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* ShrinkingViolet

* JapanesePronouns: "Watashi", the standard (for women) or formal (for men), gender-neutral pronoun.

* TheFaceless: In the visual novel, Yasu doesn't have a sprite. In-universe s/he is only seen through the "characters" s/he creates, so the reader can only imagine what s/he looks like. Yasu's appearance in fanart varied wildly as a result, at least until the manga finally gave him/her a more concrete appearance. In the manga of [=EP7=], Yasu is depicted as a young child with long blond hair and BlindingBangs, resembling Beatrice and Lion. In the manga of Episode 8, however, s/he is most often shown with Shannon's appearance.

* ACupAngst: And it's PlayedForDrama. Sayo started to figure out something was wrong with "her" body when it didn't show any signs of puberty in middle school, which only gives you more hints that Sayo is actually biologically male. 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.

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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Suffered this treatment from the other servants during his/her first years of work. The only other servants who treated Sayo with any kindness were Kumasawa and her ImaginaryFriend back then, Shannon.

* MadnessMantra: "Die. Die. Die. Die. Die. Die. Die. Die." (as she writes her bloody murder mysteries). Someone give Sayo a DeathNote, please.

* BigBad: Played with, though most likely subverted. Yasu is initially set up to be the true mastermind behind the murders on Rokkenjima, and is indeed shown to have been motivated to kill everyone thanks to his/her suicidal self-loathing and trauma, but ultimately even though she decided to put the murders to a halt in Rokkenjima prime, Kyrie and Rudolf continued the murders anyway.

* AdaptationExpansion: The manga lays down explicitly all of Sayo's inner issues and the thought process that led her to her final choice, in the form of another message bottle titled "Confession of the Golden Witch". The VN on the other hand, only exposed a part of it and encouraged the reader to go through the story again and try to figure out the rest themselves.

* TheFaceless: In the visual novel, Yasu doesn't have a sprite. In-universe s/he is only seen through the "characters" s/he creates, so the reader can only imagine what s/he looks like. Yasu's appearance in fanart varied wildly as a result, at least until the manga finally gave him/her a more concrete appearance. In the manga of [=EP7=], Yasu is depicted as a young child with long blond hair, resembling Beatrice and Lion. In the manga of Episode 8, however, s/he is most often shown with Shannon's appearance.

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Sayo is the illegitimate child of Kinzo and Beatrice II, as well as the baby Natsuhi was given by Kinzo 19 years ago to raise, due to her inability to give birth at the time. One day Natsuhi gave the baby to a servant, but pushed the servant off a cliff out of anger and resentment over raising a child that wasn't her own. The servant died, but the baby managed to survive by a miracle, although with a major abdominal laceration that damaged his sexual organs, upon which Sayo was raised as a girl. Genji, Doctor Nanjo and Kumasawa managed to hide the baby's survival and fake his/her death, passing him/her off as an orphan from the Fukuin house and arranging work for him/her at the Ushiromiya estate as a servant.

She is the true identity of the witch Beatrice, as well as Shannon and Kanon at the same time. Sayo was the one who instigated a mass murder-suicide on Rokkenjima for those two days, only for it to backfire horribly in Rokkenjima Prime.

* ACupAngst: And it's PlayedForDrama. Sayo started to figure out something was wrong with "her" body when it didn't show any signs of puberty in middle school (due to having been born biologically male). 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.

* BlindingBangs: In the manga of Episode 7, Yasu's eyes are always covered by his/her hair, reflecting how s/he was TheFaceless in the original visual novel. S/he switches briefly to PeekABangs when Gaap possesses him/her. In the manga of Episode 8, however, s/he is most often shown with Shannon's appearance.

* TheFaceless: In the visual novel, Yasu doesn't have a sprite. In-universe s/he is only seen through the "characters" s/he creates, so the reader can only imagine what s/he looks like. Yasu's appearance in fanart varied wildly as a result, at least until the manga finally gave him/her a more concrete appearance.

