Gimme that vote Onmur, you're forgetting that Anri is out of our range and we just dropped the ribbon-powered extension, but otherwise it seems intelligent. I honestly like the last line better than what I had. Let her chill for a while and
then if she keeps being chuuni and stupid,
then call her on it -- calmly.
[X] One action: Catch Hijiri with Grief.
-[X] If that fails, quickly ask Mami to go after her and to call for help (Sayaka, Pleiades).
[X] Have Mami restrain Anri -- and have Mami grab her soul gem, too. Don't communicate that out loud, use telepathy.
-[X] If Anri gets away, sic the other eight meguca here on her.
[X] No speechifying; no battlefield therapy. If you capture Hijiri, just tell her we're all gonna have to wait until she cools down, stops lashing out, and is willing to
talk. For real, this time.
Gemming anybody here is
still dumb. I'm pretty confident Mami can just lock Anri up like she's Homura in canon, and there's no reason she can't grab her soul gem with ribbons at the same time, really.
Unless we watch her literally 24/7, she will find a way to witch out. And I can guarantee we won't be watching her 24/7 because she's going to be continually pissing the thread off, enough so that the other fifty percent is that the thread votes to gemsmash her. After these last few days of discussion I am more than willing to believe that she can do that. She probably wouldn't even need to try.
You seem to be operating under the misconception that this is about "establishing dominance" or something in the vein of that...
Unmentionable stupidity from when we metabombed Sayaka.
That is not the point here. There are multiple points here, but that is not one.
Point number one is that the Pleiades are trusting us not to let this person go.
Point number two is that Hijiri is openly lying -- by omission, yes, but lying -- to us and has been this entire time.
Point number three is that you are, to a degree, correct -- the thread is somewhat angry and maybe we shouldn't be.
My reaction here is that letting her leave, no matter
what we believe will happen with her, is idiotic for the same reasons that the law doesn't let people off "because people believe that the accused will behave well in the foreseeable future." It's not about dominance, it's not personal, it's a matter of credibility and the establishment of trust & expectation. Hijiri has not (willingly) done
one thing right by us this entire time. You're an incredibly intelligent person, I think you can understand where I'm going with this -- if we'll let Hijiri do it, who else will we let get away with what.
I know that maybe this seems like a far off thing that doesn't
really matter or shouldn't
really apply because metaknowledge, but I mean, this does have some amount of repercussion for even Mitakihara's perception of our interactions with Oriko. If Homura or Mami or Sayaka believe that if Oriko goes off and fucks around again we would forgive her again despite having made it clear that we're not okay with that, that
does have repercussions. Potentially light ones, sure, but they're there.
That is why I'm not okay with letting Hijiri go here. If your vote worked, it would be incredible, but it
isn't as low risk as you're arguing.
I don't have any idea why you're arguing that preventing her from leaving atm "kills her slowly" or some shit. Is that about the lichbomb? That shouldn't be a thing anyway.