[X] Keep being empathyBrina.
-[x] Take care to keep Homura open and communicating.
-[x] Take your time, give Homura however long she needs.
[x] Long-term goal: Help Homura recover self-worth by helping her believe that the loops have not failed. In particular:
-[x] Progress was being made on "not being tricked" with every loop, and her Wish last loop was sufficiently well informed.
-[x] Madoka was better off with Homura there, even if Homura wasn't perfectly successful immediately.
[x] Conversation goals: Get Homura to a point where it's safe to let her think about all of this.
[x] Potentially useful points for Brinapilot to deploy as appropriate:
-[x] If Homura had been hurting people, Madoka would have done something about it. She didn't, so she must not think that Homura is hurting people.
-[x] If your knowledge is correct, Madoka asked Homura to go back so everyone didn't end up that way. Madoka wouldn't have asked Homura to hurt people.
-[x] The alternative to the loops was everyone staying dead. Homura would have to try hard to do worse than that.
-[x] Make an analogy to surgical medicine - it hurts, maybe a lot, but it's better than dying of cancer.
-[x] If anything, Homura was giving Madoka hope.
-[x] Homura may not have yet succeeded, but she got everyone here, and that means that Everything Can Be Fixed. Even if Homura had been causing suffering, which you doubt, it can be fixed now, everything will be okay.
-[x] You always find your keys in the last place you look. Homura hasn't succeeded yet, but she's making progress, the same way you rule out "under the couch" or "on the desk" even though you're "failing" to find your keys.
-[x] In one of the possibilities you've seen, Madoka says that Homura has always been her very best friend.
[X] Keep being empathyBrina.
-[x] Take care to keep Homura open and communicating.
-[x] Take your time, give Homura however long she needs.
[x] Tone: Absolute, total, beyond the ends of the world certainty. You know this is true.
-[x] If Madoka knew everything you'd done for her, she wouldn't hesitate to say for an instant that Homura is her greatest and best friend.
-[x] She is not a failure. She is not a good for nothing. You won't put up with hearing one of the most amazing people in the world, one of your friends, put themselves down like that.
[x] Conversation goals: Get Homura to a point where it's safe to let her think about all of this.
-[x] Madoka was better off with Homura there, even if Homura hasn't met her own standards of success yet.
[x] Potentially, as needed to accomplish those goals:
-[x] She was put in a nearly impossible situation, and can't blame herself for that. You couldn't have done better, not in her shoes.
--[x] She still kept Mami and Sayaka in her heart to the end, even though they kept falling and taking Madoka with them. She kept trying, which is all anyone could ask.
-[x] You know what Homura's done, and you accept her. You'll believe in her to the end.
--[x] Madoka would too, you're certain of it.
-[x] Only because of Homura is there hope for a better world in the future.
--[x] Striving for a better outcome for everyone is what Madoka would have wanted from her.
-[x] Thank Homura for all she's done - and still is doing - for Madoka, you, and the world.
-[x] Provide tactile support and encouragement to the degree Homura is comfortable with it.
[X] Keep being empathyBrina.
-[x] Take care to keep Homura open and communicating.
-[x] Take your time, give Homura however long she needs.
-[x] Continuous cleanse.
[x] General arguments:
-[x] Madoka was better off with Homura there, even if Homura wasn't successful immediately.
-[x] Madoka believes Homura has done the right thing. (Currently complete)
[x] Conversation goals: Get Homura to a point where it's safe to let her think about all of this.
[x] Points, raise as natural rather than in any order:
-[x] Homura having "only hurt" Madoka through her actions is not compatible with Madoka being happy and uncontracted in this timeline.
-[x] The alternatives to the loops were unacceptable and Madoka could not have been happy with them.
-[x] Madoka asked her to "not let Kyubey trick her", not to "not let Kyubey contract her". (Only as a reply, DO NOT RAISE otherwise)
-[X] Relax. Comment:
--[X] Homura's hair and higher dimensions.
--[X] Raiding Yakuza for (4D) pocket money.
[X] O&K.
-[X] Probably a 'random' apartment.
-[X] You don't know the Kure adults. Could be a bad idea.
[X] Everyone.
-[X] Explain your discomfort when dropping heavy topics. Ask if there's anything you can do to make it less stressful?
-[X] Offer to watch the spar video.
[X] Put in an order for the tracking devices.
[X] If there's time, practice enchantment:
-[X] Try using Control Magic...
--[X] On Grief.
--[X] To shape something into a Pocket Brina.
[X] Brinapilot:
-[X] Full Empathy.
-[X] Keep comforting Homura.
-[X] Give her time.
-[X] Don't push Homura too hard.
-[X] Ask for permission before bringing up any further points/arguments.
[X] Reassurances:
-[X] Homura's not the one hurting Madoka; she's the one giving Madoka hope.
-[X] Without Homura, none of us would be here. Not Madoka, nor everyone she loves.
-[X] Madoka wouldn't settle for a future where everyone couldn't be saved.
-[X] If Madoka learned everything Homura's gone through, she would call her her Best Friend.
[X] Ask Homura to share her thoughts, her feelings.
