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[entreats]

PLAYER

Name: Jelle
Personal Journal: devilism
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CHARACTER

Name: Ange Ushiromiya
Source: Umineko no Naku Koro ni

History: After going through canon up to EP4 in canon (see the history section here for reference on that in case you need it), Ange ended up in the village of demeleier, a small town which was surrounded by dangerous fae. Of course with Ange being Ange, it didn't particularly faze her. But she wasn't really social either, mostly keeping to herself like she always had back home.

Things didn't change until she was sent back home to go through some more events (mostly reading the story of EP6 with the witch Featherine) and then back to Demeleier again. This time she was a little more open, actually reaching out to people and getting to know them a little even though she still wasn't the best at being social. This was also partially because of the many people from home that were dragged to Demeleier over time - her brother and mother that died so long ago for her, the stakes who were her friends and helped her out and even slept in the same bed as her and forced her to adopt rabbits into her croft, her cousin Maria who she was the closest to out of her more indirect family and Maria's "imaginary friend" Sakutaro. Considering how friendly Ange is with them, they had a major positive influence on her and caused her to get out more, even joining the Watch to help protect the village from the fae. It was also through the watch that she actually found a partner who she eventually became best friends with - Med'an. The guy's overenthusiasm and loyalty were sort of like a puppy's, but honestly, that was exactly what made Ange like him so much. It was a slight piece of stability she didn't want to miss.

Despite how she wasn't particularly afraid of the fae though, disaster eventually struck. One of the more powerful fae lured Maria, who was living with Ange at that time, into the forest and killed and skinned her, leaving her skin in the village as a sign of it. Ange found it together with Souji after a long night of looking for her cousin and completely broke down at the sight of it, feeling incredibly guilty over the death since she felt responsible for Maria's safety. Since Souji was with her he managed to comfort her a little though, and a few days later Maria was returned to the village safe and sound.

The occurence made Ange grow closer to Souji though and a while later, after a bunch of particularly nasty nightmares they met up in the morning, she finally kissed him and they got together. It was because of this though that Ange was killed a while later. Adachi, an enemy of Souji's from his world, was allowed to run amok with his powers in the village thanks to a long string of awful events and mistakes, and tried to take various villagers' lives - only actually succeeding with Karkat and Ange, who was nearly cut in two.

Since it wasn't her first particularly horrific death, she did recover pretty easily once she came back to life and to the village a long time later. If anything, her life settled down a little bit more then with the stakes (Maria had already disappeared by that time) and her mother in the village as well. She did have a bunch of difficult moments, like when Battler left and later on Souji (only to return a few months later), but somehow she managed to hang in there in her own way and with a little support.

Until she was pulled to Jigoku instead.

Personality: The easiest way to describe Ange would be to say she's someone who closed up her heart. When we're shown a glimpse of a younger Ange through certain scenes or even just through people talking about her she seems like a typical young child - happy, bright, full of curiosity for the world and nice, if not a little bratty. But all of this is a huge contrast with the present day Ange. It all changed due to the loss of her family, who died in an incident twelve years ago for this Ange. She was only saved due to not being able to attend the family conference at which the incident happened because she was sick that day. This is something that Ange still frequently curses herself for, even though she obviously couldn't help the fact that she just got sick. The fact that she didn't get along well at all with the only survivor of the incident who then became her guardian (her aunt Eva) and the fact that she was constantly bullied in the boarding school she was sent off to heavily contributed to that happy girl changing into the older more cynical and decidely less happy Ange.

It's possible to say that not only her happiness died off because of these events, but even her very ability to just be happy died off as well. Ange (even if it's not always a conscious choice) doesn't let herself be happy, even when she has all chances or all rights to be. When she has the chance to become happy with her magical friends, she eventually dismisses them as illusions and denies them until they all disappear. When she has the chance to believe in the happy version of 1986's family conference where everyone just got along and nothing bad happened, she gets mad and demands that Battler tells her the truth instead of a sugar coated story like that. As Maria states during EP4, Ange doesn't look for happiness itself but instead only constantly makes sure that there's nothing around that can make her unhappy. Of course nothing like that being around is pretty much impossible, so she keeps being hurt (or rather, hurting herself with that) and never truly gets happy.

Ange is a very cynical person. She's pretty much the kind of person who has to see something with their own eyes first before they're willing to believe in it; hence her difficult relationship with magic, which she constantly accepts, then denies, then accepts again etc. When Maria talks about the happy truth of her having a very fun pajama party with her magical friends, Ange with all her cynicism can only see Maria throwing a tantrum by herself until very late at night because her mother didn't come home even though she promised to. If there is a worst kind scenario, it's usually the first one that Ange sees or the first one that enters her mind. It goes hand in hand with her loss of her ability to let herself be happy - even if there is a chance at happiness right in front of her she'd most likely deny it and think of the worst case scenario instead. (For example when Okonogi tells her that he arranged a way for her to flee when her aunt's bodyguards are chasing her and he says there's a car waiting for her in the parking garage, Ange instead runs the other way on purpose. She doesn't grab the chance to escape because with her cynical sort of gaze assumes Okonogi's intentions to be malicious and assumes the only thing waiting for her in the parking garage will be her aunt's bodyguards. But Okonogi was actually telling her the truth, and so Ange would have escaped easily if only she hadn't assumesd the worst case scenario.)

This last case also shows that Ange doesn't trust people easily, partially because of her cynicism. Exactly because she has met so many people with bad intentions towards her she tends to assume that people's intentions are usually bad. It takes her quite some time to open up to people and only the people closest to her or the ones who have proven to be trustworthy before will be trusted by her.

