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Parents

In General

• Big, Screwed-Up Family: In contrast to the cousins ​​who sincerely love each other, the 4 siblings put on a facade of affection to save the appearances but it becomes immediately evident in their first scene that each of these families would have no qualms about throwing under a train the others in exchange for money. Patriarch Kinzo, on the other hand, considers all of his children and grandchildren to be little more than he would consider his own socks as to him they are nothing more than a constant reminder of his Arranged Marriage.
• Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: Due to his deep frustration at having life planned by the family elders in his youth, including choosing his wife for him, and the inability to be with the woman he truly loved, Kinzo became a negligent and extremely abusive father both verbally and physically towards all his legitimate children. As a result Krauss, Eva and Rudolf tried to avoid, with the support of their respective spouses, not making the same mistakes with their own children (although how successful they were is up for debate, especially in Rudolf and Battler's case). Tragically Subverted with Rosa, who had the odds stacked against her from the beginning (constant bullying from her older siblings, Maria's father running out on her while she was pregnant, Maria's odd behaviors, etc.).
• Cruel and Unusual Death: The deaths that all of them endure at the hands of witches and furniture in each game are not only horrifying to see but also particularly painful (and as some witches like Eva-Beatrice and Lady MARIA love to reanimate their victims only to trap them in a cycle of death and repeated resurrections until they get tired. You can definitely say it sucks), with Rosa holding the top spot on this page.
• Death Equals Redemption: In EP8, all the adults in Battler's game are aware of the truth and know that they're all already dead. Since it's all over for them, they all put aside their differences and grudges to act like a happy family only once for the sake of Ange, the only family member who is still alive in the real world. In the manga, the adults recognize they all did very cruel and unforgivable things to each other during life and can't ever truly make up for it, but they try their best to at least give Ange the will to live on and lead a good life where she can be happy and help other people, instead of letting her end up as an awful person with a miserable death like them.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The mothers display this dynamic. The ambitious and callous Eva is Choleric, the affable and emotionally unstable Rosa is Sanguine, the conservative and dutiful Natsuhi is Melancholic, and the coolheaded and rational Kyrie is Phlegmatic.
• Greed: One of the main reasons why all 4 of Kinzo's childern are at odds with each other regarding the sharing of his wealth. All of them have good reasons for needing the money (endangered companies, needing to pay off loans, etc.), but problems tend to arise whenever the gold is actually found.
• Gutted Like a Fish: With the exception of Kinzo (being already dead) and Rosa (being the accomplice), the other parents are victims of this in the first twilight of the second arc (after they are already killed with poison) in order to insert candy directly into their stomachs to stage a sort of Halloween themed party dedicated to Maria.
• Impoverished Patrician: Each sibling is in desperate need of money, which makes it easy for the culprit to bribe them with Kinzo's gold whenever they want an accomplice to tell lies for them.
• Lack of Empathy: Primarily Kinzo and Kyrie, but nearly all of them to some degree.
  • Krauss, Eva and Rudolf show little tact in forcing their little sister to tell them about her traumatic meeting with Beatrice as a child and made fun of/scolded her in the past whenever Rosa came to them regarding problems with their mother or schoolwork.
  • None of the siblings show much sympathy for Rosa's precarious situation. In particular, Krauss uses it extensively to attack her and put her in difficulty much more than he tries to put Eva and Rudolf in the same difficulty during family discussions.
  • Eva primarily sees Krauss as a rival, and frequently tries to use Rudolf and Rosa as pawns to be used in her family feuds. She frequently attacks Natsuhi and Jessica in conversation as well.
  • Although in the morning of the first twilight of EP2 she was clearly shocked by their death and deeply disgusted by how their corpses had been set up, Rosa subsequently proves not only not sorry but almost happy and relieved at the death of the other Ushiromiya adults, barely managing to hide it from the orphans Battler and George. Not to mention the paranoid mistreatment she exhibits towards Nanjo and all the servants, although it is partially justified by the fact that she was one of Sayo's main accomplices and was simply following the script entrusted to her (united that she suspected that one of them, possibly Shannon and Kanon, was Beatrice and therefore did not trust any of them 100%).
  • In Rokkenjima Prime, Rudolf and Kyrie jump on the opportunity to slaughter the rest of their family (including the kids) and servants when the gold is found, in order to get the largest possible cut.
• The Mole: With the exception of Kinzo, each of them is this for Sayo, with the specific accomplice changing between Episodes. They're usually coerced into helping with the promise that their financial problems will be solved, though their contempt for the rest of the family plays a large part.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The three fathers. Hideyoshi is the nice one, being the most easygoing and consistently kind-hearted among the parents. Krauss has quite an ego as Kinzo's first-born, and has gone to questionable lengths to pay off his debts, but at least has no body count, putting him in-between. And then there's Rudolf, who has a messy history with women, has several scams under his belt, and was one of the culprits in the real world massacre, making him the meanest of the three.
• Seven Deadly Sins: The seven parents can each be associated with a sin.
  • Gluttony: Krauss, who has driven himself deep into dept from his careless, excessive investments.
  • Greed: Eva, who the world believes to have wiped out her own family just so she could hog the Ushiromiya wealth. This does happen in EP3, but in real-world incident, she killed Rudolf and Kyrie for actually doing so.
  • Lust: Rudolf, who has a complicated relationship with his current and former wife because he couldn't just stick with one woman.
  • Wrath: Rosa, who has an explosive temper that often leads to her publicly abusing her daughter even though she should know better.
  • Pride: Natsuhi, whose upbringing instilled such an obsession with honor that she pushed a baby off a cliff because she couldn't stand having to raise a foreign child after all her fertility issues.
  • Sloth: Hideyoshi, who is fairly nice, but doesn't do much to restrain his wife's more unpleasant behavior.
  • Envy: Kyrie, who manages to out-envy Leviathan through her 18 years of loathing Asumu for getting with Rudolf first, even extending her contempt to Asumu's son Battler.
• Smarter Than You Look: Despite all of Sayo's planning and intricate web of fantasies, they all hinged on the fact that the parents wouldn't be able to solve the riddle of the epitaph, and was hoping Battler would solve it. In Rokkenjima Prime the siblings put their minds to the task and were able to solve a riddle that took Sayo years to solve in a matter of hours. While she did consider this as a possibility, she considered it the least likely of scenarios, and she's quite unprepared when it happens.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Eva and Kyrie are the masculine girls to the more feminine Silk Hiding Steel Natsuhi and Rosa.
• The Un-Favourite: Kinzo hardly ever does anything to hide the fact that he does not feel the slightest affection for his children, because he never wanted them. He far prefers his 2 illegitimate children, Beatrice II and Sayo/Lion, although this doesn't do them any favors.
• Villainous Lineage: Kinzo is a morally horrible person who with an unstable psyche. This runs in the family:
  • Rosa is a case. She is a mother who abuses and neglects her only 9-years old daughter. She goes so far as to leave Maria at home alone for days at a time, lying to both her and the school that she's at work, and even verbally and physically assaults other people who witness the punishments that she inflicts on Maria (including a social worker). Although she is in no way justified, Rosa is still a Struggling Single Mother who could be bipolar (and who suffers from a serious case of PTSD which occurred in having unintentionally caused the death of a person as a child, never analyzed and diagnosed by any certified expert on the subject) and lives in a country and time period where it is frowned upon to even acknowledge mental illness, and who receives no support from anyone, including Maria's father (who robbed and abandoned her while she was still pregnant) or her own family (that, as the games show, they are almost all more than willing to betray her or even kill her together with Maria if they see them as an obstacle, rather than sympathizing with her and helping her). She suffered similar abuse at their hands growing up, and may actually not see a better way to raise her child.
  • Eva is happily willing to betray and financially destroy her siblings' families with no remorse in exchange for fully satisfying her own ambitions, even resorting to the fantasies of committing murders if she is thwarted. She verbally abuses both Rosa and Natsuhi just for her own amusement. She shoots inappropriate judgments and criticisms of anything and, as shown in the seventh arc, both she and Hideyoshi feel no guilt when they accidentally commit a murder, and are not at all willing to make amends. That said, most of her jerkassery was committed by her Superpowered Evil Side that may or may not have even been her.
  • Krauss and Natsuhi have proved more than willing to hide Kinzo's death from the rest of the family by forcing the servants to help them in an attempt to monopolize the inheritance for them. They have their reasons, however flimsy, given Krauss' poor investment decisions. Natsuhi is also directly resonsible for the plight of Yasu, who she threw off a cliff as a baby.
  • Rudolf and Kyrie weren't exactly good people to begin with from the start, but being more than willing to mercilessly slaughter the rest of the family out of sheer greed has definitely established them as selfish, narcissistic psychopaths.

Kinzō Ushiromiya

Voiced by: Mugihito (JP - elderly), Daisuke Ono (JP - younger)

"Money is the crystallization of everything in this world. If you cannot grasp that then you cannot grasp the world! If a life cannot strongly grasp this world, it doesn't deserve to live!"

