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4In ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', the characters of the '''[[MetafictionDemandedThisIndex Meta-World]]''' are those who have the privilege to fight the Game Master in order to figure out the truth. Other characters who can ascend to this level are the pieces introduced to the game board by the witches.
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6Major '''spoilers''' for the Core Arcs ahead.
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11[[folder:Erika Furudo]]
12!!!Voiced by: Creator/NatsukoKuwatani (JP)
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14->''"...Without love, it cannot be seen? ...Hah. That's backwards. Because of love, you end up seeing things that don't even exist."''
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16A cute young detective who fell from the pleasure boat ''Eternal Maid II'' and [[ContrivedCoincidence happens to wash up on the shore of an island with an impending murder mystery.]] She calls herself an [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "Intellectual Rapist"]]. She is the piece set by Bernkastel on the board of Rokkenjima.
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18At the end of Episode 5, she was named the "Witch of Truth" by Bernkastel.
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21* AdaptationalBadass: Not that she isn't already dangerous in the Episode 8 VN, but the manga has her demolish [[spoiler:Battler]] thoroughly, over 3 chapters, while it was just a quick closed room duel without much flourish in the VN.
22* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: How her send-off in [=EP6=] is played, although it ends up not sticking in [=EP8=].]]
23* AmateurSleuth: Actually a [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype deconstruction of this character type]], created by Bernkastel as her AuthorAvatar to screw with Beato's murder mystery. Imagine what type of personality [[LittleOldLadyInvestigates someone normally harmless]] would develop if, everywhere they went, [[MysteryMagnet someone always]] [[AlwaysMurder kills another human being]], it takes the [[ConvictionByContradiction flimsiest]] and occasionally [[ConvictionByCounterfactualClue technically wrong]] reasoning to cause the killer to break down into a MotiveRant, and everyone praises her for it, so this person came to enjoy her life. She has never been wrong, ever, even when actual facts didn't match up. The above description [[Series/MurderSheWrote should]] [[Creator/AgathaChristie sound]] [[Manga/CaseClosed very]], [[Series/{{Columbo}} very]], [[Literature/EncyclopediaBrown familiar]]. This is possibly a {{Flanderization}} or {{Satire}}, but given PoesLaw it is hard to tell.
24* AmbiguousInnocence: There's a heavy implication that Erika does not fully understand just how malicious she can be, because she's only acting the way Bern wants and expects her to act in a desperate effort to please her "master" and win her appraisal. [[spoiler:She seems to embrace ThenLetMeBeEvil in [=EP8=], at least momentarily.]]
25* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: [[spoiler:Taking advantage that he's trapped in a logic error, Erika tries to force Battler to marry her so she can take control of the game board. Just when it seems she's going to get away with it, Beatrice blows the doors down.]]
26* AnimalMotifs: At one point in [=EP5=], she's compared to a spider. She does crawl along the walls placing her duct tape seals like a spider laying a web. [=EP6=] compares her to predatory insects such as a wasp that paralyzes its prey to eat them alive later [[spoiler: when talking about how she's going to marry, rape and defile Battler and there's nothing he can do about it]].
27* AntiHero: In [=EP5=] and [=EP6=], she is by designation the ''protagonist'' on the gameboards, the detective who has to get to the truth behind the murders and catch the culprit. Borders on Designated Hero for much of these games and reaches full VillainProtagonist status when [[spoiler:she willingly becomes the culprit in the latter.]]
28* ArmorPiercingQuestion: In the [=EP8=] Manga, she throws several [[spoiler: Battler's]] way after delivering a brutal CurbStompBattle to him, questioning [[spoiler: why he's against Ange finding the truth of Rokkenjima when he started out the same way, why he doesn't just go back to Ange if he cares about her happiness, and if he can't go back, then why he can't just invite her to the Golden Land.]]
29* AttentionWhore: She is more cultured, more intelligent and just better than you, and she won't allow you to ignore it.
30* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:After her defeat and banishment to oblivion in [=EP6=], she comes back in [=EP8=].]]
31* BackToBackBadasses: [[spoiler: She actually gets a moment of this with Ange in ''Last Note of the Golden Witch'' as they face off against Piece.]]
32* BadBoss: After her defeat in [=EP5=], she takes out her frustrations on Cornelia by making her stand on one leg so she can push her and make her fall, then telling her to get up and stand on one leg again to repeat the process over and over. She is also herself the victim of this from ''her'' superiors.
33* BaitTheDog: She's a very friendly, polite, good-humored and all around pleasant girl whose presence in the mansion actually gets the Ushiromiya family getting along and working together the solve the riddle of the ephitat along with her. And then she starts showing her true colors. See below.
34* BitchInSheepsClothing: Initially she comes across as polite and soft-spoken, but it's soon revealed that she's quite a nasty piece of work. This is especially evident when she helps Battler solve the puzzle of the epitaph for no reward at all, and then cracks up about the chaos it unleashes in the family.
35* BlasphemousBoast: Claims that, just like Lambdadelta and Bernkastel, she was trapped in a personal hell that she could only escape from by being able to withstand the truth, no matter how cruel. From all that we know of Erika, this "truth" that she had to endure was most likely her boyfriend cheating on her and cruelly rejecting her when she confronted him about it. When Erika insinuates that she has an EnlightenmentSuperpower that Lambdadelta and Bernkastel lack, Lambda flashes her a DeathGlare and tells Erika that she's only letting it slide as a congradulatory present for [[spoiler:trapping Battler in a logic error.]]
36* BroughtDownToBadass: Even when she's forfeited the power of the Detective's Authority and can't compell the Ushiromiyas to let her investigate and command them as she pleases, she can still take control of the situation by gently suggesting ideas and tricking them into letting her run around the island unsupervised. The narration says that the Detective's Authority is a formality that boosts her effectiveness from 99% to 100%, but it's that one percent that she lacks that leaves her unable to create vital Red Truths and puts her at a crippling disadvantage. And Erika gets around this disadvantage by [[spoiler:creating Red Truths as a murderer, instead.]]
37* ButtMonkey: Despite her competence, she's probably the most unlucky and mishap-prone of all the villains in ''Umineko''. It doesn't help that Bernkastel and Lambdadelta find her humiliation and suffering to be amusing.
38* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler: She was a formidable foe to start with, but when she comes back in Episode 8 her power is far beyond what it was previously.]]
39* CatchPhrase: "[[GratuitousEnglish <GOOD!>]]" and "Simply by XX, this level of reasoning is possible for Erika Furudo. What do you think, everyone?"
40* CatSmile: Along with more malicious variations.
41* ChewingTheScenery: When she's really hungry, [[https://www.youtube.com/v/PYik3EUudiI a large ham is not enough.]]
42* ClingyJealousGirl:
43** Thought to be this sometime before the story, if the story about her ex-boyfriend is to be believed. Erika apparently inspected her boyfriend's entire house like it was a crime scene when she suspected he was seeing another woman. She took it very badly when she found tons of evidence that proved she was right.
44** And, surprisingly (or not), she seems to be this ''for her master'' in the eighth Tea Party. When [[spoiler:Bern says that Lambda is the only one she loves]], Erika does ''not'' take it well.
