Can I get a more specific vote, here? I believe
someone requested the meeting with something in mind, beyond Kyouko's own thoughts.
And unfortunately, my intention for that thing was the metabomb and I really thought we'd have had a lot more conversation about it by now. >_<
*internal screaming*
*breathes, collects self*
You know... given Madoka's track record with Kyouko, I get the feeling she'd be much better at this than us. More than a little tempted to spend the favor just on having those two meeting. More likely however, I'd kinda like to spend it on the metabomb. Or not spend it. Kyouko can judge.
It kinda fits anyways: We got that favor from listening to her put herself out there on something she cared about deeply, doing a few things we would have done anyways, and making an introduction, then those trivial things on our part adding up to something that rocked her world. Fitting then that she should do something easy for her that would rock ours, especially if that just involves listening to us or making an introduction.
I'm gonna favor the oblique approach. Let's bring up what she's doing with her life and what she wants to be doing with it. You've seen what I've written, tell me what you think her response is.
[X] Ask if she's ever thought about the future.
-[X] If Kyouko does a Kyouko: tell her you aren't here to reform her. You're going to meet people who just want to do nothing all day and you're not going to make them do things either.
-[X] Work in casually dropping the fact that magical girls are technically immortal as long as they aren't killed and actually think to cancel their ageing.
I wish I had a better read on Kyouko because, honestly, this feels like something that she'd take as fucking around and trying to manipulate her.
All things considered, if anything, I get the impression from our conversations with Kyouko --- from the drug dealer comments and grief heroin comments to "did Mami put you up to this" --- that this whole time she's been thinking we're trying to rope her into something, but can't tell what the con is.
Which makes me look back and reread all the times she's "not being tsundere" as her genuinely thinking we're a threat, and are slowly succeeding in getting our manipulative hooks in.
And now she trusted us and we have something over her. Something
big. Something that, if she's suspicious enough, the presumed crony we bought off with infinite cleansing could end at any time.
So that puts me in the mind of first asking if she's worried about being conned into something, and using the metabomb to
solve that problem.
Not in the mindset to vote format it right now, but hell might as well type it out as I have in my mind...
If Kyouko feels she owes you, well this all happened because she bared her heart to you, you did some trivial stuff, and accidentally rocked her world as a result.
So you'd like to talk to her about one of the things that terrifies you most of anything in the world, just ask her to listen and talk until you're done and not leave out of hand, and she can judge afterwards if the trade was equal.
She and Yuma deserve to know this anyways.
[Insert Privacy sphere here]
You're guess Kyouko is wondering what you actually want out of all this. What your angle is.
So... fuck it.
What you want is to fulfill what you guess is your reason for existing, you want everyone to be happy, but mostly you want the first and foremost people you ever knew about to meet and be friends. Meeting for the first time and reuniting both.
But you don't have the right to demand that. You don't have the right to manipulate or cajole it into happening. No one does. But she's part of it, and she deserves to know.
You woke up, dying in an alley, with no memories of your past. Instead you had a great deal of knowledge about the world of magical girls, it's history, and one month of its future, as if learned through multiple versions of a tale of five magical girls in Mitakihara, the people around them, and some important moments from their pasts. Including her and Mami.
This means that something almost certainly made you that way, but frankly you're pretty damn sure it's benevolent, and largely irrelevant besides.
You'd love to flat out tell everything. But you have to keep secrets. Some are important to people and their safety. Some would just kill people.
Some would be enough that Kyubey would happily manipulate everyone into murdering each other for. He's half the reason you're so afraid of this in the first place.
(Continue from here, still needs to be written and planned)