Ange isn't a particularly polite person. At times she heavily lays on the sarcasm and she's never afraid to just bluntly state things the way they are instead of sugar coating them. She might, however, show respect to certain people, but they will definitely have to earn it from her first and that isn't always an easy accomplishment. But Ange in return doesn't particularly care what people's opinions on her are - eventually she takes her classmates' bullying in indifference, even when they continue to throw insults at her one after another.

She isn't a social person at all either. Ange doesn't show many attempts at actually being friendly to people or attempting to be friends, most likely due to nobody in her life doing that sort of thing to her either. Until one finally gets her to open up she in fact seems very cold and detached. Ange is a pretty reserved and introverted person, not bothering much with other people and not telling much about herself even when engaged in conversations. But when she does open up she can be friendly - as shown, for example, in her interactions with her cousin Maria in EP4 where she even smiles - and can care deeply about the people close to her. She doesn't mind doing anything for the people important to her, even if it means throwing away her own happiness or life, like she did for her older brother Battler at the end of the fourth game. At first she fights to get her family back and get a chance at becoming happy again, but when she realises that even if her family would return home, they wouldn't return to her, she still fights for her family's sake.

Ange generally comes across as a very serious person. She doesn't really seem interested in having fun (unless she's around the people she's close to) and doesn't particularly appreciate jokes either. This is probably most clearly demonstrated by her even telling Battler at one point to "keep the jokes to your haircut". Ange is a bit more willing to loosen up and just have fun around friends - particularly the Seven Sisters of Purgatory come in mind here - but can even at those times be slightly awkward because she isn't the most socially gifted person around.

Since many things don't interest her, Ange can seem very indifferent and detached to whatever is going on. She doesn't even seem to care about the outcome of many things. There's a dialogue between her and her bodyguard Amakusa at the end of EP6, where they discuss if they'll be able to make it to Rokkenjima without being caught by Kasumi's bodyguards. At that Ange mentions that they should just leave it up to luck whether they get caught or not. Once she does have something she cares about to fight for, for example fighting for her family or to find out the truth, Ange turns very determined and throws all of that indifference out of the window. She's even able to sacrifice herself or jump off a skyscraper with relatively little second thoughts once she does get determined over something.

At first she fiercely denied magic, particularly due to a bad experience she had in school when her magical friends couldn't save her from the girls who were bullying her; that failure disappointed her so deeply that she denied them all instantly in a fit of rage and decided that all she ever had were imaginary friends, that all the magic had only been a daydream, an illusion. Now she has accepted magic once again she's a little bit more willing to accepting things in general though. Ange has also realised due to her journey that there's no such thing as the one truth she was searching for, but rather a whole slew of different subjective truths that only combined can lead to the truth. 'Without love, it cannot be seen', is a catch phrase that Ange is told a lot throughout her journey and eventually she's able to understand its meaning. It means that for example, if you really dislike a person you will believe only negative things about them, no matter how many positive things they show you. It's since you don't 'have love' for them. Even though Ange hated her aunt Eva the intense hate has now turned more to a passive dislike or even indifference since she was able to understand what Eva's side of the story would be as well without looking at it with her negative way of viewing Eva.

Ange also copied some tendencies from her older brother, for example his habit of saying 'useless, it's all useless' and his gratious use of Engrish in extremely inappropriate situations. ("See you again." "Good night, have a nice dream.") This is partially due to the fact that she used to (and still somewhat does) really look up to her 'cool older brother' and therefore tried to imitate him by doing those sort of things. Even now she really cares about her older brother and would do anything for his sake, even it would mean sacrificing herself a second time.

Biggest Fear: Ange's biggest fear is loss. She's never gotten over losing her family twelve years ago, ever since they died she's always been stuck living half in the past - even going as far as to think she can't live on without them. She's made new meaningful bonds by now, but the same fear still applies, she's still scared that she'll lose them somehow and that she won't be able to save them.

Powers: Ange is really athletic, an ability she was able to gain quickly due to constantly having to run away from her aunt Kasumi's bodyguards. She's even shown jumping off buildings multiple times in canon and surviving (not to mention fighting off several of the goat butlers), proving her athletic skill (although most of the surviving was actually due to a lot of luck as well) even though it lies more with speed than power. Her survival instincts are pretty good because of the constant chases as well. Ange also seems to have above average deducing talent.

Ange is also a witch, since she was Maria's apprentice and inherited the title of Beatrice, the Endless Witch, from her aunt Eva. Therefore her witch name is ANGE-Beatrice. She isn't shown as being able to use the power (endlessly killing and reviving) that comes with that title though, most likely because she is still an apprentice with little magic skill, even though she shows great promise according to Maria. Ange is training to become the Witch of Resurrection and be able to revive her family, but she's still quite a way off from that. She is, however, capable of summoning 'furniture' - the seven sisters of Purgatory. They take on human shapes but can also take on stake forms, which fly at a speed that's impossible to follow with human eyes and gouge (and kill) people quickly and effiently. She's also seen 'reviving' Sakutaro, Maria's stuffed animal, in the fourth arc. This means she is at least able to perform a slight form of resurrection magic, if not just for 'furniture' (a witch's underlings, practically).

In-game she was also shown to be able to use the 'red truth' as a witch.("That's right, I'm Ange!! The Ushiromiya Ange of a world where no one comes home...!!") The 'red truth' is just a means of stating the 'absolute' truth without providing evidence, although it's actually subjective truth that tends to use wordplay. She's able to use the 'blue truth' that's used to provide theories to deny magic or witches by the human side as well. These coloured texts are just the way the logic battles are dunked out in Umineko (apparently nice colors on the screen entertain the audience).

SAMPLES

Third Person: here.
Journal Sample: here or here.

Notes: N/A.