45* CommonMarySueTraits: [[invoked]] InUniverse, as a self-insert of Bernkastel, she has quite a few, mostly PlayedForDrama:
46** She's immediately loved and trusted by most of the Ushiromiya family immediately after washing up on Rokkenjima.
47** She wears ImpracticallyFancyOutfit with frills and a flowery hat (overlaps with the above point since the Ushiromiyas immediately trust and love her enough to just give her Jessica's old clothes like it's nothing).
48** She just happens to be a skilled detective in the middle of a serial killing.
49** Her name is a modified version of her "author", Frederika Bernkastel's, original name (Rika Furude).
50* ContractualImmortality: InUniverse, she [[GenreSavvy knows full well]] that she has this due to being the [[GreatDetective detective]] and she won't hesitate to [[{{Munchkin}} exploit it]].
51* ContrivedCoincidence: She benefits an awful lot from being in the right place when bodies are discovered. Even her entry is as plausible as a [[CatchPhrase third-rate novel]]. Her pleasure cruise happened to maintain its course along the rim of typhoon winds, she happened to be out on the deck during said typhoon wearing a swimsuit and, for some reason, also a life jacket. [[spoiler:Makes sense since on a meta level the Witch Hunters are more or less shoehorning her into the existing story]].
52* TheCorpseStopsHere: Her attitude towards [[spoiler:Natsuhi]] after Hideyoshi's death.
53* CovertPervert: Funny when it involves [[{{Fetish}} chopsticks]]. When it involves [[spoiler:trapping Battler's mind and promising to rape his helpless body forever]]… not so much.
54* CrazyPrepared: Despite nearly drowning in a stormy ocean before washing up on Rokkenjima, Erika is focused enough to stick pieces of duct tape with her signiture on several doors and windows, even if she has to climb around on the walls outside in the middle of a storm to place them. Then instead of going to bed like a normal person, she stays up ''all night long'' with her ear pressed to the wall so she can listen to the sounds of Battler's breathing in the next room over. She does this ''just in case a crime happens'' during her stay.
55** Standing on the deck of a luxury liner during a tsunami in a swimsuit and a floatation vest. Apparently she expected a more turbulent swim than the onboard pool.
56* CreatorsPet: [[invoked]] InUniverse; Bernkastel, the one who created her and added her to the story in-universe, can't stop pouring praise on her. All the human characters, of course, loathe her.
57* CurbStompBattle: Delivers one to [[spoiler:Battler]] in the Episode 8 manga, by explaining the 5th and 6th games.
58* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Blue eyes and hair.
59* CuteLittleFangs: Some of her sprites have these in the original VN.
60* DeadAllAlong: One theory about her is that [[spoiler:in the real world, she did wash up on Rokkenjima after falling from the boat… but as a corpse.]] [[WildMassGuessing Like so many other theories, it's hard to deny or confirm]] and depends greatly on whether you consider the meta-world and witches to exist or not.
61* DefectiveDetective: You don't see that many mysteries where the Detective is the ''[[ArcVillain villain]]''.
62* DontYouDarePityMe: As part of her enormous pride.
63* TheDragon: To Bernkastel and Lambdadelta, though more so to Bernkastel since she made Erika her piece in the fifth and sixth games.
64* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Episode 8's manga heavily implies the human Erika might have willingly jumped off the boat in Prime, as Ange believes Erika also "threw her life away to become a witch".]]
65* DuctTapeForEverything: Especially for creating closed rooms. In fact Erika is so good at solving everything with duct tape that in her second game, [[spoiler:she was forbidden from using it and had to haggle just to get enough duct tape to cover three rooms.]]
66* DungeonmastersGirlfriend: She plays this role in Episode 5, where she's actually the Dungeonmaster's Girlfriend's Subject.
67* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:Battler eulogizes her and ultimately convinces Bernkastel to bring her back in Episode 8, in spite of all of the absolutely horrible, unatoned-for deeds she committed upon Battler, Beatrice and the Ushiromiya family in episodes 5 and 6. [[TheFarmerAndTheViper Doesn't help that Erika then proceeds to screw with the game]] ''again'' once brought back, after which Battler is ''still'' easily forgiving towards her.]]
68** [[spoiler: Despite fighting against her in the battle for the Golden Land, Dlanor still renews her friendship with Erika after the battle is over.]]
69* EurekaMoment: In Episode 5, "You are the culprit, [[spoiler:Ms. Natsuhi Ushiromiya.]]" [[spoiler: Except Natsuhi was denied as the culprit in red. Not that it stopped her.]]
70* EvenEvilHasStandards: Not ''moral'' standards, but Erika has a serious problem with people denying and running away from the truth. Tellingly, realizing that Bernkastel is constantly running away from the truth of her past is described as the only time Erika feels any sort of contempt for her master.
71* EvilCounterpart: Could be considered this to Ange. Both are obsessed with the truth, both passed a contract with Bernkastel just before falling to their death, and [[spoiler:both will effectively die once Bern has no longer any use for them]]. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And both have girlish pigtails.]] But contrary to Ange, Erika is enjoying her role as a piece of a sadistic witch very much. The different and not so different qualities between them are even acknowledged by Erika herself.
72* EvilIsHammy: Creator/NatsukoKuwatani gives her a very sober and quiet voice in normal situations, but when Erika is allowed to cut loose...
73* EvilIsPetty: After Battler derails her theory regarding Kinzo's study closed room, she punishes Cornelia by asking her to clasp her arms together behind her back and standing on one leg so she could push her from behind onto the floor and repeating the process multiple times so she could vent all her frustrations at her and even cruelly demoralising Maria in [=EP6=] by proving that there's no such thing as 'magic' to the latter's protest.
74** After pinning the murders on Natsuhi in Episode 5, Erika uses the Detective's Authority to investigate the entire island for proof of Kinzo's existence, but specifically refuses to investigate Natsuhi's bed. She does this so she can accuse Natsuhi of not only murdering several people including her own husband and daughter, but also having a secret affair with Kinzo too.
75* FatalFlaw: Erika cannot see the "heart" of the mysteries that Beatrice has set up, meaning no matter how hard she tries, she will never find the truth. As a result, Erika often gets ''really damn close'' to figuring everything out, but repeatedly stumbles at the last second due to refusing to take motives into account. For example, in her battle with Beatrice at the climax of Episode 6, she [[spoiler: correctly guesses that someone in both of the locked rooms shares a "name" with another, and even correctly guesses that one of them is Kanon. Because she doesn't understand the relationship between the characters well enough however, she fumbles and assumes as an example that it's ''George'' that Kanon shares a name with, instead of the more obvious pick of Shannon.]] Had she correctly guessed this, she would have stumbled onto the solution to the mystery and even bagged the real culprit instead of continuing to slander Natsuhi.
76* AFateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:She is banished to oblivion by Bernkastel after she loses to Beatrice in [=EP6=]. Bernkastel does let her come back in [=EP8=], though.]]
77* FauxAffablyEvil: Very polite, and very psychotic. By [=EP6=] she all but ceases to be polite.
78* {{Fetish}}: She likes chopsticks a ''tad bit'' too much.
79* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: In her backstory, Erika grew suspicious that her boyfriend was cheating on her and kept investigating him for evidence, which lead her boyfriend to dump her. Because of this, Erika says love is nothing but an illusion that distracts from the truth.
