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Character: Ushiromiya Ange (Japanese format), Ange Ushiromiya (Western format), ANGE-Beatrice
Fandom: Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Personality: The easiest way to describe Ange would be to say she's someone who closed up her heart. The younger Ange that is seen in flashbacks is still a very cute young girl with great curiosity and happiness. But it all changed when her family died, leaving her in her cruel aunt Eva's care; especially when she was sent off to a boarding school where she was bullied by all the other girls, no exceptions. Because of that her happiness and partly even her ability to be happy died off. Ange is usually seen as a very cynical person, not believing things easily until she sees them for herself and being easily to deny things. (Such as her denying magic so strongly in the beginning.) She doesn't trust easily in something or someone, even someone who she had a very friendly conversation with won't earn her trust.
She isn't particularly polite, but might be to adults she has respect for. It isn't easy to earn her respect however. Ange is not very friendly unless you get her to open up, for example when she is around the spirit of Maria she seems to be at least a bit more friendly and even smiles at times. Once she starts caring about someone she loves deeply like how she cares about her family, especially Battler and Maria. But around people she doesn't know or doesn't know well she usually comes off as cold. She's very reserved and introverted, usually seen alone. Ange is very serious and doesn't appreciate jokes all that much. ("Keep the jokes to your haircut.") Her determination once she has an important goal in mind (like finding out what happened to her family) is amazing, she's even willing to jump off buildings and land on cars without batting an eyelid. She seems very indifferent once she is confronted by something her in eyes unimportant though.
At first she fiercely denied magic, particularly due to the bad experience she had in school when her magic friends couldn't help her; the magic disappointed her so deeply that she denied them all instantly and decided that all she ever had were imaginary friends. It turned her pessimistic (although she would most likely call it realistic). Now she has accepted magic she's a little bit more open and willing to accepting things in general though.
Ange also copied some habits from her older brother, for example his habit of saying 'useless, it's all useless' and his gratious use of Engrish. ("See you again." "Good night, have a nice dream.")
History: There are two stories one could tell about Ushiromiya Ange. But they all start out the same, both of them are part of the Bad Ending Future Ange is part of.
Ange was born in 1980 and lived together with her father (Ushiromiya Rudolf) and her mother (Ushiromiya Kyrie). She also has an older half-brother, Ushiromiya Battler. But he left the house to go live with his grandparents on his mother's side after his mother (Ushiromiya Asumu) died since he was enraged at his father for taking Kyrie as his new wife so quickly after Asumu died. Because of that Ange didn't see her older brother a lot, but she still looked up to him and liked him a lot. She states herself that the times when both her parents and brother were with her was the most fun.
But all of this soon changed. On October 4, 1986 her parents and older brother left for the annual family conference, which Ange unfortunately could not attend that year since she was sick. But exactly that year nobody returned from the island, from Rokkenjima. Nobody but Ange's aunt Eva. The mass media start pinning these mass murders on Eva and later on even on the island's rumoured witch legend, but nobody is able to proof anything about what really happened that day. Ange was left in care of her now only living family member, Ushiromiya Eva. But Eva had slowly become embittered by the loss of her man and her son, the fact that all the blame was pinned on her and that everyone was after her because she had inherited the Ushiromiya family's fortune as the only survivor. She took this out on the little Ange, who hardly knew love because of that. Eventually Eva sent her away to an all-girls boarding school, St. Lucia's.
Because of her wealth and the rumors about her guardian Ange didn't make any friends there and was in fact even bullied. The bullying only increased when the girls started to notice that Ange snuck out often during lunch time to find a quiet spot where she could talk to the ghost of her cousin Maria who died in 1986 on Rokkenjima, which she summoned through Maria's diary she had managed to get hold of. In order for Ange to become happy she became Maria's apprentice as a witch. Maria taught her how to summon the seven sisters of Purgatory, magical 'furniture' (servants) who originally belonged to the witch Beatrice but ended up becoming Ange's friends along with Maria instead. But since Ange was the only one who could see them her classmates started thinking she had imaginary friends.
This all escalated until one day Ange hadn't been able to study because of the sisters' prescence and got a low mark on her test. All her classmates bullied her ferociously into writing up an apology letter for her bad mark which lowered the class average. Ange angrily ordered the sisters to kill all of the bullies, but they replied they couldn't causing Ange to rage even more. On that basis that they couldn't even help her when she needed it she started to deny the sisters one by one, causing them to disappear and even Maria to leave her. In the end she convinced herself that it had been imaginary friends and that she had actually been alone all along.
