History Characters / UminekoNoNakuKoroNiWitches

The '''witches''' of ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' are enigmatic, powerful beings who observe and have control over several aspects of the game board. Each of them have their own motivations for interfering with the game board, but all of them are {{Troll}}s of a certain caliber, especially towards Battler. Each of them has a certain power which allows them to draw out the truth based on the rules of the game board.

A human may ascend to witch level once they have figured out the truth of the game board, and will have the privilege to become the Game Master. While the vast majority of the witches in the series are female (that is, all of them except [[spoiler:Battler]]), [[AllThereInTheManual it's noted in a TIP]] that the term "witch" is gender-neutral; any human, male or female, can become a witch.
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[[folder:Beatrice]]
!!Beatrice [[spoiler:III/Sayo Yasuda]]
!!!The Golden Witch, Endless Witch
!!!Voiced by: SayakaOhara
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--> "''...But, at least in your eyes, I want to be a witch.''"

Also known as the Golden Witch and the Endless Witch, she is the main antagonist of the series and stands by the "magic" side, claiming that all the murders where done by magic. She claims to have given Kinzo all of his wealth, and so when the family is gathered, she issues them a challenge: find the gold that Kinzo hid in the Ushiromiya estate or else she would collect it, with their lives as interest. She then further forces Battler to replay those days in a game with her. She tells him a story of how she murdered them using magic, and he needs to disprove her story.

[[spoiler:Beatrice, Shannon and Kanon are heavily implied to all be the same person, having been created as personas of Sayo "Yasu" Yasuda, Kinzo's bastard child with Beatrice II. In a different, "ideal" world s/he is know as Lion Ushiromiya, heir to the headship of the Ushiromiya family and Jessica's older sibling by one year.]]

[[spoiler:In [=EP5=] it is revealed that s/he was the baby Natsuhi was given by Kinzo 19 years ago to raise by herself in spite of her inability to have children at the time. One day Natsuhi gave the baby to a servant, but pushed the servant off a cliff in a fit of anger and resentment over raising a child that wasn't her own. The servant died, but the baby managed to survive by a miracle, although with terrible injuries (some of which are heavily implied to be the mutilation of his/her sexual organs). After that, Genji, Doctor Nanjo and Kumawasa managed to hide the baby's survival and fake his/her death. In [=EP5=] s/he comes back as The Man from 19 Years Ago and seeks revenge on Natsuhi.]]

