#(because yeah Chibi-Usa DID NOT HAVE THIS Made)

[astridthevalkyrie]

chand ko chakor dekhe, tujkho naseebo wala (the bird looks at the moon, a lucky one looks at you) | hawks x reader | chapter 6

“You’ve died twice? From clocks? “I know you’re not blind to the rocks and debris flying literally everywhere! The world would be better off without you in it!” you scream at the villain. The machine is even louder as it breaks and jams into the ground. “Flying building pieces or something, I don’t know—one hit me yesterday. The first day I got knocked into a wall, and then I woke up hugging my body pillow. Same thing the next day. And the next, and the next. Did my number three pro hero partner save me? No, he let me get stuck in a fucking time loop!” Or, you’ll do a lot of things with infinite time on your hands, but falling in love with Keigo Takami isn’t one of them.

a/n: yesssss update's out have a fun time reading!

warnings: suicide attempts (with the understanding that she will reset), hawks pins reader to a building, rudeness, icky romantic stuff 🤮

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“Whoa.” Your hands come up in front of your chest as the kid’s arm crackles—crackles?—with lightning. “Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa hang on, I don’t fight children!”

You don’t think the nerd hears you, because he’s jumping forward with wide, fearful, despaired eyes. “Detroit”—of course he’s an All Might copycat, USA lover, star spangled stripes, would still smash their number one hero, though more like she’d smash you because she’s super strong—”SMAAASH!”

Fuck your life. Truly.

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You go back to the beach the next today. Not to kill All Might again, even if you did cheat and break the vow you’d made to yourself the first day you officially started training to be a hero (haha your soul is broken you’re going to hell except you’re not because you’re stuck in a time loop and ohmygosh maybe this is hell maybe when you got hit by the rock that first day you died what the shiiiiit). No no, you won’t kill him again, because you’re just far more interested in who this tiny little green loser is and just how he KOed you with one punch.

That’s not, like, easy. You killed the top ten heroes minus the dumb bird! By right of passage, that makes you the number one! Or at least the number two if Hawks is de facto one even though he totally isn’t. He admitted MULTIPLE times that he would have just let you kill him. Who needs a flimsy number one hero like that?

Speaking of flimsy number one heroes.

You’re probably losing your mind more than you thought. Why are you looking at a chibi version of All Might?

Goddamn are heroes stupid! You’re perched up just barely out of view and neither the LITERAL NUMBER ONE or his protege have noticed you as they eat and yap about CLASSES of all things!

Okay, so when you killed All Might, he wasn’t exactly himself because he hasn’t had his Snickers bar yet or whatever. Which means you didn’t really kill the number one, and so the right of passage still leaves you at number two (yeah yeah, de facto Hawks number two, then you). 

So if Small Might (good one! that’s original!) can’t fight you, that would mean the real foe you’d need to defeat is YOUNG MIDRORIYA! Only problem is that YOUNG MIDORIYA! is a child and y’know, you’re not quite that comfortable in your amorality yet. Already you feel queasy every time you think about the way you killed LightMight. 

Still, one doesn’t just go around California Cabana-ing every single person they see, so when YOUNG MIDORIYA! starts walking back to whichever hovel he crawled out of, you follow him until you see someone trip in front of him, large drink in their hands. 

What would have soaked his shirt now completely coats his face with just a liiiiitle bit of wind.

Respect your elders, kid. You’ll never be the next Mini Might with that attitude. Although, that isn’t any reason to apologize that profusely to the lady that spilled the drink. No, there’s no need to buy her a new drink either, your face got soaked, not her’s, she was the one not looking where she was going. OFFERING AN AUTOGRAPH FROM ERASERHEAD? HUH? DID SHE LOSE HER DRINK OR DID SHE LOSE HER WHOLE GODDAMN FAMILY?

Oh, she doesn’t even know who Eraserhead is. Ha. That’s right, walk home with your sorry little green head all wet. That’ll teach you not to bribe civilians.

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The next day, you wake up, ignore Hawks’ text first thing in the morning, open your window and jump out. Then you wake up in your bed again, and repeat. Repeat. Repeat. It’s entertaining for all of six minutes before the nothingness and despair becomes passionless.

What’s left? What more is there?

Well, it was kinda fun taking Ryukyu up to space (no it wasn’t?). You could try that again. Opening the window, you go up this time, instead of down.

Today, you’ll try to reach the sun.

First, you’re shot by someone who must think you were a stray bird. First, rude. Second, still illegal. Rot in jail. You love being a pro hero, the police do whatever you say with overt rudeness but begrudging submission. 

Second, you look into the sun too long and uh. Die. That one’s embarrassing.

Third, claws dig into your hips and yank you down. 

“Hey!” You scratch at the hands assisting gravity in bringing you closer to the ground. “What the hell, what are you doing? You never get here this early!”

“What are you doing? Where are you even going?”

“I will kick you in the balls if you don’t let me go, you dumb shit!”

“You’re so nice,” Hawks drawls, and his legs wrap around yours too, one arm around your front to pin your arms to the side. Now it’s only his wings keeping you afloat, his air giving you flight. It infuriates you, appealing muscles aside. “Someone just took a picture of us, by the way. Have fun explaining that one.”

You growl as fiercely as humanly possible, wriggling in his grasp. “Stupid stupid stupid bird impedes justice, gets murdered for it.”

“Too wordy for a hashtag.”

“Okay, how’s about—” It makes your chest hurt when you do it, but you suck in wind towards you using your own breath, and shoot it down to throw his arms away from you. “Hashtag I Did Hawks’ Dad!”

His wings flap as he falls, but he catches himself in no time. You’re propelling back up already, clouds not even within touching distance yet. Not that you wanna touch them. They’re really cold. Might as well touch Endeavor’s heart while you’re at it.

“For your information.” His nails graze your nape this time, and he grips the back of your uniform. With a grunt, he pulls you back again, too strong for those weak birdy bones. You shoot downwards, gasping. “That would make you a criminal fucker.”

You’re sideways, hair twisting in strange ways as you glare up at him. His wings expand impressively, blocking the sun and giving you a good look at a world of crimson gold. 

“Sorry about your dirtbag father. Can you get out of the fucking way?”

Hawks holds up a finger with a condescending look, pointing to his right, then his left. “See these? These are legitimate directions to fly in. Up is nothing. Up doesn’t have anything for you.”

“You’re a fake friend,” you spit, jetting up with a fist raised. 

He blocks, immediately raising his leg to kick you, but you saw that move coming because sometimes you watch his fight compilations for entertainment (and his compilations in real life too, duh). His foot connects with your arm, and the sunlight gleams in his visor. “Is that so? Elaborate for me.”

“Do you know how fucking bored I am? Do you have any idea how much I hate every single fucking person on this planet?”

You land a square hit on his chest; the victory is short lived. Feathers sneak into your sleeves and pull you down, ignoring your kicking and screaming.

“Who could you possibly hate?” he sings.

“You, for starters, winged piece of shit! And Endeavor, yeah, that’s right, dickrider. Cry about it. I hate All Might too—did you know he’s a fraud? And his stupid ass sidekick, or ex boyfriend, or whatever, I paid him a visit and every time he’s about to tell me my future I end up dying, because life hates me just as much as I hate life! I’m not even allowed to know how I go out! Ryuku and Best Jeanist think they can appeal to my better nature, well, I DON’T HAVE ONE! Oh, I hope you get to marry someone someday, Hawks, and I hope they cheat on you and take all your money.”

It might look like you’re flailing, but you’re not. You’re just trying to air out your own clothes to get the feathers out. The man who had taken a picture of you is not full on recording the fight you and Hawks are having.

You flash him two matching middle fingers. 

“Stop it,” Hawks snarls, apparently fed up now (one word against Endeavor and Fanboy Hawks comes out to play). “That shit’ll go viral, you know it will.”

“Sorry to ruin your perfect image, golden boy.” You finally rip the last feather out of your sleeve, biting it in half and spitting it out just to spite him. “Kiss my ass—fuck!”

You’re pinned. Fully against the building. The feathers aren’t under your clothes, they don’t need to be. They connect with each other to form a link that pins your ankles and wrists individually and before you can suck in any air a few more stuff into your mouth as a makeshift gag. Upside down. “I’m not worried about my image, songbird. Your popularity rating is at an all time low lately.”

Because you don’t pose for posers the way he does. And also maybe how not child friendly you are in interviews. Maaaybe because most of the other heroes don’t even like you enough to team up with you.

Not! That! It! Matters!

Hawks can read you well enough from your eyes. He maneuvers his body upside down to look at you face up, and looks into your gaze with a slight quirk of his lips. “What’s the matter, Nightingale? You hate hero society all of a sudden?”

NO SHIT.

“You wanna skip patrol today?”

NO.

“Why not?”

WE’LL BE CALLED TO FIGHT CLOCKINTHEHOLE ANYWAY AND IF WE DON’T GET THERE IN TIME PEOPLE GET INJURED AND YOU GET ALL SAD FOR THE REST OF THE DAY.

“Sorry, gonna need your mouth to transcribe that one.” The gag is lifted and before you can scream he covers your mouth with his hand, “Hey,” he coos, looking like his hair is flying up, “I’m serious. We can skip patrol, or I can do it on my own. I’ll cover for you, no problem.”

“Dude,” you choke, and the wetness running up your temple makes you realize you’re crying, “I wanna die.”

His face changes immediately, dropping every bit of his persona in an instant. The feathers loosen and release you, dropping you, and he catches you bridal style before you can turn on Aerial. 

“Alright, hang on.” His face is pained as he nudges your window open, carrying you in. “Hang on.”

The blood rushes back to your head, and the tears fall normally. He places you against your headboard, right next to the body pillow you always wake up next to. The sight of it makes you cry harder.

“Hey, hey.” Just like he did every time you tried to manipulate fighting tactics out of him to use against Endeavor, Hawks’ thumbs come up to brush your tears away. He sits at the edge of your bed, as though he’s visiting you in the hospital. “Hey, pretty girl, c’mon. Talk to me. Tell me everything. Let me help you.”

Your hands tangle in your own hair and your eyes shut, looking every bit the crazy lady you’ve become. “I want to fly into the sun. Please, just let me do that.”

“I can’t,” he pleads, taking his visor off and setting it aside. His jacket goes next, and he drapes it over you like the two of you aren’t indoors. And not on a date. He’s watched one too many cheesy romcoms. His favorite is John Tucker Must Die. You think that’s because he has mommy issues.

“I can’t,” he repeats, nudging himself next to you and moving your hands from your hair to your lap. His own hands go up to pat your hair down, and brush your shoulders, touch as light as a feather. 

He’s grooming you. Dumb bird. 

A painful sob escapes you, and you fall into him as he rubs your arms, your back, your hair. His bodysuit quickly becomes wet with your tears, but he doesn’t seem to mind, lips on your temple and arms tight around you. He even leans down and kisses a tear straight off your cheek.

“I’ve been living the same day again and again. I’ve lost count of the days. I killed people and I manipulated you and you keep helping me but nothing works. Everyday I have to go through this. Everyday the universe finds a way to kill me. I haven’t—” Your own wail cuts you off, and he squeezes you closer. “I haven’t seen nighttime in forever! I’ll forget what nighttime looks like soon, I’m so sick of the sun!”

He doesn’t say anything. Sometimes he believes you straight away, sometimes he doesn’t, but either way he eventually takes it in stride. He cheers you up. He takes you places or he talks and talks and talks until you’re laughing, laughing so hard you almost don’t feel the pain when you die.

His lips burn on your skin. He keeps them on your temple, warming you far more than his jacket does. 

“I hate telling you this every time,” you sniff, “I wish there was a way I could fast forward it.”

Still, he doesn’t talk. He moves instead, holding you to his heart like you’re.

Gold.

When Hawks does speak, his voice is thicker than normal, like he’s holding back something. Tears of his own, or a confession. Too many times he’s seen you vulnerable now, even if he doesn’t remember, and you don’t think you’ll ever see him in such a state. 

“If you wanna fly into the sun, I won’t stop you.”

You look at him. No hint of a lie in those golden eyes. Pulling away from the safety you’d embraced for a second, you sit back and swallow. “Yeah? No lie?”

“No lie. You’ll come back, right? The day will reset. So it’s okay.”

“Yeah.” Unless today is finally the last day. But you doubt it. You’ll know when it is. If it ever comes.

“Then you can go. Or…”

A few minutes ago, you’d have jumped out the window the second he stopped holding you back. “Or?”