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

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• Abusive Dad: Despite his children being adults already, he still has enough power to pull it. And just in case the emotional (and literal) beatdowns weren't enough for you, he also imprisoned his illegitimate daughter in isolation and eventually raped her.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: An in-universe example. In most of the games, Kinzo is portrayed as a temperamental, grumpy and crazy old man who doesn't give a crap about his family and only seems to care about Beatrice. The game of EP8, on the other hand, has him acting as a fun Cool Old Guy and a caring family member who clearly loves his children and grandchildren. While that game's nature is left ambiguous, EP8 Kinzō is implied to be a version of him that could have existed, had he not descended into madness, even willing to display his overall affections to his children he never wanted through a loveless marriage, or at least a representation of a part of him that existed deep down.
• Adaptational Villainy: The manga supports a decidedly nastier interpretation of his character, as it claims that Kinzo did, in fact, orchestrate the deaths of everyone on the military base he worked at. In the visual novel, this was only hinted at as part of a Mind Rape done by Bernkastel, making it very easy to doubt.
  • Similar to the Adaptational Nice Guy above, his malice is exaggerated in Beatrice's games. While he may not have cared much for his family, his epitaph was never meant to sacrifice them; it was a harmless puzzle to find Lion/Sayo and pass on his wealth and leadership.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: The anime gave him dark hair when he was younger. This was before the release of EP7, which revealed that his hair has always been white.
• Antiquated Linguistics: He has a similar speech as Beatrice when he's old. He spoke normally when he was younger though.
• Archnemesis Dad: Well, Archnemisis Grandpa. It is one-sided but, although he doesn't care much for all his children and grandchildren, he holds a particular contempt for Maria for being an illegitimate child, and for the fact that Rosa has broken the family tradition of the patriarch choosing the name of the newborn.
• Arranged Marriage: Kinzo married the daughter of a high aristocratic family, who the elders forcibly chose more for their own convenience than for his. This is one of the reasons why he didn't consider his wife and children an actual family.
• Asshole Victim: In all of Beatrice's games, Kinzō's cremated corpse is found soon after the murders begin. No one mourns him since Kinzō was a despicable person who was callous to the entire family he never asked for. Although, the truth is he had already been dead for two years before Beatrice/Sayo even started planning the murders.
• The Atoner: Turns out the whole deal with the epitaph was actually his wild gamble to establish contact with Sayo, grant her the headship, and try to somehow make up for for what he did to his daughter Beatrice.
• Awful Wedded Life: Kinzo enlisted in the army because his Arranged Marriage made him so miserable that he would have preferred dying in the battlefield than spend another moment with a wife and children he didn't love. He only gained the will to live after meeting Beatrice Castiglioni and taking her as his lover.
• Birthmark of Destiny: His polydactyly was seen as this, which is why he was made head of the Ushiromiya family legacy despite being from a branch family.
• Bookworm: He spent a considerable amount of his free time reading, with a particular interest in Western books, though this was partly because there was little else he was allowed to do as Puppet King aside from tending to roses and drinking. He once commented that Beatrice Castiglioni had the same name as the eternal lady from The Divine Comedy.
• Byronic Hero: He appears as one of these in the first episodes, exaggerated to the point of parody. Makes sense, since he's actually dead and the "Kinzo" we see is based on the very opinionated view Sayo Yasuda had of him.
• Call-Back: The name "Goldsmith" was from a gag in the first EP, where Battler jokes that Kinzo should join in the Western Theme Naming.
• Chewing the Scenery: Most of his expressions, laughing or crying, are wide open-mouthed, as if to literally chew all the scenery. One textual example from EP 7:
  He sometimes scratched at his head in anguish, sometimes faced the heavens like an opera singer.
• Childhood Friends: With Genji. EP8 reveals that they grew up together in Taiwan.
• Cool Old Guy: In EP8's ideal game, where he's much nicer than in previous games and jokes around with his grandchildren.
• Corporal Punishment: In Episode 1, Jessica recounts how Kinzo would beat her on her bare ass with a wooden sword.
• Crazy People Play Chess: His chess games with Beatrice during the first episodes, as everybody around him gets brutally murdered.
• Dead All Along: In almost every arc he's actually been dead for about two years, with the only exceptions being EP7 and EP8 since those are "what if Kinzo were still alive" scenarios. He only appears to be alive thanks to Beatrice's Unreliable Narration, along with Krauss and Natsuhi's efforts to convince the rest of the family that he's shut himself in his study.
• Deal with the Devil: Beatrice tries to convince Battler that the whole Rokkenjima tragedy was because of one of those on Kinzo's part. Which is obviously false, since Kinzo had been dead for years.
• Depraved Bisexual: Considering that Genji decided to conceal the child's survival out of fear that Kinzo would end up raping him as he did with his mother/sister, it is legitimate to think so.
• Death Seeker: During World War II he joined the army hoping to be killed in battle, only to be assigned to an engineering job far from the front lines. He got over it when he met Beatrice.
• Despair Event Horizon: He was implied to have crossed it when Beatrice Castiglioni died, fueling the eventual Parental Incest with his daughter.
• Determinator: His lifelong reputation. Even the children who suspect he's dead are uncertain enough to fear his wrath. When asked how plausible it would be for him to leap from a 3rd story window to take a peaceful stroll in a typhoon, everyone accepts it as pretty typical for him.
• Disproportionate Retribution: He verbally and physically abuses his children at the slightest disappointment when he is in the same room with them. He also despises Maria to the point of refusing to have any contact with her, for the simple fact that she is an illegitimate child and because Rosa upset him by choosing the name for her daughter herself.
• Doting Grandparent: In the ideal setting of EP8's game, Kinzo absolutely adores his family and loves to play with his grandchildren.
• Drowning My Sorrows: One of the many unhealty ways he tries (and fails) to get over Beatrices' death.
• Easily Forgiven:
  • He raped his illegitimate daughter and conceived a child with her without the latter being able to even understand the whole situation to legitimately resent him. And even if he later blames himself for it for the rest of his miserable life, none of those who knew the whole thing (Genji, Kumasawa and Nanjo) do anything to make him weigh his guilt. However, his child/grandchild Sayo was utterly horrified and disgusted by Kinzō's crimes, made worse by her realizing that Kinzō created the epitaph to die convinced that he had been given Beatrice II's and Sayo's forgiveness. She then made sure to write a gruesome death for Kinzō in her forgeries.
  • In a way, he gets it in EP8 (due to Battler's narrative aimed at convincing Ange to forgive her whole family for their crimes and move on) as he makes a public apology to Krauss, Eva, Rudolf and Rosa for how he ruined them in their childhood (especially Rosa) and for being the indirect main cause of everything that went wrong in their lives, all his children emotionally moved for his apologies absolve him of any crime. Sayo in the manga comes to turn with his horribleness after learning his life was a punishment for him.
• Empty Shell: Episode 7 shows he was this before meeting Beatrice. See Death Seeker above.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Reviving a witch who requires your entire family to be sacrificed doesn't seem like a good idea to begin with, and sure enough, he's found as one of the sacrifices in most of the early arcs. Subverted; he actually died two years prior of natural causes, after meeting Sayo and granting her the headship.
• Evil Old Folks: Well, according to the fourth arc, he sics Beatrice's demons on his entire family. Subverted. See above. Now, when he was alive, he was definitely abusive toward his family, even in his old age.
• Evil Sorceror: Particularly in the fourth arc. Completely out of his mind, yes, but then, who in this family isn't? Well, except that he's not actually a sorcerer.
• Evil Me Scares Me: While raising Beatrice Castiglioni's daughter, Kinzo was well aware of the ugly desires bubbling up within him, to the point that he even discussed them with Nanjo over drinks. Despite his fears that he may end up crossing a line and doing something he regretted, that exactly what ended up happening when he impregnated his daughter, and Kinzo was tormented with the weight of his sin for the rest of his life, especially after the child's death was faked to protect it from him.
• Extra Digits: Kinzo was born with six toes on each foot, which was considered a sign of good fortune in the Ushiromiya lineage and used as justification for pulling him from a branch family to the family head. This fact is almost always used to identify his charred corpse.
• Flanderization:
  • Notably, this happens to him in-universe: he was dead by the time of the murders, which means the "Kinzo" we see in the first episodes is based on how Sayo Yasuda viewed him.
  • In parody works involving him, his eccentricity, drunkenness, and frivolous spending are cranked up.
• Foreign Culture Fetish: He has a fetish for western cultures in general (though he seems to be particularly fond of Italy and Germany), being obsessed with the western occult, building himself a western-style mansion to live in and giving his children and grandchildren western names transliterated from kanji. His flashback in EP7 shows that he was fond of foreign literature as well.
• Formulaic Magic: His magic is said to be based heavily in probability. Indeed, he is well aware that his gambit to find his lost child by writing a difficult riddle for them to solve that would lead to his hidden gold only has about a one in a quadrillion chance of working. But lo and behold, it does.
• Foreshadowing: In the first four Episodes, while the other "sacrifices" die in various ways, Kinzō alone consistently ends up burned to a crisp. That's because he's a charred corpse from the beginning.
• Freudian Excuse: Sure, being a puppet head of the Ushiromiya Family against your will when the elders plucked you away from Taiwan during your childhood is unimaginable as they made your path you never wanted to walk in the first place, but this doesn't justify the fact that Kinzo treats his legitimate children and grandchildren he was forced to sire like shit when he chose Beatrice Castiglioni and his illegitimate daughter also named Beatrice over them. This leads to Sayo's path to vengeance and the whole plot of Umineko when she learns all the horrible things that he had done.
• Gambit Roulette: Kinzo is well aware that establishing contact with his lost child, Sayo, and granting him/her the headship is a huge gamble, even lampshading it with the quote at the top of the chapel.
• Generation Xerox: Battler's relationship with Beatrice is later shown to heavily mirror Kinzo's own relationship with both Beatrice Castiglioni and Beatrice Ushiromiya.
• A Good Way to Die: Moments before dying, Kinzo got to meet "Beatrice" (Sayo in disguise) one last time and ask for her forgiveness for having raped her mother. He also passed the family headship to Lion/Sayo, his and Beatrice's child, as he always wanted and got Lion/Sayo to call him "Father" for first and last time. Kinzo then died with no regrets left. Once Sayo found out about the horrible things Kinzo did, she felt Kinzo didn't deserve to die in such a satisfying way.
• Grumpy Old Man: At his best, he's this. At his worst, he's an abusive Jerkass.
• Gun Nut: If there's something other than Beatrice and the occult that Kinzo definitely loves, that's Sawed Off Shotguns. He has an entire collection of them and it's Serious Business for him when amateurs can't tell the difference between the types.
• Hate Sink: Considering that since his first appearance he has always behaved like an old fool who does not feel the slightest affection for his children and grandchildren and that going forward in the arcs it turns out that he is stained with morally very questionable actions, it is not wrong to define him not only as the probably most despicable human character of the story but even the cause of all evil of Umineko.
• Hot-Blooded: People often describe him as this. We get to see in the final battle of ''Twilight of the Golden Witch".
• Image Song: A Song of Scattered Love ~ My Beloved Golden Witch, which is shared with Genji.
• Incoming Ham: His "Happy Halloween" entrance in Episode 8.
• I Regret Nothing: After apologizing to Sayo for how he treated her mother, and getting Sayo to call him "Father", he hysterically yells that he no longer has any regrets in this world... and promptly drops dead.
• I Was Quite a Looker: He strongly resembled Battler when he was young, and Battler himself isn't hard on the eyes.
• Jerkass: Even in Eva's flashbacks in Arc 3. The candidacy of most of his descendants for at least Jerkass Woobie can largely be laid at Kinzo's feet.
• Karma Houdini:
  • In a way (see A Good Way to Die above). He died peacefully and with no regrets, and though he was deeply ashamed of his treatment (and eventual rape) of the second Beatrice, he got no comeuppance for that aside from Genji concealing their child's existence. This later fed into Sayo's bitterness, who made sure he did get his comeuppance in every Episode she wrote.
  • While he doesn't get a good ending in most of the games (it certainly helps that, again in most of the games, he's actually already a 2-year-old charred corpse from the start), Kinzo still suffers the almost merciful deaths compared to most of the other characters (especially Rosa) and no actual real punishment, even in the fourth arc he is even allowed to be the one who carries out the murders under his Goldsmith identity.
• Kick the Dog: Nearly every scene we see him interact with anyone that's not Beatrice is a Kick the Dog moment for him. Even taking into account that he was not actually alive for most of the series. The final episode makes an effort to subvert this, however, as Battler goes out of his way to show that Kinzo was capable of being a loving patriarch, despite it all.
• Large Ham: Most of the scenes he appears in, he is screaming at the sky like the insane man he is.
• Laughing Mad: According to Natsuhi, this was his reaction when he learned that the child he had entrusted to her had fallen off a cliff; screaming something like "You escaped me again, did you?!"
• Leitmotif: The slow, solemn and slightly sad Rose. Not coincidentally, it also plays in Episode 6 the fist time Battler appears as the Game Master.
• Love at First Sight: He fell in love with Beatrice Castiglioni the moment he first saw her.
• Love Father, Love Son: Deconstructed. After Beatrice Castiglioni died, Kinzo became obsessed with her daughter as she grew to look identical to her mother, convincing himself that she was his lover's reincarnation. The problem was she was also his daughter and he ended up raping her.
• Love Hurts: Both you and your family, after it has made you crazy.
• Love Makes You Crazy: EP7 shows that he was nothing less than a Nice Guy in his youth, and The Woobie to boot. It got worse, horribly, when he became obsessed with Beatrice. He was so much in love with Beatrice Castiglioni that her Death by Childbirth ensured that he would never be completely sane ever again. He views any of her descendants as "Beatrice" in a desperate attempt to convince himself that she can come back to him, from raping his daughter Beatrice Ushiromiya due to her Strong Family Resemblance to having Sayo wear Beatrice's dress when they finally meet (though in the latter case, he's also trying to atone for having raped Beatrice Ushiromiya to begin with).
• Love Makes You Evil: The manga reveals that he was the one to start the massacre in the military base, feeding into the narrative that he was always a madman who wanted to "have the gold and Beatrice all for himself."
• Loving a Shadow: After his lover Beatrice Castiglioni's Death by Childbirth, he convinced himself that their daughter Beatrice II was her mother's reincarnation and attempted to carry on their love with her, even though she couldn't understand or return her father's feelings.
• Mad Love: Given how crazy he is over Beatrice, it's telling that he just about never comes up in any of her speech, except how he relates to the murders. Heck, she actually has her Mooks eat him alive in one ending. This behavior is very much justified once the true relationship between her and Kinzo is revealed, as while Kinzo and his original mistress genuinely loved each other, their granchild who ended up playing Beatrice in 1986 barely knew Kinzo and went on to despise him.
• Madman in the Attic: He may have locked himself in there, but he still fits pretty darn well. Except for the fact that he's dead, of course.
• Mood-Swinger: One of the reasons why his own sons and daughters are so intimidated by him is his unstable reactions, a trait shared in particular with his daughter Rosa.
• Moral Event Horizon: He raped his own daughter.
• The Mourning After: Kinzo has never stopped loving his mistress Beatrice after her death, and his wish to bring her back with magic is was drove him to become obsessed with the occult. Now, he seems to be engaging in the ceremony that involves sacrificing everyone in the island in order to bring her back to life. While the last part turns out to not be true, he did believe his love with Beatrice to be eternal and once she died, he tried to carry on their love with their own daughter, deluding himself into thinking she was her mother's reincarnation.
• Murder by Cremation: In most of Beatrice's games, Kinzo's corpse is found burnt in the incinerator of the mansion's underground boiler room. It's later subverted with the revelation that he actually died of natural causes two years before the story begins.
• My Greatest Failure: He's quite torn up over his treatment of the second Beatrice and is desperate to make amends with the resulting child Sayo before he dies. In EP8, he acknowledges that his callous behavior is a major cause of his family's dysfunctionality. Also Ange's burden, seeing himself the cause of her troubles.
• Necromantic: Kinzo had a mistress a long time before named Beatrice, and he seems to be engaging in the ceremony in order to bring her back to life after she died years earlier. This is later proven false, since Kinzo wasn't alive in order to orchestrate the ceremony. And while he did have a mistress whom he desperately wanted to come back to life, the "ceremony" was not a magical ritual to summon her, but to rather find their child so that he could beg for forgiveness.
• Never My Fault: Since the beginning of the story, when he is not busy laughing or crying madly invoking the name of Beatrice and the ritual for his resurrection and spends time commenting on the family reunion on the partition of his legacy, Kinzo insists with contempt that Krauss, Eva, Rudolf and Rosa are nothing more than ungrateful vultures ready to feast on his body once he is dead (and not showing the least affection neither for them or their respective children). He never realizes that if his children have come to hate him to such an extent, the fault is uniquely only his.
• Not So Above It All: In EP8, the stern and scary Kinzo of EPs 1-7 gives way to a Kinzo genuinely delighted to see his children and grandchildren, to the extent that Genji winds up refraining whenever he says hello to anyone to remember his dignity.
• Offing the Offspring: In the fourth arc that sees him as the main antagonist as his meta-world alter ego Goldsmith, Kinzo has no moral scruples in having his own children and their families slaughtered by the magical servants he summons, even mocking them for their helplessness.
• Omniglot: In Episode 1, Battler mentions that it's hard to find books written in Japanese in his library, and wonders just how many languages he can read. His skills in English actually helped him to negotiate with the GHQ during the American occupation.
• Ominous Opera Cape: As part of his Necromancer appearance.
• One of the Kids: In EP8's ideal setting of Battler's game for Ange, Kinzo is shown cheerfully horsing around with Maria and Ange.
• Out of Focus: He's completely absent from EP6, likely because Battler is posing a mystery to an opponent who already knows that he's dead.
• Parental Favoritism: Towards Lion Ushiromiya, his child/grandchild by Beatrice II. In the world where Lion grows up as his successor, Kinzo wants no other but Lion to become the next family head and personally grooms Lion for the position. In the world where Lion grows up as Sayo Yasuda, Kinzo immediately takes a liking to Shannon once he figures out she's Lion and even teaches her how to shoot his precious Sawed Off Shotguns, something he would never let anyone else do.
• Parental Incest: With his daughter, Beatrice Ushiromiya. He saw it as a Reincarnation Romance, since she looked so much like her mother as she grew older, but she couldn't understand or return his feelings.
• Parental Neglect: When he was not busy to physically and emotionally abusing them, Kinzo often ignored his 4 children and let his wife and servants take care of them.
• Pater Familicide: Through the summoning of Beatrice. Subverted then Double Subverted; he's dead by the time the story begins, but before his death he did write a cryptic epitaph in hopes of "summoning Beatrice" (i.e., contacting his lost child Sayo Yasuda/Lion Ushiromiya, who carried Beatrice Castiglioni's blood) and let everyone read it however they liked. The deaths of his heirs as a possible consequence of interpreting it did not escape his attention. Not to mention the times when he would go into the hidden room where the gold was and flip the switch of the bomb to go off if he didn't come up with a good idea by midnight.
• The Patriarch: Of the Ushiromiya family.
• Pen Name: He uses the name "Goldsmith" to sign the grimoires he writes.
• Pet the Dog:
  • The scene in the first arc where he tells Natsuhi that even though she isn't qualified to wear the family crest on her clothes, that it's in her heart and to not listen to the family members who would mock her. Subverted, as he was actually dead and Natsuhi was just being delusional.
  • His behaviour towards Lion in EP7 could also count towards this. However, this is because Lion is actually his and Beatrice Ushiromiya's child, and thus he's trying to atone for his sins by ensuring Lion succeeds him.
  • Also according to Kanon in EP6, when Kinzo was away from the family members and he was alone with Kanon, he would reveal a soft side toward Kanon and even was the person that taught him how to fire a gun. Again, this is because Kanon's true identity is Sayo Yasuda, Lion's Alternate Self and thus Kinzo's child.
  • Although he doesn't show to even care a little for his children and grandchildren born from his marriage, Ange was apparently the only exception to this. As seen in the Episode 8 manga, she was the only one aside from Beatrice and Sayo that Kinzo is seen smiling at, after seeing her crawl as a baby. He even gave her a gift, which despite it's odd taste is still a gift for her.
  • In EP8 he throws himself to the Demon Goats to protect Natsuhi in the Battle of the Golden Land, acting the father-figure she delusioned in EP5.
  • He's the most valiant in saving Ange as well, seeing her as the last hope of the Ushiromiya from his actions.
• Phrase Catcher: "I wouldn't put it past father/grandfather." Whenever they talk about him doing something awesome.
• Pragmatic Hero: It's possible to interpret his actions on the military base in the manga as this. Kinzo could have orchestrated the deaths of both his and the Italian units not out of a budding madness, but because he predicted that revealing the gold would turn everyone against each other anyway, and so chose to ruthlessly manipulate how things went in order to ensure that he and Beatrice made it out alive.
• Puppet King: He was dragged from the Ushiromiya branch family into leadership after most of the main line died in an earthquake. Before building his home on Rokkenjima, he was the head of the family in name only. Everything in his life, including his wife, was decided by the elders.
• Race Against the Clock: Rokkenjima had 900 tons of explosives set up as a last-ditch effort to keep the gold out of enemy hands. Kinzo had them all set up to a mechanism in the Golden Room's clock so they would blow up at midnight if the switch was on. Kinzo would frequently collect his thoughts in front of the active device, ready to lose everything if he didn't come up with an idea. The device ends up becoming a major part of Sayo's massacre plot.
• Rambling Old Man Monologue: Usually begins with OOOOOH BEATORIIICHEEE!! WHY DID YOU ABANDON ME!! and continues from there for a few minutes. Every day. You have to feel sorry for Genji. It's at least partly due to in-universe Flanderization.
• Reincarnation Romance: He wanted to believe he had this with Beatrice Ushiromiya, his daughter because she looked so much like her mother Beatrice Castiglioni.
• Sanity Slippage: By Genji's own words, after he lost his beloved Beatrice. Although going by the manga's interpretation he wasn't exactly the sanest man around, even before that.
• Self-Made Man: He was tasked with reviving the Ushiromiya prestige which was toppled in the great Kanto quake. He did it, to the surprise of everybody.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Kinzo is revealed to be particularly fussy about his clothes in Twilight.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Beatrice-sexual. He even obsesses over her daughter because he believed she carried the soul of his beloved Beatrice Castiglioni.
• Skyward Scream: "BEATORIICHEEEEEEE!!!!!!"
• Spirit Advisor: He serves as this for Natsuhi within her delusions, along with Beatrice.
• Springtime for Hitler: He enlisted in the army because he wanted to be killed on the front. But because he had some experience with construction, the higher-ups sent him to a secret base on an isolated island where no deadly battle was ever likely to occur. It ends pretty well for him though; well, apart from the whole "massacre over 10 tons of gold" thing.
• Straw Misogynist: In EP3, we're shown Kinzo saw Eva's ambition and headstrongness as disgraceful traits for a woman because all he ever expected from her was to become a submissive housewife.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Genji once said that Battler resembles Kinzo in his youth. EP7 reveals that the young adult Kinzo, aside from his hair always having been white, was indeed basically identical to Battler, right down to their voices.
• Summon Magic: The TIPS say that this is his specialty. It's probably a reference to how he managed to "summon" Sayo Yasuda/Lion Ushiromiya with the epitaph, despite the low odds.
• Sympathetic Adulterer: Kinzo was clearly more in love with Beatrice Castiglioni than the woman his family had made him marry, especially since it's shown that before he met Beatrice he was very unhappy with his life and felt detached from his wife and children as a result.
• Took a Level in Kindness: The Doting Grandparent version of Kinzo in EP8 is a far cry from the ill-tempered man who neglected and abused his own family. Even when not playing a role in Battler's game for Ange, Kinzo does express remorse about how he messed up his children's lives, especially Sayo's.
• Trademark Favorite Food: In-Universe, he's known for loving areca nuts which is a hint that the "beloved hometown" mentioned in the epitaph is Taiwan. When it comes to drinks, he seems rather fond of absinthe, a drink (erroneously) attributed to cause delusions.
• Troubled Abuser: Kinzo was manipulated as the heir to the Ushiromiya family, made to marry a woman he didn't love, sent himself off to World War II while hoping he'd be killed on the front so his misery would end and finally met his true love, Beatrice Castiglioni, only to have her and later their daughter both die. He winds up half-insane, is abusive to most of his children and has a child with his illegitimate daughter, Beatrice Ushiromiya, through rape.
• Unexpected Successor: He was actually from a branch family of the main Ushiromiya line that had very little influence, but after an earthquake that killed most of the family members, the title of family head was forced onto him.
• Unreliable Narrator: A late scene in EP7 implies that Kinzo was the one to suggest that the Japanese steal the Italian gold, a Call-Back to scenes in EP 4 where Gaap says he chose to let everyone other than himself and his loved one die. Nowhere does this show up in Kinzo's self-narrated flashback, and the very context behind the scene casts doubt on it since it's part of a Mind Rape done on Ange. The manga, however, claims that this indeed happened.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: As shown in his introduction as a young man to Lion and Will, he recounts his happy childhood in Taiwan before being summoned to Japan as a new Ushiromiya Family Head against his will to foster children he never wanted in an arranged marriage. Depressed, he enlisted himself during World War II to end his own life, but then he met Beatrice Castiglioni. She was a new purpose for him to live on as they fell in love after they survived the massacre between his men and the Italians. He then helped her hid away from his family members until Bice died of childbirth which made him go off the end as he watched his illegitimate daughter grew up to resemble her mother and raped her against her will. However in the manga, by the time he met Beatrice he was already a reprehensible person who instigated the massacre so he could have Beatrice and the gold ingots for himself after his illegitimate grandaughter and also his daughter, Sayo discovered the corpses of his fellow soldiers and the Italians.
• Weak, but Skilled: Is stated to have utterly no talent in magic whatsoever. However, through absurd amounts of hard work he managed to become a master summoner. The tips describe him as a magician who can't even cast a spell to heat water, yet can summon a demon that can boil away an ocean. This could be foreshadowing for how his "summoning" of Beatrice (that is, his wild gamble to find his lost child, Sayo, who he made to dress up as Beatrice for him when they finally met) succeeded. This contrasts with his granddaughter Maria, who is Unskilled, but Strong.
• Weredragon: Turns into a big black dragon to face his grandson Battler at the end of the fourth arc. Battler casually gets rid of him by coming to the conclusion that he’s Dead All Along.
• White Hair, Black Heart: He certainly comes across this way now, but in his youth it seemed he was a subversion, being much less of a Jerkass and still having white hair. The manga claims that he was the one who suggested that the Japanese steal the gold from the Italians, playing this straight, while the original visual novel left the authenticity of this fact ambiguous.
• Wife Husbandry: He raised his illegitimate daughter, Beatrice II, to be a replacement for his lover and her mother Beatrice Castiglioni as she grew up to resemble her mother more. Unfortunately for him, she couldn't understand or return his feelings. Things turned out horribly wrong for both of them as a result.
• Yandere: His obsession with Beatrice Castiglioni seriously makes him go over the edge. In the manga, he started the massacre in the military base, which is very easy to interpret as his attempt to "have Beatrice all for himself". This all comes to a head when he rapes his own daughter Beatrice II because she was identical to her mother, a sin that torments him for the rest of his life, to the point that the entire epitaph puzzle was a gambit to find their child and beg them for forgiveness.

Krauss Ushiromiya

Voiced by: Jurota Kosugi (JP)

"Don't you think education for women is like sugar in black tea? When there is none it's just tasteless, but too much of it ruins the tea."

First successor to Kinzo's fortune, father of Jessica, and husband of Natsuhi. He has poor intuition for investment, and so has squandered a lot of the Ushiromiya family's wealth on failed projects. He is largely resented by his siblings for being very manipulative.

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• Action Dad: In fantasy sequences. It is also known that he practiced boxing from a young age and that he passed this passion on to his daughter Jessica.
• Always Second Best: This is one of the main reasons behind his deep resentment towards Eva, who always aimed to outshine him in order to usurp his position as Kinzo's heir.
• Big Brother Bully: Krauss admits he was a very cruel older brother to his three younger siblings, mainly because of Kinzō being their father and Krauss suffering from an Inferiority Superiority Complex due to being all too aware of his inadequacies as the heir of the family. Flashbacks show how he used to talk down to Eva about how her intelligence and ambition were "unbecoming" of a woman and her hopes of replacing him as the heir were worthless because he's both a man and the eldest child. Rosa also has traumatic memories of being abused by Krauss both emotionally and physically.
• Big Brother Instinct: Although he tormented and mistreated his younger siblings during their childhood and has no qualms about hiding their father's death to monopolize the inheritance to the detriment of their families, Krauss ultimately feels both affection and remorse for them and, if possible, he will not hesitate to take an interest in their safety and health (as shown in Episode 4 in which his first thought while he was blocked by Chiester 00, after several murders, is to tell to Rosa to run away and save herself).
• Bound and Gagged: Apparently done to him in the fifth arc (well, bound, anyway), as part of a ploy to frame Natsuhi for the murders that occur.
• Disappointing Older Sibling: To say that his younger siblings (Eva in particular) are very bitter and resentful towards him for how he treated them in their childhood and teen years and for how he still refuses to giving them their legitimate share of inheritance is very reductive.
• The Dutiful Son: He and his family are the ones who stay on Rokkenjima and look after Kinzo, since he's first in line to the headship.
• Expository Pronoun: Since he was a teenager, Krauss opted to switch from the casual pronoun "Ore" to the formal pronoun "Watashi" because that's what the family head is expected to do. Eva even called him out on this, claiming he was throwing his position as the firstborn in her face.
• Genius Ditz: While certainly not a genius, he is is frequently shown to be very perceptive. This becomes apparent as early as Episode 2, when he is able to notice small changes in Shannon's mood and behavior. Apparently, he can also tell when Natsuhi is experiencing headaches by the way she wrinkles her forehead.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Even after he gets swindled, he's still singing the praises of a few of the swindlers.
• I Know Karate: He knows boxing. And he can down a goat-monster twice his size if he raises enough loser flags. He sends Erika flying too in EP8 in the Battle of the Gold Land with his boxing skills.
• Inadequate Inheritor: And he's all too aware of it, which puts a huge amount of pressure on him. His arrogant attitude mostly comes from this.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: He knows full well that he's not the best person to be head of the family, but he deals with this by acting arrogant and lording it over his siblings.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In Episode 5, he offered to divorce Natsuhi so that she and Jessica wouldn't have to suffer from the fall of the Ushiromiya family.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Introduced as not much more than a manipulative jerk to his siblings as well as being sexist towards his wife and sisters, but in arcs three and four, he shows a much softer side with a Pet the Dog moment or two. For all the sexist attitude he can show when he's upset, he really does care about his family.
• Kick the Dog: Probably only surpassed by Eva in this, but Krauss has no qualms about repeatedly attacking his siblings and injuring them in their weak points during family conferences. This even extends to making fun of Maria's dreams and faith on witches so he can hit Rosa.
• Look Behind You: In Twilight of the Golden Witch, he pulls this on Erika Furudo, of all people, by tricking her into thinking that their shoes are untied. When she looks down to check, what she see instead is Krauss's fist approaching her face.
• Manipulative Bastard: He shows this very effectively in the first arc, where he successfully turns the tables around in his negotiation with the other parents. However, later arcs show that he isn't quite so smart in other areas.
• Perfectly Arranged Marriage: He and Natsuhi were forced to get married as a reconciliation of her family's debts to Kinzo. They have their problems, but they really love each other.
• Pet the Dog: In episode 17 of the anime he laments that due to being Kinzo's successor he was never as nice to his siblings (especially Eva) as he should have been. Cue Eva-Beatrice strangling him and Natsuhi. Despite his sexist attitude towards Natsuhi, later arcs also show him displaying a softer side towards her.
• Punched Across the Room: In the fourth arc Krauss literally punches a goat man so hard it ends up falling right on top of Virgilia.
• Sibling Team: He and Rosa are the only ones who manage not only to corner Erika but also actually hurt her by taking her by surprise.
• Sleeping Single: He and Natsuhi are shown to sleep in separate rooms.
• Stay in the Kitchen: Alienated Eva and Rosa with sexism when they were younger and he was competing with Eva over the headship qualifications. Much later, he refuses to let Natsuhi have anything to do with the family funds until it's too late to get out of the hole he dug himself into—very unfortunately for him, as she's got all the common sense.
• Straw Misogynist: He's at least partly aware he's exploiting this because of his Inferiority Superiority Complex, and that Eva would actually be a better family head than him.
• Token Good Teammate: At the conclusion of the VN, Krauss turns out to be this of all parents, guests and servants (yes also compared to Hideyoshi) as he is the only member who, despite not being a perfect example of morality (having indulged Natsuhi in covering up of Kinzo's death), has never committed drastic actions such as betraying and letting the rest of the other humans on Rokkenjima die or killing them himself for take all the share of his' father legacy.
• Upper-Class Twit: He's obnoxious and lacks any business sense whatsoever. A big hint towards his complete lack of business foresight appears early in EP1 when Krauss remarks that Japan will become the economic center of the world. Unfortunately for him, the collapse of the Japanese asset price bubble would have likely completely wiped him out only four or five years later.
• Verbal Tic: In Japanese, he seems to punctuate every question with "ka ne?"
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Gotta feel sorry for the poor idiot to some extent. Although he was the heir apparent, Kinzo never really had any faith in him (for good reason) to begin with, and so he was struggling for Kinzo's approval just like Eva. The only difference is that Eva actually deserved it.

Eva Ushiromiya

Voiced by: Miki Itō (JP), Cynthia Cranz (EN)

Second in the line of inheritance and George's mother. She has a lot of resentment against her older brother, Krauss, and has a rivalry with his wife, Natsuhi. She is also the wife of Hideyoshi. In order to keep her placement in the line of successors, she married Hideyoshi and had him adopt the name of "Ushiromiya".

In the meta-world, Eva-Beatrice is the manifestation of all the theories which place her as the culprit of the Rokkenjima incident. In Arc 3, it is revealed that in the Bad Future Ange comes from, Eva survives the Rokkenjima incident and becomes Ange's caretaker while becoming the head of the Ushiromiya corporate.

