Slight vote edit. Making it a bit more explicit that we don't think Oriko was right to do what she did.
Do you really think this is necessary? Is there anyone, even Homura, who could possibly think that Sabrina is going to suddenly do a 180 and decide that Oriko had the right idea all along at this point? Homura is paranoid about Oriko, but she's not an idiot.
 
Just to make this perfectly clear - we do all agree that regardless of our opinions of Oriko as a person, her 'master plan' of burning down Sayaka's house was entirely unnecessary and caused a huge amount of pointless damage to innocent people, right?
 
You'd be surprised what paranoia does to rational though. This is not a matter of intelligence.
This isn't even about what Homura would think; this is about adding unnecessary verbage to an already long vote. There is zero chance that @Firnagzen is going to have Sabrina suddenly start turning around and supporting Oriko in the space of this vote when it's clear that nobody here wants that, so the vote addendum is just a waste of time, and unnecessarily splits @Redshirt Army's own voters (not everyone continues to pay attention to the thread days after an update; hell I only clicked on this thread by accident myself)
 
This isn't even about what Homura would think; this is about adding unnecessary verbage to an already long vote. There is zero chance that @Firnagzen is going to have Sabrina suddenly start turning around and supporting Oriko in the space of this vote when it's clear that nobody here wants that, so the vote addendum is just a waste of time, and unnecessarily splits @Redshirt Army's own voters (not everyone continues to pay attention to the thread days after an update; hell I only clicked on this thread by accident myself)

Very few people actually vote for a plan directly instead of for a plan creator. In fact, off the top of my head, everyone who voted for me this vote voted {X} Redshirt Army, and thus do not need to re-vote for the new vote to take effect.
 
There is zero chance that @Firnagzen is going to have Sabrina suddenly start turning around and supporting Oriko in the space of this vote when it's clear that nobody here wants that
Not the point, at all. We are almost totally in agreement (I think) that arson was not a good thing to do in this particular instance, but the idea is to say so to homura, not firnagzen.
 
I tend to think that Kyubey is basically a Chinese Room Machiavelli, using trial and error and brute force rather than actual understanding. Take away his playbook or go too far off script and he falls back to using arguments and approaches that would work on an incubator, and are hilariously ineffective on a teenage girl.
This.

He's an alien with a psychology textbook or three and seven episodes of bad dating advice talkshows.

And also lots of practical experience.
 
Do you really think this is necessary? Is there anyone, even Homura, who could possibly think that Sabrina is going to suddenly do a 180 and decide that Oriko had the right idea all along at this point? Homura is paranoid about Oriko, but she's not an idiot.
Please keep in mind that Homura has consistently been worried that we're too soft and sympathetic when it comes to Oriko. It's less a question of her thinking we've gone 180 degrees, and more that we've gone maybe 25 degrees, to continue the metaphor.
 
Please keep in mind that Homura has consistently been worried that we're too soft and sympathetic when it comes to Oriko. It's less a question of her thinking we've gone 180 degrees, and more that we've gone maybe 25 degrees, to continue the metaphor.
[Q] Go 360 degrees.
-[Q] Make that 720.
--[Q] More degrees!
---[Q] More!
----[Q] HUE HUE HUE!
-----[Q] Anyway, Homura, what were we talking about?
------[Q] Homura?
 

I can now only imagine Sabrina singing this while Walpurgisnacht follows her in the background, spinning together and throwing lights like a gigantic, witchy, demented disco ball.

Homura grabs her head, not believing Sabrina is dancing with Walpurgisnacht.

Mami is half terrified, half glad Sabrina seems to be handling things without the city being destroyed.

Sabrina tries to downplay it:

"Man, Walpurgis is such a colourful gal, isn't she?"

"HUE HUE HUE!"

Sayaka facepalms.

Oriko groans.

Kirika palms Sabrina's face.
 
Sabrina: Oriko - Arson is bad.
Sayaka: YEAH!!! ....
Sabrina: You need to make amends with Sayaka.
Sayaka: Let me burn your house down!
Sabarina: Sayaka you ca-
Oriko:.... sure.
Sayaka: >___>
Sabrina: >___>
Homura: *summons accelerant and matches* Or would you pefer a gas leak to allow for an 'accidental' explosion?
 
Sabrina: Oriko - Arson is bad.
Sayaka: YEAH!!! ....
Sabrina: You need to make amends with Sayaka.
Sayaka: Let me burn your house down!
Sabarina: Sayaka you ca-
Oriko:.... sure.
Sayaka: >___>
Sabrina: >___>
Homura: *summons accelerant and matches* Or would you pefer a gas leak to allow for an 'accidental' explosion?
Sabrina whispers to Kirika's ear.

"Ohhh... Oriko, can I cut the roses now?"