80* FlashStep: In [=EP8=]'s [[spoiler:battle for the Golden Land]], she's fast enough to leave afterimages as she dodges the Seven Sisters in their stake forms and gunfire.
81* FlungClothing: She wears her regular clothes under her [[spoiler:'''wedding dress!''']] Yes, there's no way her normal clothes would have fit. ''[[AWizardDidIt Magic]]''.
82* FormalCharactersUseKeigo: Her speech patterns are extremely formal, highlighting her sophisticated behavior.
83* FreudianExcuse: Touched on in ''Dawn''; the failure of her romantic relationship gives her a fanatical obsession with the truth and [[DisproportionateRetribution the need to utterly defile anything that might obscure it, be it magic or love]].
84* FriendlyEnemy: She actually becomes like this to Battler in the rare instances she's not being an insufferable jerk to him. [[spoiler: Their last interaction in Ep 8 shows this well, with Battler giving Erika words of comfort and motivation out of her brief VillainousBSOD, both of them leaving each other with mutual respect for a WorthyOpponent.]]
85** To Beatrice as well, who seems to relish the opportunity to engage in her in HamToHamCombat.
86-->'''Beatrice:''' There can be no game without a rival. She remains our enemy, but she's also an important friend to us.
87* FromACertainPointOfView: The reason why [[spoiler:she failed to resolve the contradiction at the end of Episode 6.]] She is indeed the [[spoiler:18th]] person in we go by the number of "names", but the [[spoiler:17th]] person if we go by the number of "bodies", as explained in the manga.
88* GameBreaker: The Detective authority is an in-universe example, given to her by her master. She has the power to perfectly investigate a crime scene, use any means necessary to do so without being hindered, force everyone to listen to her when she calls for attention, and cannot be suspected by anyone. She can also confirm with 100% accuracy whether a corpse is dead… [[spoiler:provided that she actually bothers to look at the corpse, that is.]]
89** It does have one limit. [[spoiler:[[MurderIsTheBestSolution Knox's 7th: It is forbidden for the detective to be the culprit]]]].
90* GenreSavvy: Deconstructed, as her analysis of the deaths as if they were from a novel is used to make her come off as evil and insane. You just don't tell a mother her child died in a way that sounds like from a third-rate mystery.
91* GirlishPigtails: She wears her hair in pigtails which contributes to her young and girly appearance.
92* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: [[SinisterScythe A giant scythe]].
93* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Quite fond of these in the manga, though in a less hammy fashion as Battler.
94* GoGoEnslavement: Inverted: [[spoiler:Erika may be the one wearing the wedding dress, but ''she's'' the one enslaving Battler by forcing him into marriage and outright threatening to ''rape'' him]].
95* GoKartingWithBowser: [[spoiler:Wandering the realms of nothingness doesn't stop Battler from wanting to invite her to his party in [=EP8=].]]
96* GreatDetective: Actually tries to refer to herself as such, and if you look at the description, she does match. [[spoiler:Although the description doesn't necessarily include being, you know, right all the time]].
97* HappinessInSlavery: It's never really explained how she became Bernkastel’s piece, but she really loves her master a lot.
98* HateSink: Take a character who arrives out of nowhere to disturb the story, make her irritatingly perfect via CharacterShilling and then make it clear that she's a complete narcissist whose pastimes are licking her boss’s feet and desecrating beloved characters, and you have a perfect scumbag ready to hate. Many fans still ''love'' to hate her though, especially since she proves to be a little more complex than she initially appears and a legitimately formidable villain.
99* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Near the end of [=EP6=]. Unfortunately, when she comes back in [=EP8=], it's clear that it hasn't stuck; in fact [[DefiedTrope she instead]] [[ThenLetMeBeEvil tries to become the best villain she can be]], and still sticks with Bern and Lambda all the way to the end.]]
100* HimeCut: She has blunt bangs, waist length sidelocks, and hip length GirlishPigtails to go with her ElegantGothicLolita dress and to make her look like her master.
101* HoistByHerOwnPetard: In Episode 6, after checking that Hideyoshi, Shannon, George, Kumasawa and Nanjō are in the room she just left, she demands to repeat that "everyone else" is in the cousins' room. This is presented as a clever move to prevent any trick with the number of people like at the end of Episode 3. [[spoiler:Too bad for her, that also means Battler didn't say in red that "Kanon" was in the cousins' room − which was, of course, impossible. Beatrice later uses exactly that to solve the logic error and defeat Erika.]]
102** In Episode 5, Erika pushes forward with a culprit theory that names Kinzo as an accomplice, despite being fully aware that he's DeadAllAlong. She's relying on Knox's 2nd, which demands that all Red Truths, including Kinzo's death, have evidence to back them up, and it backfires when [[spoiler:Battler declares Kinzo's death using the Gold Truth instead.]]
103* HonorBeforeReason: [[spoiler:Beatrice crashes her wedding in [=EP6=] to challenge her to a locked-room mystery she proclaims is unsolvable. Erika had already gotten what she wanted, and could just have Beatrice killed by ignoring the challenge, but she just can't resist it because she's a detective before anything else.]]
104* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: To [[spoiler:Battler]] in [=EP6=].
105* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Seemed this way at the end of [=EP6=] when she declares to Dlanor that she is happy that someone finally protected her. Though Erika herself would insist this is not the case, it's pretty that at most [[IJustWantToBeLoved she really wants to be well-liked.]]
106* IgnoredEpiphany: She seems to have a HeelRealization over how awful she's been as she faces a horrible fate, only to willfully double down on being awful when [[spoiler: she's resurrected in [=EP8=]]].
107* ImageSong: "Intellectual Rapist", which has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qegCR2h-Rc two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8HzGrB9WhY versions]].
108* ImaginaryFriend: To [[spoiler:Ange of all people]] in the Trick Ending. [[AmbiguousSituation Or is she?]]
109** [[spoiler: ''Last Note of the Golden Witch'' suggests that even outside the Trick Ending, Erika is basically connected to Ange forever as a follower due to their shared Witch of Truth position, with Ange likening it to how Featherine has her cats, Lambdadelta has her monster friends and Bernkastel has...[[StalkerWithACrush Lambdadelta.]]]]
110* InsufferableGenius: She's highly intelligent and doesn't hesitate to use it to lord herself over others.
111* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: There's some pretty heavy sadomasochistic subtext between her and her boss (it's more apparent in the manga). And let's not get into her "wedding" with [[spoiler:Battler]]...
112* {{Jerkass}}: She cares about three things: solving mysteries, being smug about solving mysteries, and serving her beloved master. She also enjoys to break and humiliate people by exposing terrible truths about them.
113* JerkassHasAPoint: Overlaps with VillainHasAPoint; as a GreatDetective, Erika is prone to making very astute observations and points that can be really hard to argue with or refute.
114* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:While she ''is'' defeated by Beatrice (in tactics, not in combat), she [[VillainExitStageLeft escapes with Bern and Lambda]] [[SequelHook to cause more havoc in the future.]]]]
115* KickTheDog: In case you hadn't noticed she is a complete bitch, her arguing with the nine-year-old Maria to the point of making her cry while laughing with delight drives the point home. It's not enough to tell Maria that magic doesn't exist, she systematically goes through Maria's entire argument on how she saw Beatrice do 'real magic' and refutes it all step-by-step.
