I completely forgot about the Pokémon thing. Madoka wasn't great there but Homura due to votes wasn't really acting in good faith either.
We are literally (Love and) War now. Madoka not getting that we would want to just win shows a horrible lack of any kind of understanding of what Homura was at that point in time, nevermind who. Homura... doesn't deal with losing well for very obvious, and very understandable, reasons.
And Madoka's response to us/Homura being unable to loosen up is to mindwipe her as thoroughly as possible and then jump to an unknown world with help from her being imprisoned in a Master Ball.
However I examine it what happened there was not our/Homura's fault. You don't blame someone with PTSD from failing repeatedly for doing their best to not fail in the same way you don't blame a person with anxiety issues for having an anxiety attack.
It's just stupid and hurtful.
Madoka is trying to do what she did in the series, find a magic bandaid to make all the bad things go away. It's not working and it's driving her up the wall as near as I can tell.
Third example.
Threadmark 42, going on a Ferris wheel ride with madoka.
To note, this wasn't really avoidable. In fact scenes like this are how we'd move up and down the whole relationship chart primarily so they were always going to be a part of the quest.
That more than anything shows what this quest is at it's core: Serious relationships in a (usually) fun backdrop.
So... the key to success is to read the situation better and play nice?
No, that just puts the issue away to sneak up on us again later. There's some comparisons I could make here, but I'll stick to it just being like a standard "stick your head in the sand and hope it goes away" response.
I... would like to think I know what I'm talking about with Madoka and Homura, especially Homura, considering I threaded the goddamn needle during the ferris wheel incident on saving it from (purposeful) disaster.
Homura has
issues. Madoka needs to learn to deal with these instead of trying to magic them away... or kill her apparently. I didn't remember that bit.
I think I have made posts of us having a reverse Rebellion on our hands, with us needing to take down a crazy Madoka. It is all too real of a possibility for this to occur with
her issues rearing their ugly head(s) like they are.
Hopefully it won't come to that. Ignoring the situation is only going to make it worse though and playing nice works only insofar that the other party can even be reasoned with. Madoka has been... unstable since Pokemon. And before really, but it wasn't really affecting us/Homura at that point.