Isn't this besides the point? Hitomi's not a potential.
Any vote that explains our concern about Hitomi contracting is being dishonest.
On the contrary, we don't know that Hitomi is not a potential contractee. It's something that we ought to verify one way or the other. Checking if she can see grief marbles or if we can telepathy her are two ways that I can think of. Or possibly we could make a grief device to measure potential (a visor, perhaps)?
We want Hitomi in the loop because it feels bad to hide something from a friend. Can we mention that?
Hitomi isn't our friend yet. She's Madoka and Sayaka's friend. And her question was why we brought in
any of them into all of this craziness. We could say that it was Kyuubey's fault for bringing in Madoka and Sayaka, but they are our friends now even though we don't want them to contract. And that we saw that hiding things was making things awkward between our friends and Hitomi, so we decided to let her know so that there was no need for more hiding. I added this discussion to my vote.
I wonder if we'll be telling Madoka and Sayaka's folks at some point. Especially as Walpurgisnacht draws near. I feel as though it'll turn into a painful re-enactment of SQ, when everyone's parents were told what their daughters were involved in, and that they had to flee.
I have no problems with that happening. If Hitomi and Madoka and Sayaka leave before Walpurgisnacht arrives, then that's one less thing to worry about while we're fighting it.
Boonerunner's plan sounds decent. Might wanna skip the 'Mami dying' part, though. She doesn't know that we know about that, for starters.
I can't specifically remember her saying it, though I would have thought that she would have mentioned it by now (even if it was offscreen). And even if it does lead to letting her know about our meta-knowledge, well, we've been meaning to tell her about that for a while now, it's just that we haven't yet found the time to do so. The point is a bit stronger if we show that two wishes were in life threatening circumstances (rather than just one), but I can modify my vote to just mentioning our wish and not Mami's if people are concerned.
[x] Being "normal" isn't enough to protect people from the monsters in the world. It's better if you know:
-[x] Unexplained suicides, murders, and disappearances are often caused by reality-warping, despair-inducing monsters called witches.
-[x] Magical girls like us fight witches. We're really powerful, so it's relatively safe for us (especially when we work together), but there's always a risk of injury or even death.
-[x] Witches can only be seen by some, but they try to kill everyone.
-[x] Warn her to be wary of sudden unexpected surges of depression - it probably means a witch is near - call us immediately.
-[x] Kyuubey talked to Madoka and Sayaka and tried to get them to make a contract. They chose not to, and that's good, but along the way they became our friends. And we've seen that it's awkward for them to be keeping secrets from you, so we wanted to let you know.
-[x] Try to measure Hitomi's potential with our senses. Also check if Hitomi can see a grief marble and if we can telepathically contact her.
--[x] If Hitomi doesn't appear to have potential: she should be grateful, she's probably not at risk from Kyuubey contracting her.
--[x] If she does have potential: watch out for Kyuubey.
[x] Kyuubey's offer is one wish in return for becoming a magical girl and fighting witches. It's usually not worth the cost - most who make a wish end up regretting it. In our case and in Mami's case, we were dying when we made a contract, so it was worth it - but Kyuubey still hid the details from us.
-[x] One detail that he hid before the contract: magic usage or negative emotions cause grief to accumulate in the soul gem, which (if not cleansed) leads to emotional instability and eventually death. Though our particular powers makes this a non-issue in our immediate vicinity.
-[x] But magic can also be very beneficial: healing for example.
--[x] Offer to heal Hitomi's broken arm.
--[x] Mention the possibility of healing Kyousuke.
Edit: added an explicit check to use our senses to try to measure Hitomi's potential.