116* LackOfEmpathy: And how… though given that she serves and was possibly taught by [[TheSociopath Bernkastel]], it's probably not surprising.
117-->'''Battler:''' … Do you even have a heart?
118-->'''Erika:''' A heart? What is that, I wonder?
119* LargeHam: Oh yes, when she acts completely smug during investigation scenes, especially in Ep 6.
120-->'''Erika:''' Bwaattleeer-shwaaaaaann!!
121* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE7Qvi2V-8o The great detective knows]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjwyjLQ9fX0 Smileless Soiree]].
122** As well as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dORf0tLaSn8 Patchwork Chimera]], shared with Bernkastel.
123* LittleMissBadass: During fights in the Meta World, especially the ones she's winning.
124* LogicBomb: The end of Episode 6, which meaning was subject to intense debate (since the two red truths seem to contradict each other). So much that the author apparently felt the need to clarify it in the manga.
125-->'''Erika:''' [[red:"Hi, pleased to meet you! I am Furudo Erika, the detective! I may be an uninvited guest, but please, welcome me!! I am the visitor, the 18th human on Rokkenjima!!"]]
126-->'''Battler:''' "......Sorry, but…"
127-->'''Beatrice:''' [[red:"Even if you do join us-"]]
128-->'''Both:''' [[red:"There are 17 people."]]
129* MadLove: No matter how much she is abused, ignored or thrown into oblivion by her master, she will continue to admire and serve her. Granted, a piece cannot disobey its master, but she seems to do her job very eagerly nonetheless.
130* MeaningfulName: Unsurprisingly, her name is very similar to "[[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Rika Furude]]". Both, when said aloud in the Japanese naming order, can sound a bit like "Frederica (Bernkastel)."
131* MetaGirl: She tends to lampshade the mystery genre tropes and expectations, mainly the bad clichés found in "third-rate mysteries".
132* {{Munchkin}}: Of the Metagamer variety. She ''knows'' she's playing in a murder mystery game, so she does things that would be insane and illogical if she didn't know she was in a murder mystery.
133* MundaneMadeAwesome: "I, Furudo Erika, have [[DuctTapeForEverything duct tape]]!!"
134* MyMasterRightOrWrong: She doesn't really care about morality, she's just happy to serve Bernkastel.
135* MyNaymeIs: The "''E''" in "Erika" uses ヱ, the archaic katakana "we", that apparently makes it look cooler (as opposed to the orthodox エ). Call it another Sue trait.
136* {{Narcissist}}: As befitting a ParodySue, everything she does is for the sake of stroking her own ego. And she reflects Bern's narcissism as well, given her [[MadLove obsessively loyal and sycophantic attitude toward her.]]
137* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:In the real world, it's implied that she ''did'' wash up on Rokkenjima...as a corpse, which would have then been destroyed during the explosion from the bombs Sayo Yasuda set.]]
138* ObviousRulePatch: After Erika dominates Episode 5 with her duct tape seals, Episode 6 has Rokkenjima modified so all the duct tape on the island has lost its stickiness, and Erika's bedroom location has been changed so she can't [[spoiler:hear the cousins' room through the walls.]]
139* OffTheRails: [[spoiler:Attempts to destroy Battler as the Game Master by not solving his mystery, but secretly becoming the culprit and murdering people who were supposed to have only been playing dead. This makes Battler's escape from a LockedRoomMystery impossible and traps him in a Logic Error, where his two choices are to either remain trapped in his story for eternity until he finds a solution, or admit defeat and let the entire storyboard of Rokkenjima be destroyed.]]
140* OhCrap:
141** Erika gets a pretty understandable one in [=EP6=] when [[spoiler:Beatrice crashes the wedding. She's fine at first when it appears to just be the [[CameBackWrong Chick Beatrice]], but when she realizes it's the ''[[HesBack actual]]'' Beatrice, she starts panicking.]]
142** She experiences it again [[spoiler:during the battle of the Golden Land]] when she realizes that [[spoiler:Rosa]] is more than capable of not only matching her in a single fight but even overpowering her and nearly killing her despite Erika's use of magic FlashStep. And according to [[spoiler: Rosa]], the only reason Erika even survives at all is because she was ''holding back''.
143* {{Ojou}}: Implied to have been one, as she fell from a pleasure boat and has a perfect knowledge of upper class manners.
144* OneWomanArmy: Following her TookALevelInBadass in the eighth arc after her return, Erika first proves capable of literally mowing down a whole horde of goats along with Eva-Beatrice, then she manages to fight evenly against Battler until she is able to subdue him. Finally, during the battle in the Golden Land, she dodges and skillfully counteracts all the attacks of most of the characters (with only [[ActionDad Krauss]] and [[AlmightyMom Rosa]] being the only ones to effectively deal a blow on her, especially with the latter being also the one that most of all, including Dlanor and Beatrice, coming closest to almost kill her several times) and in the end she and her army of goats manage effectively to destroy the Golden Land and make all its inhabitants disappear (even if it doesn't last long).
145* ParodySue: She's a messy {{Deconstruction}} of Mary Sues. At first she seems to come across as a PuritySue, though she's really a [[BlackHoleSue Black Hole]] FixerSue of an AmateurSleuth who ''[[ContrivedCoincidence just so happens]]'' to wash up on Rokkenjima so Bernkastel has her own piece when she takes over the anti-fantasy side of the game. She proceeds to wander around being an insufferable BitchInSheepsClothing, attempts to supplant the protagonist, [[spoiler:helps Battler find the gold just to make the chaos worse, and frames Natsuhi for the murders]]. She's basically Bern’s self-insert Sue, and she's virulently loathed by both many of the other characters and a good chunk of the fanbase.
146* PhotographicMemory: Proclaims herself to have one. After all, have you ever seen a detective ''not'' remembering the crucial clue at the crucial moment?
147* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: Her VillainousRescue of Ange in [=EP8=], as well as her friendly interaction with her in the Trick Ending and ''Last Note of the Golden Witch'' due to the two of them being quite similar. Her friendship with Dlanor following the ending of [=EP5=] also qualifies, as do her WorthyOpponent moments with Battler.]]
148* PimpedOutDress: Which was originally Jessica's when she was younger. Natsuhi lends it to Erika since she had nothing else to wear aside from a SchoolSwimsuit when she washed up on Rokkenjima. The additional embellishments of [[FrillsOfJustice lace choker]] and rose bonnet with trailing ribbons probably [[RuleOfGlamorous weren't strictly necessary]].
149* PuffOfLogic: [[spoiler:Disappeared at the end of ''Dawn'' because she couldn't figure out how she could be the 18th human on the island if, including herself, there are only 17 people on the island.]]
150** [[spoiler:[[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Alternatively]], she ''did'' figure it out, but since she was dying anyway, demonstrated her final understanding of the mystery as a way to go out with a bang. That would at least explain ''why'' she chose to "attack" with that particular red truth.]]
151* PyrrhicVictory: She views her confrontation with her ex-lover over suspicion of cheating as if it were a game, and at least comforts herself by taking pride in 'winning' it.
152* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Inverted by [=EP8=], where she comes back meaner than ever.]]
153* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Uses this against piece!Beatrice in Episode 5.
154-->'''Beatrice:''' You didn't follow Battler in the cousins' room after 3AM, so you can't prove his alibi! Or are you going to tell me you spent the whole night by his side, listening to his breathing?
155-->'''Erika:''' Yes, I spent the whole night listening to his breathing.
156-->'''Beatrice:''' … What?!
157* SchoolSwimsuit: She was wearing this along with a life jacket when she washed up on the island. Though we don't actually see her wearing it in the visual novel, it's quite common for her to wear one in fanart. The manga shows it as well as the fighting game too.
158* SelfInsertFic: The entire concept of her is basically a parody of these. Bernkastel actually states that she used Erika to "insert herself into the game".
159* SeriousBusiness: Not that her boyfriend cheating on her wouldn't be serious business in RealLife, but investigating it like a criminal case is a bit over-the-top…
160* SinisterScythe: Her weapon is a blueish-colored scythe made of light.
161* SmugSnake: She ''revels'' in dismantling the theories of others and substituting what she believes is the one true truth. She also goes into meltdown whenever her "truth" gets a hole punched through it. Erika even considers herself more powerful than Bernkastel and Lambdadelta in a way, because they'd rather distract themselves from their past miseries with other people's suffering than face those memories (and thus the truth) head-on.
162* SnarkToSnarkCombat: A good half of her dialogue with [[spoiler: Ange]] in Episode 8 consists of this.
163* SoftSpokenSadist: She speaks in a soft, polite, and composed manner most of the time. She also defines herself as an "intellectual rapist" who loves to unveil people's secrets against their will and [[LackOfEmpathy utterly lacks anything resembling human empathy]]. Even when she snaps and screams, she keeps using polite forms.
164* SoreLoser: She's not Bern’s piece for nothing…
165* TheSummation: The [[AdaptationExpansion Episode 8 manga]] dedicates no less than three chapters to her extensive explanation of Episode 5 and 6, the two games where she was defeated.
166* SycophanticServant: She's loyal to her master to a fault, [[spoiler:even after Bern [[FateWorseThanDeath throws her into Oblivion]] for her loss to Beatrice]].
167* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Technically she ''can't'' leave as long as the storm is going, but the way she turns into one of these within only a few hours really speaks for the depth of her self-entitlement.
168-->''She was no longer a guest who would stay until the typhoon passed. She had become an annoying guest who would not leave until the typhoon passed.''
169* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:When she comes BackForTheFinale in [=EP8=], she's able to stand equally with Battler and even ''defeats Beatrice'', both people who used to be able to hand her hat to her with relative ease.]]
170* TookALevelInJerkass: When [[spoiler:she comes BackForTheFinale in [=EP8=]]], now fully comprehending of [[spoiler:[[HeelRealization her villainous status]]]], she [[ThenLetMeBeEvil embraces it wholeheartedly.]] [[spoiler: She goes back to her original level of jerkassery at the end, though, thanks in part to Battler reminding her of her GreatDetective roots]].
171* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Subverted at first at the end of [[spoiler:[=EP5=] where she is named the GameMaster, but is very quickly dethroned by the rightful Game Master Battler]]. Then DoubleSubverted in [[spoiler:the following episode where she traps Battler in a Logic Error and usurps his position until she is defeated at the end]].
172* UnusualDysphemism: She refers to herself as being an "intellectual rapist", which has nothing to do with sexual assault, and just means she likes to solve mysteries even if it's at the expense of others.
173* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler: She was a normal, nice teenage girl once upon a time. But then she was DrivenToSuicide and resurrected as a piece / body double of [[TheSociopath Bernkastel]], meaning all sweetness she displays afterward is [[FauxAffablyEvil purely for show.]]]]
174* VillainBall: Erika has for all means won in [[spoiler:[=EP6=]]], but she [[spoiler:stops her wedding and willingly enters a duel with Beatrice to satisfy her pride.]]
175* VillainDecay: Defied. She never stops being a danger as long as she's around, she never shows any genuine redemption moments, and her threat to the protagonists continually escalates.
176* VillainHasAPoint:
177** In [=EP6=] she mocks the story's main ArcWords ("Without love, it cannot be seen"), and says that love can make people see things that don't exist. [[spoiler:Later on, the story delves into the more negative aspects of ThePowerOfLove, such as Kinzo deluding himself into believing his daughter Beatrice Ushiromiya was the reincarnation of her mother and [[ParentalIncest the tragic results]].]]
178** She has one in [=EP8=] as well, where after she stalls/curbstomps Battler in a logic game, she points out that [[spoiler: instead of hiding his messages of "the One Truth is not important and what is important is how you live your life and finds happiness" towards Ange behind riddles for her to figure out herself, he could've just directly told her that so she'd know what he was trying to say and things wouldn't have ended up as badly as they did. But because he didn't do that, [[PoorCommunicationKills Ange felt like Battler was trying to keep her down and thus started the destruction of the Golden Land]].]]
179---> Erika: "If only you'd put your arm around her shoulder and told her that directly, you might not have lost."
180* VillainProtagonist: On the gameboards for [=EP5=] and [=EP6=], and in the spinoff manga ''Forgery of the Purple Logic.''
181* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:After Battler breaks her locked room theory, then ''again'' during the climax of [=EP5=] where he steals the role of Gamemaster from her after she supposedly won. And a third time during [=EP8=] when she fled the island after being beaten back by the family, deciding to blow the entire place to smithereens!]]
182* VillainousValor: [[spoiler: As opposed to the VillainousBreakdown she had upon being defeated in the previous [=EP5=], Erika decides to FaceDeathWithDignity in [=EP6=], to the point that even Battler and Beato are touched and ensure she gets a dignified send-off.]]
183* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler:She rescues Ange from a horde of goats who taunt her over her parents and brother being the culprits.]]
184* WellDoneDaughterGirl: She's desperate for her master's approval and tries her best to live up to her expectations. While it's somewhat justified because Erika knows very well that her master won't hesitate to throw her into oblivion if she fails her, she gets a little too happy in the rare occasions where she does get her master's praise.
185* WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler:Her ultimate impression of Battler by the end of the series, and the feeling is mutual for Battler, and for Beato as well.]]
186* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler:While it's arguable how much of it was intentional, this is how she manages to get 3 rooms worth of duct tape. After she refuses the invoke the Detective's Authority and comes up with a fairly weak theory as a result, Bernkastel [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech chews her out to the point of tears]], causing Battler (and Dlanor for that matter) to feel bad enough for her to give duct tape. Big mistake.]]
187* WrongGenreSavvy: According to Knox's 7th, the Detective cannot be the culprit of the murders. This ''doesn't'' mean that the Detective can't still be a villain of another sort, [[HeelRealization which Erika discovers]] [[spoiler:at the end of EP6]].
188* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: She gets a variation of this speech from [[spoiler: Battler in their last encounter. Erika is upset at having been a total failure as a witch, especially when compared to Ange. Battler's retort is that she was never meant to be a witch - she's a GreatDetective, and she can always be relied upon to fill that role when it's needed.]]
