So, I've just reread the last
conversation we had with Kyouko, where among other things we meta-bombed her. It might be a very good idea to reread that conversation to see what we'd discussed and how things went.
As for my vote...
[X] Briefly and obliquely reference the meta-bomb portion of your previous conversation as an opening.
No sense trying Kyouko's patience more than we need to, so make it brief.
[X] You
know that if things had gotten bad enough that Mami had actually wanted to kill Kyouko, she would be dead, and then Mami would be too shortly afterwards, because it would
kill her to do that to a friend.
This is going to
hurt, but it needs to be said.
[X] You also
know how the fight started, and based on what you've seen with how Kyouko has acted with Yuma, you're pretty damned sure that the things that were said to start that fight between Mami and Kyouko wouldn't be said again.
- [X] You can understand why it happened, and beyond that you can understand why Kyouko has hunted the way she has, as a matter of pure
survival.
Because the canonical-to-PMAS reason that the fight started was Kyouko spitting out an
especially nasty version of her food-chain speech to Mami,
specifically knowing it would cause a fight, because Kyouko wanted to punish herself by cutting away at any friendships she might have had left to console her after the death of her family. (Or she was trying to commit suicide-by-cop, so that she could be reunited with her mother and sister, rather than doing the deed herself which would see her going to the same place her father did. Which makes the "There's a place for people like me" line all the more worrying.)
[X] So your plan is that if Kyouko goes through with agreeing to this meeting, you're going to fully explain your understanding of
why the fight happened to Mami -- you've avoided doing so until it was necessary because bringing up their estrangement
hurts Mami -- and do your utmost to make sure that the
topic of the fight is utterly obsolete. At that point, so long as Kyouko doesn't deliberately try to pick a fight, that's all you'd need to do.
- [X] And that if somehow you're
wrong about this, and Mami launches into an unprovoked attack on Kyouko after agreeing to meet for some inscrutable reason? You'll intervene to stop it, and you're pretty sure that Sayaka and Homura would too.
There. A concrete plan of action beyond simply reassuring Kyouko that everything will be sunshine and rainbows, just because. That the plan will work because Sabrina
has cheats for this topic, while also making it clear at the same time that Sabrina wasn't simply
told how the fight happened, that part of her weirdness means she
knows how it happened... and that she's still trying to reach out to Kyouko anyways, despite her trying her damnedest to come across like a would-be serial killer.
