this being a fact does not preclude most of my theory from happening i think. the mansion being habitable and the mansion being complete are two separate states of affair
I think it's important to point out 12 year old Battler heard and then proceeded to retain all the gossip worthy parts of The Ushiromiya Magic Gold drama. Considering he also remembered the exact location of the Torii gate his power of recall is great and this isn't just an inserting plot point contrivance.
Battler character trait: [remembers every little detail he should've forgotten during the last 6 years]
do you know how many ingots there are if there's ten tons of gold? I've tried to do the math before, but get lost in trying to calculate kilograms, haha. According to the power of google, ten US tons (if that's the measurement used, not imperial or something else) is 20,000 pounds.
A normal gold bar weighs about 27.4 pounds (12.4 kg), so dividing 20,000 pounds by 27.4 pounds leaves about...729 gold bars. Which is a lot, way too much compared to what we see in the gold room i'm pretty sure. So I'm going wrong somewhere along the line.
I was just wondering what your estimate would be.
Hm... I tried checking with metric tons, and you get 22046.2 pounds or so, which leads to about 804 ingots. It's such a large amount of ingots that the description for the ingots being taken from the submarine is "Those carefully piled bars were being slowly lifted out of the cargo hold, one group after another..." indicating that the winch that the soldiers had wasn't enough to take it all up in one go.
Also, Eva mentions each ingot being about 10 kilograms, which would make it about... 1002 ingots, using metric tons. Even worse than before, haha. She also says "Just how many ingots were piled up there? By doing a quick count here and there and judging by the height, there had to be a few hundred at least." So we know that the pile is pretty big. She calls it a "mountain of gold" a lot, just like Kinzo does.
umineko has my favorite ‘walking dead man’ type of character who finds his own identity invasive and terrifying and yet i cant TELL ANYONE that. i cant TALK about it
having a huge special interest in metafiction and everything in relation to that general sphere of things (to the point it influences my entire perception of art most of the time, for better or worse) and trying to talk about it to people not very familiar with the concept is like you either come off as really pretentious and like you’re faux-intelligent OR, worse, that you think (turns to camera) “well that just happened o_o” is clever writing. and it’s like no in between.
if we're addressing this then i think my prevailing theory is that beatrice was either a real human woman or a stand in for whatever dodgy war profiteering landed kinzo the gold. in either case she is representative of an immense sin that is enough to thoroughly haunt anyone who knows anything about it