Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
Then remember to put it into the vote later.
edit: There are times where we can stack things up so we don't have to vote for them later, typically when we have a low-cost vote and something really important to remember later. I don't think that this is one of those times.
This is useless, condescending, and insulting. Mami is not an idiot. She understands how important a step this is for Homura's well-being. We've been talking forever about how hard we've been trying to help Homura open up. Mami also understands how much Homura's past hurts. Again, not only have we talked about it, it's easy enough to infer that even Sayaka figured it out. Mami looked at Homura then looked at us; she was, in that moment, asking us if we thought it was a good idea. Given all of that, do we really need to beg Mami to listen to Homura's story? Mami knows how much this will help. Mami knows that it will hurt. She's going to do it because it's the right thing to do.
I'm not against this, exactly, but I think that we should be thinking about and voting about how we're going to handle the follow-up questions that are so obvious that we were prompted to answer them in the defaults:
I think that this is a bad idea. We aren't going to address Homura's self-hatred in the coming update. It is more important that she is able to tell her story any way she can than that she tells it our way. We can work on helping Homura tell it better after she can tell it at all. And that means that we cannot afford to get bogged down in a fight over something like this.
And, again, the defaults make me think that Homura isn't going to go all self-hatred anyway. We've been trying to prepare ourselves and Homura for this since the start of the quest. If we're there to support her without outright contradicting her and we're keeping in mind that our goal is to help her get this out, then she'll make it through perfectly fine.
Also, I think that Mami's going to do a better job of that than we could. We've already told Homura all those things. Mami will tell her that she's better than she thinks she is - it's impossible for her not to - and it'll mean more that she said it without our prompting. It's like telling Homura that Sayaka trusts her; Homura can recognize patterns.
Ehhhhh. This would be an excellent joke to throw in if the opportunity presents itself, but I don't know if the opportunity will present itself. I suspect that this is going to be an incredibly heavy update and I think that we'd want to save this for the sign-off or a succeeding conversation on the same topic. edit: If you must, slap a conditional on it: If the opportunity arises, try to lighten things up by...
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