Eventually in 1998, when Ange was 18, Eva died and on her dying bed she pushed some last curses on Ange; firstly she refused to tell what really had happened on Rokkenjima and secondly she made Ange inherit all of her money - which had been Eva's curse, it was what had caused everyone to speak badly of her and be after her life - the title of family head of the Ushiromiya family and the title of the Endless Witch, Beatrice. Ange's dispair at not being with her parents and brother nearly drove her to suicide right after that, but right as she tried to jump off the rooftop her story goes two ways.
The first way says she jumped off the building and managed to miraculously survive the fall. After that she went on to investigate what happened on Rokkenjima to the best of her abilities, visiting relatives of the servants who had been on Rokkenjima that day and researching various other things. She was chased by her aunt from her mother's side who wanted to make Ange 'drink tea with her' (hint: it's not actually drinking tea) in order to gain the Ushiromiya family's fortune. But Ange managed to escape the Sumadera family's agents who were after her again and again, partly because of her personal bodyguard Amakusa.
At the end of her research she managed to convince a captain to bring her to Rokkenjima, where she wanted to lay down flowers as a last tribute to her family. Since on her journey she had realised the true worth of magic - white magic which makes people (like herself and her cousin Maria) happy was good and shouldn't be denied - she ordered Amakusa to stay behind at the port so she would be able to summon the sisters to be with her without humans' anti-magic toxic being present. But her aunt had followed her even to the island and cornered Ange when she was alone. She was knocked to the ground by her aunt's bodyguards and even humiliated when her aunt got hold of Maria's diary she had been carrying with her and started mocking it and tearing out pages. Eventually Ange was able to summon the sisters and they quickly took care of all the bodyguards and even Ange's aunt, killing them. There was only one left; the personification of the one who had caused Ange so much pain, the witch form of her aunt Eva. The witch form changed into her aunt Eva's younger form with a gun, but in the struggle Ange was able to get the gun instead and shot her 'aunt' (although it couldn't really have been Eva since she had died before), symbolizing Ange finally breaking through the circle of hate in the Ushiromiya family and being able to finally see Eva's side of the story as well.
But Ange never returned from Rokkenjima after that. It is hinted in the games that Amakusa was actually a double agent and killed Ange after all that.
But there's another side to Ange's story. One could also say that on that rooftop Ange met the witch of miracles Bernkastel, who promised that if Ange would fight together with her brother against the witch Beatrice who 'imprisoned' her family in a game she and Battler were having over whether magic exists or not, her family would be returned to her. The only condition was that she couldn't tell anyone who she actually was so she went under the alias of 'Gretel'. And so Ange went into the past with Bernkastel, back to 1986. She supported Battler in his battle against Beatrice, eventually realising that her family would never be returned to her since she already was from a future where it had been decided that her family never came home from Rokkenjima. But she still continued for her brother's sake and when he lost his identity and will to fight she told him who she really was, making him regain that will. But her price was high, since she had broken the rule of not telling him who she was she was teared apart piece by piece by hot-glowing irons.
Since the game board and meta world are sometimes combined in strange ways, this Ange will remember both sides of the story. The last thing she remembers from her world is getting ready to shoot the symbolic representation of her aunt Eva on Rokkenjima. Edit: Now canon updated to end of EP6!
Abilities: Ange is really athletic, an ability she was able to gain quickly due to constantly having to run away from her aunt Kasumi's bodyguards. She's even shown jumping off buildings multiple times in canon and surviving, proving her athletic skill (and partly great luck). She also has slight close combat skills as she is shown fighting Beatrice's goat butlers. Her survival instincts are finely tuned. Ange also seems to have above average deducing talent, as she often understands things more easily than Battler.
Ange is also a witch, since she is/was Maria's apprentice and inherited the title of Beatrice, the Endless Witch, from her aunt Eva. Therefore her witch name is ANGE-Beatrice. Her endless powers aren't quite on the same level as Beatrice's, who was able to kill and revive people endlessly. Instead Ange is training to become the Witch of Resurrection and be able to revive her family. She is, however, capable of summoning 'furniture' - the seven sisters of Purgatory. They take on human shapes but can also take on stake forms which fly at a speed that's impossible to follow with human eyes and kill quickly and effiently. It takes her a lot of effort and energy to summon all seven of them though. She's also seen reviving Sakutaro, Maria's stuffed animal's human form, so she's capable of reviving 'furniture' already but not humans.
Note: In demeleier Ange will only be able to summon the stake forms of the seven sisters, she somehow won't be able to summon their human forms. (This is mostly so it isn't weird if one of the stakes would be apped at the game.)
