For one thing, Haruka is an adult dealing with a group of children - putting such a major piece of information in her hands, she's going to consider what happens to the information her responsibility.
Yes? We do the same thing. The trick is to establish to her that she is not the only responsible person here. Which we have to do anyway! This entire parents thing will be a
catastrophe if they don't believe that we are sufficiently responsible. Our metaknowledge alone guarantees that there will be situations in which they need to
trust us to know what we're doing. Why do you think I've been hammering so hard on image?
So assume that we have sufficient standing that they will, if not follow our lead outright, at least consider us to be a subject matter expert whose perspective must be respected. We don't "cede control" of any information we give them any more than we cede control of information that we give to, say, Homura.
And clearly, she doesn't have the most accurate view of what meguca life is like, so there's the risk that she's just distant enough from the issue to not see it as quite as big a deal as it really should be.
We are correcting this problem in the upcoming update. Furthermore, I expect us to spend significant effort on impressing upon her the importance of meguca mental health, with a special interest toward emphasizing that it is something that she can help with. And you think that, after we specifically ask her to assist us with keeping magical girls stable, she's going to think that it's reasonable to drop a big damn load of trauma on them, and to do so without consulting us and without us
stopping her?
Summary: If she's as dangerously incompetent as you say, there is no way she can work with us and we should be treating her as a HUMINT asset to be
handled rather than as a person to be recruited.
'm all for having an actual discussion about whether we should reveal bombs to people, but there needs to be an actual reason before we start considering it. We haven't even decided Mami, Hitomi, Sayaka, or Madoka need to know it yet - why does Haruka?
I just provided several reasons that I believe are compelling. The single biggest reason is that I do not want her to figure it out on her own. One of the greatest limiters when doing brainstorming or research is the difficulty of reexamining earlier conclusions in light of new information. Adding a new perspective to the conversation, one with none of the preconceived notions that'd lead them down the same old paths and make it difficult to find new ideas, can be a
massive boost to a brainstorming session or a research effort. That's what we're doing here and the effects will be the same. Haruka will be learning about magical girls from square one, as a psychologically stable mature adult, and we should expect her to have some new and unusual insights as she approaches the problem from an entirely different direction.
So I just got internet back and haven't read the discussion that happened since I signed off, but here's two points:
[ ] Telepathically ask Hitomi to excuse herself and come here. It, uh, turns out her mom already knows something about magical girls from her (misspent?) youth.
We need to keep Hitomi in the loop here. If her mom was in full panic mode, it'd be different, but with the situation currently de-escalated, going over her head may cause resentment.
[ ] Ask Haruka if her husband knows about magic.
-[ ] Sub-point: Ask if, since you're going to be explaining the system in detail, she'd prefer to wait until her husband can be here so you don't repeat yourself.
Let's not poke at leaving the person she, uh, married, out of the loop.
Good point.
[x] Thank Haruka for breaking the ice.
[x] Give Mami an opening in case she wants to leave. Homework would work.
[x] Ask Haruka if she wants her family in here for the explanation.
[x] Explain the magical girl system.
[x] Explain your plans for fixing it and keeping everyone safe.
[x] Acquire recruits.
