of her passions and dreams by using them to further provoke her mother]]. All this if combined with the bullying she undergoes at school, Ange's abandonment, Rosa's neglect and Sakutaro's death have left her emotionally devastated and resentful of anyone who angers her (which she vents by imagining to tearing them apart of them [[TheManyDeathsOfYou over and over again]] until she is satisfied).
* YouKilledMyMother: She instantly transforms into her witch form and bombards Kanon with numerous {{Fireballs}} after she has seen him kill Rosa in [=EP6=].
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[[folder:Jessica Ushiromiya]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/MarinaInoue (JP), Creator/BrittneyKarbowski (EN)
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->"''People are capable of creating another part of themselves inside themselves at any time. A part that they can truly like.''"

18 year-old daughter of Krauss and Natsuhi and fifth in the line of succession. Jessica has a lot of pressure put on her by Natsuhi, being the first heir after Kinzo's sons and daughters (although technically her future husband will become the head and not her). She falls in love with Kanon. In the alternate world shown in [=EP7=] she is no longer the first heir of the cousins, with her older sibling Lion being the first in line of succession instead.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Her eyes were black in the original VN, but became greyish-blue in the anime and light blue in the [=PS3=] version.
* BattleCouple: She and Kanon fight the goats invading the Golden Land in [=EP8=]. Jessica seems to think of it as nice bonding between lovers.
* BludgeonedToDeath: [[spoiler:In Prime, Kyrie smashed Jessica on the face with a rifle until she died.]]
* BookDumb: She doesn't seem to do very well in school. However, it's possible that her grades are simply average and being "average" just isn't enough for her parents.
* CatchPhrase: "Uzee ze!" (So annoying!)
* CerebusRetcon: During the SchoolFestival in the second arc, Jessica gets pissed off at a classmate and {{Megaton Punch}}es her with a ''brass knuckle''. That was just a gag, right? She pulls them out again during the fourth arc and they quickly become conduits for SupernaturalMartialArts.
* CosplayOtakuGirl: Not ordinarily so, but considering that her episode 2 school festival performance consisted of singing the VideoGame/{{Touhou}} song ''Tsurupettan'' while dressed up as Marisa...
** UpToEleven in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1E2DsxvyCQ fighting game]]... [[KamehameHadouken MASTER SPARK!]]
* CuteBruiser: In Episode 4 fantasy scenes, she fights against Ronove using her magically-powered fists.
* CuteLittleFangs: In the original sound novel.
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Expecially notable during action scenes.
* DeadPersonConversation: In the third arc, Kanon is briefly brought back as a spirit by Beatrice so he can talk to Jessica one last time and help her out while she's blinded. [[spoiler:Of course, this is subverted since Kanon was never really dead in the first place.]]
* DeathByDisfigurement: [[spoiler:In Prime, Jessica was killed by Kyrie who repeatedly hit her in the face with the back of her rifle, leaving the poor Jessica's face horribly mutilated.]]
* {{Determinator}}: She says it herself; "'Give up' isn't written anywhere in my dictionary!"
* DisconnectedByDeath: In Episode 4. [[spoiler:Although it's a subversion, since she initially just played a scenario arranged with Sayo… who then went and killed her for real. "Confession of the Golden Witch" explicitly showed her on the phone with Battler, with Kanon pointing a shotgun to her head...]]
* DontCallMeSir: She wants Kanon to call her by her name instead of "{{ojou}}-sama".
* ExpositoryPronoun: She uses the feminine pronoun "Watashi" for herself in contrast to her otherwise masculine vocabulary, showing she's a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak.
* {{Expy}}: {{Tsundere}} heiress to a BigScrewedUpFamily that acts like a {{Tomboy}} [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak but wants to be girly]]? Sounds like [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Mion]] to me.
* FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: She has this dynamic with Natsuhi, being the feisty and tomboyish daughter to her proper and refined mother.
* FemininityFailure: During the dinner in Episode 5, where she tries to sit "straight and elegantly" so she won't appear less cultured than Erika. Rudolf's reaction is to ask her if she has a stomach-ache.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: She's the foolish sibling to Lion's responsible in the world where Lion exists as her older sibling. Jessica is still rebellious and free-spirited, preferring to play music with her band instead of focusing on her studies; Lion, on the other hand, is a model student and works very hard to be the future head of the Ushiromiya family.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She has her faults, but in the end she's one of the few unambiguously good characters.
* HellishPupils: In the sixth arc, when [[spoiler:she kills Kyrie]].
* HeroicSacrifice: In order to save Kanon, she took Asmodeus InTheBack.... Too bad it didn't really, well, [[SenselessSacrifice work]]. She also chooses to do this when given the test in the fourth arc under the logic that either of the other two choices would be worse (Choosing to kill Kannon would fill her with regret for the rest of her life, and she would need to live under the burden of having chosen to kill everyone else and Kanon would never love her if he was only left alive because everyone else had died).
* IllGirl: Jessica has asthma which often acts up and incapacitates when she's under stress. [[spoiler:Subverted in Episode 7, when (that game's) Jessica reveals to Will that she's been deliberately invoking this trope. Her asthma is a put-on meant to lend her an image as a frail, sheltered lady, as well as giving her a handy way out of unpleasant situations by faking her attacks.]]
* ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYkGjqDI60g Dokkyun Heart]], which contains gems like [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry "Au au!" and "Uso da!"]].
* InLoveWithLove: When Kanon asks her why she likes him, Jessica doesn't know how to answer since she became interested in Kanon just because she wanted a romance of her own and Kanon was the only guy around her age who lived close to her. Jessica admits she couldn't tell Kanon that, because it would be like telling him any nearby boy would have done just as well.
* InSpiteOfANail: Despite Lion existing and thus becoming the second child, her personality never changed. If at all, this fueled her rebellious spirit.
* InterClassRomance: With Kanon, who's a servant of the Ushiromiya family while she's a member of that family. [[spoiler:Subverted since Kanon's true identity, Sayo Yasuda, is the real head of the family.]]
* LadySwearsALot: By Japanese-standards, her vocabulary is very vulgar and inappropriately masculine.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: She's one of the few people living on the island who doesn't know [[spoiler:Kinzo is already dead]].
* MagicSkirt: See DangerouslyShortSkirt above.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: To Kanon, at least; he fell in love with Jessica because of her energetic and rebellious spirit, and he often says that to him she's "dazzling like the sun".
* MegatonPunch: PlayedForLaughs with [[LovableSexManiac Battler]]. Becomes an actual weapon in fantasy scenes.
* MistakenForGay: In one of the side-stories, she summons Zepar and Furfur and asks them for a magical charm to make up with her friend Saku. [[LoveFreak Being who they are]], they immediately gush about the beauty of her "forbidden love", until she corrects the misunderstanding. They don't even try to hide their disappointment.
* NiceGirl: While she has her flaws, Jessica is a very nice and friendly girl to everyone.
* NiceToTheWaiter: She's known to treat the servants well and isn't afraid to get friendly with them, even considering Shannon one of her closest friends. Her mother highly disapproves of this, but Jessica doesn't care.
* ObliviousMockery: In the flash-back of Episode 7, she and Manon spend half a dialogue laughing about how some stupid girls take boy's words too seriously and get the wrong idea. All in front of Shannon, who does her best to not show any reaction. You can feel her heart being pierced with spears at each of the other two's words.
* {{Ojou}}: She has the rich, high-class family and BigFancyHouse, plus she's very popular at school and all the Ushiromiya servants treat her with respect. However, she has none of the usual personality traits associated with this trope and is a feisty TomboyWithAGirlyStreak instead.
* PluckyGirl: At a bare minimum in the fourth arc.
* PowerFist: Her primary weapon in fantasy combat scenes.
* RebelliousPrincess: Not surprising, given how strict her parents are and how old-fashioned and patriarchal the Ushiromiya family's views are, even for the eighties.
* RedOniBlueOni:
** Considering [[spoiler:they love the same person]], she could be considered the red to George's blue. More rebellious and HotBlooded, and trying to enjoy life to the maximum. To further the contrast, she helps Kanon to open up, while Shannon was the one to make George less timid.
** In [=EP7=] she can also be considered the red to Lion's blue.
* SailorFuku: She wears this as her school uniform, as shown in the anime, manga and [=PS3=] port.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Energetic Girl to Kanon's Savvy Guy.
* SchoolIdol: The only two reasons she became the StudentCouncilPresident are a) because her parents wanted her to, and b) she's so ridiculously popular at her school that she won the election without even trying (let alone ''wanting'').
* ShesAllGrownUp: [[LovableSexManiac Battler's]] reaction when he meets her after 6 years.
-->'''Battler:''' What are those, boobs?
* ShipperOnDeck: For George and Shannon. [[spoiler:But unbeknownst to Jessica, Shannon and her own love interest Kanon are the same person.]]
* ShoutOut:
** Jessica's [[SuperMovePortraitAttack Meta-Super]] in the fighting game is the [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Master Spark]], complete with [[CosplayOtakuGirl Marisa costume]].
** Her PaletteSwap for the Marisa costume is red and white, referring to Reimu (her brown hair also fits, since Reimu's hair tends to shift between brown and black depending on the art).
* SiblingYinYang: With Lion in the world where they are siblings; she's rebellious, free-spirited and not very formal, while Lion is calm, polite and dedicated to being Kinzo's successor.
* StudentCouncilPresident: She currently serves as this at her school. She didn't actually want the position, but her parents forced her to run and she ended up being elected anyway.
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: She suffers from this in the world where Lion is her older sibling. Jessica gets annoyed by how Lion seems to be so perfect at everything since it makes her look bad in comparison and her parents won't stop nagging about how she should be more like Lion.
* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: [[spoiler:To Sayo Yasuda. When Jessica asked Sayo/Shannon whether Kanon had a girlfriend Sayo was baffled that someone could love her "male" half. Having troubles with forgetting about Battler and fearing that "Shannon" and George's relationship wouldn't last, Sayo started to contemplate the idea of having a romance as a boy. Then she fell in love with Jessica during the school festival, which only worsened her internal issues.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to Shannon's Girly Girl.
* TomboyishPonytail: Has a short, wavy ponytail and she's very much a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She's feisty, rebellious and has boyish speech patterns (though not to the point of [[{{Bokukko}} using "boku" as a personal pronoun]]), but she's very interested in other people's love lives and deep down she really wants a romance of her own.
* TomboyishVoice: She speaks in a very low, gruff voice and her speech patterns and mannerisms are very masculine.
* TookALevelInBadass: Between being Kanon's DamselInDistress in the second arc and putting up a strong fight against Ronove in the fourth arc. [[spoiler: And then burning Kyrie alive in the sixth arc.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: A bit of a variation. Jessica is feisty, bad-mannered and aggressive, especially whenever Battler is being a pervert. She's still a friendly girl who dreams of romance and acts like a regular love-struck girl around her crush Kanon. Funnily enough, her tsun-tsun never comes out around her love interest.
* UpgradeArtifact: Having a little trouble dealing with your target? No problem! Just make a little contract with [[spoiler:Zepar and Furfur]], call up Bronove to stick some barriers around, and MinMax your way through that yandere-off.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:George Ushiromiya]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/KenichiSuzumura (JP), Creator/JoshGrelle (EN)
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->"''Marriage means becoming your wife's ally for your entire life. From the moment I did that, I was prepared to have the whole world as my enemy.''"

23 year-old son of Eva and Hideyoshi, George is sixth in the line of succession. He has been working as a junior worker at his father's company, but hopes to eventually be able to own his own business. He falls in love with Shannon against his mother's wishes. Being in his twenties, he is by far the oldest of the four cousins, and tends to serve as an older-brother figure to the others. He's very good with young children.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: His original sprites made him appear to be noticeably overweight and not particularly attractive, whereas the anime and his [=PS3=] sprites make him out to be a {{Bishonen}} of a similar degree as Battler and more muscular than fat.
* AgeGapRomance: A mild example, but Shannon was supposedly 14 [[spoiler:(actually 17, due to Sayo Yasuda's age being lowered by three years when first put to work)]] and he was 21 when he started dating her. And he was interested in her way before that.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: In [=EP4=], he chooses to save himself and Shannon in exchange of sacrificing everyone else on the island, since almost his entire family would have been against their InterClassRomance anyway and he believes that marrying someone means struggling to be together until the end, even if that means making the entire world your enemy. [[spoiler:And then proceeds to subvert the trope by attacking the very demon who forced the SadisticChoice on him.]]
* ArrangedMarriage: Eva was trying to arrange an omiai for George. He wasn't particularly interested and got incredibly sheepish as soon as she brought it up.
* BadassCreed: See the above quote.
* BarrierWarrior: In fantasy scenes, though he uses softer light than [[HardLight Shannon]]. His adds the force of any attacks aimed at him to his own attacks, rather than just plain repelling the enemy.
* BattleCouple: He and Shannon form a GuysSmashGirlsShoot combination as they fight the goats invading the Golden Land in [=EP8=].
* BettyAndVeronica: [[spoiler:The Betty to Battler's Veronica and Sayo Yasuda's Archie. To Sayo, George represents the option of settling down with the gentleman who has promised her a happy married life. Despite her big fears that George would reject her broken body that can't give him children, Sayo would have chosen George if Battler haven't returned the year George was going to propose, which unfortunately left Sayo torn up inside over not knowing who she wants anymore and drove her to despair.]]
* BigBrotherMentor: He serves as this to Battler and Maria.
* CallingTheOldWomanOut: In Episode 6, [[spoiler:he finally tells his mother he's proposed to Shannon, and is willing to leave the family rather than lose her. Eva doesn't take it well.]]
* ChastityCouple: He and Shannon are in a SecretRelationship, but even when away from his family's eyes, we never see them go further than holding hands and hugging. During their trip to Okinawa, George got them separate hotel rooms. [[spoiler:Unbeknownst to George, they ''can't'' be more intimate even if they wanted to because Sayo Yasuda's sexual organs were mutilated in infancy. Sayo is terrified that George won't want her if he finds out she can't have sex with him.]]
* TheConscience: Usually winds up playing a supporting role to Battler here.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Or to say it better; Did You Just KICK Eva-Beatrice in the belly so strong that you killed her by making her throw up unceremoniously?
* TheDitz: Although his mother basically raised him on books and notebooks, George does not show that he is very awake during the series since every time he survives for a long time he does not demonstrate brilliant skills in theorizing who the killer might be or in looking for any clues (an example is when he visibly struggles to follow Battler and Rosa's speeches and reasoning in the second arc, forcing the two to have to explain to him their thoughts in plain words). [[TooDumbToLive Not to mention his absolute obstinacy in rejecting the idea that his beloved may be the culprit.]]
* DontCallMeSir: He tells Shannon to stop calling him "George[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics -sama]]".
* EntitledToHaveYou: George confesses that he used to be this sort of guy, assuming he should be more popular with women because he "treated them well" and that he wasn't because [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys they have bad taste in men and prefer jerks]]. He hit a turning point when he realized that Battler was getting more attention from Shannon and other girls not because he was a rude punk, but rather because he was an outgoing and genuine guy who didn't put up a "NiceGuy" front simply to win over girls. George admits in hindsight that his past behavior was pretty douchey and entitled, and he'd rather forget he was ever like that.
* ExtremityExtremist: Fights only with kicks, in contrast to Jessica.
* FriendToAllChildren: Among all the older cousins, George is the one who cares most about Maria, acting as a sort of responsible older brother figure for her. Even when in the first episodes Maria behaves like a CreepyChild who [[EvilLaugh laughs disturbingly]] at the deaths of the various family members (including his own parents) and exclaims several times in a crazy happiness that the witch Beatrice will kill all of them, George is practically the only one who still tries to reason peacefully with her and partly justifies this behavior by blaming [[AbusiveMom Rosa]]'s ParentalNeglect.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: Eva's upbringing made him both very cultured and very mannered.
* GreenEyedEpiphany: He shamefully admits this to Shannon in [=EP6=]. The time he started to feel attracted to Shannon was when he noticed she liked Battler better than him. Due to a huge entitlement complex he had back then, George came to think of Shannon as a stolen lover and decided he had to "win her back". As George overcame his entitlement complex and he started dating Shannon, his feelings turned into a more proper love, but he still shows some possessiveness towards her sometimes.
* GreenEyedMonster: He admits to Shannon in [=EP6=] that he was jealous of Battler when they were kids because he was so close to Shannon. When he finally proposes to her though, he realizes how childish his envy is toward Battler. [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out he wasn't mistaken to doubt of the strength of Shannon/Sayo's feelings for him and how Battler's return would affect their engagement.]]
* ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcallwX_nDI Love Declaration]], and the lyrics are a little… disturbing. They don't say "I love you" so much as [[CrazyJealousGuy "You are mine"]].
* InLoveWithLove: In some ways, George appears to be more interested in making Shannon his wife than in Shannon herself. In the manga, George at one point admits he preferred to talk to Shannon about how great their married life would be instead of truly getting to know her, even though he did notice there was something seriously bothering her that she kept to herself.
* InterClassRomance: With Shannon. [[spoiler:Subverted though, as Sayo is actually the head of the family.]]
* KilledMidSentence: In Episode 2, when he tries to fulfil Shannon's LastRequest to tell her one more time that he loves her, he's killed by Beatrice before he can finish. [[spoiler:Since Beatrice and Shannon are the same person, it was in fact Sayo Yasuda who killed him]].
* KungFuWizard: In fantasy scenes, he fights using magic to empower his martial arts.
* LovingAShadow: Quite literally. He loves Shannon because he sees her as a lovely domestic and shy young lady. [[spoiler:That's just the character Sayo Yasuda created; Shannon's real self is ''very'' far from that.]]
* MarryForLove: He says that it makes no sense to marry someone you don't love.
* {{Matricide}}: In Episode 6, George kills his mother as a symbol of him freeing himself from her control so he can marry Shannon. It's subverted since that was just a fantasy sequence [[spoiler:and Eva was just FakingTheDead until Erika killed her for real.]]
* MeaningfulName: In Kanji, "譲治" is written with the characters for "yuzuru" (to transmit, to hand over) and "osameru" (to rule, to govern). If Kinzō gave him this name, it might be a coincidence. If Eva did, considering that she wanted George to be the next head because she couldn't… probably not.
* NiceGuy: Played with: he used to be one in [[EntitledToHaveYou the most unflattering sense possible]], which Shannon [[TheGadfly teases]] him about even now. He's now closer to the genuine article, though probably not as much as he thinks; some of the things he says and does, like his inner thoughts about how he enjoys "playing with Shannon's feelings" as much as he likes still tend to come across as condescending.
* OneManArmy: He literally can kick dozens of goat butlers while holding his own against a superior demon like Gaap.
* ThePowerOfLove: George invokes this trope in the fourth arc when he and Gaap fight. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, that doesn't help him win.]]
* PragmaticHero: He's a lot more familiar with the seedier aspects of the Ushiromiya family, and the business world in general, than Battler and Jessica, and usually the one to encourage a cooler approach to dealing with things when they find themselves in the midst of an unpleasant confrontation. One notable example is when Rosa begins hitting Maria in [=EP1=]. While Battler eventually attempts to butt in and stop her, George realizes that Rosa won't take kindly to this, and ends up dissuading him. However, this is completely averted when it comes to his romance with Shannon, as he's perfectly willing to endanger his own standing within the family in order to marry her.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Jessica's red. More cultured and composed and more traditionnal in his view of love.
* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:Sayo started dating him in part to forget about Battler's promise and their pain from his forgetting it. It did eventually turn into proper love, however]].
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Has these whenever he gets serious, expecially during fantasy combat scenes.
* SecondLove: For Shannon. She started to date him once she finally got over Battler. [[spoiler:Or at least tried to. "Shannon" indeed managed to move on, but Sayo still loves Battler and just can't completely let go of him.]]
* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: When he fights Gaap in [=EP4=], he reveals that he learned martial arts from Eva.
* TookALevelInBadass: Happens in Episode 4 fantasy scenes, in a similar way to Jessica.
* TrophyChild: Eva gave birth to George with the objective of making him the Ushiromiya heir because she was eternally bitter about the position being denied to her despite her skills for no reason other than that fact she wasn't born a man.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His [[spoiler:proposing to Shannon]] probably caused the murders as much as Battler's "sin of six years ago", putting quite a dark twist on [[spoiler:Shannon's claim that now that she's received a wedding ring, her life is complete and she can die without regrets (because things would have gotten ''much'' more complicated after the wedding).]]
* TheWisePrince: Amply demonstrated in his lectures on leadership in Ep 4 and 6, complete with ScaryShinyGlasses and levels in badassery.
* {{Yandere}}: EP 4 and 6 raise some major red flags that he may be one. In the fantasy sequences, George won't hesitate to let everyone else die and even murder ''his own mother'' if it means he and Shannon can be together, though in both cases this is also subverted in a sense. [[spoiler:In [=EP4=] he tries to fulfill his decision of letting everyone else die by attacking the very demon who forced the SadisticChoice on him, and his murder of his mother in [=EP6=] is a purely fantasy sequence that doesn't even happen for real in the game itself.]] As far as the real world goes, he shows no clear tendencies towards being one.
[[/folder]]

!!Parents
[[folder:Kinzō Ushiromiya]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/{{Mugihito}} (JP - elderly), Creator/DaisukeOno (JP - younger)
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->"''Money is the crystallization of everything in this world. If you cannot grasp that then you cannot grasp the world! If a life cannot strongly grasp this world, it doesn't deserve to live!''"

The head of the family, Kinzo is expected to die soon, given his fairly poor health. He is suggested from the beginnning of the series to be mentally unstable, having devoted all of his time to black magic in his study. He is obsessed with reviving the Golden Witch, who claims that she gave him his entire fortune. Adopts the name Goldsmith in the fourth arc, when he shows his powers as a magician.

