The last time we planned to potentialbomb Homura, up to and including putting it in votes, we got a sternly worded QM warning instead of an update.
I frankly still have no fucking clue how we're supposed to "defuse" QB from telling Homura the potentialbomb like Oriko asked us to if doing it ourselves isn't the answer, but that's the current situation.
Basically this, yeah.
Could we maybe deal with the present several sensitive issues before we open a can of worms we were QM-warned about? And maybe not open that can of worms
immediately after a stressful conversation? I don't think anyone is suggesting to vote it up now, but if we get into this talk on the thread, then Sabrina gets it into her head, and it could get put on the docket a lot sooner than I think might be wise, or even polite. That's not to say I'm saying "Don't discuss", just, maybe can we all agree that this isn't a near-term option we're looking at?
Actually. Interesting thing. We've got a lot of "when's the best moment to talk about things" going on with literally everyone, right? Well, and this is just personal experience talking, but having dealt with "I have something I need to talk to you about, but it'll probably really upset you, even if it needs to happen" before, I got a fairly positive response when I, in fact, explicitly asked something to the effect of "Okay, sometimes I need to talk some serious topics, and sometimes I'm pretty sure they'll be really stressful and upsetting. Like this last conversation, in fact. It made your day a lot worse, and I can see it brought down your mood a lot, and any positive feelings you'd been having previously. I don't have anything to talk about at this precise moment
(as in, ask this well before we actually plan to have any of these conversation bombs), but as a general rule, when would you prefer to have this kind of conversation? When you're having a good day, so it balances out the stress of the conversation? When you're having a bad day, so everything gets all over with at once? When you're having a meh day, so you can look at things with equanimity and it neither ruins a good day nor makes a bad day worse? Basically, are there any ways that I could approach difficult conversations to make them more comfortable for you?"
It displays our concern about other people's feelings, and it's more considerate, I feel, than flailing around and trying to decide without asking first that we should drop a bunch of issues directly onto other people's trauma. I've been given some evidence (from the person I had this conversation with, as well as a therapist I'd asked for some advice about the issue) that this really is helpful, and gives the person you ask some sense of security that you now know well enough to bring up conversation bombs at a time that's as little stressful for them as possible.
Also, in this context, an answer would give the thread a bit of guidance about When It Is And Is Not Appropriate To Bring Things Up.
Just my thoughts on the issue.
The hypothesis that's come up since then, namely that Madoka wished for "everything to be fixed" because Homura witched out, has some potential merit to it in my opinion. If we take that to be the case, then the potentialbomb acting as an infohazard above and beyond canon does make sense.
That's both surprisingly plausible, and more than a little concerning, all things considered. Huh. Neat. Terrifying, but neat.
... going back to trying to compose a reply to, uh, everything that happened while I was gone, apparently...
Edit: Actually, wait.
Clearly, the answer is to build a cleverly consistent but unverifiable structure of half-truths and outright lies which Homura will want to believe and is mutually incompatible with the truth.
Then, we tell that to Homura. That way, if Kyubey tries to potential-bomb her, she'll just think it's lying.
So we know Kyubey tells Homura the potentialbomb in canon, and we know all the red-thread-of-fate stuff and basically everything symbolic ever seems to support it- but exactly how word-of-Urobutcher is the potentialbomb, explicitly?
Is there any possibility that Kyubey was merely interpreting some phenomena to create a hypothesis that best suited its goals?
Not necessarily saying this is a reasonable claim, but my, what do you call it, shadowrun generator? just got flipped on.