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* ActingForTwo: SayakaOhara voices no less than [[spoiler:six versions of Beatrice (Beatrice Castiglioni, Beatrice Ushiromiya, Elder Beato, [[FanNickname Moetrice]], Yasu and Clair vauxof Bernard).]] And they ''all'' sound distinctly different. That's how good she is.
* AlchemyIsMagic: Claims to have procured the gold through alchemy and claims to be Kinzo's alchemical counselor.
* [[spoiler:AllOfTheOtherReindeer]]: [[spoiler:Suffered this treatment from the other servants as Yasu. The only other servant who treated Yasu with any kindness was [[ImaginaryFriend Shannon]].]]
* [[spoiler:AmbiguouslyEvil]]
* [[spoiler:AmbiguousGender]]: [[spoiler:Beatrice herself is treated as female, but the story is intentionally vague about Yasu.]]
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Her whole speech is old fashioned, which lends to her image as an elegant witch who has lived a thousand years. She's notable for using [[JapanesePronouns the archaic feminine pronoun "warawa" for herself]], and addresses others with "sonata". [[spoiler:Occasionally, though, she uses the more gender-neutral "watashi" when she drops the evil witch act and resurfaces as Yasu.]] She also uses the negation "-nu" instead of "-nai", and "dearou" instead of "deshou" (for "isn't it").
* AntiVillain: After all of her antics in and out of the FaceHeelRevolvingDoor, her character evolves into this. Leans towards type II.
* ArtEvolution: In her first anime appearance she has a statuesque, obviously supernatural beauty; once showing that is out of the way she quickly becomes [[GenericCuteness cute in the same art style as everyone else]] over the course of a couple episodes.
* BadassDamsel: [[spoiler:Late in the series]].
* BadSamaritan: Second game. [[spoiler:Subverted in the sixth]].
* TheBaroness
** KneelBeforeZod
* [[spoiler:BatmanGambit]]: Her entire plan with the epitaph boils down to one of these constructed in a particularly haphazard way, with more vulnerability to failure than you usually get in these.
* BattleCouple: With [[spoiler:Battler]].
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: An endless witch has the ability to restore anything, creating eternal happiness. But that eternal happiness leads to eternal boredom, which Beatrice can't stand.
* BecomingTheMask: Inverted and zigzagged. She spends all of [=EP3=] acting like a tsundere. [[TheChessmaster She's a tsundere who pretended to be a cruel witch who pretended to be a tsundere]].
* BigBad: [[spoiler: [[DiskOneFinalBoss Not really]].]]
* BlondesAreEvil: [[spoiler:Subverted. She only paints herself as evil.]]
* {{Bookworm}}: Well, where did you think all that DangerouslyGenreSavvy-ness came from?
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler: Bernkastel/Erika's whole scheme in End of the Golden Witch leads to this against Beatrice.]]
* [[spoiler:ButNotTooForeign]]: [[spoiler:Mostly Japanese, but has some Italian blood in her from her grandmother Beatrice I.]]
* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth
* CatchPhrase: "Waraeru! Jitsu ni waraeru!" (It makes me laugh, it really makes me laugh!)
* CardCarryingVillain: In the first arc nobody really knew who murdered all the people on the island. Then Beatrice burst in to announce that, yes, she did it and is damn proud of it. Did we mention she's a lying liar who lies a lot?
* TheChessmaster
* [[spoiler:ChildByRape]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: 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 believed… also, in Episode 8, [[spoiler:she isn't pleased by [[{{Lust}} Asmodeus]] trying to flirt with Battler.]]
* CombatStilettos: Some of Beatrice attacks on ''Ougon Musoukyoku'' involve her kicking the enemy using her high-heels, and in fact, she can run with them on.
* ComplexityAddiction: Derives from her (and Kinzo's) definition of magic.
* CompositeCharacter: An somewhat in-universe version of the trope. [[spoiler: Beatrice as a whole is a mixture of both the ghosts legends surrounding Rokkenjima, the rumor surrounding Kinzo's secret lover, and the real Beatrice's identities.]]
** [[spoiler:On [=EP7=] is shown how Yasu started with a simple idea of Beatrice being a trickster ghost and ended with the product of knowing the stories behind the real Beatrices, her grandmother who gave the Italian gold to Kinzo and her mother who was kept in Kuwadorian and was also Kinzo's lover.]]
* ConfusionFu
* CryCute: And ''how''. Why do you think not only Battler but also most readers were fooled in Episode 3?
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy
* [[spoiler:DeathSeeker]]: Fourth arc.
** [[spoiler: On [=EP8=] is heavily implied that this is the way Yasu died, by throwing herself into the sea and drowning along with Battler. Even more, she was already planning a murder-suicide before thinking about blowing off all the island.]]
* DeceptiveDisciple: Virgilia repeatedly states her disappointment with how Beatrice has chosen to use her powers as Endless Witch.
** [[spoiler: This parallels how Kumasawa, the one who introduced Yasu into mystery novels, might have ended up giving Yasu the source of her ideas about how to carry out the murders.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler:She became Natsuhi's imaginary friend in the fifth arc, along with her furniture.]]
* [[spoiler:DiscOneFinalBoss]]
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]]: [[spoiler:At the end of Episode 8, Beatrice jumps into the sea because she feels she won't be accepted by anyone and won't be able to fit in the world outside of Rokkenjima. Battler decides to go down with her since all of the murders happened because of him. Although the final outcome of the scene can be interpreted in many ways.]]
* [[spoiler:EmptyShell]]: After the fourth arc, [[spoiler:she does ''nothing'', since she gave up on trying to make Battler understand her and her truth.]] A ''ton'' of ShipTease with [[spoiler:Battler]] ensues.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: It says a lot that ''Beatrice'' is disgusted with Rosa's treatment of Maria.
** She also steps in when Eva-Beatrice takes her "fun" too far.
* EvilLaughter: The VN has "*cackle* *cackle* " and ahaha.wav; the anime has SayakaOhara starting great and getting better every episode.
* [[spoiler:EverybodyWantsTheHermaphrodite]]: [[spoiler:Yasu]] managed to gain [[spoiler:the love of all three oldest Ushiromiya cousins - two men and one woman, in fact. "Unable to love" indeed.]]
* FaceHeelRevolvingDoor: And she revels in it. [[spoiler:Though in [=EP6=] and beyond, she is a {{Face}}.]]
* FakeMemories: [[spoiler:The flashback of a young Beatrice with Virgilia at the beginning of Episode 3]] is actually this. As a subversion though, she created those fake memories ''herself'', [[spoiler:since it's really just a memory of her time spent with Kumasawa, only with a heavy layer of fantasy]].
* [[spoiler:FakingTheDead:]] Some fans theorized that [[spoiler:she had actually survived and become Ikuko Hachijō. As a basis, there are several elements in Episode 1 and 2 (like the typhoon and Ange's absence) that Beatrice couldn't have anticipated; thus the message bottles can only have been written ''after'' the incident. There is also the fact that Ikuko is only kind to Battler.]] It's just a theory though.
* FanNickname: "Moe-trice" for [[spoiler:her "clone" in Episode 6.]]
* FangsAreEvil: Her little fangs are a lot less [[CuteLittleFangs cute]] than the ones other cast members have.
* FauxAffablyEvil: At first, anyway. [[CharacterDevelopment Then the ship tease and moe-moe start showing up.]]
* FlowerInHerHair
* GenerationXerox: Her relationship with [[spoiler:Battler]] plays this theme hard.
* TheGhost: During the entire Episode 1, her name is constantly spoken but she is as an ominous, invisible presence whose existence is uncertain. She appears only halfway through the Tea Party, when you expect it the least.
* [[spoiler:GloveSlap]]: To Erika in [=EP6=].
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: She carries around a long pipe, similar to an Evil Cigarette Holder. ''Ougou Musoukyoku'' shows she uses it as her MagicWand.
* [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile]]
* GratuitousEnglish: '''[[IncomingHam KONGURAAAAAAATULEEEEISHOOOOOOONS!! AAAAANDO HAAAWAAAYUUU?? AM FAIIIN SENKYUUUU!!]]'''
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]: Completely and ruthlessly subverted.
** [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath]]: Just as subverted as the trope above.
*** [[spoiler:Then DoubleSubverted]]
* [[spoiler: HappilyMarried: With Battler after [=EP6=].]]
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: In Episode 4, her elegant, tea-drinking witch image [[http://mangafox.me/manga/umineko_no_naku_koro_ni_episode_4_alliance_of_the_golden_witch/v03/c019/47.html takes a hard blow.]] Also note that [[spoiler:[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar she's 19 years old, so technically underage in Japan.]]]]
* [[spoiler:HerosMuse]]
* [[spoiler:HeroicBastard]]/[[spoiler:BastardBastard]]: Could be either of these, depending on the reader's interpretation.
* HotWitch
* [[spoiler:IJustWantToBeLoved]]
* [[spoiler:IJustWantToBeSpecial]]: [[spoiler:The reason Yasu decided to become a witch instead just being a servant.]]
* [[spoiler:IdenticalGrandson]]: The reason for the woman in the portrait walking about the mansion, although under normal circumstances she does an remarkable job covering it up.
* ImageSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP896Z370Oo Chain]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70klHdh8l8o Golden Nocturne]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmNYr80-2vc Epilogue]].
* ImmortalImmaturity: While she can act the part of a dignified witch who's lived for a thousand years, a lot of the time she's very childish. [[spoiler:Justified since later on it's revealed that she isn't even close to a thousand years old and is just a human like the rest of the Ushiromiya family. A 19 year old human to be precise.]]
* ImmuneToBullets: As [[spoiler:Natsuhi]] found out.
** Probably subverted; later chapters reveal that, when they actually ''do'' get hit, magical beings are ''especially'' susceptible to man-made weapons such as guns.
* TheIngenue: The [[spoiler:resurrected]] Beatrice.
* [[spoiler:{{Intersex}}]]: Possibly. After all, she manages to [[spoiler:play the part of the female Shannon and the male Kanon, and completely fool Jessica, her parents and Gōda with it. And everyone else except Will.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: ''Everyone'' in Episode 4 blames her for her selfishness when [[spoiler:she abandons the gameboard, and Battler with it to hole up in the Golden Land alone with Maria.]]
* KillerGameMaster: From [=EP1=][[spoiler: to [=EP4=]. Subverted twice however: first because she can revive whoever she kills thanks to her Endless powers, and second because [[TricksterMentor she isn't actually trying to kill anyone from Rokkenjima]]]].
* LargeHam: "Let's start torturing each other, USHIROMIYA BATTORAAAAAAAAA!!!" Ohara was ''definitely'' enjoying herself.
* LaughablyEvil: At least in the anime. More tragic in the novels.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Several, most notably ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ofk8ff5mbU Organ Opusculum No. 600,000,000 in C minor]]''
** As of Episode 7 of the novels, [[spoiler:her human identity Sayo Yasuda is associated with ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg-jQhNAjVU Fall]]'']].
* [[spoiler:LegacyCharacter]]: Her portrait is based either on [[spoiler: Beatrice Castiglione, Kinzo's mistress]] or [[spoiler:Beatrice Ushiromiya, their daughter]], more heavily implied to be on the latter.
* LethalChef: "Half a day was spent in spectacular violence that would have shocked the culinary world."
* LettingHerHairDown: In [=EP5=].
* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler:Actually [[GoodIsNotNice Light Is Not Nice]].]]
* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:In the sixth arc, this is the way she CameBackWrong]].
** {{Manchild}}: Particularly in the VN.
* [[spoiler:LoveHurts]]: Her driving motivation throughout the story, [[spoiler:combined with some traumatic revelations and a rather miserable life.]]
* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler:Moetrice toward Battler in the sixth arc and even as Yasu she's this to him]].
* [[spoiler:MadDreamer: As Yasu, she's this.]]
* MagicWand: Her pipe.
* MeaningfulName: Like several other characters in the series, Beatrice derives her name from Dante's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:To Maria and Rosa in the third arc.]]
* [[spoiler:TheMessiah]]: [[spoiler:How she took the blame all on herself.]]
* MoralityPet: Acts as a mentor/imaginary friend figure to Maria, who is always among the last to die in games where she is in control.
* [[spoiler:MoreHeroThanThou]]: Decides to fight [[spoiler:Erika and Dlanor]] herself rather than expose Gaap to danger.
** ThisIsGonnaSuck
* MultilayerFacade: Her actual identity is so complicated that there have been flow charts made in order to clarify it.
* [[spoiler:MultipleChoicePast]]: Whether you take the fantasy or mystery perspective.
* [[spoiler:MurderSuicide]]: Her true plan if [[spoiler:one personality hadn't won out by the second day or if Battler had never arrived on Rokkenjima that year]].
* [[spoiler:NeverFoundTheBody]]: [[spoiler:There was no body to bury in the coffin in Episode 7. The same thing happens in Episode 8, seeing as it's presumed that she drowned.]]
* NoblewomansLaugh: Often. In the anime it comes across as a harsh braying. Ronove lampshades its inelegance, to her complete lack of concern.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Episode 3 implies she sees nothing wrong with what she's been doing because in the end she always fixes what she breaks. [[spoiler:Subverted since she knows exactly what's she doing, and Virgilia even confirms she didn't enjoy murdering Battler's family over and over again.]]
* [[spoiler:TheOphelia: More of a case of someone who in spite of living a sad reality chose to revel herself on delusions and made-up personas.]]
* ObviousRulePatch: On ''Ougon Musoukyouku'' Beatrice could do crazy combos like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKUdhImjEAo&feature=related this]], which lasted '''''278''''' hits (even a [[CounterAttack damage touch]] can't save you from a super, or from a dizzy-combo), the very next patch [[{{Nerf}} modifying]] the move to prevent these kinds of abuses.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Beatrice's name is treated as a title, and indeed, when [[spoiler: Eva-Beatrice]] becomes the new Endless Witch, Beatrice claims that she is now "nameless." Battler then gives her the nickname "Beato" to use, which has been used for her more often than not since.
** Played with, [[spoiler: the original and first Beatrice, Beatrice Castiglioni, asks Kinzo to call her "Biche" since all of her friends call her like that, of course Yasu didn't knew this and just went for "Beato".]]
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: To Battler.
* PetTheDog: Her relationship with Maria, [[spoiler:and Natsuhi in Arc 5, although that Beato was a result of Natsuhi's delusions.]]
* PimpedOutDress
* [[spoiler:RaisedAsTheOppositeGender]]: It's not explicitly stated, since [[spoiler:Yasu's gender was essentially left to the audience, but if s/he was originally male]], this trope comes into play.
* RapunzelHair: Once the ExpositoryHairstyleChange has taken place.
* [[Really700YearsOld Really 1000 Years Old]]: [[spoiler:Actually, not really. She's [[ArcNumber 19]].]]
** [[spoiler:[[ReallySeventeenYearsOld Really Nineteen Years Old]]]]
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Battler's blue.
* [[spoiler:ReplacementGoldfish]]: In [=EP6=], [[spoiler:Battler tries to resurrect Beatrice, but ends up bringing back a version that is almost nothing like the old Beatrice except in appearance. ''That'' doesn't go over too well.]]
** BlankSlate: [[spoiler:Resurrected!]]Beatrice.
* SayMyName: [[{{Troll}} U-shi-ro-mi-ya]] '''[[ChewingTheScenery BWAAATORAAAAAAAAA!!!]]'''
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Subverted. Not only is Kinzo dead, making him unable to have summoned her in the first place, but not even Beatice herself qualifies for this trope.]]
* SexyBacklessOutfit: Due to exposed shoulder blades on her dress, which is pretty modest by modern standards but mildly scandalous by Victorian standards.
* {{Shotoclone}}: In ''Ougon Musoukyoku'' she's this, not only she has specials resembling the Hadouken and Shoryuken, she also has a special resembling the Hurricane Kick.
* [[spoiler:SilentScapegoat]]: Battler figured it out too late. Poor Beatrice.
* SlasherSmile: Complete with [[FangsAreEvil fangs]].
** Taken UpToEleven in [[NightmareFuel creepiness]] in the PS3 remake of the game.
* SmokingIsCool
* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: [[spoiler:Combined with [[HesBack She's Back]] in Episode 6.]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome What else can be said?]]
* [[spoiler:StealthMentor]]: Revealed in [=EP5=].
** [[spoiler:MentorOccupationalHazard]]
* [[spoiler: SplitPersonality: More of case where Yasu is perfectly conscious about what she's doing, her personas are used to express different layers of her personality rather than genuine, self-conscious split personalities.]]
* ThemeNaming
* [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath]]: Suggested by the ending of the series.
* [[spoiler:TragicHero]][=/=]TragicVillain
* {{Troll}}: Type 4 on the SlidingScaleOfTrollCruelty. [[spoiler:At least until her TRUE HeelFaceTurn.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: [[spoiler:Subverted at the end of the third game...]]
** [[spoiler:... But played straight from the fourth game onwards, at least with the Beatrice persona, as Yasu she's closer to Shannon.]]
** She even shouts [[ShakuganNoShana "Urusai! Urusai! Urusai!!!" (Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)]] at some point.
* UnreliableNarrator: The main narrator of anything that happens outside of Battler's view is Beatrice, and she eventually lets him know ouright that anything that is not in red text is not necessarily true.
* [[spoiler:VillainousBreakdown]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Not Beatrice herself, but [[spoiler:Yasu]].
* WickedCultured
* WorthyOpponent: To Battler.
* [[spoiler:ZeroApprovalGambit]]
* ZettaiRyouiki: Part of the outfit she wears when appearing to the adults at the beginning of the second arc.
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[[folder:Bernkastel]]
!!!The Witch of Miracles, The Cruelest Witch
!!!Voiced by: YukariTamura
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-->"''I am the cruelest witch in the world. I will make any opponent of mine surrender without fail. Even if that opponent is the Endless Witch Beatrice. So you must do your best as well. You won't bore me, will you?''"

