Court Info/Objectives

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the detective
Name Furudo Erika Canon Umineko no Naku Koro ni (& previously at Aather) Rank Bishop Living Hearts, ??? PHYSICAL APPEARANCE NOTES Erika is very short and slender - under 5' for sure. She's around 17 but her build makes her look younger. At the moment she wears a fairly simple jasper colored dress and patterned stockings. Something like this. Her hair is long and blue and is always up in her signature twintails as in her icons.
KNOWN OBJECTIVES	UNKNOWN OBJECTIVES
☆ learning about someone's sex life ($♥) ☆ duct tape bondage ($$) ☆ speechlessness (♥♥) ☆ physical sadism ($♥ - $$$♥♥♥) ☆ discovering objectives ($♥) ☆ exploiting objectives ($$♥♥) ☆ intellectual rapist ($♥ - $♥♥♥♥♥) ☆ admitting friendship ($$$$♥) ☆ talking about her feelings ☆ sex with someone she likes ($$$$♥♥♥) ☆ trusting someone ($$$$$♥♥♥♥♥)	★ ★ more TBD??

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character:
character name: Furudo Erika
info:
pg (Aather): Umineko no Naku Koro ni

• She is a meta character from a repeating murder mystery, playing the role of ~the detective~
  
• She's actually a really terrible person and self-describes herself as an intellectual rapist who enjoys revealing the things other people have to hide
  
• She values the truth above all else and thinks things like love are lies that obscure people's vision of the truth
  
• She's threatened and tortured by her master, Bernkastel, and threatens and tortures her subordinates and her enemies
  
• In the end, though, she's defeated repeatedly by the power of love
  
• In Aather, she relaxed a bit and opened up more to other people, though she's still ruthlessly dedicated to truth and victory and doesn't shy away from violence.

Umineko is the story of a repeating murder mystery occurring on the isolated island of Rokkenjima, which is entirely owned by the wealthy Ushiromiya family. Strange and gruesome closed-room murders begin occurring in accordance with the mysterious epitaph of the Golden Witch, Beatrice, until eventually no one on the island is left alive. However, exactly who dies when and how it happens varies. There are multiple alternate universes, different versions of the board for a game of logic played in a meta world between Ushiromiya Battler and the witch Beatrice. The human side attempts to explain the murders by human means; the witch side presents their version of events and attempts to exhaust human reasoning until the only explanation left is magic.

For the fifth game, the Witch Bernkastel adds a new character to the story, created in her own image and playing for the human side—Furudo Erika. Erika is a young girl who fell off a cruise ship and miraculously survived to wash up on the shores of Rokkenjima. The family takes her in as a guest at the beginning of their conference, and Bernkastel proclaims that she is the detective for the mystery that follows. She is Bernkastel's 'piece' in the game, and Bernkastel is her absolute master; she threatens Erika with a return to oblivion if she doesn't succeed in her goal of manipulating the game to her own ends.

Erika is well-suited to being a detective in some senses: she's very smart and persuasive, loves puzzles and riddles to the point of obsession, and has a deep dedication to the truth above all else. However, she's also well-suited to playing a part in the sadistic game of witches: by any standards, and certainly by the standards of the game board world, she's completely, ruthlessly insane. She cheerfully calls herself an intellectual rapist, and delights in proving other people wrong, revealing their secrets or snaring them in logical traps, and deeply hates failure and being wrong herself. She solves mysteries for the sake of intellectual superiority rather than justice, and has no problem committing actual rape or murder herself if it helps her to win. In all logic battles, she prefers proceeding until her opponent is completely crushed and humiliated, and she doesn't treat her witch-hunter subordinates much better. In the end, though, she's defeated by the power of love and acknowledges her role as the villain of the story.

In Aather, her time as an amnesiac and working with her team have left her with a slightly greater appreciation for the value of other people. She still doesn't flinch away from using violence to achieve victory, and retains her disdain for things like friendship and romance, but, though she won't admit it directly, she does appreciate companionship with people she gets along with - people who are intelligent and honest, driven or ruthless. And, as she remembers from canon, the opportunity to torture her enemies forever, while entertaining, isn't actually satisfying to her. So, she's trying to achieve a balance between being true to herself and finding something new to focus her efforts towards than just playing the villain.