AWKWARD ZOMBIE

[spoiler]Have you ever been stuck in one spot for 1000's of years? Witnessing the stupidity and pointlessness of life. Over and over again. Why is everyone so pop flyin'? What is there to be pop flyin' about? Life is so boring. Why is it all so boring?! Something needs to change. I need to make something change.




Meanwhile the Rika part is just all "Nipaaaaaaaaaah".[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Eh, good point.

...Wait, since the beginning, couldn't Bern end the game by bringing back anyone who was killed? Or is she that much of a bitch as to not help Rika?[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Bern's power is of 'Miracles'. Or to do something over and over until it occurs, as long as said thing is possible.

Death is a 'certainty'. No matter how much Bern changes Kakera's, she couldn't undo death. And certain rules are also in place on the 'gameboard' preventing her from changing certain events from what I gathered. [/spoiler]

[spoiler]But what do the rules say about taking one strand of reality, er, one playthrough, once it's finished with a bad ending, and reviving everyone there AFTER the events transpire and Rika has gone to the next playthrough? As an Endless witch, Bern has the ability to revive the dead; she can do whatever she wants as long as it doesn't affect the game, right?

So what's stopping her?[/spoiler]

[spoiler]I don't believe Bern is an endless witch, Beatrice is the only one with that title/ability. Hanyuu was the one pushing the reset button each time in Higurashi. (Which makes sense if Hanyuu was the piece of Featherine) And I don't think any witch has the power to alter gameboards after they've finished. Though, Fredrica Bernkastel in Higurashi came close to that when she prevented Takano's parents from dying at the end of Kai.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]I don't think that she's an Endless Witch either. The one power ever SAID for her was to reset over until she finds the "perfect world".
She had no need to do anything after the bad endings, since she 'lost'.

I think the game between Lambda and Bern was to see if the horrible event was a 'absolute' fact. Bern would spend eternity (or Rika if Bern was born from her) looking if Lambda was right (which being obsessed with her, is exactly what Lambda wants). But if Bern/Rika found even ONE world where everything could be stopped and it WASN'T 100% possible, she would win.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]The chain of superiority goes like so:

1. Creators, like Maria.
2. Voyagers, like Bern and Lambda.
3. Endless, like Beatrice.

As Voyagers, Bern and Lambda both can use Endless Magic; the ability to repair what's broken. Reverse death and such. They're on a higher tier than Beatrice.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Well then, I guess technically Bern could have went back and gave all the Higurashi kakera pop flyin' endings. But iirc, at the end of Higurashi Rei, Rika flat out denied that she was the same person as Bernkastel, which I took to mean she was banishing her from that world.

I also can't see Bern doing that after her personality was revealed in EP5, and when the true purpose of voyagers was revealed: to fuck up whatever kakera they come across to satisfy their boredom. If it wasn't for the fact that Bern didn't exist before Higurashi, I'd think those games were just another EP5 for those two.[/spoiler]

I would've taken a few screenshots to prove my point, but I have no save points during the Court of Illusions and I'm too lazy to skip through all 500 pages of words words words.

[spoiler]If she can do that, I don't see the point of why that horribly insane bi- I mean witch would.

Her ONLY goal was to find a world where she could prove to Lambda she was right and win. She gave up hopes on all other worlds that had a bad ending.

She's pure evil basically. Hell, the TIPS showed that she /IS/ the reason Ange and Eva hated each other so much.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]I could've sworn that Rika and Bern were the same person until the end of Higurashi, like how I thought Takano and Lambda were; that's why I thought Bern could just go back and give everyone pop flyin' endings. However, if they're not, then why do they look so much alike? Intentional mindfuck?[/spoiler]

I have two possible theories after looking up a LOT of what other people think:

[spoiler]1. Bern and Rika are two separate people. The only reason Rika and Bern look alike is because Rika is Bern's piece for Higurashi.

2. Bern and Rika are the same person till the end of Higurashi. Bern is the result of Rika's years of lives all together, and her boredom from the torture made her insane and ruthless which is why they tend to consider each other different. Rika is the same in every world, yet Bern is the part that traveled and witnessed every world.[/spoiler]

I tend to lead towards my second theory more.

Here's my opinion on the matter:

[spoiler]For one, Rika isn't the same every time- they explained that in the second season. Up until Bern/Rika replaces the Rika of that world to try to change what's going to happen, the personalities could be completely different.

At the end of Higurashi, Takano and Lambdadelta, and Rika and Bernkastel, became seperate entities; at least, I think so. They used to be the same person, but now that the game is over, there's no need for Rika or Takano to know magic or things like Lambda and Bern do; I think that it works on the same principle of what happened when Rika/Bern replaces the Rika of that world. Bern and Lambda are the "true" forms of Rika and Takano, and when the game was over Rika and Takano reverted back to their old personalities, with Bern and Takano gone.

What do you think?[/spoiler]

I would agree, however there are two things that MAY disprove at least a portion of it.

[spoiler]When they are changing worlds (Rika/Bern and Hanyuu) Rika/Bern seems completely aware of all the worlds. She always refers back to old worlds she's been too.

And in Lambda's Diary it SEEMED to point that she found Takano as a child and helped her, impressed by her willpower. But it never said it was Takano by name. But if it wasn't, that would mean there is a while 3rd story that we never heard, or more.[/spoiler]

Who turned out the lights?

[spoiler]It was me![/spoiler]