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Something interesting people might not know about storks, which is certainly intentional, is that storks don't truly have a cry. The stork's syrinx is almost vestigial, and, rather than crying, they communicate and make noise by clattering their beaks together. You can hear this here: https://www.hbw.com/ibc/species/52744/sounds.. The main period of vocalization is during infancy, where they make crude, shrill cries with their useless organs. I expect some sort of duality here. The storks cry when they are born, natural and pristine still, free of pretense, but as they age they dispatch of this for the more efficient clattering, which we could compare to binary or Morse. Binary and Morse both have history in military and computer use as cryptography (literally pretense), which helps connect the animal to the idea of rampant propaganda in Ciconia's world, because ciphers are now used to fool everyone but the ingroup. There's a real potential thematic duality between when storks truly cry as babies and when they are known to "cry" as impure but resourceful adults.
Intertextuality and hermeneutics basically do connect to epistemology closely since exegesis and reliable narrators neither exist in reality, so it's interesting if Ryukishi's new philosophy is to depict epistemological interstices through blatantly duplicitous consensus (everyone outside the narrator) instead of questionable narration. The difference here could be if the illusion is endogenous (Umineko) or exogenous (Ciconia, maybe). And Umineko did already explore this on the side with the witch hunt consensus and episode 4's true method. It would be a sensible direction to expand on what he earlier had on the side and was still timorous about.