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Character: Ange Ushiromiya, ANGE Beatrice
Series: Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Version: Visual novel, episode six, while she's in the car with Amakusa.
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Appearance: Ange is a young woman with straight red hair that is styled in such a way that it might be a variation of a hime cut. Her bangs are cut a few centimeters above her eyes, complemented by chin-length side locks, while the rest of her hair has grown out to about midway down her back. The most unusual thing about her hair, however, is the fact that it is always kept in partial-pigtails, decorated by a pair of cheap, pink hair bobbles. She has blue eyes and tends to wear just a bit of make-up. She is almost always seen with a gloomy expression on her face, rarely if, ever smiling.
Over her white blouse, which is adorned with a large pale blue bow, she wears a black jacket with sleeves that are puffy at the top, and fan out at the double layered, puffy cuffs. The jacket has six double lined buttons. She wears a belt around her waist and above the jacket. Just above her elbow, but below the puff of her left sleeve, a red armband with a golden wing embodied on it, a sign that she is a member of the Ushiromiya family, and on that hand she wears a golden ring with the seal of the one-winged eagle engraved on it and a diamond arranged on a pedestal, denoting her as the head of the family.
She wears a short, white skirt and a pair of black stockings with a single golden buckle towards the top of each one. Her shoes are of a dark blue-gray color, just a few shades lighter than her jet black stockings, with a short, beige underside heel.
Personality: I was…dark. Because I was disliked.
They say the environment makes the person and Ange is no exception to this rule. Years ago the loss of her family and constant abuse that she was forced to endure caused her heart to wither. She’s an extreme introvert, saying little and always wearing a blank expression on her face. Emotional abuse and even seeing death before her eyes isn’t enough to draw a reaction out of her, and even physical abuse isn’t enough to injure her. After all, by this point in her life she’s already suffered through far worse. When talking to people she is awkward at best and distant at worse, as though trying to find just the right thing to say to end the conversation as possible, often times causing her to come off as cold, or perhaps just as though she’s ignoring the person that she’s speaking to.
Ange rejects the world and the times in which she is happiest are those that she spends by herself. She prefers being ignored, as more often than not the only reason a person might pay attention to her was in order to find fault with her. In order to regain that solitude and avoid conflict with others she’ll often employ the aforementioned method of ending the conversation as quickly as possible, most commonly by simply taking the blame onto herself or otherwise saying whatever it is that will make them happy. If something were to disappear, while she might mention that she’d never gotten it, as soon as it’s obvious that the receiving end is going to continue to blame her for it she’ll simply play along and accept the blame. Anything to get them to leave her alone, anything to go back to being ignored and not have to suffer through more abuse. There’s simply no point to fighting a losing battle.
After so many years of being pried at by the media and abused by her classmates and even her own aunt, she can no longer simply accept things as they appear. This has made it so that even if someone were to open up to her there’s all too high of a chance that she’ll reject them, searching for their inner motifs and cutting the relationship off at the base. She won’t even begin to search for something that might make her happy, let alone accept it, until she’s searched all around and successfully confirmed that there’s nothing there that could hurt her. As long as that possibility exists she won’t allow herself to be happy. And it always exists.
At the same time, she admires those who can be happy and who can trust those around her. She’s envied her cousin, Maria, for her optimistic view on the world even as she criticized and tried to deny it; deep down she wants to be the kind of person who can take the hatred and bitterness of others and purify it before casting it away. She wants to be happy, but that is something that seems like an impossible fate for her and one that she doesn’t know and doesn’t want to change; therefore, in a way it could be said that to an extent she has brought her misery upon herself.
Though she’s resigned herself to her unhappiness, she’s nonetheless extremely bitter about it. It’s not uncommon for her to openly declare, if only within her own mind, that she hates those who harass her, nor is it odd for her to admit to herself and her magical group of friends that she hates those around her. Within her own mind where she knows it won’t cause her to be subjected to more unwanted attention she won’t hesitate to openly chide them herself, making sarcastic remarks. While she normally prefers to simply go back to being ignored, sometimes these remarks will even come to the surface, if she feels it’s worthwhile. She’s learned to shoot snide remarks right back at Eva and later did so with Kasumi, not at all deterred by the threat of physical abuse.
Ange has a surprising soft spot for her family, however. In particular it is known that she adored her big brother, Battler, and her cousin, Maria. Although the latter died in 1986, the latter has been with her for a fair portion of her life due to leaving her leaving part of her soul bound to her diary, acting as one of her few friends. She would do anything for her family, whether it meant outright rejecting her sole surviving family member or even acting as a sacrificial piece in order to ensure that they might be saved. Her primary goal when she began to use magic was to revive her family, because she loved them so dearly. Without her family she feels as though she has nothing to live for, something that led her to contemplating suicide while on a 200-foot-tall skyscraper. She’d do anything for those she loves. Anything.
Her softness can extend to others as well, though this is a rare occasion due to her constantly searching for reasons to distrust others. Her magical friends are the most noteworthy examples, as after her family’s death she considered her to be her only friends. She considers herself to be very close to her furniture, the Seven Stakes of Purgatory, as well as Sakutaro. Rarely, very rarely, might she be able to make a human friend; however, even if she were to do so, it’s unlikely that she should acknowledge that fact. At the very least, in spite of how dissatisfied she might seem at times, she can come to appreciate having a human around to talk to, as was the case with Amakusa. This may stem from the fact that after denying the world of witches she began to accept that only humans can be allies, and through her journey might have been able to bridge the gap between them just a bit.
The fact that she gives it her all makes it so she can react poorly to what she views as a betrayal. She would do anything to help those around her and so she expects them to be able to do the same and may react harshly if they’re unable to do so. When the Seven Stakes of Purgatory were unable to help her when her classmates’ abuse had been severe enough to cause her to break down she grew upset. Logically she might have known that it was true that due to her lack of magical power and the magic-resisting toxin would have prevented it, but emotionally she just couldn’t accept that the people she considered to be closest to her couldn’t help her. She snapped at them and denied them, deciding that this mean that they were useless to her.
Ange’s view on witches is certainly unique. She is a witch, she accepts the existence of witches, yet paradoxically she will also deny them. She denies the witch Beatrice, yet if it were not for her keeping her family hostage she would not have so chosen to destroy her world, as she considers it to be every individual’s right to decide whether or not magic exists. She’s seen the tragedies that can come about when someone tries to deny another person of their right to believe in magic and has decided that it’s best to simply let each and every person choose their view on it; therefore, while she might not accept a witch, she also won’t deny that person of their ability to believe in them.
Fears: Due to the death of her family Ange already lost all those that she considered to be important to her and years of abuse have caused her heart to wither. She no longer feels any physical abuse. In a world where she has nothing she doesn’t even death. In this sense it could be said that she is a fearless individual; however, treating her as such is only looking with one eye. As stated above, Ange is a lonely individual; therefore, it’s only natural that she’d want to get close to others. She can’t open her heart out of fear that she’ll be betrayed. She can’t bring herself to be happy due to her fear that she’ll be hurt.
It might not be entirely inappropriate to say that she’s afraid of being happy, of things going right and of getting close to people. Certainly all of the above would make her happy, but her paranoia would likely keep her looking over her shoulder, waiting for something to go wrong.
Losing someone that she considers close to her would kill her. At this point in time she has no human friends, but losing her magical friends would undoubtedly cut her deeply, just as the loss of her own family had. Consequently, she also can’t stand the idea of her family never returning. Her only reason for living at this point is that she hopes that she might be able to see her family again using her magic or through Bernkastel’s promise, even if it’s just her brother Battler. Finding out that she’ll never be able to do so would crush her.
Weaknesses: Although she has a high defense against magic, in the end she is still a fairly normal human girl. Her high potential as a witch has not been fully realized as it is and so without her furniture she will be left vulnerable to any sort of physical attack, especially things such as guns that have been specifically made to deny magic and thus cannot normally be protected against even when employing magic.
Even the use of her magic will be limited in the house, if not completely nullified. To be more specific, due to the nature of the house she will not be able to use her powers of resurrection at all, nor will she be able to summon any of her furniture, such as the Seven Stakes of Purgatory and Sakutaro, nor will she be able to summon Maria, neither in her mind or in the human world.
Over the years she has hardened her heart, leaving her a bitter person. She’s always looking for the hidden intentions in others and while this can be a good thing, it will also often lead her to expect the worst and wind up in more trouble than she might have been if she were to simply trust him. It has also left her short on allies, as all those who might have supported her died long ago, and she’s hard pressed to find new ones.
Strengths/Abilities: Ange is both the final Endless Witch and the Witch of Resurrection. Through the former she can kill anyone an infinite number of times and in and infinite number of times, while the latter her magic allows her to resurrect anything, albeit at this point in time she is only capable of performing low-leveled resurrection magic.
