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@PistachioCookies really want to inform others of things. I brought this up before, but I really do not see a reason to do this. There's a trivial easy solution to get around it by just declaring it a secret that she promised to keep and that she's going no matter what because she's concerned for her friend. And only unreasonable parents would not understand that some times people pick up some kind of promises like that and that they want to look out for a friend. Also reasonable parents understand that keeping ones word is an actually important thing.
And in a story and character perspective, I do not think as such that giving Amu a personality where she so easily breaks her word is a good thing. I think there should be more cause given for that then just that some unknown reason for no communication and her mother pressing her a bit. That kind of an indecisive and weak willed type of personality would struggle with future challenges and truthfully goes a bit against her magical girl quirks.
I don't really like that narrative as such, I don't think we should be going for such a narrative and there is no reason to do so. Because the risks imagines are really just overly imagined worst case scenarios, when Amu can easily just scan the area beforehand and really Manticore can't just disappear her, she's a person of public interest and has direct connections to the top of a government organization like JP. Unless she does something particularly foolish she is most likely nearly untouchable for them as a org themselves.
As such I find the proposed votes not acceptable as they come from faulty premises. And will as such make this alternate vote.
[X] Plan Keep the Secret
-[X] Tell your mother that it's a secret you promised to keep and so you shouldn't just give it away just because you haven't heard from your friend for a rather long time. How ever you are worried for your friend and so you are going to check up on her even if she won't agree or won't give permission, Friends are more important then that after all.
--[X] Calm yourself a bit, and bring up that there doesn't have to be that much risk. That they had some bad experience with strangers and are now very wary about them, but they are fine with people they know well enough.
---[X] Suggest that you can use your psychic power to get a good look from outside though, so it's not like you even there is any real risk. And if mom wanted to help you with a light disguise so journalists there isn't really much to worry about at all. You could also keep her on the phone if that would make things easier for her.
----[X] If any further good ideas come up that don't break the promise, you can consider those as well of course. But you can't possibly not check on your friend if she might be in trouble.
I think something like that would already be perfectly functional and pretty close in safety to the other suggestions. Except she didn't have to break the promise at all and you didn't break any trust with ones parent. I really think the discussion got way to stuck in pondering absolute worst case scenarios that have very little probability and take on far more unwanted things to only partially counter the worst case imagined risks then is worth it.
Me, I prefer a some what more decisive and trustworthy Amu myself, that is the kind of narrative for Amu that I'd want to see going forward. It also just seems more interesting as a story overall versus the overly easily browbeaten and scared Amu.
