Agree, need an extension to think about this more.
That said, I think that I had an idea.
[] Hijiri,
please help me. I meant everything I said. I want this peaceful happy lives for
everyone. You, Niko, the Saints, Anri. I feel that's what I was made for, sometimes, after I woke up in that alley. But I can't do it alone. All I can do is ask people to choose to help break the cycles of hatred and violence. Anri probably doesn't trust me enough to give me a chance to talk. She probably doesn't trust
anyone, not any more. But it sounds like she might
distrust you
least, and I think that you can give me a chance.
Please.
It's not right. Written from the wrong point of view, too long for the time allotted. But it feels right.
- Hijiri's not attacking yet. She's waiting for us to attack her. That's what that question was - she's asking if the game's over. Because she feels that, now that we've found Anri, the situation is going to go hot. That's not the case.
- We ask her to choose to help everyone have the same peaceful happy lives that she wants, and express our faith that that can happen. We acknowledge her agency and that she gets to choose how this plays out. All we can do is talk. The that we want can't be forced.
- I finally found the right way to say that thing that everyone's been trying to awkwardly wedge in and that just never fit right. It fits now.
- We implicitly acknowledge and forgive her for talking to Anri.
- Lead off with a sentence that's pretty much guaranteed to throw her off balance, which should give us the time we need to deliver the rest.
- Major pathos play. I think that we've argued logos and a little bit of ethos, gotten her emotional by making her think and then forcing an external crisis, so now we go for the jugular.
This isn't a complete vote. We need to disengage from Mami so she can start getting ready if it doesn't work. We'll want to retreat from Anri to buy Hijiri time to work if she flips. We need to tell the Pleiades that we found Anri. We need to give Hijiri a reason to believe that Anri's problem is solvable in the first place, and summarize it well enough that she can relay it to Anri to calm her down. But it feels right.
...Also, holy shit,
Anri can grow meat-bodies, her Wish gave her the power to regrow bodies for dewitched meguca so she could help us dewitch Yuuri.
More seriously, I don't see anything we can really try social-wise in the next ten seconds that will work where we haven't succeeded this whole time. Some people aren't yet ready to be saved. The wishborn thing might disrupt her, but if she's offended and paranoid and /hostile/ over us finding Anri.... when we set out with the stated group purpsoe of finding Anri... then thats going to fall flat too. Really, since we were not remotely hiding our search for Anri (just hiding the new successful method with a bluff of the old failed search) , for her to get hostile at our success and act like it was a scheme suggests any prior cooperation was a trick. At best she was resigned to captivity and hoped Anri would escape "our manipulations" , but thats even worse than Hijiri demanding a peaceful life when they were the ones to initiate this.