Thanks to her training under Maria and the grimoire she left behind, she is also capable of summoning demons and furniture, whether it is through knowledge or through a vessel; for example, she was able to summon Mammon using her stake and Maria through her diary, while Sakutaro and the other six stakes were summoned purely through knowledge. Although they could initially only appear in her view, due to the point she has been taken from when she summons them they can even appear in the human world.
She’s also learned a fair amount about magic itself and of other odds-and-ends spells from Maria’s grimoire, both of white magic and black magic. She’s learned to both make candy rain from the sky and make it be a clear day the next one and to causing a bus full of bullies to drive off a cliff. While the spells themselves might seem ridiculous, the knowledge surrounding them is considerably more potent.
As she has inherited Kinzo’s black blood and due to the fact that she became a witch twelve years in the future, she gained a powerful magic resistance and her potential in defense and attack is of the highest level. As a result she was saved from being targeted by Beatrice and can repel even high leveled spells.
Although she consistently received low grades in school, something that her classmates looked down on her for, Ange is surprisingly intelligent. She’s quick to catch onto the meanings of someone else’s words and tends to have little trouble coming up with her own counterattack. That Bernkastel chose her to fight against Beatrice in what was essentially a battle of wits is a testament to this fact, as is the fact that she was able to not only do that, but find out a surprising amount of information about the Rokkenjima accident in such a short period of time.
History: ***DUE TO ANGE'S CANON POINT BEING CHANGED AND RETCONNING THIS SECTION IS INCOMPLETE/OUT OF DATE AND IS IN THE MIDDLE OF BEING REVISED***
Before the Rokkenjima Explosion Accident Ange was a happy child. She was born into a warm, well-to-do family environment. Both of her parents loved her dearly and due to the business that her father Rudolf successfully ran, she was able to live a relatively carefree life, free from the burdens that might have otherwise befallen her. The only truly concerning aspect of her life was the absence of her older half-brother, Battler. Battler had moved out long before Ange was even born, opting to stay with his maternal grandparents and took on their surname following his father’s remarrying after his mother, Asumu died. Although she saw him infrequently, Ange came to adore Battler, thinking of him as her true brother and desperately wishing that their family should be together again.
One day Kyrie, Ange’s mother, Battler and Ange went to an amusement park together without telling Rudolf. It was at this place that the pink hairpiece that a crane game full of cute accessories caught her attention. She tried to win one for herself, but in her young age lacked the skill to do so. Battler made it a happy occasion when he came over and won it for her, and ever since the she’s treasured the pink-jeweled hairpiece, believing it to be a charm that would allow Battler to be at her side at all times. Years later, after the death of Battler’s maternal grandparents she would get her wish just in time for her brother to be snatched away once more.
Every year a family conference was held on Rokkenjima, a tiny island owned by the Ushiromiya family. Every year a family conference is held on this island, which is normally only occupied by Kinzo, Krauss, and Krauss’s immediate family, in which the adults held a sort of business conference while the children bonded with one another. Ange grew close to her cousin Maria in particular, as although she was three years older Maria would always grab her hand and let her join in on fun games. Eventually she introduced her to the world as witches, making her a witch apprentice and even inviting her into the Mariage Sorcière alliance.
Rosa and Kyrie got along well enough and being that they both had children who were around the same age, they sometimes met up with each other outside of the family conferences. During these times Ange and Maria would be able to play together and continue what Ange thought of as a game of witches, for a time, anyway. By the time she was introduced to Sakutaro, Ange had already grown bored with pretending that things such as magic existed. Not understanding her Maria’s attachment to the stuffed animal, she said that he was nothing more than cotton and cloth.
She went so far as to laugh at Maria and sneered at her about how it was much better to go outside and play with everything. The situation only continued to worsen and eventually a fight broke out that left harsh feelings on both sides. Soon thereafter Ange, whom had committed broken one of the rules of the alliance by denying Maria’s furniture and causing internal strife, was banished from the Mariage Sorcière.
On October 3, 1986, when Ange was just six years old, she fell sick and was unable to attend the family conference with the rest of the family. This sickness is inconsistent, but it is known that it was bad enough to lead to her staying n bed for the day. As a result of this she was left with her maternal grandfather while the rest of the family attended the family conference, believing that they would be back in just two days.
She was wrong, though, and in the end her family didn’t come back at all. On October 6, 1986, her grandfather received a phone call informing him of the fact that all eighteen members of the Ushiromiya family had been caught up in a gruesome serial murder that would later be covered up as the “Rokkenjima Explosion Accident,” but still widely speculated by others as the workings of a witch or a serial murder.
At the same time, Ange all too suddenly found that she was alone in the world, and also the only heir to the Ushiromiya family, as the only surviving member had been her aunt Eva. Her mother and father, her brother, and all of her extended family that she loved so dearly had been murdered. The only survivor, Eva, was a woman that Ange had never been particularly fond of due to her tendency to mock the other members of the family, including her own parents.
Several days later, she received a curious envelope in the mail. It was address is never revealed, but it is known that the sender was marked as Ange. She was disturbed to find that what she had hoped to be a message from her father was nothing more than a card, a key, and a PIN number that might have been used at a bank. Too young to be curious and too depressed to care, she threw it away somewhere without thinking. It was lost in the chaos that followed.
Despite her insistence that she stay with her grandfather, Eva was insisting on raising Ange, who was now the sole surviving heir of the Ushiromiya family. In the end Ange was forced to live with her aunt. The first thing that Eva told her was that she would need to dedicate her life to frantic studying in order to bear the glory and history of the Ushiromiya family as the new successor. She would have to sacrifice the rest of her life for the family.
The statement didn’t make sense to the child at first, who had initially gone so far as to take the statement literally, but soon became apparent. Eva was strict with Ange, never missing the occasion to criticize her and the parents that had raised her when she wasn’t carrying herself as she was supposed to. Her first meal with the woman was full of strict instructions on table manners, and the woman even went so far as to rebuke her in front of other guests. It was a far cry from the lax and warm environment she’d come from, forcing the poor girl from bearing no responsibility to carrying the full weight of Ushiromiya family.
Still, in the beginning Eva was far from being completely heartless. Forced to bear the constant brunt of the media’s criticism herself, she made something like an attempt to reconcile with Ange, her sole surviving family member. At Tanabata Eva tried to renew her bonds with Ange, understanding all too well the pain that the girl was suffering through due to the loss of her husband and son, and wanting to be a mother to the girl and someone that she could rely upon. She wanted for the two of them to learn to smile again, slowly. Ange had, perhaps, been the poor woman’s last hope-the person who should have been her final ally in the world.
She refused at the time, being a child and needing time to accept everything, but perhaps she might have been able to become Eva’s one ally were it not for the dream that she had that night. Bernkastel, the Witch of Miracles, visited her in a dream one night. The witch claimed that if she were to reject Eva and never once smile, then eventually the witch would grant the wish she had made at Tanabata that her family might be returned.
Everything went downhill after that. The media continued to suspect Eva, going so far as to twist the images of her husband and son, all while Ange solely rejected her and her attempts to recreate happiness with her. With no one left to vouch for her and no one left to support her, the woman grew more and more bitter. Eventually she ended up outright unstable, unable to carry the burden that had been placed upon her and her mind twisted into something truly ugly. She redirected her pain and anger towards young Ange, whom she had come to hate, calling her an unfit heir and replacement for George.
She emotionally abused the girl day in and day out, humiliating her frequently and comparing her to her dead son, something that eventually led to the girl trying to run away to her grandfather’s house. Unsurprisingly, she was caught long before she reached the house, and Eva took this as an opportunity to push the pain of isolation that she felt back onto Ange. She socially isolated the girl. She was kept under constant surveillance, although the guards had been strictly ordered not to talk to her unnecessarily.
In school any children who befriended her were to be chased away by aforementioned guards or teachers, as they were not worthy of associating with the future head of the Ushiromiya family. She might have lived in a rich mansion and been dressed up in expensive clothes, but all the same she was treated more like cattle than a person.
She was sent to St. Lucia Academy, an all-dorm school for the daughters of celebrities, acting as both protection from the impurities of the world and a prison. For Ange, it was the latter. Her classmates there came to hate her, believing her to be a witch and blaming any misfortune that happened in the school on her, and in turn Ange herself came to accept that she was a witch. Her fellow classmates frequently gossiped about her, making snide remarks and getting a laugh at her expense. They were cold and distant, chasing her out of all social groups.
It wasn’t common for Ange to fall victim to childish pranks, all while her classmates would deny it and even so far as to blame her for the consequences that it brought about. If she were to miss getting assignment or a notice, or if her possessions would disappear, it was something that she had done wrong. Meanwhile, she suffered the same treatment that Eva had from the media, who suspected every little thing she did. Even the illness that had prevented her from attending the conference was called to question.
