History Characters / UminekoWhenTheyCrySpoilers

* BlindingBangs: 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. They switch briefly to PeekABangs 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 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 things simpler.

* HairColorDissonance: Sayo's exact hair color is left somewhat ambiguous, but it's usually either portrayed as brown (when in the guise of Shannon/Kanon) or blond like Lion and Beatrice.

* EmbarrassingNickname: Even though the name has stuck in the fandom, Sayo really didn't like to be called "Yasu". It doesn't help that the word can mean "cheap" (as in "a cheap article").

* HatesTheirParent: Sayo had a relatively positive with Kinzo when the latter lived. After he died, Sayo learned about the massacre at the military base that Kinzo is implied to have caused and to make it worse, she was told that she was born of Kinzo's rape of his illegitimate daughter. Sayo's feelings for her father turned into utter contempt and disgust, to the point of writing Kinzo's gruesome death in her forgeries as she couldn't stand that a monster like him died in peace.

* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Okay realistically she probably wouldn't have been able to survive a fall off a cliff like that, but she didn't come off completely unscathed either since it wrecked the possibility of ever having children of her own.

* IronicName: Sayo's given name can be pronounced as "Shaddai", the goddess of fertility. [[CantHaveSexEver Well...]]

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

* OnlyFriend: Having lived all her short existence literally imprisoned by his father (as well as being raped by him), it is beautiful and at the same time very sad the way she opens so easily with Rosa and tries to make friends with her in less than a few hours of knowledge. Not to mention her genuine desire to want to explore the world and definitely escape from the island with together.

* StrawNihilist: A big part of her motives and a big reason why she is able to commit so many terrible atrocities against those she professes to love is that she believes that it's simply impossible for the Ushiromiya family and herself to find happiness in reality. She believes that the karmic weight of Kinzo's sins makes it impossible for any positive result to come to the Ushiromiya family and that even if they survive 1986, they are doomed to failure. She views her murders as a mercy because she believes that by covering the island in an illusion and blaming a non-existent witch would result in the Ushiromiyas being seen as innocent victims rather than the terrible people they actually were showing just how much she hated the truth. Likewise, she believes that she herself cannot obtain happiness and that the revelation of her body and parentage would lead to George and Battler rejecting her. Uniquely for this trope, she desires more than anything for her nihilistic belief to be proven wrong. As Beatrice in the meta world she grows out of this mindset and convinces Ange to live in spite of the cruel reality by [[TheAntiNihilist creating her own happiness.]]

* ExpositoryPronoun: A complex example, as she has created multiple personas and thus has various incarnations in the story, each using a different pronoun. As herself and as the servant Shannon, she uses "watashi", the normal female pronoun. As Beatrice, she uses the archaic regal pronoun "warawa" to give her an elegant and haughty vibe. Kanon, the meek and gloomy boy persona, uses "boku". And as [[TheNarrator Clair]] in Episode 7, she uses the formal "ware" to give a theatrical effect.

* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: It's very strongly implied that Sayo was designated male at birth, but was raised as female due to having her sexual organs damaged as a baby. As a teenager, Sayo began feeling extremely uncomfortable and insecure once she noticed her body wasn't developing like a girl's body should. She went as far as to create a male identity to cope. Finding out about her injuries from the cliff fall only made matters infinitely worse for Sayo. Much of Sayo's conflict and "furniture" complex comes down to not feeling fully comfortable as ''either'' gender because of the condition of her body. Despite everything, Sayo universally gets treated as a girl by the series and even the author explicitly refers to her as such.

* NotSoDifferent: To Ange, lampshaded heavily in the manga. Both are women who loved Battler and wanted to be with him forever, but are abandoned and possibly forgotten by him. Both resent and blame at least one of their parent figures (Kinzo for Sayo and Eva for Ange). Both were severely bullied. Both used "magic" as escapism. Both have given up on life and wanted to commit suicide. In the manga, Sayo-as-Beatrice lampshades the similarity herself, saying both of them could have had a happy life had they faced reality and chosen a path they could not see.

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* SparedByTheAdaptation: He is implied to pass away at the end of the visual novel, although [=Ryukishi07=] would later clarify that he didn't, but he explicitly survives in the manga.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: He is implied to pass away at the end of the visual novel, but explicitly survives in the manga.

* MaliciousMisnaming: They would continually call Sayo Yasuda "Yasu", despite knowing how much Sayo hated that name.

* TheNicknamer: They call each other (and Sayo) by nicknames since they don't like using their servant names.

* PetTheDog: Runon, Renon, Sanon and Benon sincerely wish Sayo well and give her advice as they leave Fukuin House for the last time. Of course, [[AlphaBitch even that is done with several back-handed remarks about her.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: he is implied to pass away at the end of the visual novel, but explicitly survives in the manga.

* BullyMagnet: Sayo suffered bullying and mocking from the other servants during her first years of work. The only other servants who treated Sayo with any kindness were Kumasawa and her ImaginaryFriend, Shannon.

* HeroicBastard: She was born from Kinzo's secret relationship with Beatrice Castiglioni.

* BastardBastard: Played with. Sayo is the bastard child of Kinzo and Beatrice II who planned the murders in the island, but she's still quite the sympathetic character.

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Sayo eventually comes to regret her actions and shows to Ange that for all of her problems, she ultimately regrets the choices she made that led to the Ushiromiya family massacre. All that her games accomplished was that she took the lives of those she loved and now she has absolutely no future at all, instead of living to try for a better tommorrow she accepts that she condmened the entire family and that there is no happiness nor a future for any of them in the land of the dead. She also warns Ange that she risks running into the same mistakes she did by running from her future.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Despite what she wrote in her stories, in the real world Sayo was horrified when she found out George, Jessica and Maria, the people she cared about the most after Battler, died because of her game.

The manga goes on to confirm that the battles between Battler and Beatrice since ''Legend of the Golden Witch'' occur after that in Purgatory, between Sayo's deceased spirit (Beatrice) and Tohya's missing memories (Battler).

* ItMeantSomethingToMe: Battler's promise to whisk her away on a white horse was mostly just trying to sound cool, but Sayo took it ''very'' seriously and was tormented by his six-year absence.

* ItMeantSomethingToMe: While his time together with Shannon and their promise wasn't a big deal for Battler and he easily forgot about it after his life got complicated by his family problems, the time they spent together means the world to Sayo and Battler's broken promise coupled with his sudden return becomes the last straw that causes Sayo's final breakdown.

* DeathOfPersonality: While he eventually regained his memories, his mind refused to accept them as his own anymore, meaning Bernkastel was technically right about “Battler” dying. He was hesitant to meet Ange because he feared she would reawaken “Battler” and erase his current consciousness.

* CinderellaCircumstances: Sayo was originally Lion Ushiromiya, who was meant to grow up to be the heir of the Ushiromiya family. However, her adoptive mother Natsuhi rejected her and pushed the servant who was holding her off a cliff, which resulted in the servants hiding the baby's survival to then raise them in an orphanage to become a servant. Clair even compares Sayo to Cinderella in regards to the "preparations" Kinzo and Genji made for her to find the gold and have Kinzo meet "Beatrice" one last time before dying and passing on the headship to Lion.