Welcome to the end. 
Emiko went a lot worse than we meant it to thanks to the fact she pulled the monumentally stupid stunt of attacking the school with both Homura and Madoka there and going for "attack ALL OF THE THINGS on sight"- resulting in Homura trying to off her right then and there. She burned too many bridges at once to keep her around- she literally crossed a line even the Tokyo Six hadn't by intentionally going after a school and not just the megucas- from Sayaka's POV at the time, anyway. Not as though there isn't precedent for righteous rage Sayaka, either.
Emiko was a case where circumstances and the character made the more efficient/minmaxy route impossible- besides, as a feral meguca from Kyoko's turf, we were fairly sure we couldn't trust or rely on her to actually stick around for Walpurgisnight. We did want to leave her running with her limbs intact and a fairly low-grief gem but...Homu Interrupt meant that didn't happen.
While we might have overdone the "not your fault" somewhat...it's true that a lot of the time there were extenuating circumstances/they were tricked into it. For things like the T6 who made a conscious choice to do horrible things and not stop and the refugee familiar-feeding before we found out about the literal mind control turning off their morality, we got into full righteous fury mode. Sayaka having a very black and white mindset doesn't help there either. We actually did have a bit of "make up for past mistakes" with offering Walpurgisnight recruitment but we're wary of anything that might seem like blackmail/forcing them into it after the Akane incident way back when.
Seeing them as victims makes for fewer mental gymnastics- and we did see that kind of thing in Rebellion Sayaka's mindset a bit. A lot of it's related to the squinting needed to accept Kyoko's familiar-feeding in the past without things ending in tears.
Emiko went a lot worse than we meant it to thanks to the fact she pulled the monumentally stupid stunt of attacking the school with both Homura and Madoka there and going for "attack ALL OF THE THINGS on sight"- resulting in Homura trying to off her right then and there. She burned too many bridges at once to keep her around- she literally crossed a line even the Tokyo Six hadn't by intentionally going after a school and not just the megucas- from Sayaka's POV at the time, anyway. Not as though there isn't precedent for righteous rage Sayaka, either.
Emiko was a case where circumstances and the character made the more efficient/minmaxy route impossible- besides, as a feral meguca from Kyoko's turf, we were fairly sure we couldn't trust or rely on her to actually stick around for Walpurgisnight. We did want to leave her running with her limbs intact and a fairly low-grief gem but...Homu Interrupt meant that didn't happen.
While we might have overdone the "not your fault" somewhat...it's true that a lot of the time there were extenuating circumstances/they were tricked into it. For things like the T6 who made a conscious choice to do horrible things and not stop and the refugee familiar-feeding before we found out about the literal mind control turning off their morality, we got into full righteous fury mode. Sayaka having a very black and white mindset doesn't help there either. We actually did have a bit of "make up for past mistakes" with offering Walpurgisnight recruitment but we're wary of anything that might seem like blackmail/forcing them into it after the Akane incident way back when.
Seeing them as victims makes for fewer mental gymnastics- and we did see that kind of thing in Rebellion Sayaka's mindset a bit. A lot of it's related to the squinting needed to accept Kyoko's familiar-feeding in the past without things ending in tears.
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