* IHaveManyNames: In Episode 7 alone, s/he is referred to as "Beatrice", "Shannon", "Kanon", "Clair" and "Lion". The fact s/he uses multiple names − each symbolizing a different "role" − is actually the key to several puzzles. As implied by Ryukishi in Ougon Musou Kyoku, however, we were ultimately meant to call her "Sayo".

* MadnessMantra: "Die. Die. Die. Die. Die. Die. Die. Die." (as she writes her bloody murder mysteries)]]. Someone give Sayo a DeathNote, please.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Played with. The fact that Yasu ''hasn't'' had a period yet causes him/her to suspect that something is gravely wrong with his/her body.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Yasu" is only a nickname that was given to him/her by the other servants, which is based on the last name that s/he received from the Fukuin house, Yasuda. We never learn Yasu's given name in the visual novel, and even when s/he learns his/her real name (Lion Ushiromiya), Yasu is only called this once and never goes by that name again. However, it's confirmed in the manga that his/her given name is Sayo and the servant name the Ushiromiya family gave him/her is Shannon.

* PronounTrouble: You might have guessed the issue by just reading a few lines of this character sheet. While in Japanese it goes unnoticed for a while, translators all over the world have wracked their brains to find a natural way to refer to Yasu. Most people seem to prefer using female pronouns to refer to Yasu though, including those who are convinced that Yasu is biologically male and understand his/her gender identity issues.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: In one direction or another, since s/he plays the role of Shannon, Kanon and Beatrice. Of course, because Yasu's gender is never made explicit, no one's actually sure whether Yasu is a girl crossdressing as a guy or a guy crossdressing as a girl.

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* BlindingBangs: In the manga of Episode 7, Yasu's eyes are always covered by his/her hair, reflecting how s/he was TheFaceless in the original visual novel. S/he switches briefly to PeekABangs when Gaap possesses her. In the manga of Episode 8, however, s/he is most often shown with Shannon's appearance.

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* BlindingBangs: In the manga of Episode 7, Yasu's eyes are always covered by his/her hair, reflecting how s/he was TheFaceless in the original visual novel. S/he switches briefly to PeekABangs when Gaap possesses her. In the manga of Episode 8, however, she was shown unconcealed (see image above).

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!!!Voiced by: [[spoiler:Creator/SayakaOhara]]

Sayo is the illegitimate child of Kinzo and Beatrice II, as well as the baby Natsuhi was given by Kinzo 19 years ago to raise, due to her inability to give birth at the time. One day Natsuhi gave the baby to a servant, but pushed the servant off a cliff out of anger and resentment over raising a child that wasn't her own. The servant died, but the baby managed to survive by a miracle, although with a major abdominal laceration that damaged his sexual organs, upon which Sayo was raised as a girl. Genji, Doctor Nanjo and Kumasawa managed to hide the baby's survival and fake his/her death, passing him/her off as an orphan from the Fukuin house and arranging work for him/her at the Ushiromiya estate as a servant.

She is the true identity of the witch Beatrice, as well as Shannon and Kanon at the same time. Sayo was the one who instigated a mass murder-suicide on Rokkenjima for those two days, only for it to backfire horribly in Rokkenjima Prime.

* ACupAngst: And it's PlayedForDrama. Sayo started to figure out something was wrong with "her" body when it didn't show any signs of puberty in middle school (due to having been born biologically male). 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.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Suffered this treatment from the other servants during his/her first years of work. The only other servants who treated Sayo with any kindness were Kumasawa and her ImaginaryFriend back then, Shannon.

* BigBad: Played with, though most likely subverted. Yasu is initially set up to be the true mastermind behind the murders on Rokkenjima, and is indeed shown to have been motivated to kill everyone thanks to his/her suicidal self-loathing and trauma, but ultimately even though she decided to put the murders to a halt in Rokkenjima prime, Kyrie and Rudolf continued the murders anyway.