The Witch of Miracles, and the most powerful witch in the universe (multiverse?). An enigmatic figure who offers Battler her help in defeating Beatrice during the tea parties for nonhumans. She has the power to create miracles as long as the possibility of the event occurring is greater than 0. She has a long-standing rivalry with the witch Lambdadelta, who was formerly the most powerful witch until Bernkastel beat her in a game. She is instrumental to Ange's, and later Erika's, involvement in the story. Arc 5 reveals that [[spoiler: everything she and [[FriendlyEnemy Lambda]] did in Beatrice and Battler's game was [[ForTheEvulz out of boredom]]]].

[[spoiler:She has become the Game Master of Episode 7 by Featherine's request, because Featherine wanted to "look at the answers".]] At the end of Episode 6, it is implied that [[spoiler:she was previously Featherine's piece in another game. By escaping the logic error, she earned the title of "Witch of Miracles."]]

From an anti-fantasy perspective, she is [[spoiler:Ikuko Hachijo's pet cat]].

Her relation to [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Frederica Bernkastel]] is unclear, but they don't seem to be the same person.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Like Rika from Higurashi, her hair is indisputably blue in the games/manga, and weird purple-blue color in the anime.
* AnimalMotifs: Cat. The narration tries to compare her to one, she has a [[CatGirl cat tail]], and actually transforms into one at one point. Story progression has her [[spoiler:exemplify]] the idea that CatsAreMean. In Episode 8, [[spoiler:it's revealed that she's actually Ikuko's pet cat]].
** She even uses her cat familiars as projectiles in Ougon Musou Kyouku Cross.
* [[spoiler:BadBoss]]: [[spoiler: Acts like this towards her piece Erika when the latter fails to achieve any worthwhile results. The [[http://www.dm5.com/m99923-p60/ manga]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch amps]] this up even further.]]
* [[spoiler:BadSamaritan]]
* [[spoiler:BigBad]]: [[spoiler: Assumes the position in the fifth arc (in the meta-world at least), and solidifies it with each consecutive installment.]]
** [[spoiler:{{Bigger Bad}}]]
* {{Bokukko}}: At least in her character song ''Seizensetsu'', she refers to herself with 'boku'.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: There are a few scenes where it's intentionally unclear if she addresses Battler or the player. In the anime, Battler is nowhere to be seen during that scene so she's clearly talking to the viewers here.
* BorrowedCatchPhrase: In the Tea Party of ''Twilight'', when her, Erika and Lambdadelta receive letters from Heaven.
-->'''Bern:''' Just by the presence of this letter, see how far Bernkastel's reasoning can take her.\\
'''Erika:''' M… My Master, that's no good! There can only be one detective!
* BreakTheCutie: In [=EP6=], Lambda says that [[spoiler: Bern was originally a piece in a game that the Game Master made {{Unwinnable}}. (Lambda did not explicitly say whether the game was of the [[UnwinnablebyMistake Unwinnable by Mistake]] or the [[UnwinnablebyDesign Unwinnable by Design]] variety.) The Game Master then abandoned Bern as a piece and left her to fend for herself. Bern eventually [[BeyondTheImpossible ended up winning the game anyway]] and gained the title of Witch of Miracles. The mentioned game [[EpilepticTrees may or may not have been Higurashi.]] While this does explain her cruelty, it's no excuse for it.]]
* CatsAreMean: Her AnimalMotif - she has a tail, and truly ''horrific'' cat minions.
* CatGirl: Borderline, considering her cat tail. No ears, though.
* CombatPragmatist: Demonstrated in [=EP8=] [[spoiler:during the fight with Battler. Forced to go by the rules of his game board, she gives him closed room mysteries under the guise of blue truth blades to solve. She just happens to launch '''[[MoreDakka all]] [[BladeSpam of]] [[BeamSpam them]] [[MacrossMissileMassacre at]] [[CurbStompBattle once]]''' at him. She even outright states that she isn't as forgiving as Beatrice and aims to completely and utterly destroy Battler.]]
--> [[spoiler:In that case, this wasn't 'mystery' anymore. This wasn't an intellectual game, but a merciless assault.]]
* ContrivedCoincidence: Bringing them about is at least one aspect of her power.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Bernkastel knows not to let Battler make too many of his own moves in [=EP8=] [[spoiler:and even takes up the task of killing him ''herself'' when she realizes he's in the City of Books]]. While aware that he's only human, she knows that any problem that isn't accounted for could spell disaster for her plans.
** FridgeBrilliance: As Lambdadelta points out, [[spoiler:Bernkastel would know this better than anyone, having been in [[{{VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi}} just as hopeless a situation as Battler was in the past]].]] Has shades of actual FridgeLogic though when you realize [[spoiler:she's all the Rika Furudes who '''didn't''' win their fight against fate, so one wonders [[MindScrew where she got the experience]].]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler: The more we learn about her, the more brutally this trope is subverted.]]
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: A rare example of this style being their ''actual appearance''. It makes her interactions with the rest of the cast all the more unsettling[[spoiler:, especially from [=EP5=] onwards]].
* EmotionlessGirl: Apart from her eyes moving, she literally has no expression on her face [[spoiler:until the [=EP4=] Tea Party, where she laughs with an epic troll face. Fans shat bricks. And then, in [=EP5=], she suddenly gains a ''lot'' of new expressions.]]
* {{Expy}}: Of Rika from ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi''. More precisely, [[spoiler:she's confirmed to be all the "Rikas" who gave up on fighting destiny and now wanders between the fragments doing whatever she can to ease the pain.]]
** [[spoiler:EnemyWithout]]
* EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity: To Ange, although [[spoiler:she did this just to be a BadSamaritan]].
* [[spoiler:FriendlyEnemy]]: The true relationship between her and Lambadelta. More the former than the latter, to stave off boredom.
* [[spoiler:GoneHorriblyRight: Featherine wanted someone to entertain her and ease her own boredom, and she got that when she brought Bernkastel into being - whose idea of entertainment is sewing turmoil and agony into people's lives. Partially subverted since while there's no doubt Bern causes havoc on an insane degree, Featherine is largely indifferent to it and just likes the good story that results from it, and will often use Bernkastel to rip apart the worlds of those stories to find the answers to their mysteries.]]
* [[spoiler:GoodPowersBadPeople]]: She's the Witch of Miracles, right? Able to create a miracle as long as the probability isn't zero. [[spoiler:But a miracle is just something that the odds are against. [[{{Troll}} No one said anything about those miracles being 'good']]]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Ougon Musou Kyouku Cross has Bern relying on weaponized fragments, hungry black cats, and blue serpent beams as part of her arsenal of moves.
* KickTheDog: Currently sued by animal rights associations for dog holocaust.
** In Ep 6 ??? she also kicks the cat. [[spoiler:Which, ironically, is herself in the real world.]]
* [[spoiler:KillerGameMaster: Of [=EP7=] on her own, and of [=EP8=] where she competes against the much more benevolent GameMaster Battler.]]
* {{Kuudere}}: She appears to be this at first, but she's really more [[spoiler:CuteAndPsycho]]. Her ''deredere'' side can only be seen when around Lambdadelta.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkauAVC8Py0 Haze]] is equally associated with both Ange and Bern, specifically during the skyscraper scene.
* LittleMissSnarker
* [[spoiler:[[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]]]: [[spoiler:She is responsible for making Ange's life miserable so that she can have a piece to use against Beatrice (and eventually Battler). In [=EP8=], she also manipulates Ange into thinking that Battler is just toying with her, causing Ange to go on a rampage and start the Golden Land's destruction.]]
* MeaningfulName: Bernkastel was the type of wine that Rika would drink.
* [[MrExposition Ms. Exposition]]: At least in the early arcs, she tends to serve in this role.
* MinorInjuryOverreaction: [[spoiler:Battler punching her in the face.]] Feeling pain for the first time in a century is unpleasant enough to cause a VillainousBreakdown.
* MysteriousWatcher: [[spoiler:Until [=EP5=].]]
* {{Orochi}}: Not Bernkastel herself, but she ''creates'' an incarnation of one. [[spoiler:During her duel with Battler in [=EP8=], she summons gradually more absurd amounts of closed room mysteries as blue truths until they eventually form a giant snake. Seeing that this wasn't enough to fell him, she simply decides to make seven more, completing the Orochi.]]
* [[spoiler:PetTheDog]]: [[spoiler:PsychoLesbian UnholyMatrimony though it is, her relationship with Lambdadelta actually serves to ''humanize'' Bernkastel, as it's the only thing in the entire series that's shown her to be capable of love of any sort, twisted though it may be.]]
* PassThePopcorn: She orders some for the final showdown in ''End of the Golden Witch''. This becomes a running joke by [=EP7=] where Will frequently comments that Bern's probably enjoying his deductions from some unseen location with a large bucket of popcorn.
* [[spoiler:PsychoLesbian]]: In [=EP5=], Bern directly tells Lambda that [[spoiler: she loves her, and if true, she and Lambda would make a PsychoLesbian couple. Although it sounded quite genuine, it's also well within [[LittleMissSnarker Bern]]'s character to be sarcastic about such things.]] [[spoiler: As of [=EP5=], Lambda is certainly much more {{Yandere}} than Bern. However, Bern is also much more outright malicious than Lambda ever was.]]
** In [=EP8=] [[spoiler:their final battle]] seems to indicate this is genuine.
* [[spoiler:PsychoticSmirk]]
* RealityWarper
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Since Higurashi takes place in 1983, it depends on whether you count all of [[spoiler: Rika's century-long GroundhogDayLoop]] in her age. But even so, as a Voyager Witch she can travel through time at will, so she has basically no notion of past or future.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Lambda's red. [[spoiler:In the first half of the series at least.]]
* [[spoiler:SoreLoser: '''Dear God.''' It's revealed in [=EP8=] that Bernkastel barely or just plain ''doesn't'' understand the concept of fun, only caring about winning. If it wasn't for the fact that she had plans for Battler and Beatrice in [=EP8=], she probably would've ''flipped'' when they beat her in her tabletop mystery.]]
** [[spoiler:From the end of [=EP6=] onwards, this aspect of her is what drives her in her attempts to destroy Battler and Beatrice. These antics include trying to break the heart of and kill a separate incarnation of Beatrice, turning Ange against the whole family, and even organizing an assault that will destroy Rokkenjima and the Golden Land. "The Cruelest Witch" indeed.]]
* [[spoiler:{{Troll}}]]: [[spoiler:Hence the fandom's nickname "Trollkastel" or "Bernkastroll". A very firm type 5 on the SlidingScaleOfTrollCruelty]].
* TheStoic: In most situations, she can be icy cold. But, certain situations can turn her to be very, ''very'' NotSoStoic.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Dried plums. Preferably in her tea.
* [[spoiler:VillainousBreakdown]]: [[spoiler:[=EP8=]. And it is glorious]].
* WeaponOfChoice: [[SinisterScythe Scythes]].
* WindsOfDestinyChange: Her power.
* [[spoiler:{{Yandere}}]]: Shows signs of this in [=EP6=]. [[spoiler:"If this is some new joke of Lambda's, I'll cover her whole body with honey using my tongue as a reward. And then, I'll stick parasol chocolates into her eyes and tell her to never do it again."]]
** In [=EP8=] she says [[spoiler:[[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon that she will tear off Lambda's limbs, skewer her through her butt, then place her beside her bed so she can kiss her good morning and good night every day.]]]]
* [[spoiler:YouBastard]]: She says, to the reader, something to the effect of "It's more interesting to have [[spoiler:Eva make Ange's life a living hell]], isn't it? That's why you're reading this far, after all."
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lambdadelta]]
!!!The Witch of Certainty
!!!Voiced by: FuyukaOoura
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--> "''If I'm paper, Beato is rock, and Bern is scissors. It's true that my power will lose to Bern's scissors… [[ScissorsCutsRock but if it's super-paper, which is stronger than regular paper, it could even win against scissors, right?]] In other words, I, Lady Lambdadelta, am super-paper! [[NoblewomansLaugh Ooohohohohoho!!]]''"