"... Yeah, cut them. Make a nice pile out of them. A nice flammable pile."

Kirika proceeds to do just that, all the while humming happily to herself.

"So they're... helping us burn their home," Sayaka scratches her head.

Homura nods. "... I've been waiting for this moment," she admits.

Sabrina shivers suddenly, but after a moment she looks around at the coordinating meguca and smiles.

"Well... this is gonna be therapeutic."
 
Sabrina whispers to Kirika's ear.

"Ohhh... Oriko, can I cut the roses now?"

"... Yeah, cut them. Make a nice pile out of them. A nice flammable pile."

Kirika proceeds to do just that, all the while humming happily to herself.

"So they're... helping us burn their home," Sayaka scratches her head.

Homura nods. "... I've been waiting for this moment," she admits.

Sabrina shivers suddenly, but after a moment she looks around at the coordinating meguca and smiles.

"Well... this is gonna be therapeutic."

And then Sabrina plays music

Mami:... are you making the water heater into a rocket?
Sabrina: YES!
 
And then Sabrina plays music

Mami:... are you making the water heater into a rocket?
Sabrina: YES!
"Well..." says Oriko, her face cast in the light of the roaring inferno consuming her mansion, "I guess we're moving to the warehouse, after all."

"Warehouse?" asks Mami with a frown.

"Not Warehouse-kun!" pipes in Sabrina, leaning closer to the fire to let her marshmallow cook nicely, "just a random, no-name, less reputable warehouse."

"Hmfff!" interjects Kirika- her mouth full.

Oriko sighs, tapping her girlfriend on the nose -the black haired girl flinches, and turns to look at the Seer with puppy eyes.

"Chew, swallow, then talk," instructs Oriko, patiently.

Kirika hurries up to chew her food, having biten too many marshmallows at once. After a minute, she forcibly swallows her food, patting her chest to help it go down, and turns to Sabrina.

"Our warehouse can kick your warehouse's ass any day," she states defiantly.

"Please..." drawls Sabrina, rolling her eyes, "your warehouse doesn't even have a name-"

"It does!" interrupts Kirika, "it's called-"

"Kirika!" Oriko cuts her off.

Orange eyes widen, turning to meet Oriko's green ones.

Kirika gulps, "I mean, it's private..." she trails off.

Both their eyes stay affixed to each others.

Kirika's marshmallow catches fire.

Sabrina squints at the couple, "hey," she elbows Mami, "is it just the fire, or is Oriko blushing like mad?"

"What..." Mami's cheeks definitely turn red, "do they call their... warehouse?"

"Can't be as cool as Warehouse-kun," huffs Sabrina, biting on a marshmallow.

"Well, from how they're still lost on each others eyes..." Sayaka picks up some marshmallows for herself, taking seat besides Sabrina, dangerously close to the burning mansion, "it seems romantic? Like, I don't wanna think what they're gonna do in there," she shivers.

"Eh, it was well furnished," Sabrina shrugs, "but nothing weird besides the single bed." Her eyes widen slightly, "oh, we took most of the things back here, so it's not furnished anym-"

"ONE BED?" exclaims Sayaka.

Oriko and Kirika snap out of their shared trance and turn to look at the scandalized blue haired girl.

"Y-yeah..." affirms Kirika in a dreamy voice, not noticing the stick she's holding in hand has well caught on fire by now, "j-just one..." she trails off, her eyes meeting Oriko's once again.

Oriko sighs dreamily, drapping an arm around Kirika and pulling her close. Kirika smiles, leaning against the taller girl, letting her head rest against her shoulder, and together they turn to watch the Mikuni mansion burn.

"Auch!" cries Kirika suddenly, dropping her burning stick.

Sayaka snickers.

Oriko ignores her, picking up a new skewer, placing a few marshmallows on it, and turning to offer half the handle to Kirika, who quickly grabs onto it together with Oriko.

"You know," says an annoyed Sayaka, watching the happy couple happily roast their candy, "I've kind of got the impression this isn't much of a punishment for them."

Sabrina shrugs, "marshmallows' good."

Mami looks at her own skewer, then at the black and white couple, then back at her skewer.

Mami drops her skewer and leans closer to Sabrina, staring up at her.

A full 15 seconds later, Sabrina blushes, and slowly turns to show her own skewer to Mami.

Mami's hand quickly comes up to grab at it, her fingers interlacing with Sabrina's.

Sayaka stares at the scene, now there being two 'couples' sitting together by the... house fire.

"The hell..." she mutters, "there's something definitely wrong here, right?" she asks Homura, who's sitting beside her.

Homura, being the only one to not have picked up a marshmallow stick, turns to look at Sayaka.

Sayaka looks back at the happy couples, then at her skewer in her hand, then back at Homura.

Homura and Sayaka slide and lean away from each other in silent agreement.
 
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