* BlindingBangs: In the manga of Episode 7, Yasu's eyes are always covered by his/her hair, reflecting how s/he was TheFaceless in the original visual novel. S/he switches briefly to PeekABangs when Gaap possesses her. In the manga of Episode 8, however, she was shown unconcealed (see image above).

* ButNotTooForeign: Mostly Japanese, but has some Italian blood in him/her from his/her grandmother Beatrice Castiglioni.

* TheFaceless: In the visual novel, Yasu doesn't have a sprite. In-universe s/he is only seen through the "characters" s/he creates, so the reader can only imagine what s/he looks like. Yasu's appearance in fanart varied wildly as a result, at least until the manga finally gave him/her a more concrete appearance.

* HeroicBastard[=/=]BastardBastard: Yasu has elements of both, even though ultimately in Rokkenjima Prime she didn't get to kill anyone.

* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: A mundane example, since the "spirits" are really just "characters"/{{Imaginary Friend}}s Yasu made up and not real people. If you just count the ones that are given control of Yasu's body, the number is likely three [[spoiler:(with Clair being an embodiment of all three at once)]], but if you count all of his/her {{Imaginary Friend}}s as well, the number quickly shoots into the double-digits. "I am one yet many", indeed. [[http://shroedinger.deviantart.com/art/Shkanoyasutrice-177520590 Spoofed here]].
* MasterActor: Yasu is able to play the roles of all his/her idealized personas to the degree of almost becoming another person entirely. His/her voice and behavior can also change greatly between two scenes.

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

* [[spoiler:MurderSuicide]]: [[spoiler:Yasu's true plan if one personality hadn't won out by the second day or if Battler had never arrived on Rokkenjima that year.]]
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Played with. [[spoiler:The fact that Yasu ''hasn't'' had a period yet causes him/her to suspect that something is gravely wrong with his/her body.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Yasu was nine years old when first put to work, but Genji lied about his/her age, lowering it by three years [[spoiler:to avoid suspicion from Natsuhi about Yasu being the child she rejected]]. Because of Yasu's feebleness and underdevelopment it was easy to fake.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Yasu" is only a nickname that was given to him/her by the other servants, which is based on the last name that s/he received from the Fukuin house, Yasuda. We never learn Yasu's given name in the visual novel, and even when s/he learns his/her real name [[spoiler:(Lion Ushiromiya)]], Yasu is only called this once and never goes by that name again. However, it's confirmed in the manga that his/her given name is [[spoiler:Sayo and the servant name the Ushiromiya family gave him/her is Shannon]].

* PetTheDog: Despite all the rather questionable things s/he is heavily implied to have done, it's shown that Yasu isn't a bad person when [[spoiler:s/he forgives Natsuhi for throwing him/her off the cliff and messing up his/her life in [=EP8=]]].
* PinocchioSyndrome: Suffers from this later in life, though not literally, [[spoiler:due to what is heavily implied to be his/her damaged sexual organs, and Yasu not considering him/herself human as a result.]]
* ThePollyanna: Or tried to be, at least. Much like Maria in her diary, Yasu's narration tries to attenuate the misery of his/her situation as much as possible with various coping mechanisms, but if you read between the lines it becomes obvious that his/her life was pretty horrible. The [[spoiler:"red guts sequence"]] at the end of Episode 7 gives us an inkling of how s/he ''really'' felt about it.

* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: Implied. Despite the AmbiguousGender issue, it's shown that Yasu was raised as a girl and there are several hints that s/he may in fact be biologically male, [[spoiler:like how Natsuhi doesn't question "The Man from 19 Years Ago" sounding male (the exact description in the VN is "like a boy's voice that hasn't broken yet", and in the Japanese version the Man uses very aggressively male speech patterns) on the phone]]. The Episode 8 manga skews heavily towards this interpretation.
* ShoutOut: Yasu's name is a reference to Yasuhiro "Yasu" Mano from the Japanese mystery game ''VisualNovel/ThePortopiaSerialMurderCase'', who is infamous for being both the player character's partner and the BigBadFriend (so much so that "Yasu is the culprit" quickly became a meme, which was later adopted by the ''Umineko'' fandom). [[spoiler:However, whether ''Umineko'''s Yasu is truly the culprit is questionable.]]