“Or.” His tongue pokes into the side of his cheek. Thinking face. One of the few people who doesn’t have a dumb thinking face. This one actually looks like he’s thinking. “You let me take you somewhere.”

“Where?”

“Surprise,” he says softly, “you’ll like it. Promise.”

And you figure you can always fly into the sun tomorrow. The giant ass star isn’t going anywhere.

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He’s had a hand over your eyes for a couple minutes now, guiding you inside…somewhere. Every few seconds he makes a shushing sound, to who you assume are bystanders wondering why the rude hero who trended number one on Twitter this morning (#FrightingaleBreakdown) is wandering around.

“Are you taking me to a strip club?” you ask suddenly. “I really don’t wanna go to a strip club right now.”

“No, but that’s a good idea. Tell me that one later. Or, tomorrow, or whatever. Whenever you want.”

Yeah. Okay.

A door closes, and that’s when he finally moves his hand. You’d assumed you would have to shield your eyes from some ceiling light. But instead, you’re met by even more darkness.

Well. Not total darkness.

There’s a hint of white. A sliver of silver. And it’s everywhere.

You honesttoGod gasp, staggering back as you witness the night sky. The stars twinkle like shiny teeth (that sparkle, adding beauty to my faaaace, my shiny teeth that glisten, just like a christmas tree, you know they’d walk a mile, just to see me smile (woo!) my shiny teeth and me). Your hands tremble as they close over your mouth, and you don’t realize that you’re tearing up until Hawks’ fingers are under your eyes again, catching the tears before they can fall.

“I know a planetarium isn’t the same as the actual night.” He glows like this, how does one do that? What’s his skincare routine? “But…it’s better than nothing, and I’ll bring you here whenever you want. You say the word to me and we’re here. Or anywhere else. If you can’t get out of the loop, then you should take advantage of it. Have fun. Do things you’ve never had time to do before. I’ll help you.”

For all this trouble, you should stare up at the faux sky, not at him.

“And um, to speed up the process.” His cheeks dust pink, and he whispers, “Keigo.”

That’s when you find your voice. “What?”

“Keigo. My name. I’ve never told anyone, so, you know. I’ll believe you faster.” His face is red now, all the way up to the tips of his prickly ears. 

“Kei-go.” You test it out on your tongue, eyes on him. “Well, what if I’m just messing with you and I’m not actually reliving today?”

He exhales in a way that tells you the thought didn’t even cross his mind. As if you’re sooo goodhearted you would never do such a thing. But you absolutely would.

“It’d be worth it.” Hawks—Keigo—shrugs. “To hear you say my name.”

Oh.

You step forward, you think, to kiss him, but before you get the chance the ground shakes, and then crumbles directly under your feet. You don’t even hear his cry of surprise. Is this an earthquake? No, quicksand? But that makes no sense—except the curse doesn’t make any sense at all, so yeah. Sure. You’ll go out like that.

You wake up with the taste of sand and good sense never to try and kiss your partner again. 

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“You’re early!” Hawks greets you at patrol.

“Yeah, well.” You sigh, blowing into the cup of hot tea in your hand. “We don’t all take our time like you, Keigo.”

[spectres-fulcrum]

So the reason I brought up DIC making Saphir have a crush on Esmeraude is because it ties into why I think Petz got dumped in the original, and I don’t think it was because of Wiseman…

See that change was meant to cover up Saphir commiserating with Esmeraude in the original, where after he goes on a long monologue about the dangers of a woman’s jealousy he then reveals (with quite a dark smirk on his face I might add!) that he understands how she feels because he also hates Sailor Moon! (presumably out of jealousy like Esmeraude since he was comparing himself to her)

Why would this piece of dialogue need to be censored/changed in the first place? Well I think it was yet another example of DIC’s desperate attempt to straightwash all over the place and the original was obviously meant to suggest, if not outright state, that Saphir has romantic feelings for Demande. (It makes sense when you realize this was the first season Ikuhara directed and if you know the man’s history in anime he loves inserting random incest into everything, even the anime original Ail & En could technically be considered an incest ship, yet that wasn’t censored by DIC unlike Demande/Saphir for obvious reasons 🙄 I love the old dub and have major nostalgia for it too but you can’t say it’s one objective flaw was it’s homophobia being off the charts!)

There was another scene that just completely got the cutting room floor in the DIC dub that also suggested feelings between the two brothers. I don’t know how to post gifs in asks but it’s in episode 86, the episode where Chibi-Usa becomes Black Lady, Demande and Saphir are talking and during the convo Demande kinda flirtatiously, slowly brushes Saphir’s hair out of his eyes with his knuckles/fingers and Saphir’s whispering gently and giving him bedroom eyes back. (Do you know which scene I’m talking about? There should be gifs of it floating around, all I can say is that scene definitely didn’t look platonic or like simple brotherly affection, and DIC apparently felt the same way considering how they immediately exorcised it lol)

It doesn’t stop there though, further supplemental materials only ever released in Japan further confirm their canonicity. In the Sailor Moon R Official Memorial Guidebook Saphir’s profile describes him as “Always only thinking about his brother, Demande was the only person he loved, (and they use the term “Aisatsu” for love which is a congugation of “Ashiteru” and from what I know of my Japanese that’s only used in reference to the most serious deceleration of romantic love correct?) “Petz loved him but he could only see Demande.” as well as “Strict to others and himself but sweet to his brother.”Then there’s the various Drama CDs that were never released outside of Japan, one of them features the Ayakashi Sisters and Petz outright states that “she’ll never fall for a brocon again!” Pretty much directly confirming that Saphir was the man who broke Petz’s heart and caused her to hate all men and he did so because of his feelings for Demande (though this is also subtly implied during the episode when they meet up and Petz says somewhat bitterly during their reunion “There you go again, only ever caring about Prince Demande…”)

So uh yeah the TLDR of it all is that it’spretty much implied that the reason Saphir dumped Petz was because he always had secret feelings for Demande that he couldn’t get over and Petz apparently knew this, it’s like this weird af love triangle Ikuhara made up with Petz > Saphir > Demande (love square? Since Neo-Queen Serenity is also in the mix though she doesn’t know it and couldn’t care less lol - I would put Esmeraude in there too but if you watch her episodes it seems obvious her feelings for Demande aren’t as serious as Saphir’s and she seems mostly into him just for his status and power)

No way someone finally engages with my occasional my Sailor Moon content just to push an incest crush headcanon ☠️☠️☠️ What is my luck. I mean you do you for sure but I’ll break down my thoughts.

I’ve always seen Sapphire’s love for Demande as a younger brother worshipping an older one, mixed together with two facts. A. Demande is a prince/the heir/whatever so Sapphire was raised mixing normal brotherly adoration with knowing by royal rules that he is supposed to worship his brother in a royal subversive way too kinda. And B. They are, in a lot a ways, all they have. No parents, no sibling. It’s just them. Against time and space and with courtiers and Wiseman. The only person they truly can trust is each other. So yes, for Sapphire, he was always geing to choose his only brother, his prince, his only blood, over a girl. That’s not romantic.

And now Demande is straying from their mission, is getting obsessed with the rival queen aka Sailor Moon. That’s dangerous. What if Demande goes off path? What would Wiseman do? What would it do to their mission, their plans for Crystal Tokyo? I always took it as he hates her because she’s a temptation to Demande that represents nothing but ruin for everything they’ve worked so hard to achieve.

Why did DiC change the lines? Because DiC is stupid? Because they wanted to do a bit of a love triangle? This is the same company that took Jadeite meeting a disguised Usagi and feeling suspicious around her and made it Jedeite crushing on Serena. DiC did that stuff a. Ton. (But yes. They were very homophobic.)

And I think it is so important that Demande and Sapphire’s brotherly love was what kept them… human deep down. It was their devotion to each other. And it was brotherly. Idk. Just how I view them. But I’m also a big Usagi/Demande shipper so I have very little interest in thinking about Demande with other people or introducing other people with unrequited crushes when Emerald is a handful and a half.

[moonlightsdreaming]

I had always assumed the proposal scene happened in the relatively immediate aftermath of the Galaxy Cauldron, too! But then I was like, WAIT, she was pregnant during their wedding, which means she has to be ~21, and I guess the proposal could have been years earlier, theoretically it's possible that they were engaged just after Chaos' defeat, but it definitely read to me like this was a time-skip. I was thinking about the timeline thing and two things occurred to me: 1. The timeline can be changed, because the bodies of people from the future start to fade when things happen in the past. Crystal Tokyo's Soldiers start fading and, when Galaxia pushes Mamoru into the Galaxy Cauldron, Chibi-Usa's body fades away in front of Usagi:

The events aren't written in stone, if something happens in the past, the future that Chibi-Usa came from can be changed. Also Neo-Queen Serenity is unsure of Diana's success after sending her into the past to complete her mission and Artemis and Luna's bodies start disappearing, which says she doesn't know what happened already, so it either has to be separate timelines or the timeline getting rewritten. I tend towards rewritten, because Chibi-Usa disappearing when things happen in this timeline says to me that this is her past, not a separate timeline from her past. (This is interesting to apply to Artemis and Luna as well, given that they definitely existed in the original future, but we never see them for sure alive again after they die in Stars, either in the present or the future--I'm on the fence about whether Naoko intended that, left it a mystery, or meant to say, yeah, the timeline was overwritten and they died.) 2. Whatever else Sailor Cosmos is, she comes from the future and traveled back to destroy the Galaxy Cauldron so that she wouldn't have to face all the fighting against the agents of Chaos--which is overwriting the timeline, too:

But if all this isn't meant to be timeline overwriting--because I love the worldbuilding, but I don't think Naoko ever meant for it to be hard fantasy/scifi worldbuilding lol so she may have definitely been handwaving some stuff--I do really like your idea that their memories become hazy because of Timeline Shenanigans, that absolutely feels like something the series would do. .....and then I had to drag out all my manga volumes as well to reread because I got curious and King Endymion says:

It's initially just the people of Crystal Tokyo that have their lives extended, but it's later in the 30th Century that everyone on Earth has their lives extended as well--which makes me wonder, I'm pretty sure I remember somewhere saying that Neo-Queen Serenity was queen of all of the Earth, but now I'm wondering precisely where that was said, if at all. So maybe it's that they decide to build Crystal Tokyo and people just. Decide to join because it looks really cool, the Queen can literally heal the Earth (like she did in the Dark Kingdom arc), and people's lives are being extended if you're around her and her crystal. I also headcanon that knowledge of Elysion eventually got out and Mamoru's connection to the Earth/being Sailor Earth made them a lot more willing to join Endymion and Serenity's kingdom as well. And I know that, same as the Soldiers' fukus just not being designed yet, so they don't have their Eternal outfits, Endymion not having the Golden Crystal is just that the story hadn't gotten there yet, but I do think it could be really interesting to view it in the sense of the timeline shifting, as the present day powers up--like a threat like Death Phantom doesn't seem like it would phase Eternal Sailor Moon, but it seemed like a struggle for Neo-Queen Serenity at the time--is Neo-Queen Serenity getting more powerful as current day Usagi gets more powerful, too?

A question that has been itching at me for awhile now: Is Chibi-Usa ever called "Tsukino Chibi-Usa" in the anime or the manga? Because I honestly cannot think of a time where she was--and she's "Usagi" or "Small Lady" or the full "Usagi Small Lady Serenity" in the future, for memory? "Tsukino Chibi-Usa" is a reasonable conclusion while she's staying with the Tsukino family, but I don't think I ever recall actually seeing it?? But maybe I'm just forgetting it?? And, if we're talking post-manga/after Mamoru and Usagi are married when she's first born, "Chiba Usagi" might make sense depending on how quickly Usagi and Mamoru became Neo-Qeen Serenity and King Endymion or if she was always just "Usagi Small Lady Serenity". But was she actually called any of those things at any point? I'M ITCHING TO KNOW.

[writing-fanics]

[Mamoru x Fem!Reader]

[Part Seven]

 a/n; so for this season I'm focusing more on Mamoru and Y/n's relationship so, i'll have a lot of og, scenes to do it.. and, as well have elements from the show... i'll use the manga fo chibi-usa introduction and, of course i'll have that dramatic break up scene that hurts me..... ] 

so this chapter maybe short i'm more focused on having interaction's between y/n and mamoru just to add more to their rekindling romance, even though they don't know that they know each-other. If it seems to be moving fast in them rebuilding their relationship they once had, I don't think it is im my opinoi. 

