Akasha
The Only Truth
- Location
- 「̛̛́́ ͏̨҉̕͏ ͏̶̴」
Puella Magi Imperatrix Mundi, or: Wherein Half Of Japan Tries To Kill You
PhDEevee
Mathematician and Questgiver
- Location
- Sydney
I don't even have a vote though... I'm just trying to convince DarkLight to add some additional bits to theirs...
- Location
- Rockford, USA
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[x] Talk about more stuff with Maiko, Minami, and Yumi.
-[x] Explain that it's becoming increasingly clear to you that forging a large number of girls who have magical superpowers, every reason to distrust one another, and diverse sets of uniquely heart-wrenching emotional issues into a tightly-knit set of friends who trust one another implicitly and can stand together against all that the world might throw at them while acting as each others' reliable emotional support will be harder than anime implies. Particularly when there's no time to give every teammate a character arc where you gradually discover their personal problems and help them become a happier person who also likes you more while giving them handy powerups.
--[x] You need to get friendships, build personal loyalty, and create a sense of unity across your group in spite of its large numbers; practical reasons for cooperation and coexistence aren't enough. Today was a good demonstration of both why that's important by watching your opponent's group disintegrate and where we stand at the moment by the fact that we could get only about half the city's magical population to show up and actually help.
--[x] Your personal social superpowers of adorableness, optimism, and repression may not be enough to handle this on their own unless applied with delicacy, insight, and finesse. Therefore, you are delegating coming up with plans containing those qualities (sadly absent in your own skillset) to your loyal advisors. Maiko, Yumi, Minami, devise cunning schemes for short-term team-building and medium- to long-term happiness maintenance.
-[x] Explain to Yumi that Maiko and Minami combine to form our awesome intelligence team, though Asami helped a bit too, recently. In light of their incredible stalking powers, no secrets are safe! Except the ones belonging to people that don't have nearby trees tall enough to let someone see into their bedroom windows. The point is, Yumi should tell them everything she knows about everyone she knows at some point soon. The files they gave you earlier today were fantastic and you want more of them before every fight.
--[x] You'll want to get information from the city's new residents, as well, but that can wait a bit.
[x] Brainmail Chou and let her know how the fight turned out.
-[x] No more than one plant pun every few sentences. You are a paragon of restraint.
-[x] Bring up the city's new potential residents. In particular, Kiyomi seemed pretty enthusiastic to hear that she was in town. Apparently they got along like... two peas in a pod?
[x] Brainmail Shinobu and let her know how the fight turned out.
-[x] If she has any interest in being introduced around, you can make arrangements.
-[x] Or you can talk about anime. You understand that she is a woman of discerning taste and keen insight in these matters.
[x] Brainmail Koharu and let her know how the fight turned out.
-[x] Mention that you can come by in person so that you can perform a full dramatization using appropriate sound effects and hand gestures if her parents could be wrangled into letting that happen. What are her thoughts on parent-wrangling?
-[x] Explain that it's becoming increasingly clear to you that forging a large number of girls who have magical superpowers, every reason to distrust one another, and diverse sets of uniquely heart-wrenching emotional issues into a tightly-knit set of friends who trust one another implicitly and can stand together against all that the world might throw at them while acting as each others' reliable emotional support will be harder than anime implies. Particularly when there's no time to give every teammate a character arc where you gradually discover their personal problems and help them become a happier person who also likes you more while giving them handy powerups.
--[x] You need to get friendships, build personal loyalty, and create a sense of unity across your group in spite of its large numbers; practical reasons for cooperation and coexistence aren't enough. Today was a good demonstration of both why that's important by watching your opponent's group disintegrate and where we stand at the moment by the fact that we could get only about half the city's magical population to show up and actually help.
--[x] Your personal social superpowers of adorableness, optimism, and repression may not be enough to handle this on their own unless applied with delicacy, insight, and finesse. Therefore, you are delegating coming up with plans containing those qualities (sadly absent in your own skillset) to your loyal advisors. Maiko, Yumi, Minami, devise cunning schemes for short-term team-building and medium- to long-term happiness maintenance.
-[x] Explain to Yumi that Maiko and Minami combine to form our awesome intelligence team, though Asami helped a bit too, recently. In light of their incredible stalking powers, no secrets are safe! Except the ones belonging to people that don't have nearby trees tall enough to let someone see into their bedroom windows. The point is, Yumi should tell them everything she knows about everyone she knows at some point soon. The files they gave you earlier today were fantastic and you want more of them before every fight.