Ange was far from happy with her predicament, but what could she do other than grin and bear it? She hated it and she hated them, but lacked her own means to fight back, and she had no friends or family who could support her. Any who might have had died years earlier, along with her heart. After surviving for so long with Eva, whose abuse had been far worse, her classmate’s derisive gossip and laughter were nothing to her, or so she told herself.
Her time alone was considerably more kind to her, acting as a hint of light in her grim world. Whether it be hiding in some obscure corner of the school or locking herself in a bathroom stall to avoid the jeers of her classmates, Ange would savor these times, passing the time reading the diary of her older cousin, Maria. She had found the diary amongst her cousin’s belongings and had secretly taken it home with her. She was hesitant to read it at first, but eventually began to look through it bit by bit. Eventually emerging herself in Maria’s world became her means of escapism.
As she read she learned of all the things that her cousin had not been able to pass on. She learned that much like Ange herself, Maria had been the victim of social isolation and a less than enviable home situation, but she was a happy child. Through her diary Ange learned of her cousin’s relationship with her mother and the family life that they shared. She learned of how the girl had been left alone so often, and of the friends that she had created herself-the most noteworthy being Sakutaro, a large lion plush that Maria had breathed life into-also of her progression as a Witch of Origins.
Maria had also left a portion of her soul attached to this diary and so while she could only be perceived when the diary was open, over time Ange was able to summon and interact with the soul of Maria. The soul only appeared when the world of diary was open and it could even be said that Maria was something akin to an imaginary friend to Ange, but the girl never thought of it as such. For a long time she was also her only friend, although at some point along the line she was joined by Sakutaro. With her cousin’s encouragement and the belief that she could be saved from her loneliness, she delved into the world of magic once more, learning by Maria’s instruction and the grimoire she had left behind.
Ange was later able to summon Sakutaro and see him not as a lion plush, but as the furniture of Lady MARIA, in the form that had been given to him by Beatrice. With the help of Maria she was gained the ability to summon magical friends, allies who would stay by her side and save her from her loneliness. This began with an attempt at summoning the Seven Stakes of Purgatory, whom had previously been furniture of the witch Beatrice and were part of the Mariage Sorcière alliance. Although she tried to summon all seven at once, the sudden influx put too much strain on her system. A game of rock-paper-scissors decided who would disappear, and in the end only Mammon remained. The two became friends quickly, with Mammon providing someone to talk to and supporting her dream to one day revive her dead family.
Over time her magical power grew and eventually she was able to summon not only Maria and Sakutaro, but also all seven sisters all at once, even while still going about her daily activities. The sisters were a lively bunch and often distracted Ange from her studies, as she found talking to them far more interesting than studying for a test that she only cared for due to the pressure from her classmates. This led to a problem as one day her abandoning her studies in favor of a game of shiritori led to her getting a poor grade on what her classmates believed should have been an easy test.
Due to her failure bringing down the entire class average, the class committee applied to use of the class lunchroom during lunch and after school, claiming that it would be for a study group. The proposal was accepted almost immediately, and it was decided that Ange would spend at least five hours of her day would be stolen away from her every day. She was berated by her classmates and questioned about why it was that she had failed. The other girls even went so far as to force her to construct a humiliating regret without pause. The process took hours as her classmates berated her and demanded that she rewrite it over and over until they were finally satisfied.
Then they ordered her to read it aloud. When she was unable to, Ange started to break down, and a classmate telling her that she should die turned out to be the last straw. She ordered the seven sisters to murder all of them. As they tried to plead that they were unable to due to the magic-resisting toxin and Ange’s limited amount of magic making it impossible, she began to deny them one by one. Just like so many people had turned their pain and anger on her, so did Ange turn her negativity onto her furniture. She decided then and there that they had been nothing more than delusions. They were just imaginary friends who couldn’t help her and were better off dead. She began to kill them off one by one.
Mammon was the last one left standing. She took in Ange’s anger, but not without spitting a bit of poison back at her. She told Ange to kill her classmates herself and that furniture could do no more than the master they served. Ange was unable to, of course, and so the stakes could not do so either. Yet there was no greater honor for furniture than to accept their master’s hatred, even if they could only relieve their master of their anger for but a moment. Mammon died with a mocking expression, but somehow it seemed as though she had tears in her eyes.
She turned to Maria and Sakutaro and once again began to deny the existence of witches, as well as Maria’s furniture, Sakutaro. Sakutaro was just a stuffed animal full of cotton, controlled by his ventriloquist. Magic didn’t exist. Neither of them really existed. All that truly existed was a cruel reality. Finally realizing that, she woke up from what she considered to be a long daydream, and read the paragraph aloud. She began to improvise about halfway through, asking why she hadn’t died and begging her classmates to kill her. Her classmates became shocked and confused, not quite knowing how to handle the girl, though a teacher arrived and became her one momentary ally before the situation could escalate any further.
She moved on. Then on October 4th, 1998, she was summoned by Eva, who was on her death bed due to the same disease that Kinzo had suffered from in her later years. Ange visited her at the university hospital had been kept in. After a rather unpleasant exchange, Eva revealed to Ange that she would die soon, and in dying she would leave both all of her worldly possession to Ange, and also the cursed title of Beatrice the Endless Witch to her niece. She would to her all of her enemies and the media’s critical eye that would find fault in everything she did. When asked about the truth behind the incident on Rokkenjima twelve years ago, Eva refused to say a word, deciding that the best way to harass her would be to take that information to her grave.
Eva died, leaving Ange truly alone in the world. Without even the hope of seeing her family once more, she went to the top of a 200-meter skyscraper with the intention of losing her life. She had nothing left but the enemies her aunt and money that she did not care about. Even the truth that she had sought was now beyond her reach, for it had died along with her aunt.
Then the same witch who had appeared in her dreams on the night of Tanabata appeared in front of her, introducing herself as the Witch of Miracles, Bernkastel. She explained to Ange that her assistance was needed, as her entire family was being held hostage by the same witch who had killed her family, Beatrice. Although she made no promises that she would be able to bring one family member back, let alone all of them, Bernkastel declared that in exchange for saving her family she would search for her most ideal kakera. It sounded too good to be true, but unable to let the opportunity simply slip by, Ange accepted.
Bernkastel then bestowed upon her the title of ANGE Beatrice, the final endless witch who would act as the key to defeating Beatrice and ending her games.
Just as their agreement was being settled Eva’s guards, having had took notice of her absence, rushed out and implored her to come back with them. Both of the witches were annoyed by the sudden interruption. Bernkastel turned on her heels into the jet black sky, and invited Ange to come with her. After bearing the guards farewell, Ange followed Bernkastel, jumping off the building and into what should have been certain death.
After she miraculously survived the incident unharmed, Ange threw everything away in favor of going off on a journey by herself. She wanted to learn the truth of what had happened twelve years ago on Rokkenjima. Determined to find the truth behind what had happened Ange first talked with Okonogi, a man who had been a close friend of both Hideyoshi and Eva. Ange questioned her about Eva and the incident of twelve years ago and despite his believing Eva to be innocent, Ange herself had already decided that Eva was the culprit and the one who had stolen her family away.
Okonogi accepted this, believing that because Ange had no love for Eva, the truth had been decided inside of her already-Eva had committed the crime, and nothing that was said or shown would stop her from believing that. Because of that fact she would be unable to reach the truth, as it could not be seen without love.
At the end of their conversation, it was revealed that the Kasumi Sumadera had arrived with the demands that Ange be handed over to her. She made a mistake in ordering his suggestion that she go to the second level of the basement, where a taxi would be waiting, and instead escaped through the fire exit of the third floor, only to be blocked by a set of guard.
She was caught by the fourth guard after jumping off the third story fire escape and onto their car, only to be miraculously saved by Juuza Amakura. Juuza had formerly been a guard of Eva’s, disliked due to how chatty he was and the fact that he took a pass at Ange in spite of her strict orders not to talk to her unnecessarily, and was dismissed shortly before her death. Okonogi had hired him as a bodyguard for Ange.
With Okonogi’s words in mind and Amakusa now acting as her bodyguard Ange continued her journey for the truth. For the sake of meeting with an expert on the occult, and also the person who possessed one of the two diaries that had been discovered, she claimed to be Sumadera. The first diary had been found the day of the Rokkenjima accident, the second some time after. In both cases several bottles had been stuffed into bottles and thrown out to sea.
Both bottles began with eighteen people becoming trapped on Rokkenjima due to a typhoon, during which all eighteen of them had been murdered in a most grizzly fashion in according to the witch’s epitaph, before finally ending with the Golden Witch, Beatrice. The means and methods for the murders, as well as the order and in turn the actions of those who survived as the murders continued were completely different. Additionally, in both cases all eighteen people had died, implying that it was a premeditated murder carried out by someone other than Eva. In the end the most noteworthy discovery was that the diaries had been without a doubt written by Beatrice.
