Not sure a reminder is necessary but this is what we said we'd be doing after talking to Parro:

[X] While we're there, we should chat with Yuki if she's available
-[X] Pick Yuki's brain about how to build our eventual moon colony (our ulterior motives may involve dates with Mami on the moon)
-[X] H-hugs?
[X] Track down Kyouko and Yuma
-[X] Figure out whether Kyouko and Yuma want Yuma to go to school
--[X] Offer some alternatives if traditional schooling doesn't appeal: we could also try online or home schooling
-[X] Either way, introduce Kyouko to our hackerguca so she can deal with Yuma's legal guardianship
[X] Don't leave without talking to Yuki about setting up the Warehouse-kun science lab and stopping by to talk to Anri.
-[X] Subjects for Anri: De-witching progress, Yuuri's Grief Seed, Body Manufacture, Evil Nuts Asunaro Almonds.

The rest of the day should look something like this:

- Finish talking to Parro
- Talk to Yuki and Anri about science
- Find and talk to Kyouko and Yuma about school and helping the Soujus' victims
- (insert activity here)
- Dinner with Nagisa and her uncle
 
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Thing is, I'm not sure I trust her enough not to stab us in the back during it and don't like the idea of releasing this scum bag raider afterwards. Kinda pointless to save the city but doom others as the cost.
Pretty much exactly the issue. Taking a huge, all or nothing fight with a hundred moving parts and adding people who have every reason to stab us in the back? They'd have to be Homura levels of powerful to even be worth it, and if they were that powerful, they'd be too dangerous to let free. It ain't worth it.
 
[] "Do you want me to kill you?"
-[] "This isn't a threat, it's a genuine question. You seem like you're trying to talk me into killing you."
 
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"This isn't a threat, it's a genuine question. You seem like you're trying to talk me into killing you."
She's confused and scared. Outcomes ranked by Parro's preference right now, as I understand it, are
1) Break out, get back to raiding - infeasible due to overwhelming enemy force
2) Ritual humiliation by the superior force, lopsided partnership, then get back to raiding - offer rejected?
3) Her crew ends up on the receiving end of what she was planning to do to the Myanmar group
4) Re-evaluate how the whole world works, do some serious introspection on long-term strategy

The "watch your back" stuff is an attempt to haggle her way from scenario 3 back up to scenario 2. My proposal with walking away while reverting to a lower-polygon model is intended to rub her nose in the inevitability of scenario 4.
 
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E: You know what, let's keep it simple
[x] "Thank you. My schedule's packed enough as it is without having to coax your redeeming qualities out, so I really appreciate your refusal to have any."
[x] Go talk to Anri.
 
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[x] "Thank you. My schedule's packed enough as it is without having to coax your redeeming qualities out, so I really appreciate your refusal to have any."
[x] Go talk to Anri.

No, seriously, this. Given all the heavy decisions Sabrina has had to make in the past, telling a social-darwinist raider psycho to get bent is a nice and simple decision to make. Also, consider that the joke might be one Yuki would appreciate.
 
Okay, fair, it is a funny little joke that also doesn't get bogged down in talking to her too much. Imma switch.

[x] "Thank you. My schedule's packed enough as it is without having to coax your redeeming qualities out, so I really appreciate your refusal to have any."
[x] Go talk to Anri.
 
If she is smart? Yeah, cause Walmart would be right there and would be a bigger threat.




Then again she doesnt seem like the smart sort.

Not really.

She doesn't even have to wait until walmart is there, for one.

But also, striking during the fight is the best move, because that's when we'll be the most distracted and, contrary to us, she doesn't care about what happens to the city so can simply escape walmart after.

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Oh, and Redshrit has the right of it, don't try to be dramatic, that's more counterproductive than anything, indifference is a way better way to make our point:

[x] Redshirt Army

[x] "Thank you. My schedule's packed enough as it is without having to coax your redeeming qualities out, so I really appreciate your refusal to have any."
[x] Go talk to Anri.
 
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[X] ...maybe.
- [X] I sure hope not, but maybe. I'm not invincible, after all. I'm only human.
-- [X] We can argue back and forth about whether anyone needs to die, but in the end, we can only do what we think is best.
--- [X] If you really think that your way of thinking is best, then... I can't stop you from thinking that way, can I?
[X] Good day, Miss Parró.
[X] Go talk to Anri.

We aren't here to prove our point of view to her, or to show her how cool and mysterious and weird we are, or to trap her in an "A-ha!" moment. And we certainly aren't here to call Miss Parró irredeemable - even indirectly - because Sabrina doesn't believe that anyone is irredeemable.

So the best thing to do is acknowledge that we currently have irreconcilable differences, and keep the course. Let's not lord our power over her in the process.
 
don't try to be dramatic, that's more counterproductive than anything, indifference is a way better way to make our point:
Rather than drama I'm thinking of precedent. Explicitly basing the decision on subjective judgement of redeeming qualities seems like there's a lot of ways it could turn sour if reapplied carelessly in the future, whereas formal notification of what the next step will be is much more like the sort of thing a legitimate government does.
 