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• Abusive Parent: She eventually became one to Ange when she became her legal guardian. When she found herself raising Ange alone, Eva tried to be a nice mother to the child, but Ange's complete rejection made them hate each other. It's implied in the VN, and made evident in some flashbacks of the manga, that Eva often mistreated her niece for no reason. Apparently Eva did "something" to Ange as a punishment for trying to escape her household: "something" that gives Ange panic attacks even to this day. That said, she may have been deliberately trying to provoke her niece's hatred so she would have a reason to keep living after her family died. When she found out the truth of what happened, Ange commited suicide..
• Accidental Murder:
  • The manga of EP7 brings up this as a possible explanation for Rosa's murder in EP3. The panel shown when Will is solving the mysteries implies Eva and Rosa got into a heated argument over the gold, causing Eva to push Rosa in a fit of anger, with the result being the latter fell on the railing of the garden and got stabbed through the throat. Maria's death wasn't an accident, though. In a panic at killing her sister, Eva strangled Maria to shut her up and get rid of the witness.
  • Of Natsuhi in EP7 Tea Party, which is what happened in the real world. Natsuhi impulsively jumped at Eva while she was carring a gun, which caused an accidental discharge that killed Natsuhi.
• Altar the Speed: After Eva noticed that Kinzo was upset that Natsuhi and Krauss were having trouble having a child, she decided to convince Hideyoshi to marry her quickly so that they could have a child who could be usurp the place that Jessica would eventually have in the succession. Hideyoshi, who had already lost his relatives and was eager to start a family of his own, agreed. Despite Eva's motives, the two are quite Happily Married.
• Ambition Is Evil: Played with; young Eva's desire to become the new family head is portrayed as a good thing, since she actually is the most talented and dedicated of Kinzo's children for the family business. When Kinzo and Krauss constantly deny her the position because of sexist reasons, though, she isn't able to let it go and lets ambition and bitterness poison the rest of her life.
• Anti-Hero: Turns out she was one the whole time. While she isn't exactly a noble person and she did very questionable things, Eva was the one who stopped and killed the real culprits in the real life massacre, and she made herself into a Silent Scapegoat to protect Ange from the truth.
• Appeal to Force: In the seventh Tea Party she was the first to pick up one of Kinzo's Winchester rifle, and kept her finger firmly on the trigger (with tragically fatal results for poor Natsuhi).
• The Atoner: In EP8, Eva acknowledges her guilt for the suffering of her niece Ange and openly tries to remedy this with the help of Battler who creates a final game where the family can make good memories with Ange. Eva is assigned as Ange's main helper to make up for her failure at amending their relationship during life.
• Ax-Crazy: The mystery of the Episode 3 murders show her alternative personality Eva-Beatrice in the role of the culprit in the fantasy sequences. The real-world Eva (after finding the gold and confronting Rosa) becomes prey to a frightful murderous rage that drives her to exterminate not only all her siblings but also their spouses and children without remorse. This alternative scenario was the reality in which society and Ange (before she discovered the truth during the seventh arc) had chosen to believe.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Eva wished her entire life to become the family head. In Ange's future, she got her wish after becoming the only known survivor of the Rokkenjima Massacre. However, she lost her beloved husband and son, her only living relative absolutely hates her, and the media never stops harassing her over the events of the massacre. It's no surprise when we see her in her deathbed, Eva has gone insane and decided the best way to make Ange's life hell was to make her the new family head.
• Berserk Button:
  • When Natsuhi scolds her and tries to deny her the right to cross the threshold of the Ushiromiya house, Eva becomes quite vicious.
  • Apparently, the mere fact that Rosa will open her mouth or do anything without being asked by the other adults is a valid reason for Eva to call her stupid and yell at her. And apparently she also applied this attitude towards Ange after the tragedy.
• Berserker Tears: When she confronts Rudolf and Kyrie during the real-life massacre, she has tears streaming down her face the whole time because she's lost her husband and son.
• Big Sister Bully: When she was younger, she was constantly lying to her younger sister and teasing her (to the point that Rosa herself in the Tea Party of EP2 states that Eva even ruined her ninth birthday by constantly emphasizing that she had no friend to invite). Unlike her brothers, who nowadays recognize that they had treated Rosa badly when she was a child and that they should have been kinder, Eva continues teasing, insulting, and attacking Rosa.
• Big Sister Instinct: Despite clarifying and proving several times that she cares only for her immediate family and has no qualms about betraying those of the other siblings, she was deeply scared and disgusted by what her witch counterpart had done to Rosa and Maria and showed genuine concern for her sister in the fantasy scenes. According to the words of Eva-Beatrice herself while torturing Rosa by taking inspiration from certain events and dreams of their childhood, Eva once took care of her sister.
• Blaming the Victim: Eva's way of dealing with her own feelings of guilt after intentionally or unintentionally hurting (or even killing) someone is to blaming said someone.
• Born Lucky: She escaped from Rokkenjima alive after three attempts to shoot her, getting grazed the first time and completely unharmed the next two. That said, she was the only sibling with combat training and took preventative measures to the point she ended up killing the wrong people. She also wasn't happy about it because her husband and son didn't have the same fortune.
• Cain and Abel: As the only survivor and sole inheritor of the Ushiromiya family's fortune, both Ange and society at large chose to believe that she (representing the Cain of the situation) killed her 3 siblings and their families to inherit all the gold of her father and her position as head of the family, giving rise to the Eva Culprit theory seen in EP3. EP7 reveals that in reality she is an almost completely involuntary, tragic Cain by showing her going crazy both from the terror of ending up in jail and from the feelings of guilt after she and Hideyoshi accidentally killed Krauss and Natsushi, then having to kill Rudolf and Kyrie in self-defense after they'd taken the lives of nearly everyone else on the island.
• Catchphrase Insult: "BAKA ROSA!!"
• Chekhov's Skill: Her martial arts prowess is discussed at the beginning of the first novel. A slightly different example in that the callback turns out to be the fact that she taught those skills to George, allowing him to be a Badass Normal in the fourth novel.
• Cool Aunt: She usually jokes around with the children of her siblings (especially Battler).
• Control Freak: Her issues with being oppressed by her father and older brother for her gender made Eva grow up into a controlling woman who dominates her son's life while pushing her own dreams and aspirations on him so he can become the family head just because she was denied the chance.
• Convicted by Public Opinion: In Ange's future, Eva was never found guilty of the Rokkenjima incident due to the lack of evidence. The media, however, would never stop to incriminate her and create conspiracy theories with her as the culprit.
• A Day in the Limelight: The third arc specifically shows her as the main character, and focuses largely on her desperate desire for her father to recognize both her and her son as his true heirs.
• Death by Irony: Sort of. In the Bad Future, she dies from the same illness as Kinzō. On the exact day the Rokkenjima incident happened (October 4). All of the killing actually took place on October 5th.
• Death Glare: She gives one to Natsuhi in EP1 .
• Death Seeker: In 1998, due to the never overcome mourning for the loss of both her son and her husband, the trauma of what happened in Rokkenjima and above all the fact that she lived the last years of her life discredited by the media (which have painted her as nothing more than a greedy psychopathic familicidal killer), despised by almost all of Japan's population (and probably also by the rest of the world), and, in the end, being constantly hated to the depths by Ange, Eva has slowly lost more and more the will to live, consequently contracting the same illness of her father from all the resulting stress and dying old and weak on a hospital bed.
• Despair Event Horizon: After losing her beloved husband and son in Rokkenjima, Eva tried to start a new life with Ange. Unfortunately, Ange rejected her and accused her of being the one who murdered everyone. This, coupled with constant suspicions and harassment from the media and society, made Eva lose all hope for a happy life and her relationship with Ange went downhill from there.
• Destroy the Evidence: Part of the reason she activated the bomb was to get rid of any evidence that would incriminate her, given her Accidental Murder of Natsuhi would have been more difficult to excuse than her murders of Kyrie and Rudolf, which were done in self-defense.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Despite the affection and moral support of Hideyoshi and George, Eva is still very cruel to those who disagree with her or oppose her in any way. It gets worse when she has to take care of Ange, as it is alluded to several times that she used to abuse her niece for illogical or trivial reasons (like spilling water on her and yelling at her in a fancy restaurant only because she didn't handle cutlery well).
• Ditzy Genius: On an academic level she has always proved superior to her siblings in her studies and she is one of only 2 parents (the other is Rosa) who has been able to solve the Epitraph by herself after having carefully consulted some books of the forbidden library of her father. Despite her knowledge and shrewdness it is eventually shown that in other fields, more complex than study and business, Eva doesn't process that the victims of the first twilight in Legend have really died, and tries to throw Natsuhi under suspicion rather than stick to Sayo's scenario, which gets her and Hideyoshi killed. She's not a very good murderer in EP3, either, as Kyrie quickly realizes that she and Hideyoshi have something to do with the deaths of Rosa and Maria. Rokkenjima Prime gives us her absolutely insane plan, born of panic, to detonate the whole island to hide the deaths of Krauss and Natsuhi.
• The Dog Bites Back: Sure Eva, feel free to insult and/or randomly attack Rosa, to subtly criticize Maria's childish behavior and to belittle your sister constantly as a mother. Rosa's too stupid to possibly fight back if an opportunity presents itself.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite suffering well-deserved karmic punishment for how horribly she treated nearly all of her relatives before they died (by dying in a world that hated her to the end and despised from the bottom of heart by her last living relative), Eva achieves this in the eighth arc. Although in the course of the games she was just as mean to all her siblings and their families at least as she was when they were all alive (and even in one of them she even betrayed, tortured and killed them all as Eva-Beatrice), none of them blame her about this, not even Rosa and Natsuhi who were the victims par excellence of Eva's cruel and murderous nature. Indeed they even support her in her attempts to make peace with a 6-year-old Ange during the Halloween party set up for her. Of course, at that point Eva underwent a Took a Level in Kindness and in this arc we discover that the disgustingly violent and sadistic actions of Eva-Beatrice in all her appearances are nothing more than part of Eva's Silent Scapegoat in instilling in her niece's mind the idea that she is really the culprit so as to protect the positive memory that Ange has of Kyrie and Rudolf (the real killers of the family), as well as the general representation of all the theories of all people in the future who really consider her guilty of Rokkenjima tragedy. However as with Kinzo, it is still not easy to digest for some fans to see her interact amicably especially with Krauss, Natsuhi, Rosa and Maria after what both she and her witch counterpart have done to all of them as if none of this has ever happened.
• Education Mama: Tuesday: piano lessons; Wednesday: cram-school; Thursday: supplementary class; Friday: special school for parents and children; Saturday: special tutor. All alongside regular school. It's surprising George didn't imitate Battler. It is highly possible that she was this for Ange too, and that as she turned out to be more rebellious than her son, it turned her into an Abusive Parent.
• Everyone Has Standards: She may be among the most unpleasant and rude characters in the family who is not above committing crimes herself, but the one thing that disgusts her the most about Kyrie, even more than knowing she committed mass murder, is that Kyrie seemingly cares nothing for her own daughter. For all her faults, Eva always put her immediate family first, and the idea that someone wouldn't, even a mass murderer, is unthinkable to her.
• Evil Aunt: Ange sees Eva this way, being convinced that she is the real culprit behind the tragedy of Rokkenjima and the murderer of her real parents. It's subverted particularly in the final two arcs. Eva did kill Rudolf and Kyrie, but they were the ones who decided to murder everyone in the island to run off with the money. Instead of letting Ange know the truth that would have destroyed her, Eva let Ange hate her for the rest of her life. That said, Eva still used Ange to vent her anger over how miserable her life became after the massacre, and in EP8 Eva admits she wasn't a good aunt either.
• Eye Scream: Once in the fourth arc, she (or better said, Ange's perception of Eva) holds Ange at gunpoint. Then, the rifle blows up on her face, and said injuries are so horrible that Ange has to Mercy Kill her.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: One of her gloves is shorter than the other in order to show her One-Winged Eagle tattoo in whole.
• Final Girl: Despite her age Eva is this on a technicallity, considering that she is the only survivor of Rokkenjima and she has faced and killed the real killers. While Battler's body survives, his personality perishes shortly after Sayo's suicide.
• Freudian Excuse: As Kinzo and Krauss both derided her academic efforts, even preventing her from aspiring to the position of head of the family because she's a woman, Eva try to overcompensate by being more competitive in her academics to prove she was worthy of being a leader of the Ushiromiya family, and ended up pushing her dreams onto her son George, since she wasn't able to lead.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: It is slightly evident from how she behaves during family conferences that, although none of them are on good terms with each other and the ones who all the rest of the adult group are opposing are mainly Krauss and Natsuhi, it is Eva herself turn out to be this trope as she is the most openly caustic member of the adults.
• Go-Getter Girl: When she was younger, Eva always tried and excelled at everything in order to prove herself and surpass her brother Krauss. Then her father told her she could never become family head because she was a woman. Things got worse from there...
• Good All Along: In the future, Eva was incriminated by society as a mass-murdering monster that killed her own relatives to have the fortune all to herself. Even her niece believed that to be the truth. Despite her desire for revenge and the bad relationship she has with Krauss and Rosa, Eva is not so bad, crazy and heartless to want to kill them just for money and business. In Prime, it was Rudolf and Kyrie who killed the entire family out of greed. After seeing Hideyoshi's corpse and discovering the death of her son at the hands of her brother, Eva killed Rudolf and Kyrie for both revenge and self-defense. After that, she hid the truth for the rest of her life in order to protect Ange from the knowledge of how monstrous her parents really were.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: In almost all episodes, Eva shows a highly susceptible personality and explodes on more than one occasion into harsh verbal attacks, even without anyone actually doing something to provoke her. According to her husband, she is much kinder at home, and that this behavior is due to the stress of the family conference. In adaptations of Alliance, Eva's harsh temper is one of many reasons she and Ange don't get along.
• Happily Married: Even though their marriage was primarily for business, she genuinely loves her husband and has the most stable relationship with her spouse among her siblings.
• Hate Sink: Let's say that Eva stands out in particular for being the character who not most inspires sympathy and understanding in the group of parents on the island, mainly thanks to her subtly rude, openly offensive and provocative behavior towards anyone who is not called George or Hideyoshi.
• Hidden Depths: According to Hideyoshi, she is a nicer and much more pleasent person outside of the family meetings. She's a skilled cook who's popular in the neighborhood, revealed in the Tsubasa Chronicles.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: After she survived the island's explosion, when she gained Ange's custody as her legal guardian, she was abusive. While not excusable, it's understandable as she was trying to navigate her own immense grief after George and Hideyoshi's deaths, while also trying to raise her niece in her son's place. These things, combined with Ange's resistance to what little kindness Eva did show, as well as her persistence to learn about the truth of the incident, deteriorated their relationship up until Eva's death. But in EP7 and EP8, it's revealed that she refused to tell Ange the truth so that she wouldn't discover that Rudolf and Kyrie were responsible for the Rokkenjima massacre.
• Hypocrite: In the Tea Party of Episode 7, she bawls against Rosa's corpse, stating that she has sought and deserved the death she had for her having become so greedy. Shortly afterwards, she's completely enthusiastic about the idea of inheriting an even larger slice of Kinzo's gold thanks to her sister's death.
• Incurable Cough of Death: In the Bad Future Ange comes from. Oddly, you see the scene in which she's implied to have died, but the actual cause of death stated in the TIPS is heart failure. Huh. That must have been some cough.
• Insufferable Genius: Ever since she was born, she has always convinced herself (via Eva-Beatrice according Episode 3) that she is the most brilliant of patriarch's children, and she often belittles and denigrates her siblings (but especially Rosa) in the intellectual field. While it is true that she is a woman with vast abilities who achieved remarkable academic results in her youth, it is also true that more often than not, in the course of the games she makes many errors and logical mistakes that have led her to catastrophic results.
• It's All About Me: Her bitterness comes across as this. While she suffered sure, so did everyone else. It doesn't help that she objectively has both the best family and financial situation and is thus the only member of the family who could afford to step away if she really wanted to. Not to mention that when she finds the gold in Episode 3, she admits that she is enthusiastic that her siblings' families will disappear and be ruined while hers will flourish, even though she was the only member of the family who didn't need the money.
