Can we talk about the latest episode/Episode 22 of Higurashi where Featherine Makes Satoko watch all seasons of Higurashi, satoko didn't even consider any negotiation with Rika and just straight up saying "**** your 100 years of suffering I still want you to obey me because I am absolutely CERTAIN I'll win this"
- "Satoko didn't even consider any negotiation with Rika and..."
Satoko has been established previously that she has difficulty having negotiations with people close to her, particularly her fathers. Yes, you heard me right,
fathers. Her mother had constantly been getting divorce after divorce from her partners while also having children from the beginning. Satoshi was old enough to respect the fathers that came one after another and his personality was flexible enough for him to do so. Satoko was not. She was not able to accept her fathers ever since her first or second ones, and no matter what her fathers tried to do she would not accept them as her own. She would even go so far as to fake child abuse in order to be rid of one of her fathers. This reason alone would be why Tamae and Teppei's
actual abuse of Satoko went unnoticed by the CPS, something that
would not be justifiable no matter what you say. This is not to say she was malicious in her actions. Her intentions clearly show her being a child who was unable to accept and process fundamental change to her family structure. She did not want any sort of radical change that would threaten her status quo, something many, many, children would experience at some point. Satoko's difficulty in negotiating and conceding to people close to her was always there, it is simply that it was either overlooked, forgotten, or never known about.
Note: Satoko is, nevertheless, in the wrong for faking child abuse for the sake of removing her father from her life. But to expect Satoko to magically come to terms with her father and start opening up to him would be unrealistic considering the problems she had with her other fathers. They clearly needed guidance. Also, no, this does not in any way justify the CPS into not taking action against her
actually abusive aunt and uncle.
This in itself would explain her difficulty in conceding and negotiating with Rika. She was the closest person in the universe to her. She felt that nothing would change so long as she was her friend and would stay in Hinamizawa, a place she now considered her home thanks to the villagers for forgiving and loving her for who she is. Yet things changed, very radically at that. And now that she experienced what it would be like to go under Rika's dream twice over, it would be a repeat of what she had to go through with her broken family. Her dream of being accepted into a loving community was snatched away from her. Her desire to be in a stable relationship was vaporized more than once thanks to her parents' rocky relationships and Rika being a selfish prick.
- "just straight up saying '**** your 100 years of suffering I still want you to obey me because I am absolutely CERTAIN I'll win this'"
Except you neglected the fact that Rika herself never treated Satoko as an actual friend throughout the hundred years of her suffering. Hanyuu called her out on it and told her to finally respect and listen to Satoko so that she would not ruin her life. Yet Rika did not listen to Hanyuu. This happened multiple times in multiple fragments considering
Matsuribayashi happened many times over. Rika did not heed what Hanyuu, her other close friend and relative, said to her over and over and look where that got her. If Satoko is at fault for doing this sort of thing then Rika is equally accountable for refusing to help her "best friend" time and time again. Rika is not the innocent party here, nor is she necessarily a victim. She is an abusive individual in her own right, just like Satoko is. She kept on pushing Satoko into accepting her new reality and was unwilling to concede one bit to her friend's dissatisfaction. She refused to take "No" as an answer and kept on pressuring her into going along with her. Forcing someone into accepting whatever you want to do is, in itself, abuse. I have experienced this first hand in my life and many others who have experienced this do as well. Satoko is not in the right for becoming abusive and horrible herself by doing this sort of thing in return to Rika, but neither is Rika in the right because she was the one who started this in the first place.
If you do not support Satoko and support Rika instead, I completely understand. But you have to consider the context and nuance behind both of their behaviors in order to really understand where they are coming from and to form an informed stance. That is all.