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I still don't understand what the fuck Gou/Sotsu is trying to do with Rika's character.

In Tatariakashi at the start of ep9, witch Satoko proclaims that Minagoroshi was actually a happy fragment because she had Rika's heart all to herself. So the anime at least acknowledges that Rika's Satoko syndrome peaked in Minagoroshi. But are we seriously supposed to believe that Matsuribayashi Rika could be so different? That she'd suddenly abandon Satoko in Lucia? After years of living together apparently happily? Not listen to any reason from Satoko nor change her mind? Betray Satoko over and over again? Then in Onidamashi, just outright suicide in their house right before Satoko's birthday without a thought about how the Satoko she felt behind would feel about that?
While Rika lost her memory of Minagoroshi, her personality and love for Satoko in that fragment was a culmination of all her previous memories, not some ground-breaking new change only in Minagoroshi. Matsuribayashi Rika is literally the exact same as Minagoroshi Rika. Both even had the same memories to start with, unlike any other two fragment Rikas.

And on the other hand, Tatariakashi also acknowledged that old Rika felt that tatari/mina fragments were the worst and implied that they still are the most despair-inducing for the current Rika. Why would this be the case for this Rika who apparently doesn't care about Satoko?

The Lucia / early post-lucia Rika is just too different. It's not the same Rika who was willing to loop for 100 more years to save Satoko. How are they going to reconcile these differences?