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* AbusiveDad: Despite his children being adults already, he still has enough power to pull it. And just in case the emotional (and literal) beatdowns weren't enough for you, he also [[spoiler: imprisoned his illegitimate daughter in isolation and eventually raped her.]]
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: An in-universe example. In most of the games, Kinzo is portrayed as a temperamental, grumpy and crazy old man who doesn't give a crap about his family and only seems to care about Beatrice. The game of [=EP8=], on the other hand, has him acting as a fun CoolOldGuy and a caring family member who clearly loves his children and grandchildren. While that game's nature is left ambiguous, [=EP8=] Kinzō is implied to be a version of him that ''could'' have existed, had he not descended into madness, even willing to display his overall affections to his children he never wanted through a loveless marriage or at least a representation of a part of him that existed deep down.
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:The manga supports a decidedly nastier interpretation of his character, as it claims that Kinzo did, in fact, orchestrate the deaths of everyone on the military base he worked at. In the visual novel, this was only hinted at as part of a MindRape done by Bernkastel, making it very easy to doubt.]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: The anime gave him dark hair when he was younger. This was before the release of [=EP7=], which revealed that his hair has always been white.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: He has a similar speech as Beatrice when he's old. He spoke normally when he was younger though.
* ArrangedMarriage: Kinzo married the daughter of a high aristocratic family, who the elders forcibly chose more for their own convenience than for his. This is one of the reasons why he didn't consider his wife and children an actual family.
* AssholeVictim: Although his real depiction of his death which was a natural one in EP 7 is heart-wrenching. Kinzō was nonetheless a despicable person as he was callous to the entire family he never asked for and was discovered to have raped his [[spoiler: illegitimate daughter because of the resemblance to her mother whom he loved]] and more so in the manga as [[spoiler: he was the one who instigated his fellow mens and the Italians's death so he could have Beatrice and pilfer the gold ingots for himself when Sayo discovers the skeletal remains in a tunnel room used for the military operation that he piled up and hidden them. His only remorse was when he raped his illegitimate daughter whose name is also Beatrice who gave birth to Sayo which caused her to hate the entire family for her tragic childhood and swore to murder all of them to give Kinzō his comeuppance.]]
* TheAtoner: Turns out the whole deal with the epitaph was actually his wild gamble to [[spoiler:establish contact with Sayo, grant her the headship, and try to somehow make up for for what he did to his daughter Beatrice]].
* AwfulWeddedLife: Kinzo enlisted in the army because his ArrangedMarriage made him so miserable that he would have preferred dying in the battlefield than spend another moment with a wife and children he didn't love. He only gained a will to live by meeting Beatrice and taking her as his lover.
* BirthmarkOfDestiny: His polydactyly was seen as this, which is why he was made head of the Ushiromiya family legacy despite being from a branch family.
* ByronicHero: He appears as one of these in the first episodes, exaggerated to the point of parody. Makes sense, since [[spoiler:he's actually dead and the "Kinzo" we see is based on the ''very'' opinionated view Sayo Yasuda had of him]].
* CallBack: The name "Goldsmith" was from a gag in the first EP, where Battler jokes that Kinzo should join in the Western ThemeNaming.
* ChewingTheScenery: Most of his expressions, laughing or crying, are wide open-mouthed, as if to literally chew all the scenery. One textual example from Ep 7:
--> He sometimes scratched at his head in anguish, sometimes faced the heavens like an opera singer.
* ChildhoodFriends: With Genji. [=EP8=] reveals that they grew up together [[spoiler:in Taiwan.]]
* CoolOldGuy: In [=EP8=]'s ideal game, where he's much nicer than in previous games and jokes around with his grandchildren.
* CrazyPeoplePlayChess: His chess games with Beatrice during the first episodes, as everybody around him gets brutally murdered.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:In almost every arc he's actually been dead for about two years, with the only exceptions being [=EP7=] and [=EP8=] since those are "what if Kinzo were still alive" scenarios. He only appears to be alive thanks to Beatrice's [[UnreliableNarrator Unreliable Narration]], along with Krauss and Natsuhi's efforts to [[OfCorpseHesAlive convince the rest of the family that he's shut himself in his study]].]]
* DealWithTheDevil: Beatrice tries to convince Battler that the whole Rokkenjima tragedy was because of one of those on Kinzo's part. [[spoiler:Which is obviously false, since Kinzo had been dead for years.]]
* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler:Considering that Genji decided to conceal the child's survival out of fear that Kinzo would end up raping him as he did with his mother/sister, it is legitimate to think so.]]
* DeathSeeker: During World War II he joined the army hoping to be killed in battle, only to be assigned to an engineering job far from the front lines. He got over it when he met Beatrice.
* DespairEventHorizon: He was implied to have crossed it [[spoiler:when Beatrice Castiglioni died, fueling the eventual ParentalIncest with his daughter.]]
* {{Determinator}}: His lifelong reputation. Even the children who suspect he's dead are uncertain enough to fear his wrath. When asked how plausible it would be for him to leap from a 3rd story window to take a peaceful stroll in a typhoon, everyone accepts it as pretty typical for him.
* DotingGrandparent: In the ideal setting of [=EP8=]'s game, Kinzo absolutely adores his family and loves to play with his grandchildren.
* DrowningMySorrows: One of the many unhealty ways he tries (and fails) to get over Beatrices' death.
* EmptyShell: Episode 7 shows he was this before meeting Beatrice. See DeathSeeker above.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Reviving a witch who requires your entire family to be sacrificed doesn't seem like a good idea to begin with, and sure enough, he's found as one of the sacrifices in most of the early arcs. [[spoiler:Subverted; he actually died two years prior of natural causes, after meeting Sayo and granting her the headship.]]
* EvilOldFolks: Well, according to the fourth arc, he sics Beatrice's demons on his entire family. [[spoiler:Subverted. See above. Now, when he was alive, he was definitely abusive toward his family, even in his old age.]]
* EvilSorceror: Particularly in the fourth arc. Completely out of his mind, yes, but then, who in this family isn't? [[spoiler:Well, except that he's not actually a sorcerer.]]
* EvilMeScaresMe: [[spoiler:While raising Beatrice Castiglioni's daughter, Kinzo was well aware of the ugly desires bubbling up within him, to the point that he even discussed them with Nanjo over drinks. Despite his fears that he may end up crossing a line and doing something he regretted, that ''exactly'' what ended up happening when he impregnated his daughter, and Kinzo was tormented with the weight of his sin for the rest of his life, especially after the child's death was faked to protect it from him.]]
* ExtraDigits: Kinzo was born with six toes on each foot. This fact is almost always used to identify [[spoiler:his charred corpse]].
* {{Flanderization}}:
** Notably, this happens to him ''in-universe'': [[spoiler:he was dead by the time of the murders, which means the "Kinzo" we see in the first episodes is based on how Sayo Yasuda viewed him]].
** In parody works involving him, his eccentricity, drunkenness, and frivolous spending are cranked UpToEleven.
* ForeignCultureFetish: He has a fetish for western cultures in general (though he seems to be particularly fond of Italy and Germany), being obsessed with the western occult, building himself a western-style mansion to live in and giving his children and grandchildren western names transliterated from kanji. His flashback in [=EP7=] shows that he was fond of foreign literature as well.
* FormulaicMagic: His magic is said to be based heavily in probability. [[spoiler:Indeed, he is well aware that his gambit to find his lost child by writing a difficult riddle for them to solve that would lead to his hidden gold only has about a one in a quadrillion chance of working. But lo and behold, it does.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the first four Episodes, while the other "sacrifices" die in various ways, Kinzō alone consistently ends up burned to a crisp. [[spoiler:[[DeadAllAlong That's because he's a charred corpse from the beginning.]]]]
* GambitRoulette: Kinzo is well aware that [[spoiler:establishing contact with his lost child, Sayo, and granting him/her the headship]] is a huge gamble, even {{lampshading}} it with the quote at the top of the chapel.
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:Battler's relationship with Beatrice is later shown to heavily mirror Kinzo's own relationship with both Beatrice Castiglioni and Beatrice Ushiromiya.]]
* AGoodWayToDie: [[spoiler:Moments before dying, Kinzo got to meet "Beatrice" (Sayo in disguise) one last time and ask for her forgiveness for having raped her mother. He also passed the family headship to Lion/Sayo, his and Beatrice's child, as he always wanted and got Lion/Sayo to call him "Father" for first and last time. Kinzo then died with no regrets left. Once Sayo found out about the horrible things Kinzo did, she felt Kinzo didn't deserve to die in such a satisfying way.]]
* GrumpyOldMan: At his best, he's this. At his worst, he's an abusive JerkAss.
* GunNut: If there's something other than Beatrice and the occult that Kinzo definitely loves, that's {{Sawed Off Shotgun}}s. He has an entire collection of them and it's SeriousBusiness for him when amateurs can't tell the difference between the types.
* HateSink: Considering that since his first appearance he has always behaved like an old fool who does not feel the slightest affection for his children and grandchildren and that going forward in the arcs it turns out that he is stained with morally very questionable actions, it is not wrong to define him not only as the probably most despicable human character of the story but even the cause of all evil of Umineko.
* HotBlooded: People often describe him as this. [[spoiler: we get to see in the final battle of ''Twilight of the Golden Witch".]]
* ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKKAoC9mLBM A Song of Scattered Love ~ My Beloved Golden Witch]], which is shared with Genji.
* IncomingHam: His "Happy Halloween" entrance in Episode 8.
* IWasQuiteALooker: He strongly resembled Battler when he was young, and Battler himself isn't hard on the eyes.
* {{Jerkass}}: Even in Eva's flashbacks in Arc 3. The candidacy of most of his descendants for at least JerkassWoobie can largely be laid at Kinzo's feet.
* KarmaHoudini: In a way (see AGoodWayToDie above). [[spoiler:He died peacefully and with no regrets, and though he was deeply ashamed of his treatment (and eventual rape) of the second Beatrice, he got no comeuppance for that aside from Genji concealing their child's existence. This later fed into Sayo's bitterness, who made sure he did get his comeuppance in every Episode she wrote.]]
* KickTheDog: Nearly every scene we see him interact with ''anyone'' that's not Beatrice is a KickTheDog moment for him. Even taking into account that [[spoiler:he was not actually alive for most of the series.]] The final episode [[spoiler:makes an effort to subvert this, however, as Battler goes out of his way to show that Kinzo ''was'' capable of being a loving patriarch, despite it all.]]
* LargeHam: Most of the scenes he appears in, he is screaming at the sky like the insane man he is.
* LaughingMad: According to Natsuhi, this was his reaction when he learned [[spoiler:that the child he had entrusted to her had fallen off a cliff; screaming something like "[[{{Foreshadowing}} You escaped me again, did you?!]]"]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: The slow, solemn and slightly sad [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPIxN7byEEw&feature=related Rose]]. Not coincidentally, it also plays in Episode 6 [[spoiler:the fist time Battler appears as the Game Master.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: He fell in love with Beatrice [[spoiler:Castiglioni]] the moment he first saw her.
* LoveFatherLoveSon: Deconstructed. [[spoiler:After Beatrice Castiglioni died, Kinzo became obsessed with her daughter as she grew to look identical to her mother, convincing himself that she was his lover's reincarnation. The problem was she was also ''[[ParentalIncest his]]'' daughter and he ended up raping her.]]
* LoveHurts: Both you and your family, after it has [[LoveMakesYouCrazy made you crazy]].
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: [=EP7=] shows that he was nothing less than a NiceGuy in his youth, and TheWoobie to boot. It got worse, horribly, when he became obsessed with Beatrice. [[spoiler:He was so much in love with Beatrice Castiglioni that her DeathByChildbirth ensured that he would never be completely sane ever again. He views any of her descendants as "Beatrice" in a desperate attempt to convince himself that she can come back to him, from raping his daughter Beatrice Ushiromiya due to her StrongFamilyResemblance to having Sayo wear Beatrice's dress when they finally meet (though in the latter case, he's also trying to atone for having raped Beatrice Ushiromiya to begin with).]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Taken UpToEleven in the manga by revealing that [[spoiler:he was the one to start the massacre in the military base, feeding into the narrative that he was always a madman who wanted to "have the gold and Beatrice all for himself."]]
* LovingAShadow: [[spoiler:After his lover Beatrice Castiglioni's DeathByChildbirth, he convinced himself that their daughter Beatrice II was her mother's reincarnation and attempted to carry on their love with her, even though she couldn't understand or return her father's feelings.]]
* MadLove: Given how crazy he is over Beatrice, it's telling that he just about never comes up in any of her speech, except how he relates to the murders. Heck, she actually has her {{Mooks}} eat him alive in one ending. [[spoiler:This behavior is very much justified once the true relationship between her and Kinzo is revealed, as while Kinzo and his original mistress genuinely loved each other, their granchild who ended up playing Beatrice in 1986 barely knew Kinzo and went on to despise him.]]
* MadmanInTheAttic: He may have locked himself in there, but he still fits pretty darn well. [[spoiler:Except for the fact that he's dead, of course]].
* TheMourningAfter: Kinzo has never stopped loving his mistress Beatrice long after her death and his wish to bring her back with magic is was drove him to become obsessed with the occult. Now, he seems to be engaging in the ceremony that involves sacrificing everyone in the island in order to bring her back to life. [[spoiler:While the last part turns out to not be true, he did believe his love with Beatrice to be eternal and once she died, he tried to carry on their love with ''their own daughter'', deluding himself into thinking she was her mother's reincarnation.]]
* MurderByCremation: In most of Beatrice's games, Kinzo's corpse is found burnt in the incinerator of the mansion's underground boiler room. It's later [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with the revelation that [[spoiler:he actually died of natural causes two years before the story begins]].
* {{Necromantic}}: Kinzo had a mistress a long time before named Beatrice, and he seems to be engaging in the ceremony in order to bring her back to life after she died years earlier. [[spoiler:This is later proven false, since Kinzo wasn't alive in order to orchestrate the ceremony. And while he did have a mistress whom he desperately wanted to come back to life, the "ceremony" was not a magical ritual to summon her, but to rather find their child so that he could beg for forgiveness]].
* NeverMyFault: Since the beginning of the story, when he is not busy laughing or crying madly invoking the name of Beatrice and the ritual for his resurrection and spends time commenting on the family reunion on the partition of his legacy, Kinzo defines with contempt that Krauss, Eva, Rudolf and Rosa are nothing more than ungrateful vultures ready to feast on his body once he is dead (and not showing the least affection neither for them or their respective children). He never realizes if not in [=EP8=], during the game created by Battler for Ange, that if his children have come to hate him to such an extent, the fault is uniquely only his.
* NotSoAboveItAll: The stern and scary Kinzo of arcs 1-7 gives way to a Kinzo genuinely delighted to see his children and grandchildren to the extent that Genji winds up refraining whenever he says hello to anyone to remember his dignity.
* {{Omniglot}}: In Episode 1, Battler mentions that it's hard to find books written in Japanese in his library, and wonders just how many languages he can read. His skills in English actually helped him to negotiate with the GHQ during the American occupation.
* OminousOperaCape: As part of his {{Necromancer}} appearance.
* OneOfTheKids: In [=EP8=]'s ideal setting of [[spoiler:Battler's game for Ange]], Kinzo is shown horsing around with Maria (which in this arc he defines her like his favorite granddaughter, in stark contrast to what was revealed in EP 3 in which his daughter Rosa said that Kinzo never wanted to meet his granddaughter after he tried to force Rosa in vain to change Maria's name) and Ange.
* ParentalFavoritism: Towards [[spoiler:Lion Ushiromiya, his child/grandchild by Beatrice II. In the world where Lion grows up as his successor, Kinzo wants no other but Lion to become the next family head and personally grooms Lion for the position. In the world where Lion grows up as Sayo Yasuda, Kinzo immediately takes a liking to Shannon once he figures out she's Lion and even teaches her how to shoot his precious {{Sawed Off Shotgun}}s, something he would never let anyone else do.]]
* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:With his daughter, Beatrice Ushiromiya. He saw it as a ReincarnationRomance, since she looked so much like her mother as she grew older, but she couldn't understand or return his feelings.]]
* ParentalNeglect: When he was not busy to physically and emotionally abusing them, Kinzo often ignored his 4 children and let his wife and servants take care of them.
* PaterFamilicide: Through the summoning of Beatrice. [[spoiler:Subverted then DoubleSubverted; he's dead by the time the story begins, but before his death he ''did'' write a cryptic epitaph in hopes of "summoning Beatrice" (i.e., contacting his lost child Sayo Yasuda/Lion Ushiromiya, who carried Beatrice Castiglioni's blood) and let everyone read it however they liked. The deaths of his heirs as a possible consequence of interpreting it did not escape his attention. Not to mention the times when he would go into the hidden room where the gold was and flip the switch of the bomb to go off if he didn't come up with a good idea by midnight.]]
* ThePatriarch: Of the Ushiromiya family.
* PenName: He uses the name "Goldsmith" to sign the grimoires he writes.
* PetTheDog:
** The scene in the first arc where he tells Natsuhi that even though she isn't qualified to wear the family crest on her clothes, that it's in her heart and to not listen to the family members who would mock her. [[spoiler:Subverted, as he was actually dead and Natsuhi was just being delusional.]]
** His behaviour towards Lion in [=EP7=] could also count towards this. [[spoiler: However, this is because Lion is actually [[ParentalIncest his and Beatrice Ushiromiya's]] child, and thus he's trying to atone for his sins by ensuring Lion succeeds him.]]
** Also according to Kanon in [=EP6=] [[spoiler: when Kinzo was away from the family members and he was alone with Kanon, he would reveal a soft side toward Kanon and even was the person that taught him how to fire a gun. Again, this is because Kanon's true identity is Sayo Yasuda, Lion's AlternateSelf and thus Kinzo's child.]]
* PhraseCatcher: "I wouldn't put it past father/grandfather." Whenever they talk about him doing something CrazyAwesome.
* PragmaticHero: [[spoiler:It's possible to interpret his actions on the military base in the manga as this. Kinzo could have orchestrated the deaths of both his and the Italian units not out of a budding madness, but because he predicted that revealing the gold would turn everyone against each other anyway, and so chose to ruthlessly manipulate how things went in order to ensure that he and Beatrice made it out alive.]]
* PuppetKing: Before building his home on Rokkenjima, he was the head of the family in name only. Everything in his life, [[ArrangedMarriage including his wife]], was decided by the elders.
* RamblingOldManMonologue: Usually begins with [[SkywardScream OOOOOH]] [[SayMyName BEATORIIICHEEE!!]] [[TheLostLenore WHY DID YOU ABANDON ME!!]] and continues from there for a few minutes. Every day. You have to feel sorry for Genji. [[spoiler:It's at least partly due to in-universe {{Flanderization}}]].
* ReincarnationRomance: He ''wanted'' to believe he had this with [[spoiler:Beatrice Ushiromiya, his daughter because she looked so much like her mother Beatrice Castiglioni]].
* SanitySlippage: By Genji's own words, after he lost his beloved Beatrice. Although going by the [[AdaptationExpansion manga's interpretation]] [[spoiler:he wasn't exactly the sanest man around, even before that.]]
* SelfMadeMan: He was tasked with reviving the Ushiromiya prestige which was toppled in the great Kanto quake. He did it, to the surprise of everybody.
* SharpDressedMan: Kinzo is revealed to be particularly fussy about his clothes in Twilight.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Beatrice-sexual. [[spoiler:He even obsesses over her daughter because he believed she carried the soul of his beloved Beatrice Castiglioni.]]
* SkywardScream: [[SayMyName "BEATORIICHEEEEEEE!!!!!!"]]
* SpiritAdvisor: [[spoiler:He serves as this for Natsuhi within her delusions, along with Beatrice.]]
* SpringtimeForHitler: He enlisted in the army because he wanted to be killed on the front. But because he had some experience with construction, the higher-ups sent him to a secret base on an isolated island where no deadly battle was ever likely to occur. [[spoiler:It ends pretty well for him though; well, apart from the whole "massacre over 10 tons of gold" thing.]]
* StrawMisogynist: His behaviour towards Eva in [=EP3=]. Dude has some ''serious'' issues with women.
* SummonMagic: The TIPS say that this is his specialty. It's probably a reference to how [[spoiler:he managed to "summon" Sayo Yasuda/Lion Ushiromiya with the epitaph, despite the low odds]].
* SympatheticAdulterer: [[spoiler:Kinzo was clearly more in love with Beatrice Castiglioni than the woman his family had made him marry, especially since it's shown that before he met Beatrice he was very unhappy with his life and felt detached from his wife and children as a result.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: InUniverse, he's known for loving areca nuts [[spoiler:which is a hint that the "beloved hometown" mentioned in the epitaph is Taiwan]]. When it comes to drinks, he seems rather fond of absinthe, a drink (erroneously) attributed to cause delusions.
* TroubledAbuser: Kinzo was manipulated as the heir to the Ushiromiya family, made to marry a woman he didn't love, sent himself off to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII [[DeathSeeker while hoping he'd be killed on the front so his misery would end]] [[spoiler: and finally met his true love, Beatrice Castiglioni, only to have her and later their daughter both die]]. He winds up half-insane, is abusive to most of his children (for example to Eva by denying her the right to be the heir purely for her gender despite being more talented in business than her eldest brother Krauss) [[spoiler: and has a child with his illegitimate daughter, Beatrice Ushiromiya, through rape]].
* UnexpectedSuccessor: He was actually from a branch family of the main Ushiromiya line that had the least influence but after an earthquake that killed most of the family members, the title of family head fell onto him.
* UnreliableNarrator: A late scene in [=EP7=] implies that [[spoiler:Kinzo was the one to suggest that the Japanese steal the Italian gold, a CallBack to scenes in EP 4 where Gaap says he chose to let everyone other than himself and his loved one die]]. Nowhere does this show up in Kinzo's self-narrated flashback, and the very context behind the scene [[spoiler:casts doubt on it since it's part of a MindRape done on Ange]]. The manga, however, claims that this indeed happened.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: As shown in his introduction as a young man to Lion and Will, he recounts his happy childhood in Taiwan before being summoned to Japan as a new Ushiromiya Family Head against his will and foster children he never wanted in an arranged marriage. Depressed, he enlisted himself during World War II to end his own life but as he met [[spoiler: Beatrice Castiglioni.]] She was a new purpose for him to live on as they fell in love after they survived the massacre between his men and the Italians. He then helped her hid away from his family members until Bice died of childbirth which made him go off the end as he watched his illegitimate daughter grew up to resemble her mother and [[spoiler:raped her against her will.]] [[spoiler: However in the manga, by the time he met Beatrice he was already a reprehensible person who instigated the massacre so he could have Beatrice and the gold ingots for himself after his illegitimate grandaughter and also his [[ChildByRape daughter,]] Sayo discovered the corpses of his fellow soldiers and the Italians.]]
* WeakButSkilled: Is stated to have utterly no talent in magic whatsoever. However, through absurd amounts of hard work he managed to become a master summoner. The tips describe him as a magician who can't even cast a spell to heat water, yet can summon a demon that can boil away an ocean. [[spoiler:This could be foreshadowing for how his "summoning" of Beatrice (that is, his wild gamble to find his lost child, Sayo, who he made to dress up as Beatrice for him when they finally met) succeeded.]] In contrast to his granddaughter Maria, who is UnskilledButStrong.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: He certainly comes across this way now, but in his youth it seemed he was a subversion, being much less of a {{Jerkass}} and still having white hair. [[spoiler:The manga claims that he was the one who suggested that the Japanese steal the gold from the Italians, playing this straight, while the original visual novel left the authenticity of this fact ambiguous]].
* WifeHusbandry: [[spoiler:He raised his illegitimate daughter, Beatrice II, to be a replacement for his lover and her mother Beatrice Castiglioni as she grew up to resemble her mother more. Unfortunately for him, she couldn't understand or return his feelings. Things turned out horribly wrong for both of them as a result.]]
* {{Yandere}}: His obsession with Beatrice [[spoiler:Castiglioni]] seriously makes him go over the edge. [[spoiler:In the manga, he started the massacre in the military base, which is very easy to interpret as his attempt to "have Beatrice all for himself". This all comes to a head when he rapes his own daughter Beatrice II because she was identical to her mother, a sin that torments him for the rest of his life, to the point that the entire epitaph puzzle was a gambit to find their child and beg them for forgiveness.]]
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[[folder:Krauss Ushiromiya]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/JurotaKosugi (JP)
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->"''Don't you think education for women is like sugar in black tea? When there is none it's just tasteless, but too much of it ruins the tea.''"

First successor to Kinzo's fortune, father of Jessica, and husband of Natsuhi. He has poor intuition for investment, and so has squandered a lot of the Ushiromiya family's wealth on failed projects. He is largely [[CainAndAbel resented by his siblings]] for being very manipulative.
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* ActionDad: In fantasy sequences. It is also known that he practiced boxing from a young age and that he passed this passion on to his daughter Jessica.
* AlwaysSecondBest: This is one of the main reasons behind his deep resentment towards Eva, who never made an effort to don't insensibly list the fact that it did not matter how much Krauss himself tried to excel in every academic activity and the results that he got, she always got over him and made it clear that she wanted to usurp his position as Kinzo's heir.
* BigBrotherBully: Krauss admits he was a very cruel older brother to his three younger siblings, mainly because of [[AbusiveParents Kinzō]] being their father and Krauss suffering from an InferioritySuperiorityComplex due to being all too aware of his inadequacies as the heir of the family. Flashbacks show how he used to talk down to Eva about how her intelligence and ambition were "unbecoming" of a woman and her hopes of replacing him as the heir were worthless because he's both a man ''and'' the eldest child. Rosa also has traumatic memories of being abused by Krauss both emotionally and physically.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Although he tormented and mistreated his younger siblings during their childhood and has no qualms about [[spoiler:hiding their father's death to]] monopolize the inheritance to the detriment of their families, Krauss ultimately feels both affection and remorse for them and, if possible, he will not hesitate to take an interest in their safety and health (as shown in Episode 4 in which his first thought while he was blocked by Chiester 00, after Kinzo and the other Chiester Sisters killed his wife, Rudolf, Hideyoshi, Genji and Eva, is to tell to Rosa to run away and save herself).
* BoundAndGagged: Apparently done to him in the fifth arc (well, bound, anyway), as part of a ploy to [[spoiler:frame Natsuhi]] for the murders that occur.
* TheDutifulSon: He and his family are the ones who stay on Rokkenjima and look after Kinzo, since he's first in line to the headship.
* ExpositoryPronoun: Since he was a teenager, Krauss opted to call himself with the formal pronoun "Watashi" because that's what the family head is expected to do. Eva even called him out on this, claiming he was throwing in her face his position as the firstborn.
* GeniusDitz: While certaily not a genius, he is is frequently shown to be very perceptive. This becomes apparent as early as Episode 2, when he is able to notice small changes in Shannon's mood and behavior. Apparently, he can also tell when Natsuhi is experiencing headaches by the way she wrinkles her forehead.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Even after he gets swindled, he's still singing the praises of a few of the swindlers.
* IKnowKarate: He knows boxing. And he can down a goat-monster twice his size if he raises enough loser flags.
* InadequateInheritor: And he's all too aware of it, which puts a huge amount of pressure on him. [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex His arrogant attitude mostly comes from this.]]
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: He knows full well that he's not the best person to be head of the family, but he deals with this by acting arrogant and lording it over his siblings.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In Episode 5, [[spoiler:he offered to divorce Natsuhi so that she and Jessica wouldn't have to suffer from the fall of the Ushiromiya family.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Introduced as not much more than a manipulative jerk to his siblings as well as being sexist towards his wife and sisters, but in arcs three and four, he shows a much softer side with a PetTheDog moment or two. For all the sexist attitude he can show when he's upset, he really does care about his family.
* KickTheDog: Probably only surpassed by Eva in this, but Krauss has no qualms about repeatedly attacking his siblings injuring them in their weak points during family conferences. This even extends to making fun of Maria's dreams and faith on witches so he can hit Rosa.
* ManipulativeBastard: He shows this ''very'' effectively in the first arc, where he successfully turns the tables around in his negotiation with the other parents. However, later arcs show that he isn't quite so smart in [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter other]] [[UpperClassTwit areas]].
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: He and Natsuhi were forced to get married as a reconciliation of her family's debts to Kinzo. They have their problems, but they really love each other.
* PetTheDog: In episode 17 of the anime he laments that due to being Kinzo's successor he was never as nice to his siblings (especially Eva) as he should have been. Cue Eva-Beatrice strangling him and Natsuhi. Despite his sexist attitude towards Natsuhi, later arcs also show him displaying a softer side towards her.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: In the fourth arc Krauss literally punches a goat man so hard it ends up falling right on top of Virgilia.
* SleepingSingle: He and Natsuhi are shown to sleep in separate rooms.
* StayInTheKitchen: Alienated Eva and Rosa with sexism when they were younger and he was competing with Eva over the headship qualifications. Much later, he refuses to let Natsuhi have anything to do with the family funds until it's too late to get out of the hole he dug himself into--very unfortunately for him, as [[SanityBall she's got all the common sense]].
* StrawMisogynist: Turning you into one of these is part of the Ushiromiya standard upbringing. He's at least partly aware he's exploiting this because of his InferioritySuperiorityComplex, and that Eva would actually be a better family head than him.
* UpperClassTwit: He seems like a good guy, but lacks any business sense whatsoever. A big hint towards his complete lack of business foresight appears early in [=EP1=] when Krauss remarks that [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld Japan will become the economic center of the world]]. Unfortunately for him, the collapse of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_asset_price_bubble Japanese asset price bubble]] would have likely completely wiped him out only four or five years later.
* VerbalTic: In Japanese, he seems to punctuate every question with "ka ne?"
* WellDoneSonGuy: Gotta feel sorry for the poor idiot to some extent. Although he was the heir apparent, Kinzo never really had any faith in him (for good reason) to begin with, and so he was struggling for Kinzo's approval just like Eva. The only difference is that Eva actually deserved it.
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[[folder:Eva Ushiromiya]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/MikiIto (JP), Creator/CynthiaCranz (EN)
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Second in the line of inheritance and George's mother. She has a lot of resentment against her older brother, Krauss, and has a rivalry with his wife, Natsuhi. She is also the wife of Hideyoshi. In order to keep her placement in the line of successors, she married Hideyoshi and had him adopt the name of "Ushiromiya".