189[[/folder]]
190
191[[folder:Willard H. Wright]]
192!!!Voiced by: Creator/HirokiTakahashi (JP)
193[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/200px-Wil_a11_def1_4570.png]]
194-> "''We are Inquisitors of Heresy. Felling evil witches is our job. However, we must not risk hurting the innocent. We must not suspect them...!''"
195
196The detective of [=EP7=]. He is the former head of the SSVD, the 8th District Repentance Agency. He is first mentioned in [=EP5=] in the TIPS, where he is referred to as "Wizard-hunting Wright". He has since then resigned from his post. He is called to Rokkenjima by Bernkastel in order to solve a mystery.
197----
198* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Aside from a mention in a TIP in [=EP5=], Will is not in the story until out of nowhere in [=EP7=], he's selected to play Bernkastel's gameboard and serves as the protagonist in place of Battler or Ange.
199* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He is this to Dlanor, being not only competent at using his own rules, but also a mighty detective himself. Adding that he has twice the amount of rules she has to that result… Subverted that when they do meet, she seems to regard him with respect and a hint of admiration.
200* BackToBackBadasses: [[spoiler:With Dlanor in the LastStand.]]
201* BadassLongcoat: Wears a long blue coat.
202* BerserkButton: Do not, DO NOT insult the mystery genre. You'll get HEADBUTTED TO DEATH IF YOU DO.
203* {{BFS}}: The manga shows that his sword is actually [[http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/417320Joker201306639.jpg pretty damn huge.]]
204* BlackSwordsAreBetter: His weapon is a black sword.
205* BrilliantButLazy: He tends to come across as rather apathetic towards the task he's been given, but he still knows a great deal about the gameboard after only skimming the information on it beforehand, as well as proving to be very intelligent and insightful overall. On the other hand, he lets his cat Diana scratch and shed all over his furniture at home, and an in-character comment as Lion on Ryukishi's Twitter implies that he's too lazy to even do his own laundry properly.
206* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler:In [=EP8=], he and Dlanor face a gigantic goat who nullifies their rules. As they are both without any power to face the goat, he proceeds to do the next logical thing and defeat him with a HEADBUTT because that's what he does.]]
207* BunnyEarsLawyer: He has shades of this, since while he is genuinely smart and was good at his job at the SSVD (despite growing to hate it), he's also lazy, doesn't have much of a brain-to-mouth filter and is somewhat obsessed with his cat.
208-->'''Lion''': That person is seriously useless at anything other than mystery.
209* ButThouMust: He initially attempts to refuse to play along with Bernkastel's game; she promptly responds by trapping he and everyone else in the chapel until he cooperates.
210* CatchPhrase:
211** "Don't think too hard about it. You'll get a headache."
212** "Don't ignore the heart". Pretty ironic when you know the mark of the real Willard H. Wright's novels was exactly that.
213* ChekhovsGunman: He got a mention in the TIPS section of [=EP5=].
214* CoolSword: Will's weapon, which he uses to separate truth from fiction.
215* DeadpanSnarker: Very sarcastic, and the expression on his face is usually pretty deadpan. This leads to quite a bit of SnarkToSnarkCombat with Lion.
216* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:Loses an arm fighting Bern, still thinks he has a chance of winning and saving Lion. Made it all the more surprising by the fact that he ''does'' win and save Lion in [=EP8=].]]
217* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His introduction has him kicking down doors to rescue an innocent maid from a sham trial run by his own SSVD. Talk about leaving a first impression.
218* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: When [[spoiler:facing Bernkastel in the [=EP7=] Tea Party:]]
219-->[[spoiler:It's about time someone trimmed your claws! My name is Willard H. Wright, this will be the last time I will draw my sword!]]
220* TheFettered: In spite of his irritability, Will is probably the most unabashed example of Neutral Good in the series.
221* FloweryElizabethanEnglish: His answers to Clair's riddles at the end of Episode 7 are given in form of Classical Japanese, in half-cryptic sentences. Presumably to make Clair's "burial" as gentle as possible, while just saying enough to show he understood the answers.
222* {{Foil}}: [[TheHero Battler]] is a mystery lover thrown in a mystery situation against his will. Willard has spent his ''entire life'' working in such situations, and it shows.
223* GreatDetective: The smartest character in the series by far, and a much more genuine example of this trope than Erika. He solved [[spoiler:all of Beato's games and riddles, as well as her true identity]] without breaking a sweat.
224* HeelFaceTurn: His profile states that he used to be utterly cold-hearted, cruel, and ruthless in his job as a witch-hunter, but something happened that drastically changed his attitude, sending him into a disillusioned downward spiral until he resigned from the court of heaven altogether.
225* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Barely averted in that he survives while succeeding at doing what he tried to sacrifice himself for.]]
226* ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKdNWrySMT0 One in 2.57 Million]], which is shared with Lion.
227* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's got a gruff demeanor, but he's actually an incredibly good person, becoming disgusted with his own inquisition agency for their brutality, being really kind to Rosa, and [[spoiler:eventually turning against Bernkastel for Lion's sake.]] Not exactly what you'd expect from the guy who banned love from his detective novels.
228* KindHeartedCatLover: Dotes on his pet cat, Diana, to the point that he goes on "dates" with her (whatever that means).
229* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: "[[spoiler:My left arm?]] Ah yeah, I must have forgotten it there."
230* MysteriousMiddleInitial: Though if we go by his namesake, the H could be for "Huntington".
231* NoSocialSkills: Will often needs Lion's intervention in order to communicate with the Ushiromiyas, since he tends to be rather blunt.
232* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Referred to almost exclusively as Will by both the characters and the narrative.
233* RageAgainstTheAuthor: He eventually explains that his reason for quitting the SSVD was due to becoming sick of dealing with nothing but tragic mysteries, which seems to partially fuel his [[spoiler:impassioned defiance of the idea that a happy ending is impossible for Beatrice]].
234* RetiredBadass: Pointed out in his description.
235* {{Retirony}}: [[spoiler:Subverted by [=EP8=], where it's shown that he survived.]]
236* ScrewDestiny: [[spoiler:He has a massive contempt for Bernkastel's deterministic proclamations that no miracles or happy endings exist, and puts his life on the line to ensure that Lion can find a way out of the nasty fate Bernkastel has revealed for him. Somehow, it all works out.]]
237* SherlockHomage: He's an extremely intelligent, yet blunt and socially awkward GreatDetective. He even has his partner Lion as the Watson homage.
238* SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: [[spoiler:Revealed to be the reason why he got disillusioned with the Court of Heaven. While fighting back against Bernkastel in the [=EP7=] Tea Party, he shows a clear disdain for depressing mysteries that seek only to highlight the worst aspects of their characters, which was basically what Bern had attempted to do with Rudolf and Kyrie. This carries over to his appearance in [=EP8=], where he's completely loyal to Battler and his objective of redeeming the Ushiromiya family's honor.]]
239%%* SupernaturalGoldEyes
240* UnwittingPawn: Was driven by understanding and compassion when he [[spoiler: agreed to put down the last traces of the witch Beatrice in the form of Clair.]] This is, of course, exactly what [[spoiler:Bernkastel was counting on.]]
241* UseYourHead: Does this to [[spoiler:a goat in [=EP8=] when it insults the mystery genre, and he does it hard enough to kill it in the VN. It's {{No Sell}}ed in the manga though.]]
