I don't think there will be any issue. Featherine (or at least her design, since her Umineko name might not even be mentioned) is here because she has background connections to Higurashi. Her role and motivations here certainly will be entirely explained within Higurashi's context.
That's good to hear then. Thanks!
I don't see how they are even remotely the same thing, she was a stupid kid that faked her abuse and "paid the price". Her predicament in Tata/Kai was that the system failed to protect her now because of her past infraction (Which she made as a younger kid) and the whole arc was a criticism of how much abuse is often overlooked by authorities and and wrapped in red tape so CWS can't act even if they want. It's pure WTC, which is sociopolitical commentaries about society.
I'm not claiming they're the same thing either though, which is why I said that her actual arcs were about real abuse. I just pointed out that it's not like he didn't use the idea before. As far as social commentary goes, yes, it kind of falls apart since it basically just becomes a game of noticing all the scene differences which pointed to the new culprit, since the core of the story wasn't changed in spite of the behind the scenes events being completely different.
If you really hated that arc, skip to episode 13 (the final episode of the arc) and go on from there, since it leads directly into the next story. Also, the arc that starts with ep.18 is actually a flashback taking place before anything else in Higurashi Gou (just explaining because some people seemed very confused by the transition).
I'm saying using the arc dedicated to criticize how society treats abuse to pull a "she was actually faking it" with an actual abuse victim is just incredibly slimy and disrespectful to the old story's themes. The old Satoko who cried wolf was basically another character altogether and R07 used that plot point to explain why the CWS had problems getting around and how the current Satoko was basically another person altogether, I don't think he never meant anything more than that (Especially given Satoko was like a 6 years old kid who didn't even know what she was doing or the consequences of her actions).
The only good ending for this is if Rika bonks Satoko with the kill-looper shard and then cuts her from her life for being an incredibly toxic person.
We don't know.
Who are the other two characters mentioned by Featherine?
At the very least, the "34" pattern is also present in the name Mitsuyo.
Could it be, but Anomalous Spinal Cord LD3105 definitely sounds something from Ciconia too. I'm still holding for Ciconia being Lambdadelta's origin story.
As soon I saw the chandelier I figured it was going to drop, I didn't expect it to happen with her snapping her fingers though lol.
Isn't that Mio? It wasn't written by R07. And I seriously doubt anything in Gou was planned ahead.It's interesting r07 was playing around with Satoko with such thoughts as far back as the originals in the VN. Someone caught this:
Yeah it's mio. I don't think itd be planned ahead if anything, maybe just something he decided to pull from? But now we're in metaverse shenanigans anything is game lol.
She definitely was Lambdadelta's piece in Higurashi, 34's memoir confirms it and the Switch Version of Umineko double confirms it by having the "girl who wanted to become a god" voiced by Takano's VAs and Lambdadelta says Takano "gave" her Bernkastel. Though I don't think you are meant to see her as simple piece on a gameboard, Lambda's gift seem to be more like a boon and she really respects people who work hard.
This is what was bothering me about the "Satoko is a looper" theory before it was revealed. Because she knows so much about how the "game" works that it made no sense for her to have only looped a handful of times. Not only did she know how to "beat" the game but also how to pre-empt and counter all of Rika's solutions for the different arcs as well. I figured that this knowledge must be coming from some kind of patron or something, and maybe it still is, but it's looking less and less likely.
Honestly I just think Featherine rewound time, I don't think it's even narratively satisfying to get a "new" Rika, she's the true protagonist and we have followed her in her 100 years old journey. If she can create a Matsuri-2 (despite it being a special world, there is even Hanyuu there again) with a new Rika (Despite Rika being a special existence) I think it more likely she just rewound time or placed Satoko ealier in the timeline. Satoko didn't even die the first time, she just got blasted with fragments.
I think they will be splitting them because Gou Rika probably will become Bernkastel, so nothing good is waiting for her, while Matsuri Rika probably will still get some kind of happy epilogue.
I really don't see it weird given how Gou handled so many stuff. I mean, Satoshi is super important to Satoko and extremely connected to the Syndrome and yet it's like he stopped existing in post Matsuri timeline, so I don't think a lack of any real Saikoroshi (Except the first ending, the scene with the bicycles) mention is odd with the kind of narrative Gou has created.
