Sandbox / Umineko: When They Cry - Beatrice

WARNING: Major spoilers ahead (This is a double warning).

The Golden Witch/The Endless Witch

Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (JP)

"...But, at least in your eyes, I want to be a witch."

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

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• Affectionate Nickname:
  • Beato, of course. Given to her by Battler in the manga, but in the visual novels she asks him to call her this.
  • When talking about her, Virgilia always calls Beatrice "that child/that girl", which somewhat emphasises the latter's childishness and their mother/daughter-like relationship.
• Alchemy Is Magic: Claims to have procured the gold through alchemy and claims to be Kinzo's alchemical counsellor.
• Always Someone Better: There's no doubt that Beatrice is a powerful and cunning Witch, but for all the effort she puts into it, once the other Witches get more active in the later episodes it becomes clear that their power and cunning widely surpasses hers.
• Ambiguously Evil: Especially during Episodes 3 and 4, where she's still Battler's enemy but her true motives have started surfacing.
• Angst Coma: In EP5, Beatrice is left in a catatonic state as a result of losing her will to keep fighting against Battler. After Battler loses against Dlanor, Beatrice finally gives up on him finding her truth and disappears.
• Annoying Laugh: At least for Battler. And Ronove.
• Antiquated Linguistics: Her whole speech is old fashioned, which lends to her image as an elegant witch who has lived a thousand years. She's notable for using the archaic feminine pronoun "warawa" for herself, and addresses others with "sonata". However, there are a few times where she slips into cruder, masculine Japanese like Jessica.
• Anti-Villain: After all of her antics in and out of the Face–Heel Revolving Door, her character evolves into this. EP5 reveals she was never evil to begin with and the entire time she was acting as a Stealth Mentor to help Battler reach the truth.
• Art Evolution:
  • In her first anime appearance she has a statuesque, obviously supernatural beauty; once showing that is out of the way she quickly becomes cute in the same art style as everyone else over the course of a couple episodes.
  • A similar thing happens in the manga, where Kei Natsumi draws her with a "cuter" and less agressive appearance as her behavior progressively changes.
• Aww Look They Really Do Love Each Other:
  • She mocks Battler cruely throughout the different Games, but she does genuine care for him, creating a party for him when Ronove told her he was unresponsive and lying in the ground sulking.
  • Quiet antagonist to Virgilia too, but she clearly sees her as a mother-figure running to her whenever wrong happens and even bought her a gift for White Day, even if it's making fun of her age.
• Bad Samaritan: She helped Shannon and George to get together only to enjoy the inevitable failure of their relationship, and tried the same thing with Kanon and Jessica. But as it turns out in the sixth game, this is really a metaphor for Sayo Yasuda's conflict over being in love with both George and Jessica.
• The Baroness: The Sexpot type. She's very attractive and her sadism makes the dominatrix aspect very apparent. Her rivalry with Battler has romantic undertones that only increase as the story goes on.
• Battle Couple: With Battler.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: There are times Beatrice is cut and mutiliated, but never loses her beauty from the injuries.
• Becoming the Mask: She fakes a Heel–Face Turn in Episode 3 as part of an elaborate gambit to prevail over Battler, but in subsequent episodes it becomes clear that the feelings that were invoked during this ordeal were genuine and she ultimately has a real Heel–Face Turn.
• Berserk Button: Shannon asserting her humanity really seems to set her off for some reason. She's basically trying to crush her own self-esteem.
• Big Bad: She sets herself up as this at the end of Episode 1. The truth is a bit more complicated.
• Blatant Lies: "I cannot lie or deceive. All my emotions show up on my face." Uh-huh.
• Blessed with Suck: An endless witch has the ability to restore anything, creating eternal happiness. But that eternal happiness leads to eternal boredom, which Beatrice can't stand.
• Blood Knight: If given the chance to go violent, Beatrice is usually the first to go for it, delightfully fighting her mentor in a witch duel in Episode 4 and Erika in Episode 6 and 8, in a quickdraw mystery game and then a swash buckling pirate fight.
• Body Backup Drive: In Episode 5, Beatrice dies after finally giving up on Battler finding the truth. She's brought back in the next arc when Battler creates a new body for her, with (eventually) the same memories and personality.
