If she didn't have precog and we'd confirmed she was a threat to us and the cast that wasn't going to reconsider, I'd have voted to give her the full Murderface Experience. Grief shredder on her body, grief her gem out until she can't fight back, then smash the gem. Do not pass go, do not let her cleanse, and hope Kyubey takes care of the witnesses/word doesn't get back to Mami before we can spin it.
Since when was Mami a glass cannon?
Also, we're not a high-powered meleecentric so much as a newbie with a decent weapon and some nasty potential. That's still just that at this stage- potential. We haven't even learned to properly apply anything yet beyond grief shrapnel, wings when we're inside a barrier, and holding the hammer the right way around.
Pretty sure the high-powered melee is Kirika.
Because she thinks it looks cool. Kirika was a jaded, misanthropic teenager when Kyubey came calling; of course she'd pick the black coat and the Wolverine scythe claws and All the Belts and the eye patch. It's the same reason Sayaka has a cape.
Sorry, meant Oriko.
We know her precog has limitations. If 'struggles to deal with someone who you've never seen before spontaneously deciding to swing a hammer at your face' isn't one of them, we need to find out as soon as possible.
When it's a very probable future given that you're ambushing them out of the blue, if she didn't have something planned to counter it/her combat precog wouldn't shut it down then she's more of a lemming than Madoka and with less of a survival instinct/reason to live.
Unless you're SQ!Sayaka protecting Kyouko. Then yes, repeatedly and often.I doubt "a reason to live" would seriously turn out to be "take a hammer to the face".
If Oriko is reading this, we should let her know that Kirika's wish was to brainwash herself into Oriko's perfect girlfriend.
The assumption being that Oriko's precog works the same here as in the manga, rather than being a different kind of precog or access to the GM's notes or something.
It's never precisely stated, but anything more than a few minutes into the future seemed to be beyond her control aside from brief, occasional visions. But I don't think that's the case here; GM remarks suggest that this version of her might be stronger than canon, and the fact that she was confident enough to confront us alone corroborates with that.
Oh, we are so telling her about Kirika's self-induced lobotomies if we need to shut her down for a while- but on its own it won't do that much except traumatize her.
By which I mean she'll likely go full griefspiral while still doing her crazy plan.
Makes her angry at us. Erodes her judgment. Potentially helpful, if we time it right.By which I mean she'll likely go full griefspiral while still doing her crazy plan.
It'll solve the Hitomi problem for sure.
She plans to keep the quest running.