I know the moonlight knight is the embodiment of Mamoru's strong love for usagi.. in the story its y/n..but in this... some feelings are still there in Mamoru, but they are because he has a slight tiny tincy wincy little crush on y/n even though he doesn't know much about her.. the two have really cute interactions in which for them, feel strangely familiar....

i can't wait to do the babysitting chapter.. oh, goodness i'm gonna die at how cute its gonna be.. 

Also for the flashbacks,, I know its not explicitly mentioned in the manga, but for me I think the reincarnations of Mamoru and Usagi, Endymion and Serenity.. Were the same age so they were like possibly 16 or 17.. Maybe but for Serenity.. she would be 100 or something due to the silver crystal granting an 1000 live longevity. 

So Endymion and Y/n are 17.. don't judge me... 

[Y/n] sighed as she looked up, at the stars. A longing look on her face, every night she would do this. It always seemed to bring her comfort,  as she looked up at the sky. She noticed something, making its way down. She gasps, as it crashes into the ground. And, explodes. 

Her eyes widened, as she looks at it. And, runs out of her apartment complex to get a look at it. Everyone in the surrounding area, made their way to the crater that was left by the explosion. They all stood around the edge, 

"Musta been a meteor!" Rei's grandfather says, looking at it. 

[Y/n] looks curiously at the boulder, "No way!! All candy is 80% off?! Sounds like my kinda place!" Usagi shouts, looking at the flyer. 

"If all you ever eat are sweets, you'll turn your body into a giant bun, too." Mamoru says, looking at Usagi.

"Hey I know that obnoxious voice." She says, looking towards him. 

"Only you call me that!" She shouts at him, 

"The thought of a Bun-head turning into a bun-body is almost too much for me to take." He says, causing [Y/n] to snicker a bit, trying to hold back a laugh at this interaction. A familiar feeling washed over her, this felt so familiar.. 

Why was it?

[Time-Skip] 

[Y/n] was at the library, looking at books about the stars. Even though she already knew so much, it wouldn't hurt to know more. She got up from the chair and, checked out the books she was reading. She left the library and, made her way back to the apartment while reading her book, as she looked at the book. 

She didn't realize she bumped into someone, causing them to both drop their books. "I-I'm so sorry." She says, bending down, to help pick up their books. 

"It's okay, seems I'm being bumped into a lot lately." He says, to her and, she looks up at him. It was Mamoru, 

"O-Oh, hi Mamoru." She says, looking up at him. 

He looks up at her, "Hi, Y/n. Second time bumping into me today." He says to her and, chuckles nervously. Picking up his dropped books, 

"I-It seems so.." She says, smiling at him. The two then seem to reach out for the same book, their hands touching. A familiar warmth washing over them, the two look into each-other's eyes. The two quickly pull their hands away, from each-other a slight blush spread across their faces. 

[Y/n] turns back and, reaches for the book. Picking up the last one of Mamoru's books, she looks at him. "A-ah, sorry for bumping into you again." She says, to him nervously. 

"It's okay." He says, taking the books from her. And, handing her, her own books. She smiles at him, as he helps her off the ground. The two smile at each-other, the two look into each-other's eyes. 

"H-Have a nice day Mamoru." She says, bowing at him. Then walking away, a blush spread across his face... Her heart was racing and, she didn't know why. She barely knew Mamoru, but for some reason she felt she's known him for her entire life. 

This was so weird...

An saw this and, gasps. "Ugh! Who does she think she is?!" She says, as she was about to walk towards Mamoru, she fell to her knees. Clenching her chest, needing more energy. 

[Y/n] sat at her desk, taking notes on Stars. For her university, she sighed as she typed away. As she did, she couldn't stop thinking about Mamoru. And, again she didn't know why. She groaned and, fell onto the floor. She looked up at the ceiling, 

"Get your head outta the clouds, Y/n." She says, looking up at the ceiling. She sighs, she looks out the window once more. And, walks onto her balcony, she looks up at the stars. As she looks up at the stars, she sees Mamoru looking up at them, she looks over at him and, smiles. 

He sees her and, smiles back at her. "You must really like the stars." He says and, she giggles and, nods. 

"Yes, I love the stars. I absolutely adore them." She says, looking up at them. Her hands, clasps together. He looks at her, 

"It's the only thing, that makes me feel close to my mother." She says, to him a smile spread across her face. As she looks, at Mamoru. This moment between them, once again feeling so familiar. The two looking at each-other under the night sky. 

The two even though not knowing much about one another, would just have these interactions that seemed like they do know about each-other. Her eyes seemed to sparkle as she stood there underneath the stars, the two just stared at each-other. 

[Y/n] looked down, she began playing with her fingers. "I-I should probably get back to working on my paper." She says, blushing. She slowly backs away, a blush spread across her face. She turns back towards him and, jokingly says, 

"I-I guess I-I'll see you tomorrow when we bump into each-other." She says jokingly, causing Mamoru to chuckle a bit. Her heart skips a beat,

"I hope so.." He says and, her heart was racing. She felt like she was going to pass out, from embarrassment.She smiles, at this and, looks at Mamoru. 

"G-Goodnight Mamoru." She says, her hand over her heart. As she walks into her apartment, she plops onto her bed and, blushes. Her heart racing. She brought the blanket to her face and, squealed quietly to herself. As she lays in the bed, she couldn't stop thinking about him... 

All these interactions are so familiar, they feel so familiar. She snuggles her head, into her pillow and, smile. She slowly begins to close her eyes and, falls asleep. As she lays in bed, a monster breaks into her apartment. Causing her to be startled awake, hearing the shattering of glass. She gets out of bed and, grabs the broom that was in her room. 

She opened the door to her bedroom and, gasps seeing the monster in front of her. "What the f-.." She says, but was grabbed by the neck by the monster. 

"Vampir!" it shouted, as it began to drain her of her energy. She tried to hit the monster with her broom, but the monster snaps it in two. She groans as her energy begins to drain, from her body. 

"Y/n!" Atlas shouted, jumping at the monster attacking it. But it flings him away, causing him to hit the wall. The monster drops [Y/n] who falls to the ground in a daze, Usagi now as Sailor Moon runs into the room, 

"Y/n!" Sailor Moon shouts, shaking her but [Y/n] is unfazed. The monster attacks Sailor Moon and, begins to drain her energy. Atlas looks at this in shock, "No! Sailor Moon!" He shouts, seeing her struggling. He was conflicted, all they wanted was to have a normal life. 

And, [Y/n] and Mamoru, bit by bit were already rekindling their lost romance. She wanted a normal life with him, not having to worry about monsters, coming after them. Or having to save the world and, lose people she loves. Tears brim Atlas eyes, "I'm sorry Y/n! But Sailor Moon needs your help. Become Sailor Luna again!" he says, as a beam comes out of his crescent moon, and it hits [Y/n]'s forehead. 

Tears roll down her cheeks, as the memories are beginning to come back. The death of her friends, her dying in Mamoru's arms. And, him staying by her side till the very end. 

'No, please let me live a normal life!' 

'Please, that's all I want is that so hard to ask for!' 

'I don't want to remember! let me live a normal life!' 

'Nooo!' 

She gasps tears rolling down her cheeks, she smiles sadly at Atlas. "I'm so sorry Y/n.." He says and, she shakes her head. 

"There was no other choice." She says, wiping the tears from her eyes. She stands up, 

'Lunar Prism Power Make-Up!' 

[Y/n] looks at Vampir and, growls. Kicking, it in the face. Sending it flying out her window, "If it wasn't for you we'd be living a normal life, no thanks to you!" She shouts at it, it swings at her and, she dodges it. She jumps do

"Come on, Sailor Moon." She shouts, looking towards her, Who looks up at her and, nods. 

"Right." Sailor Moon says, as she touches her tiara. 

'Moon Tiara Action ' 

'Lunar Beam!''

They watch as the monster disappears and, a card appears before them. Falling onto the ground and, fading away... 

"Sailor Moon and Sailor Luna was it? I had no Idea someone like you was on this planet." Ail said, appearing as an apparition.

"Who are you people?!" [Y/n] shouts, at them. 

"Nomadic Nobles of the universes I'm Ail." He says, looking at them. 

"And I am An." An says, 

"You were the ones who sent that monster, weren't you" Sailor Moon shouted, at them. 

"Yeah but that was only a sneak peek at was what to come. " An says, laughing as they fade away. 

[Time-Skip] 

[Y/n] groaned, as the sound of glass crunches as she walks on the floor. "Man, this is gonna cost so much to get repaired." She says, looking down. She couldn't deal with it tonight it was going, to have to be tomorrow before she could do anything. Atlas was in her arms, she looked down at him and, said, 

"Looks like we're going to have to stay at a hotel for a bit." She says, to him. Looking down, as she left her apartment and, making her way to the nearest hotel. Once in the hotel [Y/n] plopped onto the bed and, laid her head down on the pillow. 

"Y/n?" Atlas says, jumping onto the bed walking towards her.  "Are you okay?" He asks and, she groans and, shakes her head. He notices tears in her eyes, 

"No, even though I have all my memories back, so does Usagi.. I know eventually the others will, but... I don't know why I have this feeling Mamoru will never remember me.." She cries into the pillow, 

"M-Maybe, I can try to help him remember; but... I have this feeling nothing I say or do will help him at all. I love him so much and, now I felt before I had my memories back, that we were slowly rekindling what we'd lost." She mumbles, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"I'm sure he'll remember you eventually, you're Princess Y/n and he's Prince Endymion. You two are star-crossed lovers, who always find a way back to each other." He says to her and, [Y/n] looks at him. A smile spreads, across her cheek. 

"Thanks Atlas." She says, petting him and, he purrs. She looks out the window, looking at the stars. As a picture of image of Mamoru's smile enters her head, tears stream down her cheeks. 

- [ Flashback ] - Silver Millennium 

[Y/n] was looking down at the ring, that Endymion gave her. She fiddles with it a smile, spread across her face. As she looks up at the moon, her hands clasp together. In prayer, hoping for the future for her and, Endymion to be allowed together. 

So they could start, a life together. And, as well have both the Earth and Moon kingdom together as one, where they could live together in peace. Where her and Endymion, could be happy and, as well either have a prince or princess of their own. 

She wanted to have a future with, him. That was her ultimate dream, for both kingdom's to be one. A life she wanted for both of them, to have a happy and, prosperous kingdom. She smiles as she looks up at the stars, as she looks down back at the ring. 

She was so lost in her own world, she didn't notice her sister coming up behind her. She tapped on her shoulder, causing [Y/n] to jump. 

"Ah, Serenity!" She shouts, turning back towards her sister. 

"Please you, must keep it a secret." She says, to her showing her the ring. 

"I love him so much, and I know it's forbidden." She says, fiddling with the ring a smile on her face. 

"What if he's using you?" Serenity asks, taking her sister's hand into her own, [Y/n] shakes her head, and looks at Serenity. 

"That's not like him, he'd never do anything like that. He loves me, I can see it in his eyes." [Y/n] says, to her a smile on her face. 

"But...I'm worried about you. I don't want to see you hurt." Serenity says to her and, she intertwines her fingers with her sisters. 

"You won't he promises to protect me." [Y/n] says, smiling at her looking back up at the stars. She smiles at her, Serenity looks at her sister. 

"Then.. I'm happy for you.."  Serenity says to her, [Y/n] wraps her arms around Serenity, she hugs her sister back. 

"For the both of you.." She says and, [Y/n] giggles at her. 

"And, the ring is beautiful." She says and, [Y/n] nods. 

"It is, I don't know if I can live in a world without him." [Y/n] says, looking at the Earth. 

"I want to be there with him, every second of everyday. In his arms, where I feel safe." She says, wrapping her arms around herself. 

"In his arms, is where I belong." She says, smiling looking up at the stars. 

"My Endymion, the love of my life.. My one true love.." She says, looking at the garden. 

[Time-Skip]

[Y/n] was on Earth dancing underneath the night sky with Endymion, a smile spread across both of their face. She giggled, as she looked into Endymion's eyes, his eyes that she'd always get lost in. Like he would for hers, her eyes that shined brighter than any other star in the sky he would say. 

Endymion placed his hand on her cheek and, she accepted it. Placing her hand over his, she leaned into his touch. She blushed at what she was thinking, "What is it, my star."  He asks and, she looks up at him a blush spread across her cheeks. 