[x] Yawn and leave.

So boooooring.

This lady is written well but she's clearly being dime a dozen with her social darwinisim.

I mean really the least she could do is put some originality in it!

Not even worth a review just the yawn her snozzfest of a belief system deserves and a walk out.
 
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ehhh.

I think, more than anything else, Sabrina treating her as unimportant is what might get through to her.

She thinks that we need/want her help as "muscle", and are just playing "hard to get". The way to get through that is to demonstrate, very directly, that she is in fact not actually hot shit.
"You're not hot shit" still fits within Parro's existing paradigm, though, as Sabrina winding up to treat her the way the Iowa group was treating the Myanmar group, or anyone else they considered unimportant. Pressure along an axis she already mostly understands won't change her mind in the foundational sorts of ways we're looking for.

Parro thinks Sabrina's "white knight" thing is a mask, because anyone so successful must have an underlying agenda and strategy consistent with the brutal realities of magical girl life. Way to get through to her, loosen up that shell of "hard decisions," is to drop the "mask" but thereby reveal something even more alien and impossible underneath it.
 
[X] Nah. You don't have to do anything right now. Go talk to Anri.

The most her pointless nihilism deserves is a shrug, trying to speech her won't accomplish anything.

We win by proving her wrong, and we can't do that by talking to her here and now, so I see no reason to carry on with this discussion.
 
Parro thinks Sabrina's "white knight" thing is a mask, because anyone so successful must have an underlying agenda and strategy consistent with the brutal realities of magical girl life.
As of the end of the update, Parro has clearly updated her estimate of Sabrina from "someone who is just as selfish as I am" to "useless idiot without the guts to kill me". As evidenced by the fact that she feels safe enough to laugh in our face.

That's also why she has no problem telling us she intends to escape and unleash horrible vengeance against us, by the by. It's not hypocritical on her part. It's not even some ill-thought-out counterproductive attempt to persuade us that the world is ruled by the law of the jungle. We can't legalistically point out that if we followed her standard, she would be dead, because she already knows that we don't follow her standard, and she doesn't give a flying fuck about legalistic standards in the first place.

Parro knows that we're not like her, and she's throwing it back in our face as a power play of her own: either we go back on our word and punish or kill her for being an insufferable brat and a material threat to our power bloc, or we have to follow our high-minded ideals and sit calmly through her backtalk as she calls us spineless soyboy leftist beta cucks. Parro is still treating this conversation as a power struggle, and actually caring about rhetorical one-upsmanship at this juncture will only make it clear to her and our allies that she's successfully struck her target and made us feel insecure. Wanting to win a verbal spar with someone who doesn't care about the consistency of the words that are coming out of her mouth is pathetic in the first place.

We don't actually have to get the last word here. These girls can feel smug all the way through to their regular community-assigned check-ins with trained parole officers.

Way to get through to her, loosen up that shell of "hard decisions," is to drop the "mask" but thereby reveal something even more alien and impossible underneath it.
Your suggestion to flex our powers as we leave is nonsubstantive on that front. Parro is a lichbombed magical girl, so she implicitly understands that her captors will have weird powers born of arbitrary wishes and can send disposable bodies to talk to her.

Flexing our powers only looks like something she understands: a naked power play to soothe a bruised ego of our own.
 
It's not like we're insecure about our worldview. She's wrong, and that's that. No reason to debate it. Better to offer pity that she hasn't figured it out yet.

[X] I'm sorry you feel that way. The Incubators' system incentivizes us all to become predators, and you've thrived under it. That system is going away. Maybe take advantage of the time before your trial to think about who you are without it. Goodbye.

[X] Go see Anri
-[X] Empty the Clear Seed she's been using and check on her progress and her mental health.
-[X] Inform her about the team working on giving people their bodies back.
-[X] Suggest possible collaborations with other members of the de-Witching team. Possible supervised visits to the lab space.
-[X] Ask if she's heard from Hijiri, and if so, if she's doing okay out there.
-[X] Explain about Asunaro Almonds and ask if she can create them.
--[X] Note their potential value in de-Witching research and in creating a scalable Grief Seed substitute.
 
She's an idiot, she saw that Sabrina is so powerful, is claiming keeping people alive is a bad idea, that being nice is weakness, and that she will backstab the moment she gets a chance.

I swear if Sabrina was the type of person to take her words onboard she'd actually be talking herself into getting killed.

Suicide by cop is one of the ways people like Parró like to end their lives on their own terms. Something to keep in mind as we won't be able to rehabilitate everyone because not everyone wants to hold hands with each other given the chance.
 
[JK] *burst out laughing*
-[JK] "Sorry, sorry, but you tell me to live in the real world, and then bust out one of the most cliché anime villain speeches I've ever heard."
-[JK] "Anyway, I'll ensure you continue to receive due process, and give my personal guarantee you'll have your day in court. ...just as soon as we have one set up, anyway. Goodbye, and good day."
 
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