The simple act of not being able to sleep that night was enough for her to be inducted into the world of magic once more. Upon reading bits of Maria’s diary to pass the time, she found herself connecting with the remaining soul of her cousin once more. She managed to summon one of the Seven Stakes of Purgatory, using her stake as a vessel. Mammon begrudgingly accepted Ange as her master, but insisted that she summon the other four sisters as well. Try as she might, Ange’s power had decreased significantly over the years, and she was only able to summon four of them before collapsing.
After several days Ange began to rationalize her meeting with Bernkastel, considering the possibility that her meeting with the wish might have just been nothing more than an illusion caused by her own desire and intention to die, and her initial excitement in regards to her journey began to die down. Unable to accept that and lose her final glint of hope that she might see her family once more, she continued on.
Several days later her journey took Ninjimia and to the conclusion that this journey was not to discover what had happened twelve years ago, but to apologize to Maria and to heal the pain that Sakutaro’s death had brought her by making her recognize him again. Later n Ninjima she found that the surviving relatives of those who had attended the family conference had been sent a letter-or rather, that a letter they had no memory of writing had been returned to them. Both Nanjo and Kumasawa’s son had received a letter that was addressed to their parent at a place far from their current resident, with the number 1-2-34-567 as the destination. The letter contained a card, a key, and a letter with the name of a well known bank and a pin number. Visiting that bank had revealed that a hundred million yen or more had been left to them.
It had been postmarked for October 3rd, the day before the Rokkenjima accident was to occur. When questioned about whether or not she received one herself, Ange finally remembered the precarious envelope that had been sent to her after the accident. Ange questioned this at first, believing it to be an uncertain method, but both Sakutaro and Mammon noted that Beatrice was a fickle character, who loved the thrill of uncertainty.
More certain than ever that her family was being tortured by the witch even now, Ange made her last stop a futon shop. There she met Kawabata, the man who had been captain of the ferryboat to Rokkenjima on the day of the accident. Kawabata had retired after falling ill. Regretting the fact that he had been unable to bring the family back safely, he agreed to take Ange to Rokkenjima. Catching onto the fact that she was going there to die and causing Ange herself to realize that she had been looking for a place to do so, he convinced her to promise not to do so.
Just as she was leaving she took notice of something n a display case, something that confused Mammon, Sakutaro and herself. Kawabata and Amakusa, who had since joined them, didn’t understand her shock. To them it seemed like a normal display case, but to Ange it was a magic-a miracle in and of itself. It has not been directly stated in canon what it was, but through hints in the game and the extra TIP “Sakutarou, to Purgatory Mountain” it can be inferred that it was, in fact, Sakutaro’s vessel.
On the boat ride to Rokkenjima it was discovered that a hidden harbor existed on the island, one that was connected to the hidden mansion of Kuwadorian, and also that Kawabata had carried goods to Kuwadorian for twenty years. Those trips in the island had stopped suddenly in 1968. Although Kawabata had never met Kinzo’s mistress or even seen the hidden mansion up close, he suspected the former’s existence, and so a short while after he was relieved of his duty, through the reaction of the servants he was able to determine that she had died.
Leaving Amakusa and Kawabata at the harbor, her knapsack and flowers in hand, Ange set off alone towards the end of her journey. Although she had intended to go as far as Kuwadorian, the hill had been eaten at by wind and rain, causing a slope that made it impossible for her to proceed. That hilltop, she realized, was the final destination of her journey. It was the bridge between 1986 and 1998.
She decided against going down, as what started as a journey to find a place to die had turned into the considerably more concrete goal of ending things for herself and as the final witch of Mariage Sorcière. She felt just her soul escape her body, flying to the place where her family was that day. She could detect the presence family and relatives, and all the servants, of the Maria of that day and the witch that had been known as MARIA.
So she was able to announce it to the wind. She was able to apologize to Maria and to announce that she finally understood the world of magic. With time she had come to understand what magic was, a warm world overflowing with love that her cousin had wanted to share with her, and yet because of how harshly she had rejected her Mariage Sorcière had been twisted into something entirely different than what she had desired. She invited her to change the Mariage Sorcière back to its original form as Maria’s the wind flipped the pages of Maria’s grimoire, showing the change from the world of the magic of happiness to malicious magic that was used to hurt others.
But now Ange would change it back to what it had been.
Her plans were interrupted though. Just as her voice was about to reach Maria the magic was interrupted by the appearance of Kasumi and her six black-suits. Kasumi chided Ange and her mother Kyrie, whom had abandoned the family and forced Kasumi to sacrifice her life for and take on the heavy responsibilities of the Sumadera family, and announced her intentions to kill her in order to bring an end her hatred. Any time Ange spoke up, making comments just as harsh as Kasumi’s own, she was punched or kicked by one of her black suits, all while Mammon and Sakutaro watched on.
When she refused to even apologize for her mother’s actions she was beaten more heavily and this time the torment did not end until Kasumi had finished her cigarette. The abuse was all too similar to the way that Eva had previously abused her, and so perhaps it wasn’t surprising that after a time could almost see Eva next to Kasumi, and for the first time she realized that not just Kasumi, but Eva and Rosa as well, might be worthy of her sympathy.
Upon revaluating Eva she realized that the pain that they pushed onto others and the insults they threw were the very same ones that they had been forced to endure over the years. In Maria’s case she could use white magic to purify her world and create happiness, but on the other hand Eva, like Rosa, had been taught by a black witch to use magic to force her pain onto another in order to gain a momentary distraction from it.
The woman that she had hated all of her life turned into a human that she could understand. Eva was a woman who had lost all but one member of her family and had been told by Ange, the person who should have taught her the white magic of happiness and been her only ally in the world, to give her parents back. Instead of building a new future together they had come to hate each other, and Eva had turned to the black witch and her black magic; yet Eva should have never been the object of Ange’s hatred, rather, it should have been the black witch beside her. Yet throughout her life Ange had not once seen that witch or realized any of this because she did not have any love for Eva.
She glared at the black witch who now stood by Kasumi, revealing her intentions. She would not inherit Eva’s pain and she would not hate the witch; instead she would purify that pain and throw it away. The black witch mocked her and urged the black-suits and Kasumi to continue to abuse her and so Kasumi did. She found it pleasant to be on the one doling out abuse in order to relieve her pain.
The physical abuse eventually stopped, but was what followed was more painful than being kicked could ever be. Kasumi trampled on her flowers, and Ange was forced to watch as Kasumi then picked up Maria’s grimoire and began to openly mock it. With the black witch’s encouragement she even began to tear pages out of it and throw them away, tossing away Maria’s miracles. Mammon and Sakutaro protested, but their words could not reach Kasumi’s ears. Even the Seven Stakes of Purgatory and Sakutaro’s pages were openly mocked and torn out and in the latter’s case, trampled upon.
The last page to be torn out was the one that Maria treasured most, a spell to always be friends with her beloved mother. Kasumi imitated the short incantation and mocked it before tearing it out and trampling upon the grimoire. That and the black witch’s denying her magic turned out to be the final straw, as Ange rose to her feet and resolved to show them magic.
In a show of magic that was on par with Beatrice and Maria, she summoned all seven stakes at once in ordered them to show her a miracle in order to protect the Mariage Sorcière even as a gun was pointed at hr. Mammon hesitated, not believing she would be able to do it, but by time the first trigger was pulled the sisters had already sprung into action. In a feat that should have been impossible in front of so many humans, all six of the black suits were brought down by the sisters one by one as Ange watched on calmly.
In the end only Kasumi was left, sounding rejecting Ange’s offer to seal the hole in her heart through the use of magic. In the end it was all she could do to put the pitiful woman, who could not accept magic, to rest and free her from her resentment. After Kasumi unsuccessfully tried to shoot her, she ordered Mammon to release her and protect the honor of Mariage Sorcière. Mammon complied, killing her.
Last was the black witch who looked so much like Eva. She showed Ange magic by reviving her dead aunt, Eva. Eva had regretted not being able to kill Ange in death and had come back to finish the job. She pointed a gun at Ange in what would be a battle of white magic and black magic, to see which would survive in the end. Although she shouldn’t have been able to summon the seven stakes due to being surrounded by the magic resisting toxin, in the end Mammon caused her gun to explode on her face, and in order to release her Ange shot her in the head, effectively ending the battle between the opposing types of magic and her journey as the world began to sink into darkness as she slipped.
***DUE TO ANGE'S CANON POINT BEING CHANGED AND RETCONNING THIS HISTORY SECTION IS INCOMPLETE/OUT OF DATE AND IS IN THE MIDDLE OF BEING REVISED***
Character: Ange Ushiromiya, ANGE Beatrice
Series: Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Version: Visual novel, episode six, while she's in the car with Amakusa.