"I-I was just thinking about, how it be life if we ever had a little prince or princess." She says, looking down embarrassed.. Endymion blushed at this, but he smiled. Placing his fingers underneath her chin, causing her to look up at him. 

"i'm sure, if we were to ever have a prince or princess. They'd have eyes that shine brighter than any other star and, your beauty. Kind, sweet, caring personality."  He says to her and, she smiles at him placing her hand on his cheeks. 

"And, I know that they have your, kind, caring, personality. And, will go to any lengths to protect the ones they love." She says, as the two intertwine their fingers and, share a kiss. Thinking about what it would be like, to have a prince and princess. 

"I can tell out future will be bright, full of love. Happiness." She says, snuggling her head into Endymion's chest. He places his head, on the top of her head. 

"Elara.." She says, smiling up at him.

"That's what I want to name our future princess, when we become one." She says, and Endymion smiles, placing his hand on her cheek. 

"Elara.." He says, nodding. And, she hugs him giggling. 

[ugh... i was gonna have the reader be secretly pregnant with his child.. but i decided not too...] .. 

SIKE! They are in love what do you expect.. but she's in the really early stages and, isn't getting any symptoms.. 

[Y/n] smiles as she looks up at the stars, her hand clasps together. Praying, 

'Please, let the Moon and Earth Kingdom be one kingdom, one day. Were Endymion and I, and possibly our future child can, live together happily. As a kingdom, that is peaceful. Where we aren't separated from the ones, we love.'' 

She says, looking up at the sky. Tears rolling down her cheeks, "My Endymion." She says, happily. Placing her hand, on her stomach, smiling softly. 

"My little Elara." She says, rubbing it gently. Feeling the tiny child in her stomach..She looks at the stars. But it was that same day, the Moon Kingdom fell. Where she lost Endymion, which in grief she took her own life. 

[Flash-back Ended] 

[Y/n] placed her hand on her stomach, tears brimming her eyes. She placed her hand over her mouth, 

"We were gonna have a princess." She says, choking back a sob. Closing her eyes, looking up at the ceiling. [Y/n], smiles looking down at the blanket.

She looks down at her stomach, even though she wasn't pregnant. It felt like she could feel the small child in her stomach, growing. A child they had created together through love in secret, she looked towards the window. And, up at the sky. 

Tears streaming down her cheeks, for a child she never had the chance of knowing. "Elara.." She says, softly looking up at stars. She closes her eyes and, smiles softly. 

[ i was gonna have a future flash where yall see Elara. .but i decided not and to wait till we get to that..]

[keyofjetwolf]

Bonus Question Answers! (non-anime animated noms)

This was SO. FUCKING. HARD. This question went so much better than I expected, and I’m only sad I lack the artistic skills to make it all a reality.

Below, my PAINSTAKINGLY selected top answers, If yours is listed below, you’ve earned an entry in a random draw to win a GIFTENING liveblog OF YOUR CHOICE

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Q: The Senshi suddenly find themselves in a very different animated world. Which cartoon power (think Looney Tunes) do they each now possess?

*  Usagi can make literal rainbows happen when she smiles.  Rei can set anything on fire with her mind (she feels a bit cheated because she can do that at home too).  Ami can write down anything in her special notebook and it literally changes reality around her (she does not share this with her fellow Senshi, because she knows the full weight of this power.  She did, however, write Michiru having a bad hair day for just one day.  Just one.)  Makoto has the ability to pull out any ingredient she wants from any pantry/door/closet.  She usually uses this for cooking purposes, so she won't have to purchase groceries.  Minako has the ability to mimic any voice in the world, whether she has heard it or not.  Hijinks ensue.  The Outer Senshi sensibly escaped from the new animated world right after Michiru recovered from her bad hair day.  They don't speak of the experience. -- @amberlilly  [The whole thing was so solid, but what absolutely sent it over the top for me was Ami using her powers to fuck with Michiru in the most petty benign way, which is EVERYTHING.]

*  Usagi is definitely rocking the exaggerated tear gushers.  Ami can pull charts/diagrams out of nowhere at any time.  Rei combusts when she gets sufficiently mad.  Makoto has birds fly around when she sings while cooking or cleaning.  Minako breaks the fourth wall to make jokes and asides to the audience.  Chibi-Usa is somehow able to walk through ludicrous danger without getting touched, because the censors won't allow kids to be hurt in this show. Haruka can make girls melt into puddles of goo with her flirting.  Michiru can summon a servant at any time to take care of an unpleasant or potentially dirty task for her (including to take the slapstick comedy for her).  Setsuna has access to the script.  Hotaru just sort of appears sometimes, just standing there, silently and menacingly, but never does anything on-screen (though you may hear the occasional off-screen screaming).  Oh, and while I'd like to say Mamoru gains the power of inexplicable entrances... he kinda already has that one.  --Darkcloud k'California  [Again, I loved all these, but particularly Chibs saved by the censors, Michiru’s poor hapless slapstick avatar, and everything about Hotaru, thank you.]

*  Usagi: The power to be found charming by every character she encounters and somehow escape all consequences and damage by simply remaining oblivious, a la Tweety Bird.

Rei: The power to explode, reducing her surroundings to charred wasteland, but remain relatively unscathed (perhaps a bit singed)

Ami: The power to grow multiple arms, hands, and hundreds of fingers in order to do tech stuff

Makoto: The power to punch someone through a brick wall, possibly several, and into someone's family dinner. It's always some surprised-looking family's private event. Often the same family.

Minako: the power to, Bugs Bunny style, apply lipstick and seduce ANYTHING. Which, according to her, is a power she already has.

Haruka: The power to run off a cliff and keep going until she looks down. She never learns to not look down.

Michiru: The power to stick a pin into any other character and cause them to deflate like a balloon

Hotaru: She just gets to actually be used. It is thrilling.

Pluto: She will observe this strange planet from afar with her huge telescope and breathe the Martian air and look great in a kilt and Roman-style helmet. --  @incorrecttact  [Your set-up and punchline delivery style on all of these was perfection, and I legit lol’d at Mako and the poor family she continually interrupts.]

* to make dynamite go BOOM (Rei obviously); to have their opponent chase them to the point where they're floating in midair and then their opponent falls 5000 feet but they calmly walk back to land (like Wil E Coyote & the Roadrunner) (Usagi); the power to blow kisses to their opponent (which are clearly poisonous and end up killing the chap) (Minako); the power to have their opponent's entire arm shattered if they try to even punch them lightly on the arm (Makoto - this is canon anyways, but moreso exaggerated here hehe); to open a book and start reading it out loud and words start showing up on screen, confusing tf out of their opponent (Ami - also canon already)  --@midnightdrops  [Each of these were great, but Usagi and Mako as you described them totally sold me.]

* usagi: can now float on yummy aromas, so long as they lead her somewhere tasty! the others play a quick tournament of jun-ken-pon each time it happens to determine who will be responsible for steering her from blissfully drifting into traffic. again.

ami: is now possessed of x-ray vision! only she can neither turn it off, nor control its intensity. she is working on developing a set of goggles to dampen the effect, and secretly hopes they will make her look like geordi laforge.

rei: rei-chan is now blessed with the power of song! her heartfelt melodies soften the malice of even the most one-dimensional baddie, and influence public policy on a global scale. international success life, yo! i guess she's really a hard worker!

makoto: has become something of a cartoon cupid! in a poorly-ventilated room, her mere presence has bystanders declaring their love for one another within minutes*; and her decadent wedding cakes are the hit of second marriages across the country. *all of them so like her old senpai, and none of them falling for her, alas!

minako: employs her considerable powers of confidence and charm to convince the others she now has access to Plot Manipulation, mainly by engineering and taking ownership of a series of happy accidents. her real power is to literally jump out of her skin when she's startled*, and she has no intention of EVER letting the others know about it.  *minako discovered this new ability while she was changing a roll of toilet paper, and a spider dropped onto her hand. the leader of the inner senshi had never been so horrified. her bones were so slick and cold, her skin a hideous unwiped pile, and then THE SPIDER CRAWLED INTO THE PILE and she STILL doesn't know if it ever got out and sometimes her skin itches REALLY bad and you know what let's stop talking about this right now okay???

setsuna: can now manifest a giant pencil and erase the enemy! but doing so would be breaking The Greatest Taboo, and leave her impaled upon the pencil.

haruka: her new empathetic ability is remarkably similar to Ma-Ti's "heart" ring (Captain Planet and the Planeteers, 1990 - 1996). basically, she's just like really soft at you, and it inspires you to take more positive actions toward yourself and the world at large? she protests about wishing she'd received something tough and intimidating, but secretly is very moved by being made an instrument of kindness.

michiru: her intuition has mutated into fourth wall awareness, and the subtlety with which she makes this known to you is SO GODDAMN UNCOMFORTABLE OH MY GOD

hotaru: can now not only communicate with inanimate objects, but also render them permanently animate! you should have been there during the princess tutu crossover episode when she met lamp-chan - they're STILL inseparable, and chibiusa is SUPER jealous. speaking of which,

chibiusa: can now use hammerspace to store her endless series of magical geegaws and weird animal boyfriends.  -- @rasiqra-revulva  [Dude, you have got to stop making me snort laugh, it’s RUDE. Pure solid gold, every word, with a special nod to Haruka, MICHIRU, and Minako’s extended tragic cartoon backstory.]

* Usagi - like her name suggests, she is now Bunny. By which I mean she is now a very pink and blonde bunny (somewhere between Bugs and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit), but with super-elastic limbs to accompany her new form. Ami - Magical Science Powers up to and including ‘mix one brightly colored liquid in flask with another brightly colored liquid in flask, explosion, get hammer.’ Rei - An infinite supply of dynamite she can pull out of nowhere. This shouldn’t be as useful as it is. Mako - Literally suplexed a giant metallic youma not just untransformed, but before she has Senshi powers at all. I fully believe she could lift an anvil in canon. Minako - While Usagi looks like a rabbit, Mina now has the supernatural trickster abilities of Bugs Bunny. Implausibly effective bad disguises, persuasion, showing up out of nowhere. Chibs - Now that gun from her first appearance is a real gun, but it shoots anything from normal bullets to pies in the face to live birds. Pluto - The fourth wall is a real and tangible thing. Pluto can not just break it, but control it. If she wants to remove a layer of cel or suddenly turn things into sketch, she can do it. If she wants to teleport, she can skip in the animation. If she wants to suddenly appear as a Roger Rabbit-style cartoon in a live action field, or vice versa? Yeah, she can do that too. She basically uses this power to warp the layers of her cartoonish reality for pastry acquisition. Haruka - You’d think it would be Roadrunner speed. Haruka thinks it will be Roadrunner speed. But no, it isn’t. Space Jam is Looney Tunes, and Haruka’s power is Basketball. Michiru - Another power that’s just canonical: Wealth. Ridiculous, tremendous wealth. Hotaru - The funniest thing for Hotaru to be in a zany cartoon world is Even More Spooky. Nothing changes except the artstyle and a ridiculous supervillain cape.  -- Regalli  [Pluto, man. Fantastic and brilliant and I legit WANT THIS. Also though, Hotaru with a cape.]

*  Usagi gains the ability to eat anything and everything like the Tazmanian Devil, though she shares none of his aggressive personality; Minako enjoys fucking with people by bending reality (you know, diving into painted tunnels and stuff like that); Ami is able to utilize and test unreal technology without harm, like jet boots, massive bombs, tornado seeds, etc.; Mako uses body manipulations to change her size and shape--especially for blocking attacks to protect people or grabbing people (coupled with her immense strength); and Rei is the only one aware of the audience beyond the Fourth Wall... She tries not to talk to them but sometimes she just can't help it, especially when Usagi is getting on her nerves.  -- @thehubby  [I said pander to me, and you absolutely did. I can’t stop thinking about Rei trying not to make fourth wall eye contact, then just whirling around all “CAN YOU FUCKING BELIEVE THIS SHIT??!?” and as it turns out, that IS precisely what I wanted.]

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I’ll be drawing for the bonus liveblog around the start of THE GIFTENING 2020 (currently looking to be Monday, 11 January 2021). Each bonus question is another chance to earn an entry, so keep those answers coming! I CAN ABSOLUTELY AND SHAMELESSLY BE BOUGHT.

[endysgirl]

Sailor Pluto, A Birthday Tribute

My Sailor Pluto birthday tribute..I got a bit carried away so read at your leisure. I wanted to talk about Setsuna’s complicated place on the timeline, specifically in the manga.

