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>>46910200
The way R07 handles the split between Bern and Rika is so odd nowadays. She split from her witch self, and yet is still burdened from all trauma and suffering from before. What exactly did split off then? I feel like Bern's story in Mei is pretty emblematic of his odd modern take on it.

Bern describes herself as everything inhuman Rika rejected and expelled from herself in the story. But yet the story keeps pointing out how similar they are. Bern jumps between fragments mindbreaking or even killing Irie over and over to cancel an upcoming exam for Satoko. And she's doing this because Rika asked her... so Rika is perfectly aware of all that.

Throughout the story, Bern keeps repeating she doesn't really care about Satoko, even while humiliating herself like dressing up as a maid for Irie (since she couldn't break his mind with violence or mental torture), and is doing this just to avoid boredom and because Rika promised her a rare spicy umeboshi, but by the end Rika uses the same line about not really caring about Satoko, pushing they're the same again (with this obviously implying Bern is just being tsundere about it like Rika). At the end, Rika wanted to go to a spicy meat eating contest with Satoko, and Bern then drags Lambda to go drink her super spicy tea.

Really, they seem to exist as separate entities just because R07 doesn't want Umineko to be seen as a direct continuation of Higurashi, but he seems to pretty much treat both as the same character nowadays.

>>43539816
>So far, there hasn't been any precedent where ryu07 directly confirmed a connection between either of his visual novels, as much as he loves references.
He outright had Bern talking about how she's Rika's inhuman side in the Mei story with script by him.

Like I said, twice recently he has talked like Ciconia will give us Hanyuu's origin. It seems like he's almost ready to open the black box.

>>43539863
In interviews about Gou he pretty much confirmed it though, saying Eua met before and that Eua was sure about Satoko's identity after she guessed her name right. Now, you can just say he's lying and he has dodged or backtracked on stuff from interviews before,but it's generally when he's asked about it. The stuff about a story he's working right dealing with Hanyuu's origin and her relation to Eua was said both times without anyone specifically asking about it rather than him being questioned and needing to give an answer about that specifically.

>>43052019
He randomly completely spelled out all the stuff about Bern being Rika's inhuman side in Mei. The Lambdadelta side-story was still kept vague though, but I think these side stories were written a while ago since they had illustrations and voice acting related to them, unlike some other Mei characters/cards, where the story was clearly finished after the assets and doesn't line up well with the illustrations