Right, but we should float the idea now that we still have things to tell her, just not right now. I understand your trepidation about even approaching it, but if we just act like we have nothing else hidden, wait for her to get well again, and then slam her back down with a betrayal (since we lied to her) and some world-shattering information, Mami will have a difficult time ever trusting us again.
What we shouldn't even be considering is just slamming the witchbomb in her face right this minute. Letting her know we have something we're not ready to talk about is one thing, but blundering right into the witchbomb while we haven't even undone the damage caused by the lich and Kyubey revelations is a seriously bad idea. A few days is not enough time for us to have helped Mami get ready for the truth.
...Which is what I just said. It's also what SWB just said. That's what we're advocating- not the full truth, just telling Mami that we haven't told her everything yet.
...Yeah, no. I don't see an outcome to telling her that "We've been keeping secrets from you" that doesn't end up as A) her weasling the witchbomb/secrets out of us before she is in a good enough state of mind to accept them or B) us refusing to tell her what the secrets are despite her badgering, and her jumping to her own conclusions.
And you recommend just waiting until she's riding high to betray her again? I don't like the sound of that. We need to at least let her know that we're hiding some things from her. She felt betrayed last time when she realized we knew, and the lichbomb is small potatoes compared to the witchbomb. We can't just hide it from her for a week until she feels better and then do all of this all over again, because it'll either break her, or make her hate us. Why would she ever believe that we weren't still hiding something worse? We acted like we had revealed everything last time, so why wouldn't we do it again? I think some honesty here would be good for an eventual controlled bomb (later, not now).
And what do you think about at least revealing that we still have secrets to her, Perhaps (if Homura authorizes it) tell her about our suspected origins and the time loops? We don't intend to witchbomb her yet. I just don't want to drop it on her out of the blue a week from now and expect her to not be angry with us.
Dropping all the bombs at once makes for a suicidal Mumi, and "we may or may not be able to locally reverse a horrifying fact of meguca life at some point" is a bit too small a bandaid for yanking all of her psychological pillars out from under her at once. All at once would have likely been worse.
So, instead of dealing with a clingy, psychologically broken Mami, you want us to deal with a psychologically broken and suicidal Mami?
Yeah, that would have been way too much at once. She'd have been on suicide watch for a week, best case scenario.
If we phrase it in terms of "there are things that we need to talk to her about at some point but they're not all ours to talk about and we're not sure how to talk about it" then ideally it
It's more the absence of a plausible alternative and the fact it's the only one with some actual evidence behind it, right?
Ah, but with Yuma comes Kyoko, and with Kyoko comes emotional scars.
It is kind of our only lead. Other than a lack of additional proof beyond the information that Homura provided us, what holes are there with that theory?