• Break the Haughty:
  • In the 3rd Tea Party, after Beatrice mocks Lambdadelta one time too many. The manga makes a point in getting Beato off her big horses in that scene, with Lambda splashing hot tea on her face, forcing her to kneel down and threatening her while she trembles in terror, before starting to forcibly erase Beato's witch form. We're talking about Beatrice here, who at this point was the troll-in-chief and fearsome witch of the series, being bluntly reminded by Lambda that a Witch of the Senate is not to be trifled with.
  • Bernkastel/Erika's whole scheme in Episode 5 leads to this against Beatrice or more specifically, the piece who is representing Beatrice during the game while Meta!Beatrice is comatose. The Beatrice of this game is meant to protect Natsuhi and help her maintain Kinzo's death secret. Bernkastel then has Erika compose a theory that not only completely denies Beatrice's existence as a witch, but frames Natsuhi for the murders. Piece!Beatrice is sentenced to be Devoured by the Horde of goats, Battler tries to save her but only gets utterly defeated by Dlanor and Beatrice finally loses it when Battler states he doesn't remember their promise. By the end of the trial, Piece!Beatrice is reduced to a sobbing mess, Laughing Mad as she tells Dlanor to kill her already and begs Battler to die with her.
• Broken Bird: It's revealed that the sweet personality Chick Beatrice displays is actually how Beatrice was like 1000 years ago before she went through all her trauma that turned her into the cruel person she is now. This trauma is actually Battler's sin and her living "1000" years is actually symbolism for how long the six years Sayo Yasuda spent waiting for him felt.
• Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: She's very strongly associated with these. In the manga it's explained that when a character is able to see golden butterflies on a gameboard, it means he either is an accomplice or is about to die.
• Came Back Wrong: In Episode 6, sort of. The Beatrice Battler creates has none of the real Beatrice's memories.
• Card-Carrying Villain: In the first arc nobody really knew who murdered all the people on the island. Then Beatrice burst in to announce that, yes, she did it and is damn proud of it. Did we mention she's a lying liar who lies a lot?
• Catchphrase: "Omoshiroi! Jitsu ni omoshiroi!" (Interesting, really interesting!)
• The Chessmaster: It's her job as the Game Master to come up with both a plan for the culprit and a fantasy narrative to cover it.
• Classy Cane: When wearing her casual outfit in the gameboard, Beatrice carries a cane that resembles the golden eagle of the Ushiromiya symbol.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: In Episode 8, she isn't pleased by Asmodeus trying to flirt with Battler.
• Complexity Addiction: Derives from her (and Kinzo's) definition of magic.
• Composite Character: An in-universe version of the trope. Beatrice as a whole is a mixture of the ghosts legends surrounding Rokkenjima, the rumor surrounding Kinzo's secret lover, and the real Beatrice's identities. In EP7 it's shown how Sayo Yasuda started with a simple idea of Beatrice being a trickster ghost and ended with the product of knowing the stories behind the real Beatrices, her grandmother who gave the Italian gold to Kinzo and her mother who was kept in Kuwadorian and was also Kinzo's lover.
• Confusion Fu: During the first Episodes, she really likes to toy with Battler when he's trying to think.
• Criminal Mind Games: Her gruesome displays on the gameboards, and the very fact she creates the gameboards in the Meta World.
• Death Seeker: In the fourth arc, when she gives up on Battler ever realizing the truth.
• Deal with the Devil: She struck a deal with Lambadelta before the game, having her be her sponsor and giving her territory for the Golden Land and Game Board in the Meta-World in exchange for weaving endless tales of slaughter to lure Bernkanstel in an endless lope.
• Despair Event Horizon: Crosses it in EP4 after Battler fails to remember his sin. It goes to the point that Beatrice tries to abandon the game and live with Maria in the Golden Land. However, Ange ruins things for her by "resurrecting" Sakutaro and Beatrice is forced to fight against Battler one more time, where she lets Battler's Blue Truths pierce through her. As a result, she becomes an Empty Shell and finally, thinking Battler is dead and won't return, dies moments before Battler finally reaches the truth.
• Determinator: In EP3, Beatrice won't allow Eva-Beatrice to interrupt Jessica and Kanon's short reunion. Not even getting stabbed in the heart by the Chiesters several times and getting her body blown up makes her give up, going as far as to keep protecting Jessica and Kanon even when there's only her heart left. However, this is subverted since all that was part of an act to get Battler to acknowledge her and in EP4 she gives up on Battler being able to reach her truth and later lets herself die.
