On my phone so not a big argument but
@fictionfan
To counter your counter arguments:
1) To learn culture you have to immerse in it. Things like common stories, themes, pop culture require more than doing better at school.
2) Ki. Has. Been. Revealed. Karen showed herself as a practitioner. If she does magic tricks people would expect her to do her weird-mumbo-jumbo but that is not the point I wanted to make. The point is using Ki in a non threatening and visual way, such as the special effects that you normally have problems with in live performances and show they should not be afraid of us. Theatre is ideal because Garenhuld has a rich tradition of it so even if we don't use ki it is a way to normalize how people see Karen since she will have a greater scrutiny in her human life. Furthermore, as one of the first public ki users, we can't be as away from the Garenhulders since they keep an eye on us. A popular choice, that makes us interact with others, that needs us to interact with others to practice in a visible way while our multiform does its own thing is perfect to keep suspicions away. Magic tricks are mostly practiced alone so if we use 2 actions to level deceit we should at least get a decent alibi and something that helps in more important issues, like making ki users look like normal people, instead of potentially helping in new projects that are not strictly necessary!
3) Practice of magic tricks has to be done in private to preserve secrecy of it and acting is by default social so it gives more chance to interact. Not to mention that recent events make interacting in the human world more pressing. Also, we don't need magic tricks to break to ice among saiyans. We are the Scion of Goku, Kakara the Gold, Princess in all but name.
4) If the saiyan could confuse sleight of hand with Sorcery, which I remind you can be felt through ki sensing and is used for greater things then I would be extremely worried about our species. They are not morons, they know what a magic trick is. They live half their life among humans.
5) Again, magic tricks=\= Sorcery. We are not a sorcerer, so how do we expect we teach him? The plan is contacting with Jaffur, make him link with Dandelor with magic and then he teaches him. Us teaching him would be suboptimal and take a lot more time since we would have to learn first with no frame of reference!
Also some of the "advantages" magic club gived are benefits to actions other might not want to take. Not only is incredibly dubious that magic club might help learn about the mysteries but what if we don't want to learn about the sorcery this turn? You say that sleight of hand might be useful but on a diplomacy build, things like improvisation and being able to lie and fake emotions would be more so. Ki tricks being more useful for magic shows? Better living through ki might be promising if it saves enough time for an action but if anything, spending time devising ki uses to apply to magic tricks is time we are not using to make our life easier! Now, I am not saying they might not help each other but the indication they might is way too thin!
Do you want more arguments in favor of drama? It helps with communication which is our main strenght. It builds our reputation in the human world which is where we are performing said actions. Fluff wise, we want to learn to lie convincingly, not distracting other while we do something else. It is something we can do with more people, not as audience but as partners. It helps growing interests with people like Genna who likes to read.
Another thing! You came up with Magic Club because, in your opinion, it synergizes with a lot of actions you want to take. Have you considered that, maybe, others don't want to do so? That we are spreading ourselves too thin? We have to learn to fight because we are one of the few legally allowed to reach our power level and if a threat comes that requires it, we will have to act! We need to learn to do so effectively because there will be timeswe can't power up higher so as to not bring attention from space! Don't get me started on the fact that Jaffur is unstable and we might have to deal with him at least long enough to use diplomacy if he ever goes to the deep end!
Or maybe we don't want to be a tinker and use our time to make new tricks with ki since that and diplomacy are the things in which Kakara is a prodigy. Or maybe we would rather use the time to FINALLY have a social life?
Look, I don't want to be mean but it sort of came out like that. Also, we areon a brown out here and my nephews are a bit too noisy/cranky because reasons so my patience is a bit thin at the moment. Plus, typing on phone and bad connection. So yeah, sorry if that came out as combative.
