Sayo Yasuda

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Sayo Yasuda, also known as simply Sayo or Yasu, is a servant for the Ushiromiya Family. She is the true form of the witch Beatrice and the servants Shannon and Kanon, the true identity of The Man From 19 Years Ago, and the true writer of the message bottles. Due to her belief that she is furniture, amongst other things, Sayo plans out the Rokkenjima Massacre. Sayo initially takes on the appearance of Clair and wears a knee length dress with a collar and cravat along with long pale hair. While telling her story, her appearance is not described, and it could only be assumed that she looks like her other counterpart, Lion. When she appears in the manga adaptation of Requiem of the Golden Witch under just the name of "Yasu", she is portrayed as having long pale hair that covers her eyes and goes down to her mid back until she creates her Beatrice persona. After that, she takes on the appearance of Shannon. In the Twilight of the Golden Witch manga, Sayo is depicted with a similar appearance to Shannon due to Confession of the Golden Witch taking place after the creation of Beatrice. Sayo is usually dressed in the traditional Ushiromiya maid outfit and, as she grows older, begins to wear pads to simulate breasts. While dressed as Kanon, she wears a wig and the male servant uniform. When dressed as Beatrice, she wears the witch's dress and occasionally a blonde wig. Sayo was born with polydactyly similar to Kinzo, and there is a small scar on her foot from the operation she underwent shortly after her birth to remove the extra toe, which was performed at the same time as the one that damaged her body and turned her into "furniture". A large portion of Sayo's character struggles stem from two contrasting things: the desire for romantic love, and the belief that such love is impossible for her. Several other factors, such as her entire life being manipulated to help Kinzo make reparations for raping his daughter, are also present. When Sayo first started working for the Ushiromiya family in 1976, she was largely a lonely child whose only friend is Shannon, who is imaginary. As Sayo ages, she begins to get bold and attempts to 'punish' the servants who step out of line with pranks, such as stealing their keys. After meeting Battler however, Sayo's personality starts breeding a shred of bitterness, anger, and sadness that continued to grow over time. Sayo continues to grow and become more content even in her loneliness. As time went on, Sayo grew extreme issues with self-worth, body image, and gender identity. The Confession of the Golden Witch chapters in the Twilight of the Golden Witch manga go more into detail about Sayo's gender identity issues. While Sayo was raised as a woman, she experienced heavy gender dysphoria due to her body not experiencing typical signs of female puberty such as menstruation or growing a chest. Due to this, she eventually created Kanon as a persona and began acting as him. This brought her some mental stability. Genji and Kumasawa strongly supported this. When she solves the epitaph, the issues become much more prevalent. Genji, Kumasawa and Nanjo reveal to Sayo that every aspect of her life and agency had essentially been set up primarily for the purpose of making Kinzo feel better about what he did to the second Beatrice who lived in Kuwadorian. During this, they reveal to her that her body is incapable of bearing children, a revelation that drives her to eventually perform the Rokkenjima Massacre. She doubts that anybody could ever love her due to her body's condition, and begins calling herself "furniture", due to the belief that furniture are incapable of love. Sayo's full personality is littered throughout her various personas. Shannon draws heavily from the Japanese concept of an ideal woman and an ideal servant, and because of this, has the least amount of Sayo's 'true' personality. Kanon and Beatrice, on the other hand, more closely represent her. Kanon represents a number of aspects, such as the negative traits she is unable to express as Shannon, but his personality is also the one who struggles the most against the idea of killing everybody. Beatrice is most similar to a power fantasy as a powerful and perfect witch, but also embodies her childish, joyful, naive, and mischievous traits. Sayo is shown to hold contempt for the Ushiromiya family except for the cousins, which pushed her more into wanting to kill them all. When Sayo appears in 1986, she fully formulated her plan to kill everybody on the island, even if she has personal misgivings about it. This doubt, combined with the idea of the catbox (where multiple versions of the story can exist), formulates the premise of the demon's roulette, and is why she hosts an elaborate murder mystery instead of simply blowing up the island.