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Fandom: Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Personality: The easiest way to describe Ange would be to say she's someone who closed up her heart. The younger Ange that is seen in flashbacks is still a very cute young girl with great curiosity and happiness. But it all changed when her family died, leaving her in her cruel aunt Eva's care; especially when she was sent off to a boarding school where she was bullied by all the other girls, no exceptions. Because of that her happiness and partly even her ability to be happy died off. Ange is usually seen as a very cynical person, not believing things easily until she sees them for herself and being easily to deny things. (Such as her denying magic so strongly in the beginning.) She doesn't trust easily in something or someone, even someone who she had a very friendly conversation with won't earn her trust.
She isn't particularly polite, but might be to adults she has respect for. It isn't easy to earn her respect however. Ange is not very friendly unless you get her to open up, for example when she is around the spirit of Maria she seems to be at least a bit more friendly and even smiles at times. Once she starts caring about someone she loves deeply like how she cares about her family, especially Battler and Maria. But around people she doesn't know or doesn't know well she usually comes off as cold. She's very reserved and introverted, usually seen alone. Ange is very serious and doesn't appreciate jokes all that much. ("Keep the jokes to your haircut.") Her determination once she has an important goal in mind (like finding out what happened to her family) is amazing, she's even willing to jump off buildings and land on cars without batting an eyelid. She seems very indifferent once she is confronted by something her in eyes unimportant though.
At first she fiercely denied magic, particularly due to the bad experience she had in school when her magic friends couldn't help her; the magic disappointed her so deeply that she denied them all instantly and decided that all she ever had were imaginary friends. It turned her pessimistic (although she would most likely call it realistic). Now she has accepted magic she's a little bit more open and willing to accepting things in general though.
Ange also copied some habits from her older brother, for example his habit of saying 'useless, it's all useless' and his gratious use of Engrish. ("See you again." "Good night, have a nice dream.")
History: There are two stories one could tell about Ushiromiya Ange. But they all start out the same, both of them are part of the Bad Ending Future Ange is part of.
Ange was born in 1980 and lived together with her father (Ushiromiya Rudolf) and her mother (Ushiromiya Kyrie). She also has an older half-brother, Ushiromiya Battler. But he left the house to go live with his grandparents on his mother's side after his mother (Ushiromiya Asumu) died since he was enraged at his father for taking Kyrie as his new wife so quickly after Asumu died. Because of that Ange didn't see her older brother a lot, but she still looked up to him and liked him a lot. She states herself that the times when both her parents and brother were with her was the most fun.
But all of this soon changed. On October 4, 1986 her parents and older brother left for the annual family conference, which Ange unfortunately could not attend that year since she was sick. But exactly that year nobody returned from the island, from Rokkenjima. Nobody but Ange's aunt Eva. The mass media start pinning these mass murders on Eva and later on even on the island's rumoured witch legend, but nobody is able to proof anything about what really happened that day. Ange was left in care of her now only living family member, Ushiromiya Eva. But Eva had slowly become embittered by the loss of her man and her son, the fact that all the blame was pinned on her and that everyone was after her because she had inherited the Ushiromiya family's fortune as the only survivor. She took this out on the little Ange, who hardly knew love because of that. Eventually Eva sent her away to an all-girls boarding school, St. Lucia's.
Because of her wealth and the rumors about her guardian Ange didn't make any friends there and was in fact even bullied. The bullying only increased when the girls started to notice that Ange snuck out often during lunch time to find a quiet spot where she could talk to the ghost of her cousin Maria who died in 1986 on Rokkenjima, which she summoned through Maria's diary she had managed to get hold of. In order for Ange to become happy she became Maria's apprentice as a witch. Maria taught her how to summon the seven sisters of Purgatory, magical 'furniture' (servants) who originally belonged to the witch Beatrice but ended up becoming Ange's friends along with Maria instead. But since Ange was the only one who could see them her classmates started thinking she had imaginary friends.
This all escalated until one day Ange hadn't been able to study because of the sisters' prescence and got a low mark on her test. All her classmates bullied her ferociously into writing up an apology letter for her bad mark which lowered the class average. Ange angrily ordered the sisters to kill all of the bullies, but they replied they couldn't causing Ange to rage even more. On that basis that they couldn't even help her when she needed it she started to deny the sisters one by one, causing them to disappear and even Maria to leave her. In the end she convinced herself that it had been imaginary friends and that she had actually been alone all along.
