That's not how it works. Kakara, in-character, has the micromanagement authority. Kakara is intensely organized and disciplined. She's not going to forget to do a thing she's resolved to do, not when it's this important.
We the posters may 'forget it,' but the bare fact of giving Kakara micromanagement authority doesn't automatically mean the subject gets forgotten because we the posters aren't constantly weighing in on it.
Ah, you misunderstand me. I'm not saying that we the players would forget to deal with Daz. I'm saying that Kakara might get caught up in everything life has to throw at her and just not have enough time to worry about a mostly defanged threat. Not saying it will happen, just that it might as every year we have had more and more happen, and we (that is to say Kakara) has been busier and busier to the point where I'm actually getting concerned that we're going to hit burn out within the next few years if we don't take steps to lighten our workload. Speaking of which:
The question is, stipulating that Kakara is overworked, we do still have to prioritize Kakara's limited time on the most important tasks. Is convincing Dazarel to be decent one of those tasks? If so, it should be promoted to our attention, and OTHER tasks should be dropped so she can catch her breath.
Once again I think you misunderstand me. I'm not saying that spending even quite a bit of time convincing Dazarel isn't a worthy goal or deserving of our time. I'm saying that there is a big difference between "taking the time to help him and letting others do the same" and "literally sitting in on every conversation he has to vet it." I honestly believe that to socialize our pet lizard-with-wings, we're going to need to socialize him with a bunch of different people... the more the better, in my opinion, as multiple different interactions will be a good way to teach him how to deal with people in a variety of situations and social strata. But if we're stuck being there at all of them? I doubt we'll get nearly as much socialization for our dainty dragon. Remember that one of the reasons we didn't just stick him into our head was so that he would be able to communicate on his own, and not have to communicate through us. So to turn that around and say that we have to be there to vet every conversation that he has, well, it seems like a step backwards, to me... a step that would seem to take up a LOT of time, time that we could NOT abrogate our responsibilities of if we are in any way serious about socializing Daz at all. But if others were there to take up the slack, then if it came down to the difference between Dazzie's socialization and not having a nervous breakdown from overwork... well, we wouldn't have to choose.
I disagree. The first step to convincing him that might does not make right is to make it clear to him that he has no might anymore- so that if he insists on might making right, he'll lose every time.
Once he has to live life from the point of a being who doesn't have the power to dictate terms to 'lesser beings,' it is far more likely that he will "suddenly" discover concepts such as 'fairness' that he never used to care about when he was strong enough to ignore them.
That's the entire point of chibifying him in the first place, as opposed to just leaving him the size of a mountain.
And that's your opinion and you're entitled to it. I, on the other hand, have a different one.
I see Daz as being a little more immature. To be honest, after what we've seen of him, my mental model of him is somewhere around "eternal petulant edgy teenager". And from that, I see him taking the whole "welcome to
Oz Garenhuld, I now own you" message to heart if we start this relationship with a show of dominance. What's more, it actually enforces his "might is right" mindset, as we were mightier than him and it not only allowed us to heap this humiliation on him, but also allowed us to dictate even the minutia of his social calendar... in essence, our power allowed us to gain (almost) complete control over him. And while yes, on one hand having very little power could force him to start empathizing with those who are weak, on the other hand it might also just convince him to do everything he can to regain power so that HE would be the one who would have this level of control.
What's more, once the reinforcement of that mindset happens, it'll be just that much hard to get rid of. Once he equates our victory over him to our control of his current circumstances, he can take a self-righteous, almost perverse pleasure in using that to "prove his point." And from then on, we can tell him all we want that might doesn't equal right, but he can just fall back on the standby of "how can you say that, when literally the only reason you're getting what you want is that you were mightier than me? Can you tell me that if you hadn't beaten me in a fight, I still wouldn't have killed you? Let's face it: the only reason that you have the right to tell me what to do is that you were just stronger than me. I mean, look at your own society: the only reason that your rulers stay in control is that they maintain a monopoly on the super saiyan transformation. If your right to rule doesn't rely on your monopoly of power, then why not let the others of your race attempt to transform?" Okay, that thought kinda got out of hand, but honestly, the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that we're going to have a devil of a time trying to convince him that might doesn't make right when our own society hoards all the power in the hands of the nobility. We don't need another difficulty in that regard.
Also, just as another thought: If we are the ones who say who he can and can't talk to, it undermines the ability for others to make meaningful points to help change his mind. He can never be truly sure that people are telling him the truth when they try to convince him that might doesn't make right, because he can never be sure we're not just sending people in to say what we want. It's one thing to say "hey, take a look at our society, and you'll see that the strong don't have to prey on the weak" and it's another to say "hey, the strong don't have to prey on the weak, and I'm going to keep you isolated from the rest of my society and will bring in people to tell you that what I just said is the truth." Even if we give him total freedom after only a week, the thought of "why did she need the week? Was she using this time to tell everyone how to act around me to convince me of her point?" will still be a totally logical thing to go through his head. Because remember, he just lost the ability to casually read peoples' minds, something he took for granted before. He's likely to be VERY paranoid about people lying to him, now that he can't just double check their truthfulness by dropping into their heads.
And I also disagree to your idea of what the "point" of chibi-fying him versus leaving him the same size. I believe it was because he would be much less able to cause any trouble if he wasn't able to physically topple buildings even without ki. In my opinion, we didn't shrink him to teach him a lesson... we shrunk him to make him much easier to handle if he decided to cause trouble.
Or at least, that's how I see it.