--[x] You'll want to get information from the city's new residents, as well, but that can wait a bit.
[x] Brainmail Chou and let her know how the fight turned out.
-[x] No more than one plant pun every few sentences. You are a paragon of restraint.
-[x] Bring up the city's new potential residents. In particular, Kiyomi seemed pretty enthusiastic to hear that she was in town. Apparently they got along like... two peas in a pod?
[x] Brainmail Shinobu and let her know how the fight turned out.
-[x] If she has any interest in being introduced around, you can make arrangements.
-[x] Or you can talk about anime. You understand that she is a woman of discerning taste and keen insight in these matters.
[x] Brainmail Koharu and let her know how the fight turned out.
-[x] Mention that you can come by in person so that you can perform a full dramatization using appropriate sound effects and hand gestures if her parents could be wrangled into letting that happen. What are her thoughts on parent-wrangling?
Echo
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
- Location
- "echolocation" dur hur hur
Note that aside from it being possible to check in on her if she ends up in Chiba, keep in mind that Kaede is probably going to complain about you to people she meets. Do you want to start establishing Yui's reputation among the gangs next door, or among a bunch of lone wolf types on the opposite side of Tokyo?
Fair warning, if you let Naoko stay around without finding some sort of leverage against her you can expect to see her on a daily basis and she's not likely to be any friendlier about it. You have plenty of carrot but virtually no stick available when negotiating with her.
A bit of both? Studying Lorelei might help Maiko figure that out.
Maybe, maybe not. Depends on how it works. Someone with good stealth and a ranged weapon would have a good chance of sniping Yui, for instance.
Yumi doesn't know her name, but yes. Mitakihara is the biggest and most important city in Kanagawa Prefecture.
I could! Actually, I have a few bits of a third omake sitting around as well, which includes a brief appearance by the meguca crime lord Yumi mentioned.
There's a pretty good chance that talking to Shinobu and Koharu will require another vote, so I'd suggest picking one or the other for now.
It's a viable policy.
By which I mean Maiko and Yumi won't argue heavily against it, not that it's guaranteed to be successful, that is.
You have roughly two and a half "time slots" left in the day, if that makes any sense. Hanging out with Natsuki and then having dinner will leave the evening free for doing stuff with anyone who doesn't mind being out late and/or inviting you over.
Sounds sort of IC for Yui to do some outreach to the supposed idealistic magical girl there.
Echo
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
- Location
- "echolocation" dur hur hur
It would be, but there's no obvious reason to do so right now. Mitakihara is at least an hour away by train and Yumi made it sound like this other girl can take care of herself.
Mami would of course be thrilled to have friendly visitors to distract her from the 1-year anniversary of her falling out with Kyouko but Yui has no way of knowing that.
Given the friction between magical girls, I feel like more diplomacy should be conducted using modern technology. Can we ask Minami to set up an invitation-only message board or something? She's good at computer stuff, I think.
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
And thus, Sufficiently Magical was born.
DarkLight140
Credit to Team
- Location
- Lost in my thoughts
@SystemicHatter, do you think can we feasibly have an anime night at our place without running into parental questions? I need to review Yui's relationship with her parents to rediscover if she can bring random new friends they've never heard of home without their minding; they're pretty permissive but letting her do as she pleases doesn't necessarily extend to giving strangers the run of their house. If yes, figuring out how far we can push that (can we have them stay over a night or two, for example?) would be good. But I don't have an issue with it; it seems like a reasonable bonding strategy for our crew here as long as we can find the right thing to watch. Actually, @Echo, any comments here?
Natsuki is a headache, though. Running off to deal with her means coming up with lies, then telling those lies, possibly needing to ditch her on some excuse when we want to get back to magical girl things, and so forth. We can't even invite her over for anime night because she'd wonder where we got all these new friends and we would have to censor our conversations. It strikes me as more practical just to text her an excuse and a "see you at school!" to defer the problem while focusing entirely on the magical crowd for now.
In light of @Echo's comments that Shinobu and Koharu will require their own votes, I am inclined to default to Shinobu first. No objections to dragging her to anime night, as letting her sit alone at home and stew in her own misery is probably not good for her mental health and the general health of our city's magical girls by extension. Any objections?
Still, probably worth setting up. Or, for all we know, someone else has had the idea, so magical girl 4chan already exists and we have but to find it.
