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How about we convince her to reveal herself to dad. With Dad's support we can reveal the Masquerade to her and we can decide what to do about that after that.

In the end though, we really need to reveal her at least at some point. We're just delaying the inevitable. Her power level is growing way too fast. She'll not only be discovered, but with Exile Grade training she needs to train under wards.

The human Z-fighters could challenge a basic super saiyin and win. It's quite likely she can reach that level, or even surpass it.
 
Are Maya's Multiform clones actual independently self-aware individuals? Are their memories shared back on death?
Kakara's are, although they coordinate startlingly well given the obvious. There's also a time limit on how long they can stay separate, so there's no risk of such massive deviations that the memories don't return to the final version. I don't know about Maya's, though. ;)
 
Oh, boy, this is all interesting.
I keep getting reminded of that quote in one of the Discworld books, something along the lines of "It was posited that only about 50 truly real people existed at a time, which explained why they kept bumping into each other", a magician warrior, seer pacifist, and human mutant the likes of which may never have been seen before, it's swirling around like crazy, maybe we could keep a running tally of the characters Maya surpasses in power, she's already dashed past the Sayian saga.
Oh, @PoptartProdigy, if it's not too spoilery, did you plan for Maya to be this powerful or was it rolled?
 
[] My family has more secrets than just Ki use Maya, not all of which are mine to tell. If I teach you sensing then you might be able to uncover them. If you let me tell dad about this, he could make the decision, but...
 
[X] My family has more secrets than just Ki use Maya, not all of which are mine to tell. If I teach you sensing then you might be able to uncover them. If you let me tell dad about this, he could make the decision, but...

Seems good enough
 
[ ] ... You know I've been hiding some things from you, right?
-[ ] There are more than just you, my dad, and myself.
-[ ] Teaching you sensing would let you find them, if you looked. And then they would find you.
-[ ] And we have rules. Very strict rules about teaching outsiders.
-[ ] Maya, I'm sorry, but you're growing so much stronger so quickly. My father needs to know. Needs to be told, before he finds out. I need you to trust me, please.

*Shrug* We really can't afford to wait I think. We gave her time, but... *shrug*
 
] ... You know I've been hiding some things from you, right?
-[ ] There are more than just you, my dad, and myself.
-[ ] Teaching you sensing would let you find them, if you looked. And then they would find you.
-[ ] And we have rules. Very strict rules about teaching outsiders.
-[ ] Maya, I'm sorry, but you're growing so much stronger so quickly. My father needs to know. Needs to be told, before he finds out. I need you to trust me, please.
This sounds pretty good to me.
 
Kakara's are, although they coordinate startlingly well given the obvious. There's also a time limit on how long they can stay separate, so there's no risk of such massive deviations that the memories don't return to the final version. I don't know about Maya's, though. ;)
Wise ass QMs, grumble, grumble.

So Kakara DOES receive the memories of her clones when they expire?

[X] My family has more secrets than just Ki use Maya, not all of which are mine to tell. If I teach you sensing then you might be able to uncover them. If you let me tell dad about this, he could make the decision, but...
 
*Shrug* We really can't afford to wait I think. We gave her time, but... *shrug*
You're not telling her all the downsides of telling Berra, however. Such as the high likelihood of an arranged marriage, constantly being kept under watch and a host of other things.
You would have to justify it extensively. Others have covered the potential risk to the Masquerade, so I won't rehash it here, but that is naturally right at the forefront of the Exiles' minds. If you could convince them that it posed no threat to the Masquerade (in either a "nothing bad will happen," or a "damage already done" way), they would accept it, though not likely happily outside of the anti-Masquerade polities. If you couldn't make that justification, nobody would defend your choice and your friends would be earmarked for eventual saiyan husbands and close watches by the end of the day.
Nope. But they are frightfully good at...arranging...things. By, say, surrounding a young lady with a bunch of young men who are incredibly attracted to her. The logic goes, eventually one of them will stick, and if you flood the market with them, the actual humans won't ever have a shot.
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Exactly that, yeah.

One-night stands like that happen rarely, and saiyans have a strong cultural inclination towards responsible contraceptive use. So it hasn't come up...yet. Biggest nightmare for the Lords -- it will eventually, just by the laws of statistics. But in theory they'd try and get the mother married in as fast as possible. That said, in that case the Masquerade rests on a knife's edge. They're not above making it clear to the mother that she can stay silent or be silenced if she's not willing to marry in peacefully. They would very much rather the peaceful route, though, because they're not monsters and don't enjoy the thought of imprisoning somebody for life, even in a gilded cage. At the very least, it sets a bad precedent.