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Appearance: Ange is a young woman with straight red hair that is styled in such a way that it might be a variation of a hime cut. Her bangs are cut a few centimeters above her eyes, complemented by chin-length side locks, while the rest of her hair has grown out to about midway down her back. The most unusual thing about her hair, however, is the fact that it is always kept in partial-pigtails, decorated by a pair of cheap, pink hair bobbles. She has blue eyes and tends to wear just a bit of make-up. She is almost always seen with a gloomy expression on her face, rarely if, ever smiling.
Over her white blouse, which is adorned with a large pale blue bow, she wears a black jacket with sleeves that are puffy at the top, and fan out at the double layered, puffy cuffs. The jacket has six double lined buttons. She wears a belt around her waist and above the jacket. Just above her elbow, but below the puff of her left sleeve, a red armband with a golden wing embodied on it, a sign that she is a member of the Ushiromiya family, and on that hand she wears a golden ring with the seal of the one-winged eagle engraved on it and a diamond arranged on a pedestal, denoting her as the head of the family.
She wears a short, white skirt and a pair of black stockings with a single golden buckle towards the top of each one. Her shoes are of a dark blue-gray color, just a few shades lighter than her jet black stockings, with a short, beige underside heel.
Personality: I was…dark. Because I was disliked.
They say the environment makes the person and Ange is no exception to this rule. Years ago the loss of her family and constant abuse that she was forced to endure caused her heart to wither. She’s an extreme introvert, saying little and always wearing a blank expression on her face. Emotional abuse and even seeing death before her eyes isn’t enough to draw a reaction out of her, and even physical abuse isn’t enough to injure her. After all, by this point in her life she’s already suffered through far worse. When talking to people she is awkward at best and distant at worse, as though trying to find just the right thing to say to end the conversation as possible, often times causing her to come off as cold, or perhaps just as though she’s ignoring the person that she’s speaking to.
Ange rejects the world and the times in which she is happiest are those that she spends by herself. She prefers being ignored, as more often than not the only reason a person might pay attention to her was in order to find fault with her. In order to regain that solitude and avoid conflict with others she’ll often employ the aforementioned method of ending the conversation as quickly as possible, most commonly by simply taking the blame onto herself or otherwise saying whatever it is that will make them happy. If something were to disappear, while she might mention that she’d never gotten it, as soon as it’s obvious that the receiving end is going to continue to blame her for it she’ll simply play along and accept the blame. Anything to get them to leave her alone, anything to go back to being ignored and not have to suffer through more abuse. There’s simply no point to fighting a losing battle.
After so many years of being pried at by the media and abused by her classmates and even her own aunt, she can no longer simply accept things as they appear. This has made it so that even if someone were to open up to her there’s all too high of a chance that she’ll reject them, searching for their inner motifs and cutting the relationship off at the base. She won’t even begin to search for something that might make her happy, let alone accept it, until she’s searched all around and successfully confirmed that there’s nothing there that could hurt her. As long as that possibility exists she won’t allow herself to be happy. And it always exists.
At the same time, she admires those who can be happy and who can trust those around her. She’s envied her cousin, Maria, for her optimistic view on the world even as she criticized and tried to deny it; deep down she wants to be the kind of person who can take the hatred and bitterness of others and purify it before casting it away. She wants to be happy, but that is something that seems like an impossible fate for her and one that she doesn’t know and doesn’t want to change; therefore, in a way it could be said that to an extent she has brought her misery upon herself.
Though she’s resigned herself to her unhappiness, she’s nonetheless extremely bitter about it. It’s not uncommon for her to openly declare, if only within her own mind, that she hates those who harass her, nor is it odd for her to admit to herself and her magical group of friends that she hates those around her. Within her own mind where she knows it won’t cause her to be subjected to more unwanted attention she won’t hesitate to openly chide them herself, making sarcastic remarks. While she normally prefers to simply go back to being ignored, sometimes these remarks will even come to the surface, if she feels it’s worthwhile. She’s learned to shoot snide remarks right back at Eva and later did so with Kasumi, not at all deterred by the threat of physical abuse.
Ange has a surprising soft spot for her family, however. In particular it is known that she adored her big brother, Battler, and her cousin, Maria. Although the latter died in 1986, the latter has been with her for a fair portion of her life due to leaving her leaving part of her soul bound to her diary, acting as one of her few friends. She would do anything for her family, whether it meant outright rejecting her sole surviving family member or even acting as a sacrificial piece in order to ensure that they might be saved. Her primary goal when she began to use magic was to revive her family, because she loved them so dearly. Without her family she feels as though she has nothing to live for, something that led her to contemplating suicide while on a 200-foot-tall skyscraper. She’d do anything for those she loves. Anything.
Her softness can extend to others as well, though this is a rare occasion due to her constantly searching for reasons to distrust others. Her magical friends are the most noteworthy examples, as after her family’s death she considered her to be her only friends. She considers herself to be very close to her furniture, the Seven Stakes of Purgatory, as well as Sakutaro. Rarely, very rarely, might she be able to make a human friend; however, even if she were to do so, it’s unlikely that she should acknowledge that fact. At the very least, in spite of how dissatisfied she might seem at times, she can come to appreciate having a human around to talk to, as was the case with Amakusa. This may stem from the fact that after denying the world of witches she began to accept that only humans can be allies, and through her journey might have been able to bridge the gap between them just a bit.
The fact that she gives it her all makes it so she can react poorly to what she views as a betrayal. She would do anything to help those around her and so she expects them to be able to do the same and may react harshly if they’re unable to do so. When the Seven Stakes of Purgatory were unable to help her when her classmates’ abuse had been severe enough to cause her to break down she grew upset. Logically she might have known that it was true that due to her lack of magical power and the magic-resisting toxin would have prevented it, but emotionally she just couldn’t accept that the people she considered to be closest to her couldn’t help her. She snapped at them and denied them, deciding that this mean that they were useless to her.
Ange’s view on witches is certainly unique. She is a witch, she accepts the existence of witches, yet paradoxically she will also deny them. She denies the witch Beatrice, yet if it were not for her keeping her family hostage she would not have so chosen to destroy her world, as she considers it to be every individual’s right to decide whether or not magic exists. She’s seen the tragedies that can come about when someone tries to deny another person of their right to believe in magic and has decided that it’s best to simply let each and every person choose their view on it; therefore, while she might not accept a witch, she also won’t deny that person of their ability to believe in them.
Fears: Due to the death of her family Ange already lost all those that she considered to be important to her and years of abuse have caused her heart to wither. She no longer feels any physical abuse. In a world where she has nothing she doesn’t even death. In this sense it could be said that she is a fearless individual; however, treating her as such is only looking with one eye. As stated above, Ange is a lonely individual; therefore, it’s only natural that she’d want to get close to others. She can’t open her heart out of fear that she’ll be betrayed. She can’t bring herself to be happy due to her fear that she’ll be hurt.
It might not be entirely inappropriate to say that she’s afraid of being happy, of things going right and of getting close to people. Certainly all of the above would make her happy, but her paranoia would likely keep her looking over her shoulder, waiting for something to go wrong.
Losing someone that she considers close to her would kill her. At this point in time she has no human friends, but losing her magical friends would undoubtedly cut her deeply, just as the loss of her own family had. Consequently, she also can’t stand the idea of her family never returning. Her only reason for living at this point is that she hopes that she might be able to see her family again using her magic or through Bernkastel’s promise, even if it’s just her brother Battler. Finding out that she’ll never be able to do so would crush her.
Weaknesses: Although she has a high defense against magic, in the end she is still a fairly normal human girl. Her high potential as a witch has not been fully realized as it is and so without her furniture she will be left vulnerable to any sort of physical attack, especially things such as guns that have been specifically made to deny magic and thus cannot normally be protected against even when employing magic.
Even the use of her magic will be limited in the house, if not completely nullified. To be more specific, due to the nature of the house she will not be able to use her powers of resurrection at all, nor will she be able to summon any of her furniture, such as the Seven Stakes of Purgatory and Sakutaro, nor will she be able to summon Maria, neither in her mind or in the human world.
Over the years she has hardened her heart, leaving her a bitter person. She’s always looking for the hidden intentions in others and while this can be a good thing, it will also often lead her to expect the worst and wind up in more trouble than she might have been if she were to simply trust him. It has also left her short on allies, as all those who might have supported her died long ago, and she’s hard pressed to find new ones.
Strengths/Abilities: Ange is both the final Endless Witch and the Witch of Resurrection. Through the former she can kill anyone an infinite number of times and in and infinite number of times, while the latter her magic allows her to resurrect anything, albeit at this point in time she is only capable of performing low-leveled resurrection magic.