Natsuki is a headache, though. Running off to deal with her means coming up with lies, then telling those lies, possibly needing to ditch her on some excuse when we want to get back to magical girl things, and so forth. We can't even invite her over for anime night because she'd wonder where we got all these new friends and we would have to censor our conversations. It strikes me as more practical just to text her an excuse and a "see you at school!" to defer the problem while focusing entirely on the magical crowd for now.
In light of @Echo's comments that Shinobu and Koharu will require their own votes, I am inclined to default to Shinobu first. No objections to dragging her to anime night, as letting her sit alone at home and stew in her own misery is probably not good for her mental health and the general health of our city's magical girls by extension. Any objections?
This would work well for some people, but my impression is that a lot of girls can't pay for a cell phone plan/don't have computers/are generally living like hobos after being driven out of their homes, so it wouldn't be universally applicable.
Still, probably worth setting up. Or, for all we know, someone else has had the idea, so magical girl 4chan already exists and we have but to find it.
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Echo
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
- Location
- "echolocation" dur hur hur
Yui's parents care about results and appearances in roughly equal measure and are very hands-off by default. Basically, they'll permit (or even actively support) pretty much anything Yui wants to do as long as it doesn't make the family look bad, and with the understanding that she's expected to succeed at whatever she attempts.
Yui suddenly hanging out with a bunch of older girls living in questionable circumstances is likely to get their attention enough that you might need to justify it to them. Explaining Maiko is easy enough, but Yumi and Chou would be problematic.
Asami, Minami, Shinobu, and Koharu wouldn't draw attention at all. Sayuki would also be fine, once you meet up with her tomorrow.
Tomo is still being cagey about her non-meguca life, so is off the table anyway. The rest of the Itabashi girls are too much of an unknown factor to say given what Yui knows about them, though there were a few hints that Fuuka's family might be in the same social circles as Yui's, Koharu's, and/or Shinobu's.
Natsuki also has a long-standing and not entirely unfounded grudge against Minami. That's still a thing.
Yumi smashes ATMs and lives in hotel rooms, like Kyouko. Chou has a job but for all you know she just hoards cash and sleeps under a bush in a park or something. The other Itabashi girls are technically homeless but probably doing the same thing as Yumi.
- Location
- England, unfortunately.
- Pronouns
- She/They
...That seems suprisingly likely, and probably more comfortable than it should be* given her powersets.
*To quote yet another character who lived on the streets: "Parks suck for sleeping in".
Though the universe in question is different.
Echo
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
- Location
- "echolocation" dur hur hur
Well, she's sure as hell not gonna sleep in an enclosed space that someone else has access to, which rules out any sort of motel or rental property...
redzonejoe
Vaguely Pastafarian
- Location
- Canada
[X] DarkLight140
I can't into brain on account of tablet, but dark did some good brain stuff so let's do that.
"I see a good plan and I want to make it red"
-Official 'The Tumbling Rocks' lyrics
I can't into brain on account of tablet, but dark did some good brain stuff so let's do that.
"I see a good plan and I want to make it red"
-Official 'The Tumbling Rocks' lyrics
Echo
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
- Location
- "echolocation" dur hur hur
So, currently @DarkLight140 has three bandwagon votes vs. two bandwagon votes for @SystemicHatter despite the fact that Hatter, uh, hasn't actually voted for anything. Given the discussion I'm assuming we'll end up with something based on DarkLight140's vote in the end but, uh.
...little help here, guys?
...little help here, guys?
DarkLight140
Credit to Team
- Location
- Lost in my thoughts
On account of not wanting to explain Yumi and Maiko to Yui's parents right now, I don't think we can swing @SystemicHatter's anime night idea without additional planning and preparation (out of character, at least; we need to fabricate a coherent story for who they are that will potentially hold up for as long as we need it to). Given that, I'm willing to stick by my vote unmodified in the understanding that it will crash to a screeching halt a some point during the Shinobu conversation and without ever reaching the Koharu conversation as per @Echo's earlier comments on how that's likely to end in requiring additional votes. There's probably enough material in there for an update already.
This will, admittedly, leave us with largely the same set of choices ("what do you do with the rest of this evening" and "what do you do with the corpse girls") next vote, but we'll have talked to people more. And talking to people is good, right?
This will, admittedly, leave us with largely the same set of choices ("what do you do with the rest of this evening" and "what do you do with the corpse girls") next vote, but we'll have talked to people more. And talking to people is good, right?
