#i'm veeery excited for where the third arc will go from here

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knmf cohabiting arc? /hj but really, what do u think will happen now? will Mafuyu stay away from home or return sooner than later?

i've talked about it a bit with some folk I know on discord so genuine, TL;DR answer:

While I do think Mafuyu will try to stay away from home, I genuinely don't know with who or how, but i trust the writers to continue relying on the bonds that they've cultivated throughout the story so far to keep her safe.

I think staying with Kanade could be viable for a short term. Because let's be honest, Kanade is in no way really in a place to be taking care of another person's needs. Absolutely the guardian of Mafuyu's emotional needs. but physical/physiological? girl needs honami just to not eat cup noodles all the time.

And while Ena and Mizuki are a bit more equipped family-wise to be like 'hey we gotta help this friend of ours can she stay with us a bit'... it would probably necessitate questions into Mafuyu's home life that I don't think Mafuyu wants/is prepared yet for happening, and. this is me being a bit 'meta' here but the timing isn't quite right narratively? I feel, personally, Mafuyu's story needs a bit of a breather before they'd probably go 'hey, we gotta see, if, legally and morally, it's right for you to be with your parents'. that's going to be A Lot for Mafuyu to go through at this point especially.

of course, if the writers did choose to actually explore this sort of story i'd be awed in the same way the exploration of Mizuki's identity wowed me when I started playing PSekai. from a bit of basic research i did with some folk, child welfare cases have been a bit of an issue in Japan! And children getting out of abusive homes, specifically, what age children and teens can apply to be independent or the equivalent is still unclear. But it feels like a 'if so, not yet' sort of situation.

What we do know is Mafuyu is just, waaay too fragile to be going home, both narratively and just where her head is now. it would set her back, and her whole arc to this point has been, well, getting her to this point of speaking about all she's suffered to try making her mother happy. for the writers to be like 'oh actually there's not anything anyone can do she has to go home!' to start the next arc would be infuriating on so many levels.

there's the rest of niigo of course, there to help her. there's the people, shizuku and emu at school, who are a bit more aware and who'd love nothing more to support her and bring her ease too. and there's the people who have even less sense of the situation, but have come to know mafuyu a little and do care about her, and would try to help, if they were brought in.

one of the strongest parts of PSekai's writing is the character relationships, and it'd not only run counter to Mafuyu's development, but I'd say the soul of their stories, to not have Mafuyu be honest with a few more people and rely on them more.

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