It's a fair position to have, but going to visit him wasn't even originally on the agenda. Sayaka brought it up. Healing didn't come up until after the Ono situation resolved, so less than half an hour IC.
Healing was brought up at lunch, but people didn't want to "ruin the mood" by talking about it. At the time we decided that we would talk about it while walking to the hospital. Then Belle and Ono Megane showed up and that was delayed. Then we voted not to talk about it on the way to the hospital. Then we voted not to talk about it when we met up with the others. We've kept putting off the conversation to talk about healing Kyousuke and I really don't understand why. At least it has
finally come up as a side issue while talking to Hitomi (though that bypasses any concerns that Mami and Homura may have had and skips the part where we talk about whether or not we're going to break the masquerade for Kyousuke).
All things considered, this is pretty great. I mean, I would ideally prefer for Hitomi's first experience with magic to be a little less positive than healing a sick kid just to give her the right mindset about the whole thing but that's more a stylistic choice really. Plus it brings the whole healing Kyouske thing to a head we can't keep putting it off.
Yes and yes will probably be unanimous so let's talk phrasing. Let's see what full grimderp sounds like.
Hitomi. Mami, Homura and I are magical girls. It's not like you see in the shows. Think less warrior of truth and justice, more child soldier against horrors that bend reality. Most live short, brutal lives. Tricked into a contract by an ancient alien hiding behind the form of a fuzzy mutant cat thing, our souls are removed and kept in gems which power our magic. I suspect that magical girl shows were created as propaganda to make humanity easier to trick. We are meguca, dread and terrible. Gaze upon our true forms, and despair.
Transform into frilly costumes, pose dramatically adorably.
The thing is that the positive things about being a meguca (a wish, healing powers, roof hopping, magical bullshit, etc.) are unambiguously positive. But the cost is the separation of the soul from the body, the responsibility of fighting witches, worrying about soul gem corruption, and the risk of death or witching out. If we tell the full truth without embellishment, then Hitomi (and Sayaka and Madoka) should realize that the positives do not outweigh the negatives, so a contract is not worth it. Even the truth about witches should be told to Madoka, Sayaka, and Hitomi. Though that will have to wait for later because at the moment Mami is at danger from that particular piece of knowledge (though Mami deserves to know as well, it's just that doing so while avoiding the potential negative consequences is
tricky).
I'd be cool with it. So long as Madoka doesn't end up learning more than she already knows. The more she understands about how terrible meguca life is, the more she'll want to wish to fix it.
I disagree. Madoka already knows enough to want to fix it. There are particular details about meguca life that she doesn't know (the average life expectancy, for instance - though I should mention that we don't know precisely what that is either), but the main things that she doesn't know about at this point are: witchification, Homura's looping, and Kriemhild Gretchen. She needs to be told these things (and soon) so that she knows that even a wish intended to fix the system could make things
worse.
[ ] Hitomi, there's something we've been meaning to tell you. Mami, Homura and I are magical girls. It's not like you see in the shows. Think less warrior of truth and justice, more child soldier against horrors that bend reality. Most live short, brutal lives.
That's a bit too overdramatic, I think. It's
true, but it's said in such a dramatic fashion that it's likely to not be taken seriously. If we say each of the individual points without embellishment, then it would have a better effect.
[] Magical girls are not like the shows you see on TV.
[] We fight witches who are reality warping horrors that kill people.
[] Normal people cannot see witches, so the fight is in secret, and nobody ever knows about the girls who fight to protect them.
[] Sometimes the witches kill the magical girls who try to stop them.
[] Girls who die to witches usually have their bodies destroyed and no one ever finds out what happened to them.
[] The life expectancy of a magical girl is generally short (probably less than a year, Mami would know better).
Though note that the actual life expectancy would probably be a third of what Mami thinks it is when you factor in girls who witchout immediately after contracting without ever meeting any other magical girls).
[ ] Tricked into a contract by an ancient alien hiding behind the form of a fuzzy mutant cat thing, our souls are removed and kept in gems which power our magic. When the magic runs out we... die.
How about:
[] Tricked into a contract by an ancient alien hiding behind the form of a fuzzy telepathic mutant cat thing, our souls are removed and kept in gems which power our magic.
[] Magic use and negative emotions cause the soul gem to accumulate grief, which in turn directly affects the happiness and sanity of the bearer.
[] If the grief fills up the gem, then the girl dies.
[] People generally use grief seeds (obtained from witches) to remove grief from their soul gems, but sometimes they have difficulty finding enough seeds to get enough cleansing.
[] We have grief control, so we can cleanse soul gems directly, but only in our immediate vicinity, and it's not a permanent solution.
