I really cannot follow your logic in the last two paragraphs here.
She followed her friend at least one hunt, and stayed friends the remainder of the year.
Her friend operated solo, apparently without having trouble at school or ever running low on grief seeds. Haruka talks like witches were the sole threat that her friend faced and barely remembers what they were called. Witches. Forgot the name of. I assume you've watched Buffy. Try to imagine Xander forgetting that Buffy slayed vampires. She wasn't even deep enough for her friend to say things like "gonna fight a witch brb" that would have reinforced her memory.
I do not see where did Haruka forget what Witches were called. It's been a long time, the memories are fuzzy simply due to that, because she and Ritsuko were only friends for less than a year, and Haruka seems to have taken Hitomi's route in being disillusioned about not being one of the chosen ones.
Mami is aware that a gem turning dark is fatal. You're protecting her from information that she already knows.
This is still an incredibly awkward and uncomfortable way to open. Let's not make any declarations about Ritsuko's status until we have some actual information.
If we're bringing Haruka on board as an ally, then we're going to be telling her at least some of the bad things about megucaing. She's going to end up knowing at least as much as Hitomi knows. At which point, she's going to realize that she should have been worrying.
We hate him as much as a sapient bomb in someone elses house, its the fact that the bomb is very willing to run over and blow up to further its goals whether we want to or not that worry us.
[x] Mami: Safe, happy....Yeah, that looks like a pretty good vote. Go for it.
- Mami: Safe, happy.
- Haruka: Informed. Recruited.
- Hitomi: Not pissed off.
- Kyubey: Insulted.
Turns out she lost an arm and now has a transforming hand cannon. Plot twist!
One point: Kyubey telling Tsuchiya that Haruka is still alive means nothing. Asking him to convey that she still remembers Tsuchiya fondly and would love to get back in touch with her would actually mean something.
This is dumb. It's not relying on Kyubey, it's utilizing him. If he refuses to answer, that's fine. Then we ask Nadia. But asking Kyubey is both more reliable and faster.
I think you're making the mistake of thinking that Kyubey is sadistic or intentionally cruel. At worst, Kyubey is uncaring.
That makes no sense and is all kinds of backwards. Asking Kyubey (via telepathy) is faster and easier, and much more likely to give us a definitive answer. If he doesn't give us a definitive answer, then we can ask Nadia.
I don't mean once the question comes up. I mean warning Mami that the conversation may enter infohazard territory before the question comes up.
"Our soul gems are, in a very real sense, our souls. If they were to run out of magic, we would lose the will to live, and cease to exist."
I'm not so sure about this. We can't tell Madoka because it's wish bait. We can't tell Hitomi because she'd tell Madoka. We can't tell any of the meguca obviously. Homu already knows. Haruka? I think that she'd be able to handle it about as well as we could. And the upsides are significant: It means that she's not liable to accidentally discover it in uncontrolled circumstances where someone else might figure it out with her, and if someone does get witchbombed accidentally she'd be much more prepared to render assistance.
I think that the context there may've been a bit hard to figure out; I am arguing entirely for "just explain it up front". In this case, our explanation will be easier and Haruka will spend less time worried and be less worried overall (and therefore be a more effective learner) if we jump straight into the explanation instead of inappropriately reassuring her before we start. Compare the following two sequences of events:
