History Characters / UminekoWhenTheyCrySpoilers

* DisabledLoveInterest: Having to struggle with his old identity was physically painful to him. He had to endure more than 10 years of accute headaches before suddenly remembering who he was, resulting in a brain seizure and being confined to a wheelchair. The love interest part is [[ImpliedLoveInterest debatable]], but he and Ikuko are at least definitely fond of each other.

* FriendlessBackground: Sayo could never make friends with any of the kids of her orphanage or her fellow servants because of her shyness and clumsiness, so she would usually turn to her {{imaginary friend}}s to comfort herself. Throughout her entire life, the closest things Sayo had to real friends were Battler, Jessica and Maria. Even then, Sayo wasn't really that close to them because Battler left the family and didn't see Sayo again for several years, Jessica wasn't allowed to get too friendly with Sayo because Sayo was a servant and Maria thought she was playing with the witch Beatrice who was only possessing "Shannon"'s body.

** Sayo was disgusted by Krass and Natsuhi deciding to conceal Kinzo's death in order to delay the fight over the inheritance for a few more years. She also knows of the deceitful activities of Kinzo's other children and finds them equally detestable. However, Sayo's own crimes in her forgeries are almost completely based on the same kind of lies and manipulation that she despises in the rest of the Ushiromiya family.
** Sayo believes Kinzo is abhorrent for committing incest with his own daughter, yet she continues being in love with Battler, George, and Jessica even after discovering she's their blood relative through Kinzo. In this case, Sayo acknowledges her hypocrisy and sees herself as depraved as Kinzo, feeding into her self-loathing.

* SecretlySelfish: When she started planning the murders, Sayo gave herself the excuse that she was "freeing" the Ushiromiya bloodline from the cycle of abuse, greed and misery that Kinzo began. However, in the manga, Sayo herself admits that she was so scared and pessimistic that he just wanted to end her own life and take those who hurt her down with her. Even though she did love the cousins, she wanted to force them to die with her because she couldn't bear the thought that they, especially Battler, would find happiness without her after her death. When confessing her crimes to Ange, Sayo recognizes that she was so selfish that she didn't even consider all the suffering her actions would bring on Ange in the years to come after the death of almost all of her relatives.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: More of a transliteration issue with the name Ikuko gave him, 十八 (とおや). Toya? Tooya? Tohya? You take your pick.

* HairColorSpoiler: {{Averted|Trope}}. To keep the audience from guessing the truth easily, Sayo has a different hair color for every of her identities; brown hair for Shannon, dark gray hair for Kanon, blonde hair for Beatrice and white/pale green hair for Clair. This has caused confusion about which is her natural hair color in canon, but in the manga, it's confirmed she wears a blonde wig when she puts on the Beatrice disguise which means her true hair color is close to Shannon/Kanon's.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Despite claiming to sincerely love the cousins, Sayo still had no qualms about manipulating and further alienating Maria with her fanciful stories about witches and magic instead of actively and productively doing something to help her situation with [[AbusiveMom Rosa]], to entertain a double relationship with both George and Jessica through her two main identities and in general to involve them all in her selfish and crazy plan of mass murder-suicide especially to punish and remind Battler for his guilt that he has (very understandably) forgotten of a silly and innocent promise he made to Shannon as a child. This is ultimately something she also realizes after her actions led Kyrie and Rudolf to killing everyone except her and Battler (and Eva), obviously leading to a case of....

* LackOfEmpathy: Sayo is so focused on her personal problems and on how much she wants to punish the people that, from her point of view, have hurt her to the point of completely neglecting the fact that she too, with her actions, hurts not only them but also the people she loves, the cousins:
** With Maria, Sayo sympathizes with her situation, which translates into Kanon and especially Beatrice's roles, into a deep hatred for how [[AbusiveMom Rosa]] treats her own daughter. But that sympathy is triggered more by the fact that she projects herself and her complicated relationship with Kinzo more into Maria's relationship with her mother, and also because she indirectly blames Rosa for her baby accident caused by Natsuhi due to the death of Sayo's birth mother, rather than real empathy towards Maria herself.
** She has no qualms about betraying Jessica and George's trust and cheating them throught her Kanon and Shannon's identities respectively.
** And when Battler's return to Rokkenjima slowly causes her to breakdown that makes her make the final decision to put her crazy plan into action, she does so above all because she was upset that Battler had forgotten that he once had promised Shannon to take her away from the island on a white horse, completely neglecting that Battler was a child and that if he has not returned to the island for years it has been for very understandable family reasons. Sayo is so selfish and numb that she doesn't even consider all the suffering her actions would bring on Ange, Battler's little sister, in the years to come after the death of almost all of her relatives.

* ManipulativeBastard: As the culprit, Sayo goes all-in on using everything and everyone around her to pull off her elaborate crimes. This includes manipulating the adults of the family and her fellow servants through a combination of bribery and threatening them and their children, exploiting Maria’s belief in her to better sell the existence of Beatrice, and using her various personas to sew suspicion and confusion, as well as create the illusion of locked-room murders. In the manga, despite her hesitation and desire to be stopped, she nevertheless admits to feeling a ‘dark satisfaction’ from planning her schemes, and is resolute that she would have gone through with some version of them if she’d only had the opportunity.

* MeaningfulName: Sayo's given name can be read as 3, 4 hinting towards her personas. Also, didn't Higurashi's [[spoiler:BigBad also have a name involving those numbers?]]

* BlindingBangs: Sayo's initial portrayal in the [=EP7=] manga had long hair that obscured her eyes.