242* WillfullyWeak: One of the most widely accepted theories about his duel against Bern is that [[spoiler:he didn't use all of his twenty wedges, as ''Umineko'' clearly violates some and he refused to destroy the gameboard, as it would be the same as denying Lion a happy ending. This makes him unusually weak from a meta-perspective, as he doesn't have access to any reds the other detectives have, and can only use around 3 or 4 rules from his arsenal. This makes him understanding the truth behind Sayo Yasuda and the four games, something that even Erika couldn't do, that much more impressive. The heartwarming part comes from him putting that handicap on himself.]]
243* WouldHitAGirl: He claims to be in favor of gender equality, so he can punch useless people equally.
244[[/folder]]
245
246[[folder:Lion Ushiromiya]]
247!!!Voiced by: Creator/AyakoKawasumi (JP)
248[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/200px-Rio_a11_def1_5421.png]]
249->"''I'm the embodiment of the one hope held by the Beatrices of a million worlds... So, even at times like this, I have to be everyone's hope. I'm not giving up on this game yet.''"
250
251A piece of [[AmbiguousGender unclear gender]] first seen in [=EP7=]. Lion comes from a world in which they are first in line for the headship of the Ushiromiya family, Krauss and Natsuhi's first child and Jessica's older sibling. Lion teams up with Willard H. Wright in his investigation of "Beatrice's murder". Lion also has a rather odd habit of giving people's butts a nasty pinch whenever they're being rude or perverted.
252----
253* AcademicAthlete: Both a top student and a star badminton player in high school.
254* TheAce: When in school, Lion was an excellent student, the StudentCouncilPresident and even captain of the badminton team. The [=TIP=]s note that aside from being viewed by the rest of the family as still being too young (Lion is 19, and will become head of the family after turning 20), Lion is more suited to be the next head than anyone else. Naturally, Lion's many achievements put quite a bit of pressure on Jessica, and they tend to argue as a result.
255* AdaptationDyeJob: In the manga, Lion's eyes are blue instead of gray.
256* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:Lion is a version of Sayo Yasuda in a world where they weren't thrown off the cliff by Natsuhi and grew up as the future head of the Ushiromiya family.]]
257* AmbiguousGender: Very intentionally; the narration refers to them very gender-neutrally, they have an androgynous appearance, and none of the other characters give any indication what their gender actually is. When Will directly asks Lion which gender they are, Lion gets annoyed and refuses to tell him. This is justified by Bernkastel deliberately designing the game so to keep Lion's gender obscured, [[{{Troll}} probably just to mess with Will]].
258* BewareTheNiceOnes: While the whole "pinching people's butts for being rude" thing is mainly for mild annoyances, what ''really'' seems to make Lion angry is insulting or making fun of Natsuhi. Lion continues to be protective of her even after finding out that [[spoiler:in almost every other world, Natsuhi is responsible for Lion's suffering as Sayo Yasuda by rejecting them]].
259* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Though luckily Will is there to provide encouragement, and Lion ultimately survives Bernkastel's attempts at breaking them to become a stronger person.]]
260* ButNotTooForeign: [[spoiler:Lion is of mostly Japanese heritage, but has some Italian blood due to being Beatrice Castiglioni's grandchild.]]
261* CatchPhrase: When asked about their gender, Lion will always respond "Which do you think I look like?"
262* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:Lion is the result of Kinzo forcing himself on his illegitimate daughter, Beatrice Ushiromiya.]]
263* ClassyCravat: Wears a pink cravat as an indicator of being part of the wealthy Ushiromiya family.
264* DeadpanSnarker: When around Will, which leads to quite a bit of SnarkToSnarkCombat between the two.
265* {{Determinator}}: Has definitely become this by the end of the [=EP7=] Tea Party.
266-->[[spoiler: "I'll definitely survive... and so will you...!"]]
267* DontCallMeSir: Lion rather dislikes being called "Successor-sama" by the rest of the family, especially Jessica. Of course, the reason Jessica does so is so the narrative doesn't give away Lion's gender by having her use any gendered [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseSiblingTerminology sibling terminology]].
268* EtiquetteNazi: Woe betide anyone who doesn't act politely enough in front of Lion's relatives.
269* ExpositoryPronoun: Lion uses the gender-neutral pronoun "watashi", which is what they're expected to use as the successor to the headship. It also serves to [[AmbiguousGender obscure Lion's gender]].
270* {{Expy}}: Of [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Sa]][[Literature/FateZero ber]]. Similar hair and manner of speech, inherited an important leadership role at a young age and voiced by Creator/AyakoKawasumi.
271* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: Lion thinks they're Krauss' child and Jessica's older sibling. In reality, [[spoiler:Krauss is their half-brother/uncle and Jessica is their niece/cousin.]]
272* FlowerMotifs: Fandom often associates Lion with [[SomethingAboutARose roses]], since Lion is seen holding one in Will and Lion's shared official portrait.
273* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The responsible sibling to Jessica's foolish. Lion is a model student and works very hard to be the future head of the Ushiromiya family, while Jessica is rebellious and free-spirited, preferring to play music with her band instead of focusing on her studies.
274* ForWantOfANail: As previously stated, Lion is Natsuhi's first child if [[spoiler:they weren't thrown off the cliff by her]]. Bernkastel actually states that the probability of that was [[MillionToOneChance 1/2578917]]. It's also interesting to note that in the world where they exist [[spoiler:the epitaph and ghost stories about Beatrice do not exist, and Battler does not go back to the island]].
275* FormalCharactersUseKeigo: Due to holding the position of the next family head, Lion always speaks very politely.
276* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Lion has blonde hair and they're a very polite and nice person.
277* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Once Lion gets over the shock of finding out their [[ParentalIncest true parentage]] and resolves to live a happy life for Clair's sake.]]
278* HopeSpot: Serves as an embodiment of this for [[spoiler:Sayo Yasuda]]. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Bernkastel has other ideas…]] However [[spoiler:with the help of Will, Lion does manage to [[ScrewDestiny avoid their own fate predicted by Bernkastel.]]]]
279* ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKdNWrySMT0 One in 2.57 Million]], which is shared with Will.
280* InSpiteOfANail: Even in the world where they exist [[spoiler:Sayo Yasuda can't find a happy ending since, even though the reasons are different, the murders ''still'' occur with Lion as one of the victims. Bernkastel takes ''great'' delight in revealing this just before enacting it, causing Willard to step in and fight back in order to prevent Lion from giving in]].
281* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLSAv8vhgsQ Le 4 octobre]]. Kind of goes with the generally peaceful and nostalgic feel of Episode 7.
282* NiceGuy: Lion is very polite and well-adjusted.
283* NonActionSnarker: Not a fighter, but Lion nevertheless has a witty tongue at the right moment, even in the fighting game.
284* ObliviousAdoption: [[spoiler:For most of their life, Lion had no idea they weren't really Krauss and Natsuhi's child.]]
285* PronouncingMyNameForYou: Lion points out that their name is pronounced "''Lee''-on", not "''Lie''-on", and that it's spelled with the kanji for "science" and "control".
286* PronounTrouble: You might have guessed the issue by just reading a few lines of this character sheet. While in Japanese it goes unnoticed for a while, translators all over the world have wracked their brains to find a natural way to refer to Lion.