Thanks to her training under Maria and the grimoire she left behind, she is also capable of summoning demons and furniture, whether it is through knowledge or through a vessel; for example, she was able to summon Mammon using her stake and Maria through her diary, while Sakutaro and the other six stakes were summoned purely through knowledge. Although they could initially only appear in her view, due to the point she has been taken from when she summons them they can even appear in the human world.
She’s also learned a fair amount about magic itself and of other odds-and-ends spells from Maria’s grimoire, both of white magic and black magic. She’s learned to both make candy rain from the sky and make it be a clear day the next one and to causing a bus full of bullies to drive off a cliff. While the spells themselves might seem ridiculous, the knowledge surrounding them is considerably more potent.
As she has inherited Kinzo’s black blood and due to the fact that she became a witch twelve years in the future, she gained a powerful magic resistance and her potential in defense and attack is of the highest level. As a result she was saved from being targeted by Beatrice and can repel even high leveled spells.
Although she consistently received low grades in school, something that her classmates looked down on her for, Ange is surprisingly intelligent. She’s quick to catch onto the meanings of someone else’s words and tends to have little trouble coming up with her own counterattack. That Bernkastel chose her to fight against Beatrice in what was essentially a battle of wits is a testament to this fact, as is the fact that she was able to not only do that, but find out a surprising amount of information about the Rokkenjima accident in such a short period of time.
History: ***DUE TO ANGE'S CANON POINT BEING CHANGED AND RETCONNING THIS SECTION IS INCOMPLETE/OUT OF DATE AND IS IN THE MIDDLE OF BEING REVISED***
Before the Rokkenjima Explosion Accident Ange was a happy child. She was born into a warm, well-to-do family environment. Both of her parents loved her dearly and due to the business that her father Rudolf successfully ran, she was able to live a relatively carefree life, free from the burdens that might have otherwise befallen her. The only truly concerning aspect of her life was the absence of her older half-brother, Battler. Battler had moved out long before Ange was even born, opting to stay with his maternal grandparents and took on their surname following his father’s remarrying after his mother, Asumu died. Although she saw him infrequently, Ange came to adore Battler, thinking of him as her true brother and desperately wishing that their family should be together again.
One day Kyrie, Ange’s mother, Battler and Ange went to an amusement park together without telling Rudolf. It was at this place that the pink hairpiece that a crane game full of cute accessories caught her attention. She tried to win one for herself, but in her young age lacked the skill to do so. Battler made it a happy occasion when he came over and won it for her, and ever since the she’s treasured the pink-jeweled hairpiece, believing it to be a charm that would allow Battler to be at her side at all times. Years later, after the death of Battler’s maternal grandparents she would get her wish just in time for her brother to be snatched away once more.
Every year a family conference was held on Rokkenjima, a tiny island owned by the Ushiromiya family. Every year a family conference is held on this island, which is normally only occupied by Kinzo, Krauss, and Krauss’s immediate family, in which the adults held a sort of business conference while the children bonded with one another. Ange grew close to her cousin Maria in particular, as although she was three years older Maria would always grab her hand and let her join in on fun games. Eventually she introduced her to the world as witches, making her a witch apprentice and even inviting her into the Mariage Sorcière alliance.
Rosa and Kyrie got along well enough and being that they both had children who were around the same age, they sometimes met up with each other outside of the family conferences. During these times Ange and Maria would be able to play together and continue what Ange thought of as a game of witches, for a time, anyway. By the time she was introduced to Sakutaro, Ange had already grown bored with pretending that things such as magic existed. Not understanding her Maria’s attachment to the stuffed animal, she said that he was nothing more than cotton and cloth.
She went so far as to laugh at Maria and sneered at her about how it was much better to go outside and play with everything. The situation only continued to worsen and eventually a fight broke out that left harsh feelings on both sides. Soon thereafter Ange, whom had committed broken one of the rules of the alliance by denying Maria’s furniture and causing internal strife, was banished from the Mariage Sorcière.
On October 3, 1986, when Ange was just six years old, she fell sick and was unable to attend the family conference with the rest of the family. This sickness is inconsistent, but it is known that it was bad enough to lead to her staying n bed for the day. As a result of this she was left with her maternal grandfather while the rest of the family attended the family conference, believing that they would be back in just two days.
She was wrong, though, and in the end her family didn’t come back at all. On October 6, 1986, her grandfather received a phone call informing him of the fact that all eighteen members of the Ushiromiya family had been caught up in a gruesome serial murder that would later be covered up as the “Rokkenjima Explosion Accident,” but still widely speculated by others as the workings of a witch or a serial murder.
At the same time, Ange all too suddenly found that she was alone in the world, and also the only heir to the Ushiromiya family, as the only surviving member had been her aunt Eva. Her mother and father, her brother, and all of her extended family that she loved so dearly had been murdered. The only survivor, Eva, was a woman that Ange had never been particularly fond of due to her tendency to mock the other members of the family, including her own parents.
Several days later, she received a curious envelope in the mail. It was address is never revealed, but it is known that the sender was marked as Ange. She was disturbed to find that what she had hoped to be a message from her father was nothing more than a card, a key, and a PIN number that might have been used at a bank. Too young to be curious and too depressed to care, she threw it away somewhere without thinking. It was lost in the chaos that followed.
Despite her insistence that she stay with her grandfather, Eva was insisting on raising Ange, who was now the sole surviving heir of the Ushiromiya family. In the end Ange was forced to live with her aunt. The first thing that Eva told her was that she would need to dedicate her life to frantic studying in order to bear the glory and history of the Ushiromiya family as the new successor. She would have to sacrifice the rest of her life for the family.
The statement didn’t make sense to the child at first, who had initially gone so far as to take the statement literally, but soon became apparent. Eva was strict with Ange, never missing the occasion to criticize her and the parents that had raised her when she wasn’t carrying herself as she was supposed to. Her first meal with the woman was full of strict instructions on table manners, and the woman even went so far as to rebuke her in front of other guests. It was a far cry from the lax and warm environment she’d come from, forcing the poor girl from bearing no responsibility to carrying the full weight of Ushiromiya family.
Still, in the beginning Eva was far from being completely heartless. Forced to bear the constant brunt of the media’s criticism herself, she made something like an attempt to reconcile with Ange, her sole surviving family member. At Tanabata Eva tried to renew her bonds with Ange, understanding all too well the pain that the girl was suffering through due to the loss of her husband and son, and wanting to be a mother to the girl and someone that she could rely upon. She wanted for the two of them to learn to smile again, slowly. Ange had, perhaps, been the poor woman’s last hope-the person who should have been her final ally in the world.
She refused at the time, being a child and needing time to accept everything, but perhaps she might have been able to become Eva’s one ally were it not for the dream that she had that night. Bernkastel, the Witch of Miracles, visited her in a dream one night. The witch claimed that if she were to reject Eva and never once smile, then eventually the witch would grant the wish she had made at Tanabata that her family might be returned.
Everything went downhill after that. The media continued to suspect Eva, going so far as to twist the images of her husband and son, all while Ange solely rejected her and her attempts to recreate happiness with her. With no one left to vouch for her and no one left to support her, the woman grew more and more bitter. Eventually she ended up outright unstable, unable to carry the burden that had been placed upon her and her mind twisted into something truly ugly. She redirected her pain and anger towards young Ange, whom she had come to hate, calling her an unfit heir and replacement for George.
She emotionally abused the girl day in and day out, humiliating her frequently and comparing her to her dead son, something that eventually led to the girl trying to run away to her grandfather’s house. Unsurprisingly, she was caught long before she reached the house, and Eva took this as an opportunity to push the pain of isolation that she felt back onto Ange. She socially isolated the girl. She was kept under constant surveillance, although the guards had been strictly ordered not to talk to her unnecessarily.
In school any children who befriended her were to be chased away by aforementioned guards or teachers, as they were not worthy of associating with the future head of the Ushiromiya family. She might have lived in a rich mansion and been dressed up in expensive clothes, but all the same she was treated more like cattle than a person.
She was sent to St. Lucia Academy, an all-dorm school for the daughters of celebrities, acting as both protection from the impurities of the world and a prison. For Ange, it was the latter. Her classmates there came to hate her, believing her to be a witch and blaming any misfortune that happened in the school on her, and in turn Ange herself came to accept that she was a witch. Her fellow classmates frequently gossiped about her, making snide remarks and getting a laugh at her expense. They were cold and distant, chasing her out of all social groups.
It wasn’t common for Ange to fall victim to childish pranks, all while her classmates would deny it and even so far as to blame her for the consequences that it brought about. If she were to miss getting assignment or a notice, or if her possessions would disappear, it was something that she had done wrong. Meanwhile, she suffered the same treatment that Eva had from the media, who suspected every little thing she did. Even the illness that had prevented her from attending the conference was called to question.
