Your Name/what you go by: Metin
AIM/E-mail/contact info - some way of reaching you: E-mail: alctrazmetin@yahoo.com / AIM: hajike festival
Your character's name (last, first): Furudo, Erika
Series your character's from: Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Background info on your character:
Welcome to the wonderful island of Rokkenjima. Where family get-togethers become murder scenes, witches sneer and troll you forever and boring debates about crime become fucking awesome rave parties. Strap yourself in for one wacky sitcom, boys and girls. The laughter track for this one is a witch's laughter. Now for the newcomers out there, I will happily abridged the first four episodes to the best of my ability:
Episode 1:
Battler: I'm Battler! The plucky protagonist! Man, do I love tits!
George: I'm George. I have a tit obsession too, only I'm much more subtle and creepy about it.
Jessica: I'm Jessica and I'm... blond, manly and busty-- BATTLER GET THE FUCK OFF ME.
Maria: I'm Maria and I'm cute, lovable and totally not creepy at alllll. Kihihihihi!
Beatrice: I'm Beatrice and I'm a witch who just killed your family.
Battler: WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT.
Episode 2:
Battler: Magic doesn't exist!
Beatrice: Uh-huh!
Battler: Uh-uh!
Beatrice: Uh-huh!
Battler: ... Well, shit. I guess she's right, it does-- wait a sec, NO BITCH.
Episode 3:
Beatrice: Hey Battleeeeer hey! Look here! A magic fight! I wonder how you're going to explain your way out of this one!
Battler: LALALA. NOT LISTENING. NOT LOOKING.
Eva-Beatrice: I'm here to prove to the audience that there's an even bigger bitch on this block!
Beatrice: Good show! Say Battler isn't this hilarious, isn't this glorious, isn't this--
Battler: *bitchslaps*
Beatrice: ... Oh wow. Maybe I was being kinda cruel to you. W-won't you forgive me--
Battler: No. Although we can't have this chick one-upping you from getting the World's Biggest Bitch Award. I'll play your knight and shining armor.
Beatrice: Kyaaaaaaaa.
Eva-Beatrice: Magic exists.
Battler: THIS ISN'T GOING WELL.
Beatrice: I'll just say a few magic words and everything will go back to normal again.
Battler: Wow Beato! I guess I was wrong! You aren't such a bitch, after all!
Beatrice: Oh Battler, please marry me and have my children. First you'll have to sign this paper...
Battler: "I accept witches and magic." ... Wait a tic.
Ange: DON'T YOU SIGN THAT PAPER.
Beatrice: So about that World's Biggest Bitch Award--!
Episode 4:
Ange: My parents were slaughtered when I was only six.
Audience: Don't care.
Ange: I'm socially withdrawn and nobody loves me.
Audience: Still don't care.
Ange: Fine. I guess I'll have to sacrifice my life for the sake of my brother then.
Audience: OKAY WE CARE NOW.
Battler: And now suddenly I've lost the taste for hamburger.
Beatrice: Try and kill me! Not that I want to be killed or anything!
Battler: BWARGHRGHRGH!
Beatrice: BWARGHRGHRGH!
Battler: BWARGHRGHRGH!
Beatrice: BWARGHRGHRGH... blech.
Battler: Ding dong the witch is finally dead. Can I go home now?
Beatrice: No. First... You must solve my final mystery.
Battler: Oh sure. The mystery if things will finally start to make sense from here?
Bernkastel and Lambdadelta: HAHAHA NO.
Which leads us to how Episode 5 begins. Beatrice is in a comatose state and with her out of the picture, that leaves Bernkastel and Lambdadelta (two powerful voyager witches) to completely hijack the game. Now where does this put Battler? The poor guy still hasn't figured out how Beatrice thinks or any of her tricks from the previous games. Being the magnificent hero that he is, he decides to take Beatrice's game back in order for him and Beatrice to have their final showdown to settle things. Of course, things get even more out of hand.
Basically, Bernkastel decides to throw a new character on the gameboard. A little girl by the name of Erika Furudo appears on the island of Rokkenjima during the storm occurring there and completely replaces Battler's role as the 'detective' in this fifth game. All and all, when Erika arrived, she turned the island and its people upside down. With that said, Erika manages to get the Ushiromiya to stop acting like a bunch of dumbasses and think about how to solve the epitaph. Of course, Erika's in it for the sake of solving an impossible riddle, but that develops into more evil intentions. Battler and Erika pretty much become the "Sherlock and Watson" team and lead the family to the gold. After that, Erika manages to destroy the peace of the evening by having the entire family fight over it. Good show.