• Jerkass to One: Inverted. She is a bitch to everyone except her husband and son.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She is one of the the most verbally cruel of the siblings, comparable only to Krauss. She is aware on some level that her behavior towards them is wrong, but she simply cannot hold back from being a shitty person. However, her worst personality traits apparently only come out when she's around her relatives in Rokkenjima because of her deep resentment towards her abusive upbringing there, and Hideyoshi says Eva is a nice wife at home.She does love her husband and George despite all the pressure she puts in the latter.
• Kick Chick: At the start of EP1, Battler reveals that Eva is a black belt in various martial arts such as Kung Fu, Karate and Capoeira and has a preference for kicks in her combat style. She throws a high kick in front of Rudolf's nose to intimidate him (in the manga, this happens later - she does it to Natsuhi to drive home that she can defend herself from a murderer). She also trained George in martial arts from an early age, and he fights the same way.
• Kick the Dog: She does it habitually with anyone other than her husband or son, but obviously shows a certain preference for throwing harsh words at Rosa.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Eva spends a lot of time kicking other people when they're already down. There's something karmic about her dying slowly and painfully on a hospital bed, having spent her last years being abused and despised by both her niece and society at large.
• Lineage Comes from the Father: All of Kinzo's blood relatives wear a garment on which the golden Ushiromiya one-winged eagle is embroidered, but Eva's qipao is entirely decorated with said symbol, as well as a tattoo on her arm. It symbolizes both her pride in the family name and her desperate desire to be in charge of it all.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: After her Accidental Murder of Natsuhi in the real world, Eva decided to blow up the island and pass it all off as an accident. The other siblings didn't want to cooperate, but after Rudolf and Kyrie killed everyone else and Eva killed them, Eva activated the bomb to blow it all away.
• Mama Bear: In the seventh Tea Party, after awakening from Kyrie's shot (thanks to the fact that the bullet "miraculously" only scratched her head) and mourning the death of her husband, her next reaction is to take the shotgun and go and rescue George and the other cousins from the murderous fury of her brother and sister-in-law. Unfortunately for her, she learns too late that Rudolf has already killed her son while Kyrie has done the same to Jessica and Maria, along with Nanjo and all of her servants. After the massacre, she develops a sense of protection towards her niece Ange after she becomes her legal guardian, despite their abusive relationship.
• Manipulative Bitch: As a young woman, Eva took a sadistic pleasure in constantly lying to Rosa and playing cruel tricks on her that got her into trouble, to the point where Rosa, on her ninth birthday, wished to bite off Eva's tongue (and Beatrice, with the excuse of wanting to satisfy Rosa's childhood dreams and desires of revenge against her horrible older siblings in the second Tea Party, decides to fulfill this dream in a particularly awful way).
• Mark of the Supernatural: Like for her niece Maria, her eyes in the anime and in the versions on PS3 are violet as Foreshadowing for the birth of her witch version, Eva-Beatrice.
• Meaningful Name: The name Eva in Hebrew means both "life" and "living". Appropriate enough when it turns out that she was the only one who managed to survive the tragedy.
• Misplaced Retribution: Eva abused Ange, even telling her that she wishes that her niece had died in place of her only son George, because Eva comprehensibly resents the fact that the girl's parents, Rudolf and Kyrie, have killed her family. That said, iit might have been so Ange would have someone to hate and thus a purpose to live.
• My Beloved Smother: Because she was unable to get from her father what she wanted as a young girl, Eva quickly married Hideyoshi, gave birth to George, then became an extremely demanding and omnipresent mother in her son's life over the years, forcing him into intensive study and all kinds of extracurricular activities rather than letting him have fun and socialize with his peers for the sole purpose of making him a much more worthy heir than Jessica in the eyes of her father. She even goes so far as to plan George's married life.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • After dreaming of Eva-Beatrice sadistically torturing her sister Rosa and finally killing both her and Maria but above all after hearing her admit that she also killed Hideyoshi, Eva decides to deny her as part of her but Eva-Beatrice cruelly lets her know that by doing so she is practically admitting that she was the one who killed them. The result after their latest confrontation is an broken Eva full of remorse and self-hatred who blames herself for all the deaths that have occurred since she found the gold. Considering she was indeed the second culprit in the third arc (and Eva-Beatrice actually serves as a metaphor for her inner feelings and thoughts), it's not difficult to interpret this scene as her own feelings of guilt for her actions.
  • From the very beginning of the eighth game, Eva realizes from the very beginning all the hurt and pain that the numerous and repeated abuses of her have caused to her niece and she spends the whole game trying to be constantly kind, patient, understanding and accommodating to a six-year-old Ange.
• My Greatest Failure: In Episode 8, we get to see Eva deeply regretting her failure to become a good mother to Ange. After Ange rejected her, Eva just gave up on repairing their relationship, which only lead to both of them becoming even more miserable.
• Never My Fault: Except for her feelings of guilt over how harshly she treated Ange in the eighth arc and how she conceived and exploited George as an instrument of revenge against Krauss and his daughter, Eva is very inclined to justify herself and wash her hands from the rest of her relatives, even though they suffered just ass much or more than she did. For example, her bad behavior, her verbal and psychological abuse towards Rosa and Natsuhi, the mobbing she implements against Shannon and much more, but this also extends as regards to the murders [[spoiler:given that, in panic, she immediately blames Natsuhi for having come closer on her in the heated argument over the gold, causing her to shoot her by mistake with the rifle in her hand.
• Not Quite Dead: After Kyrie shoots her TWICE in Requiem's Tea Party.
• "Not So Different" Remark: In EP7's Tea Party, Eva accuses Rosa of planning to send her to jail only to run away with her share of Sayo's money, just like how Maria's father abandoned Rosa after getting her into debt. Rosa doesn't react at all very well to being compared unfavorably with her old boyfriend and proceeds to punt against Eva her rifle with murderous intent (just few seconds before Kyrie decides to take matters into her own hands).
• Obnoxious In-Laws: With Natsuhi, her sister-in-law. If there's one thing all Episodes are consistent about, it's that Eva and Natsuhi absolutely despise each other. The one area where they're on the same page is objecting to their children's relationship with servants.
• Offing the Offspring: The fan of Rokkenjima tragedy's insinuations and theories, as well as both media slanders and the publication of the first book of Ikuko's fan fictions series, Banquet of The Golden Witch, have no qualms in suggesting that Eva would be able to do this on her own beloved and only son George.
• Older Than She Looks: You wouldn't believe it at a glance bu she's actually 50 and yet she doesn't look a day over 30. Probably doesn't hurt that she's mastered numerous martial arts in her youth and kept her figure extremely fit.
• Outliving One's Offspring: In the future, Eva is the Sole Survivor of the Rokkenjima Massacre with one of the many victims being her only son George.
• The Paranoiac: It is reiterated many times that after the massacre Eva became completely unable to trust anyone. Both the constant slander she suffered by the media and the public after the Rokkenjima Accident and her own ruthless tactics in business contributed to this.
• Parental Marriage Veto: Eva disapproves of George falling in love with Shannon because she believes a mere maid doesn't have the social standing to marry her son, and makes that very clear. In Episode 6, George calls her on it. The resulting argument has her causing a major case of My Beloved Smother before finally transforming into Eva-Beatrice and trying to beat him into submission with magic. Cue Kung-Fu Wizard smackdown.
• Parental Substitute: After the island explosion and the deaths of all their relatives and families, Eva tries to become this for Ange.
• Passive-Aggressive Kombat: Verbally aggressive even in good-natured teasing, a little rougher on her thick-skinned siblings, but downright bloodthirsty with Natsuhi.
• Pet the Dog: She genuinely seems to love her husband Hideyoshi, and gets a touching scene with him in episode 3 of the anime. They find her and Hideyoshi's bodies approximately 90 seconds later. Also, despite (and because of) what you'll hear about Eva-Beatrice, the third arc serves as a giant Pet the Dog moment for Eva. At least until she turns out to be the culprit, even though it also may have been just the "theory she was the murderer" or something.
• Pyrrhic Victory: In Episode 3 and Prime, Eva attains the hidden gold of Kinzo and headship of the Ushiromiya family, something she had always wished for her entire life, on top of being the (seemingly) sole survivor of the massacre. In return, she loses her entire family, the one thing she treasures most. In Prime, she spends the rest of her life hated and miserable.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: In an unusually tragicomic way, she gives it to Eva-Beatrice of all people.
  • She delivers one to Natsuhi in Episode 1 about the latter's rank in the Ushiromiya family. It was so ferocious that it drove Natsuhi to tears.
• Replacement Goldfish: One of the many reasons why her relationship with Ange has worsened over the years is due to the fact that Eva has actively tried to raise her as George was raised and when she failed, she vented on the poor girl through physical and emotional abuse.
• The Resenter: Between her and her younger siblings, Eva is the one most unable to contain her anger at Krauss for how he treated her when they were young and is the most likely to show her discontent with her family position the most, cruelly venting on Natsuhi (as Krauss's wife), Rosa (as the youngest of the Ushiromiya siblings), Jessica (as Krauss's daughter) and Shannon (as an obstacle to the marriage plans she arranged for George).
• Resentful Guardian: As Ange's caretaker, Eva made no secret of the fact that she wished Ange was the one who died instead of her own son George, who had been killed in Rokkenjima. The fact that Ange was the daughter of those who directly killed Eva's family probably didn't help matters. It gets complicated since turns out Eva always still cared for Ange to some extent and was protecting Ange from the Awful Truth of Rokkenjima by deliberately directing all of Ange's hate on herself.
• Rich Bitch: She acts equivalent to the trope, but usually over position in the hierarchy, rather than actual money, since everyone's filthy rich.
• Sanity Slippage: In any game where Hideyoshi dies before Eva, she slips quickly. It also happens in her future with Ange, which she spends being costantly blamed by the whole world both for her business tactics and for the deaths of her family in the Rokkenjima tragedy. Combined with her own grief over the loss of George and Hideyoshi, Eva essentially becomes another Kinzo.
• Silent Scapegoat: She chose to have Ange hate her forever rather than tell her the truth about what really happened on the island, which she feared would be too much for her. In the manga, she admits her motivations for hiding the truth weren't completely for Ange's sake, but for self-preservation too because she wasn't completely innocent in the massacre. Still, she always did want to protect Ange and the latter thanks her for it after learning the truth.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Her husband is one of the few real Nice Guys in the series. She loves him very deeply and is usually at her best mood when he's around.
• Smug Snake: We could practically define it the basis of her personality, Eva loves to provoke people, and constantly makes fun of and underestimates Krauss, Rosa and Natsuhi, as well as openly showing an enmity in general towards every person who she doesn't particularly like (such as Shannon).
• Sole Survivor: In the world of 1998, she is believed to be the only survivor of the Rokkenjima Incident. This is not a good thing, for her, or for Ange, the only other living Ushiromiya.
• Spanner in the Works: Of all the characters in the series, Eva is probably the living embodiment of this trope:
  • Episode 1. While she gave Battler useful advice in accordance with the "scenario", she also did everything she could to make Natsuhi spit out that Kinzō was Dead All Along, which could have ruined Sayo's plan. Surely enough, she and her husband were disposed of right after that scene.
  • In Episode 3, she becomes this for Sayo when she takes on the role of the second killer. or at least the theories surrounding her do.
  • By secretly jamming a folded up receipt in the door crack of Kinzo's study and turning it into a Locked Room Mystery, she makes things very complicated for everyone trying to conceal Kinzo's death, not just Natsuhi and Krauss.
  • Finally there is the Tea Party of Episode 7, which shows her as a Tragic Heroine who survives 2 gunshots in the head from pure luck, and kills Rudolf and Kyrie after they have killed nearly everyone else on the island for possession of Kinzo's hidden gold.
• Split Personality: Though similarly to Sayo, this is symbolic of her internal conflict rather than an actual split. That or she's the embodiment of the theories surrounding her.
• Speak Ill of the Dead: She frequently disparaged Ange's parents for not raising her properly whenever Ange's etiquette didn't meet her standards, which only gave Ange more reason to hate her. Turns out she was justified in badmouthing Rudolf and Kyrie.
• Stay in the Kitchen: How she was treated by her father and brothers in her childhood.
• Stealth Insult: Notably in the early arcs, her favorite targets being Natsuhi and Rosa.
  Eva: It's so nice for a child to have dreams! By the way Rosa, how old is Maria this year, again? ^__^ ^{The Insult...} Maria is 9 years old, but acts far younger, and Eva knows this is something Rosa struggles with. In addition, when Rosa's 9th Birthday was coming up, Eva tormented her by saying that nobody was going to come to her party, spoiling her whole day.
  Eva: Oh, but this [Jessica's "unladylike" way of speaking] is charming in itself, don't you think? Times change. The times when we had to feign purity in order for a man to allow us to eat ended a long time ago.
  Jessica: Yes, yes! I knew you'd understand, Auntie Eva! Eheheheh!
• Supreme Chef: It's only very briefly mentioned in the story, but according to a TIP she is very skilled and creative when it comes to cooking, to the point Hideyoshi calls her a "Witch of the kitchen".
• Talking to Themself: With Eva-Beatrice in EP3, since Eva-Beatrice is essentially an imagined younger version of herself.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: In the world of 1998, Eva suffered from the constant accusations and harassment from society that made her out as the culprit of the Rokkenjima massacre and created a bad image of her and her family. Eventually, Eva finally broke down and started to become the monster everyone expected her to be.
• Too Dumb to Live: She and her husband often end up falling into this category when they don't play the part of the killers in the various arcs; in particular in EP1 in which Eva not only continues to believe that the deaths have actually been falsified, but also ends up putting herself in the center of Sayo's crosshair when she decides to try to frame Natsuhi for the murders, and also tries to force her to reveal the truth about Kinzo.
• Too Much Alike: It's sort of sad that Eva and Natsuhi are constantly at each other's throats, since they actually share a lot of issues. Both are very prideful and strict women who wanted Kinzō's approval, but never got it just because of their gender and now end up taking their frustrations out on those around them. Needless to say, their similar confrontational attitudes and emotional scars make them like oil and water.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Eva in EP8 is much more kind, empathetic and polite towards everyone in order to keep a positive memory of the whole family alive in Ange's mind.
• Tragic Heroine: Her actions during and after the real-world massacre can be seen as an example of this. Eva was the one who stopped and killed the real culprits, Rudolf and Kyrie. Sadly, they killed her husband and she was too late to save her son. After that, Eva hides the truth for the sake of self-conservation and to protect Ange. As a result, Eva is rejected and despised by her only living relative and spends the rest of her life being constantly accused and harassed by the media.
• Trauma Conga Line: Expected when George or Hideyoshi are found dead and she is still alive. Not to mention the direction her life took after returning from Rokkenjima as the only survivor.
• Troubled Abuser:
  • After surviving the Rokkenjima Incident, Eva initially tried to be a good guardian to Ange. However, things broke down, with Ange acting essentially as a little girl in her situation would. Being hated and rejected by her only living relative, Eva lost herself in her despair and things went downhill from there. Driven mad by grief for her son and husband and the constant harassment from the media, Eva became neglectful as well as emotionally and (it is implied) physically abusive to Ange.
  • She is also used to teasing, verbally abusing and, sometimes, even trying to psychologically subjugate her younger sister Rosa and her sister-in-law Natsuhi whenever she gets the chance as a way to vent her constant discontent due to frequent fights with Krauss and Kinzo's abuse.
• Unexpected Successor: Third arc. Although she's not actually that far down the chain, there was no reason to expect Krauss to pass away, and after he does, the hope would be that Jessica's husband could succeed after him. In addition, Eva has the Heir Club for Men baggage to deal with.
• Ungrateful Bitch: Loyal to her inflated ego, Eva in the third game is so thrilled to have found the gold room before everyone else that she can't help but exclaim ecstatic at the real possibility of seeing her offspring inherit the Ushiromiya leadership while her siblings' families will be financially destroyed and disappear into oblivion, forgetting that if she managed to solve the epigraph she owes it in part to Rosa and Kyrie too (with the first who soon afterwards discovers the room in turn, even if only slightly more late than her sister).
• Unstoppable Rage: In EP5, when Natsuhi is declared the culprit; after the trial, Eva loses it in the real world and begins to beat her up in a fit of rage. Not that anyone tries to stop her, besides Battler.
• Vicariously Ambitious: Since Eva can't become the Ushiromiya family head because she's a woman, she has groomed her son into a potential heir in hopes Kinzo will chose him, taking advantage that Eva's older brother Krauss has an only daughter.
• Villain Protagonist: EP3 can basically be summed up as the story of Eva finally fulfilling her desire of becoming the family head. She quickly becomes willing to kill to keep all her father's legacy and wealth to herself, her husband and her son. Though it wasn't really her.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Most of her issues come from her need to prove herself to Kinzo, who wouldn't acknowledge her talents when she was young because of his view that women should Stay in the Kitchen.
• You Monster!: She called Kyrie a monster before shooting her dead in the real world.