In the manga, we meet Setsuna in the Infinity arc at K. O. University. She’s a first year lab assistant in the science department, majoring in Theoretical Physics. We first meet her when she’s introducing herself to Reika, whose Mineralogy Club is meeting next to the lab. In this chapter, Tellu is using plants to drain people’s life energy and Setsuna has one of those plants in her lab. At the same time that the Inners confront Tellu, Setsuna’s life force is being drained in the lab by the plant. Haruka and Michiru are at their condos and they can feel that someone very close to them is in pain. As Setsuna tries to fight against the plant’s power, she remembers the “reason I was born! The reason I was *reborn*!” And just like that, she awakens with the symbol of Pluto on her forehead. This causes Haruka and Muchiru’s forehead symbols to glow and teleport them to Setsuna. At the same time Mask, and possibly Moon and the girls, sense that someone has awakened. They continue to fight Tellu and as ChibiMoon is about to take a hit, she’s saved by Pluto’s Dead Scream attack.

The two of them share a sweet moment where they hug. As Pluto starts to explain that she was sent to complete an important mission, ChibiMoon notes that Pluto is different from the one she knew. She’s stronger and grander. The three outer Guardians kneel to the now transformed Princess Serenity and officially introduce themselves. Pluto explains their role during the SilMill and that they too were reborn but that they awakened too late to stop Pharaoh 90 from invading. Pluto explains that the Death Busters from the Tao star system were attracted to the unusual energy of the Mugenzu (the triangular delta that the three buildings bearing the Outers’ names contains and the site of Mugen Gakuen, and the site of the future palace of Crystal Tokyo), and they are warping the space-time continuum of mugenzu. Michiru and Haruka chime in to explain that they disguised themselves as students and that this is their jurisdiction and don’t want the Inners interfering. They say that they have stronger powers and stronger items. Mask interrupts them to ask what items they’re referring to and if they mean the three talismans that will lead to destruction. In the manga, the Outers have always been in possession of their talismans and are not searching them out like in the anime. Mars, who has also been having prophetic dreams like Mask, joins the questioning, asking what exactly the talismans are. The only answer they give before leaving is that their talismans and their mission is to bury their ultimate enemy, “the Deity of Destruction”.

So how exactly did Pluto get here at this point in the manga? It’s revealed that the Outers were reborn at the fall of the SilMill along with the other Senshi. But Pluto was apparently sent from the future? But reincarnation is cyclical so it’s irrelevant where she died on the timeline, but what does that mean for the current Pluto that we meet in the third arc of the manga?

Let’s review Pluto’s death in the manga because it’s truly significant. She stops time in R when Demande has both Silver Crystals and is trying to make them touch and destroy the world. This allows Moon and Venus to take both crystals. Venus holds onto the future crystal. As Pluto dies because of using her Time Stop, Black Lady is shaken. She remembers how much she loves Pluto. She cries a single tear, which becomes ChibiUsa’s Silver Crystal and future starseed, allowing her to shake off wiseman’s control, power up as a Senshi for the first time, and start growing TF up. It’s Chibi-Usa birthing her own Crystal that awakens NQS from her slumber too. After she has her mommy moment with ChibiUsa, NQS promises that Pluto will have an eternity of peaceful slumber in the Crystal Palace.

So yeah, Pluto dies. This is majorly significant bc it’s implied later that she didn’t even do that for the fall of the Silver Millennium. Her and the others had to watch as their talismans activated and awakened Saturn. They had to watch her drop her Glaive of Silence on the Silver Millenium and on their beloved Princess - ending everything they had been protecting for so long. The manga heavily implies that Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Venus have the most significant emotional trauma from the fall of the SilMill.

Ok, so this brings us to the Infinity Arc. In the manga, when Pluto is awakened. She is already a student studying at Mugen Gakuen. We never hear about her backstory but it’s implied she has one since she had a life up until then. When the 3 Outers reveal themselves in the manga, Pluto explains that NQS had a new mission for her and sent her to be reborn. That means NQS has the power of reincarnation which we come to fully understand during the Stars arc, but still pretty cool. The Outers also say they were reborn after the fall of the SilMill. It’s implied that this is referring to Neptune and Uranus, not Pluto since Puu just said it was NQS that sent her. This is also stated in the anime, epi 113, when Mamoru meets them. Uranus and Neptune say they were reincarnated from the SilMill and Pluto says she’s from the future.

OK, so let’s talk reincarnation and it’s gonna get mindfuck-y if you think too much. So before we follow Pluto’s reincarnation, let me reiterate: reincarnation is cyclical, not linear. That means that a person can be reincarnated at any point in time, it doesn’t have to be the future, even if we refer to it as the “next life”. It’s not implying chronological order. In this case, in the manga, when Pluto dies in the future in R, she is reincarnated backwards into Usagi’s time frame. That should mean that in her future, she will die. And when she dies, she will be reborn to the past? Again and again? Idk. But, that would happen if there is continuity. The timelines never get explained but IMO I think they SHOULD BE divergent, but they ARE NOT. And that doesn’t really work but it also kinda works bc it’s implied. Sailor Moon went to the future to stop Nemesis, which she did. So we can assume that the current Usagi will one day give birth to a ChibiUsa that shouldn’t steal the Crystal. But that’s not necessarily true. In the manga, they never tell ChibiUsa that she was Black Lady. She has no knowledge of that. At one point they mention BL, and ChibiUsa is like, who? And they change the subject fast. So it’s possible all the things that happen in the future are still going to happen bc they don’t prevent it. But why don’t they?!?!?! So I guess, it’s not divergent. I keep talking myself in circles on this one...side note: in Stars when the world starts going to shit, the future with NQS, NKE and ChibiUsa starts getting warped. NKE doesn’t know what’s happening and eventually him and all the Senshi start fading. NQS says there must be something distorting space and time and changing the future (Galaxia). ChibiUsa says she’s gotta go back and help Moon. NQS has been acting like she doesn’t know shit up until that point but then she gives ChibiUsa a time key and tells her to go across space and time to the far end of the Milky Way aka the Galaxy Cauldron. So homegirl knows what’s happening, which proves it’s not a divergent timeline. But god dammit i think there’s still a good argument made for a divergent timeline. (😭😭omg somebody stop me). All that being said, perhaps the Pluto of Mugen does not reside in Crystal Tokyo at all. Maybe she goes elsewhere through space and time but then what? So perhaps the timelines are not divergent but maybe there are two Sailor Plutos who can’t exist in the same time plane. So if I haven’t twisted my thoughts too much, the idea is the Pluto in Infinity, is from the future and she’s different than the Pluto ChibiUsa remembers - Bigger, stronger - so she is not the same Pluto who will, in the 30th Century, use Time Stop. So if we follow this timeline, and everything parallels what Moon found out about the future and ChibiUsa does end up taking the Crystal and WiseMan attacks, the Pluto and Outers from this Infinity timeline are not present in Crystal Tokyo. So then we get the Pluto guarding the time gate (Hallway Pluto from R) showing up and dying to protect the world and ChibiUsa. And then she’s sent to be reincarnated by NQS into the past.

Did I lose anyone? Do you all hate me now? 🙋🏾‍♀️ I lost myself a few times and had to stop, reread, align my ideas again and try to explain them. Lmao. Anyways, Happy Birthday, Pluto!

Fun side note (bc the main post is deranged enough): we all know that time gate Pluto had a thing for NKE. Can’t blame her. She’s been in that hallway forever and he’s literally the only dude she’s ever seen up til then. But I’d argue that Infinity Pluto who fights alongside Moon is different from that Hallway Pluto and doesn’t still have a thing for him.

[luna-whiskers]

sugaredrefrain said:

What stance does LMF take on cosmos? :o Im behind in my new myu since I had trouble with missdream’s subs working for me

So again, I’m gonna warn for spoilers for the end of Le Mouvement Final here, and please keep in mind I’m working from memory, so I might have some details wrong. (As a sidenote, have you tried Sea of Serenity’s subs? Though both it and Miss Dream have removed LMF at Toei’s request now.)

In the manga, Cosmos is intentionally vague. She says she is Sailor Moon of the future, but does not clarify what future, how far into the future, whether being Sailor Moon means she is the same Sailor Moon as Usagi, whether she’s a descendant of hers, etc. She also says she made the wrong choice at the Cauldron, but as I outline in my own Cosmos theory here, she’s unclear on whether Usagi ultimately makes the same choice she did, and whether the future Cosmos comes from remains the same after Usagi makes her choice.

In LMF, Sailor Cosmos specifically says that she is Usagi several reincarnations later, long after Chibi Usa’s time in the 30th Century. She also says that Usagi’s choice to purify the Galaxy Cauldren and keep it intact is the same one she made, and that she now knows it was the right choice to make. She says that like Usagi, all of her friends have died. She says she will return to the fight in her present, knowing how difficult the struggle is. Even though this war that she fights will never end, because to embrace all life is to also embrace Chaos.

It’s honestly not my favorite Cosmos theory, but as I said, I thought it really worked within the context of LMF, because it was Chibi Usa she was sharing this with. I loved seeing her express so much honesty and fragility with Chibi Usa, something that she did not even give to her own past self. And since this is a future reincarnation of Usagi, this is likely an Usagi that has not known Chibi Usa for generations. And yet, there is still so much love there, so much understanding and sadness.

So yeah, I had a lot of feelings about all of this.

[modernart2012]

Cosplay (Magical) Girl

@sumigakure Halloween Event 2017

Prompt 4: Magical Girl

Word Count: 1224

Rating: G

On Ao3

 “Rin, are you sure my wig is on right? It’s awfully uncomfortable.” Obito plays with the carefully styled “mane”, coming close to dislodging the face guard holding the whole thing in place.

 Kakashi peeks up from where he was perusing the convention guidebook, “At least you get a wig and bobby pins not a badly-installed weave.” Just mild enough to be considered conversation, but just barbed enough for Rin to feel the sting. If it wouldn’t ruin the cosplay to leave a bright red handprint on Kakashi face for the rest of the afternoon, she’d slap him in a heartbeat. Kakashi hadn’t had any objections to the cosplay until he learned he needed extensions!

 “And who’s fault was it that they kept moving as I clipped the extensions in?” Rin stressed the correct term because she knew Kakashi knew the correct term for the easily removable lengths of hair she’d clipped in in the wee hours of the morning, sacrificing her sleep in order to deal with Kakashi’s whining. “Besides, you make a lovely Kero and Yue. Just keep your costumes together until the judging for the group cosplay contest.” She smoothes the front of her costume, the classic and iconic pink and white one that was a straight up bitch to stitch because of the miles of layered, heavily starched, ruffle-hemmed petticoats that went under the skirt. Rin wished she had a real life Tomoe to make her costumes for her, but alas, of her friends Yugao was the only other one who had any ability to sew and even then she couldn’t sew a straight line for love or money.

 “Oh hey! They have takoyaki! Bakashi, come on, let’s grab some.” Rin freezes and tries to stop them - all those dark sauces and their bright costumes! - but then thinks better of it once she sees the terrified begging face Kakashi is making at her as Obito pulls him into the queue, wings dragging behind them both. She packed bibs on purpose, and it serves Kakashi right for reading porn while getting styled then having the balls to complain about it. Maybe she’ll only insist on fried-foods for the rest of the day? Or pointedly eat miso-glazed fried eggplant in front of him - there’s a stall right there.... But there’s mochi too and pistachio ice cream filled mochi are so rare to find.

 Mulling over the possibilities, she doesn’t notice where she’s going until she’s bumped into someone much smaller than her. “Oof!”

 “Oh, my goodness! I’m so sorry! I didn’t see you...,” Rin can’t believe what’s she’s seeing.“Sakura?” That is very clearly Sakura, but the older Sakura from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle not the child Sakura from Cardcaptor Sakura that Rin herself is cosplaying.

 The poor girl’s wig has been knocked askew though, and Rin can’t help herself as she tries to right it. The girl’s pink hair flutters loose as she knocks aside Rin’s hand, huffing, “Watch where you’re going!” Green eyes glare at her for a moment before widening in surprise. “Oh. You’re....”

 “Also Sakura!” Rin chirps, ignoring the rudeness. Anyone would be rude in that situation, especially if someone knocked one over in a very detailed, primarily white cosplay. “You also going for the competition?” This convention’s contest was one of the most difficult, with lots of really good cosplayers coming and competing, but Rin thought the girl’s would do well.