* SignificantDoubleCasting: In the PS3 port, Yasu is voiced by [[spoiler:Creator/SayakaOhara]], who also voices [[spoiler:Beatrice]]. This is because [[spoiler:Yasu is Beatrice's true identity.]]

* StepfordSmiler: An unique type, but closer to type C (unstable) [[spoiler:in the form of Shannon]].

* SuddenlyVoiced: Played in an unusual way in the PS3 port of Episode 7. For a long while, Yasu is the only [[TheVoiceless non-voiced character]] (even though s/he speaks often)… until the line where s/he says s/he wants to become a witch. During the whole scene after that, his/her voice gradually evolves into that of [[spoiler:Beatrice.]] The only other voiced lines Yasu has are when [[spoiler:s/he is made to meet Kinzō after discovering the gold, and also when Yasu demands why Genji and Nanjo didn't just let him/her die after they reveal the truth about his/her origins and the state of his/her body to him/her.]]
* TalkingToThemself: [[spoiler:Does this with Shannon. Throughout the rest of the series, whenever Beatrice, Shannon or Kanon are speaking to each other it also represents Yasu talking to him/herself.]]

* UsedToBeASweetKid: Especially apparent considering that this is the person who [[spoiler:Beatrice]] used to be.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: In one direction or another, since [[spoiler:s/he plays the role of Shannon, Kanon and Beatrice.]] Of course, because Yasu's gender is never made explicit, no one's actually sure whether Yasu is a girl crossdressing as a guy or a guy crossdressing as a girl.

Girls who grew up in the same orphanage as Yasu and once worked as servants at the Ushiromiya estate with him/her, constantly mocking his/her clumsiness and forgetfulness (except the last one). [[spoiler:S/he, in turn, based the Seven Sisters of Purgatory's appearance on them.]] Their names are Runon, Renon, Sanon, Benon (who were Yasu's first coworkers at the mansion), Berune, Asune (who came after the first four left) and Manon (who appears when Yasu [[spoiler:has already become "Shannon"]]).

* {{Alpha Bitch}}es: Runon, Renon, Sanon and Benon often harshly criticize Yasu for being clumsy, forgetful and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking being much younger than them]]. Even later servants like Berune and Asune look down on Yasu, and call him/her names behind his/her back, but at least have the decency to call him/her [[spoiler:"Shannon-chan"]] when talking to him/her.

* [[OnlySixFaces Only One Face]]: Like the Stakes of Purgatory, they all look exactly the same aside from their hairstyles. [[spoiler:In turn, the Stakes of Purgatory look exactly like them.]]
* ReusedCharacterDesign: An in-universe case, since [[spoiler:Beatrice based the Seven Sisters on them]]; out-of-universe it's the opposite, since their sprites are reused from [[spoiler:the stakes]], and as a result they all look the same despite not being sisters.

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!!!Voiced by: [[spoiler:Creator/DaisukeOno]]

A man who was found lying in the middle of a road by Ikuko Hachijō, with no memories ouside of his own age. They started to live together, sharing their love of mystery novels, as he gradually gave up on retrieving his memories and started to accept himself as a new person, [[spoiler:"Tooya"]], the name she gave him.

[[spoiler:He later remembers his old identity as Battler Ushiromiya when he learns about Beatrice's message bottles, and then writes "forgeries" of them with Ikuko, which describe events similar to Episodes 3 to 6. They are published under Tooya's name.]]