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PhDEevee
Mathematician and Questgiver
- Location
- Sydney
I really want my anime night, so I'm going to put up a modification of your vote, Dark. Also, explaining Maiko to Yui's parents is vital to our ultimate goal of shipping her with Yui's brother.
...give me five, I'm going to do this on my laptop, and currently using my phone. Oh, timezones...
...give me five, I'm going to do this on my laptop, and currently using my phone. Oh, timezones...
PhDEevee
Mathematician and Questgiver
- Location
- Sydney
[x] Talk about more stuff with Maiko, Minami, and Yumi.
-[x] Explain that it's becoming increasingly clear to you that forging a large number of girls who have magical superpowers, every reason to distrust one another, and diverse sets of uniquely heart-wrenching emotional issues into a tightly-knit set of friends who trust one another implicitly and can stand together against all that the world might throw at them while acting as each others' reliable emotional support will be harder than anime implies. Particularly when there's no time to give every teammate a character arc where you gradually discover their personal problems and help them become a happier person who also likes you more while giving them handy powerups.
--[x] You need to get friendships, build personal loyalty, and create a sense of unity across your group in spite of its large numbers; practical reasons for cooperation and coexistence aren't enough. Today was a good demonstration of both why that's important by watching your opponent's group disintegrate and where we stand at the moment by the fact that we could get only about half the city's magical population to show up and actually help.
--[x] Your personal social superpowers of adorableness, optimism, and repression may not be enough to handle this on their own unless applied with delicacy, insight, and finesse. Therefore, you are delegating coming up with plans containing those qualities (sadly absent in your own skillset) to your loyal advisors. Maiko, Yumi, Minami, devise cunning schemes for short-term team-building and medium- to long-term happiness maintenance.
-[x] Explain to Yumi that Maiko and Minami combine to form our awesome intelligence team, though Asami helped a bit too, recently. In light of their incredible stalking powers, no secrets are safe! Except the ones belonging to people that don't have nearby trees tall enough to let someone see into their bedroom windows. The point is, Yumi should tell them everything she knows about everyone she knows at some point soon. The files they gave you earlier today were fantastic and you want more of them before every fight.
--[x] You'll want to get information from the city's new residents, as well, but that can wait a bit.
-[x] For the purposes of close team bonding, you're declaring anime night!
--[x] After you hang out with Natsuki this afternoon, of course.
--[x] You'll invite Yumi, Maiko, Minami, Asami, andKoharu (aim to see Koharu tomorrow) and Shinobu if you can convince them / their parents. Any more is going to be difficult, and you barely know them at the moment anyway.
--[x] Remember to avoid the magical girl anime.
--[x] Remind yourself to buy snacks after going and hanging out with Natsuki.
--[x] You're going to need to explain Maiko and Yumi. Remind yourself to wrack your brain for reasons later.
[x] Brainmail Asami to check what's going on with Natsuki, and briefly describe what happened with the fight. Start heading over. (might be best to text Natsuki).
[x] Brainmail Chou and let her know how the fight turned out.
-[x] No more than one plant pun every few sentences. You are a paragon of restraint.
-[x] Bring up the city's new potential residents. In particular, Kiyomi seemed pretty enthusiastic to hear that she was in town. Apparently they got along like... two peas in a pod?
[x] Brainmail Shinobu and let her know how the fight turned out.
-[x] If she has any interest in being introduced around, you can make arrangements.
-[x] Or you can talk about anime. You understand that she is a woman of discerning taste and keen insight in these matters.
-[x] Invite her to anime night.
[x] Brainmail Koharu and let her know how the fight turned out.
-[x] Mention that you can come by in person so that you can perform a full dramatization using appropriate sound effects and hand gestures if her parents could be wrangled into letting that happen. What are her thoughts on parent-wrangling?
Cut the last part because I assume we're going to get cut off at Shinobu; I have some ideas for how to explain Yumi and Maiko to the parents, but I haven't put it in because it'll happen later and we need to discuss it.
I am also assuming that we're going to head off to Natsuki next.
Edit: @Nolrai, @UbeOne, it seems that your wish has made your Soul Gems shine. Don't regret it!
Edit2: Final changes made to vote.
-[x] Explain that it's becoming increasingly clear to you that forging a large number of girls who have magical superpowers, every reason to distrust one another, and diverse sets of uniquely heart-wrenching emotional issues into a tightly-knit set of friends who trust one another implicitly and can stand together against all that the world might throw at them while acting as each others' reliable emotional support will be harder than anime implies. Particularly when there's no time to give every teammate a character arc where you gradually discover their personal problems and help them become a happier person who also likes you more while giving them handy powerups.