Ange was far from happy with her predicament, but what could she do other than grin and bear it? She hated it and she hated them, but lacked her own means to fight back, and she had no friends or family who could support her. Any who might have had died years earlier, along with her heart. After surviving for so long with Eva, whose abuse had been far worse, her classmate’s derisive gossip and laughter were nothing to her, or so she told herself.
Her time alone was considerably more kind to her, acting as a hint of light in her grim world. Whether it be hiding in some obscure corner of the school or locking herself in a bathroom stall to avoid the jeers of her classmates, Ange would savor these times, passing the time reading the diary of her older cousin, Maria. She had found the diary amongst her cousin’s belongings and had secretly taken it home with her. She was hesitant to read it at first, but eventually began to look through it bit by bit. Eventually emerging herself in Maria’s world became her means of escapism.
As she read she learned of all the things that her cousin had not been able to pass on. She learned that much like Ange herself, Maria had been the victim of social isolation and a less than enviable home situation, but she was a happy child. Through her diary Ange learned of her cousin’s relationship with her mother and the family life that they shared. She learned of how the girl had been left alone so often, and of the friends that she had created herself-the most noteworthy being Sakutaro, a large lion plush that Maria had breathed life into-also of her progression as a Witch of Origins.
Maria had also left a portion of her soul attached to this diary and so while she could only be perceived when the diary was open, over time Ange was able to summon and interact with the soul of Maria. The soul only appeared when the world of diary was open and it could even be said that Maria was something akin to an imaginary friend to Ange, but the girl never thought of it as such. For a long time she was also her only friend, although at some point along the line she was joined by Sakutaro. With her cousin’s encouragement and the belief that she could be saved from her loneliness, she delved into the world of magic once more, learning by Maria’s instruction and the grimoire she had left behind.
Ange was later able to summon Sakutaro and see him not as a lion plush, but as the furniture of Lady MARIA, in the form that had been given to him by Beatrice. With the help of Maria she was gained the ability to summon magical friends, allies who would stay by her side and save her from her loneliness. This began with an attempt at summoning the Seven Stakes of Purgatory, whom had previously been furniture of the witch Beatrice and were part of the Mariage Sorcière alliance. Although she tried to summon all seven at once, the sudden influx put too much strain on her system. A game of rock-paper-scissors decided who would disappear, and in the end only Mammon remained. The two became friends quickly, with Mammon providing someone to talk to and supporting her dream to one day revive her dead family.
Over time her magical power grew and eventually she was able to summon not only Maria and Sakutaro, but also all seven sisters all at once, even while still going about her daily activities. The sisters were a lively bunch and often distracted Ange from her studies, as she found talking to them far more interesting than studying for a test that she only cared for due to the pressure from her classmates. This led to a problem as one day her abandoning her studies in favor of a game of shiritori led to her getting a poor grade on what her classmates believed should have been an easy test.
Due to her failure bringing down the entire class average, the class committee applied to use of the class lunchroom during lunch and after school, claiming that it would be for a study group. The proposal was accepted almost immediately, and it was decided that Ange would spend at least five hours of her day would be stolen away from her every day. She was berated by her classmates and questioned about why it was that she had failed. The other girls even went so far as to force her to construct a humiliating regret without pause. The process took hours as her classmates berated her and demanded that she rewrite it over and over until they were finally satisfied.
Then they ordered her to read it aloud. When she was unable to, Ange started to break down, and a classmate telling her that she should die turned out to be the last straw. She ordered the seven sisters to murder all of them. As they tried to plead that they were unable to due to the magic-resisting toxin and Ange’s limited amount of magic making it impossible, she began to deny them one by one. Just like so many people had turned their pain and anger on her, so did Ange turn her negativity onto her furniture. She decided then and there that they had been nothing more than delusions. They were just imaginary friends who couldn’t help her and were better off dead. She began to kill them off one by one.
Mammon was the last one left standing. She took in Ange’s anger, but not without spitting a bit of poison back at her. She told Ange to kill her classmates herself and that furniture could do no more than the master they served. Ange was unable to, of course, and so the stakes could not do so either. Yet there was no greater honor for furniture than to accept their master’s hatred, even if they could only relieve their master of their anger for but a moment. Mammon died with a mocking expression, but somehow it seemed as though she had tears in her eyes.
She turned to Maria and Sakutaro and once again began to deny the existence of witches, as well as Maria’s furniture, Sakutaro. Sakutaro was just a stuffed animal full of cotton, controlled by his ventriloquist. Magic didn’t exist. Neither of them really existed. All that truly existed was a cruel reality. Finally realizing that, she woke up from what she considered to be a long daydream, and read the paragraph aloud. She began to improvise about halfway through, asking why she hadn’t died and begging her classmates to kill her. Her classmates became shocked and confused, not quite knowing how to handle the girl, though a teacher arrived and became her one momentary ally before the situation could escalate any further.
She moved on. Then on October 4th, 1998, she was summoned by Eva, who was on her death bed due to the same disease that Kinzo had suffered from in her later years. Ange visited her at the university hospital had been kept in. After a rather unpleasant exchange, Eva revealed to Ange that she would die soon, and in dying she would leave both all of her worldly possession to Ange, and also the cursed title of Beatrice the Endless Witch to her niece. She would to her all of her enemies and the media’s critical eye that would find fault in everything she did. When asked about the truth behind the incident on Rokkenjima twelve years ago, Eva refused to say a word, deciding that the best way to harass her would be to take that information to her grave.
Eva died, leaving Ange truly alone in the world. Without even the hope of seeing her family once more, she went to the top of a 200-meter skyscraper with the intention of losing her life. She had nothing left but the enemies her aunt and money that she did not care about. Even the truth that she had sought was now beyond her reach, for it had died along with her aunt.
Then the same witch who had appeared in her dreams on the night of Tanabata appeared in front of her, introducing herself as the Witch of Miracles, Bernkastel. She explained to Ange that her assistance was needed, as her entire family was being held hostage by the same witch who had killed her family, Beatrice. Although she made no promises that she would be able to bring one family member back, let alone all of them, Bernkastel declared that in exchange for saving her family she would search for her most ideal kakera. It sounded too good to be true, but unable to let the opportunity simply slip by, Ange accepted.
Bernkastel then bestowed upon her the title of ANGE Beatrice, the final endless witch who would act as the key to defeating Beatrice and ending her games.
Just as their agreement was being settled Eva’s guards, having had took notice of her absence, rushed out and implored her to come back with them. Both of the witches were annoyed by the sudden interruption. Bernkastel turned on her heels into the jet black sky, and invited Ange to come with her. After bearing the guards farewell, Ange followed Bernkastel, jumping off the building and into what should have been certain death.
After she miraculously survived the incident unharmed, Ange threw everything away in favor of going off on a journey by herself. She wanted to learn the truth of what had happened twelve years ago on Rokkenjima. Determined to find the truth behind what had happened Ange first talked with Okonogi, a man who had been a close friend of both Hideyoshi and Eva. Ange questioned her about Eva and the incident of twelve years ago and despite his believing Eva to be innocent, Ange herself had already decided that Eva was the culprit and the one who had stolen her family away.
Okonogi accepted this, believing that because Ange had no love for Eva, the truth had been decided inside of her already-Eva had committed the crime, and nothing that was said or shown would stop her from believing that. Because of that fact she would be unable to reach the truth, as it could not be seen without love.
At the end of their conversation, it was revealed that the Kasumi Sumadera had arrived with the demands that Ange be handed over to her. She made a mistake in ordering his suggestion that she go to the second level of the basement, where a taxi would be waiting, and instead escaped through the fire exit of the third floor, only to be blocked by a set of guard.
She was caught by the fourth guard after jumping off the third story fire escape and onto their car, only to be miraculously saved by Juuza Amakura. Juuza had formerly been a guard of Eva’s, disliked due to how chatty he was and the fact that he took a pass at Ange in spite of her strict orders not to talk to her unnecessarily, and was dismissed shortly before her death. Okonogi had hired him as a bodyguard for Ange.
With Okonogi’s words in mind and Amakusa now acting as her bodyguard Ange continued her journey for the truth. For the sake of meeting with an expert on the occult, and also the person who possessed one of the two diaries that had been discovered, she claimed to be Sumadera. The first diary had been found the day of the Rokkenjima accident, the second some time after. In both cases several bottles had been stuffed into bottles and thrown out to sea.
Both bottles began with eighteen people becoming trapped on Rokkenjima due to a typhoon, during which all eighteen of them had been murdered in a most grizzly fashion in according to the witch’s epitaph, before finally ending with the Golden Witch, Beatrice. The means and methods for the murders, as well as the order and in turn the actions of those who survived as the murders continued were completely different. Additionally, in both cases all eighteen people had died, implying that it was a premeditated murder carried out by someone other than Eva. In the end the most noteworthy discovery was that the diaries had been without a doubt written by Beatrice.