Now let's fast forward to the First Twilight murders. Erika pretty much manipulates everyone with her Detective's Authority (given to her by Bernkastel) and arranges everyone into the library. She points out Natsuhi to be the culprit after some crime banter about where Kinzo's body went. Then that somehow leads into a logic fight between Beatrice's ghost, Kinzo and her furniture against Erika and the Eiserne Jungfrau. Things start to look bad until Battler gets manly and awesome, outwits Erika and carries Beatrice into the rainy sunset. Too bad that's the not the ending since Lambda and Bern controlled the entire thing. Erika gets quite the tongue lashing later on from Bernkastel and she takes it out on the Eiserne Jungfrau. Now let's fast forward some more. We get a courtroom battle to point out who the culprit of Rokkenjima really is and of course Erika's side stages the whole case to blame Natsuhi. Battler decides to stand his ground and protect Natsuhi's innocence, but he ends up failing epically. Natsuhi gets punished, Erika continues to troll the shit out of her forever.
UMINEKO OVER. EVERYONE GO HOME.
... But wait! Somewhere in Meta World, a hero is trying to make some sense out of a world that DOESN'T make any sense. That man is our tit-obsessed hero, Battler. His awesome journey can be summed up like this:
Battler: I must defeat the witches!
Lambda: No Battler, You are the witches!
And then after reaching the truth of the whole game, Battler became an Endless Sorcerer.
Now this leads to a battle of truths between Erika and newly revived Golden Sorcerer Battler. Unfortunately for Erika, Battler brings some of Beatrice's friends for the ride and turns it into a one-sided curb stomping battle for the ages. After Erika gets her ass handled to her, she begs Bernkastel for one more chance to take down Battler in the sixth game. Bernkastel surprisingly approves of her wishes and thus ends the tale of Episode 5.
Now Episode 6 begins with Beatrice acting extremely funny. She's polite, she's shy, she ends up freaking out everyone that's waiting for Battler's new game. Of course, Battler rolls in and tells her to get back to the kitchen while he works his magic. Fast-forwarding after some ANGST and character development, the new game finally begins. Erika takes in her role as the annoying guest once again and manages to stir up Maria. A (seemly) pointless LOGIC FIGHT between Erika and Maria goes down pretty much over candies in a cup and Erika walks out as the victor.
Way to go, Erika. You managed to crush a child's innocent dreams.
Fast-forwarding some more after some LOVE and more ANGST, we cut to Erika and Dlanor chilling out in the guest room. Erika suddenly confesses her love for Dlanor (platonic or romantic is up to the audience to decide) and we get some actual back story on our little detective. Erika happened to have a boyfriend and they seemed to be in a stable-ish relationship. However, Erika had suspected that the boy was cheating on her and begin to investigate the hell out of his life. She stalked him, she looked through his trash, she did everything in the book to get evidence that the boy wasn't cheating on her and ended up getting evidence that he was. Eventually, the boy founded out about Erika's antics and dumped her. After that day, Erika became bitter and jaded towards love and the all-knowing "truth" of this world. Feels bad man.
Now moving on, Erika and Battler finally get down to business and start their twisted logic battle of closed rooms and murders. Erika manages to trick Battler into using her duct tape which REALLY manages to punch him in the balls later on. Erika's whole plan was to get Battler into a "logic error" by contradicting events and completely crush his gameboard to pieces. And to put more icing on the troll cake, she does it to make Battler look bad as a Gamemaster. She succeeds and Battler's heart gets locked into a closed room for all eternity. Supposedly.
After chilling out with Lambdadelta and learning more about her and Bern, Bernkastel appears to give Erika two gifts. First, her official title as the "Witch of Truth" and Battler as a groom. The reasoning behind this is that Battler being the territory lord of that gameboard has the ring that gives him the authority. If Erika manages to take that ring, then she becomes the new territory lord. IT'S WEDDING TIME. But everyone is kinda hoping that Beatrice will appear to stop things. And surprisingly, Beatrice does get her memories back, returns to her normal self and decides to crash the hell out of it. She challenges Erika to a PISTOL LOGIC FIGHT. The winner gets Battler and the loser gets their existence denied completely... meaning death. Erika screws herself over by tripping her some loser flags with Dlanor and the LOGIC FIGHT begins. Beatrice wins the fight and manages to spare Erika's life, but only barely. Erika decides to finish things once and for all in one final showdown. Not for her role as Bernkastel's piece, but for her very own existence.
Erika introduces herself as the 18th member of Rokkenjima, Battler and Beatrice deny her existence by saying that there can only be seventeen. (lawl hi Kinzo)
The detective goes out with a bang.
