ONE OF THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCES that Erika doesn't actually remember yet, is that for all her ridiculous self-assurance Erika is just a game piece in canon! She works for the witch Bernkastel (my master~) and... was sort of created in her image... and has to do whatever she says or she discarded and thrown into the depths of oblivion. She's not particularly resentful about this! It's just who she is. But she has no memories of the metaworld yet and more generally she has no memories of being anything but completely in control.

Also she doesn't remember being the detective yet, which is SUPER WEIRD FOR ME REALLY. I mean obviously her first game was a murder mystery and she knows she likes solving puzzles, but that's not quite the same thing. Her role in the game they play in Umineko is literally "the detective," and there are a bunch of rules that go around that in accordance with working within the mystery genre! Obviously I am looking forward to playing with this in Aather a lot, even if it will be a while before she actually gets her detective proclamation skill back and it will be a little dicey to actually... use. She will still think of herself really solidly as the detective.

ALSO she's actually currently... substantially less antagonistic and terrible than she is in canon, if only because everything that has happened so far or that she's remembered has been relatively mild compared to the worst of canon (Where someone corrects her on a fact about a mystery!! And she has to win or she gets thrown in the depths of oblivion! And she does really terrible things.)

SAME QUESTION FOR SETH.