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Tooya's hair has turned white due to aging and has been cut shorter, in contrast with the hairstyle he had as [[spoiler:Battler]].
* IdenticalGrandson: Looks almost exactly like the younger version of his grandfather [[spoiler:Kinzo]].
* ImpliedLoveInterest: To Ikuko. Ryukishi had actually intended him [[spoiler:[[WhatCouldHaveBeen to be married to Ikuko in the epilogue]]]], but ended up making things more ambiguous.

* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: He appears only in the epilogue, which takes place in the 2020's. [[spoiler:While he possesses the memories of Battler Ushiromiya, it's made very clear by himself and the narration that he should be considered a different person.]]

* LossOfIdentity: He is terrified at the idea that [[spoiler:"Battler Ushiromiya"]] could "take over his body" and he could wake up as someone else.
* MeaningfulRename: His current name was given to him by Ikuko. The characters of his name mean "18" which was his age at the time of [[spoiler:the Rokkenjima incident]], after which Ikuko found him, and the only thing he remembered after his accident.

* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Battler actually survived the Rokkenjima murders along with Eva. However, he nearly drowned after trying to save Beatrice, and lost all of his memories. Most of the plot is Tooya trying to put his memories back together. Yes, a good part of the instances and scenarios beforehand was just Tooya brainstorming for the truth.]]

* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:Yasu is in love with Battler, George (as Shannon) and Jessica (as Kanon).]] At one point in [=EP7=] Yasu even notes that he/she's willing to fall in love with anyone [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe who shows him/her kindness]].
* BlindingBangs: In the manga of Episode 7, Yasu's eyes are always covered by his/her hair, reflecting how s/he was TheFaceless in the original visual novel. S/he switches briefly to PeekABangs when [[spoiler:Gaap possesses him/her]].

* ButNotTooForeign: Mostly Japanese, but has some Italian blood in him/her from his/her grandmother [[spoiler:Beatrice I]].
* [[spoiler:CantHaveSexEver: Yasu is said to have "a body that can't love" due to the wounds s/he received after falling from the cliff as a baby, which implies that his/her sexual organs are badly damaged and s/he can't have sex as a result.]]
* ChildByRape: Yasu is the result of his/her father/grandfather confusing his illegitimate daughter with the reincarnation of his lover and ultimately raping her. Yasu didn't take it well when s/he found out.

* DeathFakedForYou: After [[spoiler:Natsuhi pushed him/her off a cliff]], Genji, Doctor Nanjo and Kumawasa managed to hide Yasu's survival and fake his/her death.

* DistinguishingMark: [[spoiler:The manga reveals that like Kinzo, Yasu had polydactyly, but his/her extra toes were surgically removed and only a small scar remained. One day Yasu accidentally spilled hot soup s/he was bringing to Kinzo on his/her feet and when Kumasawa took off his/her shoes to treat the burns, Kinzo immediately noticed the scars, causing him to suspect that Yasu was his lost child.]]
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide: In [=EP8=] it's heavily implied that this is the way Yasu died, by throwing him/herself into the sea and drowning along with Battler. What's more, s/he was already planning a MurderSuicide before thinking about blowing up the entire island.]]
* EmbarrassingNickname: Even though the name has stuck in the fandom, Yasu really didn't like to be called that.
* TheFaceless: In the visual novel, Yasu doesn't have a sprite. In-universe s/he is only seen through the "characters" s/he creates, so the reader can only imagine what s/he looks like. Yasu's appearance in fanart varied wildly as a result, at least until the manga finally gave him/her a more concrete appearance.

* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: [[spoiler:Besides the whole "furniture" complex, Battler and the heartbreak that resulted when he never came back for Shannon and then forgot to write her a letter is a big issue in Yasu's love life. His sudden return was essential for Yasu's final choice.]]

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: As a servant, s/he wasn't exactly happy, but s/he was still mentally stable. Learning about [[spoiler:his/her origins, his/her mother and the state of his/her body after having discovered the gold]], however, made Yasu broken for good. [[spoiler:That's actually when s/he began to call him/herself "furniture".]]