"Force," no. This is basically the same question as above; they give the human parent a shot to marry in, with the proviso that as the human doesn't have a House, they take their new spouse's by default. If the human wants to continue going by their old last name, that's fine; it's just that their children will take the saiyan's name. The human that keeps their name will just be ever-so-slightly outcast in the way that men who take their wives' names or hyphenate are in western society, and being human leads to a bigger outcast factor than that already. Second step is flooding the relationship-space around the human. Last step -- the emergency step -- is directly approaching and bringing them in on the secret. They get asked to hold their peace, and if they don't, then they are threatened. As the absolute last resort, absolute intractability would lead to the human being imprisoned for life. After all, it's not like they could feasibly escape holding cells meant to imprison saiyans. The grandiose threats of violence are just that; threats. Of course, if the human involved is the father of the child, and the mother has no desire to marry him, she just vanishes one day, he never sees her again, and he never knows about his child(ren). All of this being hypothetical, naturally; it's not yet come up.
 
looking at their ledgers right now, and the numbers work out. Pudding is 97% of their revenue somehow. Pudding.
...nepnep?

As for the vote.
[ ] Refuse to answer.
-[] Theres a secret involved here thats not yours to share without permission, just like you would keep her powers secret unless she gave permission. But to get that permission, you would have to be able to tell your dad about her powers so...

Like that? Honest, safe, and not very subtlely nudging her to okay the reveal
 
Voting should be open now.

[x] My family has more secrets than just Ki use Maya, not all of which are mine to tell. If I teach you sensing then you might be able to uncover them. If you let me tell dad about this, he could make the decision, but...
 
You're not telling her all the downsides of telling Berra, however. Such as the high likelihood of an arranged marriage, constantly being kept under watch and a host of other things.
And? Telling her would be good, yes. Except for as soon as she accepted our training she was locked on this path. She already made her choice. That she didn't know what was behind the door... *Shrug* There is nothing that can be done about that.
 
Neptune, from the Neptunia series. Has a love of pudding.
And? Telling her would be good, yes. Except for as soon as she accepted our training she was locked on this path. She already made her choice. That she didn't know what was behind the door... *Shrug* There is nothing that can be done about that.
Telling her is still the right thing to do.

And quite frankly, no, Berra does not need to know.
 
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An then he finds out and things get messy. Nevermind if someone else finds out.

So yes, he kind of does need to know. Or have you not been paying attention to even the updates. We are committing high treason by training her.
We're committing "treason" every fucking day at this point. And quite frankly, ensuring that Mayu and her experiments with Ki didn't eventually end up destroying the planet is a fairly good cause, I believe.

And quite frankly? FUCK BERRA. I am getting more and more sick of him, to the point I'm tempted for next year to include a write-in to assassinate him.
 
And quite frankly, no, Berra does not need to know.
How will you hide this from him?

Like, seriously. I don't mind keeping her a secret, but how? She'll be sensed before the year's out. We're risking everything by doing this. If this gets found out, we jeopardise our standing with the Exiles, our relationship with Berra, and our plans regarding Jaffur. We're risking every single thing we've worked for sparing the feelings of our friend for a few months.

And honestly? Her feelings are wrong. If she gets introduced to the saiyins, she'll honestly be happier. She's basically everything a normal saiyin is, except better. She'll be a powerful ally, and a celebrity. Plus, if dad tries to ship her with guys what's wrong with that? As Scion, her friend and her Master, we'll get a large say in what happens and we can protect her from anything unsavoury.
 
Like, seriously. I don't mind keeping her a secret, but how? She'll be sensed before the year's out. We're risking everything by doing this. If this gets found out, we jeopardise our standing with the Exiles, our relationship with Berra, and our plans regarding Jaffur. We're risking every single thing we've worked for sparing the feelings of our friend for a few months.
She already knows how to suppress her power level, so long as she does so, she can learn some stuff, or choose to quit learning entirely.
And honestly? Her feelings are wrong. If she gets introduced to the saiyins, she'll honestly be happier. She's basically everything a normal saiyin is, except better. She'll be a powerful ally, and a celebrity. Plus, if dad tries to ship her with guys what's wrong with that? As Scion, her friend and her Master, we'll get a large say in what happens and we can protect her from anything unsavoury.
Because making the choice for her is wrong. Lay out everything, and let her choose.
 
[X] Reveal some of the truth.
- [X] ...Kinda.
- [X] Dance around without straight out saying that there may be others with powers.
- [X] State that hypothetically if there were, you might also have promised to hide their secrets as well.
- [X] Ask that Maya trust you that at the moment, you can't teach her about power sensing.
- [X] Guilt her into waiting before trying to learn this herself by subtly reminding her that she wouldn't want some stranger to find out her secret out-of-the-blue.
- [X] Hint that if she's desperate to meet others with powers, dad's still an option.
 
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