• Deuteragonist: More evident in Chiru, but with hindsight you can also see her this way in the first four arcs. It progressively becomes very clear that Beatrice is just as much the main character of the story as Battler is. The entire mystery is about understanding who she is, where she comes from and what her motivations are.
• Disc-One Final Boss: From EP5 onward, it's clear that she isn't the real Big Bad of the story, especially since Bernkastel has taken up the position.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Her cruelty especially towards Rosa as shown in EP 2 tea party is explained as such: She's the daughter of Beatrice II whom Rosa met as a schoolgirl and accidentally and indirectly caused her death. Beatrice also dislikes the way Rosa treats Maria, a fellow witch and dear friend. Ironically, Rosa feels a deep and constant remorse for the real Beatrice's death, which is part of why hearing the witch's name is so painful to her.
• Dragon with an Agenda: EP3's Tea Party reveals Beatrice's game is only meant to help her guardian Lambdadelta keep Bernkastel around for eternity. Lambdadelta knows Beatrice may have different intentions, so she warns Beatrice that she can take away her power if she does something that threatens keep the game going forever. In fact, Beatrice's real agenda all along was to lose against Battler so he could find out her true identity. When Beatrice gives up on it, Lambdadelta takes over the game board.
• Driven to Suicide: At the end of Episode 8, Beatrice jumps into the sea because she feels she won't be accepted by anyone and won't be able to fit in the world outside of Rokkenjima. Battler decides to go down with her since all of the murders happened because of him. Although the final outcome of the scene can be interpreted in many ways in the VN, the manga confirms this is how Beatrice's original self Sayo Yasuda died in the real world; "Battler" indeed died with her, but his physical body survived and became Tooya Hachijo.
• Empty Shell: In EP5, she does nothing, since she gave up on trying to make Battler understand her and her truth. She just sits there like a motionless doll until she finally lets herself die.
• Even Evil Has Standards: It says a lot that Beatrice is disgusted with Rosa's treatment of Maria but as you notice in episode 8 and think about it, Rosa was the one who accidentally let Beatrice II, Sayo's mother die and she also sees Kinzo's cruelty inside Rosa, for these reasons, she does hold a larger grudge towards Rosa than all the others parents beyond Natsuhi. However, she still steps in when Eva-Beatrice takes her "fun" with Rosa too far after Battler slaps her and scolds her badly.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In EP3, Beatrice doesn't really understand why Battler blew up at her after she made him watch how Eva-Beatrice brutally tortured and murdered Rosa and Maria over and over again. Beatrice saw it as nothing but an amusing spectacle and she thought there was nothing wrong with what Eva-Beatrice was doing to Rosa and Maria because they can be revived no matter how many times they are killed. Subverted since she's well aware that what she's doing is wrong, but it's all part of her Stealth Mentor facade. Virgilia even confirms that she doesn't actually enjoy murdering Battler's family over and over.
• Evil Laughter: The VN has "*cackle* *cackle* " and ahaha.wav; the anime has Sayaka Ohara starting great and getting better every episode.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Sayaka Ohara put a lot of effort into giving Beatrice a very low and powerful voice befitting of a magnificent, evil witch.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: In EP5, Beatrice lets her hair down for the whole EP because she now can't even fix her hair. Or move, or eat, or speak... Virgilia is even combing her hair for her.
• Expository Pronoun: Occasionally switches from the second person pronoun "sonata" (polite and archaic) to the rude "omae" when she drops the elegant facade. She also switches from the archaic feminine pronoun "warawa" to the more contemporary and gender-neutral "watashi" when she drops the evil witch act and resurfaces as Sayo Yasuda.
• Face–Heel Revolving Door: And she revels in it. Though in EP6 and beyond, she is a Face.
• Fangs Are Evil: Her little fangs are a lot less cute than the ones other cast members have.
• Faux Affably Evil: At first, anyway. Then the ship tease and moe-moe start showing up.
• Flower Motifs: She wears a rose in her hair.
• Freudian Excuse: It's complicated but yes, she has one. Perhaps even several. Understanding it is actually one of the main parts of the mystery.
• Friendly Address Privileges: The fact that she asks Battler to call her Beato early on is a hint in itself. In the manga, Battler just starts to use that name on his own, though.
  Beatrice: Those close to me call me "Beato".
• Full-Name Basis: With "Ushiromiya Battler" − sorry, "Ushiromiya Battleeeeer" −, when she is in full Troll mode.

