[X] Hug Sayaka. You believe in her.
[X] Ask for her help in a couple of things.
-[X] One, tell her about Kyouko's situation: Between scarce hunting, pride and... personal problems, she's been having Grief Seed problems. We probably won't be accompanying Sayaka on these sessions anymore, so ask her to keep an eye on Kyouko, make sure she keeps her gem clean?
-[X] Two, ask Sayaka to practise her Cloning power: It synergizes well with her melee training, it's useful for scouting ahead in Barriers, specially if she's ever forced to hunt alone, and... when the inmigrating megucas start arriving? You're gonna need all the help you can get.
-[X] It's not truancy if she's in and outside the school at the same time!
[X] Transform stress into happiness through mumihugs.
[X] Karaoke!
-[X] Have a duet with Mami.
[x] Sit next to Sayaka and comfort her.
[x] Whether she believes it or not, she's doing a great job. It's been less than a week and she's already one of the best melee fighters we know. The fight she gave us just now was one of the toughest one-on-one fights we've ever had. The only people we've faced who are better are ones who've been doing this for years. She's so good that we had to hire one of the best melee fighters in the region to have something new to teach her.
[x] She's our friend. She's someone we can trust and rely upon. We worry about her, yeah, not because she's not strong but because we care. We worry about everyone. We worry about Homura, no matter how powerful she is, we worry about Kyouko... Mami's the greatest, but we worry about her the most of all. We're scared, all the time. Scared of losing the people we love. No matter how strong they are. Magical girls, no matter how strong, are all so fragile, deep down. We can't bear to lose anyone. This is the only family we've ever known.
[x] If she seems to respond positively:
-[x] There's going to be a lot of new magical girls coming to town soon. We're going to be depending on her. Because we know that she's someone we can depend on, someone with a good heart. We think she's amazing.
[X] You were slow to decide on this, but...
-[X] Brief Sayaka on the broad strokes of the Kyouko issue. Scarce hunting, mental/emotional problems left unspecified because privacy, desire to reconcile Kyouko + Mami conflicting with unspecified Kyouko problems.
--[X] We stay in Kyouko's tolerance by not pushing things too much. But somebody has to push things, or she'll never change... and she needs to change. This is the second motive for the training with Kyouko. It would mean the world to Mami.
---[X] yes Sayaka is the right choice for this, best way to do it is probably to loudly be Sayaka.
-[X] Also, if she's looking for something to work while sore from training, you'd suggest clones. Manpower... er, Megucapower? is valuable.
[X] Transform stress into happiness through mumihugs.
[X] Karaoke!
-[X] Have a duet with Mami.
[x] Hug Sayaka.
- [X] Apologize about how your no good at helping with this type of stuff... really you and social have issues with each other.
- [X]I cannot make you believe you are useful Sayaka. I can assure you and assuage your doubts all day. I can list everything you can do, and could do and explain how much better your doing then most new girls - I could make graphs if you wanted to, in color. In the end though the choice of belief is with you. But let me tell you something, while it may be true that we can't tell with surety how useful, how great or how well you will act until that moment comes when the chips are down and everything balances on your actions. I don't think, I don't believe you will have an issue in that moment because you took on this mantle of Puella Magi knowing about its costs, its truths and when you offered up your soul for a wish you did not wish for money, or power - you wished to help your friends. That is why I believe you are and will be 'useful' Sayaka, because you are a good person, and a good friend and most puella magi would take a good friend in this line of work over all the combat support in the world.
- [X] Now... Karaoke
- [X] With Mami hugs
[X] You were slow to decide on this, but...
-[X] Brief Sayaka on the broad strokes of the Kyouko issue. Scarce hunting, mental/emotional problems left unspecified because privacy, desire to reconcile Kyouko + Mami conflicting with unspecified Kyouko problems.
--[X] We stay in Kyouko's tolerance by not pushing things too much. But somebody has to push things, or she'll never change... and she needs to change. This is the second motive for the training with Kyouko. It would mean the world to Mami.
---[X] yes Sayaka is the right choice for this, best way to do it is probably to loudly be Sayaka.
-[X] Also, if she's looking for something to work while sore from training, you'd suggest clones. Manpower... er, Megucapower? is valuable. It's one thing that could help us with the magical girl influx problem, among others. -[X] In jest: Alternatively, she can help us and Mami figure out how to fight witches with a railway gun.*
[X] Transform stress into happiness through mumihugs.
[X] Karaoke!
-[X] Have a duet with Mami.
[X] Hug Sayaka. We believe in her, whether she does or not.
-[X] If she wants to be useful, how about she handles something for us? It's not really our secret to specify, but suffice to say Kyouko's done some bad things in the past, and recent famine in Kasaimono might push her back to doing said bad things. We'd prefer she didn't, and we think she would too - but she's got problems doing otherwise.
--[X] Because of some trauma that's unrelated but we also can't get into, Kyouko and Mami had a falling out. That means that now that all the witches are gathering in Mitakihara, Kyouko's not willing to move into our territory and trust us. As a hint, we'd rather her not ask Mami right now - it's fresh in her mind because of some of our own fuck-ups.
--[X] We'd like Sayaka to get closer to Kyouko and see if she can't coax her into being a bit more trusting - it's a prickly, fiddly situation, and one she'll have to make absolutely sure Kyouko never finds out we put her up to, but if she wants to be useful, she's in a better position to do so, because we have reason to believe her just being herself might be enough to do it.
--[X] Emphasize both that Kyouko cannot find out she's doing this on purpose, and that both Kyouko and Mami have issues regarding the topic - we'll help as much as we can, but in the end it's up to her to discover and navigate all the obstacles in her way before Kyouko turns into a tragic villainess.
-[X] Also, if she's looking for something to work while sore from training, you'd suggest clones. Manpower... er, Megucapower? is valuable.
[X] Transform stress into happiness through mumihugs.
[X] Karaoke!
-[X] Have a duet with Mami.
[x] Sit next to Sayaka and comfort her.
[X] She has less experience but is alerady way better at meele than us. Kyouko has years, she's almost as good as Mami at her best; and Sayaka still managed to scare her during their first fight.
[X] Give perspective on how most new Magical Girls would be doing in her stead. Like Ono. Ugh.
-[X] That's why we worry so much... like we worry about Mami, and Homura, everyone. Because this life is dangerous. We don't want to lose our friends.
[X] Frown. You were slow to decide on this, but...
-[X] Explain you're terrible at socialing and most of your problems come from not knowing how to help people become stable human beings who aren't assholes.
--[X] Brief Sayaka on the broad strokes of the Kyouko issue. Scarce hunting, mental/emotional problems left unspecified because privacy, desire to reconcile Kyouko + Mami conflicting with those.
---[X] Kyouko tolerates us when we're not pushing things too much. But somebody has to, or she'll never change...
----[X] Sayaka is the right choice for this, best way to do it is probably to loudly be Sayaka. This is the second motive for the training with Kyouko. It would mean the world to Mami.