287* RedOniBlueOni: Can be considered the blue to Jessica's red.
288* RoyalBastard: [[spoiler:Lion, like their AlternateSelf Sayo Yasuda, is the illegitimate child of the family head Kinzo and Beatrice II, [[ParentalIncest Kinzo's daughter]]. However, unlike Sayo, Lion comes from a world where Natsuhi accepted to raise Lion as her child and therefore, Lion is accepted by the family as the rightful successor.]]
289* RunningGag: Has quite the reputation as a butt-pincher in the Ushiromiya family, and winds up doing this to Will whenever he gets out of hand.
290* SiblingYinYang: With Jessica; she's rebellious, free-spirited and not very formal, while Lion is calm, polite and dedicated to being Kinzo's successor.
291* StudentCouncilPresident: Was this in middle school and high school.
292* SupremeChef: Lion is skilled at cooking according to Ryukishi.
293* TemporalParadox: The gameboard of Episode 7 is made of contradictory fragments mashed together; as a result, not only is Lion put in the same room as [[spoiler:their [[AlternateSelf alternate selves]] Shannon and Kanon]], their family's memories contradict themselves (like the seat arrangement in the dining hall not including them). All this serves as a hint for Will.
294* TomatoInTheMirror: Lion is quite appalled to learn that [[spoiler:they aren't Krauss and Natsuhi's biological child, but Kinzo's [[ParentalIncest with his illegitimate daughter]]. Willard believes that compared to most other worlds where Natsuhi rejects them, they should be grateful to her for receiving so much love that their biological relationship never came into question sooner.]]
295* {{Tsundere}}: Sweet type. Lion is very hospitable and friendly among everyone in the family but won't tolerate anyone acting very rude, pinching their butt in retaliation. Lion especially gets irritated around Will who tends to be [[BrutalHonesty rather blunt]], but they form a close friendship with each other.
296* WalkingSpoiler: It's difficult to talk about Lion without revealing [[spoiler:their connection to Sayo Yasuda and the real Beatrices]].
297* TheWatson: Will calls them this. Lion even turns it back on him at one point by calling him "Willard Holmes". Will and Lion's dynamic is actually quite similar to that of [[Literature/SherlockHolmes the original Holmes and Watson]]; though Lion is out of the loop at first in regards to Bernkastel's game and has to have some things explained by Will, Lion is still intelligent, more down-to-earth and has better social skills while Will is also intelligent but has some notable quirks.
298[[/folder]]
299
300[[folder:Black Battler]]
301!!!Voiced by: Creator/DaisukeOno (JP)
302[[quoteright:202:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/BlackBattler_8137.jpg]]
303-->"''Battler Ushiromiya. That's supposed to be my name. I've been called that many times... I guess it's obvious, since it ''is'' my name. But me and the Battler Ushiromiya I know... sad to say, we're pretty different.''"
304
305A version of Battler that appears only in the AllThereInTheManual short story "[[http://umineko.wikia.com/wiki/Forgery_no.XXX Forgery no.XXX]]". He represents the idea that Battler is responsible for the Rokkenjima murders.
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307* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of the belief that Battler is the culprit.
308* AscendedExtra: He was originally just a character in a side story, but later he became playable in the fighting game.
309* AxCrazy: He loves to inflict death and suffering on others.
310* CardCarryingVillain: He's very proud of his evil deeds.
311* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: The story where he appears in basically says he's powered by ''in-universe WildMassGuessing and FanFiction''.
312* CreepyMonotone: When he's not hamming it up.
313* DarkIsEvil: His palette is darker than regular Battler, and naturally, he is evil as heck.
314* DissonantSerenity: His default expression.
315* DoubleEntendre: Most of his victory lines are these, although some have some plot-relevant hidden meanings beyond invoking the {{Primal Fear}}s mentioned below.
316* EnemyWithout: For Battler.
317* EvilCounterpart: To Battler.
318* EvilIsHammy: He has his moments.
319* EvilLaugh: He spends a good portion of Forgery XXX doing this.
320* EvilRedhead: Like Battler, he has red hair, but he's completely evil.
321* {{Expy}}: He is very similar to Shiki Nanaya in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}[=/=]VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' in that he's the EvilCounterpart to the protagonist, created through rumours and suspicion that the Hero was actually the culprit all along.
322* FangsAreEvil: He has vampire-like canines in the VN version of Forgery XXX, along with HellishPupils.
323* FauxAffablyEvil: He has all of Battler's charm, but none of his morals.
324* ForTheEvulz: His primary motivation to be the culprit and commit atrocities? "Because I'm the culprit".
325* GlassCannon: Is capable of doing crazy amounts of damage but has the lowest health in the game.
326* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler: He IS one for the Manga's Episode 8, when Erika starts tearing up the Golden Land with cannon fire and concept negation rounds. This does get subverted however, as Beatrice kills him with a single Red Truth.]]
327---> Beatrice: [[spoiler: [[red: USHIROMIYA BATTLER IS NOT THE CULPRIT!]]]]
328* GoodEyesEvilEyes: Along with DarkIsEvil palette, his narrow eyes distinguish him as the evil clone.
329* LackOfEmpathy: He feels no regard for others, who he sees as merely playthings that he can throw away once he's decided to take their life.
330* LaughingMad: Many, many times.
331* NoodleIncident: He appeared in ''Land of the Golden Witch'' and ''Trinity of the Golden Witch'' (stories we know nothing about) according to Ronove in ''Forgery No. XXX''.
332* ObviouslyEvil: DissonantSerenity? Negative palette swap of Battler? His name is "Black Battler"? [[SarcasmMode He's obviously the most trustworthy person on the island!]]
333* PracticallyJoker: The purple suit, sadistic cruelty, and EvilLaughter are a dead giveaway.
334* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: When he goes all out, he is prone to crazed EvilLaughter.
335* RedEyesTakeWarning: He looks the same to Battler in every way aside from the color palette swap. The major difference is that his eyes are red with slitted pupils.
336%%* SecretCharacter
337* SlasherSmile: He wears one a good majority of the time in Forgery XXX. Even if he's killed and dying.
338* SNKBoss: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrFx_JRstoY&feature=related Just watch.]]
339* SoftspokenSadist: He is often kindly whispering words of, err, "affection" to his victims. By affection, read "how beautiful the sound of their bones breaking is", and such.
340[[/folder]]
341
342[[folder:Virgilius]]
343!!!Voiced by: Kyousuke Kitayama (JP)
344[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/virgilius_console_28129.png]]
345
346A human who was to play an important role in ''Land of the Golden Witch'', the story that should have been Episode 3 but became one of Beatrice's lost "message bottles". The Witch Piece briefly brings him back into existence in the epilogue of ''Last Note of the Golden Witch.''
347
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349
350* DecompositeCharacter: His role was divided between Erika (the super detective opposing Battler) and The Man from Nineteen Years Ago (someone claiming to be Natsuhi's secret child who comes uninvited to the island) in Episode 5. As well as the name source for Virgilia (aside from ''Dante's Inferno'', of course).
351* TheRival: He was supposed to be an enemy detective opposing Battler throughout several games.
352[[/folder]]

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