* EyesOutOfSight: In the manga of Episode 7, "Yasu"'s eyes are always covered by her hair, reflecting how she was TheFaceless in the original visual novel. The eyes do become visible when Gaap possesses "Yasu".
* TheFaceless: In the visual novel, "Yasu" doesn't have a sprite in [=Ep7=]. This is confirmed by Ryukishi to be an attempt to obscure her real identity as Shannon. In-universe, she's only seen through the "characters" she creates, so the reader can only imagine what Yasu looks like. Yasu's appearance in fanart varied wildly as a result, at least until the manga of [=EP7=] finally gave her a more concrete appearance by depicting Yasu as a young child with long hair and bangs. Later, this appears to be yet another attempt at obscuring her identity by giving her a form more similar to Clair. In the manga of Episode 8, however, she's most often shown with Shannon's appearance. Most fanartists like to draw Sayo as a blond Shannon without bosoms to make her look different from the regular Shannon.

* GenderNeutralWriting: While the appearance of her "avatar" Clair is female, the young "Yasu"'s gender is never explicitly specified in Episode 7. All the witnesses use "that child" or similar phrases.

* PronounTrouble: Due to GenderNeutralWriting in Episode 7's "flashback", the pronoun to be used to refer to "Yasu" has been the subject of much debate. Most people usually settle on "she" though, as it's the gender of most of her personas, and the main gender she seems to identify with, having been raised as a girl.

* NoPronunciationGuide: No one seems really sure how the kanji of 留音 and 恋音 should be read. The manga writes the furigana as "Ruon" and "Renon", but the [=PS3=] version has the former pronounced "Runon" and at some point Gaap's voice actor reads the latter as "Renne".

* ACupAngst: PlayedForDrama. Sayo started to figure out something was wrong with her body when it didn't show any signs of puberty in middle school. Given that both Shannon and Beatrice have large breasts and the fact that Battler thinks BuxomIsBetter, it's clear Sayo has quite a complex about it, especially since she even uses FakeBoobs so no one will find out that she never grew breasts.

** Tooya Hachijō in this page spoils the fact Battler Ushiromiya survives [[KillEmAll Rokkenjima]].

* PinocchioSyndrome: Suffers from this later in life, though not literally, due to what is heavily implied to be her damaged sexual organs, and Sayo not considering herself human as a result.

* SawedOffShotgun: Sayo's WeaponOfChoice. As bullets from this type of shotgun tend to scatter, this explains why most of Sayo's victims turn up with the appearance of their heads smashed.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Like her mother, her presence in the story is mostly limited to another character's flashback (Rosa's in this case) in which she soon ended up dead, but Kinzo's reprehensible treatment of her made the otherwise loyal Genji hide Sayo's survival and raise her as a servant to avoid history repeating. She is also the source of the portrait displayed above the epitaph, which her child/sibling would use to remodel her witch persona into Battler's ideal woman.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Like her mother, her presence in the story is mostly limited to another character's flashback (Rosa's in this case) in which she soon ended up dead, but Kinzo's reprehensible treatment of her made the otherwise loyal Genji hide Sayo's survival and raise her as a servant to avoid history repeating.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Like her mother, her presence in the story is mostly limited to another character's flashback (Rosa's in this case) in which she soon ended up dead, but Kinzo's reprehensible treatment of her made the otherwise loyal Genji hide Sayo's survival and raising her as a servant to avoid history repeating.

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* PrimAndProperBun: As appropriate for an high-class lady.

* AlmightyJanitor: Upon solving the epitaph, Sayo technically became the next head of the Ushiromiya family and the owner of 10 tons of gold, but she'd prefer to keep a low profile as a servant over the burden of all that responsibility and the grudges of Krauss and Natushi if they learned that their expected positions were suddenly snatched away.

** And when Battler's return to Rokkenjima slowly causes her to breakdown that makes her make the final decision to put her crazy plan into action, she does so above all because she was upset that Battler had forgotten that he once had promised Shannon to take her away from the island on a white horse, completely neglecting that Battler was a child and that if he has not returned to the island for years it has been for very understandable family reasons. Sayo is so selfish and numb that she doesn't even consider all the suffering her actions of her would bring on Ange, Battler's little sister, in the years to come after the death of almost all of her relatives.

* ExtraDigits: The manga reveals that like Kinzo, Sayo had polydactyly, but her extra toes were surgically removed and only a small scar remained.

* SurpriseIncest: In the midst of her relationship with George, she learns that she's the result of their shared grandfather raping his own daughter.

* QuestionableConsent: Outside of Kinzo's obviously biased flashbacks, it isn't clear whether or not she actually consented to their relationship (much less having a child with him), especially since the manga more or less confirms that Kinzo started the massacre at the military base and she had nowhere else to go but with him.

** With Maria, Sayo sympathizes with her situation, which translates into the role of Kanon and especially Beatrice, into a deep hatred for how [[AbusiveMom Rosa]] treats her own daughter. But that sympathy is triggered more by the fact that she projects herself and her complicated relationship with Kinzo more into Maria's relationship with her mother, and also because she indirectly blames Rosa for her baby accident caused by Natsuhi due to the death of Sayo's birth mother, rather than real empathy towards Maria herself.

* TheFaceless: In the visual novel, "Yasu" doesn't have a sprite in [=Ep7=]. This is confirmed by Ryukishi to be an attempt to obscure her real identity as Shannon. In-universe, she's only seen through the "characters" she creates, so the reader can only imagine what Yasu looks like. Yasu's appearance in fanart varied wildly as a result, at least until the manga of [=EP7=] finally gave her a more concrete appearance by depicting Yasu as a young child with long hair and BlindingBangs. Later, this appears to be yet another attempt at obscuring her identity by giving her a form more similar to Clair. In the manga of Episode 8, however, she's most often shown with Shannon's appearance. Most fanartists like to draw Sayo as a blond Shannon without bosoms to make her look different from the regular Shannon.