Rudolf Ushiromiya

Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama (JP)

"Kids nowadays can't understand the beauty of a lever-action."

Husband of Kyrie and father of Battler and Ange, Rudolf is third in the line of succession. He's an admitted philanderer. His relationship with Battler has been strained since his first wife, Asumu's, death, due to his quick remarriage to Kyrie.

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• Action Dad: In fantasy sequences, thanks to his passion for western movies, he is one of the most skilled characters in handling firearms. He's also Ange's and Battler's father.
• Apologetic Attacker: In EP7, he apologises to George as he shoots him, admitting that he's a scumbag who'd kill for cash... but once the deed is done, he starts laughing about how little remorse he actually feels.
• Asshole Victim: It is really very difficult to feel any kind of sorrow for his highly deserved death in the seventh arc.
• Ax-Crazy: EP7, at least, where he declares that killing people is surprisingly easy and very fun.
• Badass Normal: In fantasy scenes, instead of using magic he becomes supernaturally good with guns.
• Big Brother Bully: Like his older siblings, he was this for Rosa. In the second arc during the Tea Party, Rosa affirms that Rudolf tormented her and betrayed her more than Eva and Krauss put together. In the EP8 manga, it is revealed that it was Rudolf himself who destroyed Rosa's stuffed rabbit in front of her.
• Big Brother Instinct: He proves to being this for Rosa only in Banquet when he and Kyrie clash against Eva-Beatrice, apologizing to his dead younger sister because he and his wife would soon send their most hated sister to the same hell Rosa was in. Completely subverted in reality, where he had no problem with his wife meddling in the feud between his sisters by shooting Rosa in the head.
• Big Brother Worship: Despite their antagonistic relationship due to Krauss's past as Big Brother Bully and his attempts to monopolize the family's will of inheritance as Kinzo's successor, Rudolf has some of that towards his older brother. In the third arc, during Rosa's speech of her meeting with Beatrice, both Eva and Krauss mention with genuine and amusing pleasure how, after Kinzo had changed the story about the forest, saying that there instead a witch who lived there rather than wolves so that kid Rudolf would not be tempted to enter it, the latter used to snuggle up behind Krauss (much to his wife Kyrie's amusement at imagining such a scenario). In the sixth arc, after both Kyrie and Battler are killed, he was desperate and enraged so much that he completely leans on Krauss in search of the culprit. Even seventh arc reveals that, years earlier, he confided in his brother and Natsuhi and sought support from them regarding the many problems he had with Battler after Asumu's death and his upcoming marriage with Kyrie. Ultimately this ambiguously fraternal relationship between Rudolf and Krauss acts as a counterpoint to The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry between Rosa and Eva.
• Black Spot: Hilariously played with in one of Tsubasa's TIPS. Kyrie and Battler offer him a shaver as a present, but Beatrice has switched the cousin's presents, and the shaver is replaced by a kitchen knife. Rudolf opens the present… while he's calling to arrange a date with a mistress. Pale face and cold sweat ensues, and he promptly ends the call.
• Break the Haughty: EP6. It's one thing to find your wife's body burned alive but it's another thing to lose your son as well.
• Cain and Abel: In the seventh game (which turns out to be the truth of the Rokkenjima incident) it is revealed that he and his wife Kyrie are the real culprits of the massacre. Kyrie kills Rosa and (seemingly) Eva (shortly after the accidental killings of Krauss and Natsuhi), and Rudolf shows little remorse, seeing it as an advantage because he will obtain all his father's inheritance for himself. Afterwards, he has no qualms cruelly killing his nephew George and then trying to shoot Eva (who miraculously survived). It is also no problem for him to, in Episode 8, slaughter everyone with the help of Battler and Kyrie and laugh about it.
• Cannot Spit It Out: After EP4's revelation that Asumu is not Battler's birth mother it was believed that Rudolf was aware of this. And in EP5 it is highly implied during the 19th person talk that Rudolf was going to tell Battler in EP1 after the letter reading, thus his 'I'm going to die' stint. In most games, he doesn't get the chance to tell anybody. However...
  • He finally does tell Kyrie in EP8 that Battler is her biological son, and he was responsible for switching him with Asumu's child, who was miscarried, because he didn't want anyone to know he had an affair with Kyrie. Kyrie takes the news better than what would be expected of her at this point.
• Commitment Issues: Horribly so. He claimed to love both Asumu and Kyrie, but he just couldn't decide to settle down with only one of them and kept having an affair with Kyrie even after marrying Asumu. He went as far as to switch Kyrie's son with Asumu's stillborn child because he didn't want to choose only one of them. He finally settled down with Kyrie after Asumu died, but it seems he hasn't abandoned his cheating habits yet.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: According to Kyrie's diary entries that Ange reads after the Rokkenjima incident, Rudolf's business practices were nearly always skirting the law in some way. It's only recently that it's come to bite him in the ass and get him slapped with a lawsuit, which is why he wants the gold. Apparently, a few of the people he swindled hanged themselves, though this is only something he muses after he's completely snapped and gone on a murderous rampage.
• The Dragon: To Kyrie in Episode 7.
• Duel to the Death: A rare successful one in Episode 3.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In Episode 7, he constantly tells Kyrie not to go after Battler when they're massacring everyone else on the island, and makes her promise to stop rejecting him as a son if they can get him on board. It's even hinted that he wouldn't have listened to Kyrie to shoot his own son if Battler didn't believe his lies, and he laments bringing him back to the family instead of keeping him out of harm's way.
• Evil Uncle: Rudolf is more than willing to kill his siblings and their respective families in order to get all the gold for himself and his family. Their children are not exempt, as George finds out.
• "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: To Eva in EP7 after killing George.
  Rudolf: Go ahead and shoot... I doubt that'll bring you much peace, though.
• Faux Affably Evil: Comes off this way in the Episode 7 Tea Party, especially while killing George. George even comments how it's oddly appropriate that his uncle, who's always smiling and joking, is still doing so even while brutally murdering him.
• Handsome Lech: He has always been a shameless womanizer. Before Asumu died, he never wanted to completely commit either to her or Kyrie and he apparently hasn't dropped his skirt chaser habits even after marrying Kyrie.
• Harem Seeker: In his youth. He later got over it... for the most part.
• Hate Sink: After the seventh tea party, Rudolf has probably become one of the least popular family members among fans. All games have evidence that he was certainly not a good man (his being essentially a legal scammer and repeated betrayals in the course of his relationships with Kyrie and Asumu are the most notable examples), he still had some redeemable qualities, like his deep love for his family and his desperate desire to reconnect with Battler. However, the revelation that he and Kyrie were the ones who mercilessly exterminated almost everyone on Rokkenjima for the hidden gold has destroyed any esteem readers might have for him.
• Hidden Villain: He and Kyrie are the real culprits of the massacre shown in EP7's tea party. The manga goes as far as revealing that the One Truth in Eva's diary indeed is the same as the events of the EP7 Tea Party.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: In Episode 8 he and Kyrie manage to each fire a bullet simultaneously and make the bullets clash. 10 cm from Erika's head.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Zigzagged. He couldn't stay faithful to either Asumu or Kyrie (with the former being a point of contention with Battler). He also bullied Rosa throughout her childhood and was known to have screwed many of his clients over in the present, driving some of them to suicide. But he really does love Battler and Ange from the bottom of his heart. This doesn't stop him and Kyrie from orchestrate everyone's murder in the real Rokkenjima Mass Murder Incident so they can have the gold for themselves. He does plead with her to not include Battler as a victim, which she begrudgingly respects.
• Karmic Death: It's only fitting that Eva kills him right after he's killed poor George.
• Leitmotif: With Episode 7, Yomotsu Hirasaka Corruption is now heavily associated with him.
• Manchild: Rudolf is probably the most striking example among adults. His playful (if not exactly friendly) relationship with Battler makes him seem more like an annoying big brother than as a father to his son. He also cheats his clients with Kyrie's help, and was wholly unable to shake his Harem Seeker habits from his youth, and couldn't choose to remain faithful to either Kyrie or Asumu.
• Manly Tears: Sheds them when Battler and Kyrie are killed in the sixth arc.
• Millionaire Playboy: It's later shown that this has caused a lot of Kyrie's issues.
• Papa Wolf: Toward Battler despite constantly mocking him. In EP6 he literally breaks down when he finds Battler's body and refuses to believe it was suicide, and is the first person to take the gun.
• Parent with New Paramour: One of the reasons why Battler distanced himself from his family was because he was VERY displeased with his father's hasty remarriage.
• Really Gets Around: His relatives are (unfortunately) aware that he's had numerous lovers that he's cheated on and split from over the years. He was also a Harem Seeker as a young man, so much so that both Eva and Rosa joke about it.
• Remarried to the Mistress: Married his mistress Kyrie soon after Asumu's death, to Battler's chagrin.
• Shotgun Wedding: With both Asumu and Kyrie. He married them because he got them pregnant and they made him feel he had to take responsibility for it.
• Smoking Is Cool: Especially in Episode 3 during his fantasy scenes.
• Stupid Evil: Thanks to the explosion of the island, Eva was not officially recognized as the culprit behind the tragedy of Rokkenjima due to the absence of evidence. In spite of this, the world turned against her, and she ended up dying in a world where everyone, including her last living relative, hated her. Did Rudolf and Kyrie really believe that they would escape such a fate if their plan to betray and kill all their relatives for money had actually worked?
• Taught by Television: "Don't underestimate the western-loving generation!"
  • This actually plays a big role in EP7. He understands how to use the guns that are on the island more easily than anyone else because he's watched so many Western movies.
• Tragic Villain: The more sympathetic interpretation of his actions on Rokkenjima. He and Kyrie decided to massacre everyone on the island after realizing there was no way to walk back from the lines they'd ended up crossing in the confrontation over the family gold. And unlike Kyrie, Rudolf even struggles to brace himself for the possibility that he may have to turn on his own son because of this.
• Unholy Matrimony: In the real world, he and Kyrie were the psychotic murderers that worked together to kill everyone, all while reaffirming their love for each other.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: One could say he is as much to blame for Sayo/Shannon's breakdown as Battler's "sin from six years ago". It was because of Rudolf remarrying to Kyrie so soon that Battler left the family and didn't return to see Shannon for so long. Years later, Rudolf begged Battler to return to the Ushiromiya family just when Sayo was at her most emotionally and mentally unstable. Not wanting to deal with her confused feelings anymore, Sayo decided to try and end everything by killing the entire family.
• You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You: EP1 he tells Battler and Kyrie that he's going to get killed. Battler doesn't believe him. Next morning, he's in the shed. Then it turns out he was planning to tell Kyrie that Battler is her real son and was afraid of how she'd react. Oh, the irony.

Rosa Ushiromiya

Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu (JP)

"I'm sorry for having been such a bad Mama..."

Kinzo's youngest daughter, mother of Maria and fourth in the line of succession. Although Battler describes her as a calming figure, her relationship with Maria is very troubled.

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See Umineko: When They Cry - Rosa Ushiromiya for tropes on her.

Natsuhi Ushiromiya

Voiced by: Emi Shinohara (JP), Wendy Powell (EN)

"Without fail, I will protect all of the Ushiromiya family's honor and glory!"

Mother of Jessica and wife of Krauss, she is ninth in the line of succession. Natsuhi is under a lot of pressure, since it is her and Krauss's responsibility to take care of both Kinzo and the house. Since she married into the Ushiromiya family, she sits at at a fairly low rank on the hierarchy. She gave birth to Jessica after twelve years of being unable to have a child, which Eva attempted to take advantage of.