 “Ah, yes.” The girl gets up, smoothing her white skirts and checking for stains. Her coins clink against one another - real metal, not cheap. “The group competition, actually!”

 “Really! Who are your companions?” Rin hopes it’s not the two Syaorans. The girl can’t be more than 12, and the whole storyline of the two (three? Four if you count the father?) Syaorans makes things very awkward via implication. Not that Rin is judging but ... 12 is a little young to date?

 The girl smiles, “Mokona and Mokona!” Oh good. The dumplings. Perfectly innocuous. “I wanted them to be Kurogane and Fai.”

 Rin doesn’t know what to make of that. “Why didn’t they want to be Kurogane and Fai? They’re amazing!” The best original characters in the series - not a hard thing to win, considering, but still! Rin read Tsubasa and xxxholic for Kurogane and Fai not for Syaoran and his quest!

 “They kept fighting over Syaoran.” And that’s almost better, almost worse. “So I made them be Mokona instead.” The girl shrugs. “What about you? Are you in the single entrants competition?”

 Rin laughs, “No, I’m entering in the group competition too. My Yue and Kero are off getting food right now.”

 “Mine too! Maybe we can go sit down to wait for them?” The girl points out a set of empty benches in easy line of sight from the food stalls. “Then maybe when they get back we can get a group photo?”

 It’s easy to talk this is small Sakura, who is starry-eyed over the romance of the series and the exquisite detail CLAMP puts into their stories. It’s clear the older work references are lost on her, but that’s okay since they’re clearly before her time and hard to find in print anyways. They bond over Gate 7, and poke fun of CLAMP’s obvious weakness for the name “Sakura”; how many “Sakura” does one group even need? The girl shyly offers that her name is also ‘Sakura’, which is why she loves the character so much.

 “Say, did your ... friends have problems with cosplaying too?”Sakura asks after a lull in their conversation. She’s fiddling with one of the coins on her scarf, and Rin can’t help but feel a pang of empathy. Cosplaying alone is hard, but it’s also difficult to agree on what or how with a group, and it’s even worse when people start causing problems. 12 year old boys are the worst about that sort of thing, waffling between excitement over the characters and self consciousness when they realize cosplaying nerdy stuff and that it might be “uncool”.

 “Yeah, but they do every year. It’s okay. I have a plan - next year, we’re going to cosplay Sailor Moon. And instead of letting them be Shittenou, I’m going to make them rule 63.” Rin smiles deviously. Kakashi will love that, especially the wigs and short skirts. Sakura giggles, and a thought strikes Rin. “Hey, wanna cosplay Chibi Usa if I cosplay Usagi? You already have the hair.”

 Sakura grins, “If we add my two friends with your two friends, we could get all of the Sailor Scouts - at least the Inner Scouts.” Oh, but how Rin loves the way this girl thinks.

 They’re exchanging contact information when two pre-teen figures in black and white run up. “Sakura! Sakura! They have the figure you wanted!”

 Her own two idiots stroll up, “Rin! Rin! We got you a serving of yakisoba!” It’s clearly time for them to part ways, especially given the way their two groups are sharing Looks. Last time those Looks had been shared, Kakashi got into a fight with some hooligans from Iwa. That year wasn’t a good year.

 “‘There is no such thing as coincidence in this world. The only thing is hitsuzen.’” Rin intones as she waves goodbye.

 “What?” Obito asked around a mouthful of octopus ball. Rin giggles into her noodles instead - they won’t know what hit them.

[miitzwrites]

Hey y'all, I’m back! This new drabble was requested by Raxius on FF.net

The prompt is: Sometimes, Neo Queen Serenity and Chibi-usa sneak out of palace grounds and disguise themselves to go enjoy time as mother and daughter and will sometimes bring King Endymion out when they want time as a family.

I added a bit more to the original idea, hoping you all will like it!

Also, I’m gonna be honest with you, this piece is one of my favorites, and it took me almost a week to complete, because it kinda feels personal. I lost my mom in May, and she never had the chance to read one of my stories, and I couldn’t tell her more about this hobby, and I’ve had a hard time coping with her death, so writing has been very therapeutic to me, and this prompt went straight to my heart, because i hope she’s proud of me, whenever she’s now, so I really hope you all like this.

As always, English isn’t my first language, and this piece was unbeta'ed.

And send me your prompts! I accept pretty much anything tbh.

Without further ado, enjoy!

“Small Lady, where are you?” The voice of Neo Queen Serenity resounded through the walls in one of the farthest places in the palace. Since Pluto’s death, her daughter could be found in front of the Space-Time door most often than not. Diana, the daughter of Luna and Artemis, never left her side, but the Queen could see the veil of sadness that sometimes shadowed the girl’s face.

Just as she suspected, the Queen found the Princess in front of the forbidden door, with her back to her. From her place, Neo Queen Serenity could heard the conversation between the Princess and her loyal companion.

“But you were so brave in battle, Small Lady. Wherever she is, I’m sure she’s proud of you!” The small kitten exclaimed, looking at the Princess from her place on her lap. Chibiusa, or like people called her in this time, Small Lady, petted her gray fur and nodded, not entirely convinced. “I could finally become a Sailor Scout like her, but she couldn’t see me. It is my fault, Diana.”

The tears that clouded the girl’s eyes didn’t go unnoticed by the Queen. She knew there were some hidden issues that didn’t leave her daughter alone, but the extent of them were unknown to her. Even after all these years, she was the same Usagi Tsukino, with a few more years of experience, but the same pure heart that wanted to protect everyone. And when she saw her daughter crying, it felt like a stab in the chest.

Neo Queen Serenity cleared her throat to make her presence known. Small Lady quickly wiped off her tears, and Diana jumped to her feet.

“Small Lady, did you forget your lessons?” Asked the Queen in her practiced ‘mom voice’, as Venus liked to call it. “Jupiter has been waiting for you, and you know it’s rude to make people wait for you.” Resigned, Chibiusa stood up, “I apologize, mama. It won’t happen again.”

“Good. Now hurry up, and when you finish, I would like to talk to you.” Chibiusa ran off to where her lesson took place, the garden, and Diana stayed behind her. When she was sure the girl wouldn’t hear her, she turned to the Queen and bowed her head, in a respectful gesture. “Neo Queen Serenity, please don’t be too severe with her. She just misses her friend.”

The Queen picked up the kitten and kissed her small nose, “I know, Diana, and I want to help her. I think I know how to cheer her up, but I will need your and the King’s help.”

Oooooo

“Come on in!”

Neo Queen Serenity entered the office, and closed the door. Since the new age of Crystal Tokyo began, the King Endymion was the head of the medical engineering advances team, so it wasn’t a surprise to find him with his eyes glued to the screen of his computer.

“Did you bring the file?” He asked with tiredness in his voice. “No, but I brought some cookies, your favorites,” answered the Queen with her bright, contagious smile. She might be the Queen now, but on occasions, Usagi made her infamous cookies, crispy with burned edges, and the perfect amount of chocolate chips.

The King pinched the bridge of his nose, and let out a small laugh. “You only make these when you want something,” he said, taking a bite off the cookie. “What did you do, Usako?”

“Oh, Mamo-chan, is it really too hard to believe that I’m being a good wife? When was the last time I cooked for you?” She answered, crossing her arms over her chest with a pout.

“Hmm…. Two weeks ago, when you broke one of the windows in the main hall.”

“Don’t bring that up again, Mamoru-baka! I swear it was an accident.”

“Yeah, yeah, if you say so, Odango Atama”

In public, they were King Endymion and Neo Queen Serenity, sovereigns of Crystal Tokyo, the legendary Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon. But in private, they were Mamo-chan and Usako. Just another married couple that loved each other so much.

The King raised from his seat, sneaked his arms around her waist and kissed her pout away. “Okay, I may need a little favor,” the Queen confessed, stealing another kiss from his lips. “It’s about Chibiusa. I think it’s time for her to start her training.”

“But the girls are busy reinforcing the security system, and the Shitennou are away in a mission.” Mamoru mused, playing idly with her long hair. “And what about Sailor Moon?” Usagi asked, earning a confused look from her husband. “Usako, you haven’t transformed in centuries.” A cloud of sadness crossed her features. She might not openly admit it, but Usagi missed being a full-time Senshi. Being a Queen was rewarding, yes, but at times, it wasn’t enough. Luckily, she had her family and friends, to remind her how loved she was.

Mamoru pulled her even closer, and kissed the crown of her head as Usagi rested her head on his chest. “You think about sending Chibiusa to the past, don’t you? Your old self will be thrilled.” Usagi snickered and shook her head. “My old self could use more responsibility. Chibiusa can learn a lot from her and from the others. It’ll be beneficial for the both of them.”

“She will do great, and when she comes back, Chibiusa will be a full fledged Sailor Senshi,” the King never doubted his daughter, even when she was possessed by the malicious spirit of Wiseman, he knew she would overcome any difficulty.

“There’s also something else I want to ask you,” Usagi looked up at Mamoru, batting her eyelashes, sweetly. “I want a family day. Just you, Chibiusa and me.”

Mamoru wasn’t a stranger to her charms, and with those pleading, blue eyes, he knew there was no way he could deny her anything. “Okay, Usako, just say the day, and we’ll do whatever you want.”

“Whatever I want, you said? Oh Mamo-chan! I want to spend the entire day with you and Chibiusa like a normal family.”

“Considering our history, I would dare to say that we’re as normal as we can,” Mamoru muttered, and Usagi hit him in the arm, pouting again. “You know what I meant!”

“Alright, alright. Whatever you want, my love.”

Yes, he couldn’t deny her anything.

Ooooo

When the lesson finished, Chibiusa returned to her bedroom. Her lessons with Jupiter were always her favorites. She’d learn more about gardening or cooking, and was a personal pleasure of hers to watch her parents’ faces lighten up when she presented them a new dish.

When she opened the door, Diana received her with a smile. “Small Lady, your mother brought you something!” Exclaimed the kitten, as Chibiusa set her eyes on the package placed on her bed. Immediately, Chibiusa unwrapped the box, -she could see that her mother had personally wrapped it, using a wrapping paper full of bunnies and a big, pink ribbon-.

Inside the box, was a note attached that read: “To my dear daughter. May this be the beginning of a new age for you. With love, Mama.”

Excitedly, Chibiusa discovered inside of the box a painting set and new brushes. Most people didn’t know this, but Chibiusa loved to paint. Her mother wasn’t like most, though. She liked to be involved in her daughter’s interests.

“Did you like your present?” The Queen asked from the door, carrying another box with her. Chibiusa ran to her, hugging her. “Yes, mama, I love it! Thank you so much!”

Usagi felt her heart melting in that instant. She was sure that the girl would love the rest of the surprise.

“I have something else for you.” Usagi pulled out from the box a pink blouse and a baby blue skirt that she knew Chibiusa would love. The girl happily took the clothes in her hands, giving her mother a wider smile. “Are we attending another affair, mama?” Chibiusa questioned, placing the blouse and skirt carefully on her bed. “Something like that. You, your father and I will have a family day outside of the palace, tomorrow.” The Princess shoot a confused glance at her mother, and said “But you never leave the palace, last time you did .-” Before she could complete her sentence, Usagi leaned down, and took her small hands, smiling. “Just be sure to be up early. And think about what you would like to do”

With that, the Queen left the room. Diana walked to Chibiusa’s side and nudged her leg to get her attention. “Small Lady, I’d recommend a new hairstyle just for a day,” the kitten winked at the Princess, who nodded eagerly.

OoO

The morning came, and Chibiusa woke up a little after dawn. She wore the outfit that her mother had given to her the previous day, and do her hair into a ponytail instead of her usual buns.

“Mama? Papa? Are you awake?” She knocked at her parents’ door, and was greeted by her father, who had left his usual white and lavender tuxedo and mask, and instead, wore a more casual attire, with a simple pair of jeans and a white button down shirt. “Your mother should be ready in no time. Remember, she’s not a morning person.”

“Oh, shut up, Mamoru-baka!” Usagi called out from their en-suit bathroom, stepping out a moment later, wearing a lilac sundress and a baseball cap. Her hair was up into a high ponytail, just like Chibiusa’s.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen you two so casual,” said Chibiusa, inspecting their outfits. Maybe she hadn’t seen this version of her parents, but she remembered fondly the serious clothes that young Mamoru wore, in contrast with the bright and colorful dresses of the young Usagi.