* HeroicBastard[=/=]BastardBastard: Yasu has elements of both, whether or not [[spoiler:s/he is the true culprit.]]
* IHaveManyNames: In Episode 7 alone, s/he is referred to as [[spoiler:"Beatrice", "Shannon", "Kanon", "Clair" and "Lion"]]. The fact s/he uses multiple names − each symbolizing a different "role" − is actually the key to several puzzles. As implied by Ryukishi in Ougon Musou Kyoku, however, we were ultimately meant to call Yasu [[spoiler:Sayo]].
* IJustWantToBeLoved: The problem being that even if s/he shares a mutual love with someone, s/he feels that that love is eventually doomed to failure [[spoiler:due to his/her body being unable to have sex, neither as a woman, nor as a man.]]

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: S/he created and nurtured the character of an almighty, haughty witch in great part to deal with his/her frighteningly low self-esteem. And is all too aware of it, as [[spoiler:the scenes between Beatrice and Shannon in Episode 2]] show.
* InterClassRomance: All the people Yasu has fallen in love with are members of the obscenely wealthy Ushiromiya family while s/he is a servant. [[spoiler:Later this turns out to be subverted, since Yasu is actually the true head of the family.]]
* IronicName: Yasu's given name [[spoiler:Sayo]] can be pronounced as "Shaddai", the goddess of fertility. [[CantHaveSexEver Well...]]
* IWillWaitForYou: Does this for [[spoiler:Battler. At some point s/he decides to move on and starts a relationship with George instead, but his/her love for Battler never completely fades.]]

* [[spoiler:KingIncognito: Though Yasu was raised as a servant, he/she is in fact the true head of the family and was always intended to be so, having been granted the headship by Kinzo before he died.]]
* KissingCousins: [[spoiler:Given that s/he is Shannon, Kanon and Beatrice, Yasu is involved with as many as ''three'' of his/her cousins (who are also his/her niece/nephews). Though to be fair, Yasu had no idea s/he was related to Battler and George until about two years prior to when the story begins.]]

* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler:Toward Battler. Even though he broke his promise to come back for Shannon and broke his/her heart when he forgot to write a letter for Shannon, Yasu ''still'' can't forget about him and no matter how much s/he loves George and Jessica, there's always a special place for Battler in Yasu's heart, even if it only brings him/her pain.]]
* MadBomber: [[spoiler:Whether or not Yasu truly killed everyone, s/he had still rigged up enough explosives to completely wipe out the Ushiromiya estate and any evidence of the murders with it, leaving nothing but a crater behind. And that shrine that was presumably destroyed by a lightning bolt? It was actually blew up by one of Yasu's bombs.]]

* MadnessMantra: "Die. Die. Die. Die. Die. Die. Die. Die." [[spoiler:(as they are writing their bloody murder mysteries)]]. Someone give Yasu a DeathNote, please.

* ACupAngst: And it's somewhat PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler:Yasu 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 Yasu has quite a complex about it.]]
* AdaptationExpansion: The manga lays down explicitly all of Yasu's inner issues and the thought process that led them to their final choice, [[spoiler:in the form of another message bottle titled "Confession of the Golden Witch".]] The VN on the other hand, only exposed a part of it and encouraged the reader to go through the story again and try to figure out the rest themselves.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Suffered this treatment from the other servants during his/her first years of work. The only other servants who treated Yasu with any kindness were Kumasawa and [[spoiler:his/her ImaginaryFriend]] Shannon.
* AmbiguousGender: Yasu's gender was essentially left to the audience, since it's one of the many mysteries of the series. His/her manga depiction in Episode 7 keeps the ambiguity remarkably well, with even his/her casual outfits being [[http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=1951641428.jpg a strange mix of male and female clothing.]] The Episode 8 manga however, very strongly implies that Yasu was born as male but was RaisedAsTheOppositeGender.