In the meta-world, [[Characters/UminekoWhenTheyCryWitches Eva-Beatrice]] is the manifestation of all the theories which place her as the culprit of the Rokkenjima incident. In Arc 3, it is revealed that in the BadFuture Ange comes from she survives the Rokkenjima incident and becomes Ange's caretaker while becoming the head of the Ushiromiya corporate.
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* AbusiveParent: She eventually became one to Ange when she became her legal guardian. When she found herself raising Ange alone, Eva tried to be a nice mother to the child, but Ange's complete rejection made them hate each other. It's implied in the VN, and made evident in some flashbacks of the manga, that Eva often mistreated her niece for no reason. Apparently Eva did "something" to Ange as a punishment for trying to escape her household: "something" that gives Ange panic attacks even to this day. That and all sorts of emotional abuse on top. Eva did end up regretting how she treated Ange after her death since she should have understood the niece's feelings instead of taking out her anger on her.
* AccidentalMurder:
** The manga of [=EP7=] brings up this as a possible explanation for [[spoiler:Rosa]]'s murder in [=EP3=]. [[spoiler:The panel shown when Will is solving the mysteries implies Eva and Rosa got into a heated argument over the gold, causing Eva to push Rosa in a fit of anger, with the result being the latter fell on the railing of the garden and got stabbed through the throat. Maria's death wasn't an accident, though. In a panic at killing her sister, Eva [[WouldHurtAChild strangled Maria]] to shut her up and get rid of the witness.]]
** [[spoiler:Of Natsuhi in [=EP7=] Tea Party, which is what happened in the real world. Natsuhi impulsively jumped at Eva while she was carring a gun, which caused an accidental discharge that killed Natsuhi.]]
* AltarTheSpeed: After Eva noticed that Kinzo was upset that Natsuhi and Krauss were having trouble having a child, she decided to convince Hideyoshi to marry her quickly so that they could have a child who could be usurp the place that Jessica would eventually have in the succession. Hideyoshi, who had already lost his relatives and was eager to start a family of his own, agreed. Despite Eva's motives, the two are quite HappilyMarried.
* AmbitionIsEvil: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]; young Eva's desire to become the new family head is portrayed as a good thing, since she actually is the most talented and dedicated of Kinzo's children for the family business. When Kinzo and Krauss constantly deny her the position because of sexist reasons, though, she isn't able to let it go and lets ambition and bitterness poison the rest of her life.
* AntiHero: [[spoiler:Turns out she was one the whole time. While she isn't exactly a noble person and she did very questionable things, Eva was the one who stopped and killed the real culprits in the real life massacre and she made herself into a SilentScapegoat to protect Ange from the truth.]]
* AxCrazy: The whole story about the mystery of the Episode 3 murders saw her alternative personality Eva-Beatrice in the role of the culprit in the fantasy sequences, in the real world was depicted in showing how Eva (after finding the gold and then being be faced by Rosa this regard) becomes prey to a frightful murderous rage that drives her to exterminate not only all her siblings but also their spouses and children without remorse. This alternative scenario was the reality in which society and Ange (before she discovered the true truth during the seventh arc) had chosen to believe.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Eva wished her entire life to become the family head. In Ange's future, she got her wish after becoming the only known survivor of the Rokkenjima Massacre. However, she lost her beloved husband and son, her only living relative absolutely hates her and the media never stops harassing her over the events of the massacre. It's no surprise when we see her in her deathbed, Eva has gone insane and decided the best way to make Ange's life hell was to make her the new family head.
* BerserkButton: When Natsuhi scolds her for her mischievous behavior and tries to deny her the right to cross the threshold of the Ushiromiya house, Eva becomes quite vicious.
* BigBrotherBully: Well, Big Sister. When she was younger, she was constantly lying to her younger sister and teasing her (to the point that Rosa herself in the Tea Party of [=EP2=] states that Eva even ruined her ninth birthday by constantly emphasizing that [[LonelyRichKid she had no friend to invite]]). Unlike her brothers, who nowadays recognize that they had treated Rosa badly when she was a child and they would like to have been better brothers, Eva still can not stop herself from teasing her sister or to insult and attack her when she is nervous.
* BigSisterInstinct: Despite clarifying and proving several times that she cares only for her family and has no qualms about betraying those of the other siblings, she was deeply scared and disgusted by what [[ShadowArchetype her witch counterpart]] [[ResurrectionDeathLoop had done to Rosa and Maria]] and showed genuine concern for her sister in the fantasy scenes. According to the words of Eva-Beatrice herself while torturing Rosa by taking inspiration from certain events and dreams of their childhood, Eva once took care of her sister.
* BreakTheHaughty: Expected when George or Hideyoshi are found dead and she is still alive.
* CainAndAbel: Due to the fact that in the timeline of Ange she's the only person who survived the entire massacre on the island and consequently inherited the riches of the entire family, the niece and the whole society chose to believe that she (representing the Cain of the situation) [[SiblingMurder killed her 3 siblings]] and their families to inherit all the gold of her father and her position as head of the family, which gave rise to the theory Eva's Culprit and consequently also to the existence of Banquet of the Golden Witch that sees her counterpart of the Meta-World become a witch and kill everyone, starting with her sister Rosa and her niece Maria, just to keep every single gold bar all to herself (while in the logical sequences of reality the same Eva carried out without remorse the murders). It does not help her then that in [=EP1=] she was one of culprit's accomplices together with her husband. [[spoiler: In [=EP7=] reveals that in reality she is an almost completely involuntary tragic Cain by showing her going crazy both from the terror of ending up in jail and from the feelings of guilt after she and Hideyoshi [[AccidentalMurder accidentally killed Krauss and Natsushi]] (even if she does not show hesitation in aiming her rifle against Rosa when the latter tries to manipulate her by threatening her and then bursting into a raging verbal outburst on her younger sister's body after she has been betrayed and killed by Kyrie, affirming that Rosa herself sought it out and rejoicing because, with her death, Eva gets a further share of heredity), and then kill Rudolf only after he and his wife killed her husband and son and tried to kill her too.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: Her martial arts prowess is discussed at the beginning of the first novel. A slightly different example in that the callback turns out to be the fact that she taught those skills to George, allowing him to be a BadassNormal in the fourth novel.
* CoolAunt: She usually behaves very jokingly with the children of her siblings (especially Battler).
* ControlFreak: Her issues with being oppressed by her father and older brother for her gender made Eva grow up into a controlling woman who dominates her son's life while pushing her own dreams and aspirations on him so he can become the family head just because she wasn't allowed to.
* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: In Ange's future, Eva was never found guilty of the Rokkenjima incident due to the lack of evidence. The media, however, would never stop to incriminate her and create conspiracy theories with her as the culprit.
* DeathByIrony: Sort of. In the BadFuture, she dies from the same illness as [[spoiler:Kinzō.]] On the exact day the Rokkenjima incident happened (October 4). [[spoiler:All of the killing actually took place on October 5th.]]
* DeathGlare: She gives one to Natsuhi in [= EP1 =].
* DespairEventHorizon: After losing her beloved husband and son in Rokkenjima, Eva tried to start a new life with Ange. Unfortunately, Ange rejected her and accused her of being the one who murdered everyone. This, coupled with constant suspicions and harassment from the media and society, made Eva lose all hope for a happy life and her relationship with Ange went downhill from there.
* DestroyTheEvidence: [[spoiler:Part of the reason she activated the bomb was to get rid of any evidence that would incriminate her, given her AccidentalMurder of Natsuhi would have been more difficult to excuse than her murders of Kyrie and Rudolf, which were more or less self-defense.]]
* DitzyGenius: On an academic level she has always proved superior to her siblings in her studies and she is one of only 2 parents (the other is [[SmarterThanYouLook Rosa]]) who has been able to solve the Epigraph by herself after having carefully consulted some books of the forbidden library of her father. [[spoiler: Despite her knowledge and shrewdness it is eventually shown that in other fields, more complex than study and business, Eva is not very good at understanding that the victims of the first twilight in Legend have really died, as well as she can not understand that not sticking to the script of Sayo by blaming Natsuhi will lead her and her husband to be killed by the latter. Not to mention her take on the role of the second murderer in the third arc which, even without [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Eva-Beatrice]], makes it clear to [[AwesomenessByAnalysis Kyrie]] that she and Hideyoshi have something to do with the death of Rosa and Maria. And in the end, there is her absolutely insane plan planned in panic and madness to detonate the whole island to hide the deaths of Krauss and Natsuhi.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: Sure Eva, feel free to insult and/or randomly attack [[BewareTheNiceOnes Rosa]], to subtly criticize [[KiddieKid Maria's childish behavior]] and to belittle your sister constantly as a mother, surely with this behavior Rosa will never dare to take advantage of every opportunity that is offered to her to strike you down harshly.
* EducationMama: Tuesday: piano lessons; Wednesday: cram-school; Thursday: supplementary class; Friday: special school for parents and children; Saturday: special tutor. All alongside regular school. It's surprising George [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere didn't imitate Battler.]] It is highly possible that she was this for Ange too and that as she turned out to be more rebellious than her son, it's helped turn her into an AbusiveParent.
* EvilAunt: Ange sees Eva this way, being convinced that she is the real culprit behind the tragedy of Rokkenjima and the murderer of her real parents. [[spoiler:It's subverted particularly in the final two arcs. Eva ''did'' kill Rudolf and Kyrie, but they were the ones who decided to murder everyone in the island to run off with the money. Instead of letting Ange know the truth that would have destroyed her, Eva let Ange hate her for the rest of her life. That said, Eva still used Ange to vent her anger over how miserable her life became after the massacre so Eva admits she wasn't a good aunt either.]]
* EyeScream: Once in the fourth arc, she ([[spoiler:or better said, Ange's ''perception'' of Eva]]) holds [[spoiler: Ange]] at gunpoint. Then, the rifle '''blows up on her face''', and said injuries are so horrible that [[spoiler: Ange has to MercyKill her]].
* FashionableAsymmetry: One of her gloves is shorter than the other in order to show her One-Winged Eagle tattoo in whole.
* FemaleMisogynist: Becomes this, to some extent, in her attempts to wrest the succession from Krauss, as she sees the genders of their children as an advantage to her. She feels plenty guilty about it, though.
* FinalGirl: It's an interesting subversion because everything you could be said about Eva except that she is a nice female character with which every fan can identify with it (and it would certainly be a bit strange to call her a girl given her age). However, considering that she is the only survivor of Rokkenjima [[spoiler:(considering also that, although his body survives, Battler's personality also perishes shortly after Sayo's suicide) and that she has faced and killed the real killers]], Eva is technically to be considered as such.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: This seems to be the basis of her grudge against Rosa, since more than once when she belittles or insults her sister, defining her a stupid woman, she never misses the occasion to point out the fact that [[BrilliantButLazy Rosa has never been commitment herself to studies as much as Eva did during their youth]].
* GoGetterGirl: When she was younger, Eva always tried and excelled at everything in order to prove herself and surpass her brother Krauss. Then her father told her she could never become family head because she was a woman. Things got worse from there...
* GoodAllAlong: In the future, Eva was incriminated by society as a mass-murdering monster that killed her own relatives to have the fortune all to herself. Even her niece believed that to be the truth. [[spoiler:Despite her unhealthy greed, her desire for revenge and the bad relationship she has with [[SiblingRivalry Krauss]] and [[BigSisterBully Rosa]], Eva is not so bad, crazy and heartless to want to kill them just for money and business. In Prime, it was Rudolf and Kyrie who killed the entire family out of greed. After seeing Hideyoshi's corpse and discovering the death of her son at the hands of her brother, Eva killed Rudolf and Kyrie for both revenge and self-defense. After that, she hid the truth for the rest of her life in order to protect herself and don't let poor Ange know the monsters her parents really were.]]
* HairTriggerTemper: In almost all episodes Eva shows a highly susceptible personality and explodes on more than any occasion in real verbal attacks (often against Rosa for no reasons) even without anyone actually doing something to provoke her. According to her husband, she is not always this in their home and it is due to having to attend the family conference on the island every year. In the adaptations of Alliance she is also shown in a flashback against Ange.
* HappilyMarried: She genuinely loves her husband and has the most stable relationship with her spouse among her siblings.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: After she survived the island's explosion, when she gained Ange's custody as her legal guardian, she abused her which is understandable as she went through a lot of immense grief after George and Hideyoshi's deaths as she tried to strictly raise her niece in her son's place and Ange's persistence to learn about the truth of the incident which deteriorated their relationship up until her death. But in [=EP7=] and [=EP8=], it's revealed that she refused to tell her the truth so that Ange wouldn't discover that [[spoiler: Rudolf and Kyrie]] were responsible for the Rokkenjima massacre.
* {{Hypocrite}}: In the Tea Party of Episode 7, she arrives to bawl against Rosa's corpse stating that she has sought and deserved the death she had [[OnlyInItForTheMoney for her having become so greedy, shortly thereafter, however, she was completely enthusiastic about the idea of inheriting an even larger slice of Kinzo gold thanks to her sister's death]].
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: In the BadFuture Ange comes from. Oddly, you see the scene in which she's implied to have died, but the actual cause of death stated in the TIPS is heart failure. Huh. That must have been some cough.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Not only she still complains today because she could not become the heir to the Krauss's place (and this regardless of whether she was a [[StayInTheKitchen woman]]) but also, compared to all her other siblings and their families, who have much more serious problems, she has the tough face not only to vent her anger in unjustified manner against them but also to [[StealthInsult provoke them repeatedly]]. Not to mention that when she finds the gold in Episode 3, she admits clearly that she is enthusiastic about the thought that her siblings' families will disappear and be ruined while hers will flourish (she doesn't care that, compared to Hideyoshi who has mere competition as the only obstacle, the economic problems of Krauss, Rudolf and [[StrugglingSingleMother Rosa]] are much more complicated and threatening and that Maria and Ange depend heavily on the economic stability of their parents if compared with George, who is already an adult).
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Together with Krauss, Eva is undoubtedly the most hateful, rude and detestable among the adults of the family, proving able to easily become a very annoying presence by verbally attacking (most of all without any reason) Natsuhi, Jessica, Rosa and Shannon for pure and simple malice. However, both thanks to Hideyoshi and her own reflection, she is aware that her behavior is wrong but she simply cannot hold back from being a shitty person. She does love her husband and George despite all the pressure she puts in the latter. Also, her worst personality traits apparently only come out when she's around her relatives in Rokkenjima because of her deep resentment towards her abusive upbringing there, since Hideyoshi says Eva is a nice wife at their home.
* KickTheDog: She does it habitually with anyone other than her husband or son, but obviously shows a certain preference for doing it with Rosa, Natsuhi and their respective daughters.
* LaserGuidedKarma: For a FemaleMisogynist who has spent her life mocking, insulting and verbally mistreating other women [[SmugSnake even just for malice of bad taste]], [[KickTheDog also knowing very well that they have had a problematic life]], like [[StrugglingSingleMother Rosa]] and [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask Natsuhi]] and thinking to being superior to them in everything, [[AssholeVictim dying slowly and painfully like a poor old terminally ill woman on a hospital bed after having spent her last years being abused and despised by the whole society, has something karmic about it]] and it could be safely said that she deserved no more than what she had got. [[labelnote:note]] This was her final verbal offense against her sister [[spoiler:shortly after Kyrie had just killed her]]. [[/labelnote]]
* TheMaidenNameDebate: She convinced her husband, Hideyoshi, to adopt the name of "Ushiromiya" in order to keep her placement in the line of successors. It also helped that Hideyoshi had already lost his family in the war.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:After her AccidentalMurder of Natsuhi in the real world, Eva decided to blow up the island and pass it all off as an accident. The other siblings didn't want to cooperate, but after Rudolf and Kyrie killed everyone but her and Eva killed them, Eva could activate the bomb and claim it was all an accident.]]
* MeaningfulName: The name Eva in Hebrew means "life". [[spoiler: Appropriate enough when it turns out that she was the only one who managed to survive the tragedy.]]
* MyBelovedSmother: [[WellDoneDaughterGirl Because she was unable to get from her father what she wanted as a young girl]], [[EducationMama Eva became an extremely demanding and omnipresent mother in her son's life over the years, forcing him not only into intensive study and in taking part in all kinds of extracurricular activities]], instead of letting him have fun and socialize with his peers, for the sole purpose of making him a much more worthy heir than Jessica in the eyes of her father (not to mention that she decided to marry Hideyoshi and have George only for this purpose in the first place), but even going so far as to '''plan''' George's married life. Even with Ange she proved no less, which, considering the type of parents Ange had before ending up in the custody of Eva, became one of the major cause of why their relationship to become more and more sour over the years, thanks to the more rebel personality of the niece who eventually forces Eva to send her to a hellish boarding school in her last years.
* MyGreatestFailure: In Episode 8, we get to see Eva deeply regretting [[spoiler:her failure to become a good mother to Ange after Ange rejected her and Eva just gave up on repairing their relationship, which only lead to both of them becoming even more miserable]].
* NeverMyFault: Except for her feelings of guilt over how hard she treated Ange in the eighth arc and how she conceived and exploited George as an instrument of revenge against Krauss and his daughter, Eva is very inclined to justify herself and wash her hands from all her responsibilities. For example, her [[RichBitch bad behavior]], her verbal and psychological abuse towards Rosa and Natsuhi, the mobbing she implements against Shannon and much more, but this also extends as regards to the murders [[spoiler:given that, in panic, she immediately blames Natsuhi for having come closer on her in the heated argument over the gold, causing her to shoot her by mistake with the rifle in her hand. Not to mention the verbal outburst against Rosa's corpse in which she goes so far as to say that her little sister did not deserve anything more than to die like that (i.e. killed treacherously by Kyrie) only because she had understandably refused to cover both her and Hideyoshi]].
* NotQuiteDead: After [[spoiler:Kyrie shoots her '''TWICE''' in ''Requiem'''s Tea Party.]] [[PlotArmor Certainly a miracle]], although we won't go as far as to say she was [[SarcasmMode "lucky"…]]
* ObnoxiousInLaws: With Natsuhi. If there's a thing all Episodes get right, it's that Eva and Natsuhi absolutely despise each other. It's sort of sad, since they actually share a lot of issues.
* OlderThanSheLooks: While most of the adult women in this series are quite attractive, Eva probably takes the cake. She's 50 and yet she doesn't look a day over 30. Probably doesn't hurt that she's mastered numerous martial arts and kept her figure extremely fit.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: In the future, Eva is the SoleSurvivor of the Rokkenjima Massacre with one of the many victims being her only son George.
* TheParanoiac: It is reiterated many times that after the massacre, both because of the constant slander suffered by the media and the public, which portrayed her as a greedy heartless killer capable of killing even her own family and relatives for money, and because when she herself took the reins of the family business and made numerous enemies due to her devious and ruthless tactics, Eva became completely unable to trust every single person.
* ParentalMarriageVeto: Eva disapproves of George falling in love with Shannon because she believes a mere maid doesn't have the social standing to marry her son and makes that very clear. In Episode 6, George calls her on it. The resulting argument has her causing a major case of MyBelovedSmother before [[SuperpoweredEvilSide finally transforming into Eva-Beatrice]] and trying to beat him into submission with magic. Cue KungFuWizard smackdown.
* ParentalSubstitute: After the island explosion and the deaths of all their relatives and families, Eva tries to become this for Ange.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Verbally aggressive even in good-natured teasing, a little rougher on her thick-skinned siblings, but downright bloodthirsty with Natsuhi.
* PetTheDog: She genuinely seems to love her husband Hideyoshi, and gets a touching scene with him in episode 3 of the anime. [[spoiler:They find her and Hideyoshi's bodies approximately 90 seconds later]]. Also, despite (''and'' because of) what you'll hear about [[LiteralSplitPersonality Eva-Beatrice]], the third arc serves as a giant PetTheDog moment for Eva. [[spoiler:At least until she turns out to be the culprit]], [[MindScrew or something]].
* ResentfulGuardian: As Ange's caretaker, Eva made no secret of the fact that she wished Ange was the one who died instead of her own son George, who had been killed in Rokkenjima. [[spoiler:The fact that Ange was the daughter of those who directly killed Eva's family probably didn't help matters.]] It gets complicated since [[spoiler:turns out Eva always still cared for Ange to some extent and was protecting Ange from the AwfulTruth of Rokkenjima by [[SilentScapegoat deliberately directing all of Ange's hate on herself.]]]]
* RichBitch: She acts equivalent to the trope, but usually over position in the hierarchy, rather than actual money, since everyone's filthy rich.
* RummageSaleReject: Not so much her qipao that, if it were not for '''those wide white pants and those black orthopedic shoes''', would be rather more or less acceptable, as much more for the choice of accessories (earrings fuchsia flowers, the detail of the belt on the dress, the pink bracelet ecc.) which makes her look like one who dresses in the dark compared to other rather elegant members of the Ushiromiya family.
* SanitySlippage: Third arc only, where you can really start to see her lose it after Hideyoshi is killed, until the end, where she ultimately goes AxCrazy.
* SilentScapegoat: [[spoiler:She chose to have Ange hate her forever rather than tell her the truth about what really happened on the island, which she feared would be too much for her. In the manga, she admits her motivations for hiding the truth weren't completely for Ange's sake, but for self-preservation too because she wasn't completely innocent in the massacre. Still, she always did want to protect Ange and the latter thanks her for it after learning the truth.]]
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Her husband is one of the few real {{Nice Guy}}s in the series. She loves him very deeply and is usually at her best mood when he's around.
* SkirtOverSlacks: Part of her outfit.
* SmugSnake: We could practically define it the basis of her personality, Eva loves to provoke and constantly made fun of people she detests and underestimates like Krauss, Rosa and Natsuhi as well as openly showing an enmity in general towards every person who she doesn't particularly like as Shannon.
* SoleSurvivor: In the world of 1998, she is believed to be the only survivor of the Rokkenjima Incident. This is not a good thing, for her, or for Ange, the only other living Ushiromiya.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Of all the characters in the series, Eva is probably the living embodiment of this trope:
** Episode 1. While she gave Battler useful advice in accordance with the "scenario", she also did everything she could to make Natsuhi spit out [[spoiler:that Kinzō was DeadAllAlong, which could have ruined Sayo's plan.]] Surely enough, she and her husband were disposed of right after that scene.
** In Episode 3, she becomes this for [[spoiler:Sayo]] when she takes on the role of the second killer.
** [[spoiler:And finally there is the Tea Party of Episode 7 that sees her as a TragicHeroine while surviving 2 gunshots in the head for pure luck and kills Rudolf and Kyrie after they have tried to exterminate all human beings who were on Rokkenjima for the purpose of appropriating of the money derived from gold without police interference.]]
* SplitPersonality: Though similarly to [[spoiler:Sayo]], this is symbolic of her internal conflict rather than an actual split.
* SpoiledBrat: Although ''physically'' she's no longer a brat, it is clear that Eva has remained very capricious and spoiled.
* StayInTheKitchen: How she was treated by her father and brothers in her childhood.
* StealthInsult: Notably in the early arcs, her favorite targets being Natsuhi and Rosa.
-->'''Eva:''' It's so nice for a child to have dreams! By the way Rosa, how old is Maria this year, again? ^__^ [[labelnote: The Insult...]] Maria is 9 years old, and when Rosa's 9th Birthday was coming up, Eva tormented her by saying that nobody was ever going to come to it and she'd be alone at the party, which ended up ruining Rosa's 9th Birthday.[[/labelnote]]
* SupernaturalIsPurple: Like for her niece Maria, her eyes in the anime and in the versions on [=PS3=] are violet as {{Foreshadowing}} for the birth of her witch version, Eva-Beatrice.
* SupremeChef: It's only very briefly mentioned in the story, but according to a TIP she is very skilled and creative when it comes to cooking, to the point Hideyoshi calls her a "Witch of the kitchen".
* TalkingToThemself: With Eva-Beatrice in [=EP3=], since Eva-Beatrice is essentially an imagined younger version of herself.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: In the world of 1998, Eva suffered from the constant accusations and harassment from society that made her out as the culprit of the Rokkenjima massacre and created a bad image of her and her family. Eventually, Eva finally broke down and started to become the monster everyone expected her to be.
* TooDumbToLive: She and her husband often end up falling into this category when they don't play the part of the killers in the various arches; in particular in [=EP1=] in which Eva not only does continue to believe that the deaths have actually been rigged and falsified, but also ends up putting herself at the center of [[spoiler:Sayo's]] crosshair when she decides to try to frame Natsuhi for the murders and also trying to force her to reveal the truth about Kinzo.
* TragicHeroine: Her action during and after [[spoiler:the real-world massacre]] can be seen as an example of this. [[spoiler:Eva was the one who stopped and killed the real culprits, Rudolf and Kyrie. Sadly, they killed her husband and she was too late to save her son. After that, Eva hides the truth for the sake of self-conservation and to protect Ange. As a result, Eva is rejected and despised by her only living relative and spends the rest of her life being constantly accused and harassed by the media.]]
* TroubledAbuser:
** After surviving the Rokkenjima Incident, Eva initially tried to be a good guardian to Ange. However, things broke down, with Ange acting essentially as a little girl in her situation would. Being hated and rejected by her only living relative, Eva lost herself in her despair and things went downhill from there. Driven mad by grief for her son and husband and the constant harassment from the media, Eva became neglectful as well as emotionally and (it is implied) physically abusive to Ange.
** She is also used to teasing, verbally abusing and, sometimes, even trying to psychologically subjugate her younger sister Rosa whenever she gets the chance as a way to vent her constant discontent due to frequent fights with Krauss and the Kinzo's abuse.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: Third arc. Although she's not actually that far down the chain, there was no reason to expect Krauss to pass away, and after he does, the hope would be that Jessica's husband could succeed after him. In addition, Eva has the HeirClubForMen baggage to deal with.
* UnstoppableRage: In [=EP5=], [[spoiler:when Natsuhi is declared the culprit]]; after the trial, Eva loses it in the real world and begins to beat her up in a fit of rage. Not that anyone tries to stop her, besides Battler.
* VicariouslyAmbitious: Since Eva can't become the Ushiromiya family head because [[HeirClubForMen she's a woman]], she has groomed her son into a potential heir in hopes Kinzo will chose him, taking advantage that Eva's older brother Krass has an only daughter.
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: Most of her issues come from her need to prove herself to Kinzo, who wouldn't acknowledge her talents when she was young because of his view that women should StayInTheKitchen.
* WomanChild: Despite her 50 years, Eva mentally never grew up enough after Krauss and Kinzo ripped off her chances of becoming the heir of the family because of her gender. This is made evident by [[StealthInsult her continuous teasing of everyone whenever she has the opportunity]] and her constant attitude of a RichBitch in regards to Rosa, Natsuhi and Shannon (especially by looking down on the maid, judging her as a person of rank and prestige too inferior to be with her son George) simply because she is completely unable to leave her past behind and move on despite having a loving husband who loves her and a very sympathetic, kind and polite son. All this is much more exemplified by observing her counterpart Eva-Beatrice, [[PsychopathicWomanchild who substantially embodies her most infantile and obscure sides]].
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: The most logical and realistic explanation that could be reached to explain Maria's death in the third arch is that, immediately after [[SiblingMurder killing Rosa]], Eva grabbed her niece by her neck and strangled her (and this only after she killing her mother '''before her own eyes''').]]
* YouMonster: She called [[spoiler:Kyrie]] a monster before shooting her dead [[spoiler:in the real world]].
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[[folder:Rudolf Ushiromiya]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/RikiyaKoyama (JP)
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->"''Kids nowadays can't understand the beauty of a lever-action.''"