Eventually in 1998, when Ange was 18, Eva died and on her dying bed she pushed some last curses on Ange; firstly she refused to tell what really had happened on Rokkenjima and secondly she made Ange inherit all of her money - which had been Eva's curse, it was what had caused everyone to speak badly of her and be after her life - the title of family head of the Ushiromiya family and the title of the Endless Witch, Beatrice. Ange's dispair at not being with her parents and brother nearly drove her to suicide right after that, but right as she tried to jump off the rooftop her story goes two ways.
The first way says she jumped off the building and managed to miraculously survive the fall. After that she went on to investigate what happened on Rokkenjima to the best of her abilities, visiting relatives of the servants who had been on Rokkenjima that day and researching various other things. She was chased by her aunt from her mother's side who wanted to make Ange 'drink tea with her' (hint: it's not actually drinking tea) in order to gain the Ushiromiya family's fortune. But Ange managed to escape the Sumadera family's agents who were after her again and again, partly because of her personal bodyguard Amakusa.
At the end of her research she managed to convince a captain to bring her to Rokkenjima, where she wanted to lay down flowers as a last tribute to her family. Since on her journey she had realised the true worth of magic - white magic which makes people (like herself and her cousin Maria) happy was good and shouldn't be denied - she ordered Amakusa to stay behind at the port so she would be able to summon the sisters to be with her without humans' anti-magic toxic being present. But her aunt had followed her even to the island and cornered Ange when she was alone. She was knocked to the ground by her aunt's bodyguards and even humiliated when her aunt got hold of Maria's diary she had been carrying with her and started mocking it and tearing out pages. Eventually Ange was able to summon the sisters and they quickly took care of all the bodyguards and even Ange's aunt, killing them. There was only one left; the personification of the one who had caused Ange so much pain, the witch form of her aunt Eva. The witch form changed into her aunt Eva's younger form with a gun, but in the struggle Ange was able to get the gun instead and shot her 'aunt' (although it couldn't really have been Eva since she had died before), symbolizing Ange finally breaking through the circle of hate in the Ushiromiya family and being able to finally see Eva's side of the story as well.
But Ange never returned from Rokkenjima after that. It is hinted in the games that Amakusa was actually a double agent and killed Ange after all that.
But there's another side to Ange's story. One could also say that on that rooftop Ange met the witch of miracles Bernkastel, who promised that if Ange would fight together with her brother against the witch Beatrice who 'imprisoned' her family in a game she and Battler were having over whether magic exists or not, her family would be returned to her. The only condition was that she couldn't tell anyone who she actually was so she went under the alias of 'Gretel'. And so Ange went into the past with Bernkastel, back to 1986. She supported Battler in his battle against Beatrice, eventually realising that her family would never be returned to her since she already was from a future where it had been decided that her family never came home from Rokkenjima. But she still continued for her brother's sake and when he lost his identity and will to fight she told him who she really was, making him regain that will. But her price was high, since she had broken the rule of not telling him who she was she was teared apart piece by piece by hot-glowing irons.
Since the game board and meta world are sometimes combined in strange ways, this Ange will remember both sides of the story. The last thing she remembers from her world is getting ready to shoot the symbolic representation of her aunt Eva on Rokkenjima. Edit: Now canon updated to end of EP6!
Abilities: Ange is really athletic, an ability she was able to gain quickly due to constantly having to run away from her aunt Kasumi's bodyguards. She's even shown jumping off buildings multiple times in canon and surviving, proving her athletic skill (and partly great luck). She also has slight close combat skills as she is shown fighting Beatrice's goat butlers. Her survival instincts are finely tuned. Ange also seems to have above average deducing talent, as she often understands things more easily than Battler.
Ange is also a witch, since she is/was Maria's apprentice and inherited the title of Beatrice, the Endless Witch, from her aunt Eva. Therefore her witch name is ANGE-Beatrice. Her endless powers aren't quite on the same level as Beatrice's, who was able to kill and revive people endlessly. Instead Ange is training to become the Witch of Resurrection and be able to revive her family. She is, however, capable of summoning 'furniture' - the seven sisters of Purgatory. They take on human shapes but can also take on stake forms which fly at a speed that's impossible to follow with human eyes and kill quickly and effiently. It takes her a lot of effort and energy to summon all seven of them though. She's also seen reviving Sakutaro, Maria's stuffed animal's human form, so she's capable of reviving 'furniture' already but not humans.
Note: In demeleier Ange will only be able to summon the stake forms of the seven sisters, she somehow won't be able to summon their human forms. (This is mostly so it isn't weird if one of the stakes would be apped at the game.)
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