--[x] You need to get friendships, build personal loyalty, and create a sense of unity across your group in spite of its large numbers; practical reasons for cooperation and coexistence aren't enough. Today was a good demonstration of both why that's important by watching your opponent's group disintegrate and where we stand at the moment by the fact that we could get only about half the city's magical population to show up and actually help.
--[x] Your personal social superpowers of adorableness, optimism, and repression may not be enough to handle this on their own unless applied with delicacy, insight, and finesse. Therefore, you are delegating coming up with plans containing those qualities (sadly absent in your own skillset) to your loyal advisors. Maiko, Yumi, Minami, devise cunning schemes for short-term team-building and medium- to long-term happiness maintenance.
-[x] Explain to Yumi that Maiko and Minami combine to form our awesome intelligence team, though Asami helped a bit too, recently. In light of their incredible stalking powers, no secrets are safe! Except the ones belonging to people that don't have nearby trees tall enough to let someone see into their bedroom windows. The point is, Yumi should tell them everything she knows about everyone she knows at some point soon. The files they gave you earlier today were fantastic and you want more of them before every fight.
--[x] You'll want to get information from the city's new residents, as well, but that can wait a bit.
-[x] For the purposes of close team bonding, you're declaring anime night!
--[x] After you hang out with Natsuki this afternoon, of course.
--[x] You'll invite Yumi, Maiko, Minami, Asami, and
--[x] Remember to avoid the magical girl anime.
--[x] Remind yourself to buy snacks after going and hanging out with Natsuki.
--[x] You're going to need to explain Maiko and Yumi. Remind yourself to wrack your brain for reasons later.
[x] Brainmail Asami to check what's going on with Natsuki, and briefly describe what happened with the fight. Start heading over. (might be best to text Natsuki).
[x] Brainmail Chou and let her know how the fight turned out.
-[x] No more than one plant pun every few sentences. You are a paragon of restraint.
-[x] Bring up the city's new potential residents. In particular, Kiyomi seemed pretty enthusiastic to hear that she was in town. Apparently they got along like... two peas in a pod?
[x] Brainmail Shinobu and let her know how the fight turned out.
-[x] If she has any interest in being introduced around, you can make arrangements.
-[x] Or you can talk about anime. You understand that she is a woman of discerning taste and keen insight in these matters.
-[x] Invite her to anime night.
-[x] Mention that you can come by in person so that you can perform a full dramatization using appropriate sound effects and hand gestures if her parents could be wrangled into letting that happen. What are her thoughts on parent-wrangling?
Cut the last part because I assume we're going to get cut off at Shinobu; I have some ideas for how to explain Yumi and Maiko to the parents, but I haven't put it in because it'll happen later and we need to discuss it.
I am also assuming that we're going to head off to Natsuki next.
Edit: @Nolrai, @UbeOne, it seems that your wish has made your Soul Gems shine. Don't regret it!
Edit2: Final changes made to vote.
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DarkLight140
Credit to Team
- Location
- Lost in my thoughts
I would be interested in hearing your ideas for how to explain Yumi and Maiko to Yui's parents, because while I agree that it has to happen, I don't want to vote for anything that will make it happen unless I know what we're getting into and am confident that we have a solid plan on hand for handling it.
As for heading off to see Natsuki, I don't think that's a safe assumption. Simply dropping her from this afternoon and evening's activities with a quick apologetic text and planning to make it up to her later seems vastly more practical than going off to see her and then somehow ditching her for an anime night which she can't participate in- and which we won't be able to have personally done the recruitment for, since we'll have been occupied. Hunting down Koharu and Shinobu has a good chance of needing our in-person presence in at least one case. Having Natsuki time feels like overstretching our limited time and effort resources.
I'm all in favor of anime night tonight in principle, but I feel like your implementation is ignoring several known problems and blithely proceeding forward anyway.
As for heading off to see Natsuki, I don't think that's a safe assumption. Simply dropping her from this afternoon and evening's activities with a quick apologetic text and planning to make it up to her later seems vastly more practical than going off to see her and then somehow ditching her for an anime night which she can't participate in- and which we won't be able to have personally done the recruitment for, since we'll have been occupied. Hunting down Koharu and Shinobu has a good chance of needing our in-person presence in at least one case. Having Natsuki time feels like overstretching our limited time and effort resources.
