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Player Name: Jelle
Player DW: devilism
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Character Number: 1, also apping F.F. though.

Character: Ange Ushiromiya
Source: Umineko no Naku Koro ni

Appearance: here.

History: There are two stories one could tell about Ushiromiya Ange. But they all start out the same, both of them are part of the Bad Ending Future Ange is part of.

Ange was born in 1980 and lived together with her father (Ushiromiya Rudolf) and her mother (Ushiromiya Kyrie). She also has an older half-brother, Ushiromiya Battler. But he left the house to go live with his grandparents on his mother's side after his mother (Ushiromiya Asumu) died since he was enraged at his father for taking Kyrie as his new wife so quickly after Asumu died. Because of that Ange didn't see her older brother a lot, but she still looked up to him and liked him a lot. She states herself that the times when both her parents and brother were with her was the most fun.

But all of this soon changed. On October 4, 1986 her parents and older brother left for the annual family conference, which Ange unfortunately could not attend that year since she was sick. But exactly that year nobody returned from the island, from Rokkenjima. Nobody but Ange's aunt Eva. The mass media start pinning these mass murders on Eva and later on even on the island's rumoured witch legend, but nobody is able to proof anything about what really happened that day. Ange was left in care of her now only living family member, Ushiromiya Eva. But Eva had slowly become embittered by the loss of her man and her son, the fact that all the blame was pinned on her and that everyone was after her because she had inherited the Ushiromiya family's fortune as the only survivor. She took this out on the little Ange, who hardly knew love because of that. Eventually Eva sent her away to an all-girls boarding school, St. Lucia's.

Because of her wealth and the rumors about her guardian Ange didn't make any friends there and was in fact even bullied. The bullying only increased when the girls started to notice that Ange snuck out often during lunch time to find a quiet spot where she could talk to the ghost of her cousin Maria who died in 1986 on Rokkenjima, which she summoned through Maria's diary she had managed to get hold of. In order for Ange to become happy she became Maria's apprentice as a witch. Maria taught her how to summon the seven sisters of Purgatory, magical 'furniture' (servants) who originally belonged to the witch Beatrice but ended up becoming Ange's friends along with Maria instead. But since Ange was the only one who could see them her classmates started thinking she had imaginary friends.

This all escalated until one day Ange hadn't been able to study because of the sisters' prescence and got a low mark on her test. All her classmates bullied her ferociously into writing up an apology letter for her bad mark which lowered the class average. Ange angrily ordered the sisters to kill all of the bullies, but they replied they couldn't causing Ange to rage even more. On that basis that they couldn't even help her when she needed it she started to deny the sisters one by one, causing them to disappear and even Maria to leave her. In the end she convinced herself that it had been imaginary friends and that she had actually been alone all along.

Eventually in 1998, when Ange was 18, Eva died and on her dying bed she pushed some last curses on Ange; firstly she refused to tell what really had happened on Rokkenjima and secondly she made Ange inherit all of her money - which had been Eva's curse, it was what had caused everyone to speak badly of her and be after her life - the title of family head of the Ushiromiya family and the title of the Endless Witch, Beatrice. Ange's dispair at not being with her parents and brother nearly drove her to suicide right after that, but right as she tried to jump off the rooftop her story goes two ways.

The first way says she jumped off the building and managed to miraculously survive the fall. After that she went on to investigate what happened on Rokkenjima to the best of her abilities, visiting relatives of the servants who had been on Rokkenjima that day and researching various other things. She was chased by her aunt from her mother's side who wanted to make Ange 'drink tea with her' (hint: it's not actually drinking tea) in order to gain the Ushiromiya family's fortune. But Ange managed to escape the Sumadera family's agents who were after her again and again, partly because of her personal bodyguard Amakusa.

At the end of her research she managed to convince a captain to bring her to Rokkenjima, where she wanted to lay down flowers as a last tribute to her family. Since on her journey she had realised the true worth of magic - white magic which makes people (like herself and her cousin Maria) happy was good and shouldn't be denied - she ordered Amakusa to stay behind at the port so she would be able to summon the sisters to be with her without humans' anti-magic toxic being present. But her aunt had followed her even to the island and cornered Ange when she was alone. She was knocked to the ground by her aunt's bodyguards and even humiliated when her aunt got hold of Maria's diary she had been carrying with her and started mocking it and tearing out pages. Eventually Ange was able to summon the sisters and they quickly took care of all the bodyguards and even Ange's aunt, killing them. There was only one left; the personification of the one who had caused Ange so much pain, the witch form of her aunt Eva. The witch form changed into her aunt Eva's younger form with a gun, but in the struggle Ange was able to get the gun instead and shot her 'aunt' (although it couldn't really have been Eva since she had died before), symbolizing Ange finally breaking through the circle of hate in the Ushiromiya family and being able to finally see Eva's side of the story as well.

But Ange never returned from Rokkenjima after that. It is hinted in the games that Amakusa was actually a double agent and killed Ange after all that.