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• Generation Xerox: Her relationship with Battler plays this theme hard. Their relationship at several points is meant to parallel Kinzo's relationship with Sayo's grandmother and mother. EP7 reveals Kinzo looked almost identical to Battler when he first met the first Beatrice. Although, Battler and Beatrice do manage to eventually work things out and end up Happily Married, while Kinzo's love for his Beatrice turned into a sick obsession that led him to rape his own daughter.
• Giant Poofy Sleeves: Her Pimped-Out Dress has puffs on and just below the shoulders.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She loves Sakutaro the stuff animal of Maria that she even used her magic to turn him alive, which she cuddles whenever she can.
• Glove Slap: In EP6, she throws a glove when she challenges Erika to a duel for Battler's hand in marriage.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: She carries around a long pipe, similar to an Evil Cigarette Holder.
• Go Out with a Smile: In EP5, she gives Battler (who is supposedly dead at the time) a Tearful Smile right before she finally allows herself to die.
• Go Through Me: She does this in EP3 to prevent Eva-Beatrice from interrupting Jessica and Kanon's reunion. She keeps doing it even when there's only her heart left.
• Gratuitous English: KONGURAAAAAAATULEEEEISHOOOOOOONS!! AAAAANDO HAAAWAAAYUUU?? AM FAIIIN SENKYUUUU!!
• Happily Married: She marries Battler at the end of EP6. They look very happy together in EP8.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: In Episode 4 (and 8), her elegant, tea-drinking witch image takes a hard blow when she calls Battler over the phone while very obviously drunk on wine. Also note that she's 19 years old, so technically underage in Japan.
• Heel Realization: Subverted. A large part of Episode 3 focuses on Beatrice realizing how cruelly she has been abusing her powers until that point. She reforms, eventually even helping the Ushiromiya side of the game board, and ends up denying witches to have Battler win the game, causing her own demise. At the very end of the episode, all of this is revealed to only be an act to get Battler to voluntarily recognize the existence of witches. Although this gets zig-zagged in the following episodes, as it turns out the Heel Realization was genuine and her revelation of it all being an act was so that the game between her and Battler can continue so that he can reach the truth.
• Hellish Pupils: Her eyes are drawn with slitted pupils in the Episode 4 manga.
• Hero's Muse: Rather like the lady from The Divine Comedy who she was named after, Beatrice was designed by Sayo Yasuda to be the ideal woman for Battler. Her game is actually meant to be a quest for Battler to understand her heart while she plays the role of Stealth Mentor.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: EP5 confirms that, while Beatrice is mischievous by nature, her sadistic behaviour in the first four arcs was an act as part of her being a Stealth Mentor towards Battler.
• Hot-Blooded: A penchant to go full ham whenever she has to fight whether it's Battler, Erika, or Dlanor, loudly boasting arguments and magic against her foe. [[spoiler: She's also the first to go full blooded when her deceit is expose in Episode 8, leading the Golden Land inhabitants against Featherine's army in the Battle for the Golden Land.
  "If you wish to enter with your shoes on, then let us give you a proper welcome! In other words, to put it elegantly... WASH YOU FACE IN MISO SOOOOOOOOUPPPP!!!"
• Hot Witch: She looks very good for a thousand years old witch. Invoked, since Sayo Yasuda modeled Beatrice's appearance on Battler's ideal woman.
• Humanizing Tears: In the ending of EP4, she pretty much gives up on the game and lets Battler's Blue Truths pierce through her. While in unbearable pain, Beatrice breaks down in tears and desperately begs Battler to uncover her truth to end her suffering. This is one of the first moments where Battler and the reader first get the true sense that Beatrice isn't the monstrous witch she pretends to be.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Or at least I just want someone to understand me. Battler eventually does, but too late.
• Image Song: Chain, Golden Nocturne and Epilogue.
• Imaginary Friend: In EP1 she's treated like this to an extent in regards to Maria. In EP7 it's shown that from an anti-fantasy perspective, she really was a sort of imaginary friend to her. In the fifth arc, she also became Natsuhi's imaginary friend, along with her furniture.
• Immortal Immaturity: While she can act the part of a dignified witch who's lived for a thousand years, a lot of the time she's very childish. Justified since later on it's revealed that she isn't even close to a thousand years old; she's actually 19.
• Immune to Bullets: As Natsuhi found out the hard way. However, it's subverted in later chapters which reveal that, when they actually do get hit, magical beings are especially susceptible to man-made weapons such as guns. The manga reveals that Natsuhi's gun wasn't even loaded during her duel with Beatrice, since Sayo Yasuda removed the bullets beforehand.