Husband of Kyrie and father of Battler and Ange, Rudolf is third in the line of succession. He's an admitted philanderer. His relationship with Battler has been strained since his first wife, Asumu's, death, due to his quick remarriage to Kyrie.
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* ActionDad: In fantasy sequences, thanks to his passion for western movies, he is one of the most skilled characters in handling firearms.
* AxCrazy: [=EP7=], at least, where he declares that [[spoiler:killing people is surprisingly easy and very fun.]]
* BadassNormal: In fantasy scenes, instead of using magic he becomes supernaturally good with guns.
* BigBrotherBully: Like his older siblings, he was this for Rosa and, in the second arc during the Tea Party, it was affirmed by Rosa herself that Rudolf tormented her and betrayed her more than Eva and Krauss put together. [[spoiler:In the [= EP8 =] manga, it is revealed that it was Rudolf himself who destroyed Rosa's stuffed rabbit in front of her.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct: He proves to being this for Rosa only in ''Banquet'' when he and Kyrie clash against Eva-Beatrice, apologizing to his dead younger sister because he and his wife would soon send their most hated sister to the same hell Rosa was in. [[spoiler:Completely subverted in reality when he really had no problem with his wife meddling in the feud between his sisters by shooting Rosa in the head.]]
* BlackSpot: Hilariously played with in one of ''Tsubasa'''s TIPS. Kyrie and Battler offer him a shaver as a present, but [[{{Troll}} Beatrice]] has switched the cousin's presents, and the shaver is replaced by a kitchen knife. Rudolf opens the present… while he's calling to arrange a date with a mistress. Pale face and cold sweat ensues, and he promptly ends the call.
* BreakTheHaughty: [=EP6=]. [[spoiler: It's one thing to find your wife's body burned alive but it's another thing to lose your son as well.]]
* CainAndAbel: In the seventh game [[spoiler:(which unlike the others belongs to the reality of the future of the timeline 1998) it is revealed that he and his wife Kyrie are the real culprits of the massacre. Although it is Kyrie who kills his younger sister Rosa and then tries to unsuccessfully kill his older sister Eva (all shortly after the [[AccidentalMurder accidental killings]] of Krauss and Natsuhi), Rudolf does not seem so sorry about it, seeing it mainly as an advantage because in this way he will obtain all his father's inheritance for himself. Because of this, he is make no scruple in cruelly killing his nephew George and then trying to shoot Eva (miraculously survived). Also in Episode 8, aided by Kyrie and Battler, is no problem for him to slaughtering everyone and laughing at it.]]
* CannotSpitItOut: After [=EP4=]'s revelation that [[spoiler:Asumu is not Battler's birth mother]] it was believed that Rudolf was aware of this. And in [=EP5=] it is highly implied during the 19th person talk that Rudolf was going to tell Battler in [=EP1=] after the letter reading, thus his 'I'm going to die' stint. However, he is never actually seen telling Battler nor is he seen telling anybody.
** He finally does tell Kyrie in [=EP8=] that [[spoiler:Battler is her biological son, and he was responsible for switching him with Asumu's child, who was miscarried, because he didn't want anyone to know he had an affair with Kyrie. Kyrie takes the news better than what would be expected of her at this point]].
* CommitmentIssues: Horribly so. He claimed to love both Asumu and Kyrie, but he just couldn't decide to settle down with only one of them and kept having an affair with Kyrie even after marrying Asumu. [[spoiler:He went as far as to switch Kyrie's son with Asumu's stillborn child because he didn't want to choose only one of them.]] He finally settled down with Kyrie after Asumu died, but it seems he hasn't abandoned his cheating habits yet.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: According to Kyrie's diary entries that Ange reads after the Rokkenjima incident, Rudolf's business practices were rarely ever ''not'' skirting the law in some way. It's only recently that it's come to bite him in the ass and get him slapped with a lawsuit, which is why he wants the gold. Apparently, a few of the people he swindled hanged themselves, though [[spoiler:[[UnreliableNarrator this is only something he muses after he's completely snapped and gone on a murderous rampage.]]]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:To Kyrie in Episode 7.]]
* DuelToTheDeath: [[spoiler:A rare successful one]] in Episode 3.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:In Episode 7, he constantly tells Kyrie not to go after Battler when they're massacring everyone else on the island. It's even hinted that he wouldn't have listened to Kyrie to shoot his own son if Battler didn't believe his lies.]]
* EvilUncle: [[spoiler: Next to representing a sort of Cain to the Abel of his sibings, Rudolf is more than willing to kill all their respective families in order to get all the gold for himself and his family, showing us when he kills George in cold blood]].
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: [[spoiler:To Eva in [=EP7=] after killing George.]]
-->'''Rudolf''': [[spoiler:Go ahead and shoot... I doubt that'll bring you much peace, though.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Comes off this way in the Episode 7 Tea Party, especially while killing George. George even comments how it's oddly appropriate that his uncle, who's always smiling and joking, is still doing so even while brutally murdering him.]]
* HandsomeLech: He has always been a shameless womanizer. Before Asumu died, he never wanted to completely commit either to her or Kyrie and he apparently hasn't dropped his skirt chaser habits even after marrying Kyrie.
* HaremSeeker: In his youth. He later got over it... for the most part.
* HiddenVillain: [[spoiler:He and Kyrie are the real culprits of the massacre shown in EP7's tea party. The manga goes as far as revealing that the One Truth in Eva's diary indeed is the same as the events of the EP7 Tea Party.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: In Episode 8 [[spoiler:he and Kyrie manage to each fire a bullet simultaneously ''and make the bullets clash''. 10 cm from Erika's head.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Zigzagged. He may not have been a great father when Battler assumed he wasn't faithful to his deceased mother, Asumu when he married Kyrie and left him to stay with Asumu's parents six years ago, he's also not a better person too as he had bullied Rosa throughout her childhood and was known to have screwed many of his clients over, driving them to suicide but he really does love Battler from the bottom of his heart. But even so, this doesn't stop him and Kyrie willing to [[spoiler: orchestrate everyone's murder in the real Rokkenjima Mass Murder Incident so they can have the gold for themselves but even so he pleads with her to not include Battler as the victim which she begrudging respects as it's revealed in [=EP8=] he confesses to Kyrie that Battler was her child all along instead of Asumu.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:It certainly cannot be said that Rudolf did not go to look for his own death at the hands of Eva after he and his wife betrayed and exterminated their whole family.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: With Episode 7, [[spoiler:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AHOh9tTNfo Yomotsu Hirasaka Corruption]]]] is now heavily associated with him.
* ManChild: Rudolf is probably the most striking example among adults, as not only is it said and made known on numerous occasions that his playful (if not exactly friendly spiteful) relationship with Battler makes him seem more like an annoying big brother than as a father to his son, but also and above all his tendencies to cheat his clients with Kyrie, as well as everything that has involved his inability to choose and remain faithful to one between Kyrie and Asumu (as well as his InfidelityIndex and HaremSeeker habits in general) have brought to light all his most narcissistic and selfish characteristics.
* ManlyTears: Sheds them when [[spoiler: Battler and Kyrie are killed in the sixth arc.]]
* MillionairePlayboy: It's later shown that this has caused a lot of Kyrie's issues.
* OverprotectiveDad: To Battler in [=EP7=]. {{Fanon}} turns it UpToEleven in doujinshi.
* PapaWolf: Toward Battler despite constantly mocking him. In [=EP6=] [[spoiler:he literally breaks down when he finds Battler's body and refuses to believe it was suicide, and is the first person to take the gun.]]
* ParentWithNewParamour: One of the reasons why Battler distanced himself from his family was because he was VERY displeased with his father's remarriage.
* ReallyGetsAround: It is unfavorably known to all his relatives that he had numerous lovers he cheated and changed frequently and was also a HaremSeeker as a young man, so much so that both Eva and Rosa joke about it.
* RemarriedToTheMistress: Married his mistress Kyrie soon after Asumu's death, to Battler's chagrin.
* ShotgunWedding: With both Asumu and Kyrie. He married them because he got them pregnant and they made him feel he had to take responsibility for it.
* SmokingIsCool: Especially in Episode 3 during his fantasy scenes.
* TaughtByTelevision: ''"Don't underestimate the western-loving generation!"''
** This actually plays a big role in [=EP7=]. [[spoiler: He understands how to use the guns that are on the island more easily than anyone else because he's watched so many Western movies.]]
* StupidEvil: [[spoiler:Thanks to the explosion of the island, Eva was not officially recognized as the culprit behind the tragedy of Rokkenjima due to the absence of evidence. But in spite of this, she has constantly suffered for years the harassment and accusations of anyone who considers her a mass murderer who exterminated her own family, eventually ending up developing the same mortal disease as her father due to stress and dying in a world where everyone, including her last living relative, hated her. Considering all that, did Rudolf and Kyrie, who unlike his sister also have some legal precedent, really believe that if their plan to betray and kill all their relatives for money, even if they had not been arrested, could work and they would have lived a life in the name of KarmaHoudini once they returned from the island with Battler?]]
* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:The more sympathetic interpretation of his actions on Rokkenjima. He and Kyrie decided to massacre everyone on the island after realizing there was no way to walk back from the lines they'd ended up crossing in the confrontation over the family gold. And unlike Kyrie, Rudolf even struggles to brace himself for the possibility that he may have to turn on his own son because of this.]]
* UnholyMatrimony: [[spoiler:In the real world, he and Kyrie were the psychotic murderers that worked together to kill everyone, all whil reaffirming their love for each other.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: One could say he is as much to blame for [[spoiler:Sayo/Shannon's breakdown]] as Battler's "sin from six years ago". [[spoiler:It was because of Rudolf remarrying to Kyrie so soon that Battler left the family and didn't return to see Shannon for so long. Years later, Rudolf begged Battler to return to the Ushiromiya family just when Sayo was at her most emotionally and mentally unstable. Not wanting to deal with her confused feelings anymore, Sayo decided to try and end everything by killing the entire family.]]
* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: [=EP1=] he tells Battler and Kyrie that he's going to get killed. Battler doesn't believe him. [[spoiler: Next morning, he's in the shed. Then it turns out he was planning to tell Kyrie that Battler is her real son and was afraid of how she'd react. Oh, the irony.]]
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[[folder:Rosa Ushiromiya]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/AmiKoshimizu (JP)
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-->"''I'm sorry for having been such a bad Mama...''"

