Beatrice (Umineko no Naku Koro Ni)

Beatrice, also known as Golden Witch, Beatrice the Golden, Endless Witch, Beato and Riiche, is one of the main characters from the Umineko no Naku Koro ni series.
== Charactah Account ==
Also known as the Golden Witch and the Endless Witch, and stands by the "magic" side, claiming that all the murders were done by magic. She claims to have given Kinzo all of his wealth, and so when the family is gathered, she issues them a challenge: find the gold that Kinzo hid in the Ushiromiya estate or else she would collect it, with their lives as interest. She then further forces Battler to replay those days in a game with her. She tells him a story of how she murdered them using magic, and he needs to disprove her story.
Beatrice is quite a controversial character. On the front, Beatrice is a very cruel person, who loves to torture and kill people just for the sake of fun, a being so terrifying that even in the Meta-World she is feared from heavens to hell as one of the cruelest witches ever. She is at times very composed and majestic, and at other times very disgraceful and insightful with a creepy laughter and a demonic smile.
However, as the saga goes on, more sides of her character are revealed. She proves to have a very joyful attitude and quite a childish side. She is in fact described by her teacher as a naive child who loves to play with toys without the fear to break them and also with a power so big that she hardly realizes she can handle. She shows this side primarily with Virgilia and Ronove which have a very parent-like attitude with her and less with Battler which she'd feel embarrassed with to act so. Quite common is, in fact, to see her sobbing on Virgilia's chest when things don't go her way. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni Specials
=== Light Novels ===
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru
=== Manga ===
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Oni
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni - Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni - Episode 2: Turn of the Golden Witch
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni - Episode 3: Banquet of the Golden Witch
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni - Episode 4: Alliance of the Golden Witch
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - Episode 5: End of the Golden Witch
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - Episode 6: Dawn of the Golden Witch
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - Episode 7: Requiem of the Golden Witch
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru - Episode 8: Twilight of the Golden Witch
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode X: Rokkenjima of Higurashi Crying
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni Shi: Forgery of the Purple Logic
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni Tsubasa
* Umineko no Naku Party ni: Tea Party of the Witches
* Umineko: Golden Fantasia
=== Video Games ===
* Golden Fantasia
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Mei
* Pachi-Slot Umineko no Naku Koro ni
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni Saku: Symphony of Catbox and Dreams
== Trivia ==
* Beatrice's original name is uncertain, given Virgilia's former name was Beatrice as well and the name was passed down to Beatrice along with the title of Endless Witch. When Beatrice was young, Virgilia called her Princess, though it is unconfirmed if that was a title or a nickname. When Beatrice passes her name and titles to EVA-Beatrice, Battler continues to call to her as "Beato", the nickname that both he and Maria previously referred to her as, when she demands that he give her a new name. However, it was confirmed in Clair 's narration of her life till 1984 that her actual name is in fact, Lion.
* Her nickname of "Beato" is actually an Italian male name and can be translated as "blessed".
* Unlike other witches, the name Beatrice is actually part of her title.
* Beatrice's name is pronounced the Italian way, as "Be-a-tr-ice" (Be-a-to-ri-che [ベアトリーチェ] in Japanese phonetics) rather than the English way, as "Be-a-triss". In early stages of the story, Beatrice's name was written in Japanese as ベアトリース and would've been pronounced the English way.
* Beatrice, out of eight characters, has had two portraits of her featured in it.
* The embodiment of Beatrice as Battler's ideal woman is most likely a reference from La Divina Commedia in which Beatrice Potinari is also Dante's ideal woman.
* She and Battler appear in a cameo in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Oni, being painted by Yuuki Sonozaki on tapestries.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Beatrice at 07th Expansion Wiki
Category:Characters
Category:Females
Category:Umineko no Naku Koro ni