But there's another side to Ange's story. One could also say that on that rooftop Ange met the witch of miracles Bernkastel, who promised that if Ange would fight together with her brother against the witch Beatrice who 'imprisoned' her family in a game she and Battler were having over whether magic exists or not, her family would be returned to her. The only condition was that she couldn't tell anyone who she actually was so she went under the alias of 'Gretel'. And so Ange went into the past with Bernkastel, back to 1986. She supported Battler in his battle against Beatrice, eventually realising that her family would never be returned to her since she already was from a future where it had been decided that her family never came home from Rokkenjima. But she still continued for her brother's sake and when he lost his identity and will to fight she told him who she really was, making him regain that will. But her price was high, since she had broken the rule of not telling him who she was she was teared apart piece by piece by hot-glowing irons. This is the end of EP4.

Since the game board and meta world are sometimes combined in strange ways, this Ange will remember both sides of the story. After she died like that she was revived by a witch called Featherine who wanted her (in human form) to read her manuscript for the sixth game back in 1998.

After finishing reading the manuscript for the sixth game with Featherine, Ange left Touya Hachijou’s place together with Amakusa to continue their journey for Rokkenjima. They never arrived there though, since instead they found themselves in the place called Arcanarum. It was an island where the mysterious “Rulers” based on tarot cards kidnapped people from other worlds to in an attempt to make them like fairytale characters. Each character got a fairytale character, a “denizen”, linked to them and after every strange happening on the island they turned more and more into said character, both physically and mentally. Ange’s denizen was Gretel from the fairytale of Hans and Gretel, so she kept turning more cute and child-like every time – to her own dismay. But even though bad things kept happening on the island, Ange wasn’t the type to just give in to it, she wanted to keep fighting back against the Rulers. Even as time passed and the people she finally started to trust kept leaving the island right after, like Minato who she grew to be fairly close to and even people she knew from back home like her own father. But since Amakusa, her bodyguard, was such a constant in all of the uncertain arrivals and departures, she ended up growing closer to him and eventually even started returning his advances on her once they grew close enough and he proved himself trustworthy and actually dedicated to her rather than just looking to score. This was especially proven during the time Amakusa finally admitted to her that his mission had been to kill her on Rokkenjima but that he changed his mind about doing that now and right after when they had to flee from the Rulers’ castle together and he sacrificed his own life to keep her safe. Ange was devastated by it at first, but then it was shown people were actually revived a day after dying on the island, so it only made them get closer and eventually even get into a real relationship, as much as Ange tried to keep it secret from the other people on the island.
However, time went on and nothing seemed to change on the island. Even when all the people tried to escape together on a boat it failed and Ange grew fed up with the failed attempts to escape the Rulers. She was planning on taking some extreme measures herself, but happenings on the island interrupted that. They had to experience another bad event – being stuck in the world of their denizen and watching it being destroyed – but after that they were in the castle and finally had a chance of fighting back against the Rulers’ minions, especially with the help of The World, the strange girl who was on the kidnapped people’s sides, who helped them beat the minions and was also the one who sacrificed herself so all the characters could escape the Rulers’ grasp and finally go home. However, instead of going home and forgetting all about that strange island, Ange instead found herself in an entirely new prison – Demeleier.

Timeline: After EP6 + her stay in arcanarum.

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.

All of this still rings true even after her long stay in Arcanarum for over half a year. Ange is mostly still the same girl as before, although one thing has noticeably changed about her – she’s become more ruthless than before. Sure, Ange always acts like she doesn’t care and like she can just do anything, but in the end she’s still a nice girl. Even now she’s still nice, but it’s buried just a little bit deeper. It’ll take a little more to win her trust and she can do things more easily now that she would have hesitated about before. Even though Ange normally wouldn’t kill a person without a good reason, she started thinking in the end on that island that the only way to find out more about that place and find a way out would be to cut open one of the normal island inhabitants and find out if they’re real people or illusions or robots or something like that – even though they technically hadn’t done anything to the people kidnapped to the island, but Ange still figured that since they didn’t help the kidnapped people either, they might as well be on the Rulers’ side. It’s also partially due to Amakusa’s bad influence considering he doesn’t really hesitate in killing people either (heck, it’s practically his job) so she’s definitely become more ruthless in her decisions. Aside from that she’s mostly still the same girl though.

Abilities: 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 Demeleier she will only be able to summon the stake forms of the sisters and will be prevented from summoning their human forms (since they would be seperated characters). They won't be able to speak and will only be weapons.

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).

Inventory: Ange will have the (now defunct in Demeleier) communicator used in Arcanarum with her, which looks more or less just like a pink compact unless you know it’s actually used as a communicator. She’ll be wearing her usual outfit from back home, but she’ll still have the outfit she was forced to wear in Arcanarum (this one) because it were her denizen’s clothes with her.

Prose Sample: this log from arcanarum.

Journal Sample: any of her posts from arcanarum.