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Yasu's entire plan with the epitaph boils down to one of these constructed in a particularly haphazard way, with more vulnerability to failure than you usually get in these. This is justified since a part of Yasu wants the plan to fail and to be found out.]]
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler:In [=EP6=], the duel between Shannon and Kanon, with Beatrice sitting on the sidelines, is actually a representation of the state of affairs within Yasu's head for a good year or two prior to 1986.]]
* BettyAndVeronica: [[spoiler:Yasu is the Archie to George's Betty and Battler's Veronica with Jessica as the ThirdOptionLoveInterest. As the scenes between Shannon and Kanon in [=EP6=] show, without Battler, Jessica takes the role of Veronica.]]
* [[spoiler:BigBad]]: Played with, [[spoiler:though most likely subverted. Yasu is initially set up to be the true mastermind behind the murders on Rokkenjima, and is indeed shown to have been motivated to kill everyone thanks to his/her suicidal self-loathing and trauma, but it's heavily implied that the real murderers were Kyrie and Rudolf.]]

Sayo is the illegitimate child of Kinzo and Beatrice II, as well as the baby Natsuhi was given by Kinzo 19 years ago to raise, due to her inability to give birth at the time. One day Natsuhi gave the baby to a servant, but pushed the servant off a cliff out of anger and resentment over raising a child that wasn't her own. The servant died, but the baby managed to survive by a miracle, although with a major abdominal laceration that damaged his sexual organs, upon which Sayo was raised as a girl. Genji, Doctor Nanjo and Kumasawa managed to hide the baby's survival and fake his/her death, passing him/her off as an orphan from the Fukuin house and arranging work for him/her at the Ushiromiya estate as a servant. She is the true identity of the witch Beatrice, as well as Shannon and Kanon at the same time. Sayo was the one who instigated a mass murder-suicide on Rokkenjima for those two days, only for it to backfire horribly in Rokkenjima Prime.

Sayo is the illegitimate child of Kinzo and Beatrice II, as well as the baby Natsuhi was given by Kinzo 19 years ago to raise, due to her inability to give birth at the time. One day Natsuhi gave the baby to a servant, but pushed the servant off a cliff out of anger and resentment over raising a child that wasn't her own. The servant died, but the baby managed to survive by a miracle, although with terrible injuries (some of which are heavily implied to be the mutilation of his/her sexual organs). Genji, Doctor Nanjo and Kumasawa managed to hide the baby's survival and fake his/her death, passing him/her off as an orphan from the Fukuin house and arranging work for him/her at the Ushiromiya estate as a servant. She is the true identity of the witch Beatrice, as well as Shannon and Kanon at the same time. Sayo was the one who instigated a mass murder-suicide on Rokkenjima for those two days, only for it to backfire horribly in Rokkenjima Prime.

A mysterious figure in the series. Yasu is an individual of [[AmbiguousGender unclear gender]] who is known to have been an orphan from the Fukuin house who worked as a servant at the Ushiromiya estate from a young age, with Shannon as his/her role model and only friend.

[[spoiler:S/he is originally Kinzo and Beatrice II's illegitimate child and the baby Natsuhi was given by Kinzo 19 years ago to raise, due to her inability to give birth at the time. One day Natsuhi gave the baby to a servant, but pushed the servant off a cliff out of anger and resentment over raising a child that wasn't her own. The servant died, but the baby managed to survive by a miracle, although with terrible injuries (some of which are heavily implied to be the mutilation of his/her sexual organs). Genji, Doctor Nanjo and Kumasawa managed to hide the baby's survival and fake his/her death, passing him/her off as an orphan from the Fukuin house and arranging work for him/her at the Ushiromiya estate as a servant.]]

[[spoiler:Yasu is the true identity of Beatrice, Shannon and Kanon. Her real name is Sayo Yasuda. ]]

[[spoiler:In a different, "ideal" world s/he would have been known as Lion Ushiromiya, heir to the headship of the Ushiromiya family and Jessica's older sibling by one year.]]

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[[folder:"Yasu" Yasuda]]