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[X] Calm down.
-[X] Ask everybody to
please sit down and let you explain, so you can then hear what
they have to say once they
know what happened.
Then if they want, they can meet Oriko themselves.
-[X] Telepathically reassure Mami that Hitomi she wasn't actually gonna hurt you. We're among friends here. Meanwhile, if everybody agrees to sit down, help clean up the glass.
[X] Ask Hitomi what she means. If she means...
-[X] ... We should've turned them to the authorities:
--[X] What would she have had us do?
--[X] If she brings up normal justice proceedings: Hitomi, how do you try a teenage girl for a crime based on evidence that you don't remember exists? How do you hold a person who can wrench apart the metal bars of a cell, or turn invisible, or
teleport? Because of Kyubey's memory wipes, and because of the unpreparedness of the criminal justice system, the judiciary is incapable of putting a magical girl on trial. Furthermore, no equivalent institution exists for magical girls. In fact, the truth of the matter is that, in general, no institutions exist
at all for magical girls.
--[X] There is
nobody who has a 'right' who judge anybody else; there's only justice if the strongest Magical Girl decides to be just, and then only if you agree with them. Magical Girls normally need to either kill or kick out each other out of their cities, because there's not enough Grief Seeds for everybody to live on. (If necessary, mention how our power is entirely unique in the whole world).
--[X] Last week, we stopped a war that was brewing on Sendai,
before it actually got going strong; they might have heard about the 'gas explosion' cover story in the news. We did our best to rescue everyone we could, doing magic in plain sight, but today nobody remembers that; two people died and their friends and families won't know it was because some groups of superpowered teenagers were fighting for their own lives.
--[X] We fought Oriko and Kirika, and we imprisoned them. We did it with no fatalities, and because we did it, nobody else has been hurt by them. And they aren't dead over it.
--[X] ... That's your whole motivation here. You're trying to keep people
alive. It's not
easy. Oriko and Kirika are alive only because Magical Girls can live with horrible injuries, with missing limbs... or even having their heads cut off. Even then, if Oriko hadn't
agreed to the house arrest, we would've have to kill them. That or letting them go to keep doing the exact same things they'd been doing.
-[X] ... If Hitomi was talking about taking Oriko's arm in revenge for hers, that was not the case. Magical Girl fights are brutal, fought with weapons supposed to bring down giant monsters, and as long as a Magical Girl's Soul Gem is intact, she can survive and heal back from anything, assuming she can cleanse her own Soul Gem.
--[X] Oriko lost an arm
and her head during the fight; both Kirika and us got our legs maimed.
--[X] If Oriko's still missing her arm, it's not for Hitomi's sake, but because it wasn't necessary for her to have it in order to speak with us and surrender, and because it would've been easier to put her down again, definitely, if she tried to fight us again. She's also slowly been healing it up, so it's not like she lost it forever.
[X] Apologize to Sayaka. You did all this thinking about people
lives, and that's unfair to her, because what's happened to her was just as horrible and she doesn't deserve second place just because some Magical Girls want to play with other people's lives. We're sorry. But we can only ask her for her help, so things like this don't keep happening.
No. of Votes: 13
Onmur
aeqnai
argentorum
AuraTwilight
cmwatford
Demojay
Gadjo
JarringToaster
Muramasa
Nele
RagnorakTres
Redshirt Army
redzonejoe
[x] She nearly took my leg off with a landmine. I've got at least as much right to pass judgment as either of you.
[x] And no, I didn't deliberately take Oriko's arm as punishment or whatever nonsense you're thinking. This was a
war. Real battles between magical girls aren't like anime, they're brutal, and people get hurt very badly. During the fight Oriko got hit by fire from a medium machine gun. A normal person would have died, but a magical girl can survive anything as long as their Soul Gem is intact. I spent hours reattaching her head. I didn't feel up to trying to regrow her arm as well.
[x] Or maybe you think that getting shot and put under house arrest wasn't punishment enough? Well, what would you suggest? Turn her over to the police? Human authorities can't stop a magical girl, and human prisons can't hold them. And that's assuming that the police could even remember that she existed, or have you forgotten about Kyubey's habit of erasing people's memories to keep magic a secret? The only justice for magical girls is what we make for ourselves. So what would you have done? Do you think I should have executed them? Could
you have done such a thing? Because I don't think I could. You don't know how hard I had to argue for sparing their lives.
[x] Maybe I should have told you sooner. It's not exactly an easy thing to bring up! I was worried you might do something rash. Which, if you'll note the
shards of fucking glass around your feet, turned out to be the case. Maybe I didn't have to right to make that decision, but I wanted to protect you. I didn't want you to end up
selling your soul to Kyubey for revenge. I wouldn't want
any girl to ever have to subject herself to this life if I could prevent it. God knows I never would have if I hadn't already been dying! But it didn't do a damn bit of good. You wound up making the contract anyway. It would have been a lot easier to keep this secret forever, but I'm telling you now because I thought you deserved to know the truth. If you want to hate me for that, that's your right, but all I ever wanted was to protect the people I care about. All of you.
No. of Votes: 9
The Narrator
ctulhuslp
Emdeman
Evilness42
Higure
NemoMarx
PoptartProdigy
TheEyes
TheFanficAddict
[X] Take a deep breath, and rub your face a bit.
[X] Look at Sayaka. "If I may answer both of you?"
[X] You absolutely deserved to know. I cannot justify having not told you before now, I can only try to proceed as best as possible. That is what I am trying to do, here.
[X] Look at Hitomi. Hitomi, before I can answer you, I need to ask you a question. Before I do, let me tell you that this is honestly a question I don't have the answer to, and that I'm asking it in good faith.
-[X] What would you have had me do?
--[X] If she brings up normal justice proceedings: Hitomi, how do you try a teenage girl for a crime based on evidence that you don't remember exists? How do you hold a person who can wrench apart the metal bars of a cell, or turn invisible, or
teleport? Because of Kyubey's memory wipes, and because of the unpreparedness of the criminal justice system, the judiciary is incapable of putting a magical girl on trial. Furthermore, no equivalent institution exists for magical girls. In fact, the truth of the matter is that, in general, no institutions exist
at all for magical girls. It's essentially feudalism, only because of the incentive system that's in place, instead of taking oaths from weaker parties, the strong evict or kill other magical girls who encroach on their territory. Last week, there was a war. You might have heard about part of it on the news, it was billed as a gas explosion in Sendai. Even though the winning side helped with search and rescue afterward, and healed victims, three people died.
---[X] We fought Oriko and Kirika, and we imprisoned them. We did it with no fatalities, minimal property damage, and because we did it, nobody else has been hurt by them. And they aren't dead over it.
----[X] Form a grief privacy construct.
-----[X] You must think that a terrible thing to treat as a success, and you're right: it's what society looks like without government. And I believe it is within the capacity of the Mitakihara group -- us -- to change that. To make things so that Kyubey coming in your window and offering you a wish doesn't mean child soldiers. But right now, the first priority has to be Walpurgisnacht, because if it's not stopped, there won't
be a Mitakihara.
------[X] Stop. Look at Sayaka. I'm sorry, I get carried away with these things, and I shouldn't... Not now.
No. of Votes: 3
Kaizuki
angelofwhim
Sereg
[X] "And how exactly do you mean that? I didn't have the right to make my decision without you? I didn't have the right,
period?"
No. of Votes: 1
Aranfan
[X] Then who does, Hitomi? Who
can?
No. of Votes: 1
GiftOfLove
[X]
Matou Sutegobana
No. of Votes: 1
Karnewarrior
[X] to Mami: "Thanks, I really appreciate you!"
-[X] to Sayaka: "Please give me a moment."
--[X] to Hitomi: "You seem to believe I deserve to be punished. I would like to know why."
---[X] after hitomi's answer break to voting.
No. of Votes: 1
Matou Sutegobana
[X] Calm down.
-[X] Ask everybody to please sit down. You're
trying to make things work right. If they let you, you want to explain what happened, then if they want, they can meet Oriko themselves.
-[X] Mami can let go of Hitomi, and you try to pick up all the glass shards and put them away quickly for now.
[X] The truth of the Magical World is that
nobody has the right to pass judgement on anyone. Rather, there's nobody who
can pass judgement on Magical Girls besides other, stronger Magical Girls; which usually means one girl kicking another one out of their city... or killing her. It almost came down to that.
-[X] It's something you're trying to change: You thought they deserved to know, and have a voice in this.
[X] Try to explain your motivation: You wanted to contain the situation without anybody
dying. It was
hard. You had to spend several hours putting Oriko's head back in place after Homura managed to stop her; and that was
after Mami and Homura spent more than an hour regrowing all the flesh in your leg.
-[X] At the end, Oriko had
reasons for what she did.
Terrible reasons, she herself has admitted that she was wrong, but at the end nobody
died that day, and not entirely because or
our actions. You think Oriko can do
better, and needs to assume responsibility for her actions.
No. of Votes: 1
AramilOniasha
[x]"Mami please put Hitomi down."
-[x] "Also could the two of you please let me finish explaining what happened that night because I believe you are both jumping to
very incorrect conclusions."
--[x] Explain in detail what happened that night after everyone is sitting down, don't leave things out.
No. of Votes: 1
SpeckofStardust
Total No. of Voters: 31