Kinzo's youngest daughter, mother of Maria and fourth in the line of succession. Although Battler describes her as a calming figure, her relationship with Maria is very troubled.
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* AbusiveMom: The relationship between her and Maria is complicated, to say the least; when Rosa isn't being extremely protective or overindulging Maria, she's slapping Maria across the face and yelling at her.
* ActionMom: In the fantasy sequences, among the rest of the other parents except Kyrie, she is the one with the most noticeable moments of action throughout the eight episodes. [[MemeticBadass Her action moments are so iconic that the general fandom has given her the title of Rosa Musou]] (in addition to the famous reputation of best mom ever) with even a personal videogame dedicated. It is recognized that when she fights to protect Maria, Rosa is the strongest human character of all.
* AdultFear: Expected when Maria is in danger or when she sees her die before her eyes.
* AlmightyMom: Maria invokes this in the eighth arc when Rosa proves capable not only of keeping up with a really dangerous witch like Erika (who in terms of power and rank, is on par with Eva-Beatrice) but even manages to dominate and almost kill her several times.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Like her daughter and father, Rosa does not seem to be mentally stable, given how she constantly switches from being abusive to apologetic in regards to Maria. The multitude of {{Berserk Button}}s she has that quickly make her lose her temper whenever Maria makes the mistake of teasing them make her look like she's suffering from bipolar or/and borderline personality disorder. [[spoiler:There's also the trauma that she suffered from having seen Beatrice Ushiromiya die as a little girl.]]
* AntiHero: She finds herself playing this role in Episode 2 as the only surviving parent of the family who takes full responsibility for protecting the survivors (in a manner similar to Natsuhi before her in the previous episode). However, Rosa immediately showed herself inclined to show open distrust and hostility towards all non-members of the Ushiromiya, not showing any remorse not only to accuse them for the murders and threaten them with the rifle to force them to follow her every order, but also to isolate and putting them endangered.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Being the youngest of all the parents of the family, she is constantly underestimated and little taken into consideration by her siblings.
* BadassLongcoat: She always wear a very long particular coat.
* BadassNormal: The reason why her action scenes are so spectacular is because Rosa is one of the very few members of the family whose background of knowledge and skill with weapons or with some martial art is not mentioned or suggested, however the assumptions that she may have learned some fighting techniques from Krauss or Eva or/and she has some experience and passion in using firearms like Kinzo and Rudolf are not to be dismissed considering what she combines:
** [[spoiler: At the end of the second arc, she takes on an army of goats with a rifle, a pen, and a gold ingot. And she is ''awesome''.]]
** [[spoiler: Continues badassing it up in Episode 8 as well.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** In the Tea Party of the second arch, as the last survivor, she is physically forced by Beatrice and the goats to feed on the blood and flesh of her hated siblings and threatened by the witch to hear their cries as they die continuously throughout eternity, relying on fact that in the depth according to Beatrice, Rosa herself should felt immense pleasure in all this.
** In the third arc Eva-Beatrice tortures Rosa by [[JackassGenie granting Rosa's childhood wishes in the most sadistic ways possible]]. Such wishes include "drowning in a sea of delicious jelly" (by literally drowning her in jelly), "flying away from the island like a seagull" (summoning a hurricane to whisk her into the sky, then stopping it so the fall kills her) and "becoming a butterfly and flying everywhere freely" ([[BalefulPolymorph turning her into a butterfly]], only for her to be caught and eaten by a spider).
* BerserkButton:
** "Uu-uu-uu-!!" Maria, you're very cute, but it seems your "happiness charm" has the opposite effect, sorry.
** Accusing her of planning to run off with someone else's money like Maria's father did to her is not a wise decision. [[spoiler:That almost took her to shoot Eva, her own sister, in Episode 7.]]
** She doesn't want to hear [[spoiler: the name Beatrice because [[MyGreatestFailure this reminds her of]] Beatrice Ushiromiya and her death.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Rosa's default mood is pleasant and gentle, giving the impression that she's the nicest of the adults in the Ushiromiya family. As Rosa's character is further explored, it's revealed that while she ''can'' be nice, she also [[TroubledAbuser faces many problems that lead her to vent all of her stress and sadness on her daughter Maria]]. Later arcs show more than once that Rosa can be unstable and outright deadly to anyone who gets on her bad side, ''especially'' if they threaten Maria or accuse Rosa of not loving her daughter.
* BlackBlood: Used to chilling effect when [[spoiler:Maria]] kills her.
* BlatantLies: During the fourth arch, thanks to Ange's reading of Maria's diary, we get to know a little bit about the domestic life that Rosa and her daughter led before dying in Rokkenjima. Unfortunately for Rosa, what is reported in that diary is not very flattering towards her since it portrays her constantly lying about her working constantly when in reality she seems to travel a lot in several hotels and spas in various places in Japan. The worst of her comes when, even in the face of evidence that highlights all her lies, Rosa comes to use physical threats to force the social worker who brought Maria back to the house to believe her and leave her alone.
* BornUnlucky: Being born into a socially influential and economically rich family could theoretically seem a great advantage if only this family did not have the surname [[BigScrewedUpFamily Ushiromiya]] and you had not as a father a certain [[AbusiveParents Kinzo]] and [[BigBrotherBully older siblings like Krauss, Rudolf and Eva]] that precede you in the succession line of family inheritance. In addition to this, how not to mention the trauma of seeing one of the few kindest people in your regards be dying in front of you the day you met her. Or be abandoned while you are still pregnant by your partner, who also discharges you the responsibility of paying both your and his debts, and having to passively endure not only being constantly tormented and hampered by your own brothers and sister but also having to be forced to see how much they are HappilyMarried, while you can hardly maintain a relationship with a another man. If you add all these with [[ButtMonkey being a living magnet]] for both TheManyDeathsOfYou and CruelAndUnusualDeath you can just add another reason to recognize yourself in this trope.
* BrilliantButLazy: Although she is severely criticized and accused of being an idiot who does not commit herself and does not work hard to effectively achieve her goals since her schoolastic years, it is veiledly implied that Rosa is actually the most gifted of Kinzo's children with regards to puzzle and enigma solving and strategy planning.
* BrokenBird: At first glance, Rosa appears as a kind and quiet young woman who tries to do her best to take care of her only daughter Maria, often being unfairly taunted or silenced by her greedy, aggressive and selfish siblings. It is not until she is shown separated in some way from them that her true nature of an emotionally and psychologically damaged human being emerges, which shows an extremely cold, manipulative, rancorous, distrustful and paranoid attitude towards other people.
* BrokenPedestal:
** Maria (both alone and through Sakutaro's point of view) tends to idolize Rosa a lot, always describing her as a very good mother who works hard to make her live a dignified life in the best possible way, even coming to justify her mother even when Rosa herself forgets her own promises several times, stays away from home more and more often or gets violently angry towards her by blaming the fatigue and too many work pressures to which Rosa is subjected. It is only when other people around them like Ange expose the truth about Rosa's mysterious journeys and when her mother torn Sakutaro to pieces that Maria is now completely unable to deny the truth.
** She becomes one too for Battler, George and Jessica when she exposes in front of them [[AbusiveMom her violent nature towards Maria]] in the first arc and her tendency to dictate a climate of distrust and meanness towards the servants in the second.
* ButtMonkey: Being among the first to die in the first arc is getting off easy compared to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the hell she goes through in later arcs]]. Rosa has only survived past the second twilight ''once'' (of course, she is among the few victims of Episode 5 and 6), and that's just things involved with the murders. Outside of that, Rosa's life is practically a personalized hell for her: Being the youngest, she got picked on by her older siblings, according to Rudolf. In addition to that, if [=EP3=] is to be believed, then she watched Beatrice [[spoiler:II]] ''die'' and blamed herself for the incident, which both ends up being what drives Kinzo off the edge of insanity and is something she has to be reminded of every time Maria references Beatrice. And ''then'' on top of all that, the man she had Maria with runs off to have a family of his own while burdening her with a debt that gives her the futile hope that he'll come back to her if she pays it off, leaving Rosa to raise Maria by herself while taking up a management job she never wanted. Rosa's life is probably the most screwed up among the main adults bar none.
* CainAndAbel: She, along with Krauss, usually represents the Abel in almost all the narrative arcs[[spoiler:, except for the [=EP2=] which instead sees her to wearing the role of Cain as the main accomplice of the murderer]].
* CassandraTruth: In the third arc, shortly after Maria has finished reading the letter of Kinzo given to her by Beatrice, Rosa speculates that whoever wrote it and sent it to them may not even be her father just to being violently verbally attacked, offended and insulted by Eva for questioning it. [[spoiler:Come to the next arches and it turns out that she has awfully been right.]]
* TheChainOfHarm: Flashbacks show that much of the abuse she inflicts on Maria was the same type that her parents and siblings did when she was a child, including Rudolf tearing up her doll.
* TheChewToy: It says a lot that Rosa is the favorite target of Beatrice and the other witches when they have the unstoppable desire to have fun tormenting in every possible and imaginable way someone and that she is practically the only character who always dies in all games (however this is partially due to the fact that she is one of the family members that [[spoiler:Sayo]] hates most).
* ChristmasCake: In some of the [=EP4=] flashbacks, this seemed to be a large concern of Rosa's (she's 35), especially because any potential husbands would need to be okay with a daughter [[HeroicBastard who isn't theirs]]. [[spoiler:Though if we take what's revealed about Rosa's husband in [=EP6=] into account, this may not be true at all.]]
* ClassyCravat: Part of her classy Ushiromiya attire.
* CombatPragmatist: She will exploiting anything that comes under her sight to damage her attackers.
* ControlFreak: As the female fourth-born of Kinzo Ushiromiya and the only one who doesn't have a spouse to support her, Rosa has always been given the shortest stick with her older siblings trying to monopolize the wealth of the whole family for themselves by oppressing her. Like a StrugglingSingleMother deceived and robbed by her partner and forced to take on her responsibilities in a society that thrives on expectations and creates a lot of problems for her just only for being a Japanese single woman over 25 with a child, Rosa has developed a mercurial, dominant and tyrannical personality who usually remains unexpressed and dormant when with other family members but who can emerge in an aggressive and powerful way as soon as she takes command and expresses absolute authority over individuals weaker than her like Maria, the other cousins ​​and the servants by trying to force them to obey her and making them do only what she wants by also using physical strength.
* CoolAunt: She seems to be Battler's favorite aunt, at least at the beginning of the first arc where he often describes her as a pleasant, calming person. However, it's later revealed that she has a lot of issues which she mainly deals with by [[TroubledAbuser taking out her frustrations on her own daughter]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Oh, boy, she ''does'' deserve a special entry for this for quantity alone.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Has both brown hair and brown eyes.
* CuteAndPsycho: [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like mother, like daughter]]. Rosa can switch from the sweetest mother of the world to the most abusive one with such ''ease''...
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Rosa is in serious competition with [[spoiler:Sayo herself]] for who of the 2 had the most miserable life.
* DeadpanSnarker: She doesn't show it very often, especially when she is with the other parents of the family who oppress her but Rosa can be very inclined to talk and respond in an ironic way with an impressive black humor. Particularly seen in Episode 2 when for example Battler questioning her alibi and Rosa has no problem answering (smiling) that [[BrutalHonesty if she were the culprit she could have simply shot at him and George (even imitating the gesture) to then come up with an excuse with the servants.]] [[StealthInsult Or her joke that younger sisters' brains work faster than their older sisters', which annoys George.]]
* DeathByFallingOver: [[spoiler: According to the official logical explanation of her death in Episode 3, she ended up on the pointed ledge of the rose garden fence when Eva pushed her.]]
* DeathGlare: Of all the characters in the series, counting witches and furniture as well, Rosa is the scariest when she starts looking at you like this, as poor Maria knows very well.
* DoesNotLikeMen: If Maria's dream in which she sadly avenges herself and angrily punishing Rosa for all the abuses and negligence to which she has subjected is to be taken a little literally, in particular the alleged flashback of her mother's last lover in the room of hotel (in which the latter in turn reproached Rosa for neglecting too much her daughter to be with him). Rosa in her verbal outburst proves to be not only very resentful in general of her status [[StrugglingSingleMother as a single mother]] in a bigoted society like the Japanese one but also specifically against men, since [[GreenEyedMonster she deeply envies their complete freedom to have all kinds of romantic and sexual relationships with whoever they want without being judged and with the possibility of running away from any responsibility without being punished]], unlike women like her. Considering her personal experience with Maria's father, those with some of her lovers who invented excuses to leave her as soon as they heard about her daughter's existence and even the male examples of [[StrawMisogynist her father and brothers]], it's easy to understand where comes from her probable resentment for the social privileges of the male gender.
* EvilCounterpart: She is this for Natsuhi when you comparing the first 2 Episodes of the VN which see the cousins as the main characters and only one of their parents as one of the final survivors. [[spoiler:Especially when, analyzing the second game from a purely rational and realistic perspective, you realize that Sayo and Genji were able to carry out the murders undisturbed only thanks to Rosa who deliberately isolated all the victims from her group.]]
* ExtremeDoormat: Subverted. Rosa usually has this behavior in her personal relationship with her father and her older siblings, especially with Eva as she never reacts when the latter provokes her, insults her and generally acts like a BigSisterBully towards her. Eva-Beatrice and Kinzo in Episodes 3 and 4 explicitly accuse her of being a coward who has always fled and hidden from her battles instead of fighting them and even the Rosa of Maria's dream mentions, in her comparing herself with her daughter, that since as a child she always chose to suppress her desire to rebel against the abuses of her family because she feared the consequences. Though she is more than capable of letting this façade fall as soon as she perceives that she is in an advantageous position towards her siblings and their families.
* FantasyForbiddingMother: A more literal example in that she disapproves of Maria's obsession with magic and the occult. Considering that her father himself is a witch-obsessed old madman who raised her by traumatizing her with the stories of an evil witch who lived in the island's forest, it's quite understandable.
* FashionDesigner: She is the head of an company that designs, creates and sells western-style clothes and accessories whose name is Anti-Rosa.
* TheFashionista: Not only because she is the FashionDesigner of the family but also because she is also one of the few characters that we sometimes see wearing different outfits, both within the main series and in the manga spin-offs, so it's no surprise.
* {{Foil}}:
** To her niece Jessica; both are daughters born to a StrawMisogynist father in a rich patriarchal family, which bases both its economic and legal power on an antiquated monarchical system despite living in a democratic era. Both are viewed and judged by their older relatives as failures because they have failed to match their absurd standards of model students and always unfavorably compared to other siblings/cousins. To deal with these difficulties, Jessica ended up developing a rebellious attitude and, together with her friends at school, she mainly focused on her passions such as music, giving little importance to the opinion of her parents, her grandfather and her uncles and aunts. Rosa, on the other hand, spent her entire childhood passively enduring all sorts of abuse she suffered and trying to adapt to the expectations of her parents and siblings because she feared the repercussions, eventually becoming the psychologically unstable and emotionally fickle young adult she is today.
** She is also this for Chiester 556, [[spoiler:her victim]] ironically, as both represent the FourIsDeath trope in a bunch composed of four people where they were respectively teased; even if the case of Chiester 556 (according to her own TIPS) was much more cheerful and fun than that of Rosa. Furthermore, both are described and represented as the one with the [[CruelAndUnusualDeath worst luck]] in their respective category.
* ForceFeeding: Beatrice forces Rosa to eat a meal made of Maria and her siblings' body parts in the [=EP2=] Tea Party.
* FourIsDeath: She is the fourth and the last child Kinzo had with his wife and is also one of the 3 people in all Rokkenjima (along with with her daughter Maria and her father, [[spoiler:who died from the start]]) who doesn't survive even once in the 6 games of Beatrice, Battler and the other witches.
* FreudianExcuse: Her parents and older siblings have abused Rosa practically since she was born to this day as an adult. As a child, she also suffered a lot of loneliness because she had no friends thanks to Rudolf who took them away from her and grew up with a father obsessed with black magic, who inculcated in her head stories of an evil witch who lived in a forest to which access was forbidden for Rosa. [[spoiler:Not to mention that when she met the aforementioned ''' witch ''' she witnessed firsthand her death (which occurred due to Rosa's own suggestion).]] Rather than be surprised why Rosa became an AbusiveMom, it should would be surprising why [=Ryukishi07=] never chose her as a killer in games where [[spoiler:Sayo]] wasn't the culprit (seriously, she has many more understandable and almost justifiable reasons than all the other members of the family put together).
* FriendlessBackground: Rosa grew up in Rokkenjima where there were no children she could befriend and her older siblings didn't let her play with the young servants. Even as an adult, she doesn't have friends nor time for a social life because of her stressful status as a single mother.
* GenerationXerox: In the [=EP8=] manga, it's revealed that as a little girl she had a stuffed rabbit named Uutan that she loved very much, rather like Maria with Sakutarou. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, similarly to Sakutaro, Rosa's rabbit was torn apart by her older siblings]]. When they're hiding in her old room during the game of hide-and-seek, [[spoiler:Rosa even makes the badly-repaired Uutan talk to Maria like Maria makes Sakutarou "talk" to other people]].
* GirlishPigtails: Sported these as a child.
* GoldFever: [[spoiler:As demonstrated in real life during the start of the massacre on the island during the seventh Tea Party shown by Bernkastel at Ange and Lion, Rosa was arguably the most materialistic and gold-obsessed of all the siblings and siblings-in-laws because part of the reason why she refuses categorically to agree with Eva's plan to blow up the island to cover the deaths of Natsuhi and Krauss before the arrival of the police is because by doing so almost all the ingots would be involved and lost. She then combines this with the fact that [[IdleRich with her share she would gladly quit her job and live on income because she would not find the sense to continue working even with a mountain of money at her disposal, seeing it as a stupid waste of time.]]]]
* AGlassOfChianti: Beato has Rosa drink this. It's actually Krauss' blood.
* GollumMadeMeDoIt: PlayedWith. Although Rosa acknowledges that she is legitimately responsible for all her abusive and negligent actions and is actually one of the family members who recognizes her mistakes by feeling extreme remorse. Sometimes when Maria prefers to blame her mother's actions on a hypothetical evil witch who owns her, Rosa tends to give her rope.
* GoodGirlGoneBad: In the past, she was the kindest and sweetest of the 4 children of the Ushiromiya family and sincerely dreamed of getting married and building a happy family with Maria's father. In the present, she's become the woman who occasionally abuses her only 9-year-old daughter and has no qualms about showing coldness and general insensitivity even towards her older siblings and their families after all the shit she's been through (and she continues to suffer in the arches).
* GunsAkimbo: In ''Ougon Musoukyoku X'' and ''Cross'', Rosa's Meta-super move involves Maria giving Rosa and extra gun so that Rosa can launch a mega-combo against her opponent like this.
* HairTriggerTemper: With the abnormal amount of stress she is subjected to, it should come as no surprise that even the slightest disobedience from her daughter (such as not returning a candy given to her by an elderly lady) immediately angers her. Also accusing her and Maria of lying or/and wanting to prank the family with the story of the letter will trigger an assured aggressive response from her.
* HiddenDisdainReveal: PlayedWith. For all the first 4 narrative arcs of the series but reaches the turning point in Maria's dream in which Rosa is horribly tortured for a very long time by her and Beatrice's hands after her mother has declared that she hated her from the moment she knew she was be pregnant with her. Beatrice[[spoiler:/Sayo]] also think so with conviction, which instigates her even more to kill and maim the poor Rosa more than she does with all the other human beings on the island. However, this is definitively {{Deconstructed}} when her niece Ange (who was also convinced of this thanks to Maria's diary) thinks about how her aunt's life has not been very happy but that although she vented on Maria, she did not stop loving her. Even during Chiru, Rosa begins to make amends for her abusive tendencies and to treat Maria much more lovingly to show her that she is deeply repentant.
* HimeCut: She has blunt bangs, chin-length sidelocks, and mid-back length straight hair, to denote her position as a member of a high-class family.
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Fourth arc, when she's [[spoiler: torn apart by her own hands]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: In Episode 2, she yells at the servants that they have been bought off by the culprit and are blinded by the gold. [[spoiler:Never mind that she was bought off herself, and is probably the one [[OnlyInItForTheMoney most motivated by greed]] in the lot.]]
* IdleRich: It is sometimes implied that if Rosa obtained much more than her share necessary to pay off her debt from her father's inheritance and if both her and Maria had everything they needed to live on income for the rest of their lives, she would be this.
* ImageSong: [[https://youtu.be/Fa690ljB63o rimaneggiamento]]
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: According to one of her endings in the fighting game and Eva-Beatrice's words in Episode 3, one of Rosa's childhood dreams was to become a witch, just like her daughter.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: [[spoiler:She blames herself for the death of Beatrice Ushiromiya. After a violent dispute with her mother (which occurred because some of her tutors confided a one of Rosa's secret to the Ms. Ushiromiya), she decided to run away from the villa by running to the forest. There, she found her father's secret villa where she met Beatrice, her secret paternal half-sister. When she found out how Beatrice was completely ignorant of the world because of their father confined her since birth, Rosa proposed to her to flee together with her, just to see the poor girl die in front of her eyes because, by her own indication, Rosa innocently advised her to climb down the ravine to descend and involuntarily lead her to death.]]
* ImNotHungry: In the [=EP2=] Tea Party, when Beatrice presents her a meal made of [[ImAHumanitarian the body parts of her siblings and daughter]], she tries to pull this. Unfortunately, Beatrice [[ForceFeeding forces her.]]
* ImprovisedWeaponUser: Although in the second arc she has a [[HandCannon rifle]], some of her other defensive moves when she wasn't armed included a pen and a chair, to varying degrees of effectiveness.
* KickTheDog: When she [[spoiler:tears up Sakutaro]] and probably breaks her relationship with Maria for good.
* KnightTemplarParent: To some extent, although there are a few questionable things she does that just [[AbusiveParents don't seem to fall into that category]].
* LadyOfWar: Rosa is one of [[ProperLady the most graceful and sophisticated people]] you could ever meet but, if you try to harm her and [[MamaBear her daughter]], ''she will show you how lukewarm is the hell you came out of''.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Discussed. The main reason she's TheChewToy, at least as far as her deaths in the main story goes: Beatrice probably resents her both for her poor treatment of Maria and [[spoiler:the death of her mother]]. It's most direct in the second arc. In truth it is very difficult to say from an objective and external point of view whether all the [[TheManyDeathsOfYou punishments]] that Rosa suffers are deserved or a case of DisproportionateRetribution (especially when you compare her to many other island residents and meta-characters who are not only objectively no better than her but their actions and the selfish motives behind them make her look like a saint by comparison).
* LaughingMad: While [[spoiler:Maria kills her over and over again]]. At some point they actually laugh mad ''together''. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint What a happy family!]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYtpy5PpcWw&t=319s Worldend Dominator]] it is become canonically hers as it was used in her action scenes to emphasize her ransom.
* LetsGetDangerous: Normally Rosa is, understandably, TheChewToy of witches and their minions because most of the times she is killed it is because she is quickly taken aback and overwhelmed by their magic. However, make the mistake of giving her the time she needs to realize how to defend herself and stimulate her MamaBear's side and she will be able to brutally kill any magic creatures, making her a living nightmare for any demon and witch that comes within her range.
* LonelyDollGirl: According to the [=EP8=] manga, much like Maria with Sakutarou, Rosa had a stuffed rabbit named Uutan that she took everywhere with her when she was a child because she didn't have any real friends. [[spoiler:After she remembers this, Rosa feels horrible for tearing up Sakutarou when she should have known very well how Maria felt, since her older siblings did the same thing to her rabbit.]]
* LonelyRichKid: Rosa's childhood was a very lonely one. Her parents and siblings either ignored or abused her, there were no children for her to play with at the island, and she wasn't even allowed to play with the young servants. She comforted herself by playing with her stuffed bunny, but that only made her older siblings yell at her because they considered a disgrace for a child of the Ushiromiya to play with toys.
* LoveMartyr: The reason that Rosa is in debt is that she cosigned a loan with Maria's father. She is hoping that if and when she pays off the debt, the man will finally agree to marry her and become a proper father to poor Maria, even though he's already said he won't.
* MamaBear:
** Her last act in the second arc is to mow down [[{{Mook}} goat-headed butlers]] with a rifle and Maria at her side. Rudolf also explicitly describes her as "a quick-to-anger mother bear".
--->'''Rosa:''' Just try laying a finger on my daughter. I'll show you how lukewarm the hell you came from is!!
** Then comes [=EP8=], [[spoiler:where Erika has the guts to tell Maria her mom doesn't love her. Guess who shoves a rifle barrel down her throat?]]
* ManipulativeBitch: As it is shown slowly in some of the episodes in which sufficient attention is paid to her, it becomes very evident that under her facade of ShrinkingViolet which she flaunts towards the other adults on the island, Rosa is actually a ambiguous and deceptive woman that is more than capable of using words as a means to manipulate and irritate others as soon as she perceives that she can take advantage of them. In '' Alliance of the Golden Witch '', in Maria's diary, she is often shown to lie to Maria, her daughter's school, her neighbors, her employees and even social workers about her mysterious travels, as well as ordering Maria to always stay at home and not go out for days when she is away. [[spoiler:Once the truth behind the ''Turn of the Golden Witch'' events is explained, it is clear that [[TheMole Rosa was Sayo's main accomplice]] throughout the all Episode, successfully manipulating Battler's trust and, at the same time, isolating the servants by accusing them of being all guilty because she knew she could not trust of any of them.]]
* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Of all the human characters in the franchise, she is undoubtedly the one who suffered most physical torture and countless deaths (in the witches' record for each game, Rosa is shown to have the worst luck), especially in the moments when Eva-Beatrice "plays" with her and Maria in [=EP3=] and when Maria dreams of taking revenge for the death of Sakutaro with the help of Beatrice in [=EP4=] are all counted.
* MoodSwinger: Depending on how you decide to approach her and the type of relationship you have with her, Rosa can quickly go from a relatively peaceful state to a state of disruptive fury, a fearful shyness and an alarming calm, like more or less all the characters that have to do with her they learn the hard way.
* MsFanservice: Not only is she a very beautiful woman and considerably much younger than the other mothers of the family but in the adaptations of the anime and manga, especially in the TIP Game Master BATTLER, to give Maria an important role in ''Dawn of The Golden Witch'', she is forced together to Eva and Natsuhi to wear a swimsuit that highlights the qualities of their bodies and is specifically forced to bathe with Battler by washing his back. In addition, in the TIP Labor Thanksgiving Day Gifts, always in the manga version, she is shown completely naked while fantasizing about her new boyfriend [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Akihito]]. Even her ending with Beatrice in the fighting game that portrays her bathing with her daughter at the spa certainly portrays her as such.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Her general reaction after beating or neglecting Maria. ([[AbusiveParents Doesn't stop her from doing it again]]). This is actually TruthInTelevision, as it's rather common to have abusers of all kinds regret their actions upon seeing the consequences they bring to their victims, and try to compensate the abuse by acting nicer. Sadly, it's also very common to restart the cycle of abuse with one little mistake...
* MyGreatestFailure: Rosa really wanted to help [[spoiler:Beatrice Ushiromiya]] out, having felt sorry for the poor young woman who [[GildedCage lived imprisoned inside her mansion]]. She failed [[spoiler:and witnessed her death]]. A lot of guilt over the incident remains in Rosa's heart.
* NervesOfSteel: Perhaps the only positive aspect of the horrible misfortune of having been raised having [[AbusiveDad Kinzo]] as a father, [[StrawMisogynist Krauss]] and [[BigBrotherBully Rudolf]] as brothers and [[HairTriggerTemper Eva]] as a sister is that Rosa ended up developing a much smarter mind than theirs and a very high ability to maintain calm (except when Maria angers her), even in particularly stressful situations. In addition to maintaining control of the entire situation in [=EP2=] and being able to effectively blackmail her sister in the next one, her ability to remain calm and try to convince Eva of going to jail for [[spoiler:the deaths of Krauss and Natsuhi]] while the latter holds her under fire with a rifle promotes her definitively to this.
* NiceToTheWaiter: In [=EP1=], she brings a gift to Kumasawa that she promised to make her just the family conference of the last year.
* NotSoDifferent:
** As much as Rosa surely hates to admit it and gets slightly upset when someone like Battler points it out to her, not only she is much more like Krauss, Eva and Rudolf than she thinks but, in situations in which she feels both powerful and in a position of advantage towards her interlocutors, she looks even worse than all her siblings 3 combined when she deliberately lets her dark side take over her (again, this is a very common case in bullied and abused victims who are not helped in time).
** [[spoiler:Likewise, she doesn't react at all ''very well'' to being confronted unfavorably with her old boyfriend who abandoned her, if you make this mistake first make sure that she not has a weapon in her hands.]]
* OneWomanArmy: She is more than capable of standing alone against an entire horde of butler goats once she is really pissed and can easily dominate an Erika who at her peak [[CurbStompBattle crushes all the other members of the family (except Krauss), annihilates every demon and forniture that comes in front of her, treats the most powerful magical attacks of Beatrice and Virgilia as little more than a slight annoyance and subdue BATTLER in his strongest state.]]
* OnlySaneWoman: [[spoiler: The reason why she was killed shortly after Natsuhi and Krauss by Kyrie was because she categorically refused to cover up the murders of the two by blowing up the island by proposing instead to change the crime scene by moving the bodies from the gold room to the rose garden of the villa and get Eva and Hideyoshi arrested. Regardless of the fact that she proposed to Eva to be arrested not so much because she considered it a truly ethically correct plan but only to pocket a larger piece of gold and because, [[FreudianExcuse understandably]], she hated [[BigSisterBully her sister]], her plan, especially from the point of view humanly moral, was the best.]]
* TheParanoiac: As shown in the second arc when she takes a cue from a game with which she instructed Maria, Rosa sees the world as full of wolves in order to justify her lack of confidence in the people, declaring to be able to trust only to herself and bodies. Considering all the information that surfaced about her childhood, her story with Maria's father and especially what happens to her and her daughter when she makes the mistake of trusting her siblings or Beatrice during the various arcs, it is difficult to blame her. It is implied that the origin of this is due to the fact that when she was a child she was sometimes subjected to repeated lies, deceptions and betrayals which got her into trouble by Eva and Rudolf, as well as by the betrayal and abandonment she suffered by Maria's father.
* ParentalNeglect: When she's not abusing Maria, she leaves her on her own to visit her boyfriend. Although this may not be true at all, and it's because Rosa really is working hard so she can pay off the debt Maria's father left her in and he can come back to both of them.
* ParentalSubstitute: Subverted. In the second game, she invites the recently orphaned George and Battler to see her this way as she vows to protect them. Needless to say, Rosa doesn't really care much for the children of her hated siblings [[spoiler:and that she has made a deal with the culprit so that only she and Maria can save themselves]].
* ThePenIsMightier: As an ImprovisedWeaponUser, one of her defensive moves against witches and demons is pull out of the pocket her fountain pen, equip it with her fingers in her fist and try to use it [[EyeScream to pierce the eye of her attacker]]. Become her grip in the fighting game.
* PetTheDog: She has this tendency towards Maria after having physically and mentally abused her because she feels an immediate sense of guilt as she understands that it is wrong to vent on her own daughter all the stress, pain, sadness and anger that torment her.
* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: All of her siblings were already adults when she was growing up, causing her to have a very lonely childhood. Even worse, one of the main reasons why she was constantly subjected to verbal and physical abuse was because everyone expected her to think and behave just like her adult siblings.
* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler:Whether it was just a way to convince Eva, or was she really honest that she wouldn't touch her share of the money once she got out of prison, after her sister hit one of her BerserkButtom by openly accused her of being NotSoDifferent from Maria's father, [[BeneathTheMask Rosa's tranquil and self-confident mask]] crumbles completely, giving way to a murderous fury which is however promptly stopped by Kyrie.]]
* ReallyGetsAround: The fourth arc sows the doubt that, despite her difficulty in finding a boyfriend because of her job and her daughter, Rosa still presumably dated a few guys with whom she spent the time (which she had to spend working in theory) traveling between various hotels and wellness centers. However, there is also the subtle sad implication that traveling to these places with these men is part of her optional job when considering her serious money problems.
* RelativeButton: To question her love for Maria to the point of stating that Rosa would never have given birth to her daughter has Erika earning a gun barrel stuck into her mouth.
* RepressedMemories: She unconsciously forgot about her meeting with [[spoiler:Beatrice II]], and the latter's death because the trauma and guilt were too much for Rosa to handle. This may be part of the reason why she always reacts so badly to [[spoiler:Maria talking about Beatrice]].
* ResentfulGuardian: Maria definitely imagines that this is the case, since being a single mother has made Rosa's life a lot harder and she can't find a stable relationship because of her daughter. While it is true in some part of Rosa's psyche, it's still pretty apparent that she genuinely loves her daughter. [[TroubledAbuser It's complicated]].
* SilkHidingSteel: At first, Rosa is presented as the sweetest and most delicate daughter of the patriarch of the Ushiromiya family when compared to the other 3 children of Kinzo who, in response to this, underestimate her by looking down on her. This is why her character becomes more complex when, in circumstances favorable to her, she reveals that she is not only the same but even worse than Krauss, Eva and Rudolf put together when she has the opportunity to manipulate, threaten and even terrorize someone in order to get people to obey her.
* SingleParentsAreUndesirable: One of her many issues is her inability to have any stable relationship because she is a single mother. As a result, she is implied to regularly get new lovers, only to break up with them shortly after. Since she can't find a new man, she keeps clinging on to the futile hope that Maria's father will take her back if she pays off the debt he left her in.
* SlasherSmile: She showcases one in front of her daughter as she tears her favorite toy to pieces and declares his death.
* SlaveToPR: Virtually one of her default personality characteristics. One of the main reasons that Rosa easily gets angry with her daughter is because she gives a great weight to the way in which the whole society looks at them. In her flashbacks as a child of the eighth arc, it is implicitly revealed that it was her parents and her siblings who instilled in her this sense of preservation of her apparent good image as a member of a family of great social and economic position.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Despite being frequently called the dumbest of the siblings, she had [[spoiler:ended up solving the riddle of the Witch's Epitaph before Eva]], but didn't pursue her suspicion until later. [[spoiler: It should also be added that in ''Requiem of the Golden Witch'', after the death of Krauss and Natsuhi, she is the only one among the parents of the family to succeed in planning, in an appallingly lucid and cold way, a morally legal plan that allows everyone (except Eva and Hideyoshi) to solve all their financial problems and live a luxury life without even have the need to work by converting all of Kinzo's gold bars into cash, Unfortunately for her, however, [[StupidEvil her brother Rudolf and his wife Kyrie considered it, in the most unpleasantly fatal way for the poor Rosa, a naive plan]].]]
* SmugSnake: In the second arc, after calming down from the initial shock of seeing the corpses of her older siblings and their spouses, Rosa not only shows that she does not even feel a only touch of sadness for their death but has no problem [[StealthInsult mocking]] Eva in front of the son of this latter or to offend covertly and provoke both Battler and George on more than one occasion. There is also to mention the absolutely tyrannical way in which she turns with absolute contempt towards servitude accusing them for the murders on several occasions. [[spoiler:Not to mention the fact that [[TemptingFate she is more than happy at the thought of having her sister and brother-in-law arrested]] for the [[AccidentalMurder accidental murders]] of Krauss and Natushi by telling her plan to an upset Eva and Hideyoshi with a mocking smile.]]
* SocietyIsToBlame: It says a lot that one of the main reasons why Rosa is so unhappy is because not only does she not receive any help from anyone but she also feels constantly and negatively judged for being a single woman in her 30s who is raising a [[CreepyChild problematic daughter]] on her own. Not to mention that even her own family doesn't have any scruple to judge her through [[KiddieKid Maria]], consequently fueling her [[AbusiveParent violent tendencies towards her]].
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:She was killed first by Kyrie and Rudolf precisely to avoid the possibility that she would become one due to the fact that her sawed-off shotgun still contained a bullet unlike those of Eva and Krauss.]]
* SplitPersonality: The way Maria interprets Rosa's behaviour towards her (whenever her mother becomes abusive, it's because she's being possessed by a "black witch"), not being able to understand the idea of a TroubledAbuser.
* StepfordSmiler: From the Tea Party of the second arc, it is strongly implicit that [[TheResenter she secretly feels hatred and deep contempt for her siblings]] but she always hides them by adopting a tranquil attitude accompanied with a slight smile. [[spoiler: It becomes even more evident in Ep 7 against Eva after the accidental deaths of Krauss and Natsuhi.]]
* StrugglingSingleMother: Maria's father abandoned her in the middle of her pregnancy without marrying her. As if that wasn't enough, he left Rosa with a huge debt she struggles to pay off. Despite being the owner of a design company based on selling occidental clothes and accesories, her business does not go as she hopes. She usually works all day, causing her to neglect her daughter Maria. In addition, Maria is a [[SpoiledBrat rather]] [[AmbiguousDisorder problematic]] [[CreepyChild child]]. Because of all these situations (added to the fact that neither her father nor her siblings seem to be interested in giving her a hand), Rosa can't resist to physically and emotionally discharge all the stress accumulated over the years on Maria when the latter does not obey her and makes her nervous.
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Part of the reason why everyone in her family verbally and physically abused Rosa throughout all her life is mainly due to the fact that, despite being a child even younger than Maria in her childhood, the same behavioral regimes and expectations of her teenager/adult siblings had all been imposed on her as well. These latters, in particular, had always cruelly bullied, marginalized and offended her, with Eva (who was already 20 years old at the time) who even labeled her as the dumbest of the family only because Rosa behaved exactly as would behave some other child of the same age that she had. Still, it is not wondering that the emotionally unstable adult Rosa severely punishes her daughter [[KiddieKid Maria]] even [[GreenEyedMonster only for still being a child]].
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Despite her horrible past and the horrendous way in which she is treated by her family, she is by nature a very sweet and caring woman. However, depending on the situations or provocations she undergoes, all that kindness goes to vanish to take over her other cruel, calculating, cold and domineering personality.
* TearsOfBlood: She sheds these in the sixth arc.
* TemptingFate: [[spoiler:Not only is she clearly ecstatic at the idea of ​​Eva constitutes herself and go in jail for the murders of Krauss and Natsuhi with her sister pointing a gun at her but she also doesn't had qualms to provoking her further by telling her that while she pays for her crimes, she and Rudolf will provide for George's well-being and that she should try to see this as some sort of job because, as soon as she has served her sentence, her share will be waiting for her. Although the Seventh Tea Party took a sudden turn of events with her and Maria's deaths as Eva managed not only to survive but also get away with the law, Rosa would certainly have comforted herself with the knowledge that her hateful sister, however, lived the rest of her short life being continually discredited and despised by Ange and the rest of the entire society.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Crabs.
* TheTragicRose: The name Rosa is Spanish and Italian for rose. Even removing the fact that, of all the human characters present on the island during all the games, Rosa is the only one who always dies (and often in very horrible ways) and she is by far the most tortured and violated character both physically and mentally. This woman will fall into the trope even just for having been abused by her whole family as a child, having witnessed the death of a person which occurred partly through her own fault, having been seduced, tricked and abandoned by the father of her daughter and, in general, suffering from the stress of being both a single mother and a working woman in a society where casual sex is frowned upon.
* TraumaButton: Mentioning Beatrice's name ends up provoking an angry reaction or a very strong migraine from her. [[spoiler:This is because she actually met Beatrice Ushiromiya, only to witness her death not long afterwards.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Considering that, of all the human residents on the island, Rosa is by far the most tormented person during the seven games of [[spoiler:Sayo and Tooya]], she certainly falls into this.
* TroubledAbuser: Considering all the information that emerged about her past during the various episodes and from the fact that when she scolds or beats Maria and shouting at her the exact same horrible words that Eva in turn screamed at her in the previous arc [[labelnote: note]] "Why are you so stupid? Idiot, die you brainless moron!!!" [[/labelnote]], it is not wrong to consider her perhaps the best known example and accurate of the whole VN if you make a complete list of her DarkAndTroubledPast, which perfectly explains her AbusiveMom status:
** First of all, she is [[AbusiveParent Kinzo]]'s daughter, which in itself sucks a lot and for what little we know of their relationship, Rosa, like her siblings, has always seen him and still sees him even now she is an adult with fear, a common symptom in victims of abuse. To make it worse, he raised her on an island with no other children to play with, forcing her to [[LonelyRichKid a solitary childhood]] and perfectly explaining why Rosa herself as an adult is so obsessed with Maria needing to stop playing with toys and go out to make real friends.
** Her mother, despite being ignored in the story, seems that she was no less abusive since in the third arc is underlined not only by Rosa herself but also by Krauss that she was excessively severe with her youngest daughter, continuously pressing her for her school grades and even going so far as to call her the disgrace of the Ushiromiya family.
** In addition to being abused and mostly neglected by Kinzo and her mother, Rosa has also been actively tormented and abused ever since she remembers it by Krauss (who used to scold her even when she did nothing and punished her by even going to beat her up to the point to make her spit blood), Eva (who has always considered her stupid and has repeatedly tricked her into trouble, not to mention that now that she is a 50-year-old woman she continues to torment and verbally abuse Rosa for no reason) and Rudolf (who according to Rosa was the worst of the 3 since in addition to subjecting her to the same abuses as the other 2 he constantly betrayed her trust and broke her toys).
** Even as an adult after leaving Rokkenjima, her life does not improve much because the man with whom she was convinced that she could build a family together convinces her to sign a loan to become a co-designer, runs away with money and leaves her both with a huge debt to pay and a child to raise alone. Adding to her stress, her older siblings could not give a shit about everything that happens to her, by thinking selfishly only about themselves and looking down on her, [[SocietyIsToBlame as well as the entire Japanese sexist society of the 80s who see badly the single mothers who work like Rosa.]] In the end, it's not a surprise that Rosa gets very easily and very violently angry at her daughter at the slightest nuisance no matter how much poor Maria doesn't deserve it.
* {{Tsundere}}: A non-romantic, highly troubled example of a Sweet (Dere) type which is PlayedForDrama. Normally, Rosa is a very friendly and sociable person to the point that Battler prefers her to all the other parents of the family for her genuine kindness, and Maria describes her as a very sweet mother. However, Rosa has ''a lot'' of issues that make her prone to violent mood swings at the slightest provocation, which always shocks Battler the first time he sees her snap. All the stress from both the cruel treatment she got from her parents and siblings, as well as the abandonment from Maria's father, leads to Rosa frequently [[TroubledAbuser taking it out on her own daughter by hurting her both physically and emotionally]]. Very often, when she calms down after punishing Maria and venting her frustrations, Rosa immediately feels guilty and tries to make amends by hugging Maria and asking for forgiveness.
* UnstoppableRage: She enter this mode in [=EP2=], when she fighting to the end against the butlers of goat to protect herself and Maria and then again in [=EP8=], when Erika criticizes her for hers mistreating against her daughter by trying to convince Maria that Rosa hates her.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Battler says that Rudolf said this about Rosa a lot (and in fact, whenever one of the 4 siblings talks about their childhood and/or a flashback about it is shown to us, Rosa is the only one who comes always and only represented under a nice and sympathetic light), but because of the age difference between her and the rest of her siblings, she got treated pretty nastily by them a lot of the time. Now, of course, she treats Maria quite harshly.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Rosa usually has to work all day and hardly spends any time with Maria, leaving her all alone in the house. [=EP4=] brings into question how much of this is true given some implications that Rosa does have some free time and uses it to spend time with her boyfriends instead of Maria, but if what's revealed in [=EP6=] is to be believed, Rosa really is working hard so she can pay off the debt Maria's father left her in and he can come back to both of them (which is unlikely to happen even if the debt is paid).
* WhosLaughingNow: In [=EP2=] Rosa seems to have vibrations of this trope after the death of her siblings [[spoiler:and she is clearly happy to imagine [[BigSisterBully Eva]] in prison for the deaths of Krauss and Natsuhi in the seventh Tea Party]].
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: She's very displeased with Maria's obsession with the occult, creepy tendencies and childish behavior, which is why she is constantly scolding and abusing her to get her to start acting her age and make some real friends.
* WickedWitch: Her daughter Maria sees [[SplitPersonalityTakeover Rosa as being replaced by a "black witch"]] whenever Rosa is angry towards her, since in her mind a person's change in behavior means they've been possessed. In this state, always from [[MsImagination Maria's point of view]], [[WitchSpecies ROSA]] definitively killed Chiester 556 by literally breaking her up and decapitating Sakutaro with her bare hands.
* WomanChild: She's not near being the most blatant example of this trope, but she does have some moments where she acts quite a bit like a child, since the harsh treatment from Kinzo and her siblings essentially deprived her of a normal childhood. At one point in [=EP1=], she even laments that she still doesn't feel as though she's really grown up.
* YouAreTooLate: Rosa's practically made of this one. In Episode 2 she and Maria reconcile...just in time for them to die. In Episode 3 [[spoiler:she solves the epitaph first, but presumably doesn't act fast enough and Eva arrives before her]]. In Episode 4 she almost takes out [[spoiler:Goldsmith]], but hesitates a little too long.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: As much as Rosa tries to move away from her family as she understandably resents towards them for the domestic abuse she has suffered, unfortunately she has been unable to not internalize their educational and social schemes.
* YoungestChildWins: Inverted to the extreme. One of the reasons why Rosa does not get along very well with her older siblings comes from the fact that since her childhood [[SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome all her school failures have been put in competition with the successes of Krauss, Eva and Rudolf]], that brought her to constantly fight with her mother. Not even in adulthood the situation changes because for every family meeting Rosa continues not only to suffer from inferiority complexes in their comparisons in the workplace field but also in those parental and relational fields, because she was forced by circumstances to become a StrugglingSingleMother who tries with all her strength to give a decent life to herself and her daughter Maria, [[CreepyChild a little girl who is a little mentally unstable]]. Instead her siblings can rely on any kind of support from their respective spouses.
* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Try to hurt Maria in front of her, press her [[BerserkButton Berserk Buttons]] or make it clear that she is not a good mother and that she hates her daughter to the point that she never wanted to have her and you'll see what happens next.
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[[folder:Natsuhi Ushiromiya]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/EmiShinohara (JP), Creator/WendyPowell (EN)
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-->"''Without fail, I will protect all of the Ushiromiya family's honor and glory!''"