“Have I told you that your father used to have an horrendous green jacket?”

“Usako!”

Ooooo

“Mamo-chan, I want another caramel apple.”

“But you ate two already!”

“Mamo-chan, please, don’t make me beg.”

“Okay, Usako, but it’s the last one.”

Usagi grinned at her husband, and the moved her eyes back to watch as Chibiusa entertained herself with her new painting set. The cool breeze of the autumn evening touched her skin and goosebumps raised on her skin. Mamoru returned a few minutes later, with another caramel apple for her and a cup of coffee for him. He pulled her close, embracing her with an arm around her shoulders, and kissed her temple, his gaze moving to where their daughter was.

“Thank you, Mamo-chan, this day was perfect, and Chibiusa thinks so, too.” Mamoru nodded his agreement, and a small laugh escaped his lips. “Yeah, except for the amusement park and the roller coaster, everything was great.”

“Don’t be like that, Mamo-chan! I haven’t seen you this relaxed in years. We should do this more often.”

“When Chibiusa returns from her trip, we’ll do this again.” Usagi nodded, eating her snack, and a comfortable silence set between them.

Without a doubt, this day had been the funniest in years. With their jobs, it was easy to get lost and overwhelmed, but they knew that, at the end of the day, they would have each other and Chibiusa, to find their way back home. That was one of the reasons why Usagi insisted on having everyday dinner with her family, so they could share a private moment, similar to what she did with her family when she was younger. Mamoru got accustomed to this, too, and when his days were at their worst, he counted the hours until he can have a moment of peace with his wife and daughter.

“I’m gonna miss her,” she broke the silence, snuggling against his side. “The palace will be so quiet without her.” Mamoru ran his hand down her arm, and sighed heavily. “It won’t be the same, but the girls can make you company until Chibiusa comes back home.”

Usagi shook her head, taking his hand and playing with his fingers. “I can’t distract them from their duties, and you know that as well.” Mamoru hummed, “Your girls are busy, yes, but don’t you remember? This century will need a Sailor Moon, and Sailor Moon will need her own guardians. What I mean is, it’s also time to call the Quartet.”

“How didn’t I think about this before?” Usagi responded, and her face lighted up. “If the time comes, this world will need a new protector of love and justice, and I’m positively sure that Chibiusa will do a splendid job.”

Their conversation was interrupted by Chibiusa. She carried with her the painting that she just finished. She could capture the dead of the day and the first stars that appeared on the sky, combined with the beautiful sight of the lake. “Mama, look!” The girl proudly held out her painting to her mother, and Usagi smiled at her, complementing her work. “It is beautiful Chibiusa. It’ll be a beautiful decoration for our dining room.”

“You’ll have to paint one for my office, too, Chibiusa, but that will have to wait until your return.” Chibiusa looked at her father with a puzzled expression, and her lower lip started to tremble lightly, afraid of having done something wrong. If she was honest with herself, deep inside herself, she doubted that hee parents had forgotten what happened with Wiseman and Black Lady.

Usagi hugged her daughter to her chest at her display of distress. “But I don’t wanna leave your side, mama,” Chibiusa weakly told her, and Usagi did her best not to let her emotions get to her. Mamoru, on his part, took Chibiusa’s hand, and rubbed soothing circles in her palm.

“Did you remember what you tell your mother, Chibiusa? That you wanted to work by her side and help her protect this planet?” Noticing the way his wife worried her bottom lip, Mamoru decided to intervene first, “Well, you’re now a Senshi, like Jupiter, or Venus, or Mars, or Mercury. And one day, it will be your duty to be a full time Senshi. But to do so, you must learn some things first, like fighting or how to control the Silver Crystal.”

“I don’t understand, papa,” the girl answered, and Usagi took in a deep breath to try to calm herself down. “What your father meant is that we want you to train with Sailor Moon and the Sailor Senshi from the XXI Century. If you accept this, we’ll make all the necessary arrangements to send you back to the moment you said goodbye to our younger versions. I’m certain neither of them will oppose this idea.”

“I will train with the legendary Sailor Moon and the other Senshi?” The sadness on her face was quickly replaced with a huge grin, and without a second thought, Chibiusa accepted, and hugged her mother tightly. “Yes, mama, I want to train with them. I promise you I won’t come back until I’m a full fledged Senshi.”

A sigh of relief left Mamoru’s lips, and although Usagi was still sad, the enthusiasm of her daughter compensated any negative feeling. “Alright, Ladies, time to get back home. Minako won’t be very happy with you two, eh?”

“Yeah, and wait until she tells Kunzite.” Mamoru groaned, which earned a heartfelt laugh from both Usagi and Chibiusa.

Ooooo

“Are you sure you won’t need anything else?” Asked the King as he opened the Space-Time door. “Yes, papa, I checked twice. And I will be staying with mama Ikuko and papa Kenji. I’ll be fine.”

The King crouched down to pull his daughter into a hug. “Be a good girl, please, mama and I will be waiting for you to come back.”

“Don’t worry, papa, I promise I will make you two proud.”

“But you’ve already made us proud. No matter what you do, will be right beside you.” Chibiusa nodded, and her mother took her in her arms and kissed the crown of her head. “Don’t forget that we love you so much, and please, give this letter to Usagi for me. Oh, and don’t give her a hard time, okay.”

“Yes, mama, and promise me you’ll take my place in Jupiter’s cooking classes, yes?”

“Oh don’t think about that now. I can assure, Jupiter will be very busy until your return.”

“Neo Queen Serenity, will you allow me to visit Small Lady?” Diana asked, jumping off her arms to say goodbye to her friend. “Of course, Diana, just give her some time to adjust to the change.” The Queen conceded her request, and the small kitten beamed to her. “Thank you, Neo Queen Serenity. Small Lady, I will see you soon. Give my father and mother my regards, please.”

Chibiusa smiled at her loyal friend, and with a teary smile, she turned around and walked through the gates of the Space-Time door. With the key that Pluto gave to her, clutched to her heart, Chibiusa recited the words that she had learned by memory. “Pluto, show me the path of light!”

Ooooo

After seeing Chibiusa off, Mamoru and Usagi sat in silence on their favorite bench. Usagi mused about how crazy this time had been, and prayed for a moment of peace. Lifting her gaze up from the fountain, she met Mamoru’s gaze. A blush colored her cheeks as Mamoru’s lips descended upon hers, placing a sweet kiss on hers. And, like the first time they shared a kiss in this very spot, something fell from the sky, and before either of them could react, Usagi saw how Chibiusa fell into Mamoru’s arms, and then jumped off, with her bright and lousy laugh.

“Hi! I’m back!”

[techouspeaks]

Character Studies: Sailor Uranus VS Sailor Uranus.

 Many people are a mix bag when it comes to Sailor Uranus. Usually people hate all incarnations of her or they hate the manga/Crystal version but like the 90s version. For me, it’s the opposite. I HATE Sailor Uranus in the 90s anime, but I love her so much in the manga and even in the Crystal version. I’m gonna be going over first why people hate Uranus/Haruka in the manga/Crystal version and why I and as well as some others hate her in the 90s version. 

From what most people complain about Uranus/Haruka in the manga/Crystal version is how she kissed Usagi, causing her to feel guilty about cheating.

First off, it’s never really stated why she does this but her “being a flirt” isn’t based on her personality. Haruka in Crystal/manga isn’t that kind of person. A very strong reason that’s more hinted in the Crystal version, is that Haruka was confusing her protective feelings towards Usagi for attractiveness and more so attractive to how naive and innocent Usagi is. She admires that in her. It’s the same with whoever is around Usagi. She’s got this aura that causes people to feel attracted to her and being Uranus spent most of her time alone guarding the back door on her planet, it might be hard to convey feelings more properly or even respectfully. Usagi even says in the Crystal anime that Haruka was just trying to show Usagi these frustrated feelings. Usagi senses Haruka is sad and kinda lonely because she spent so long being alone. 

Either way, this actually helped both Usagi and Mamoru’s relationship and you’re probably wondering how? Well, they both come clean that they get jealous when either sees the other with someone else. They become more honest with their feelings and that’s part of having a strong relationship. Being honest. This challenged their feelings and coming into ties with not only being honest with each other, but also themselves. Haruka and Michiru stepping in helped Usagi and Mamoru realize that and their relationship becomes a little stronger after that.

Now let’s talk about the big elephant in the room. It’s sad because when I first saw Haruka/Uranus in the old anime when I was a kid, I wanted to like her. I felt like she was suppose to be a better character, especially in the moments when she wasn’t being serious but funny and laid back. However, when she gets back to sailor business, the old anime just makes her unbearable.

First off, everyone hates the manga version but a lot of people love the 90s version and I always wondered why? If that kiss was a big no no in the manga, I wonder did they watch the old anime because what Uranus/Haruka does in the anime is far more worse! Far worse! To the point where I think she is a damn traitor to the Moon Kingdom! 

Yes! That’s right! What Haruka/Uranus and even Neptune since she follows her around, does in the old anime can count as being a traitor to the kingdom!

First, let’s start off with Neptune and Uranus bitchy attitude towards the inner sailors. They believe that the inner sailors won’t be able to handle the ultimate sacrifice. They believe inner sailors are too naive and childish and won’t understand sacrifice...

Oh yeah! That’s why in the first season they died for their princess and their world! Where were Neptune and Uranus when the inners were killed protecting their friend and princess?! Say what you will, “they weren’t thought of yet”, but the way Uranus and Neptune treat them is just sickening and big slap to the face to them! When it was Sailor Moon and her friends saving the day and dying to protect the planet! They saved the world three (four if you count the R movie as canon) times!

Oh, yeah I know. The sailors would refuse to kill another person, but the way it’s handled in the manga is still better! They at least acknowledge the inner sailors as equals, despite disagreeing with them!

Now, here’s the thing. I mainly blame Haruka for this attitude because upon rewatching the old anime, I notice Michiru/Neptune isn’t quite as bad. Michiru/Neptune at times asked or even suggested Haruka if they should help the other scouts. There’s times where she is even more appreciative of the other scouts. Haruka sometimes does that but her nasty attitude comes back and it makes me hate her again. Michiru isn’t as bad as Haruka in terms of this, but she is still responsible for just following Haruka’s way and not going “Hey this is kinda messed up! We should work as a team!”

Now here’s the big traitor thing. Haruka steals the one thing that will save their planet! The thing that belongs to their princess and future queen! The Silver Crystal!

Haruka steals the one thing that she should know would save their world! She steals something from their future queen! The one they vowed to protect! If that’s not an act of betrayal, I dunno what is!  I don’t care what the reason is! They even attack Sailor Moon. They should know that she’s their future queen! 

And also, I know she’s aiming at the brooch but it looks like she’s sexually harassing Usagi! She is harassing her anyway because she’s stealing her brooch from their princess!

I dunno, a kiss that ends up helping a relationship grow stronger or stealing the most powerful thing in the universe, from their own princess, harassing her in the process and eventually, attacking said princess later on! It’s possible that they didn’t know Usagi was their princess at that time, but they should have known she had the silver crystal and put two and two together. How many bun heads do they know have the most powerful item in the universe!? Come on!

“Oh but since the outer scouts agreed to kill Hotaru, against Usagi’s wishes in manga/Crystal, isn’t that an act of betrayal”? No, because eventually, they do come and save the sailors and start believing that Sailor Moon could save their world. That she can some how save Saturn and save their world. Haruka and the other outer scouts wanted to be their friends in the manga/Crystal, but just felt like they didn’t because they had to do this one horrible thing and they didn’t want to do it! They just felt they had no choice! But they came to their aid and believed in Sailor Moon eventually. They admitted their mistakes and just didn’t want their friends nor beloved princess to get hurt. That’s the act of a true hero. That’s the act of Uranus/Haruka’s true personality that was ruined in the old anime! 

Let’s not forget they had no reason to not help the scouts in the Dream Arc in the old anime! None! They just said went off on their own, stopped an evil doll and said “Yeah, we’ll leave it to them!” I know they don’t appear in the Dream Arc in the manga or Crystal, but they had a good reason! They were taking care of their daughter Hotaru and eventually lost the ability to transform, so they couldn’t help even if they wanted too!

And eventually killing Saturn and Pluto in Sailor Stars old anime! They take their missions way too far! I mean, yeah it was to sneak attack back but it failed and again, the manga was far more better! Sailor Stars in the manga was sooo much better!

