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[X] Calm
down. Hold Mami's hand for mutual comfort. Ask Mami to please release Hitomi. You all still need to talk, there's much Sayaka and Hitomi need to know.
-[X] Inform Hitomi
there are things she needs to know before judging your actions. The realities Magical Girls face are different, harsher than she knows.
-[X] Sayaka,
you have a right to be angry- about things and about this situation, but please don't break any more of Mami's furniture. As a magical girl, you're strong enough to hurt someone or worse, by accident.
[X] Tell Hitomi that you need to ask her a question before you can answer her, and note that as strange as it may seem to her you're really asking in good faith. Then, ask Hitomi what she meant.
-[X] If she brings up Justice proceedings, explain all the ways those can't apply to Magical Girls; the way Kyuubey isolates us from institutions in general and forces Magical Girls to fight each other so survive; that Justice is what we make of it, and by far most strong Magical Girls aren't nearly as nice as Mami who makes the effort and sacrifice to help others. If necessary, mention how we stopped a brewing war in Sendai and helped save as many people as we could, and
still at least three people died and with Kyuubey's 'gas explosion' cover up, nobody will ever know why.
The only judgement for a magical girl right now is what they impose on each other, and yes, that may be wrong but there is no alternative. Yet.
-[X] If she thinks we took Oriko's arm in exchange for Hitomi's, show disappointment that she'd think we'd be that
vindictive and cruel. Everyone but Homura broke or lost a limb that day; Oriko lost both her arm
and her head; you spent hours putting her back together. You healed her enough so she could verbally surrender and you could agree on some way to restrain Oriko and Kirika without having to kill them or kick them out of the city to keep burning houses.
--[X] You weren't out for
revenge, you just wanted to stop them before anybody else got hurt, or worse.
Not completely healing Oriko's arm at the time was a concession so it wasn't just their word that they'd stay under house arrest. Oriko's slowly regenerating her arm on her own, and they haven't tried anything yet, so she should have it back soon.
[X] If they're upset, admit again we made a mistake; we shouldn't have kept this from them. You apologize. You're trying to correct that mistake.
No. of Votes: 23
[x] She nearly took my leg off with a landmine. I've got at least as much right to pass judgment as either of you.
[x] And no, I didn't deliberately take Oriko's arm as some sort of retribution. I would never do such thing. Heck,
I didn't take her arm off at all. This was
combat. Real battles between magical girls aren't like anime, where they throw glitter at each other and everybody comes out okay. They're brutal, and people get hurt very badly.
All of us took injuries that would have hospitalized a normal person. During the fighting Oriko got hit by fire from a medium machine gun. A normal person would have died, but a magical girl can survive anything as long as their Soul Gem is intact. Homura and I spent hours just reattaching her
head so we could talk to her.
[x] Or maybe you think that getting shot to pieces and put under house arrest wasn't punishment enough? Well, what would you suggest? Turn her over to the police? Human authorities can't stop a magical girl, and human prisons can't hold them. And that's assuming that the police could even remember that she existed, or have you forgotten about Kyubey's habit of erasing people's memories to keep magic a secret? The only justice for magical girls is what we make for ourselves. So what would you have done? Do you think I should have executed them? Could
you have done such a thing? Because I don't think I could. You don't know how hard I had to argue for sparing their lives.
[x] Maybe I should have told you sooner. It's not exactly an easy thing to bring up! I was worried you might do something rash. Which, if you'll note the
shards of glass around your feet, turned out to be the case. Maybe I didn't have to right to make that decision, but I wanted to protect you. I didn't want you to end up
selling your soul to Kyubey for revenge. I wouldn't want
any girl to ever have to subject herself to this life, to being a
child soldier for Kyubey, if I could prevent it. God knows I never would have if I hadn't already been dying! But it didn't do any good. You wound up making the contract anyway. It would have been a lot easier to keep this secret forever, but I'm telling you now because I thought you deserved to know the truth. Maybe I was wrong, and if you want to hate me for that, that's your right, but all I ever wanted was to protect the people I care about. All of you.
No. of Votes: 6
[X] to Mami: "Thanks, Mami."
-[X] to Sayaka: "Please give me a moment, in order to hear Hitomi out."
--[X] to Hitomi: "Please explain what you mean
by 'pronounce judgement'. I believe
we're misunderstanding each other. I'm happy to address all your concerns once I understand them. If you want, I am even willing to show you what happened, though you might not want to see it."
---[X] After Hitomi explains, break back to voting.
No. of Votes: 5
[X] *heavy sigh* "You want to know why I made the choices I did? Why I spared Oriko? Just...sit down for a sec, you two. Nothing I say will get the point across...so I'll have to show you. This'll take a minute, and I'll probably be zoned out while doing it, but it should make things clearer."