• Insult of Endearment: Whenever Battler does something dumb, she loves to call him incompotent or pathetic in a playful manner.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Maria, as Beatrice is 1000+ years old, actually 19.
• Invisible to Normals: According to EP2, no one in the island can see her besides Shannon and Kanon, unless she allows them to see her.
• Jackass Genie: In the second Tea Party, Beatrice is apparently willing to literally bring to life Rosa's old and numerous murderous thoughts, dreams and desires against her older siblings for ruining her whole childhood by trying to sympathize with her situation, only to cruelly taunt and torture her by forcing her (with the help of goats) to feed with their blood and their flesh. The icing on her cake is also feeding her with Maria's head as a dessert, based on the fact that, according to Beatrice herself, Rosa hates and blame even her own daughter for ruining her life.
• Killer Game Master: From EP1 to EP4. Subverted twice however: first because she can revive whoever she kills thanks to her Endless powers, and second because she isn't actually trying to kill anyone from Rokkenjima.
• Kneel Before Zod: Loves to do this in the first two Episodes.
• Lady of Black Magic: A graceful witch with power over life and death as an Endless Witch as well as powerful summons.
• Large Ham: "Let's start torturing each other, USHIROMIYA BATTORAAAAAAAAA!!!" Ohara was definitely enjoying herself.
• Laughably Evil: At least in the anime. More tragic in the novels and manga.
• Legacy Character: The name Beatrice and the titles Endless Witch and Golden Witch were passed down to her from Virgilia, her mentor and the former Beatrice. Actually, Sayo Yasuda based Beatrice on the ghost legends surrounding Rokkenjima and the stories behind the real Beatrices. Her portrait is based either on Beatrice Castiglioni, Kinzo's mistress or Beatrice Ushiromiya, their daughter, more heavily implied to be on the latter.
• Legacy Immortality: Even though Beatrice claims to be 1000 years old, the details of her "past" are really borrowed from the lives of Sayo Yasuda's mother and grandmother, who were both named Beatrice.
• Leitmotif: Several, most notably Organ Opusculum No. 600,000,000 in C minor.
• Lemony Narrator: In the first Tea Party, the narration constantly mocks Battler for being stupid and irrational − while at the same time praising the "wise" Maria. Interestingly, more than a funny gag, it is actually the first hint that the third-person narration is not objective.
• Lethal Chef: "Half a day was spent in spectacular violence that would have shocked the culinary world."
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The dark to Shannon's light. However, this is really representative of the different aspects of Sayo Yasuda.
• Light Is Not Good: Actually Light Is Not Nice.
• Literal Split Personality: In the sixth arc, this is the way she Came Back Wrong. Chick Beatrice and Beato the Elder represent a different part of Beatrice; Chick Beatrice is what Beatrice was originally like while Beato the Elder embodies the aspects of the Golden Witch.
• Love Hurts: It hurts so much that 6 years can feel like a thousand.
• Loving Bully: A grossly exaggerated example. Beatrice brutally murders Battler and his family and traps him in a game where he undergoes endless suffering until he acknowledges her as a witch. In some way, her behavior is comparable to a schoolgirl trying to get attention from her crush by messing with him. EP5 reveals she does indeed love Battler and she's playing the role of Stealth Mentor with the hopes he reaches her truth. Battler realizes her merciless torture was her twisted way of expressing her feelings for him.
• Magic Wand: Her pipe functions as this. It can turn into a sword too.
• Male Gaze: In her special graphics in the PS3 port, her dress has curiously a lot more cleavage than in her sprites.
• Manipulative Bitch: In Episode 3, she makes Battler think she learned the wrong of her ways and reformed to trick him into acknowledging witches. She actually has to force herself to be this to push Battler into reaching for the truth.
• Many Spirits Inside of One: She's one of quite a few people inside Sayo Yasuda, along with Shannon and Kanon, though this is a mundane example since they're all "characters" Sayo Yasuda created and not real people.
• The McCoy: Among Shannon, Kanon and herself, Beatrice is obviously the most emotionally-driven one with her sadistic and hammy nature. She coerces them into giving in to their emotions and desire for love, only to rejoice in the unavoidable failure of their romances. Beatrice represents Sayo Yasuda's strong and aggressive side, as well as her most destructive and dangerous emotions.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: She dies in Episode 5 just after Battler had finally figured out she was playing the Stealth Mentor role for him.