Mother of Jessica and wife of Krauss, she is ninth in the line of succession. Natsuhi is under a lot of pressure, since it is her and Krauss's responsibility to take care of both Kinzo and the house, and yet she married into the Ushiromiya family, putting her at a fairly low rank on the hierarchy. She gave birth to Jessica after twelve years of being unable to have a child, a fact that Eva attempted to take advantage of.
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* ActionMom: She repeatedly tries to be this but often, compared to other established Action Moms like Rosa and Kyrie, she is always eliminated before she can actually do something to damage her killers and / or defend herself or Jessica.
* BerserkButton: Don't insult the Ushiromiya family name, head, her husband, or her own standing in the family honorably given to her by Kinzo, [[spoiler:even if the last one isn't true]].
* BreakTheHaughty: Natsuhi is oftentimes far too proud for her own good. The whole fifth arc is one long TraumaCongaLine for her.
* BrokenBird: Natsuhi has not lived an easy life since she was practically sold as a bride for Krauss when she was only 17 years old. The number of years spent in the numerous failed attempts to conceive an heir, the inability to return to her parents, the constant pressure and psychological abuse to which she is regularly subjected by the rest of her husband's family and, above all, having to help at all costs her husband, [[spoiler:even at the cost of finding a solution to hide the death of her father-in-law from the rest of the other relatives,]] has leave the poor Natsuhi with serious emotional damages to her psyche.
* ButtMonkey: In addition to BreakTheHaughty and TraumaCongaLine above, she gets verbally abused by Eva in [=EP1=] to the point that she ends up running away in tears. [[spoiler:She is also one of the first to go in the second, fourth, sixth and seventh games. She was actually the first person to die when the real life massacre started, and it was entirely by accident]]. To add insult to injury, [[spoiler:despite her brave attempts to take charge in the first arc by wielding a gun and challenging Beatrice to a duel, the manga reveals that her gun wasn't even loaded and she didn't even know enough about guns to be able to tell]]. Suffice to say, Natsuhi is the series punching bag alongside Rosa.
* ClassyCravat: Part of her classy Ushiromiya attire.
* ControlFreak: Since she was forced to enter in the Ushiromiya family with no choice and, despite being the wife of the future head of the family, no one, except the servants, respects neither her nor her position (not even her husband), Natsuhi, predictably, has developed an obsession with wanting to have and exercise authoritarian power over everything; best demonstrated by her being very coldly strict with the servants and forcing everyone, including her siblings-in-law, to abide by her strict rules. This is ultimately the origin of her HairTriggerTemper problem.
* DeadPersonConversation: A few with [[spoiler:Kinzo]], although it's implied that it's because [[spoiler:she [[{{Hallucinations}} snapped]] to a certain extent after Kinzo's death]], rather than it being a genuine conversation with a ghost.
* DeathGlare: Whenever any of the staff of the servants commits even one mistake or shown lack of knowledge or efficiency, if Natsuhi is nearby she will begin to look at them with a deep intimidatory look.
* DefrostingIceQueen: One of the predominant characteristics of her personality, Natsuhi often appears and is described as very rigid and severe in the eyes of the other characters, especially towards the members of the family she most despises like Eva. However, when she is alone or with Krauss, she shows that she is more than capable of showing genuine affection for her husband and daughter.
* DuelToTheDeath: In [=EP1=], with Beatrice. [[spoiler:She loses, and it's later revealed to be because Sayo Yasuda removed the bullets in her gun beforehand.]]
* EducationMama: Not shown in as much detail as Eva, but it's still apparent that Natsuhi is very strict with Jessica when it comes to her studies, as well as just about everything else in her daughter's life.
* EtiquetteNazi: She forces Jessica and Krauss to be sharply dressed even in the mansion's corridors. Which is, you know, their ''house''.
* ExtremeDoormat: Subverted. In the first half of the series she seems to be completely obedient to her husband and always supports him whatever he does or says. In the fifth novel though, she shows she can chew him out ''hard'' when [[UpperClassTwit his stupidity has obviously gone through the roof]].
* EyesAlwaysShut: Most of the time in the first novel, due to her chronic headaches.
* FamilyHonor: She's dedicated to upholding the Ushiromiya family's honor, even though she's not a blood relative and isn't even allowed to wear the One-Winged Eagle crest on her clothes like the other relatives.
* FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: She has this dynamic with Jessica, being the proper and refined mother of a feisty and tomboyish daughter.
* ForgivenButNotForgotten: [[spoiler:In [=EP8=], Sayo/Beatrice forgives her for throwing her off the cliff, saying she has tormented her long enough. Sayo/Beatrice will never forget that Natsuhi is responsible for her miserable life, but as long as Natsuhi regrets what she did to her, Sayo/Beatrice won't hold any grudge against her.]]
* FreudianExcuse: The reason why she is so dedicated to pleasing her husband and father-in-law and is determined to make Jessica follow her example is because she was influenced and forced by her mother to do the same with her father (to the point that if he returned late after work when they were already asleep they had to wake up and welcome him back by bowing at his feet).
* GildedCage: Both she and Beatrice in the fifth episode realize they have in common the fact that they have both been trapped by Kinzo and deprived of control of their situation; like forced ArrangedMarriage with Krauss in Natsuhi's case.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Her dress is primarily purple and she's quite feminine, mature, and lady-like. Well… [[HairTriggerTemper usually.]]
* HairTriggerTemper: She tends to get worked up very easily, especially if someone is insulting Krauss. With all the stress Natsuhi has to deal with, you'd be a little high-strung too.
* HonorBeforeReason: She will protect the pride of the Ushiromiya, whether it's the smart thing to do or not.
* HonorRelatedAbuse: [[spoiler:Because the child Kinzo gave her to raise served as a constant reminder of her failure to produce an heir herself, she pushed a servant holding the child off a cliff]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: She always goes about the importance of tradition and honor. Yet she [[spoiler:was the one who came up with the idea of concealing the family head's death so her husband could buy enough time to pay off his debts. Not to mention she has never being disposed to face her responsibility for her crime of throwing a servant and a baby off a cliff, resulting in both's presumed deaths.]]
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Natsuhi's birth family. It's the cause of her ArrangedMarriage with Krauss.
* IRejectYourReality: Believes to the very end that Kinzo loves and supports her as his daughter, even though there's no evidence he ever acknowledged her in any way.
* IWishedYouWereDead: Her exposition about [[spoiler:the child from 19 years ago]] indicates this trope in action. Natsuhi starts off claiming [[spoiler:the baby]] died in an accident shortly after she wished it just disappeared. [[spoiler:However, she later confesses it wasn't an accident; she pushed the baby along with the servant who was carrying it off a cliff in a moment of rage.]]
* {{Keigo}}: She speaks very formally almost all of the time (even using the pronoun "watakushi"), more so than all of the other adults. Given that she's a YamatoNadeshiko ([[HairTriggerTemper or at least she's trying to be one]]), this is only to be expected.
* LawOfInverseFertility: Feeds into succession tensions, as she and Krauss couldn't conceive a kid for ''twelve years''.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92i4jaMH2m8 Discolor]] in Episode 5, aka the "Natsuhi's life falling apart" theme.
* MamaBear: Kumasawa refers to Natsuhi as this trope by name in the first arc. [[spoiler: Natsuhi later tries to invoke it against Beato to protect Jessica, but it horribly fails. The manga reveals she had no idea that the gun she was carrying throughout the arc wasn't even loaded, since Sayo removed the bullets beforehand.]]
* MeaningfulName: Her name can be translated as "summer princess". Her favorite season is fall, though.
* MulticoloredHair: Her lower/head hair and her upper/ponytail hair are noticeably different shades of brown. In the original PC art, the ponytail actually seems to fade to ''red.''
* NaginatasAreFeminine: In Episode 5 she briefly mentions that she has some experience with a naginata, having been raised in a family of Shinto priests.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: With Eva. Depending on the episode and the moment, they can be SitcomArchNemesis or ''really'' abusive towards each other.
* OffingTheOffspring: Erika suggests that she did this to Jessica in the fifth arc, though it's later proven false. [[spoiler:However, she did push a servant holding the baby Kinzo gave her to raise off a cliff, due to the child reminding her of her failure to give birth to an heir. The baby just barely survives, but Natsuhi's actions still have severe consequences in the story.]]
* OlderThanSheLooks: She is 47 years old but shows at least 10 less.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Zig-zagged but ultimately played straight. Despite being essentially forced to marry him and both of them having their own issues, she and Krauss really do care about each other. However, those difficulties are used to [[spoiler: frame Natsuhi for murder in Episode 5]].
* PerpetualFrowner: A rare female example. She is very often seen with a prominent frown on her face to underscore her serious and responsible personality.
* PimpedOutDress: Out of an entire sharply-dressed family (with Eva as the [[RummageSaleReject only exception]]), Natsuhi's outfit qualifies for this trope. Even Rosa [[FashionDesigner the designer]] dresses more modestly.
* {{Pride}}: Her FatalFlaw is that she can let her desire to uphold the honor of her husband and the Ushiromiya family as a whole get the best of her.
* SanitySlippage: Poor woman seems to have somewhat lost track of reality after [[spoiler:Kinzo's death]].
* ScarpiaUltimatum: A G-rated version: Kinzo forced Natsuhi into marrying Krauss as a reconciliation of her family's debts to him.
* SilkHidingSteel: Although she publicly suffers from her condition of being a little or not respected by almost all family members and of being submissive to her husband's will, in certain circumstances Natsuhi has proven herself more than capable of keeping her [[IceQueen blood cold]], like when she is the last parent to survive in the first arc [[spoiler:or when she had to create an illusion of lies to hide the death of Kinzo from the rest of the family]].
* SleepingSingle: For all her dedication to Krauss, they still sleep in separate rooms.
* StayInTheKitchen: Krauss repeatedly shuts Natsuhi up. Unfortunately this isn't to his benefit, since she basically runs the house and has much more common sense than he does (at least when she isn't letting her emotions get the better of her) while he squanders their money on poorly thought-out business ventures.
* SympatheticMurderBackstory: Revealed in [=EP5=]. [[spoiler:19 years before the start of the series, Kinzo forced her to adopt a baby because of her inability to give birth at the time. For someone as proud and traditional as Natsuhi, this was the ultimate insult and she came to see the baby as a reminder of her failure as a woman. One day, Natsuhi lost control of herself and in a moment of rage, she pushed the servant who was holding the baby off a cliff.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Natsuhi seems to have a day from hell in the 5th game. [[spoiler:She keeps getting {{Harassing Phone Call}}s from a man claiming to be her son who threatens to reveal a crime from her past. Then Jessica is murdered and Krauss is kidnapped just to have Natsuhi on a string. Not only does Krauss die anyway, but Natsuhi is framed for all the murders, gets beaten up by a very pissed off Eva and Battler is the only one who even ''tries'' to intervene. As if that wasn't bad enough, she gets accused of ''cheating on her husband and having a sexual relationship with Kinzo''. Then Bernkastel brutally tells her in red that everything that's been basically keeping her sane until that moment was all a delusion on her part.]] Poor Natsuhi.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The biggest one in the series. [[spoiler:Because Natsuhi pushed a servant holding her adoptive child off a cliff in her fit of anger, the child would grow up to lead a lonely, almost friendless life as a servant with body/gender issues thanks to the injuries they suffered from the fall, eventually leading to the Ushiromiya Massacre.]]
* WantedAGenderConformingChild: She insists that Jessica should act more refined and ladylike instead of feisty and tomboyish.
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: Natsuhi is this to Kinzo, her father-in-law, as she loves him very much and desperately wants his approval. [[spoiler:In [=EP5=], however, Bernkastel tells her in red that Kinzo never thought she was good enough, sending poor Natsuhi further into despair.]]
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Since she was forced to marry Krauss in order to reconcile her birth family's debts to the Ushiromiyas, Natsuhi has never felt truly accepted by her new family because of privileges that are denied her (such as not being allowed to wear the Ushiromiya One-Winged Eagle crest on her clothing), the fact that Kinzo blames her for her inability to get pregnant for years before Jessica was born and, above all, that the little control and authority she has as wife of the island's first-born owner is constantly denied not only by almost all other relatives (primarily [[FemaleMisogynist Eva]]) but even by her own husband, [[StayInTheKitchen who puts the walls in her way]]. Unfortunately for Krauss, this isn't to his benefit, considering how Natsuhi is the one who manages the entire manor and proves capable of implementing effective strategies so that their family can survive. And she is able to do all these things only by repressing both the mental and physical stress to which she has become subjected over the years.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Tries her hardest to be this, and has quite a few characteristics of the trope, but she ultimately has too much of a HairTriggerTemper to fully play it straight. She'd probably fit the role better if she hadn't married into a BigScrewedUpFamily that constantly heaps pressure on her.
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[[folder:Hideyoshi Ushiromiya]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/MasashiHirose (JP), Creator/KentWilliams (EN)
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->"''Would ya give it a rest, Eva?''"

Father of George and husband of Eva, he is tenth in the line of succession. He owns a successful restaurant chain and is a fairly cheerful and sociable man. He was married into Eva's family and took on her family name on a technicality.
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* AccidentalMurder: In Prime, [[spoiler:he accidentally kills Krauss in an attempt to protect Eva from him shortly after Natsuhi's death.]]
* AccompliceByInaction: Despite being perhaps the kindest parent in the family and supporting his wife tremendously, Hideyoshi nevertheless does little and nothing to scold and hold back Eva from behaving like a total {{Jerkass}} who regularly abuses other residents of the island, as well as he does not say and do nothing when [[AbusiveMom Rosa]] slaps Maria in front of him during [=EP3=]. It is therefore no surprise that Maria is never sorry for the death of her uncles and that Rosa (who is also one of Eva's favorite victims) has no intention of supporting him and his wife [[spoiler:for their double AccidentalMurder]].
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Or more accurately, in anime episode 16: Did you just give the witch a noogie? It was remarkably more serious in the original game, and was more like [[spoiler:did you just bitchslap a witch and insist she was your wife?]]
* TheDragon: He act like this for his wife during the third episode.
* FriendToAllChildren: He is explicitly described as this and in particular he's often shown as rather affectionate to his niece Maria. [[GenerationXerox A trait that seems to he have also passed on to his son George.]]
* HappilyMarried: Seeing as how he's one of the genuinely kindest members of the family, he has no regrets for marrying Eva or changing his name to Ushiromiya.
* ImageSong: [[https://youtu.be/hypF_5a-DMw From me, to my beloved family]]
* KansaiRegionalAccent: It's actually fake, (apparently he thinks it helps him with business) and he drops it around real people from Kansai. In the dub, this is translated as a Texan accent.
* MoralityChain: Don't let him die, or Eva will go apeshit on you.
* MoralityPet: He's this to Eva in some timelines, since he and Eva probably have the most stable married relationship out of all the parents.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: His favorite historical figure is UsefulNotes/ToyotomiHideyoshi.
* NiceGuy: And it's noted that his geniality is very welcome [[BigScrewedUpFamily in the atmosphere of the family conference]].
* SatelliteLoveInterest: He's the least developed of the Ushiromiya parents and usually dies too early to do much not related to his wife Eva.
* SmokingIsCool: Although maybe he should think when he smokes.
* TooDumbToLive: Like his wife, Hideyoshi does not prove to be a very intelligent individual in situations where his life and that of his family is at risk.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He dies on the 1st twilight in Episode 2 and 4, on the 2nd twilight in Episode 1 and 5, and luckily survives one more twilight in Episode 3. Even ''[[TheChewToy Rosa]]'' fares better. Because of that, he gets less development than the other family members.
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[[folder:Kyrie Ushiromiya]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/AtsukoTanaka (JP)
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->"''Flip the chessboard around.''"

The business partner and second wife of Rudolf. Kyrie is Ange's mother and Battler's stepmother. She is the last on the chain of succession as far as is known (there is confusion over Maria's father). She is known to have a very strong "flip-the-chessboard" mentality about how to tackle problems, and indeed, seems to have inspired Battler's own.
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* ActionMom: Among all the parents she's the one with the most battles, especially in Episode 3 when she utterly defeats Leviathan completely on her own.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler:Becomes this after the manga confirms that she played a major role in the Rokkenjima massacre. It's left up to interpretation whether or not she really was a cold-blooded psychopath with a hidden disdain for her entire family, or simply a tragic woman who [[ThenLetMeBeEvil embraced a persona of being a cold-blooded psychopath]] after crossing some lines that she could never walk back from.]]
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Of all the characters on this page, Kyrie is by far the one with the most strategic mind and intent on analyzing and processing each situation in which she finds herself. In fact, she proves to being almost essential in trying to solve the Kinzo's Epitaph when all parents team up, proving to be the most capable of finding solutions in the first clues, or in understanding who could be the killer. Moreover, she seems to be perhaps the only one of the other adults who does not [[BewareTheNiceOnes underestimate Rosa]] by sensing her [[ManipulativeBitch true personality]] and the real nature of her [[AbusiveParent relationship]] with Maria.
* BadassBookworm: Even in fantasy combat scenes, her biggest asset is her mind.
* BadassLongcoat: Her outfit includes a cool longcoat that makes her look even more awesome during her fight scenes.
* BadassNormal: During fantasy combat scenes she doesn't use magic, relying on guns and her wits instead.
* BettyAndVeronica: She was the Veronica to Asumu's Betty in their love triangle for Rudolf. Kyrie was Rudolf's business partner with a sharp and intelligent personality that could make Rudolf feel overwhelmed, in contrast with the sweet and demure Asumu.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: With her short hair and her business-styled clothing, Kyrie could pass off as a pretty-looking man.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Outside, Kyrie is a collected and reliable person who has no problem communicating cordially with others and providing support in case of need. [[spoiler:Inside, she appears to be nothing more than a possessively and fatally jealous sociopath of anyone who gets in the way between her and Rudolf and more than ready to take drastic measures when money are involved without any regrets.]]
* BoyishShortHair: As appropriate to her smart and assertive personality.
* ChekhovsGunman: Whether or not [[spoiler:she's actually the murderer as Bernkastel suggests, [=EP3=] and onward show that she is ''capable'' of extraordinary coldness and violence if it's for Rudolf's sake]], which is why it is possible for her piece to act as it does in [=EP7=] (pieces cannot be out-of-character).
* ClingyJealousGirl: She is this to [[TheCasanova Rudolf]], but it isn't obvious unless Asumu is brought up. The undying jealousy Kyrie has felt towards her long dead love rival is enough to ''out-envy the reification of Envy itself''.
* CoolBigSis: Battler views her as being more like this to him than a stepmother.
%%* CreepyCoolCrosses
* DisconnectedByDeath: Episode 4, same as Jessica.
* DissonantSerenity: [[spoiler:Murdering your entire family in cold-blood]]? Just another day for Kyrie.
* DrivenByEnvy: This is how she can own Leviathan (the reification of Envy) in every sense of the word.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Leviathan gives chocolate to Kyrie for Valentines Day, in the Extra Tips "Stakes Valentine Day" and in [=EP6=] [[spoiler:Leviathan saves Kyrie from being killed by Jessica.]]
* EvilCounterpart: She may be this for Rosa for many reasons;
** Considering that both recognize that they have experienced many similar situations on some occasions, with Kyrie who sometimes proves to be the only other adult in the family who tries to understand the difficult situations of Rosa and Rosa who understands how Kyrie might have felt for had being pushed aside by Rudolf for years just as she herself was pushed aside by Maria's father.
** Both are ActionMom and BadassNormal, not only very intelligent but also very reactive to react in the middle of danger compared to all the others, who usually get stuck in shock and amazement.
** Their personalities are also diametrically opposed; Kyrie is purely rational with remarkable self-control and never lets her emotions influence her behavior, allowing her to be both an effective parent and a successful woman in her work. Rosa, on the other hand, is dominated by her own emotions because she is full of BerserkButton and because of [[FreudianExcuse her childhood]] she is unable to effectively take care of her daughter. However Rosa can be considered all in all a NiceGirl (if you remove the abusive parenthesis in her relationship with Maria) while Kyrie turns out to be TheSociopath.
** Not to mention their way of educating their respective daughters who are totally opposite as well as the mixed feelings they have for them.
* EvilerThanThou: A badass variation; in the third arc, Leviathan explains that it took a couple days after she was born to develop powers, making her extremely envious of her older sisters. Kyrie ''laughs'' at her and magnificently counters with what amounts to "What? You think that's envy? ''I envied some bitch for stealing my man from me '''for eighteen years!!'''''", then shoots her to death.
* FiringOneHanded: She's the only one to wield the rifles this way.
* FormulaicMagic: The PowerLevels for Leviathan and Kyrie are determined in how many hours they've experienced intense envy. In-game, Leviathan attempts the multiplication for Kyrie's multiplication formula, along with revealing her own, giving players the idea. In the TIPS, Kyrie is shown actually chanting her formula as she runs to give Rudolf what for after she finds him cheating on her with Belphegor.
* GoodStepmother: Kyrie and Battler have a closer rapport than any of the children have with any of their parents. Although Battler resents his father for his rapid remarriage, he doesn't hold it against Kyrie. While they don't view each other as family, they seem to have a fair amount of respect for each other. {{Subverted}} because Kyrie did have a bitter rivalry with Battler's mother that has festered in envy over years. When in private, Kyrie admits she does resent Battler and is only forcing herself to be nice to him. In Episode 7, [[spoiler:she shows she wouldn't have any problem with getting rid of Battler if he gets in the way of her and Rudolf running away with the money]].
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:She had a smile on her lips after Eva shot her dead in Prime. The reason is not made explicit, although it could be a sign that Kyrie was happy to hear Eva wasn't going to let Ange know the monsters her parents were.]]
* HiddenDisdainReveal:
** In Episode 3, Kyrie admits that even though she pretends to get along with Battler, she actually can barely stand to see him because he reminds her of the woman who stole Rudolf away from her and of the child she lost when she had a stillbirth the same day he was born.
** ZigZagged in regards to [[spoiler:Ange. In the scenario Bernkastel shows Ange in Episode 7, Kyrie she coldly admits to Eva that she never truly loved her daughter; she was just her way to tie Rudolf down and only thought of her as a piece in a "make-believe family" play. Now that Rudolf is dead, she has no reason to keep "playing the role" of a mother and Ange is useless to her. Kyrie also states that she never once thought "that brat" was cute at all. Whether or not she actually felt this way is uncertain, and Battler does his damnedest in Episode 8 to show Ange that she didn't.]]
* HiddenVillain: [[spoiler:She and Rudolf are set up to be the true culprits of the Rokkenjima murders in the scenario presented at the end of [=Ep7=], which is heavily implied and later comfirmed in the manga to be what happened in real life. Eva never wanted Ange to know the truth because Kyrie and Rudolf really were the culprits.]]
* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: Kyrie's clothing is ... very ''particular''.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:As with Rudolf, Kyrie deserved that bullet to the head from Eva when she treacherously shot Rosa dead and decided to kill everyone.]]
* LadyMacbeth: [[spoiler:In the real world scenario, she's this to Rudolf. She instigates him to kill everyone to have all the money to themselves and is capable of extreme coldness and ruthlessness when it comes to helping her husband in the murders.]]
* LadyOfWar: Being a sort of ''princess'' from a yakuza family, one could not expect otherwise.
* {{Leitmotif}}: As of Episode 7, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi3eAjB_LcA Ridicule]] is universally considered to be hers.
* LoveHurts: Of course, it also gives you enough envy to overpower envy-incarnate, so it all evens out.
* MadnessMantra: PlayedForLaughs in "The Stakes' Valentine" and "Beatrice's White Day", when Leviathan kindly informs her that Rudolf gets along ''very well'' with Belphegor.
-->'''Kyrie:''' Oh my. I hope the hospital has a free room with two beds. 24×365×1895179579245988…
* MafiaPrincess: The Sumadera clan can be more-or-less summed up as {{Exp|y}}ies of the [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Sonozaki family]], and Kyrie herself has plenty of scary moments, particularly in later arcs.
* MaskOfSanity: At first glance, Kyrie is an affable and collected woman. It's only when the subject of Asumu is brought up that it starts becoming clear that Kyrie [[{{Yandere}} is not as stable as she appears to be]]. [[spoiler:Bernkastel exploits the implications of this trope to the fullest to traumatize Ange in [=EP7=]'s Tea Party that shows Kyrie going on a rampage and murdering most of the Ushiromiya family. While the manga confirms that this indeed happened, Battler tries to debunk the theory that Kyrie truly was insane in his [=EP8=] game.]]
* MeaningfulName: Possibly, as "Kyrie" means "Lord" in Greek, in addition to being a Japanese name.
** Or it could just be part of the Christianity-based ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming of the series, as the Kyrie is a Christian prayer.
* TheMistress: Before Asumu's death, she was this to Rudolf.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: She seems to believe killing is the best and easiest way to deal with troubling situations, both in love and money.
* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Kyrie says that Asumu probably drew Rudolf in due to the fact that she was very good at [[YamatoNadeshiko acting the traditional female role]]. Kyrie tended to serve as a business partner for Rudolf, which she feels probably [[MotherNatureFatherScience overwhelmed him]] to a certain extent.
* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:Tells Eva that they are actually the same in their final confrontation.]]
** [[spoiler: She even unconsciously admits that she feels (mistakenly) similar to Rosa when, in her last dialogue with Eva, she tries to justify her choice to abandon Ange taking as an example the complicated relationship between her sister-in-law and her daughter Maria.]]
* PowerLevels: Leads to GreenEyedMonster in Episode 3, where she basically defeats Leviathan by out-{{Envy}}ing her.
* RunawayFiance: She ran away from her ArrangedMarriage to marry Rudolf, and her family made her sister Kasumi marry her fiance in her place.
* SkewedPriorities: [[spoiler:One of her biggest worries while committing a family massacre is making sure her clothes aren't stained with blood, then laughing when they are.]]
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: She's said to be good at chess and was the one who taught Battler the "turning the chess board around" mentality. She's also the most intellectual, logical and analytical among the adults.
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler:In [=EP7=], for all her wit and cunning, she comes across as a nasty murderous thug who seems to be a KarmaHoudini... until Eva shows up with a rifle.]]
* TheSociopath: She was widely interpreted as being this once the public began accusing her and Rudolf of being the culprits. It's particularly notable in [[spoiler:especially Episode 7's tea party]], but if you dig a bit deeper there are a few signs even in earlier arcs. [[spoiler:In the real world scenario revealed in [=EP7=], Kyrie shows herself as a complete murderous maniac who kills almost everyone in cold and ruthless ways. She also shows she doesn't really care about what happens to her own husband and daughter; she goes as far as to admit she finds Rudolf's death convenient and she's glad she doesn't have to pretend to love "that brat" Ange anymore.]]
* StupidEvil: [[spoiler:Like her husband, it is shocking that an extremely clever person like Kyrie really thought she and Rudolf could get away with no consequences once everyone was killed, the island exploded to cover her tracks and they returned to civilization. Add to that her very serious neglect of not checking that the people she shot being really dead immediately after shooting them, which goes back to biting her seriously in the ass when a furious and vengeful Eva comes in place of her husband carrying a rifle with her.]]
* TragicStillbirth: [=EP3=] reveals Kyrie had a stillbirth the same day Battler was born. This contributed to her extreme jealousy and resentment of Asumu and Battler because of Kyrie believing they had everything that rightfully belonged to her and her son. [[spoiler:It isn't revealed until [=EP8=] that Kyrie is Battler's real mother through a [[SwitchedAtBirth baby switch]]; Asumu was really the one who had a stillbirth.]]
* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:The more sympathetic interpretation of her actions at Rokkenjima, where she voluntarily embraces the persona of a psychopath after realizing that there was no clean way for her to move on from the lines she'd ended up crossing in the heat of the moment. At the very least, Battler went out of his way to debunk the theory that she truly ''was'' a sociopath in [=EP8=].]]
* UnbalancedByRivalsKid: She hides it very well, but Kyrie admits she does have quite an issue with Battler being Asumu's son, especially since her own child was stillborn while Battler got to live. [[spoiler:In [=EP8=], Kyrie breaks down when she finds out the boy she has been resenting all those years was her son all along.]]
* UnholyMatrimony: [[spoiler:With Rudolf in the real world. They worked together to kill everyone else and keep the money to themselves.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: All the horrible things she says about Asumu are mostly ''her'' version of the story. Considering how the two of them got along, it wouldn't be strange for her to distort the truth a tiny bit…
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: As said above, she had kind of a role in [[spoiler: Sayo/Shannon's breakdown]]. [[spoiler: Had she and Rudolf not married ''that'' soon, Battler wouldn't have broken off his ties with the Ushiromiyas, and Sayo wouldn't have reacted so badly to his sudden return...]]
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: {{Envy}} is her core defining trait, not to mention that [[spoiler:she is responsible for the Rokkenjima massacre in the real world.]]
* WomanScorned: PlayedForLaughs in the TIPS where Kyrie goes to make her husband pay for flirting with Belphegor.
* WouldHurtAChild: As demonstrated by EP 7, Kyrie has no qualms about killing or trying to kill teenagers like Jessica and Battler in case she sees them as obstacles, but gets to kill a 9-year-old girl in cold blood that could easily be her daughter (as Eva tries to point out to her).
* {{Yandere}}: Considering the entire Asumu talk, Kyrie's not too far from this for Rudolf. In [=EP6=], Kyrie straight up tells Jessica that if Asumu didn't die on her own then she would have just killed her, all to be with Rudolf. However, in Episode 7 [[spoiler:she doesn't so much as bat an eyelid when she learns of Rudolf's death, and actually finds it rather convenient.]]
* YourSonAllAlong: [[spoiler:It's confirmed in Episode 8 that Battler's biological mother isn't Asumu but Kyrie. A baby switch was made by Rudolf when Asumu's child was a stillbirth and he thought it would be easier since he and Asumu were married while Kyrie was a lover. Needless to say, Kyrie gets hit hard by the truth when she finds out.]]
[[/folder]]

