damedana | [UMINEKO SPOILERS] Heart (Scored)

There's silence.

Then, a little frail, "W-who is this? I don't know this voice..."

[oh no oh no ohhh noooo]

I-It's me... Ange.

Where are you? What's going on?

"... Ange...? That... can't be right. Ange? Is this Ange? But--Ange is six years old! WHO ARE YOU?"

[she startles, suddenly overwhelmed with both a sense of guilt and sorrow]

It's me... I promise it's me, Ange.

But I'm older now... I'm from the future.

"Stop lying! I-it's a joke, right? This a--a sick joke she put you up to! I won't listen! Where's Battler? Where's Maria?! They need to--"

Unfortunately, the line clicks and goes dead before she can say what they need to do.

[don't cry Ange don't cry Ange don't cry Ange...

she takes a deep breath and hangs up.

time to look at the table with the basket of candy next]

Don't mind the red substance on your hand from that. Don't mind.

You like happy memories of Maria handing out candy to the family during her trick-or-treats, right--?

Oh, no wait.

It's now this scene.

Ushiromiya Maria loved to hand out candy in the trick-or-treats during the family convention. Ushiromiya Battler ~~always thought it was cute.~~ would also like to shove candy down people's throats until they burst.

[well the good news is this one is so blatantly offensive she bounces straight into anger]

Ushiromiya Battler would never do this to his family in his right mind! Stop trying to impersonate my brother!

Ushiromiya Ange isn't confident enough to say so in red, ergo it must be false in some way.

[the disrespect???]

Isn't blue what you use to—?

[ugh, right, this is CURSED PURPLE]

The real Ushiromiya Battler would never torture his family like this! Whoever did this is not the real Ushiromiya Battler or must be influencing him in some twisted way!

Ushiromiya Battler always thought it was cute.

The original red is back.

Much better.

[she still hates all of this, but now she angy so it's time to look at the dresser]

On top of the dresser are three photos, but they all seem to be smeared with that red substance--except for the picture with small six year old Ange in what appears to be a family portrait.

The rest of the dress is covered in more of that red...

[well, her hand was already covered in the red so who cares.

picks up one of the photos and starts trying to wipe the substance off with her sleeve]

Sorry about your fam, Ange, and that you have to experience the righteous fury of a 12 year old mourning his dead mother.

Once the red is wiped away, it's revealed to be a smol Battler along with Rudolf and Asumu smiling at the camera.

[oh.

this is something she was in fact not prepared for and she can't help but tear up as she experiences that memory.

and then once it's finished playing, all she can do is clutch the portrait in her hand and stare at it for a very long time]

... I'm sorry...

[after a bit longer, she swallows hard and picks up the other photo to wipe it clean as well]

I was too lazy to find the Ep4 moment that showed it, but...

Ange was probably too little to fully grasp the situation Battler was in after his grandparents died. From Rudolf showing up at the funeral, bowing down low with his head to the ground begging for him to return to the family, to the hassle of getting his name moved back into the family registry, to going to school at his grandparents' home and slowly moving things over to the other house little by little... over the course of a few months.

Spring with school being a pain, Summer and Ange and his birthdays, and then Fall... and that fateful day when Rudolf, Kyrie, and Battler were all not at all that surprised that Ange got sick before a big trip and reassured her that they'd see her again, soon.

Maybe there was a thought that he could have stayed behind to look out for her--the old man did say he didn't have to go, after all. But no, he wanted to get this over with, make the transition back to Ushiromiya complete.

So he went...

Once the red is fully wiped away, it's a candid moment of that small family trying to come together--Rudolf, Kyrie, Battler, and Ange who looks so so happy.

[well.

it's time to actually start crying for real this time. she tries to keep her sobs quiet because Rika and her mom are right there, but it's not like she can't help it either.

she holds the photo tightly to her chest]

At least there aren't any other memories coming from it at this moment.

[yes, that's appreciated. especially because it gives her the opportunity to try and get herself together while mom is busy in the bathroom.

she wipes her tears with the sleeve that isn't all covered in red and leaves the photo back where it was.

then moves to check the windows in this room]

Guess that last photo remains red.

But there IS a fun big splatter at the windows! Gosh golly!

[uh oh...

is it more of the red? and is it covering up the whole window, or just a section?]

It sure is! And the lower section of it, really. Like someone was slumped over there.

[mmmmm big dislike.

this is also... a lot, so after considering for a moment, she'll grab the bedspread from the bed that doesn't have a corpse and use it to try and clean up the splatter....... maybe]

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