The Witch of the Absolute, who has the power to kill unfailingly. Formerly the most powerful witch in the universe, she now harbors an intense grudge against Bernkastel, who took that title away from her. She sometimes offers Battler help during the tea parties for nonhumans, and yet half the time appears to be working against him. Although she acts very childish in general, she is not to be trifled with, as she is incredibly powerful. Arc 5 reveals that [[spoiler: her childish behavior was an act and that everything she and [[FriendlyEnemy Bern]] did in Beatrice and Battler's game was out of boredom]].

[[spoiler:She was replacement Game Master for Episode 5.]] By Episode 6, it is implied that [[spoiler:she was Featherine's opponent in the game where Bernkastel was trapped.]]
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* [[spoiler:AmbiguouslyEvil]]
* AwesomeButImpractical: Lambda's actual power goes far beyond being able to kill unfailingly, and is either this or a StoryBreakerPower depending on your point of view: she has the ability to cause any event that she chooses to eventually happen, provided that who or whatever is trying to make it happen does not give up. However, her ability may be nullified if whatever is trying to make the event happen does stop trying, and she never says how long or how many failures it will take before the event happens. She basically has the power to guarantee that certain hard work will not go unrewarded.
* BadSamaritan: Nowhere near Bern's level in that regard, but the human she lend her power to in [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi another series]] didn't meet a happy end in most of the timelines. It's implied that Takano [[spoiler:was either made a scapegoat, disposed of or DrivenToSuicide afer the Hinamizawa disaster.]]
* {{Bigger Bad}}: She made [[spoiler:Beatrice]] a temporary witch to drag Bern into her game, but she doesn't really care about what happens to Battler and the rest. [[spoiler:At first.]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: According to [=EP8=], she is ''literally'' made of candy.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: She does this very often, even to the point of asking the readers to vote for her in the character popularity poll.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: She likes to imagine various and very imaginative ways to torture Bern. [[PsychoLesbian Let's call that her peculiar way of expressing her love.]]
* CuteWitch: ''Massively'' subverted.
* TheDitz: as seen in the third Sound Novel's tea party, where Bernkastel and Beato are teasing her about Santa Claus. The second Bernkastel leaves, she [[spoiler:[[ObfuscatingStupidity drops the act.]]]]
* EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity: To Beatrice, though this is only alluded to briefly in the third tea party and once again in the extra TIPS.
* {{Expy}}: Of young Takano, from {{Higurashi}}. It's implied that Takano may have been her piece in her game against Bern.
** Whether this is intentional or not, Lambda also has a ''lot'' in common with Higurashi's Satoko (most notably her NoblewomansLaugh + hand gesture and general trickster nature, and of course her relationship with Bernkastel).
*** Most evident [[http://mangafox.me/manga/umineko_no_naku_koro_ni_episode_2_turn_of_the_golden_witch/c026.6/18.htmlin the manga]].
* [[spoiler:FriendlyEnemy]]: The true relationship between her and Bernkastel. More the former than the latter, in fact, to stave off boredom.
* [[spoiler:GameMaster: Of [=EP5=].]]
* GoKartingWithBowser: Bernkastel is her sworn enemy/love-hate buddy/plaything, and they've always been on opposite sides. It does not stop them from having slumber parties.
** [[spoiler:Averted. [=EP5=] shows that Bernkastel and Lambdadelta have been friends and allies all along (and even hints that they are lovers), and that until that point they were pretending to be sworn enemies. The slumber party happened in [=EP4=]'s ????, and was the first time that they clearly dropped the enemies act. It's only in [=EP8=] that Lambda actually fights against Bernkastel, but since she's the WildCard they go back to their usual relationship in the afterparty.]]
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: We find that [[spoiler:in the past, Lambda was trapped in a logic error. It was so bad that she still seems to wonder if [[CuckooNest she isn't still trapped there and just hallucinating everything.]]]]
* GravityMaster: She can create an area of concentrated gravity, not entirely different from a black hole, during her fight with [[spoiler:Bernkastel]] in Episode 8.
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]: [[spoiler:In [=EP8=], spectacularly so--leading to a rainbow-explosion text battle the likes of which we've never seen before. She and Bern make up by the afterparty in the end, though]].
** [[spoiler:It wasn't really so much a HeelFaceTurn considering she's been the WildCard all along. But whatever it was, it was ''awesome''.]]
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]: In [=EP8=], and boy is it a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
* HypocriticalHumor: In Episode 4, she mocks Beatrice, saying that "all blond women are dumb". Yeah… what is Lambda's hair colour again?
* ImmortalImmaturity: [[spoiler: Subverted. It's an act.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Candies. Also, her [[FinishingMove Meta Super]] in ''Ougon Musou Kyouku'' is a ''giant present comet''.
* LipstickLesbian: Her clothing and magic utilise quite a lot of pink. And cuteness. And since she only has eyes for Bernkastel, well…
* MadeOfExplodium: Her candies, which are her WeaponOfChoice.
* [[spoiler:ManBehindTheMan]]
* ManOfAThousandVoices: In Episode 5, she does the voice of [[spoiler:the Man from 19 years ago]], [[CastAsAMask likely to hide his real identity.]] Raising the question of whether there really was a man calling Natsuhi or if it was some trick of Lambda's.
* MeaningfulName: Lambdadelta in greek letters equals 34, as did Takano's first name's kanji.
* MythologyGag: She signs off on Eva-Beatrice's succession because she feels for her bad childhood.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Can be described as a Magical Lesbian Loli Yandere. Yeeep.
* NoblewomansLaugh: Although sadly absent in the anime.
* [[spoiler:ObfuscatingStupidity]]
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Toward Bernkastel. [[spoiler: At least until Arc 5, when Lambda and Bern drop the act that they are mortal enemies.]]
* PassThePopcorn: She orders some for the final showdown in ''Dawn of the Golden Witch''. Subverted because [[spoiler:she actually uses this popcorn to influence the fight despite having to stay neutral.]]
* PsychoLesbian: Or something. Just look at the way she talks about Bernkastel... to say nothing about [=EP4=]'s ????, where Lambda glomps Bern after Bern says she's TooKinkyToTorture. [=EP5=] reveals that [[spoiler: the feeling is mutual. See Bern for more info.]]
* RealityWarper
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Anime only. In the games they're more of an amber color.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Bern's blue. [[spoiler:But in Chiru, it turns out Bern is [[SoreLoser much]] [[HairTriggerTemper redder]] than her.]]
* SayMyName: [[spoiler:By ''Bernkastel'' of all people when she realizes Lambda had undergone a HeelFaceTurn. '''"Lambdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa[[{{Angrish}} wg]]!"''']]
* StalkerWithACrush: To Bern. [[spoiler:And while Bern's feelings for Lambda are a matter of the reader's perception, it's hard to call Lambda's love anything but genuine.]]
* {{Troll}}. Type 3 on the sliding scale.
* [[spoiler:VillainousBreakdown: The entire Ushiromiya family begging her for help in [=EP8=] leads her to chew everyone out ''harshly'' for ignoring both that she was just supposed to be a spectator, and that she'd be going against Featherine's and the Senate's wishes.]]
** [[spoiler:VillainousBSOD: Leads right into this, as she can't decide which is more important: the certainty of the family that a good ending will come, or her own well-being.]]
*** [[spoiler: Once Ange comes back just like everyone hoped, she warms up to the idea and [[HeelFaceTurn decides to help them out]] in the end.]]
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Lambda's ability is first introduced as "the power to kill unfailingly." Not a lame power at all, but the other magical characters have no trouble killing people on top of all of their other abilities. Then the [[AllThereInTheManual "Lambdadelta's Diary" TIP]] and [=EP5=] reveal what her [[StoryBreakerPower power]] [[AwesomeButImpractical actually]] is...
* WildCard
* WillfullyWeak[=/=]TheGlovesComeOff: In Episode 8, she stops holding back and starts fighting Bern seriously. For one, she can ''create black holes on a whim''.
* {{Yandere}} or CuteAndPsycho: Could qualify as either. Take your pick.
* [[spoiler:ZenSurvivor]]: And true to type, [[spoiler:she's another [[StealthMentor Stealth]] TricksterMentor in [=EP6=]]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Virgilia]]
!![[TheDivineComedy Publius Virgilia Maro]]/Former Beatrice
!!!The Witch of the Finite
!!!Voiced by: KikukoInoue
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->''"Using magic to break or kill is very easy. But real magic is one that can repair and resurrect."''

