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TheEyes said:
I don't think that's going to work. I mean, think back to your middle school: what would happen if some random kid showed up to one of your classes, someone no one recognized? That is, in fact, technically trespassing, and we could very well be detained, especially when it comes out that we have no ID.

No, if Mami doesn't want to leave our side, we're just going to have to get her to call out sick for the rest of the day. Assuming even that's possible; I mean, you can do it in an American school, but can you do that in Japan?
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Mami is an orphan who is known to be an orphan. That simply will not work. Besides that, she would have gone to the nurse's office (and then would either be kept there until the end of the day or sent to the hospital if it was that bad, because again, orphan -- you don't send a child home when they're sick, when you know there wouldn't be anyone to care for them.)
 
Mmhmm. While playing hooky in Japan is serious buisness, at this point, I'm entirely fine with Mami taking some time to de-stress and both hang out with us and catch back up with Kazumi. It's not like she's in a state of mind where she'd get all that much education out of attending class today anyway, and if "emotional reasons" aren't enough for the admin to excuse her, then fuck them.

My questions are:
• If Mami skips, would the school bother her known lunch associates about her location?
• Should we reschedule the Sayaka-Kyouko training session anyway, or will several hours to cool down, and spending the intervening time with Kazumi and co, be enough to let her handle it?
 
Redshirt Army said:
Mmhmm. While playing hooky in Japan is serious buisness, at this point, I'm entirely fine with Mami taking some time to de-stress and both hang out with us and catch back up with Kazumi. It's not like she's in a state of mind where she'd get all that much education out of attending class today anyway, and if "emotional reasons" aren't enough for the admin to excuse her, then fuck them.

My questions are:
• If Mami skips, would the school bother her known lunch associates about her location?
• Should we reschedule the Sayaka-Kyouko training session anyway, or will several hours to cool down, and spending the intervening time with Kazumi and co, be enough to let her handle it?
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Rescheduling should only happen if it's requested.
 
I'd rather not be a bad influence but we did just finish stating that we don't want to control or stifle her...
 
I'm beginning to think it might even be a very good thing for Mami to skip. Like Godwinson says, she's terrified that she'll do something wrong and push us away. So she's doing whatever she can to appear as prim and proper as possible. If she skips school that's a major dent in her "perfect senpai" persona, and if we still accept her after that it might give her more confidence to loosen up in the future.

Only thing that maybe needs to happen is to somehow notify the school she's gone. Just a note or something. Else they might do something silly like organize a large scale search for one of their best students, and we end up with police ransacking Mami's house.
 
Mami already decided she wants to skip school to spend time with Sabrina, Kazusa and co. While that isn't great, it seems to be what she needs right now. Mami made her decision so all we should do is support her and maybe figure out a way to deal with the consequences.
 
Well, an option B that we just discovered is that, we can ask for one of her ribbons and run our magic through it like we did earlier... this time with consent. That way she can get the same feeling as us always being with her, without having to force her to ditch school.

Not as good as being by her side in person, but still better than normal.
 
BlackoutSampler said:
Well, an option B that we just discovered is that, we can ask for one of her ribbons and run our magic through it like we did earlier... this time with consent. That way she can get the same feeling as us always being with her, without having to force her to ditch school.

Not as good as being by her side in person, but still better than normal.
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How do you propose we talk Mami out of skipping without reducing her to an emotional wreck? This is one of the first big decisions she's made out of her own initiative in a long time.
 
No time like the present to perfect ribbon clones.

Tell Mami we believe in her, and have her send a full-sized ribbon clone in to attend class in her place while she hangs out with Sabrina.
 
Godwinson said:
Mami is an orphan who is known to be an orphan. That simply will not work. Besides that, she would have gone to the nurse's office (and then would either be kept there until the end of the day or sent to the hospital if it was that bad, because again, orphan -- you don't send a child home when they're sick, when you know there wouldn't be anyone to care for them.)
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Yeah, that's why I'm asking. I mean, in the US the only way you'd be allowed to live alone as Mami does as a 14 year old is if she were an emancipated minor; otherwise she'd be in foster care. If she is emancipated she can sign herself out of school with no issues, since she can act as her own parent; hell, I remember once my parents signing me out of school one afternoon, excused absence and all, to attend a birthday party, so it's not that hard. I have no idea what the situation is like in Japan, though.
 
Just let her skip class people. Mami will handle the logistics.

We just need to [X] Trust in Mami.

And [X] Hug her with the force of a thousand suns, but that goes without saying.

Mami's the single most important person in our life. Treat her like it.
 