I'm all in favor of anime night tonight in principle, but I feel like your implementation is ignoring several known problems and blithely proceeding forward anyway.
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PhDEevee
Mathematician and Questgiver
- Location
- Sydney
My initial idea is that Yumi could be a delinquent who accidentally got Koharu into trouble; she came and apologised to Koharu later and they became fast friends (kinda sorta true?). Maiko can be her older sister figure who's there to keep an eye on her. They were then caught in Yui's orbit and dragged along.
I am inclined to agree. The question is, what excuse and apology will Yui give? I'm not sure how often Yui blows Natsuki off...
Edit: On second thought, blowing off Natsuki and then having an anime night is kind of a dick move and likely to piss Asami off while making Natsuki sad.
A better idea might be to go visit Koharu tomorrow, as she's still grounded at the moment, which will mean a different explanation is needed for Yumi. Going to stick with my vote, though.
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Echo
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
- Location
- "echolocation" dur hur hur
You technically already have an excuse for hanging around Maiko that she's on board with:
Not that you're obligated to stick with that, but it's a plausible excuse. What with Yui's typical exam scores in English vs. Maiko's near-fluency.
DarkLight140
Credit to Team
- Location
- Lost in my thoughts
I don't know that I want to pin Yumi as a delinquent, mostly because it immediately marks her as a bad influence who will be watched by our parents even if they let us get away with meeting her. And if the story gets around, our peers' parents might not want her spending time with their children at all. We need a plausible cover story that makes her innocuous.
The tutoring thing with Maiko works well, for example, although she presumably also has a backstory ready for when people ask her what her job is/where she's studying/whatever.
Unfortunately, this plays into the larger issue of Natsuki that we've neglected thus far: She's Yui's best friend. They are expected to spend a lot of time together, and Natsuki will expect that and be hurt if it doesn't happen- which cascades into Yui and Asami both being emotionally hurt.
But ruling a city, even just the couple dozen people that are the magical part of it, is likely to eat up all of Yui's free time. She's not going to be able to spend her time with someone who isn't clued in.
If we clue Natsuki in, she's predicted to contract and subsequently die. If we don't, she'll notice that Yui had huge parts of her life which she's being cut out of, and investigate (->discover->contract->die) or be unhappy (->emotional damage to Yui and Asami).
This problem is a problem that is just going to come up again and again until we get a solid course of action to permanently resolve it. I don't think neglecting it for any length of time is sustainable. We need to either take steps to cut Natsuki out of Yui's life entirely in a way that causes minimal emotional damage to all parties involved, or we need to let her become a magical girl and be willing to run heavy emotional maintenance from now until forever and possibly watch her die. Clinging to a now-unsustainable friendship model isn't going to serve us well.
- Location
- The Beach
[X] DarkLight140
I think the anime thing is a good idea in theory but, yeah I don't want to be dismissing Natsuki since we really haven't hung out with her much. We still gotta get her over Minami.
Perhaps some kind of bonding thing for the other MGs tomorrow? Coming up blank on viable ideas though.
I really don't know what the best course of action is, but "talking things out" seems like a good start.
I think the anime thing is a good idea in theory but, yeah I don't want to be dismissing Natsuki since we really haven't hung out with her much. We still gotta get her over Minami.
Perhaps some kind of bonding thing for the other MGs tomorrow? Coming up blank on viable ideas though.
Unfortunately, unless something unexpected comes up, I don't think we will have a permanent solution. I think Yui just needs to suck it up and deal with it, like a real human being and work at the relationship. Because, yeah, burying it is just hurting their friendship. They will drift a part and she'll probably do something rash; Yui will blame herself and more problems come up. So yeah, we tell her everything (or at least everything Yui knows), we tell her our hopes and fears, what Kyubey told her and how hard it is for her, we get her involved in a way so she doesn't feel the need to contract to help out. We make a diberate effort to connect with her and we work at it.
I really don't know what the best course of action is, but "talking things out" seems like a good start.
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- Location
- Home
Yeah, this is why I voted "Let Yumi or Maeko kill them"
Given her behaviour so far she'll probably take it as a sign of weakness and cause grief.
I'd bet money against it helping at all.
Echo
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
- Location
- "echolocation" dur hur hur
Just a quick reminder that you and Maiko do have plans to meet up with Sayuki (the recently-contracted idol singer meguca) tomorrow. You could always drag more of your current team along, but it means you can't spend the whole afternoon and evening watching anime or anything like that.