The former Endless Witch/Beatrice, and Beatrice's mentor who taught her all about magic. Although she dislikes how Beatrice uses the power she has been bestowed, Virgilia is nonetheless loyal to her student and works to help Beatrice achieve victory.

From an anti-fantasy perspective, she is Kumasawa, [[spoiler:the one who taught Yasu all about mystery novels, this being reflected on Virgilia teaching "magic" to Beatrice.]]
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* BeamSpam: Entirely possible in the fighting game through Gungnir.
* ButtMonkey: In Episode 4, curiously. And hilariously.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Trust me, you don't want to see her with her eyes open. In the anime, it's more like Eyes Always Half-Open.
* HotWitch
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Her arsenal of weaponry in the fighting game includes daggers, the divine spear Gungnir, ''mirrors'', and ''candlesticks''.
* MadEye: What she looks like with her eyes fully open. It's actually less "mad" and more... [[http://randomc.net/2009/10/30/umineko-no-naku-koro-ni-18/ kind of deformed.]] (The image in question is the third from the bottom in the center column.)
* MagicWand: Wields a simple, classic wooden wand, as shown in the anime, the PS3 port and the fighting games.
* MediumAwareness: In the fourth arc, she is sometimes aware of the user interface.
* {{Mentors}}
* [[spoiler:TheMole]]: Third arc.
* NiceHat: A SouthernBelle-tastic one worn at a jaunty angle, no less. Some theorize that the hat is actually eating her head.
* NoFourthWall: During the infamous Krauss vs. Goat scene.
* NoblewomansLaugh: Shares this with Kumasawa, her "real world" form, along with many expressions.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: Virgilia of the fourth arc acts very differently from Virgilia of the other arcs {{Justified|Trope}} as PlayedForLaughs.
* PimpedOutDress
* SexyMentor
* SummonMagic: Her meta-super summons ''fricking Odin'' and throws a giant spear at her enemy. On a minor scale, she can summon the goats to aid her.
* TeamMom: Despite the fact that she's not technically a mother (and there are four ''actual'' mothers in the cast), Virgilia takes this role, gently smoothing out problems with Beatrice's furniture, nurturing the goats and Siestas, chastising Beatrice, and brewing black tea for anyone miserable. [[spoiler:It makes sense when you realize that Kumasawa, whom Virgilia is based on, was the closest thing to a parent Yasu had.]]
* ThemeNaming: She named herself after the Roman poet Virgil, as in [[DivineComedy Dante's guide to Beatrice]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Mackerel, just like Kumasawa. It's seen more often in ''Ougon Musoukyoku'', though.
* {{Tsundere}}: Will suddenly and viciously morph into a type-B when in the presence of Gaap.
* VillainousBreakdown: Fourth arc
* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl
* YamatoNadeshiko
* YaoiFangirl: PlayedForLaughs in her and Ange's ending in ''Ougon Musoukyoku'', and in the [=TIP=] "Angel of 17 Years".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Eva-Beatrice]]
!!!The Endless Witch, Black Witch
!!!Voiced by: MikiIto
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-->"''Why don't you just give up and die?''"

Appears as a younger version of Eva and is in some sense, an embodiment of Eva's desires and lack of satisfaction of her place in the family and in general. The way she describes her ability is the power to turn anger into miracles. She also represents all the theories which place Eva as the culprit.

