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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > VEGETA > The New Visual Novel Megathread
 
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LordMune
Nov 21, 2006

Helim needed to be invisible.
The catbox is the Golden Land. Happiness and immortality is Beatrice and all her personas and loves and family living rent-free in the heads of the public forever, together in a way they could never be in real life. A lot of Shannon and Kanon's, and to a degree Maria's, more unhinged dialogue early on is about how (repeated) death is a small price to pay for this.

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LordMune
Nov 21, 2006

Helim needed to be invisible.
Everything we see is still murder mystery fiction, a genre that requires its characters to act like absolute psychos in order to work. Umineko may use that narrative framework to say something about its characters, but everyone is still subject to the framework and Umineko is equally a commentary on the genre as it is a character study. If some person is theoretically capable of an act, then the narrator is free to depict the act as being carried out with complete conviction, for maximum narrative convenience.

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