The simple act of not being able to sleep that night was enough for her to be inducted into the world of magic once more. Upon reading bits of Maria’s diary to pass the time, she found herself connecting with the remaining soul of her cousin once more. She managed to summon one of the Seven Stakes of Purgatory, using her stake as a vessel. Mammon begrudgingly accepted Ange as her master, but insisted that she summon the other four sisters as well. Try as she might, Ange’s power had decreased significantly over the years, and she was only able to summon four of them before collapsing.
After several days Ange began to rationalize her meeting with Bernkastel, considering the possibility that her meeting with the wish might have just been nothing more than an illusion caused by her own desire and intention to die, and her initial excitement in regards to her journey began to die down. Unable to accept that and lose her final glint of hope that she might see her family once more, she continued on.
Several days later her journey took Ninjimia and to the conclusion that this journey was not to discover what had happened twelve years ago, but to apologize to Maria and to heal the pain that Sakutaro’s death had brought her by making her recognize him again. Later n Ninjima she found that the surviving relatives of those who had attended the family conference had been sent a letter-or rather, that a letter they had no memory of writing had been returned to them. Both Nanjo and Kumasawa’s son had received a letter that was addressed to their parent at a place far from their current resident, with the number 1-2-34-567 as the destination. The letter contained a card, a key, and a letter with the name of a well known bank and a pin number. Visiting that bank had revealed that a hundred million yen or more had been left to them.
It had been postmarked for October 3rd, the day before the Rokkenjima accident was to occur. When questioned about whether or not she received one herself, Ange finally remembered the precarious envelope that had been sent to her after the accident. Ange questioned this at first, believing it to be an uncertain method, but both Sakutaro and Mammon noted that Beatrice was a fickle character, who loved the thrill of uncertainty.
More certain than ever that her family was being tortured by the witch even now, Ange made her last stop a futon shop. There she met Kawabata, the man who had been captain of the ferryboat to Rokkenjima on the day of the accident. Kawabata had retired after falling ill. Regretting the fact that he had been unable to bring the family back safely, he agreed to take Ange to Rokkenjima. Catching onto the fact that she was going there to die and causing Ange herself to realize that she had been looking for a place to do so, he convinced her to promise not to do so.
Just as she was leaving she took notice of something n a display case, something that confused Mammon, Sakutaro and herself. Kawabata and Amakusa, who had since joined them, didn’t understand her shock. To them it seemed like a normal display case, but to Ange it was a magic-a miracle in and of itself. It has not been directly stated in canon what it was, but through hints in the game and the extra TIP “Sakutarou, to Purgatory Mountain” it can be inferred that it was, in fact, Sakutaro’s vessel.
On the boat ride to Rokkenjima it was discovered that a hidden harbor existed on the island, one that was connected to the hidden mansion of Kuwadorian, and also that Kawabata had carried goods to Kuwadorian for twenty years. Those trips in the island had stopped suddenly in 1968. Although Kawabata had never met Kinzo’s mistress or even seen the hidden mansion up close, he suspected the former’s existence, and so a short while after he was relieved of his duty, through the reaction of the servants he was able to determine that she had died.
Leaving Amakusa and Kawabata at the harbor, her knapsack and flowers in hand, Ange set off alone towards the end of her journey. Although she had intended to go as far as Kuwadorian, the hill had been eaten at by wind and rain, causing a slope that made it impossible for her to proceed. That hilltop, she realized, was the final destination of her journey. It was the bridge between 1986 and 1998.
She decided against going down, as what started as a journey to find a place to die had turned into the considerably more concrete goal of ending things for herself and as the final witch of Mariage Sorcière. She felt just her soul escape her body, flying to the place where her family was that day. She could detect the presence family and relatives, and all the servants, of the Maria of that day and the witch that had been known as MARIA.
So she was able to announce it to the wind. She was able to apologize to Maria and to announce that she finally understood the world of magic. With time she had come to understand what magic was, a warm world overflowing with love that her cousin had wanted to share with her, and yet because of how harshly she had rejected her Mariage Sorcière had been twisted into something entirely different than what she had desired. She invited her to change the Mariage Sorcière back to its original form as Maria’s the wind flipped the pages of Maria’s grimoire, showing the change from the world of the magic of happiness to malicious magic that was used to hurt others.
But now Ange would change it back to what it had been.
Her plans were interrupted though. Just as her voice was about to reach Maria the magic was interrupted by the appearance of Kasumi and her six black-suits. Kasumi chided Ange and her mother Kyrie, whom had abandoned the family and forced Kasumi to sacrifice her life for and take on the heavy responsibilities of the Sumadera family, and announced her intentions to kill her in order to bring an end her hatred. Any time Ange spoke up, making comments just as harsh as Kasumi’s own, she was punched or kicked by one of her black suits, all while Mammon and Sakutaro watched on.
When she refused to even apologize for her mother’s actions she was beaten more heavily and this time the torment did not end until Kasumi had finished her cigarette. The abuse was all too similar to the way that Eva had previously abused her, and so perhaps it wasn’t surprising that after a time could almost see Eva next to Kasumi, and for the first time she realized that not just Kasumi, but Eva and Rosa as well, might be worthy of her sympathy.
Upon revaluating Eva she realized that the pain that they pushed onto others and the insults they threw were the very same ones that they had been forced to endure over the years. In Maria’s case she could use white magic to purify her world and create happiness, but on the other hand Eva, like Rosa, had been taught by a black witch to use magic to force her pain onto another in order to gain a momentary distraction from it.
The woman that she had hated all of her life turned into a human that she could understand. Eva was a woman who had lost all but one member of her family and had been told by Ange, the person who should have taught her the white magic of happiness and been her only ally in the world, to give her parents back. Instead of building a new future together they had come to hate each other, and Eva had turned to the black witch and her black magic; yet Eva should have never been the object of Ange’s hatred, rather, it should have been the black witch beside her. Yet throughout her life Ange had not once seen that witch or realized any of this because she did not have any love for Eva.
She glared at the black witch who now stood by Kasumi, revealing her intentions. She would not inherit Eva’s pain and she would not hate the witch; instead she would purify that pain and throw it away. The black witch mocked her and urged the black-suits and Kasumi to continue to abuse her and so Kasumi did. She found it pleasant to be on the one doling out abuse in order to relieve her pain.
The physical abuse eventually stopped, but was what followed was more painful than being kicked could ever be. Kasumi trampled on her flowers, and Ange was forced to watch as Kasumi then picked up Maria’s grimoire and began to openly mock it. With the black witch’s encouragement she even began to tear pages out of it and throw them away, tossing away Maria’s miracles. Mammon and Sakutaro protested, but their words could not reach Kasumi’s ears. Even the Seven Stakes of Purgatory and Sakutaro’s pages were openly mocked and torn out and in the latter’s case, trampled upon.
The last page to be torn out was the one that Maria treasured most, a spell to always be friends with her beloved mother. Kasumi imitated the short incantation and mocked it before tearing it out and trampling upon the grimoire. That and the black witch’s denying her magic turned out to be the final straw, as Ange rose to her feet and resolved to show them magic.
In a show of magic that was on par with Beatrice and Maria, she summoned all seven stakes at once in ordered them to show her a miracle in order to protect the Mariage Sorcière even as a gun was pointed at hr. Mammon hesitated, not believing she would be able to do it, but by time the first trigger was pulled the sisters had already sprung into action. In a feat that should have been impossible in front of so many humans, all six of the black suits were brought down by the sisters one by one as Ange watched on calmly.
In the end only Kasumi was left, sounding rejecting Ange’s offer to seal the hole in her heart through the use of magic. In the end it was all she could do to put the pitiful woman, who could not accept magic, to rest and free her from her resentment. After Kasumi unsuccessfully tried to shoot her, she ordered Mammon to release her and protect the honor of Mariage Sorcière. Mammon complied, killing her.
Last was the black witch who looked so much like Eva. She showed Ange magic by reviving her dead aunt, Eva. Eva had regretted not being able to kill Ange in death and had come back to finish the job. She pointed a gun at Ange in what would be a battle of white magic and black magic, to see which would survive in the end. Although she shouldn’t have been able to summon the seven stakes due to being surrounded by the magic resisting toxin, in the end Mammon caused her gun to explode on her face, and in order to release her Ange shot her in the head, effectively ending the battle between the opposing types of magic and her journey as the world began to sink into darkness as she slipped.
***DUE TO ANGE'S CANON POINT BEING CHANGED AND RETCONNING THIS HISTORY SECTION IS INCOMPLETE/OUT OF DATE AND IS IN THE MIDDLE OF BEING REVISED***