She makes her first appearance in the third arc, where [[spoiler:after Eva manages to solve the epitaph and becomes the family head]], she manifests on the island and orchestrates the remaining murders. In the fourth arc, she reappears as a representation of hatred born from the Ushiromiya family, called by Ange as "The Black Witch". She makes her final appearance in ''Twilight of the Golden Witch'', where it turns out that [[spoiler:Eva cared about Ange all along; Eva-Beatrice's actions in the previous arcs were only twisted by Ange's (and everyone else's) perception]].
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* AGodAmI: "My Power is a God's Power".
* AmbiguousInnocence: Present when she [[spoiler:kills Rosa by twisting her happiest dreams]], but mostly dropped after that in favor of playing up a more aggressive form of insanity.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: She's essentially the personification of hate, revenge and greed. [[spoiler: She also symbolizes the "Eva Culprit" theory.]]
* AxCrazy
* BaitTheDog: Aw, she's so happy with her new title. That's right, Battler, feel free to applaud!
* BlackMagic: According to Ange in the 4th arc. The general rule of thumb is that black magic heals pain by shoving pain onto others. White magic heals pain by creating good things to distract you.
* CatchPhrase: ''Heso kande shinjaeba~?!'' ("Why don't you just give up and die?!"); and various other phrases ending with ''-eba~?!''. In a curious instance in Episode 8, she actually says ''Heso kande shinjaEVA~?!''
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: What happens to the people she kills. ''[[FateWorseThanDeath Repeatedly]]''.
* CuteAndPsycho: Since initially, we only get a bit of an inkling on how cruel she can really be.
* EnfantTerrible
* EvilLaugh: In the PS3 version, Miki Itō gives us a childish, high-pitched, rapid-fire laugh, which should sound completely ridiculous [[MoodDissonance but is somehow terrifying instead]].
* {{Fanservice}}: PlayedForLaughs in the TIP "Game Master Battler". She's told that she can't beat Erika in the popularity polls because her look isn't fanservicey enough (among other things). [[AintTooProudToBeg So she begs Battler to help her be more popular.]] The result is… [[http://mangafox.me/manga/umineko_no_naku_koro_ni_tsubasa/v01/c002/20.html impressive.]]
* FullContactMagic: Eva uses surprisingly little magic on ''Ougon Musoukyouku'' compared to the other Beatrices, most of her attacks involve [[SimpleStaff clubbing]] and [[KickChick kicking]] the enemy to death. Altough this can be explained since Eva herself is very good at martial arts.
* GroinAttack: Her grab in the fighting game.
* [[spoiler: HeelFaceTurn]]: [[spoiler:During [=EP8=]. It's probably more accurate to call it a Heel ''Ange'' Turn, though.]]
* ImaginaryFriend: She was this to Eva, according to [=EP3=].
* KidsAreCruel: More evident in the VN, but this theme is hit a few different times with her in the third arc. Most obviously during her conversation with Eva [[spoiler:after she's killed Hideyoshi]].
* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J5LF2Udf20&fmt=18 Happiness of Marionette]]''.
* LargeHam: ''Especially'' after she gets her Endless Witch powers; she practically breaks into HamToHamCombat with Beato after that. Not to mention that MikiIto tends to get fairly creative with the delivery of her CatchPhrase.
* LettingHerHairDown
* LiteralSplitPersonality
* MoralityChain: It at first looks like Hideyoshi might be this for her, but this is then subverted. With blood. Later played straight, arguably, with [[spoiler: Ange]].
* NiceHat
* OhCrap: Her reaction to Beatrice denying the existence of all witches near the end of [=EP3=] has her panicking. She gets held down by Ronove as Beatrice finishes the denial, and there's nothing Evatrice can do about it.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Kind of. She's technically about as old as Eva, despite appearing as a younger version of her.
* PimpedOutDress
* ShadowArchetype
* SimpleStaff: It acts as her own version of the Ushiromiya Emblem.
* SmugSnake: She's incredibly arrogant, treats her allies poorly whenever they fail to entertain her and she acts like a total jerk when she feels safe. So naturally, she's reduced to a screaming mess when the situation inevitably ceases to go her way.
* VillainProtagonist: On ''Ougon Musoukyouku'' at least, all of her endings but one involve her [[KillEmAll killing]] [[DownerEnding everybody]].
* VillainousBreakdown: Experiences this several times, especially when she learns that she can't destroy Beatrice's heart but tries to squash it beneath her foot anyway, as well as her OhCrap moment near the end of [=EP3=].
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity
* [[spoiler:ZeroApprovalGambit: She made herself as evil as possible so Ange would never think of blaming her parents.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Featherine Augustus Aurora]]
!!Featherine Augustus Aurora/Tooya Hachijō/[[spoiler:Ikuko Hachijō]]
!!!The Majestic Witch of Theatergoing, Drama and Spectating
!!!Voiced by: MichikoNeya
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--> "''For one such as I, who knows everything, everything is boring... However, I don't dislike letting the ignorant read my works to see what kind of reaction they have.''"

Both first appear in Arc 6. Tooya Hachijō is a human mystery writer from 1998 who [[spoiler: (in-universe) wrote each of Arcs 3-6]]. Ange meets up with her before going to Rokkenjima in Episode 6, [[MindScrew even though Ange herself remembers that she didn't]]. She claims to have reached a certain level of truth, allowing her to [[spoiler:write stories on par with the original two message bottles that washed up.]]

Featherine Augustus Aurora is the Witch of Theatergoing, Drama, and Spectating. It is strongly implied that Tooya is Featherine, or at least Featherine is her AuthorAvatar. Because of her age, Featherine wears a horseshoe-shaped device around her head that stores her memories. [[spoiler:She is also apparently Bernkastel's mentor.]] Ange becomes her miko. [[spoiler:Bernkastel is also her former miko. At the end of Episode 6, she requests Bernkastel to become the new Game Master so that Featherine can "look at the answers".]]