• Mercy Kill: To Maria and Rosa in the third arc.
• The Mirror Shows Your True Self: This is the reason why one of Beatrice's weaknesses is said to be mirrors. Namely because Sayo Yasuda hates them, since mirrors remind her that she's not really a powerful, elegant witch like she pretends to be in order to cope with her low self-esteem.
• More Hero than Thou: In Episode 5, her piece self decides to fight Erika and Dlanor herself rather than expose Gaap to danger.
• My God, What Have I Done?: She suffers a minor one in the beginning of Episode 3, where her foiled attempt to fool Battler has her believe he's lost hope... only to find he's all fine and well. She has much more serious ones, though. In that same episode, she seems to feel genuine remorse over Battler's rage toward her even though she never truly intended on changing her ways as a result. She feels horrible guilt from conceiving the murder plots as Sayo Yasuda, as can be seen in Confession of the Golden Witch. The Episode 8 Manga also shows her crying horribly when Ange screams out all of her despair that magic can't help her or make her life better, as Beatrice knows all too well the same issues and furthermore realizes she's indirectly made Ange step onto the same suicidal path that she has.
• Multilayer Façade: Her actual identity is so complicated that there have been flow charts made in order to clarify it.
• Multiple-Choice Past: Whether you take the fantasy or mystery perspective. It's all but stated outright that the mystery perspective is her true past.
• Noblewoman's Laugh: Often. In the anime it comes across as a harsh braying. Ronove lampshades its inelegance, to her complete lack of concern.
• No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: During the second tea party, Beatrice forces Rosa to eat parts of her family's bodies. ETT'S PAAFEKUTO!
• Obliviously Evil: Episode 3 implies she sees nothing wrong with what she's been doing because in the end she always fixes what she breaks. Subverted since she actually knows exactly what's she doing, and Virgilia even confirms in red that she didn't enjoy murdering Battler's family over and over again.
• One to Million to One: She can transform into golden butterflies.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Beatrice's name is treated as a title, and indeed, when Eva-Beatrice becomes the new Endless Witch, Beatrice claims that she is now "nameless." Battler then gives her the nickname "Beato" to use, which has been used for her more often than not since.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: To Battler.

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• Parental Substitute: She has shades of this with Maria in the first half of the story. The affection she shows towards her is in stark contrast with her cruelty during her games, or with Rosa's treatment of Maria.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Her relationship with Maria. She acts as a mentor/imaginary friend figure to Maria, who is always among the last to die in games where she is in control. In Arc 3 when she sees that Maria has actually been suffering from all of Eva-Beatrice's ways of killing her and Rosa, she even gives Maria a quick, painless Mercy Kill after comforting her, which is a contrast to the just as quick but more gruesome way she dispatches of Rosa afterwards.
  • Also to Natsuhi in Arc 5, although that Beato was a result of Natsuhi's delusions.
• Pimped-Out Dress: A floor-length black dress with a hoop skirt, wide sleeves, a bow on the front and a matching choker.
• Prim and Proper Bun: Subverted; she wears her hair in a bun, but she'll only act prim and proper when she feels it'll lend well to her "elegant thousand-year-old witch" image. Most of the time she's more sadistic and mischievous.
• Proud Beauty: She loves to boast her bewitching beauty to Battler, bragging her lovely hair, her massive busom, and adorable yet elegant physique and face, daring Battler to try touching her knowing he won't. It's a representation of what Sayo wants to be.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: An explanation to her behavior given in EP3. Virgilia describes her as a naive child who loves to play with toys without the fear to break them and also with a power so big that she hardly realises she can handle. She apparently sees nothing wrong with brutally murdering people over and over again because she can revive them any time she wants. Subverted once we find out more about her real self and motivations.
• A Pupil of Mine Until She Turned to Evil: Virgilia repeatedly states her disappointment with how Beatrice has chosen to use her powers as Endless Witch. This parallels how Kumasawa, the one who introduced Sayo Yasuda into mystery novels, might have ended up giving Sayo the source of her ideas about how to carry out the murders.
• Really 700 Years Old: She looks like a young woman, but is actually 1000 years old. Subverted; she's actually only 19.
• Really 17 Years Old: She claims to be Really 700 Years Old to pass as a legendary witch even though she's 19 years old, and was made a witch only for a few days.