!!Servants and guests
[[folder:Shannon]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/RieKugimiya (JP)
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->"''George-san and I swore our love to each other. As proof, I accepted the ring... With that, our eternal vows were completed! No matter how you torture us with your wicked magic and your malice, you cannot disgrace that for all eternity!''"

One of the servants in the Ushiromiya mansion. She is a very sweet and shy girl who shares Kanon's belief in their being furniture within the Ushiromiya household. Despite that, though, she actively cultivates a relationship with George.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: [[spoiler:After Battler left the family, Shannon tried her best to keep faithfully waiting for him to return for her as he had promised. Then Battler wrote letters for everyone except her, which caused Shannon to break down. Already tired of waiting for someone who might never return and now thinking Battler probably never really cared for her in the first place, Shannon gave her love for Battler to Beatrice and started to pursue a romance with George instead.]]
* AdaptedOut: Not really an "adaptation", but she isn't included in ''Forgery of the Purple Logic''.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Her eyes are dark brown in the original VN and the manga. They were changed to blue in the anime and light blue in the [=PS3=] version and the ''Tsubasa'' manga. This was probably to [[spoiler:give further hints that she and Beatrice are the same person]].
* AgeGapRomance: There's a seven year age gap between her and George. [[spoiler:Actually, they are only four years apart because Sayo Yasuda's real age is 19.]]
* AmbiguouslyChristian: It's implied a few times that Shannon is a UsefulNotes/JapaneseChristian. In Episode 7, she mentions several times that "God must be testing her" [[spoiler:as she keeps trying to believe in Battler's return]].
* ArtificialHuman: According to an anti-mystery perspective. [[spoiler:From an anti-fantasy perspective, it's subverted: she and Kanon don't consider themselves human due to their true identity Sayo Yasuda's insecurities about her damaged sexual organs, since she believes that she may as well be "furniture" because of it.]]
* BarrierWarrior: In fantasy scenes, her magic is about manipulating barriers.
* BattleCouple: She and George form a GuysSmashGirlsShoot combination as they fight the goats invading the Golden Land in [=EP8=].
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Shannon in general is underestimated by the Meta-Character due to her status of being a simple maid whose only powers are [[BarrierWarrior defensive in nature]], yet in all the times she actually is able to fight back she has been able to hold back her attackers reasonably well, culminating in [=EP6=] where she kills [[spoiler: Witch!Maria and Sakutarou]] without breaking a sweat.
* BigSisterInstinct:
** Just as Kanon is protective of her, Shannon is very protective of him and encourages him to get into a relationship with Jessica and break out of his shell. That's why she's disgusted with Beatrice in the second arc for using his body when he's already dead to kill more people. Also she prefers to die with Kanon than have him suffer a gruesome death in [=EP3=].
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in [=EP6=] where she outright tells Kanon that as long as he doesn't get in the way of her love for George, he'll be fine. [[spoiler: Cue to the end of the arc where they have a DuelToTheDeath and she kills Kanon because his love for Jessica wasn't strong enough. Of course, in the end, that was all a representation of Sayo Yasuda's internal struggle--Sayo believes that in order to be with George, her "ugly" Kanon self which hides all of her bitterness and pessimism must "die" since George wants a shy, docile and optimistic wife, not a bitter, pessimistic Sayo.]]
%%* CantHaveSexEver: [[spoiler:[[WordOfGod Ryukishi]] said in an interview "How scary must it be, to be told that your partner "wants children" when you have a body that cannot make love." referring to how Shannon is unable to have sex due to Sayo Yasuda's badly damaged sexual organs. Not surprising Shannon got nervous when George begun talking about them having children after getting married.]]
* ChastityCouple: With George. They are already engaged, but they are never shown to do anything other than HoldingHands and hugging. [[spoiler:This seems to be invoked on Shannon's end, however, because if they were more physically intimate then she'd have to reveal how mutilated her body is.]]
* ChewingTheScenery: Has her moments in the fighting games, mainly due to the fact that half of everyone's moves are weird references to the novels. For example, in context, you probably thought the line was fine, but '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-twPWf9hSrQ#t=01m53s "I KEPT MY PROMISE, LADY BEATRICE!!!"]]'''''
* ChildhoodFriends: With Jessica, to whom she is also TheConfidant, since she is the only girl close to her age on the island. This is despite the fact that Natsuhi had forbidden her daughter for interacting too much with the servants.
* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: [[spoiler:Not exactly marriage, but Battler promised to Shannon that he would "come back to take her away on a white horse". She remembered it and waited desperately. Unfortunately, Battler didn't seriously mean it, so he didn't return to the island for six years due to his family issues and completely forgot about her. This is his "sin of six years ago" and the straw that broke the camel's back for Sayo, who loses all hope for a better life and plans the murders.]]
* CommonalityConnection: The very thing that made her closer to Battler 6 years ago was their shared love of mystery novels.
* CuteBookworm: Shannon is a fan of mystery novels and would read them a lot when she was younger.
* CuteClumsyGirl: When upset and flustered, she will instantly take several levels in clumsiness, which tend to get progressively more severe until she's rendered completely ineffectual. Of course, this tends to get her in a lot of trouble with the ''very'' strict Natsuhi. Poor girl.
* DealWithTheDevil: The second arc opens by stating that she made a deal with Beatrice that she would break a mirror at the shrine that disappeared if Beatrice would make George fall in love with her. [[spoiler:This represents the moment Sayo Yasuda starts testing the bomb by blowing up the shrine with a single load, making her resolve to kill everyone and create the catbox where Shannon could be loved by George.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:It's confirmed in the manga that this is the way Shannon really died in Episode 2 and 4, by shooting herself in the head in a way the gun would be left hidden so Battler couldn't find it.]]
* DuelToTheDeath: [[spoiler:She takes part in one with Kanon in [=EP6=].]]
* FakeBoobs: [[spoiler:Her large breasts are confirmed to be fake by WordOfGod, and this is later shown explicitly in the manga.]]
* FirstLove: She was this for Battler. [[spoiler:His SecondLove is Beatrice, but since Shannon and Beatrice are one and the same then it makes things a bit more complicated.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: During her very first scene in the VN, it's mentioned that she has worked for the family for 10 years, and since she was 6 years old, making her 16 years old. Yet, she acts like she is a few years older than Kanon, even though he is also 16. In Episode 7, we learn [[spoiler:that Genji faked Sayo Yasuda's age to not raise suspicion from Natsuhi, making Shannon 16, but she's actually 19.]]
* TheGadfly: Much more subtle about it than most examples because of her ProneToTears nature, but she tends to pick on Jessica regarding her lack of a boyfriend and on George and Battler about their embarrassing pasts. [[spoiler: Especially notable whenever her true self, Sayo, resurfaces]].
** This leads to a FunnyAneurysmMoment in Episode 3, when she gently mocks Battler's phrase "I'll come back on a white horse, [[GratuitousEnglish see you again!]]" [[spoiler:In [=EP7=] it turns out she ''didn't'' find that line funny. [[CerebusRetcon At all]].]]
* GagBoobs: While she was already well-endowed in the original visual novel (which [[ChivalrousPervert Battler]] lampshades), her breasts are definitely treated this way in the anime and manga. [[spoiler:It turns out that this is invoked by Shannon herself, since WordOfGod and the manga have revealed that her breasts are actually fake.]]
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Shannon is a demure and sweet {{Meido}}. She also thinks hammerhead sharks are "cute" and she's very good at handling guns, with Kanon stating she's better at it than him.
* HeroicSafeMode: In [=EP7=], she basically short-circuits briefly when [[spoiler:Will asks her to get Kanon]], complete with robotic voice, AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle, and DullEyesOfUnhappiness. [[spoiler:This is a very obvious sign that she and Kanon are the same person and thus cannot appear in front of Will at the same time.]]
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: A big part of her issues come from the fact that she feels unworthy to be loved, both for physical and emotional reasons.
* HiddenDepths: Kanon outright states in [=EP6=] that Shannon was always the better of two when it came to handling guns.
* HiredHelpAsFamily: The Ushiromiya cousins, especially Jessica, regard Shannon as a childhood friend, even though their parents don't approve of familiarity with servants.
* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Her low self-esteem makes her feel like this whenever ''anybody'' notices her. More explicit with George because of the InterClassRomance nature of their relationship.
* ImaginaryFriend: [[spoiler:Shannon was originally created by Sayo as an imaginary friend and an embodiment of the perfect servant that she wished to be, her role model. Later Sayo decided to be a witch instead and created the Beatrice persona, but Shannon eventually became the main personality that Sayo presented to everyone else.]]
* InterClassRomance: With George. The main obstacle to George and Shannon's romance was the fact that she is a servant to the Ushiromiya family, while he is a member of that very wealthy family. [[spoiler:Subverted, since Sayo Yasuda is the true head of the family. There are also much bigger obstacles to their relationship than just their class difference]].
* IronicName: Her real name Sayo can be pronounced as "Shaddai", the goddess of fertility. [[spoiler:Which is ironic since Sayo Yasuda cannot have sex, let alone children.]]
* IWillWaitForYou: She resolved to do this for [[spoiler:Battler, who had promised to take her away from Rokkenjima on a white horse and live their lives together. Unfortunately he forgot about this promise, not only because of the whole situation with Rudolf remarrying too soon and Battler deciding to leave the family because of it, but also because he didn't even take it as seriously as she did. After Battler wrote letters for everyone except Shannon, Shannon had a breakdown and decided to give her love for Battler to Beatrice and pursue a romance with George instead.]]
* KillTheOnesYouLove: Shannon and Kanon are LikeBrotherAndSister to each other, but they still need to face each other in a DuelToTheDeath in order for one of them to find happiness with either George or Jessica. [[spoiler:Anyone who can connect the dots in the sixth arc realizes that the real relationship between them is a little different from what was just stated. Sayo's turmoil in trying to kill off part of herself is highlighted in this setup]].
* TheKirk: She's in the middle between Beatrice and Kanon; Shannon wants to find love and happiness with George and actively builds their relationship, but she still carries her insecurities from her furniture complex and how George will react to the truth about her. [[spoiler:Shannon is the persona closest to the core of Sayo Yasuda, who is constantly torn between her conflicting feelings represented by Beatrice and Kanon.]]
* LastRequest: In the second arc when Beatrice has broken through Shannon's shield, Shannon turns to George and asks him to tell her one last time how much he loves her. [[spoiler:He starts, but is cut off when Beatrice kills him. In reality, it was Sayo Yasuda (who is both Shannon and Beatrice) who killed him.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: The very cute and peaceful [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj4grmCRRRw Praise.]]
* LethalHarmlessPowers: She manages to [[spoiler:kill Maria]] precisely because rather than attacking her, she's "defending herself"... it's only incidental that [[spoiler:Maria]] winds up smashed against the wall in the process.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The Light Feminine (demure and cute maid) to Beatrice's Dark Feminine (alluring and sadistic witch). [[spoiler:Of course, both are just different sides to Sayo Yasuda.]]
* LikeBrotherAndSister: With Kanon. While not really related by blood, they consider each other siblings and care very deeply about each other. [[spoiler:It's eventually made clear that they're actually the same person, created as alter egos of Sayo Yasuda; Sayo created Kanon to be a "little brother" for Shannon.]]
* LoveHurts:
** Mostly because no matter how much she may love and be loved by George, she would have to reveal herself as furniture to him sooner or later.
** Before George, Shannon got to know how painful love can be [[spoiler:through her feelings for Battler. Shannon wanted to believe in Battler's promise, but waiting for his return eventually became too unbearably painful and Shannon gave up her love for Battler to Beatrice to get rid of the pain.]]
* LuminescentBlush: In the sound novels, Shannon is the only character whose blushing can take up her entire face.
* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: [[spoiler:A mundane example; she's one of quite a few people inside Sayo Yasuda, but they're all "characters" Sayo created and not actual people.]]
* MeaningfulName: Shannon's (real) name can be read as 3, 4. [[spoiler: This could hint towards her being one of Sayo's personas.]]
** There is also Shannon Number, which is a conservative low estimate of how many possible games of chess there are. [[spoiler:As Shannon is another aspect of Beatrice and Yasu, her name foreshadows her involvement in Battler's and Beatrice's chess game, as well as Beatrice's power as the Endless Witch, exploring the infinite possibilities of her chessboard, the island of Rokkenjima.]]
* {{Meido}}: She's worked as a maid for the Ushiromiya family since she was young. Her outfit is actually pretty tame by the standards of this trope (her skirt is to her knees, even!), but the fetishization aspect smacks you in the face once you realize there's a slit in that skirt that totally bares her thigh, showing off her one-winged bird tat.
* NightmareFetishist: We start getting hints that she's more than she seems way at the beginning of [=EP2=], with such gems as the fact that her idea of "cute" runs towards ''hammerhead sharks''.
* NotSoWeak: At first in fantasy scenes, when she reveals her BarrierWarrior powers. [[spoiler:This is an hint that there's more to her personality than it appears in the real world too]].
* NotWithThemForTheMoney: In [=EP8=], she proclaims her love for George has nothing to do with his wealth when forgeries of the future accuse her of being a GoldDigger.
* OddNameOut: While she has a "on" like the other servants, she's the only one who was given a Western name.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Shannon's real name is Sayo, but the only one who ever calls her that is George. When she became a servant for the Ushiromiya family, she was given a "servant name" that ends in the Japanese character for sound (音), read as on/non/ne. [[spoiler:In fact, whenever she's referred to as "Sayo" in-story and it isn't George speaking, the narration is most likely referring to Sayo "Yasu" Yasuda the culprit rather than their facade "Shannon".]]
* PinocchioSyndrome: To a lesser extent than Kanon, but she still expresses a desire to stop being furniture and become a human being in order to live happily ever after with George. [[spoiler:However, like Kanon, this is not in a literal sense.]]
* ThePollyanna: In contrast to Kanon, Shannon always keeps trying to see the bright side of things and believe in a happily ever after with George, despite being furniture.
* ProneToTears: At least partly invoked for George's sake, though she ''does'' have cripplingly low self-esteem.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Kanon's Red. Shannon is reserved and passive, while Kanon is aggressive and prone to bad-mouthing people. Whenever love or Beatrice are involved, she's the calm and serene one, lecturing Kanon.
* SheIsAllGrownUp: Battler notices how beautiful she has become after six years and tries to grope her large breasts, [[spoiler:nearly exposing them as FakeBoobs]].
* ShipperOnDeck: For Jessica and Kanon. She usually encourages Kanon to accept his feelings for Jessica and try to make a progress in his relationship with her, although he keeps insisting that's impossible because he's furniture. [[spoiler:Of course, this is actually Sayo Yasuda trying to be honest with herself about their feelings for Jessica, despite their broken body and their relationship with George.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: She gives the impression that she's shy and submissive because of her lack of self-confidence and upbringing as a servant. As the Episodes go by, it's becomes clear she's a {{subversion}} as we see more of her assertive side.
* SleepingSingle: She and George once went on a trip to Okinawa all alone, but slept in separate bedrooms, much to [[ShipperOnDeck Jessica's]] disappointment. [[spoiler:If they had slept in the same room, their relationship would have come into serious jeopardy since George would have seen Shannon/Sayo Yasuda's mutilated sexual organs (not to mention the heavy implication that Sayo was actually assigned male at birth).]]
* TalkingToThemself: [[spoiler:With Kanon and Beatrice. Their conversations and arguments are meant to represent conflicts within Sayo Yasuda's heart.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She's the meek and soft-spoken Girly Girl to Jessica's feisty and laid-back Tomboy.
* TookALevelInBadass: In [=EP1=], she's fairly close to the stereotypical maid archetype; timid, kind, polite... cue [=EP2=] when she's utterly determined to be with George at all costs and stands up to Beatrice [[spoiler:though this really represents two different aspects of Sayo Yasuda's personality arguing with one another]]. She takes another one or two in [=EP6=], where she [[spoiler: kills Witch!Maria with [[CurbStompBattle a minimum of fuss]] using LethalHarmlessPowers, and later shoots Kanon dead in a duel.]]
* TranquilFury: Her character sprite doesn't allow her to show anything but an expression that shows disgust but never outright anger like Kanon's sprite.
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler:Actually three aliases. She, Kanon and Beatrice are all the same person, created as personas of Sayo Yasuda.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kanon]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/YuuKobayashi (JP), Creator/BrysonBaugus (EN)
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->"''Because… we are furniture…''"