In reality, "Tooya Hachijō" is [[spoiler:the alias behind two people, the manuscript writer, Ikuko Hachijō, and the story writer, Tooya Hachijō, who is in reality Battler, who lost his memories and was discovered by Ikuko after the Rokkenjima incident.]]
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* AffablyEvil
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Featherine uses the same style of speech as [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi goddess!Hanyuu]].
* AuthorAvatar: Featherine is implied to be Tooya's avatar. And incidentally, Ryūkishi07's.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Both Bern and Lambda describe her as [[YouMonster extremely nasty]], and indeed she doesn't think much of humans, but she doesn't really have any KickTheDog moments, and [[spoiler:in the end she gives up on publicly revealing the contents of Eva's diary, thus preserving the catbox as Battler and Beato wished.]]
* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Supposedly one of the Creators described in Episode 4's TIPS.
** Confirmed, and she is not afraid to showcase it in [=EP8=].
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Battler's confidence that he and [[spoiler:Ange]] will escape the [[spoiler:City of Books]] is nearly squashed flat just from hearing her ''speak'' for the first time, and he begins to fear for [[spoiler:Lambdadelta's]] life. [[CurbStompBattle And rightfully so.]]
* {{Bigger Bad}}
* [[spoiler:CollectiveIdentity]]: Episode 8 reveals that "Tooya Hachijo" [[spoiler:is actually two people: Ikuko Hachijo, the writer, and Tooya Hachijo/Battler, the story writer]].
* CurbStompBattle: Delivers one to [[spoiler:Lambdadelta]] in Episode 8.
* DetachedSleeves
* TheDreaded: It's really telling that [[spoiler:''Bernkastel '''and''' Lambdadelta'']] are scared shitless of her.
* [[spoiler:EvilMentor]]: Implied to have been [[spoiler:Bernkastel's]] in the ???? of [=EP6=].
* {{Expy}}: Some people consider them/her an expy of [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Hanyuu]] because Featherine's memory device looks like horns, the number "eight" (both "hachi" and "ya") in Toya's name, the AlternateCharacterReading of the name "Hachijo" is "Yashiro", the name '''Au'''gustus '''Au'''rora, "Hanyuu" means "feather," Toya and Featherine both address people as "Child of Man," and [[spoiler:Featherine says that Bernkastel used to be her miko]].
-->'''Chick Beatrice:''' Thank you very much, Aug[[VerbalTic auau]]... umm-
-->'''Bernkastel:''' ... Featherine Something Auaurora...
** To complement it, when Ange first meets her, "Over the Sky" plays. It was Hanyū's {{Leitmotif}} in Higurashi.
* [[spoiler:GracefulLoser: Upon Bernkastel's defeat at the end of [=EP8=], Featherine actually ''applauds'' the Ushiromiya family and decides not to open the Book of the Single Truth in light of it, and lets everyone go. She's even kind enough to inform Ange that Lambdadelta had also been revived by her newly-acquired powers, just not in the room. [[ItMakesSenseInContext And still in pieces.]]]]
* [[spoiler:GodIsEvil: Averted, though ''just barely''. She's not so much evil as she is uncaring of how she achieves her goals... though given [[ManipulativeBitch the things she]] ''[[ManipulativeBitch does]]'' [[ManipulativeBitch do in the story]], you'd be forgiven for thinking it was played straight.]]
* GreekChorus: With Ange in [=EP6=].
* [[spoiler:IAmNotShazam [=/=] AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Bernkastel is regarded in-universe as the strongest Witch, but even ''she'' knows not to get on Featherine's bad side. It makes sense when you realize Featherine is not an outright Witch, but a Creator instead. She may just be a Witch in name only.]]
* IHaveManyNames: She wrote various novels under different pennames, to give herself an aura of mystery.
* InnocentCohabitation: With [[spoiler:Tooya Hachijo/Battler]]. By the end of the series, they have lived together for ''at least'' forty years.
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:Better off than Bernkastel at least, even if purely out of virtue that she's a GracefulLoser.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: Tooya's: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ1CeuQMv7s Love Examination]].'' Featherine's: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3KPybMNKSk A Single Moment]].''
* [[spoiler:LiteraryAgentHypothesis]]: [[spoiler:All of her forgeries are written as if "Maria Ushiromiya" wrote them and they apparently describe the events that occur from "Banquet" to "Dawn".]]
* LonersAreFreaks: Although she's not a bad person, Tooya doesn't have a single friend, barely ever meets anyone, and looks down on the few people she meets [[spoiler:except Battler for some reason. Which has led some to speculate that she was actually Beatrice who survived and started a new life with Battler under a new identity.]]
* [[spoiler:[[ManipulativeBitch Manipulative]][=/=]MagnificentBitch: The main reason she doesn't fit into GodIsEvil instead. Explanations below:]]
** [[spoiler:''The'' definitive example is that she's ultimately the one responsible for bringing [[{{Troll}} Bern]][[BigBad kastel]] as we know her into existence. It's debatable - though still heavily implied - that she was the one who abandoned Bern as a piece, and it's never explained how she pieced together/recruited all the physically and emotionally destroyed [[{{VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi}} Rika Furudes]], but it's made clear in the narration that Featherine was indeed the one who created what would be eventually become her miko and the Cruelest Witch. And why? ''Because she was '''bored''' and wanted someone to help stave off future boredom.'' It's not so much that she meant harm by creating Bern, more that she doesn't care as long as she is entertained.]]
** [[spoiler:During the course of the story, she's the one who made Bernkastel the Game Master of [=EP7=]. Let that sink in for a moment: she made Bernkastel, who was still coming off of her piece Erika's defeat at the hands of Battler and Beatrice and thus ''[[SoreLoser fuming]]'' and wanting revenge, the Game Master. Her one condition is that Bern find the Single Truth of what really happened at Rokkenjima; she's allowed to use whatever means necessary and do whatever she wants as long as she works towards that goal, and Bern doesn't hesitate to exercise those rights. The "Manipulative" part makes sense when you realize Featherine is really ''just taking advantage of her miko's lust for vengeance to get what she wants''.]]
** [[spoiler:If you want a more ''literal'' example, she can use her power to ''[[RewritingReality rewrite the script of reality itself]]'' and have people do as she dictates. ''[[ParanoiaFuel And you would never even know she's doing it.]]'']]
* MysteriousWatcher
* OlderThanSheLooks: In the Epilogue, [[spoiler: Ange]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that [[spoiler: while Battler has indeed aged 30 or so years, full with white hair, Ikuko hasn't changed a single bit.]] It may support the idea that she is really not human.
* TheOmniscient: Well, she is one of the [[spoiler:authors]], after all. Whether or not she actually knows everything, or else is incredibly mistaken, is up to the audience.
* OverlyLongName: Several characters have trouble with her full name; in the case of Bern though, it's more that she doesn't bother to remember.
* [[spoiler:PhysicalGod]]
* PurpleEyes
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: By far the oldest witch in the series. So much that she needs a special device to keep her memories and avoid insanity.
* [[spoiler:RewritingReality]]: Tooya's stories somehow describe [[spoiler:what happened in every arc from the third to the sixth]].
** [[spoiler:This is also her power as a Witch/Creator, which leads to...]]
* [[spoiler:StoryBreakerPower]]: Literally. Even [[spoiler:Lambdadelta]], who was more than holding her own against [[spoiler:Bernkastel]] earlier, is ''terrified'' at the thought of having her as an opponent.
** Featherine demonstrates just ''how'' literal it is to said Witch of Certainty. [[spoiler:When Lambdadelta tries to attack her with magic, Featherine just says that she doesn't like the development of the story, ''stops time'' and begins '''[[RewritingReality editing the script of the story herself]]'''. Not willing to write a fight scene at the moment, she starts from the end of the fight where she dictates Lambdadelta was smashed into a bookshelf and had all her limbs severed. She doesn't even think about ''how'' she accomplished such a brutal attack, deciding to "figure it out later". When Featherine starts time again, Lambdadelta ends up just as she wrote, with "what the ''fuck'' just happened" being her last conscious thoughts before dying.]]
--> [[spoiler:[[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm She couldn't comprehend the 'something' that Featherine had killed her with.]] However, that was only natural. After all, Featherine herself hadn't decided what the 'something' was. However, Lambdadelta did understand one thing. [[YouAreAlreadyDead She was already dead]].]]
* RichBitch: Well, maybe not ''bitch'' but to anyone who is not [[spoiler:Tooya/Battler]] her character is… unpleasant at best. Hard to deal with in any case. If one considers [[PhysicalGod Featherine]] is her AuthorAvatar, that also tells you something about the size of her ego.
* StrangeGirl: She is described as pretty excentric.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: The memory device around her head also preserves her form. At one point in the past it got damaged, abruptly changing her personality and appearance.
** [[spoiler:Also a potential attack she can use. Refer to the spoiler in StoryBreakerPower.]]
* YouMonster: Bernkastel calls her one, although [[InformedAttribute it doesn't really show that much.]] Bern even says that she "learned" from her in that department…
** Lambdadelta also gives her this treatment [[spoiler:after getting [[CurbStompBattle utterly destroyed]] by Featherine. She takes it as a ''compliment'', which really makes you wonder what amount of chaos she caused in her distant past. It's fully possible that, being [[{{Troll}} Bernkastel's]] mentor, she possess a trolling capacity far surpassing her miko's... and considering Bern is a clear-cut [[SlidingScaleOfTrollCruelty Type 5]], [[BeyondTheImpossible that is nothing short of terrifying to think about]].]]
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The '''witches''' of ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'' are enigmatic, powerful beings who observe and have control over several aspects of the game board. Each of them have their own motivations for interfering with the game board, but all of them are {{Troll}}s of a certain caliber, especially towards Battler. Each of them has a certain power which allows them to draw out the truth based on the rules of the game board.

* [[Really700YearsOld Really 1000 Years Old]]: [[spoiler:Actually, not really. She's [[ArcNumber 19 years old]].]]

** [[spoiler:[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euezX9D3aDE the_executioner]]]], although it only ever plays once during a scene in which she directly does something, is still quite heavily associated with her, as the title can really only be referring to her.

* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq5YSqzX6Jk&fmt=18 Mirage Coordinator]]''. [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Nice]].

* PaintingTheFourthWall: In the fourth arc, she is sometimes aware of the user interface.

* HairOfGold

* BlondesAreEvil: [[soiler:Subverted. She only paints herself as evil.]]

* [[spoiler:GoneHorriblyRight: Featherine wanted someone to entertain her and ease her own boredom, and she got that when she brought Bernkastel into being - whose idea of entertainment is sewing turmoil and agony into people's lives. Partially subverted since while there's no doubt Bern causes havoc on an insane degree, Featherine is largely indifferent to it and just likes the good story that results from it.]]

** In EP8 she says [[spoiler:[[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon that she will tear off Lambda's limbs, skewer her through her butt, then place her beside her bed so she can kiss her good morning and good night every day.]]]]