I am not a fan of this plan. We chose to make a stand when we decided to train Maya and we do have reasons we acted as we did. It is not just that we promised not to tell, we actively trained her. Furthermore, if you promised not to tell him and admit you knew it was wrong then the right course of action is not to keep the promise but never making said promise in the first place. There is also the fact that this vote makes it seem as if Kakara places a promise toa friend over her duty unless she would be discovered as breaking the masquerade would reveal her. We also have a lot of justifications for what we did but they are barely mentioned. Overall, it seems to me that it spends to much time asking for forgiveness and too little giving reasons to be forgiven.
We will see about whether we should explain to Berra before or after or when we bring Maya once I wake up.
@Andres110 does have a point about that being missing of the current plans.
@Deathbybunnies see to add something like that to your own since it is the more likely for me to consolidate behind against plan apologize.
First off, I just want to say that this isn't directed at you specifically, just at several of the points you bring up. I mean no offense.
Fair enough. I'd argue that there are different elements in any situation, and that we can be sorry for lying to our father, even if we aren't sorry for the reasons we had for lying to our father. Or, in a different example: if you see someone about to be stabbed in the street and tackle the mugger to the ground, but in the process knock the victim to the ground, you can regret knocking them down even if you don't regret saving them from being stabbed. I guess what I'm trying to say is that whether or not the ends justify the means, you can regret the means (in this case, lying to Berra) without regretting the ends. (Keeping our word to Maya) But maybe I didn't make that clear enough... my bad.
That being said, while definitely something he would have liked to know, I'm still not 100% convinced that it was our duty to rat Maya out to him the moment we found out she had ki. A good idea, yes, but our sworn duty? Honestly, I don't even need a lawyer to argue it both ways. And if it wasn't our duty, then we're right back to where we started: sorry we lied to him and tried to hide stuff from him, but otherwise unregretful of what we did.
And as to why I went with multiple apologies instead of calmly laying out reasons and justifications for why we hid stuff from our dad? Well, maybe it's just me projecting in to these characters again, but personally I'm much more likely to get along with someone just apologizes to me than someone who lays out a list of reasons why I should forgive them. Besides that... we're ten. It just seems more in character to me for a ten year old, who really doesn't want to mess up her relationship with her father
again, to beg forgiveness rather than yelling out great monologues worth of justifications. In my experience, whenever a child starts pulling out a whole bunch of justifications, it just makes them seem that much more guilty.
And as for whether we should tell dad now or wait for Maya. First off, we never told Maya straight out that she would have to be the one to tell him. In fact, our exact words to her were: "I'll tell him this weekend." And while it's intimated that she'll be there, it still is pretty safe to say that that phrase alone puts the onus of telling him square on our shoulders. And with all the other stuff written in the last update, I might even go as far to say that Kakara herself
in character believes that she will be the one to tell Berra.
And if this is the case, I honestly believe that giving him some prior warning is definitely the right idea. No one likes being taken by surprise after all. And if you honestly believe that telling him was our duty, then telling him while Maya is there almost seems almost like we're manipulating him and using her as a shield to protect us from dad's (justified) anger. After all, he can hardly talk about saiyan heir-dom duties while we've got an uninitiated human in the room. If nothing else, that'll probably make him angry... after all, I don't know of a single parent that likes their children trying to manipulate them.
But who knows? Maybe this is somewhat irrelevant, seeing as none of these votes (except the wait for Maya one) have specified
when we tell him. For all we know, maybe these "tell him first" plans take place in a room off to the side after we've invited Maya over, but before she arrives/before we introduce them.
Or perhaps it's 3 o'clock in the morning and I am so sleep deprived that I have no idea what I'm talking about. Insomnia sucks, amiright?