Personality-wise: When you first meet Erika, she comes off as a quiet, composed and dignified girl. Whenever she first introduced herself to the Ushiromiya family, she was not overawed or nervous at all. She actually gives off a dignified aura that would put many adults to shame. To some people, that can be intimating. However, she knows how the lighten up the atmosphere by being a little childish and outgoing. Heck, she'll even throw in some jokes or two to make people laugh. She's actually very good at making conversation when she want to be! But when it comes to chopsticks, riddles and having a battle of wits, she can become quite chatty. Almost... too chatty. The annoying kind of chatty, I mean. You kind of want to punch her mouth in. When you reach that side of herself, Erika starts to show her inner troll. She actually refers to herself as an intellectual rapist. And that is not far from the truth. There is nothing more better than watching your opponents surrender as you expose their secrets and rip them apart.
Erika can become a really ruthless and cutthroat monster who will do anything to win. She doesn't care whom life she has to wreak in order to get her own satisfaction. She even went as far as to crush Maria's belief in magic by proving to her that there were human means of putting candy in a cup. And in another example, Erika had solved the mystery of the epitaph for three reasons. At first she wanted to solve for the sake of solving a riddle and proving her reasoning. But that changed into humiliating Jessica who butted into her glory hour by saying her father was the rightful successor of the fortune. So, she changed her goals in order to have Battler to become the new successor, humiliate Jessica for the sake of seeing her expression and to stir up the money hungry adults that were after the fortune. Erika may not be as experienced and skilled as Bernkastel, but she definitely knows how to press people's buttons by causing trouble and watching them squirm for it for the aftertaste.
If you look beyond the obnoxious loli, Erika is actually a pretty apathetic and lonely girl with a huge inferiority complex. Erika thinks she's perfect and knows she's perfect. When it comes to mysteries and riddles, she happens to be extremely competitive and doesn't like to lose. And when she does, she can throw quite a tantrum. However, this doesn't mean that Erika isn't capable of acting weak and soft in order to get the advantage in a situation. A perfect example would be when Bernkastel and Lambdadelta had relentlessly abused Erika in front of Battler in order for Erika to get the duct tape she needed to get a major advantage of Battler's gameboard.
From the character development she had gotten in Episode 6, Erika has finally grown a sense of identity and matured quite a bit. During her pistol fight with Beatrice, she had finally realized that there can be more than one truth in the world that doesn't have boil down to "I'm right and you're wrong." There can be multiple truths that can still be true. Thanks to realizing this, Erika had even managed to open the gates to the Golden Land. But that doesn't mean she can't still be a troll, oh noooo.
It's not to say that Erika is a completely bad person. She tried to open herself to love a long time ago, but they didn't work out very well. That leads us to one of her biggest issues, Erika has problems trying to trust people completely. If you actually attempt to give a damn about her and risk your life through thick and thin for Erika, then she will be extremely loyal to you. Overall, her own arrogance and pride in her own intelligence happens to make her very rude towards others, but she really does have the potential to become a good person.
Sample post:
Ah, please repeat that for me because I could have sworn that I heard you wrong. So you're claiming to me that an island itself is capable of creating mysterious phenomena? Hahayahaha! A notebook that makes people fall in love? Mysterious berries that change your emotions? Cakes, pizzas and ice cream growing on trees? Please excuse me while I keel over from laughter and die! From what you've just said, it's as if I've walked into a third-rate mystery novel. However, the setting, the air-- Yes. It's all too familiar to Rokkenjima.
... Oh good. Very good. Only a mind with a new level of stupidity or brilliance could create a child-like fantasy island like this. I wonder... Is Battler-san behind this? Or perhaps Beato-san? Non, non. It couldn't be them. Perhaps a new gamemaster could be at work here! Yes, that's perfect reasoning! Whoever you are, I gladly accept your challenge! I, Furudo Erika will smash and grind through your third-rate tricks like a knife cutting through butter. Just you watch me! I'll have no problems crushing this illusion of yours to pieces!
... Ah, please excuse me. I seem to had run on a tangent there. Now continue on. I applaud your reasoning behind this island. Really. So what third-rate explanation will you give me next? I'm so interested that I'm practically drooliiiiing! My, my. So, now you've decided to turn your back on this great detective? What a boring conclusion, but it's understandable. There's nothing more to ask from a flimsy piece. At this point, I've seem to have gathered enough evidence to draw a conclusion. I have come to the conclusion that everyone here has already become infected and delusional. Well? What do you think, everyone? The ocean air has already rotted your brains right down to the last gray cell.
A list of things your character might have on them after they got snatched up and put on this island:
- DUCT TAPE
- Swimsuit
- Lolita clothing
- Wedding outfit (WHY WOULD SHE HAVE THIS)
- CHOPSTICKS
- Detective's Authority
- THE REST IS MAGIC I AIN'T GOTTA EXPLAIN SHIT