You're making things up. Yell at her? In the vote that specifically says to deliver in gentle, concerned tone?
Oh, so Ono is going to keep repeating the same thing when it fails to get us to leave, but I'm the one who treats the cast like robots?
If we want to show concern for her, genuine concern, then we should mention the thing we're actually concerned about.
The rest, whatever it is, wish, family life, school, these are all areas that Ono is freaking out about right now. She's freaking out about them because they're on display for us. You want to poke that by implying that we can somehow make any of that better?
That's more likely to get her angry at us and throw us the fuck out than anything else we can say.
It's a fundamental misunderstanding of both her character and the situation that we can tackle any of her personal issues immediately, or that we should suggest that we can tackle her personal issues while she is freaking out about her personal issues.
I think we can help her with whatever is wrong in her life too, but it's completely incorrect to bring it up now.
There's meddling and there's meddling when we are specifically unwanted. We've done a lot of the former, which you give as examples, and avoided doing a lot of the latter, unless lives are at risk, like for example, Sendai. Breaking into Ono's house because we think she's at risk to die makes sense. Breaking into Ono's house because we think she's in the dumps, has problems at school, needs to be propped up by our loving support or whatever? We wouldn't do that if her life wasn't also at risk. We'd wait until an appropriate time when we could intervene without her rejecting our assistance.
That's the point. The reason we're here against her will is that her life is at risk.
You can say 'I'm going to brutally murder your family and wear your skin like a coat while dancing around covered in blood.' in a nice, gentle tone, but it won't sound any better for it. Yell may not have been an accurate description, but that doesn't make the contents of the vote any better for it.
Yes, because she's angry, confused, possibly magically mindwhammied and under a compulsion thanks to her wish...and we're
not doing anything to change a bit of that other than stand there like a dummy at the start of your vote. That is not helping. That is literally doing nothing at all and expecting a positive result to come out of it. Spoilers:
it won't.
We give a shit about her family issues because her family issues are going to help get her killed and make our job of a happy, non-Witch Ono team member that much harder. That, and fixing stuff we don't need to is kind of
what we do. We have plenty of
reason to care about her issues, and it's bizarre that you keep trying to insist we don't.
We should start off with the friendly, nonspecific approach, then move on to the actual problems, including said horrible truth, preferably delivered with slightly more tact. Not just jump off the deep end with something that'll probably break her further...which would be idiotic in any case but is downright inexplicable when she's emotionally fragile and mindwhammied to the point where she's a GLASS witch. As in handle with care, may break if trauma is dropped on her.
Incorrect. Sabrina can and has meddled in personal affairs if she thinks she can make them better...and I don't think I'm the one misunderstanding the character in the slightest. Especially since her personal issues are the whole problem here from her POV. Your objection, such as it is, would be why we'd start by calming her down and not, say, dropping further, mostly unrelated trauma on her like a ton of bricks.
We've meddled when our assistance hasn't been asked for because we felt we can make a difference- lives or otherwise. None of the people involved in the Kyousuke incident were happy with our attempts to redirect them at the start, for example. Kyouko wanted nothing to do with us, and she'd probably have gone right on living if we'd left her alone after that. It's an established trait at this point.
This is definitely one of those cases since leaving whatever her problems are out of this is essentially ignoring the probable cause of her wish, a large portion of why she's the way she is, and probably one of the major causes of grief for her.
No matter what you think about Ono, that isn't smart if our goal here is to actually get a happy ending and an Ono we can leave alone without snapping.
EDIT: Okay, so I'm not a fan of the specific wording of the second half...but the Sereg vote seems like its onto something. Anyone got thoughts on it?
Also, editing my vote from Mura's slightly since that 'dying' line keeps bothering me.
[X] *shake head* "I can't."
[X] "You're
in danger and you don't even know it."
[X] "Megane,
we wouldn't have broken in like this if the danger wasn't real."
-[x] Take one of your Grief Seeds (Andrea). Place it on a desk or bedside.
[X] Stand with Mami and Homura.
[X] "Please calm down. No one here wants to hurt you."