One of the servants in the Ushiromiya mansion. He maintains the belief that he and Shannon are nothing but furniture, which initially hinders him from having a relationship with Jessica. He and Shannon act {{like brother and sister}}, although they are not related by blood.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Similar to Shannon, Kanon's eyes are black/dark brown in the original VN and the manga. They were changed to grayish blue in the anime and light blue in the [=PS3=] version and the ''Tsubasa'' manga. Again, this is probably to [[spoiler:give further hints that he, Shannon and Beatrice are all the same person]].
* ArtificialHuman: Same as Shannon. [[spoiler:Also subverted; see Shannon above.]]
* BadassBoast: When fighting Beatrice in Episode 1: [[DyingMomentOfAwesome "I'm not furniture anymore… I'm the zero on your roulette!"]]
* BattleButler: In fantasy scenes he reveals he's quite skilled at magical combat.
* BattleCouple: He and Jessica fight the goats invading the Golden Land in [=EP8=].
* BigBrotherInstinct: {{Inverted}}, since he's supposed to be younger than Shannon. He's very protective of Shannon and always trying to guide her in the right direction as well as warn her the dangers of throwing away her status as Furniture. [[spoiler: EP 7 reveals that Sayo Yasuda created Kanon to be the little brother that would love and protect his big sister.]]
* {{Bishonen}}: He's unsurprisingly quite feminine in appearance.
* BreakTheCutie: The second arc has Beatrice doing whatever it takes to have him submit to her. Naturally, it does work (in the manga and the visual novel since how bad he broke was [[AdaptationDecay absent in the anime.]]) [[spoiler:However, if you take into account that Beatrice and Kanon are actually the same person, then it's really just a metaphor for Sayo's issues.]]
* TheButlerDidIt: Whether it's subverted or played straight is still up for debate even after the series has ended, but in one form or another, this trope was applied particularly strongly in the second arc. [[spoiler:And the sixth.]]
* ButtMonkey: He's probably the servant that is worse off and is probably the third character that has bad luck in the series. Aside from failing to realize his feelings for Jessica until it's too late in all the arcs except [=EP6=], he never survives past the third Twilight contrast to Shannon who easily makes it past the fourth Twilight more often than not. To add to the insult, his body always goes missing in half of the arcs and he's usually accused of being the culprit. [[spoiler:Though this is likely because there isn't a body to go missing in the first place, since Shannon and Kanon tend to fake their deaths and make sure Battler never sees their "bodies" directly.]] To be fair though, his death is nothing (AKA getting stabbed or shot in the chest) compared to what the other members of the family have to go through.
* CannotSpitItOut: He refuses to admit his feelings for Jessica even to himself, because he is furniture.
* CantLiveWithoutYou: Episode 8 confirms in red text that [[spoiler:if Shannon dies, Kanon disappears for all eternity]].
* ChickMagnet: When Jessica takes him to her school's festival, ''all'' the girls fawn over how "cute" he is; of course since he lives on an island where there is exactly one girl his age, it doesn't serve him much.
* TheConscience: He keeps trying to reason with Shannon to make her understand that no matter how much she and George love each other, she's still furniture and if she continues building their relationship, it will only make it's failure the more painful for her. Shannon rarely listens to him. [[spoiler:He's also this in a more figurative sense, since he represents Sayo Yasuda's more cynical side.]]
%%* CryCute
* DeadpanSnarker: More so in the actual novel where he won't hesitate to take a crack at Shannon or the other servants every now and then.
-->'''Shannon:''' Don't worry, [[spoiler:Ange]], it won't be a very difficult riddle.\\
'''Kanon:''' Of course it won't. Since you'll just have to think on Shannon's level.
* DieLaughing: Towards the end of Episode 6, Kanon goes out laughing [[spoiler:as he DisappearsIntoLight inside the closet of the closed room to solve the Logic Error.]]
* DisappearsIntoLight: Twice in Episode 6.
** First, [[spoiler:Kanon is killed by Shannon and turns into a swarm of golden butterflies that are absorbed into Shannon. This is actually symbolism of Shannon becoming Sayo Yasuda's only identity to be with George.]]
** Later, [[spoiler:Kanon saves Battler from the Logic Error by taking his place. He then hides himself in a closet and turns into golden butterflies again. Although, this is meant to be a clue to Kanon metaphorically escaping the closed room when [[ThatManIsDead Sayo Yasuda throws away the name Kanon.]]]]
* DuelToTheDeath: In [=EP1=] and [=EP6=].
* TheEeyore: He's very pessimistic and cynical, in contrast with the more optimistic Shannon. [[spoiler:He actually represents the cynical, "ugly" aspects of Sayo Yasuda's personality.]]
* EffeminateVoice: Kanon is an androgynous young boy voiced by a woman doing a boyish voice. [[spoiler:This is intended to serve as {{foreshadowing}} for the revelation that Kanon and his sister Shannon are the same person. Their true identity, Sayo Yasuda, is heavily implied to have been born male and never developed sexual characteristics due to a cliff fall damaging Sayo's sexual organs as a baby, which explains why Sayo's voice never broke.]]
* ExtremeDoormat: Kanon verges on this with his whole "furniture" ideology, but it's subverted in that despite calling himself furniture, he is never the last to badmouth Natsuhi behind her back, is far more HotBlooded than his sister when facing Beatrice and in the end of "Turn of the Golden Witch," he admits he's in love with Jessica.
* TheFatalist: Unlike Shannon, Kanon finds it meaningless to even think he can ever be anything more than "furniture", since love and dreams are things only true humans can have.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:In Episode 6, when he takes Battler's place in the Logic Error.]]
* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: In Episode 6 he asks Jessica what she could possibly find attractive about him. It turns out, she cannot give a proper answer, much to her own shame.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: He's in ''way'' more denial about it, but just like Shannon this is his main motivation.
* ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nudlcn5RmQE&feature=relmfu In The Peace of Forgetting the Way]].
* ImaginaryFriend: [[spoiler: Sayo originally created Kanon as an imaginary brother for Shannon, who in turn was an ImaginaryFriend to Sayo. Later, Sayo started to play the role of Kanon's character to cope with her gender issues.]]
* InsecureLoveInterest: He does reciprocate Jessica's feelings, but he considers himself unworthy to feel or receive love because of his belief that he is furniture. [[spoiler:It turns out that there's a very good reason behind that "furniture" complex.]]
* InterClassRomance: With Jessica. [[spoiler:Later this turns out to be subverted, since Sayo Yasuda is actually the true head of the family.]]
* KillTheOnesYouLove: Shannon and Kanon are LikeBrotherAndSister to each other, but they still need to face each other in a DuelToTheDeath in order for one of them to find happiness with either George or Jessica. [[spoiler:Anyone who can connect the dots in the sixth arc realizes that the real relationship between them is a little different from what was just stated. Sayo's turmoil in trying to kill off part of herself is highlighted in this setup]].
* LaserBlade: An [[CoolSword elaborate]] variation.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQK2QbMW-Qk White Shadow]]
* LikeBrotherAndSister: With Shannon. While they're not really blood-related, he still refers to Shannon as his older sister and acts very protective of her. [[spoiler:Sayo Yasuda created him to be the "little brother" who would give Shannon company.]]
* LoveConfessor: In [=EP6=], he's pressured into admitting to Shannon that he is in love with Jessica and wants to pursue a romance with her even though being furniture means he doesn't have the right to it. [[spoiler:Although, this is actually a representation of Sayo Yasuda forcing herself to recognize she feels attracted to Jessica even though she already has George.]]
* LoveEpiphany: In [=EP6=], he finally admits he is in love with Jessica.
* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: [[spoiler:Not literally, as he exists as more of a representation rather than a true split personality. But like Shannon, he's one of quite a few personas inside Sayo Yasuda.]]
* MercyKill: Gives one to [[spoiler:Rosa in the narrative of [=EP6=] which is one of the most pleasant deaths that Rosa has in the entire series.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: Episodes 2, 4, [[spoiler:and 6]]. Episode 1 and 3 count too, considering that [[spoiler:Battler doesn't see his dead body directly.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: See Shannon for elaboration. Kanon's real name is "Yoshiya," which some people romanize as "Joshua."
* PaperThinDisguise: His disguise as Jessica's PretendBoyfriend would be very convincing… if he didn't call her "Milady" and adress her in {{Keigo}} in front of everyone. In the VN, one of the girls even suspects that [[GenreSavvy Jessica forced one of her servants to come with her.]]
* PerpetualFrowner: He is usually complaining or making cynical remarks, and is only seen smiling on a few occasions.
* PinocchioSyndrome: He desperately wishes to stop being "furniture" so he can gain the right to fall in love and be with Jessica. [[spoiler:Though this is not in a literal sense (see Sayo Yasuda for the details).]]
* PretendBoyfriend: He acts as this for Jessica during the school festival in [=EP2=], even though she does have legitimate feelings for him.
* PrettySpryForADeadGuy: In the second Episode. [[spoiler:Subverted if you take into account that he probably faked his death in the first place.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: In [=EP2=], the fake Kanon.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Shannon's Blue. It's more evident whenever love or Beatrice are involved and he becomes insecure, irritable and quite HotBlooded while Shannon is calm, serene and confident.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Savvy Guy to Jessica's Energetic Girl.
* SdrawkcabName: His real name Yoshiya is, in fact, a modified Japanese reversal of Shannon's real name, Sayo. Shi and ya need to be slurred together into one sound, as the Japanese kana does to write the letter "Sha," and you wind up with "Shayo," which is only slightly different from "Sayo." [[spoiler:This is yet another hint that Shannon and Kanon are actually the same person, Sayo Yasuda.]]
* TheSpock: In contrast with Shannon and Beatrice, Kanon always puts logic before his emotions and tries to constantly remind himself and Shannon that they shouldn't fall in love because they are furniture. [[spoiler:He represents Sayo Yasuda's cynical and pessimistic side.]]
* StealthHiBye: Since he's very good at hiding his footsteps, he often appears by Shannon without her noticing and disappears just as suddenly. [[spoiler:After Episode 7, that ability suddenly makes a lot of sense.]]
* SugarAndIcePersonality: He considers intellect and composure virtues, but even moreso believes that he's beneath emotional involvement, and that avoiding attachments it is his duty. However, deep down he's a nice and caring guy with a desire to be loved.
* TalkingToThemself: [[spoiler:With Shannon and Beatrice. The conversations between them represent Sayo Yasuda's inner conflicts.]]
* TroubledButCute: One of the reasons Jessica falls in love with him. He's ''way'' more troubled than he appears, though.
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler:Actually three aliases. He, Shannon and Beatrice are all the same person, created as personas of Sayo Yasuda]]. Arc 8 confirms in red text that [[spoiler:if Shannon dies, Kanon disappears for all eternity, heavily reinforcing this fact]].
* WhenHeSmiles: It's a very good one but the visual novel makes it come off as a CatSmile.
** He manages to pull a real smile when talking to Chick Beatrice [[spoiler: after being killed by Shannon and admitting his faults. This is also the point where you notice that his laugh is very similar to the original Beatrice hence hitting at his origins.]]
* WillfullyWeak: He reveals to be REALLY half ass of everything he does. Kanon even admits it to [[spoiler:Chick Beatrice after he is killed by Shannon. Because he didn't go all out, he ended up giving Shannon the upper hand.]]
* TheWorfEffect: He tends to get defeated very easily despite being one of the few characters that can actually use magic. EP 6 reveals though that he is a deconstruction of this trope and [[spoiler: that he never goes all out because he does everything halfheartedly. He tells {{Manchild}} Beatrice this after he realizes this after Shannon kills him and he's nothing but a shadow that can only watch over Jessica.]]
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[[folder:Genji Ronoue]]
!!!Voiced by: Masato Funaki (JP), Bill Jenkins (EN)
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->"''The Master is a man who sometimes has the wisdom to see a thousand years into the future. However, there are times when that appears to be nothing more than madness to commoners such as myself...''"

The oldest servant and Kinzo's most trusted confidante. The only one besides Dr. Nanjo usually let into Kinzo's study. Most of the family doesn't trust him, considering him to be a spy for Kinzo.

His meta-world manifestation is [[Characters/UminekoWhenTheyCryDemonsAndFurniture Ronove]].
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* ArtificialHuman: Same as Shannon and Kanon. [[spoiler:Subverted, since from a mundane perspective he and Kinzo actually met in Taiwan (it's revealed in [=EP8=] that Genji's family lived in Taiwan) and became close friends; see IOweYouMyLife below.]]
* TheAtoner: In Episode 7, we learn that [[spoiler: he was responsible for the maintenance of Beatrice II's GildedCage. Unable to forgive himself for allowing her to be abused by her father, and terrified that Kinzo would inflict the same suffering on Sayo, he faked Sayo's death and passed the child off as an orphan. Alas, making Sayo work as a servant in the Ushiromiya estate just in the hope that she and Kinzo could be reunited one day was yet another mistake--one that, according to "Confession of the Golden Witch", [[StupidBall he was willing to atone for by knowingly assisting Sayo in her murder-suicide plot]].]]
* ChildhoodFriends: With Kinzo. [=EP8=] reveals that they grew up together [[spoiler:in Taiwan]].
* TheConfidant: To Kinzō.
* TheDragon: He shares the role with Maria as [[spoiler:Sayo]]'s most faithful and effective accomplice.
* HappinessInSlavery: While Shannon and Kanon thoroughly hate their condition, Genji is just satisfied with serving his master until his death, and doesn't wish for anything else.
* HiredHelpAsFamily: [[spoiler:In [=EP8=], it's revealed Genji is actually Kinzo's childhood friend who grew up with him in Taiwan. After the World War, Kinzo took Genji in as his personal butler when the Japanese settlers were expelled from Taiwan. While Genji has accepted the role of an obedient servant out of gratitude to Kinzo, Genji is the only person Kinzo was able to tolerate and get along with after his fall into madness because of Beatrice Castiglioni's death.]]
* ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKKAoC9mLBM A Song of Scattered Love ~ My Beloved Golden Witch]], which is shared with Kinzo.
* IOweYouMyLife: Episode 8 reveals this is why he's loyal to Kinzo. [[spoiler: He and Kinzo were ChildhoodFriends. Kinzo foresaw Japanese settlers would be expelled from Taiwan after the war, so he warned his family. Genji was the only one to listen.]]
* IWasQuiteALooker: The [=EP8=] manga reveals that when he was younger, Genji looked exactly like [[spoiler:Ronove without his mustache, removing any ambiguity as to who Ronove is supposed to represent.]]
* TheJeeves: He's basically a perfect butler stereotype.
* KnifeNut: Most instances of him defending himself involve throwing knives. Not completely clear whether he carries these around or if he's an ImprovisedWeaponUser, but to manage some of the things he does, it makes sense that he has some experience with them. The Episode 7 manga also confirms [[spoiler:that he was the one who killed Nanjō and Kumasawa in Episode 2.]]
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: He stood at his master's side even after he did some really heinous actions. [[spoiler:When Kinzo dies and Sayo Yasuda becomes Genji's new master, he also assists her in her MurderSuicide plan without question.]]
* OldRetainer: He has served the Ushiromiya family for many years and is loyal to a fault towards the will of the family head, even if it involves the death of him and everyone in the island.
* ParentalSubstitute: He served as a distant father figure to [[spoiler:Sayo]].
* SatelliteCharacter: He has no defining character traits besides his UndyingLoyalty to Kinzo, [[spoiler:and by extension, Sayo Yasuda]]. He also doesn't seem to have a personal life outside being the Ushiromiya's OldRetainer. Played with in that, despite these lack of character traits [[spoiler: it's his choices, good and bad, that shaped the direction of Sayo's life.]]
* SignificantNameOverlap: "Ronoue" and "Ronove" are more-or-less the same word (ロノウエ versus ロノウェ). [[spoiler:This is most likely because Sayo based Ronove off of Genji.]]
* TheSlacker: Despite his serious personality, he is not above dropping work once in a while to watch TV or to take a swig of his master's drink.
* TheStoic: To near robotic levels. Even having ''half of his head smashed'' doesn't change his (non-)expression. Kinzo, his lifelong partner, admits that even he can't see through Genji's pokerface.
* UndyingLoyalty: He'll follow his master's orders without question and won't ever even think to defy them.
* UnusualEuphemism: Like Shannon and Kanon, he refers to himself as "furniture", but as the manga indicates, the word has a different meaning to him than it has to them: it symbolizes the loyalty, efficiency and discretion that he considers a servant should have. During the hide-and-seek game, [[spoiler:Eva and Ange]] can't find him because they ''literally'' confuse him with a piece of furniture.
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[[folder:Chiyo Kumasawa]]
!!!Voiced by: Yasuko Hatori (JP), Creator/LindaYoung (EN)
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A really old servant at the Ushiromiya house. She loves to make jokes about mackerel.

Her meta-world manifestation is [[Characters/UminekoWhenTheyCryWitches Virgilia]].
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* CoolOldLady: The cousins are fond of her, and she likes to joke around with them. [[spoiler:Sayo Yasuda also views her as this, since Kumasawa taught them "magic"]].
* CordonBleughChef: She often talks about making various weird dishes with mackerel. Whether she ''really'' tries to make them is unknown though.
* DirtyOldWoman: In [=EP1=], when Battler is going on about how much he loves breasts, she jokingly offers to let him rub hers. Needless to say, Battler quickly declines.
* LovableCoward: More so in the sound novels.
* MagicalNanny: To [[spoiler:Sayo]], in a sense; she used folk magic as a basis for instruction, which encouraged mystical thinking.
* MentorArchetype: To [[spoiler:Sayo]], involving mystery novels. Could be considered an EccentricMentor
* NeverMessWithGranny: When Kumasawa is attacked by the Stakes on the first twilight in the third arc, she turns into Virgilia. Doesn't stop her from dying, though.
* NoblewomansLaugh: Quite an odd one. Rather than a "oooooh-ho-ho-ho-ho!", Yasuko Hatori does it as a rapid-fire "hohohohoho!"
* ParentalSubstitute: To Shannon, Kanon, [[spoiler:and Sayo, which is kind of jarring considering they're all the same person]]. She also served as this to [[spoiler:Beatrice II, after her mother's DeathByChildbirth]].
* TheSlacker: She is this amongst the servants. She tends to get out of doing work by using her age as an excuse.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Mackerel
* WhatTheHellHero: Kumasawa calls Battler out on some of his less than admirable behavior towards [[spoiler:the Chick Beatrice]] in [=EP6=].
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[[folder:Toshirō Gōda]]
!!!Voiced by: Hitori Bifu (JP)
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->''"You can easily make a good dish out of top-quality ingredients. But a true chef is someone who can make a wonderful dish from anything."''

The personal chef at the Ushiromiya mansion. Unlike the other servants, he was hired by Krauss and Natsuhi, so most of the servants distrust him. He is one of the only servants not to wear the one-winged eagle on his clothes, due to Kinzo's lack of trust in him.
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* AttentionWhore: Much to the annoyance of Kanon and Shannon.
* BreakTheHaughty: His death in [=EP3=] is depicted as this when he exclaims "All phenomena can be explained by science!" right before the stakes murder him with magic.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He's very loyal to the Ushiromiya family and Natsuhi in particular for employing him as their chef.
* CrosswordPuzzle: Gohda's hobby in his downtime. [[spoiler:It's a small hint he's smarter than the narrative gives him credit for (because it's tinted by Sayo/Beatrice's dislike of him).]]
* GentleGiant: Although he's a very large man, he is very graceful and polite, if a bit lazy. [[spoiler:His size is also the reason he's usually one of the first ones killed, as he could reasonably overpower the culprit(s) with his strength alone.]]
* TheJeeves: A special point is made of this in respect to Gohda. His food doesn't just taste good because he's an excellent chef, but because he also 'sells' the meal with talk of the dish, its preparation, and the background of the ingredients.
* {{Jerkass}}: Towards Kanon and Shannon. Mostly it's because he's a high-class chef with real work experience, while Kanon and Shannon are both teenagers, and they're more trusted by the family than him. (They get to wear the one-winged eagle emblem and he doesn't.) He can be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold though on the few times their duties overlap and they prepare food together.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: In [=EP5=], we find out he's the only person living on the island, outside of Jessica, who doesn't know [[spoiler:that Kinzo is dead]].
* {{Muggle}}: His case is pretty unique among the people on the island. He doesn't know about [[spoiler:Kinzō's death]], nor about [[spoiler:Sayo/Beatrice]], has no ImaginaryFriend or SplitPersonality, never teams up with magical beings and has no connection to the magical meta-world whatsoever. He is just a cook who does his job.
* MuggingTheMonster: He asks Kanon about the legend of Beatrice, then denies it is possible and even goes so far as to suggest the notion of 'Beatrice' is just a superstition from the result of pranks. [[spoiler:He's dead right, but he's also telling his thoughts to Beatrice herself. It hits too close to home. Sayo/Beatrice takes revenge by messing up Gohda's kitchen and drawing a magic circle on the kitchen wall, frightening him out of his wits.]]
* TheSlacker: He was hired as a chef and server, but he's often given other menial jobs to take care of around the mansion. He tends to order Shannon and Kanon to do these on his behalf.
* SupremeChef: As noted above he can be a bit of an AttentionWhore, but he is ''very'' good at his job. Even canned food prepared by him is described as elegant.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: His backstory. He was a high-class chef and server at a luxury hotel, but he was tricked into resigning when the entire kitchen was planning to threaten to quit in protest of the management's poor choice of a new head chef after the previous one retired. Enough of the staff backed down from their threat to the point Gohda was one of the few who actually went through with offering their resignation, and the hotel ownership, rather than bargaining to get him to stay, let him walk. After that, he couldn't get another job in the upscale culinary industry because of his reputation as a "troublemaker," and being hired by the Ushiromiya family was a genuine saving grace for him.
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[[folder:Terumasa Nanjō]]
!!!Voiced by: Akihiko Ishizumi (JP), Francis Henry (EN)
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Kinzo's personal physician. He is one of the few people that Kinzo trusts in the present. After Kinzo and Beatrice's run-in with the Italians, it was Nanjo who treated their wounds and helped Kinzo hide Beatrice's existence from the military.
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* TheCoroner: His main purpose in the story is to let the characters and the audience know that characters who are killed are in fact dead. [[spoiler:Of course, sometimes he's not entirely honest about this.]]
* DeadlyDoctor: [[spoiler:In ''Forgery of the Purple Logic''.]]
* HealthcareMotivation: Possibly. He mentions that he has an ill granddaughter just before [[spoiler:EVA-Beatrice]] kills him in Episode 3. This may or may not be part of the reason [[spoiler:he covers for Sayo even after the murders start.]]
* IHaveAFamily: Nanjo's plea to Eva-Beatrice before she kills him.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed,]] in the ''Confession Of The Golden Witch'' manga chapter, when Sayo Yasuda aka [[spoiler: Shannon]] was revealed to be [[spoiler: Kinzo's child via ParentalIncest after solving his convoluted puzzle, assigned male at birth and had her sexual organs damaged permanently after Natsuhi pushed her as a baby along with a servant off a cliff. Sayo is obviously having a mental breakdown over being told her body is mutilated and unable to have sex which was her main goal in creating a family. Nanjo consults her gently that although she won't able to produce children after her marriage, he hopes that she lives a happy life. This brings no consolation to Sayo and she's enraged by this revelation which was a massive wound to her psychologically and machinates a plan to murder the whole Ushiromiya family for the whole misery she endures then commit suicide once it's done.]]
* SatelliteCharacter: Nanjo's role in some of the early arcs seemed to be made up entirely of having {{Cryptic Conversation}}s with Kinzo and letting everyone know that the corpses they had found were, indeed, dead.
* SecretKeeper: Initially, he is the one who kept the secret of Beatrice Castiglioni's existence from the military. And later, of [[spoiler:Kinzō's death.]]
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* TheParanoiac: As shown in the second arc when she takes a cue from a game with which she instructed Maria, Rosa sees the world as full of wolves in order to justify her lack of confidence in the people, declaring to be able to trust only to herself and bodies. Considering all the information that surfaced about her childhood, her story with Maria's father and especially what happens to her and her daughter when she makes the mistake of trusting her siblings or Beatrice during the various arcs, it is difficult to blame her.

* TheParanoiac: It is reiterated many times that after the massacre, both because of the constant slander suffered by the media and the public, who portrayed her as a greedy heartless killer capable of killing even her own family and relatives for money, and because when she herself took the reins of the family business and made numerous enemies due to her devious and ruthless tactics, Eva became completely unable to trust every single person.

* BattleCouple: With [[spoiler:Beatrice]].

* BattleCouple: With Kanon in [=EP8=].

* BattleCouple: With Shannon in [=EP8=].

* BattleCouple: With George in [=EP8=].

* BattleCouple: With Jessica in [=EP8=].

* OneSteveLimit: "Ronoue" and "Ronove" are more-or-less the same word (ロノウエ versus ロノウェ). [[spoiler:This is most likely because Sayo based Ronove off of Genji.]]

* SatelliteCharacter: He has no defining character traits besides his UndyingLoyalty to Kinzo, [[spoiler:and by extension, Sayo Yasuda]]. He also doesn't seem to have a personal life outside being the Ushiromiya's OldRetainer. Played with in that, despite these lack of character traits [[spoiler: its his choices, good and bad, that shaped the direction of Sayo's life.]]

* ExtremeDoormat: Rosa usually has this behavior in her personal relationship with her father and her older siblings, especially with Eva as she never reacts when the latter provokes her, insults her and generally acts like a BigSisterBully towards her. Eva-Beatrice and Kinzo in Episodes 3 and 4 explicitly accuse her of being a coward who has always fled and hidden from her battles instead of fighting them and even the Rosa of Maria's dream mentions, in her comparing herself with her daughter, that since as a child she always chose to suppress her desire to rebel against the abuses of her family because she feared the consequences. Though she is more than capable of letting this façade fall as soon as she perceives that she is in an advantageous position towards her siblings and their families.

* LaserGuidedKarma: The main reason she's TheChewToy, at least as far as her deaths in the main story goes: Beatrice probably resents her both for her poor treatment of Maria and [[spoiler:the death of her mother]]. It's most direct in the second arc. In truth it is very difficult to say from an objective and external point of view whether all the [[TheManyDeathsOfYou punishments]] that Rosa suffers are deserved or a case of DisproportionateRetribution (especially when you compare her to many other island residents and meta-characters who are not only objectively no better than her but their actions and the selfish motives behind them make her look like a saint by comparison).

* LaserGuidedKarma: The main reason she's TheChewToy, at least as far as her deaths in the main story goes: Beatrice probably resents her both for her poor treatment of Maria and [[spoiler:the death of her mother]]. It's most direct in the second arc.

* BigSisterBully: When she was younger, she was constantly lying to her younger sister and teasing her (to the point that Rosa herself in the Tea Party of [=EP2=] states that Eva even ruined her ninth birthday by constantly emphasizing that [[LonelyRichKid she had no friend to invite]]). Unlike her brothers, who nowadays recognize that they had treated Rosa badly when she was a child and they would like to have been better brothers, Eva still can not stop herself from teasing her sister or to insult and attack her when she is nervous.

** Maria (both alone and through Sakutaro's point of view) tends to idolize Rosa a lot, always describing her as a very good mother who works hard to make her live a dignified life in the best possible way, even coming to justify her mother even when Rosa herself forgets her promises several times, stays away from home more and more often or gets violently angry towards her by blaming the fatigue and too many work pressures to which Rosa is subjected. It is only when other people around them like Ange expose the truth about Rosa's mysterious journeys and when her mother torn Sakutaro to pieces that Maria is now completely unable to deny the truth.

* BigBrotherInstinct: He proves to being this for Rosa only in ''Banquet'' when he and Kyrie clash against Eva-Beatrice, apologizing to his poor dead younger sister because he and his wife would soon send their most hated sister to the same hell Rosa was in. [[spoiler:Completely subverted in reality when he really had no problem with his wife meddling in the feud between his sisters by shooting Rosa in the head.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Zigzagged. He may not have been a perfect father when Battler assumed he wasn't faithful to his deceased mother, Asumu when he married Kyrie and left him to stay with Asumu's parents six years ago, bullied Rosa throughout her childhood and was known to have screwed many of his clients over, driving them to suicide but he really does love Battler from the bottom of his heart. But even so, this doesn't stop him and Kyrie willing to [[spoiler: orchestrate everyone's murder in the real Rokkenjima Mass Murder Incident so they can have the gold for themselves but even so he pleads with her to not include Battler as the victim which she begrudging respects as it's revealed in [=EP8=] he confesses to Kyrie that Battler was her child all along instead of Asumu.]]

* TheChainOfHarm: Flashbacks show that much of the abuse she inflicts on Maria was the same type that her parents and siblings did when she was a child, including Rudolf tearing up her doll.

* ChainOfHarm: Flashbacks show that much of the abuse she inflicts on Maria was the same type that her parents and siblings did when she was a child, including Rudolf tearing up her doll.

* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: All of her siblings were already adults when she was growing up, causing her to have a very lonely childhood.

* PimpedOutDress: Out of an entire sharply-dressed family (with Eva as the [[RummageSaleReject only exception]]), Natsuhi's outfit qualifies for this trope. Even Rosa [[FashionDesigner the designer]] dresses more modestly

* PimpedOutDress: Out of an entire sharply-dressed family, Natsuhi's outfit qualifies for this trope. Even Rosa [[FashionDesigner the designer]] dresses more conservatively

* GildedCage: Both she and Beatrice in the fifth episode realize they have in common the fact that they have both been trapped by Kinzo and deprived of control of their situation; like ArrangedMarried with Krauss in Natsuhi's case.

* ControlFreak: As the female fourth-born of Kinzo Ushiromiya and the only one who doesn't have a spouse to support her, Rosa has always been given the shortest stick with her older siblings trying to monopolize the wealth of the whole family for themselves by oppressing her. Like a StrugglingSingleMother deceived and robbed by her partner and forced to take on her responsibilities in a society that thrives on expectations and creates a lot of problems for her just only for being a single woman over 25 with a child, Rosa has developed a mercurial, dominant and tyrannical personality who usually remains unexpressed and dormant when with other family members but who can emerge in an aggressive and powerful way as soon as she takes command and expresses absolute authority over individuals weaker than her like Maria, the other cousins ​​and the servants by trying to force them to obey her and making them do only what she wants by also using physical strength.

* RageBreakingPoint: [[spoiler:Whether it was just a way to convince Eva, or was she really honest that she wouldn't touch her share of the money once she got out of prison, after her sister hit one of her BerserkButtom by openly accused her of being NotSoDifferent of Maria's father, [[BeneathTheMask Rosa's tranquil and self-confident mask]] crumbles completely, giving way to a murderous fury which is however promptly stopped by Kyrie.]]

* NotSoDifferent: As much as Rosa surely hates to admit it and gets slightly upset when someone like Battler points it out to her, not only she is much more like Krauss, Eva and Rudolf than she thinks but, in situations in which she feels both powerful and in a position of advantage towards her interlocutors, she looks even worse than all her siblings 3 combined when she deliberately lets her dark side take over her (again, this is a very common case in bullied and abused victims who are not helped in time).

* CharacterDepth: Umineko stands out from the rest of the various Visual Novels for having in its cast many characters very well characterized realistically but among all Rosa is the one that stands out the most, both for being the most complex (and fascinating) on a psychological level and because her entire personality it is entirely based on [=Ryukishi07=]'s personal working experience as a social worker.

* HateSink: It is a rather peculiar case, especially in the west, because although Rosa is one of the most humanly understandable characters once you have a complete picture of her character, for some fans her tendencies as ParentalNeglect and AbusiveMom [[DoubleStandard are still considered unforgivable and negatively held even more in consideration of other more morally and objectively negative actions carried out by many other characters]]. ''Alliance of the Golden Witch'', among all the other games, is undoubtedly the one that most contributes to obscuring almost her every saving qualities since in that game Rosa is deliberately represented at her worst. This is the answer to why, despite she's actually being one of the nicest parents along with Natsuhi and Hideyoshi, Rosa is considered a BaseBreakingCharacter on the YMMV page.