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• Action Mom: She repeatedly tries to be this, but compared to other established Action Moms like Rosa and Kyrie, she is always eliminated before she can actually do something to damage her killers and / or defend herself or Jessica.
• Brainy Brunette: Being married to none other than with Krauss has brought her to being this by default.
• Breakout Character: Alongside Rosa, Natsuhi also enjoys enormous popularity thanks to being one of the characters with whom it is very easy to empathize because of her deep loyalty and dedication towards her family. This may have influenced her being made a main character in the fifth game.
• Break the Haughty: Natsuhi is oftentimes far too proud for her own good. The whole fifth arc is one long Trauma Conga Line for her.
• Broken Bird: Natsuhi has not lived an easy life since she was practically sold as a bride for Krauss when she was only 17 years old. The number of years spent in the numerous failed attempts to conceive an heir, the inability to return to her parents, the constant pressure and psychological abuse to which she is regularly subjected by the rest of her husband's family and, above all, having to help Krauss, even at the cost of finding a solution to hide the death of her father-in-law from the rest of the other relatives, has left poor Natsuhi with serious emotional damage to her psyche.
• Butt-Monkey: In addition to Break the Haughty and Trauma Conga Line above, she gets verbally abused by Eva in EP1 to the point that she ends up running away in tears. She is also one of the first victims in the second, fourth, sixth and seventh games. She was actually the first person to die when the real life massacre started, and it was entirely by accident. To add insult to injury, despite her brave attempts to take charge in the first arc by wielding a gun and challenging Beatrice to a duel, the manga reveals that her gun wasn't even loaded and she didn't even know enough about guns to be able to tell. Suffice to say, Natsuhi is a series punching bag alongside Rosa. In the EP8 manga, Beatrice admits that she was venting her frustration over the Crippling Castration Natsuhi caused.
• Classy Cravat: She wears a cravat as part of her classy Ushiromiya attire.
• Control Freak: She was forced to enter in the Ushiromiya family with no choice and no one except the servants respects her or hre position in the family. As a result, Natsuhi has developed an obsession with wanting power over everything; best demonstrated by her cold, strict attitude with the servants and forcing everyone, including her siblings-in-law, to abide by her strict rules. This is ultimately the origin of her Hair-Trigger Temper problem.
• A Day in the Limelight: She is the central character of Episode 5, who greatly delves both into her past and her personality by starting from her first years of marriage with Krauss, as well as the main target of the antagonists.
• Dead Person Conversation: A few with Kinzo, although it's implied that it's because she snapped to a certain extent after Kinzo's death, rather than having a genuine conversation with a ghost.
• Death Glare: Whenever any of the staff of the servants makes even one mistake or shows a lack of knowledge or efficiency, Natsuhi will start shooting these their way.
• Duel to the Death: In EP1, with Beatrice. She loses, and it's later revealed to be because Sayo Yasuda removed the bullets in her gun beforehand.
• Education Mama: Not shown in as much detail as Eva, but it's still apparent that Natsuhi is very strict with Jessica when it comes to her studies, as well as just about everything else in her daughter's life.
• Etiquette Nazi: She forces Jessica and Krauss to be sharply dressed even in the mansion's corridors. Which is, you know, their house.
• Extreme Doormat: Subverted. In the first half of the series she seems to be completely obedient to her husband and always supports him whatever he does or says. In the fifth novel though, she shows she can chew him out hard when his stupidity has obviously gone through the roof.
• Eye Scream: The true Rokkenjima massacre starts with Eva unintentionally shooting through her right eye.
• Eyes Always Shut: Most of the time in the first novel, due to her chronic headaches.
• Family Honor: She's dedicated to upholding the Ushiromiya family's honor, even though she's not a blood relative and isn't even allowed to wear the One-Winged Eagle crest on her clothes like the other relatives.
• Feminine Mother, Tomboyish Daughter: She has this dynamic with Jessica, being the proper and refined mother of a feisty and tomboyish daughter.
• Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: In EP8, Sayo/Beatrice forgives her for throwing her off the cliff, saying she has tormented her long enough. Sayo/Beatrice will never forget that Natsuhi is responsible for her miserable life, but as long as Natsuhi regrets what she did to her, Sayo/Beatrice won't hold any grudge against her.
• Formal Characters Use Keigo: Natsuhi speaks very formally almost all of the time (even using the pronoun "watakushi"), more so than all of the other adults. Given that she was raised in a highly traditional Japanese household that taught her to be a Yamato Nadeshiko (or at least try to be one), this is only to be expected.
• Freudian Excuse: The reason why she is so dedicated to pleasing her husband and father-in-law and is determined to make Jessica follow her example is because she was influenced and forced by her mother to do the same with her father (to the point that if he returned late after work when they were already asleep they had to wake up and welcome him back by bowing at his feet).
• Gilded Cage: Both she and Beatrice in the fifth episode realize they have in common the fact that they have both been trapped by Kinzo and deprived of control of their situation; in Natsuhi's case, it's her Arranged Marriage with Krauss.
• Gorgeous Period Dress: For a near-late 20th century story in Japan, Natsuhi's Pimped-Out Dress turns out to be a bit dated.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Her dress is primarily purple and she's quite feminine, mature, and lady-like. Well… usually.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: She tends to get worked up very easily, especially if someone is insulting Krauss. With all the stress Natsuhi has to deal with, you'd be a little high-strung too.
• Honor Before Reason: She will protect the pride of the Ushiromiya, whether it's the smart thing to do or not.
• Honor-Related Abuse: Because the child Kinzo gave her to raise served as a constant reminder of her failure to produce an heir herself, she pushed a servant holding the child off a cliff.
• Hypocrite: She always goes about the importance of tradition and honor. Yet she was the one who came up with the idea of concealing the family head's death so her husband could buy enough time to pay off his debts. Not to mention she has never been faced responsibility for her crime of throwing a servant and a baby off a cliff, resulting in both's presumed deaths.
• Hysterical Woman: When she or her husband Krauss have accusations thrown their way, she tends to shriek about how offended she is and how disgraceful the other party is instead of actually trying to defend herself. For all his careless investments, Krauss is more reasonable than her in these situations.
• Idol Singer: Golden Fantasia in Dlanor and Erika's ending where the Witches decides the ending they like is Jessica and Natsuhi switch places all the time, with Natsuhi taking over her singing role. The ending has Natsuhi dress as Jessica doing a concert to Erika's dismay.
• Image Song: From me, to my beloved family
• Impoverished Patrician: Natsuhi's birth family. It's the cause of her Arranged Marriage with Krauss.
• I Reject Your Reality: Believes to the very end that Kinzo loves and supports her as his daughter, even though there's no evidence he ever acknowledged her in any way.
• Ironic Name: Her name means "summer princess", but her favorite season is autumn. In EP5, she's shocked when "the man from 19 years ago" knew this despite what her name implied, even though she'd never actually mentioned it to anyone... except Shannon.
• I Wished You Were Dead: Her exposition about the child from 19 years ago indicates this trope in action. Natsuhi starts off claiming the baby died in an accident shortly after she wished it just disappeared. However, she later confesses it wasn't an accident; she pushed the baby along with the servant who was carrying it off a cliff in a moment of rage.
• Law of Inverse Fertility: Feeds into succession tensions, as she and Krauss couldn't conceive a kid for twelve years.
• Leitmotif: Discolor in Episode 5, aka the "Natsuhi's life falling apart" theme.
• Mama Bear: Kumasawa refers to Natsuhi as this trope by name in the first arc. Natsuhi later tries to invoke it against Beato to protect Jessica, but it horribly fails. The manga reveals she had no idea that the gun she was carrying throughout the arc wasn't even loaded, since Sayo removed the bullets beforehand.
• Mean Boss: Natsuhi is excessively cold, severe and harsh with the servants, to the point of scolding and punishing them for even the smallest mistakes, and strongly discourages Jessica's friendship with Shannon and Kanon.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Her reaction to pushing a servant and baby off a cliff, once she recovered her senses. A big reason she's such an attentive parent toward Jessica is her desire to atone for her sin. She distraugth facing Sayo, the baby she threw, in the Golden Land.
• Naginatas Are Feminine: In Episode 5 she briefly mentions that she has some experience with a naginata, having been raised in a family of Shinto priests.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: With Eva. Depending on the episode and the moment, they can be Sitcom Arch-Nemesis or really abusive towards each other.
• Offing the Offspring: Erika suggests that she did this to Jessica in the fifth arc, though it's later proven false. However, she did push a servant holding the baby Kinzo gave her to raise off a cliff, due to the child reminding her of her failure to give birth to an heir. The baby just barely survives, but Natsuhi's actions still have severe consequences in the story.
• Older Than She Looks: She is 47 years old but looks at least 10 less.
• The Ophelia: She is not remotely close to Sayo's levels but Episode 5 confirms that after Kinzo's death the consequent increase in her stress load made her vulnerable to Hallucinations, and she imagines having conversations with Kinzo and Beatrice who support her whenever she's down.
• Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Zig-zagged but ultimately played straight. Despite being essentially forced to marry him and both of them having their own issues, Natsuhi and Krauss really do care about each other. However, those difficulties are used to frame Natsuhi for murder in Episode 5.
• Perpetual Frowner: A rare female example. She is very often seen with a prominent frown on her face to underscore her serious and responsible personality.
• Pimped-Out Dress: Out of an entire sharply-dressed family (with Eva as the only exception), Natsuhi's outfit qualifies for this trope. Even Rosa the designer dresses more modestly.
• Pride: Her Fatal Flaw is that she can let her desire to uphold the honor of her husband and the Ushiromiya family as a whole get the best of her.
• Properly Paranoid: In a roundabout sort of way. Episode 1 sees her deeply suspicious that Beatrice's envelope was given to Maria by a servant (specifically Shannon) dressed as Beatrice on behalf of Kinzo, with the real Beatrice simply a fictional persona for Kinzo to communicate his intentions. She's right on nearly all counts: Shannon is one of Yasuda's many personas and (in reality) would need to "become" Beatrice with a wig, makeup and dress to give the envelope to Maria. Yasuda's personas are meant to convey each major aspect of her conflicted identity. The only thing she guesses wrongly is that Kinzo is behind it; it's actually the baby she had pushed off a cliff who now wants revenge.
• Sanity Slippage: Poor woman seems to have somewhat lost track of reality after Kinzo's death.
• Scarpia Ultimatum: A G-rated version: Kinzo forced Natsuhi into marrying Krauss as a reconciliation of her family's debts to him.
• Silk Hiding Steel: Although she publicly suffers from her lack of respect from the family and submitting to her husband's will, in certain circumstances Natsuhi has proven herself more than capable of keeping her blood cold, like when she is the last parent to survive in the first arc or when she had to hide the death of Kinzo from the rest of the family.
• Skewed Priorities: Refuses to confess that she and Krauss hid Kinzo's death to buy time for Krauss to pay off his debts, even in situations where Krauss is dead and suspicion has fallen onto her for the murders.
• Sleeping Single: For all her dedication to Krauss, they still sleep in separate rooms.
• Stay in the Kitchen: Krauss repeatedly shuts Natsuhi up despite the fact that she is the one who basically runs the house and has much more common sense than he does (at least when she isn't letting her emotions get the better of her) while he squanders their money on poorly thought-out business ventures.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Natsuhi is often described as very rigid and severe in the eyes of the other characters, especially towards the members of the family she most despises like Eva. However, when she is alone or with Krauss, she is more than capable of showing genuine affection for her husband and daughter.
• Sympathetic Murder Backstory: Revealed in EP5. 19 years before the start of the series, Kinzo forced her to adopt a baby because of her inability to give birth at the time. For someone as proud and traditional as Natsuhi, this was the ultimate insult and she came to see the baby as a reminder of her failure as a woman. One day, Natsuhi lost control of herself and in a fit of rage, she pushed the servant who was holding the baby off a cliff.
• Trauma Conga Line: Natsuhi has it particularly rough in the 5th game. She keeps getting Harassing Phone Calls from a man claiming to be her son who threatens to reveal a crime from her past. Then Jessica is murdered and Krauss is kidnapped just to have Natsuhi on a string. Not only does Krauss die anyway, but Natsuhi is framed for all the murders, gets beaten up by a very pissed off Eva and Battler is the only one who even tries to intervene. As if that wasn't bad enough, she gets accused of cheating on her husband and having a sexual relationship with Kinzo. Then Bernkastel brutally tells her in red that everything that's been basically keeping her sane until that moment was all a delusion on her part. Poor Natsuhi.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The biggest one in the series. Because Natsuhi pushed a servant holding her adoptive child off a cliff in her fit of anger, the child would grow up to lead a lonely, almost friendless life as a servant with body/gender issues thanks to the injuries they suffered from the fall, eventually leading to the Ushiromiya Massacre.
• Wanted a Gender-Conforming Child: She insists that Jessica should act more refined and ladylike instead of feisty and tomboyish.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: The fifth arc reveals that a large part of Natsuhi's personality is defined by desiring the consideration and approval of her father-in-law Kinzo, whom she has begun to see as a Parental Substitute of her real father after being married to Krauss for so long. However, Bernkastel tells her in red that Kinzo never thought she was good enough, sending poor Natsuhi further into despair.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Tries her hardest to be this, and has quite a few characteristics of the trope, but she ultimately has too much of a Hair-Trigger Temper to fully play it straight. She'd probably fit the role better if she hadn't married into a Big, Screwed-Up Family that constantly heaps pressure on her.

Hideyoshi Ushiromiya

Voiced by: Masashi Hirose (EP 1 - 8), Katsuhisa Houki (Saku onwards) (JP), Kent Williams (EN)

"Would ya give it a rest, Eva?"

Father of George and husband of Eva, he is tenth in the line of succession. He owns a successful restaurant chain and is a fairly cheerful and sociable man. He was married into Eva's family and took on her family name on a technicality.

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• Accidental Murder: In Prime, he accidentally kills Krauss in an attempt to protect Eva from him shortly after Natsuhi's death.
• Accomplice by Inaction: Despite being perhaps the kindest parent in the family and supporting his wife tremendously, Hideyoshi nevertheless does little to hold back Eva from behaving like a total Jerkass who regularly abuses other residents of the island. He does not step in when Rosa slaps Maria in front of him during EP3. It is therefore no surprise that Maria is never sorry for the death of her uncle, and that Rosa (who is also one of Eva's favorite victims) has no intention of supporting him and his wife for their double Accidental Murder.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Or more accurately, in anime episode 16: Did you just give the witch a noogie? It was remarkably more serious in the original game, and was more like did you just bitchslap a witch and insist she was your wife?
• The Dragon: He act like this for his wife during the third episode.
• Friend to All Children: He is explicitly described as this and in particular he's often shown as rather affectionate to his niece Maria. A trait that seems to he have also passed on to his son George.
• Happily Married: Seeing as how he's one of the genuinely kindest members of the family, he has no regrets for marrying Eva or changing his name to Ushiromiya. Their relationship is by far the most stable and healthiest marriage in the series.
• Hidden Depths: His fascination towards Japanese history and the Sengoku Period is why he's the first person to notice that Krauss and company could be hiding Kinzo's death.
• Morality Chain: In EP3, the moment Hideyoshi dies is when Eva starts to really go off the deep end and her witch personality takes her over completely, leading her to start killing everyone in the family.
• Morality Pet: Eva is an unrepentant Rich Bitch all-around, but her relationship with Hideyoshi is surprisingly loving and healthy. He's the only person she treats kindly most of the time and she's shown to genuinely love him.
• Named After Somebody Famous: His favorite historical figure is Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
• Nice Guy: And it's noted that his geniality is very welcome in the atmosphere of the family conference.
• Satellite Love Interest: He's the least developed of the Ushiromiya parents and usually dies too early to do much not related to his wife Eva.
• Smoking Is Cool: Although maybe he should think when he smokes.
• Too Dumb to Live: Like his wife, Hideyoshi does not prove to be a very intelligent individual in situations where his life and that of his family is at risk.
• Took the Wife's Name: Eva convinced Hideyoshi to adopt the name of "Ushiromiya" in order to keep her placement in the line of successors and make sure their son George had a chance at being made the next family head. Having already lost his family in the war, Hideyoshi had no issues with taking his wife's surname.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He dies on the 1st twilight in Episode 2 and 4, on the 2nd twilight in Episode 1 and 5, and luckily survives one more twilight in Episode 3. Even Rosa fares better. Because of that, he gets less development than the other family members.

Kyrie Ushiromiya

Voiced by: Atsuko Tanaka (JP)

"Flip the chessboard around."

The business partner and second wife of Rudolf. Kyrie is Ange's mother and Battler's stepmother. She is the last on the chain of succession as far as is known (there is confusion over Maria's father). She is known to have a very strong "flip-the-chessboard" mentality about how to tackle problems, and indeed, seems to have inspired Battler's own.

