Anger is safe and some kinds of fear too

if anger is safe that's good to know, I'm good at being angry instead of other kinds of negative emotion

use that if it comes up for sure.

I don't plan to put myself in a situation where that could come up but no one does. more backup plans are better than less.

we should probably check if emily can get emotion-manipulating powers and if so if they can break the gem dimness barrier

I am v wary of mind control themed girls so I don't know how promising that is

I think it's safe to try in a loop with emily as the one with the power but then we would also need a test subject and it might be best to pick someone who'd get reset if things went horribly wrong somehow

dunno how promising it would be but as a proof of concept it could be useful

any prospects for resettable test subject?

not off the top of my head but I could ask around

thanks

you're welcome

a power that just increased happiness would probably be safer than something that did general manipulation

yeah

they're sociopaths but they don't fundamentally value human suffering they just don't care

true

although given how they seem to harvest energy maybe it wouldn't help, the only ways I'm currently aware they harvest it are the wishes and grief seeds

yeah, they don't seem to try to witch girls as fast as possible by default but that could just be ecological management

yeah, no point in having all those witches without magical girls around to harvest them

they don't object to the big witch though, apparently she will eat the world in such a way that they fill their quota for the projected lifespan of our species or something

eugh

yuuuup

i wonder why emotions are so rare

No idea. Maybe they only get sophisticated in social species?

the fluffs are not evolved, they were made to be cute for teenage girls

but made by who or what?

other aliens. it was like pulling teeth but eventually I got that there's a handful of the other less cute aliens in orbit running shit

do you know if they evolved?

maybe most forms of life aren't carbon-based and emotiony brainchemicals are harder to make without carbon

could be, idk if the less cute aliens evolved

finding a biological basis for the emotion thing might be helpful

maybe we should get my dad in on this he's a geneticist

go for it if you think that'll help but I'm pessimistic