• Redemption Equals Death: In the magic ending, Beatrice is convinced she can't atone for her sins by living on and commits suicide by jumping into the sea.
• Reduced to Dust: In Episode 5, she finally gives up on Battler finding the truth and allows herself to die, leaving nothing but a mountain of sand behind.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: After she's returned at the end of EP 6 and is a full-on good guy, she never loses her edge and is still prone to acting like an arrogant, cackling sadist complete with Slasher Smile expressions.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Like several other characters in the series, Beatrice derives her name from Dante's The Divine Comedy.
• Sarcastic Devotee: Loves to jab her love ones, but does truly love them as family or lover, something she retained from her human life Sayo who was mischeavous.
• Sadist: She finds endless enjoyment in brutally murdering Battler's family over and over again. Subverted when it's revealed her sadistic behaviour was only an act.
• Say My Name: U-shi-ro-mi-ya BWAAATORAAAAAAAAA!!!
• Sealed Evil in a Can: She claims Kinzo bound her to the grounds of Rokkenjima and sealed a great part of her magical power. Subverted. Not only is Kinzo dead, making him unable to have summoned her in the first place, but not even Beatrice herself qualifies for this trope.
• Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: According to her, the Beatrice of 1967 was a "homunculus" that Kinzo trapped her soul inside. Considering what is later revealed in EP7, this most likely isn't true.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: Due to exposed shoulder blades on her dress.
• Shipper with an Agenda: She helped Shannon in her romance with George so she could enjoy to see their relationship inevitably fail. She tried to do the same with Kanon and Jessica, but he didn't fall into her trap. Of course, this was all a big metaphor for the conflict within Sayo Yasuda's heart.
• Silent Scapegoat: She was taking the blame for killing Battler's family to push him towards finding the truth. Battler figured it out too late. Poor Beatrice.
• Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids!: She goes on a rant about this in EP2:
  Beatrice: Love is lust and can't be measured without sleeping together. Men are flies and maggots that get caught in your female scent and gather around you. Do you still not understand that at your age?? You'll despair after that glasses man behind you gazes at you even once with dark lust. You'll lose heart, be shocked, dumbfounded, stupefied, and it's all useless isn't it, Shannon?? ...That's enough, stop talking, furniture. Furniture, furniture, furniture! Who do you think you are talking like that, showing off this fraud that love is beautiful, when really it's filthy filth. Don't people become adults when they realize that?
• Slasher Smile: Complete with fangs. Exaggerated in creepiness in the PS3 remake of the game.

• Sophisticated as Hell: In Episode 7, she describes her own speech style as "a mix of formality and rudeness". And indeed, she often goes into a Jessica-ish speech when screaming.
• Sorry That I'm Dying: In EP5, she apologizes to Battler before finally giving up and dying. Made infinitely worse in that Battler wakes up after having solved the mystery just in time to see her die.
• Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: Combined with She's Back in Episode 6, Beatrice blows down the doors of the chapel, announces her big return and challenges Erika to a duel to take Battler back.
  "Erikaaaa!!! I'm here to celebraaaaaate!!!"
• Stealth Mentor: Revealed to be the case in EP5, towards Battler. The whole reason she was playing her "game" with him was so he could realize who she was and what his "sin of six years ago" was.
• Suicide by Sea: She does this in the magic ending, by throwing herself into the sea after deciding she can't live on to atone for her sins. The manga confirms this is how Beatrice's original self Sayo Yasuda died in the real world.
• Surpassed the Teacher: In her battle against Virgilia in EP3, Beatrice defeats her teacher in her very first move, but revived her for a while to make the fight a little longer and have some more fun.
• Talking to Themself: With Shannon and Kanon, as the conversations between all three of them represent Sayo Yasuda's inner conflicts.
• Tearful Smile: She does this at least once before her death in EP5, upon the "Who... am I?" question to Battler in EP4 in the anime, and a couple of other times besides in the manga. There's a reason for it each time.
• Theme Serial Killer: Her murders go according to the epitaph.
• Together in Death: In the magic ending Beatrice, thinking she can't live on to atone for her sins, throws herself into the sea. Battler soon follows her and they drown together. It's eventually made clear in the manga that this was the moment Beatrice's original self Sayo Yasuda died and "Battler" died trying to save her to then become Tooya Hachijo.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: In Episode 6 once she [[marries Battler]], Beatrice is more happy then she ever could be having drop most of her sarcasm with genuine happiness.
