[X] You're starting to think you want to help her with this. Why can't you?
[X] Incorporate the following lines into conversation as reasonable. If no line makes sense in a situation, break to voting:
-[X] You wouldn't put any preconditions on anything. If you succeed at helping her, then you'd expect her to stop doing harm that isn't necessary.
-[X] Our morality doesn't preclude working with people who have done horrible things, and it would be stupid to not recognize that refusals to de-escalate are often based on valid premises.
-[X] If she displays concern about knowledge of what she's dealing with getting out, then fair warning, we're pretty sure we have the vast majority of the picture worked out already.
-[X] If she tries to assert that we don't have the capability to help her, refute her. In the end, if we couldn't help her, she'd've had no interest in the clear seed.
-[X] If at any point it's reasonable, see if you can slip in that you're interested in dewitching. But, don't try to stretch things to achieve that.
[X] Incorporate the following lines into conversation as reasonable (ideally following this ordering if possible). If no line makes sense in a situation, break to voting:
[X] She doesn't want this fight, because it's a line she doesn't want to cross, isn't it? You haven't attacked her and nor does she think you deserve to die.
-[X] If she argues this, point out it never had to come to a fight. She's been doing this for years - if she'd wanted to kill you, she easily could have by now.
[X] Nor is it that you
can't help her. It's because what she's trying to do is so important to her that the risk of trusting someone is too much for her.
-[X] If she argues this, refute her. You are the only person she's ever found who can use the power she wants. She came over here on a
rumour.
[X] You're her best chance. Perhaps
ever. And maybe she's been betrayed before, but there are things she just can't do alone, no matter how determined she is. No matter how
strong she is.
[X] You don't like what she does, sure. Maybe there are even more horrible things you don't even know about. But there's almost always a
reason, and it doesn't mean she doesn't deserve help.
[X] "Please let me help you, Rionna mag Aoidhe."
-[X] Offer her the Clear Seed
without the happiness magic in it.
So I thought I might have a go at constructing a vote. Some of this is cannibalised from Kaizuki's vote, some is my own stuff. Take what you want from it if any of it makes sense! I mainly wanted to address the high possibility that Rionna is
not, well, a complete monster. I think there's a kind of balance here between going 'I think I understand your reasons for acting the way you do', 'I think you've done bad shit, though' and 'I'm going to help you anyway'. Then too, there's the fact that, well, if Sabrina can't help her, there's literally no-one on this planet who can. No-one with a power like Sabrina is going to appear again in normal circumstances. No-one with her connections is going to exist, because there's no-one with a power so universally needed as Sabrina's.
Finally, the Clear Seed. So I might have been a little bit too obsessed about using it as a trust surrogate last vote, and I was wrong about that. I certainly still believe that the Clear Seed is valuable to Rionna, but not so much that it would totally turn things around.
But it has become a symbol for trust in this conversation. That whole thing where Sabrina pulls it back and talks about trust ends up making this a kind of peace offering. It's extending some trust in the hope of receiving some back in return.
Who knows, this vote may be going too fast, but I wanted to put something together anyway, particularly since I was explicitly asked.
