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I think Homura would accept what we tell her by trust, yes. But it's not blind trust. It is based on something. We have helped Homura considerably over the course of this loop. No loop has gone better than this one in spite of the massive divergences that have occurred. Mami is Mami but Homura is Sabrina's best friend.
Sorry, I've been running around in circles ever since finally hitting on a way to actually help Homura what doesn't involve doing anything bad. TBH I think 90% of this really amounts to me having stumbled onto that through thinking about this vote, then being so over the moon that I tried to drag it back through that tenuous link.
Akemi Homura has, in her lifetime, been aware of being cared for by exactly two people: Kaname Madoka and Vee Sabrina. Grew up an orphan isolated by her medical problems, made a wish for the first person to give a damn about her, fought a war for that person...
This whole time we've been trying to bring Homura closer so that the others could see her the way we do. We wanted her to share her past, so that they'd sympathize and embrace her. To be around, so they'd have a chance to grow familiar with her.
But it's just dumb. And it's dumb because the single most effective thing we could do to help her, would be to bring them to care about her, and then to bring her to understand that they care about her.
It's dumb because Mami has cared about her this whole time. It's dumb because Sayaka already sees her as a friend.
It's dumb because we're going through this whole business here, and yeah it's important, but if Mami came in here, told Homura she saw her as a friend, that she worried about her, told her that she cares about her, asked her if she could help somehow -- it would blow Homura's mind. It's not productive in the same way, no, not at all, no matter how much I wanted to justify it as such -- but it'd be miles more productive overall than what we're doing now, and I can't help but think, "We could be having these people extend to Homura the affection that they feel for her, and we're doing this other stuff first?"
Because the first step to getting Homura to be closer to these people is getting her to recognize how they view her: because nothing is as precious to Akemi Homura as someone who cares about her.
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