[X] Create some Grief VR Goggles (Witchiness is fine) pre-loaded with our memories of the fire, getting blown up, the important parts of the Time Stop Hunt, the battle with OriKiri, qnd the aftermath of the battle. Time Lapse the Healing scenes. Edit the "footage" to skip anything we need to keep secret (the Witchbomb, anything Homura discussed with us in confidance, etcetera). Include audio. No pain, of course.
-[x] Give them to Sayaka and Hitomi.
-[x] "Here. If you want to understand, then watching this will help. We'll talk more after."
No. of Votes: 3
[x] Who does?
[x] Let her get one or two sentences out, then break for vote.
No. of Votes: 2
[X] Then who does, Hitomi? Who
can?
No. of Votes: 2
[X] Reassure Mami.
[X] Clearly clarify the extent of your injuries while Hunting Oriko.
[X] Gently explain to Hitomi that slapping a Magical Girl could get her killed.
[X] Tell Sayaka that you are afraid. And you make mistakes out of attempts to protect your family. Them.
[X] Ask Hitomi what she meant.
-[X] If she brings up Justice proceedings, explain all the ways those can't apply to Magical Girls; the way Kyuubey isolates us from institutions in general and forces Magical Girls to fight each other so survive; that Justice is what we make of it, and by far most strong Magical Girls aren't nearly as nice as Mami who makes the effort and sacrifice to help others. If necessary, mention how we stopped a brewing war in Sendai and helped save as many people as we could, and
still at least three people died and with Kyuubey's 'gas explosion' cover up, nobody will ever know why.
-[X] If she thinks we took Oriko's arm in exchange for Hitomi's, show disappointed that'd she'd think you'd be so petty. Everyone but Homura broke or lost a limb that day; Oriko lost both her arm
and her head; you spent hours putting her back together. You only healed her enough so she could verbally surrender and you could agree on some way to restrain Oriko and Kirika without having to kill them or kick them out of the city to keep burning houses.
--[X] You weren't out for
revenge, you just wanted to stop them before anybody else got hurt, or worse. Keeping Oriko and Kirika injured was a concession so it wasn't just their word that they'd stay under house arrest. Oriko's slowly regenerating her arm on her own, and they haven't tried anything yet, so she should have it back soon.
No. of Votes: 2
[X] What do you mean Hitomi?
No. of Votes: 2
[x] God
Dammit
[x] "What
WOULD give me the right Hitomi? Would losing a lower torso outside of Sayaka's House? Would the perpetual terror that everyone is going to
just die when I'm not around work?
[x] A GODDAM WEEK is how long girls last on average.
[x] I could have
killed them and we would not be having this conversation. I was
inches from doing it, and I decided that it was a hasty and irrational decision that needed to be
weighed.
[x] Sorry if I make fucking mistakes in my desperate, f
umbling, attempts to keep my family safe.
No. of Votes: 1
[X] Calm down.
-[X] Ask everybody to please sit down. You're
trying to make things work right. If they let you, you want to explain what happened, then if they want, they can meet Oriko themselves.
-[X] Mami can let go of Hitomi, and you try to pick up all the glass shards and put them away quickly for now.
[X] The truth of the Magical World is that
nobody has the right to pass judgement on anyone. Rather, there's nobody who
can pass judgement on Magical Girls besides other, stronger Magical Girls; which usually means one girl kicking another one out of their city... or killing her. It almost came down to that.
-[X] It's something you're trying to change: You thought they deserved to know, and have a voice in this.
[X] Try to explain your motivation: You wanted to contain the situation without anybody
dying. It was
hard. You had to spend several hours putting Oriko's head back in place after Homura managed to stop her; and that was
after Mami and Homura spent more than an hour regrowing all the flesh in your leg.
-[X] At the end, Oriko had
reasons for what she did.
Terrible reasons, she herself has admitted that she was wrong, but at the end nobody
died that day, and not entirely because or
our actions. You think Oriko can do
better, and needs to assume responsibility for her actions.
No. of Votes: 1
[X] Neko Miko Kaizuki
No. of Votes: 1
[X] Whatever Sereg doesn't vote for.
No. of Votes: 1
[x]Bluntly ask Sayaka and Hitomi what either of them would have done about/in response to Oriko's actions if either of them had been in your shoes.
-[x]And if/when they persist in viewing the situation through a "normal person" lens, point out how the existence of Magical Girls changes the game so much that that perspective doesn't apply anymore.
-[x]When someone inevitably says "you should have told us sooner", calmly respond that the group has already gone over that.
No. of Votes: 1
Total No. of Voters: 50