• Tragic Heroine: As Sayo Yasuda, she played a big part in the Rokkenjima tragedy. In the Meta World, though, her goal is to help Battler reach and accept the truth about what happened.
• Troll: Very much so towards Battler during their confrontations, and she's become infamous for it in the fandom. At least until her true Heel–Face Turn, though even then she has elements of The Gadfly. And though she may be the best known of the witches for her trolling, she's nowhere near as cruel as Bernkastel.
• Tsundere: A complicated example exaggerated to the extreme. Beatrice horribly tortures Battler mentally and physically by repeatedly murdering him and his family in gruesome ways. She also mocks him for being too incompetent to come up with logical explanations to deny magic. However, she's not doing it because she hates him; she actually likes Battler as her rival and wants to have a fun game with him. In EP3, she starts acting soft and cute when she seems to have seen the error of her ways. While it was part of an act to trick Battler, her dere-dere moments are genuine from the fourth arc onwards. In EP5, it's revealed all her cruelty towards Battler was her playing Stealth Mentor so he could reach her truth. Once Battler knows this, he calls Beatrice a 'tsundora' and concludes her antagonism was her way of encouraging him to win their game. She plays it more straightforward in the TIPS in which she gets Ship Tease with Battler.
• Tsurime Eyes: Reflecting her sadistic nature.
• Two Aliases, One Character: Actually three aliases. She, Shannon and Kanon are all the same person, created as personas of Sayo Yasuda.
• Unreliable Expositor: Not only is her narration unreliable, but much of what she reveals to Battler in the first four arcs is not exactly truthful, and later arcs outright contradict some things she says.
• Unreliable Narrator: The main narrator of anything that happens outside of Battler's view is Beatrice, and she eventually lets him know ouright that anything that is not in red text is not necessarily true.
• Unseen No More: During the entire Episode 1, Beatrice's name is constantly spoken, but she is an ominous, invisible presence whose existence is uncertain. She appears only halfway through the Tea Party, when you expect it the least.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: According to the flashback at the beginning of Episode 3, Beatrice was once a very sweet and innocent little girl who wanted to become a witch so she could achieve eternal happiness, after she was inspired by seeing Virgilia repair a broken vase with magic. She got what she wanted, but with that eternal happiness comes eternal boredom that she can only get rid of by abusing her powers to kill and revive people in sick ways. While this flashback was really just a heavily idealized memory of Kumasawa getting Sayo Yasuda out of trouble for breaking the vase by saying a cat did it, it still foreshadows how Sayo really was a sweet kid, but some traumatic revelations and having a lonely, almost friendless life drove her to do some rather questionable things.
• Villainous Breakdown: From Shannon in Episode 2. Twice. While she can play Kanon like a harp, it turns out Shannon isn't quite as docile once she understands that Beatrice is a Bad Samaritan. During their second encounter near the end of the arc, the Witch ends up spewing incoherent words and insults in rapid-fire. Of course, since Beatrice and Shannon are both alter egos of Sayo Yasuda, both scenes are highly symbolic of Sayo's self-loathing.
• Villainous BSoD: In Episode 4, she challenges Battler to confess his sin from six years ago. Battler assumes that it's leaving the family, but is completely clueless when she insists that there's something else he did wrong, and gets mad when she implies that her murders are indirectly his fault. Once it become clear that she's not getting her answer, the once gleefully drunk witch goes completely sullen and refuses to continue playing with him, intending to leave their game hanging forever. When Battler doesn't accept this, she pushes him into a Heroic BSoD by using carefully placed red truths to convince him that he's not really related to the Ushiromiyas. Her condition gets even worse by Episode 5.
• Weaksauce Weakness: According to legend, Beatrice can be rendered powerless through spider webs or mirrors. The spider webs are drawn from Kumasawa's stories about the youkai people believed would haunt the islands, and the mirrors are symbolic of how much Sayo Yasuda hates them due to her low self-esteem.

• Womanchild: In the third game, when she asks Virigilia for advice, she sounds less like a dignified witch and more like a little girl throwing a tantrum. When she gets rejected by Battler in Tsubasa Chronicles for destroying the Stakes' White Day, she latches on to Virgili crying how unfair she doesn't get to be happy in White Day and tries to throw the blame on Lucifer or Battler.
• Worthy Opponent: To Battler.
• Zero-Approval Gambit: She wants Battler to hate her to keep him struggling to find the truth (with the goal of denying her existance).