In a completely different matter from the current thread of discussion... we can probably make a Grief Vapour Bomb! Does that also mean we can also make a Grief Catalyst Missile, and detonate a Witch and/or Barrier?
 
Maybe Mami could say she's sick, go to the nurse's office, then slip out through the window? If anime is to be believed, nobody pays any attention to the kids in the nurse's office anyway.

Or we could just princess-carry her out through the front gate and dare anyone to try and stop us. :D

One possible option:
[ ] Kiss Mami on the forehead.
[ ] Tell her that if that is what she wants, then we're behind her 100%
[ ] Provide whatever assistance is necessary to get her out of the school.
[ ] Keep her from having to make this choice in the future by having a science session where we channel griefbending through ribbons to help Mami create a full-sized copy of herself so that in the future she can attend school and be with Sabrina at the same time.
 
[Q] Trust Mami
[Q] Hug Mami
-[Q] Hard
--[Q] Hug Mami until her spine turns to dust and we merge into some sort of horrible Chimera
---[Q] A horrible Chimera of Love
[Q] Ai, yo.
 
Mother fucker, I thought we had actually made enough progress that this wasn't going to happen after she didn't say anything about it this morning or last night. God, this is arguably worse, although I think in reality it's not as bad.

The obvious initial answer is "Mami, if you want to take one afternoon off to spend it with a friend you thought you'd never see again, nobody is going to mind. Not in the long term."

I'm of a mind to leave it at that for now, and let the hard talk lie until + unless this happens again. Then we have a problem.
 
Of course Mami's skipping school now. She just said she wants to skip school; we're not gonna go against that. We're the one who even made her realize skipping school was an available option back after the timestop hunt.

So yes, it's out fault Mami's turning into a delinquent. :V

The only problem with this is that we can't buy Mami a dress in secret now. If that matters. ;)
 
In conclusion,

"We interrupt your scheduled non-Mami time to bring in some Mamihugs."

I foresee jokes about being delinquents together at some point in the close-ish future.

Firnagzen said:
"That looks amazing, Miss Kazusa," Mami says softly,
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Damn it, Mami. It's Kazumi.

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"Hah, see!" Sayaka crows.
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Is Sayaka Feathers?! :o


[X] Of course she can come. Mami is more important than school, than anything.
-[?] Remind Mami she can call Kazumi Kazumi. You know she wants to be friends.
-[X] Extra tight hugs.

[X] Rejoin with the Pleiades.
-[X] Tour and go shopping. Buy Mami a dress. You wanted it to be a surprise, but now you get to see Mami try a bunch of beautiful dresses!
--[X] If collateral shopping happens, so be it.

[X] Telepathy Sayaka about the sparring sessions. Tell her the tentative schedule you picked, but let her decide how the training schedule's gonna be if she doesn't like it.
 
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Mami's skipping school and I literally don't care about the consequences. She has a PERFECT attendance and is in such good standing with her classmates and teachers that she can probably give any excuse and roll this off as long as it doesn't become a habit.

Additionally, in Japan if you're a sick, emancipated orphan, you can sign yourself out to go home even if the nurse would really rather you didn't. If it's not bad enough to call an ambulance, they can't detain you. I mean, technically Mami would be allowed to skip as much school as she needs to for a job if she had one, due to her emancipated status, save for the fact that she is very well-off from inheritance.

So my response is "Sure, once in a while won't hurt." Just remember to have her tell the office she's leaving for the day instead of vanishing at lunch time.

MrCogmor said:
You don't have to be sadistic to be a serial killer you just have to commit a series of murders.
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No. To be a serial killer actually does require some form of emotional gratification from the act, it's part of the legal classification. Otherwise we call them a mass murderer or a repeat killer; a serial killer is called such because they have a serial compulsion to kill for entirely internal psychiatric reasons.

Homura doesn't fit. She doesn't even have the body count; Murderface jokes aside she's only canonically ever killed two people straight out: Madoka, in a mercy-kill in timeline 3 (which utterly broke her), and that one time she had to kill Oriko because she fucking attacked Madoka in her classroom.

There's been times she's been PREPARED to kill, but she doesn't enjoy it, doesn't usually do it because she usually has a better option, and whenever she does kill it's always paired with absolutely severe, extreme emotional trauma that feeds into actual PTSD over having to do these things, so much so that it destroys her self-image and self-worth and she calls herself a monster who doesn't deserve a reward for her hard work.

Homura is absolutely not a serial killer and I'm absolutely disgusted with how casually you throw that label around.
 
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