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• Action Mom: Among all the parents she's the one with the most battles, especially in Episode 3 when she utterly defeats Leviathan completely on her own.
• Aloof Big Sister: Almost nothing is said about her relationship with her younger sister Kasumi (other than the latter's hatred of Kyrie for discharging all her responsibilities on her by running away from the Sumadera family to marry Rudolf), but it is highly possible that said relationship reflected this trope.
• Ambiguously Evil: Becomes this after the manga confirms that she played a major role in the Rokkenjima massacre. It's left up to interpretation whether or not she really was a cold-blooded psychopath with a hidden disdain for her entire family, or simply a tragic woman who embraced a persona of being a cold-blooded psychopath after crossing some lines that she could never walk back from.
• Asshole Victim: She killed a distracted Rosa, attempted to kill Eva two times, savagely killed Jessica, and finally killed even Maria along with the servants all in cold blood. She also made a chilling statement about her possibly true feelings and thoughts that she feels for Rudolf, Battler, and especially Ange. After all this, it would be perfectly normal to think that she deserved a much longer and more painful death than the one she received.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Of all the characters on this page, Kyrie is by far the one with the most strategic mind and intent on analyzing and processing each situation in which she finds herself. In fact, she proves to being almost essential in trying to solve the Kinzo's Epitaph when all parents team up, proving to be the most capable of finding solutions in the first clues, or in understanding who could be the killer. Moreover, she seems to be perhaps the only one of the other adults who does not underestimate Rosa by sensing her true personality and the real nature of her relationship with Maria. She's the source of Battler's "flip the chessboard" mentality.
• Badass Bookworm: Even in fantasy combat scenes, her biggest asset is her mind.
• Badass Longcoat: Her outfit includes a cool longcoat that makes her look even more awesome during her fight scenes.
• Badass Normal: During fantasy combat scenes she doesn't use magic, relying on guns and her wits instead.
• Betty and Veronica: She was the Veronica to Asumu's Betty in their love triangle for Rudolf. Kyrie was Rudolf's business partner with a sharp and intelligent personality that could make Rudolf feel overwhelmed, in contrast with the sweet and demure Asumu.
• Bifauxnen: With her short hair and her business-styled clothing, Kyrie could pass off as a pretty-looking man.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Outside, Kyrie is a collected and reliable person who has no problem communicating cordially with others and providing support in case of need. Inside, she appears to be nothing more than a possessively and fatally jealous sociopath of anyone who gets in the way between her and Rudolf and more than ready to take drastic measures when money are involved without any regrets.
• Boyish Short Hair: She keeps her hair short, as appropriate to her smart and assertive personality.
• Brutal Honesty: Her talk with Jessica in EP6 where she explains the obstacles of love and her struggle, saying if she doesn't pursue she'll end up the same Hell she and many else has went, leading her to even consider murder to escape.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Whether or not she's actually the murderer as Bernkastel suggests, EP3 and onward show that she is capable of extraordinary coldness and violence if it's for Rudolf's sake, which is why it is possible for her piece to act as it does in EP7 (pieces cannot be out-of-character).
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She is this to Rudolf, but it isn't obvious unless Asumu is brought up. The undying jealousy Kyrie has felt towards her long dead love rival is enough to out-envy the reification of Envy itself.
• Cool Big Sis: Battler views her as being more like this to him than a stepmother.
• Die Laughing: In Episode 7, to very chilling effect especially in the manga.
• Disconnected by Death: Episode 4, same as Jessica. She explicitly tells Battler to assume she's dead once she stops talking.
• Dissonant Serenity: Murdering your entire family in cold-blood? Just another day for Kyrie.
• Driven by Envy: This is how she can own Leviathan (the reification of Envy) in every sense of the word. The source of her time powers too.
• Easily Forgiven: She hated Asumu enough to murder her and blames herself for being complacent about her relationship with Rudolph. But Kyrie doesn't hold any blame towards Rudolph for getting both of them pregnant and then choosing to marry Asumu instead of her, even though even Ange knows how much of an unfaithful playboy Rudolph is.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Leviathan gives chocolate to Kyrie for Valentines Day, in the Extra Tips "Stakes Valentine Day" and in EP6 Leviathan saves Kyrie from being killed by Jessica.
• Evil Counterpart: She may be this for Rosa for many reasons;
  • Considering that both recognize that they have experienced many similar situations on some occasions, with Kyrie who sometimes proves to be the only other adult in the family who tries to understand the difficult situations of Rosa and Rosa who understands how Kyrie might have felt for had being pushed aside by Rudolf for years just as she herself was pushed aside by Maria's father.
  • In Episode 2 Battler comments that their way of thinking and acting is very similar because Rosa's Wolf and Sheep strategy is based on the same reasoning as Kyrie's Overturning of Chessboard to see oneself inside the enemy.
  • Both are Action Mom and Badass Normal, not only very intelligent but also very reactive to react in the middle of danger compared to all the others, who usually get stuck in shock and amazement.
  • Their personalities are also diametrically opposed; Kyrie is purely rational with remarkable self-control and never lets her emotions influence her behavior, allowing her to be both an effective parent and a successful woman in her work. Rosa, on the other hand, is dominated by her own emotions because she is full of Berserk Button and because of her childhood she is unable to effectively take care of her daughter. However Rosa can be considered all in all a Nice Girl (if you remove the abusive parenthesis in her relationship with Maria) while Kyrie turns out to be The Sociopath.
  • Not to mention their way of educating their respective daughters who are totally opposite as well as the mixed feelings they have for them.
• Eviler than Thou: A badass variation; in the third arc, Leviathan explains that it took a couple days after she was born to develop powers, making her extremely envious of her older sisters. Kyrie laughs at her and magnificently counters with what amounts to "What? You think that's envy? I envied some bitch for stealing my man from me for eighteen years!!", then shoots her to death.
• Firing One-Handed: She's the only one to wield the rifles this way.
• Formulaic Magic: The Power Levels for Leviathan and Kyrie are determined in how many hours they've experienced intense envy. In-game, Leviathan attempts the multiplication for Kyrie's multiplication formula, along with revealing her own, giving players the idea. In the TIPS, Kyrie is shown actually chanting her formula as she runs to give Rudolf what for after she finds him cheating on her with Belphegor.
• Good Stepmother: Kyrie and Battler have a closer rapport than any of the children have with any of their parents. Although Battler resents his father for his rapid remarriage, he doesn't hold it against Kyrie. While they don't view each other as family, they seem to have a fair amount of respect for each other. Subverted because Kyrie did have a bitter rivalry with Battler's mother that has festered in envy over years. When in private, Kyrie admits she does resent Battler and is only forcing herself to be nice to him. In Episode 7, she shows she wouldn't have any problem with getting rid of Battler if he gets in the way of her and Rudolf running away with the money.
• Grey-and-Gray Insanity: The final speeches she flaunts in front of a furious and crying Eva to justify her murderous actions, complete with a "Not So Different" Remark to her foe, strongly indicate not only that she finds it completely normal and natural to kill for money but also that there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.
• Hate Sink: To an even greater extent than Rudolf when EP7's Tea Party reveals that she's a total sociopath who doesn't even care about her nuclear family.
• Hidden Disdain Reveal:
  • In Episode 3, Kyrie admits that even though she pretends to get along with Battler, she actually can barely stand to see him because he reminds her of the woman who stole Rudolf away from her and of the child she lost when she had a stillbirth the same day he was born.
  • Zig-Zagged in regards to Ange. In the scenario Bernkastel shows Ange in Episode 7, Kyrie she coldly admits to Eva that she never truly loved her daughter; she was just her way to tie Rudolf down and only thought of her as a piece in a "make-believe family" play. Now that Rudolf is dead, she has no reason to keep "playing the role" of a mother and Ange is useless to her. Kyrie also states that she never once thought "that brat" was cute at all. Whether or not she actually felt this way is uncertain, and Battler does his damnedest in Episode 8 to show Ange that she didn't.
• Hidden Villain: She and Rudolf are set up to be the true culprits of the Rokkenjima murders in the scenario presented at the end of Ep7, which is heavily implied and later confirmed in the manga to be what happened in real life. Eva never wanted Ange to know the truth because Kyrie and Rudolf really were the culprits.
• Impossibly Cool Clothes: Kyrie's long purple shirt with half-exposed mesh right hip, combined with her long coat and a choice of well-matched accessories between belt and tie make her whole outfit very particular overall, almost as if it is a fashion show look but still accessible for the public.
• It's All About Me: Episode 7 paints her as a total sociopath who only cares about herself. Not only do she and Rudolf kill nearly everyone on the island to hog the gold, but she doesn't even care when Rudolf gets killed by Eva as she no longer has to share with him, and she even brushes off her daughter Ange as irrelevant.
• Karmic Death: As with Rudolf, Kyrie deserved that bullet to the throat from Eva when she treacherously shot Rosa dead and decided to kill everyone.
• Lady Macbeth: In the real world scenario, she's this to Rudolf. She instigates him to kill everyone to have all the money to themselves and is capable of extreme coldness and ruthlessness when it comes to helping her husband in the murders.
• Leitmotif: As of Episode 7, Ridicule is universally considered to be hers.
• Love Hurts: She describes the years Asumu was married to Rudolf as a living hell where she endlessly cursed her rival. Even though Asumu died and Kyrie became Rudolf's new wife, her unbearable jealousy won't go away.
• Madness Mantra: Played for Laughs in "The Stakes' Valentine" and "Beatrice's White Day", when Leviathan kindly informs her that Rudolf gets along very well with Belphegor.
  Kyrie: Oh my. I hope the hospital has a free room with two beds. 24×365×1895179579245988…
• Mafia Princess: The Sumadera clan can be more-or-less summed up as Expies of the Sonozaki family, and Kyrie herself has plenty of scary moments, particularly in later arcs.
• Manipulative Bitch: Very implicit at the end of her heart-to-heart dialogue with Rosa in the second arc when, speaking of Maria, she reminds to her sister-in-law of the arrival of a typhoon and consequently makes Rosa escape out into the garden searching for her daughter while she and the rest of the parents discuss the main issues.
• Mask of Sanity: At first glance, Kyrie is an affable and collected woman. It's only when the subject of Asumu is brought up that it starts becoming clear that Kyrie is not as stable as she appears to be. Bernkastel exploits the implications of this trope to the fullest to traumatize Ange in EP7's Tea Party that shows Kyrie going on a rampage and murdering most of the Ushiromiya family. While the manga confirms that this indeed happened, Battler tries to debunk the theory that Kyrie truly was insane in his EP8 game.
• Meaningful Name: Possibly, as "Kyrie" means "Lord" in Greek, in addition to being a Japanese name.
  • Or it could just be part of the Christianity-based Religious and Mythological Theme Naming of the series, as the Kyrie is a Christian prayer.
• The Mistress: Before Asumu's death, she was this to Rudolf. Although according to her, she met Rudolf first and Asumu came after she was already dating him.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: She seems to believe killing is the best and easiest way to deal with troubling situations, both in love and money.
• No Guy Wants an Amazon: Kyrie says that Asumu probably drew Rudolf in due to the fact that she was very good at acting the traditional female role. Kyrie tended to serve as a business partner for Rudolf, which she feels probably overwhelmed him to a certain extent.
• "Not So Different" Remark:
  • She tells Eva that they are actually the same in their final confrontation.
  • She even unconsciously admits that she feels (mistakenly) similar to Rosa when, in her last dialogue with Eva, she tries to justify her choice to abandon Ange taking as an example the complicated relationship between her sister-in-law and her daughter Maria.
• Older Than She Looks: She seems to be a peer of Rosa but in reality she is at least a decade older if we based on the flashback of the latter as a teenager in the third arc, which was set the year before Battler's birth.
• Only Sane Woman: The adults often allow their grudges and greed get the better of them, but Kyrie acts the most rational in general. During the early Episodes, it's not uncommon for Kyrie to be the voice of reason, advocating calm and rational points and contributing to both solving the Epitaph and trying to figure out who Beatrice is, while seemingly being free of much of the baggage carried by the siblings and their spouses. Subverted more and more as the story progresses and her hidden Yandere side starts to show, culminating in her going Ax-Crazy in Episode 7.
• Pistol-Whipping: In Episode 7, Jessica just manages to shove Kyrie's shotgun away from her face before she can pull the trigger. Since reloading them is a hassle, Kyrie simply pins Jessica down and bludgeons her face until she stops moving.
• Power Levels: Leads to Green-Eyed Monster in Episode 3, where she basically defeats Leviathan by out-envying her.
• Pragmatic Villainy: In Episode 7, she and Rudolf decide to just take the card with a billion yen that Sayo gave them, as discreetly transporting and cashing out 10 tons of unofficially marked gold is too much of a hassle.
• Runaway Fiancé: She ran away from her Arranged Marriage to marry Rudolf, and her family made her sister Kasumi marry her fiance in her place.
• Skewed Priorities: One of her biggest worries while committing a family massacre is making sure her clothes aren't stained with blood, then laughing when they are.
• Smart People Play Chess: She's said to be good at chess and was the one who taught Battler the "turning the chess board around" mentality. She's also the most intellectual, logical and analytical among the adults.
• Smug Snake: In EP7, for all her wit and cunning, she comes across as a nasty murderous thug who seems to be a Karma Houdini... until Eva shows up with a rifle.
• The Sociopath: She was widely interpreted as being this once the public began accusing her and Rudolf of being the culprits. It's particularly notable in Episode 7's tea party, but if you dig a bit deeper there are a few signs even in earlier arcs. In the real world scenario revealed in EP7, Kyrie shows herself as a complete murderous maniac who kills almost everyone in cold and ruthless ways. She also shows she doesn't really care about what happens to her own husband and daughter; she goes as far as to admit she finds Rudolf's death convenient and she's glad she doesn't have to pretend to love "that brat" Ange anymore.
• The Stoic: She never shows more than a few mild emotions even in the most emotionally engaging situations (which can be considered a subtle clue to her true nature).
• Stupid Evil: Like her husband, it is shocking that an extremely clever person like Kyrie really thought she and Rudolf could get away with no consequences once everyone was killed, the island exploded to cover her tracks and they returned to civilization. Add to that her very serious neglect of not checking that the people she shot being really dead immediately after shooting them, which goes back to biting her seriously in the ass when a furious and vengeful Eva comes in place of her husband carrying a rifle with her.
• Tears of Remorse: In EP8, Rudolf admits that he swapped Kyrie's son with Asumu's stillbirth to maintain his marriage with the latter at the time. Kyrie break down crying over the realization that she's been holding a misguided grudge against her own biological son all his life.
• Time Master: Kyrie's powers in the Meta-World. Using the time she was envious of Asumu for having Rudolf, Kyrie can use it to control time of herself or what she touches. She used this to defeat Leviathan, moving so quickly before she can react, and nearly defeat Jessica in EP6, slowing down time of a door to prevent her from destroying it.
• Tragic Stillbirth: EP3 reveals Kyrie had a stillbirth the same day Battler was born. This contributed to her extreme jealousy and resentment of Asumu and Battler because of Kyrie believing they had everything that rightfully belonged to her and her son. It isn't revealed until EP8 that Kyrie is Battler's real mother through a baby switch; Asumu was really the one who had a stillbirth.
• Tragic Villain: The more sympathetic interpretation of her actions at Rokkenjima, where she voluntarily embraces the persona of a psychopath after realizing that there was no clean way for her to move on from the lines she'd ended up crossing in the heat of the moment. At the very least, Battler went out of his way to debunk the theory that she truly was a sociopath in EP8.
• Unbalanced By Rival's Kid: She hides it very well, but Kyrie admits she does have quite an issue with Battler being Asumu's son, especially since her own child was stillborn while Battler got to live. In EP8, Kyrie breaks down when she finds out the boy she has been resenting all those years was her son all along.
• Unholy Matrimony: With Rudolf in the real world. They worked together to kill everyone else and keep the money to themselves.
• Unreliable Narrator: All the horrible things she says about Asumu are mostly her version of the story. Considering how the two of them got along, it wouldn't be strange for her to distort the truth a tiny bit…
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: As said above, she had kind of a role in Sayo/Shannon's breakdown. Had she and Rudolf not married that soon, Battler wouldn't have broken off his ties with the Ushiromiyas, and Sayo wouldn't have reacted so badly to his sudden return...
• White Hair, Black Heart: Envy is her core defining trait, not to mention that she is responsible for the Rokkenjima massacre in the real world.
• Woman Scorned: Played for Laughs in the TIPS where Kyrie goes to make her husband pay for flirting with Belphegor.
• Worthy Opponent: Jessica's one for her in EP6 where she's impress she made contracts with a demon to sacrifice her for love and almost winning before trapping herself in a closed room.
• Would Hurt a Child: As demonstrated by EP 7, Kyrie has no qualms about killing or trying to kill teenagers like Jessica and Battler in case she sees them as obstacles, but gets to kill a 9-year-old girl in cold blood that could easily be her daughter (as Eva tries to point out to her).
• Yandere: Considering the entire Asumu talk, Kyrie's not too far from this for Rudolf. In EP6, Kyrie straight up tells Jessica that if Asumu didn't die on her own then she would have just killed her, all to be with Rudolf. However, in Episode 7 she doesn't so much as bat an eyelid when she learns of Rudolf's death, and actually finds it rather convenient.
• Your Son All Along: It's confirmed in Episode 8 that Battler's biological mother isn't Asumu but Kyrie. A baby switch was made by Rudolf when Asumu's child was a stillbirth and he thought it would be easier since he and Asumu were married while Kyrie was a lover. Needless to say, Kyrie gets hit hard by the truth when she finds out.