Character info

Character name: Satoko Hojo
Canon: Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni
Canon point & release date: At the end of Nekodamashi-hen, when Satoko Hojo reveals herself to have been the mastermind behind the timeloop and the orchestrator of the tragedies behind the scenes. (2020)
CRAU (if applicable): N/A
Powers (no more than 150 words): Satoko has a borrowed power to turn back time, as well as a very loose hold on the magical concept of certainty and inevitability. These have very unclear limits and capabilities at this canon point, but she did fly at one point. She can only turn back time with the help of Eua, her witch mentor.

Personality

What is your character most afraid of? How are they defined by this fear? (100-300 words) Satoko's fears are layered, often stacked on top of eachother. But her biggest and the greatest connective string between all of them is her fear of abandonment, and subsequently that she was never as important to her loved ones as they were to her. Previously in the original Higurashi visual novels, she had something of a martyr complex regarding her brother's disappearance, believing that if she suffered enough for the crime of being an annoying nine year old who "made" her aunt beat and belittle her and thus made her brother stick up for her, then her brother would come back and forgive her. This fear intensified and became outright destructive rather than self detrimental in Gou, after Satoko and Rika went to St. Lucia, a school for girls that boasted an obscenely high student average through the power of social isolation and collective punishment for any failures. Rika thrived in this environment and was respected as a mature and collected young lady (who was already mentally 100+ years old), and gathered friends quickly. Meanwhile Satoko never made any friends and failed to keep up with the ridiculous standards of the school and was punished harshly repeatedly, so she and Rika (her closest friend in the world and the girl she loved) drifted apart as a result.

A spiral from this issue is what culiminated in her resetting the timeline repeatedly, shedding her humanity and embracing her role as a witch, who keeps all her loved ones close to her by trapping them in a timeloop that keeps them from ever leaving her or outgrowing her.

What is your character's greatest desire? How are they defined by this desire? (100-300 words) Satoko wants to be loved and accepted, and she reaches for her childhood in the village of Hinamizawa because it was the only time she remembers being loved, even despite the abuse and neglect that she was subject to as a result of being the daughter of the couple that "betrayed" the village by being willing to take a large sum of money to move. In her ideal world she could stay with her friends forever without ever having to properly grow up, and she could stay living with her best friend Rika in perfect harmony. Of course, despite this, there is a large part of her that feels furious about the ways in which she's been mistreated and abandoned, and hungers for something more from Rika that Rika's never given her (acknowledgement that she is an equal and not like. an emotional support dog.), so she takes a sadistic satisfaction in inflicting Oyashiro-sama's curse on others (particularly those she feels have wronged her in some way) and then killing them herself.

How will not having memories change your character? What core personality traits, if any, will change? How? (200-300 words) The main memories that will factor into her change in personality will be the fact that she won't remember her brother/friends, and she won't remember the traumas that caused her deep seated martyr complex and buried rage, so she'll be a bit less dependant on others, and will have considerably less reason for resentment. At her canon point, she had shed all of her humanity and embraced being a witch permanently, and had personally shot her conscience in the head with a gun. Without her memories, she will still retain that, and will only act like the Witch that is her "true nature" under extreme situations.

She will also lack the memory of her being the cause of the timeline resets, but she'll retain some memories of dying repeatedly, and will try to figure out who is behind that so that whenever she escapes she can save her friends from all of that, without having any clue that it's her that's behind it all, something she will slowly have to piece together all on her own. With no friends she'll be a bit less confident in herself as well, as she's considerably less extraverted without her friends at her back and can be a bit reclusive or shy.

Memories

You have 10 memory points. How will you use them?
Major Memory: 2 points.
Satoko will remember being shot in the head by Miyo Takano at the end of Minagoroshi. She won't remember any context surrounding the event, just being asked whether cauliflower is green or not and then being shot.

Major Memory: 2 points.
Satoko will remember being killed by Shion Sonozaki disguised as Mion Sonozaki in Watanagashi-hen. Again, she'll be completely lacking in context, but she'll remember her death and the betrayal prior to it.

Relationship Core: 3 points.
Satoko will remember the core of her relationship with Rika, and will feel love, heartache, longing and resentment for her without really understanding the root of these feelings or the specifics of their relationship. But she'll know that Rika is a deeply important person to her and in many ways the centre of her universe.

Skill: 2 points.
Satoko will retain her expert marksmanship and abnormal skill with a handgun, honed over several centuries worth of timeline resets.

Skill: 1 points.
Satoko is a master of creating traps and pranks, mostly used to comedic effect in the visual novel, but she will retain this skill and aspect of her personality as a trickster who loves to create pitfalls banned by the united nations in her spare time.

Points remaining: 0