Maria Ushiromiya
Maria Ushiromiya (右代宮 真里亞, Ushiromiya Maria) is Rosa Ushiromiya's daughter. Her biological father abandoned her shortly after her birth, leading to a fractured relationship between Maria and Rosa.
| Maria Ushiromiya 右代宮 真里亞 | |
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| Character Information | |
| Title | Witch of Origins |
| Classification | |
| Gender | Female |
| Age | 9 |
| Birthday | March 29, 1977 |
| Zodiac Sign | Aries |
| Blood Type | O |
| Hair Color | Brown |
| Eye Color | Violet |
| First Appearance | Legend of the Golden Witch |
| Portrayed By | Yui Horie |
| Relationships |
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uuUU uuUU uuUUuuuuUUUUuuuuuuuUUUUUUU
—Maria Ushiromiya
Profile
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Rosa's daughter. Her father's identity is unknown. She can't shake off the habit of speaking like a young child, which often earns her a scolding. She has no interest in studying or making friends, but is very interested in things concerning the occult and black magic. Thanks to her excellent powers of memorization, she knows all kinds of obscure trivia. |
Background
Maria grew up in a lonely environment with her mother being at work most of the time and having no knowledge of her father. Many people thought of her as a pitiful and weird child which she does not understand as she does not know why people think of her as pitiful but instead she thinks that she is very happy. Once, Rosa showed her a photo of a tanned man whom Rosa said was Maria's father. However, when Maria request to see it again, her mother yelled and said that the photo does not exist.
One day, a priest visited her school and Maria asked the priest whether it is weird to not have a father. The priest then tells her that is not weird and tells her about the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. This resulted in her believing that she was also the result of a virgin birth due to her sharing a name with the Virgin Maria. This eventually led to her interest in the occult.
Later, she meets Beatrice when she went to Rokkenjima and became best friends. She taught Beatrice on many occults subjects and magic circles whom she at first looked down upon until Beatrice showed her magic which was actually a sleight of hands. There they created the Golden Land and many new friends.
In Alliance of the Golden Witch, several flashbacks are seen from the perspective of Maria's diary. Those typically involved instances of Rosa and Maria's relationship. After leaving Maria alone for several days, Rosa returns home with presents, one of which is a set of twenty small ceramic animals. Four of the animals, a group of rabbits, became Maria's favorites and later manifested as the Chiester Sisters.
Appearance
Maria appears as a little girl with short brown hair. She wears a dark corset with a red ribbon over a pink long-sleeve shirt, a black skirt with a pink stripe, knee-high white socks and red shoes. She also wears a small black crown on her head held by a red ribbon tied under her chin. Maria is always seen carrying a pink purse with a large red bow. The One-Winged Eagle is imprinted on the left side of Maria's corset.
Personality
Maria is a child of elementary-school age (in the first episode, her mother confirms that she is "nine and a fourth grader"), though usually acts as though she is much younger. This often gets her in trouble with her mother and earns her a slap or two on the cheek. Normally she acts younger than her age but seen as cute by many. But when talking about witches, her personality changes and acts creepily. She also becomes defensive when someone rejects witches and magic which she believes to help her become happy.
She deeply loves her mother and even believes that the abusive and neglectful side of her mother is not her mother but a witch possessing her kind and loving mother to do horrible things despite them both being Rosa. She even went as far as defending Rosa's action in her diary and through Sakutarou's thoughts which in turns are her own thoughts when Rosa is not being a good mother. There are even times when she stated she does not need anyone but just her mother. It is also stated by Willard H. Wright that she never lies.
She often argues with her cousin Battler, oftentimes over whether or not Beatrice is real.
Maria has a habit of making the sound of "uu", something which Rosa hates. In Alliance of the Golden Witch, Maria's diary reveals that she believes making the sound is a form of magic that will ensure her family is always at peace.
Plot
Requiem of the Golden Witch
Willard H. Wright interrogates Maria regarding the witch Beatrice. Maria happily complies, excited to be speaking with someone who also acknowledges Beatrice's existence.
Trivia
- On a first-grade test during school, Maria was supposed to write the word for "gun" in Japanese. As Maria already knew katakana, she wrote in the characters for "rifle" rather than the hiragana characters for "gun". She was marked wrong for this answer and, as a result, writes almost exclusively in hiragana.
- In several episodes of the Umineko no Naku Koro ni anime, Maria watches scenes from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.
- Maria's name comes from the name Mary as in the Virgin Mary from Christianity, referencing the fact that Maria believes herself to be a virgin birth since Rosa always told her she never had a father.