I love Haruka/Uranus in both the manga and Crystal anime.I feel like I’m both a guy and a girl inside or just feminine and masculine inside. That’s how I feel about myself. Whatever you wanna call it. I want to be as strong and casual as Haruka but still show a bit feminine side too. I admire her laid back but cool personality! Same with Makoto who is my third favorite, but Haruka/Uranus is just a character I admire a lot in that perspective!  I was so relieved to hear that she’s not like this bitchy person in the manga! She’s legit cool and I fell in love with her when I read the manga! I fell in love with her in Crystal. She’s just an awesome character.

Also, I love her design and especially color scheme. The blue and the yellow. Her sword! She’s just awesome! Those colors and even her hair! I wouldn’t have her hair style but it’s awesome on her!

People can hate her manga/crystal version for whatever reason but for me, that whole snatching a kiss thing and seemingly flirting with Usagi, wasn’t that bad because Usagi and Mamoru reconcile (in the most adorable way possible thanks to Chibi Usa) and became more honest with themselves, so something good came out of that. Nothing good came out of stuck up Haruka and her bitchy followers in the old anime!

Now, I understand that yes, in the old anime Haruka and Michiru’s relationship is stronger and I will admit that. Mainly because the old anime had so much filler, but again, a lot of that tend to be ruined by Haruka’s nasty attitude, when it came back to their sailor business. I wanted to like her in the old anime and wanted to like their relationship and honestly, as a couple they’re cute! But again, that nasty, cold, cruel attitude...Ugh! It’s like drinking a nice warm coffee or hot coco, only to find out that the cream you used in it turned sour and it made you sick! That’s what the old anime did to them for me!

So yeah, those are my thoughts. Agree, disagree. I don’t care. More power to you for whatever. This is just my personal opinion. Don’t take it to heart.

[sarazanmai]

Thoughts on the “Sailor Moon Crystal” English dub. Season two episode six.

what’s your name? who’s your daddy? is he rich? is he rich like me?

they could have at least let his cape be purple since the manga describes it as a sunset like lavender (I have my copy of this volume at my side so I’m not running upstairs like a jackass)

I can only imagine he wears all white this time for the sake of being different

“haven’t you figured it out?” Endymion is like “wow my younger self was stupid”

I just realized Chibi-Usa doesn’t actually have a last name, but it should be Chiba unless he took her name

and there’s the bomb that everyone saw coming, nobody is gonna go into this being surprised because Crystal has approached this with the mentality that we already read the manga

maybe back in the day this was surprising, but nobody’s gonna be fooled now

“how....” Venus apparently can’t visualize these two having sex

“queen? me?” well you wanted to be a princess, but why stop there?

I love the fact that Endymion loves his wife so much that his bedtime stories to their child are about how much of a BAMF she is

hell the final page of the manga is basically Mamoru going “omg! Usako! I love you and your beautiful face!!! you’re a star, you’re THE star!!!”

but given how time travel works does this mean stories of Chibi-Moon were just omitted? eh time travel in this series is bullshit

Diana finally spoke and she is voiced by Debi Derryberry (that name though) and get this, like seriously sit your ass down, she voiced Jimmy Neutron

yeah

I like how Diana’s all “lawl yeah I’m your kid!” when her parents have not actually hooked up in canon yet

like surprise!

“we were wrong” Robbie is putting on this action movie voice for this line, like he’s reciting narration for a post apocalyptic movie trailer

awesome more computers for kitties to paw at

like I know time travel is nonsense here, but King Endymion should already know this because he’s already experienced it

at least Naoko remembered time paradoxes are a thing, that’s one thing Toriyama neglected to touch upon when he did his time travel story (seriously future Trunks interacts with his baby self like its no big deal...I guess that’s what happens when you accidentally create an alternate timeline...)

“talking to my younger self like this, I confess it does feel a little strange” no! really!?

deep down Mamoru is thinking “at least I stay hot”

friendly reminder Pluto’s existence is pretty shitty, between her and Saturn I don’t know who’s is more miserable

also now feels like a good time to remind people there was once a crack theory that Pluto and King Endymion were the same person

I’m not kidding

and here we have Mamoru and Usagi acting like divorced parents

I feel like people probably think Usagi’s being irrational, but while all the Chibi-Usa stuff is going on three of her best friends are in the hands of an enemy and she just had a massive bomb thrown in her lap and honestly I never had a problem with her outburst for these reasons

my girl is stressed

so Mamoru doesn’t close his shades when he sleeps apparently

the music that plays as Chibi-Usa walks through the palace is so nice

eugh, here we cut to Prince Demande and his holo Serenity (that HE made mind you, he made this thing)

really Esmeraude you could have anyone why are you pining over a guy who jerks off to a hologram of a woman who will never love him?

thankfully Rubeus is there to troll them

“code extra, operation relax” sounds dirty

I always imagined her arms being black with green reflects when I’d look at this

Mamoru is so good at pep talks that even his future self can pep talk himself

so for a brief moment it sounded like Matthew flubbed his line and called her “Esmerald”, but I think I was just mishearing things

I appreciate the clear contempt he shows when he says “Tuxedo Mask”

“there they are, those fierce determined eyes, the ones that stared back at me that fateful day” I will not miss you when you die

IT LOOKS LIKE A VAGINA, NAOKO WHY?

tune in next time where Prince Demande makes me puke blood

[thefloorisbalaclava]

I don’t know if requests are open but.. if they are, can I request a first kiss with Frankie (maybe with some weed involved)

If they are not: ignore this ask. what ask?

Pairing: Francisco ‘Catfish’ Morales x Reader

Warnings: mention of drugs, kissing

A/N: Who doesn’t want to kiss Frankie??

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“Do you remember our first kiss?” you asked Frankie as he laid his head in your lap and looked up at you.

“Of course I do. How could I forget?”

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It was a spring night. You two had always met up to just hang out, smoke a little, then just talk. Something had always been there between the two of you, but neither of you ever spoke about it because both of you had been thinking the same thing: they can’t possibly feel the same thing I’m feeling.

But it was there.

It was in the looks you gave each other. It was in the looks he gave you when you weren’t looking. It was in the late night phone calls. It was in the way you made each other smile and laugh. And yet neither of you had ever made a move.

There was a hesitation, a nervousness—the fact that a simple kiss could mean so much. Well, of course it would. You two meant the world to each other so a kiss would mean the same. But your friendship, this thing you had built over so many years, was it worth ruining for the sake of a kiss?

“Maybe it wouldn’t ruin anything,” you whispered and Frankie looked at you.

“What?” he asked and that’s when you noticed you had spoken your thoughts aloud.

“Uh...nothing.” Your nails scratched at the chipping paint on the bed of his pickup.

“Penny for your thoughts,” he insisted and you scoffed awkwardly.

“It’s nothing. Really.” You played with your fingers, rocking back and forth. A light breeze swept across your bare arms and you shivered a bit, but not enough to notice. Well, at least you didn’t think it was noticeable.

“You’re cold,” Frankie said, immediately shrugging his brown jacket off and moving in front of you to put it over your shoulders. “How’s that?”

“W-Warm,” you said. You made the mistake of looking into his eyes—those deep, brown eyes that looked black in the fading light of the day. “Warm,” you repeated.

“Yeah, you said that.” He grinned and you looked at his lips. Why the hell did you do that? You let out a trembling sigh. You tried to look away. And he was still standing in front of you. And his hands were still on your arms. You could feel the warmth of them even through the jacket.

“Frankie I-”

“I-”

You both tried speaking at the same time. “Uh, you first,” Frankie offered.

“No, you.” You pulled his jacket tighter around you and took in his scent—that woodsy scent you loved so much.

“Okay, well...I’d like to kiss you,” he said. He shrugged and shoved his hands in his pockets. “I have wanted to for a really long fucking time,” he confessed.

“But?” you asked with a hint of worry in your voice.

“I’m afraid if I do I’ll never stop,” he breathed. The breeze picked up again, blowing his dark curls in the cutest way. You wanted to touch them...so you did. He closed his eyes to your touch then turned his head to kiss your palm. He opened his eyes, afraid of what kind of look you might be giving him, but he saw nothing but a smile—the prettiest smile in the goddamn world.

“You don’t have to stop,” you finally said and moved closer to him.

He still hesitated but eventually he cupped your face with one hand and dragged his thumb along your bottom lip gently. “I’m gonna kiss you now, okay?” You nodded and he moved in, his nose bumping yours as your lips touched ever so slightly. His hand shook against your cheek. Your eyes were still opened but his were closed and it made you smile. Then he really kissed you. Like really, really. And your eyes closed as you let him take you away with.

You were flying, soaring. And his lips were so fucking soft. He wasn’t forceful, he didn’t try to stick his tongue in your mouth or anything, he just kissed you. That was all he wanted.

When he pulled away, you followed then giggled sheepishly. “Sorry,” you mumbled.

“Hm? For what?” He looked at you, at your lips.

“I...don’t even know. Can you just-”

“Kiss you again? Yeah.” You nodded quickly and he kissed you a little harder this time. His tongue traced your bottom lip and you knew he was making sure it was okay with you. When your tongue touched his, he actually moaned and you knew you would never hear such a delightful sound ever again. You both pulled away again, but then you were back together. You moved a little too quickly and his teeth hit your lip.

“Ouch,” you whispered then laughed and he smiled into another kiss.

“There. All better,” he said against your lips.

How much time had passed? Where were you? What the hell was your name again?

He pulled away and just looked at you, touching your bottom lip again. “We should stop...for tonight.”

You nodded, hoping to find your voice. “Okay...”

“I’ll take you home.” He held onto the side of his truck as he walked up to the passenger side to open the door for you. His legs must have felt the same way as yours. It was like you had forgotten how to walk. Before getting in, you turned and kissed him and he chuckled giddily before closing your door and walking to his side.

The ride home was quiet, but not awkwardly so. You purposely put your hand on the center console where he was resting one of his so that every now and then your pinkies would touch and you would both look at each other and laugh quietly. Eventually, he just laced his fingers with yours and kept it that way the whole ride.

“Well,” he said as the car idled in front of your place.

“Well...” You still hadn’t let go of his hand. “I should get inside. Uh...” You exhaled then leaned over and kissed him. It was a little awkward but you didn’t care. “Thank you.”

“For what?”

“For the best first kiss I’ve ever had,” you told him before giving him a quick kiss and getting out of the car. You had walked all the way up to your door before realizing you still had his jacket. He saw you shrugging it off and rolled down his window.

“Keep it!” he shouted. “I’ll come get it tomorrow...if that’s okay with you.”

“That’s perfectly fine with me. Goodnight.” You walked into the house and closed the door before squealing happily to yourself. You fell asleep in his jacket that night.

---

“Wait...you slept in my jacket?” Frankie asked, amused.

“I sure did.” You ran your fingers through his curls.

“You still like wearing that one every now and then too,” he said, smiling brightly.

“Yup. I love when you wear it even more though.” You winked down at him and he winked back. His hands rested on his chest as he relaxed on you so you reached out and placed your hand next to his. Your pinkies touched as you looked into each other’s eyes. Then, just like on that night, he laced his fingers with yours and kept it that way.

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[thefloorisbalaclava]

Can you write something where reader asks frankie to teach her how to drive his truck?? And how he would teach or idk just the fluff 🥺🥺

Pairing: Francisco 'Catfish' Morales x F!Reader

Warnings: None...well, just a little teeny tiny bit of naughty talk

A/N: Okay so I really relate to this because I do not have my license and I am...older lol. Frankie would be nothing but patient though.

I also made him say a little something special from the movie 😏😘

[Frankie masterlist]

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When Frankie told you he was taking you somewhere you thought maybe he'd be taking you to one of his many favorite spots. You didn't think you'd end up in an empty parking lot.

"Uh...what's going on?" you asked as he turned the truck off. He turned and looked at you. "Frankie, it's broad daylight..."

"Huh?" Then he got it. "Wait...no...not that. I mean, thanks for the idea, but that's not why we're here." His face was turning red and it made you laugh.

"Why are we here then?"

"Remember when you said you wanted to learn how to drive my truck?" He tapped the steering wheel and you began shaking your head.

"Nope. Nuh uh. Let's go home." You turned your body in the seat and looked straight ahead.

"Look, you don't have to if you don't want to, but you're safe here, okay? There are no other cars. We have the entire lot to ourselves." He touched your thigh gently then squeezed.

"I kinda wish you had brought me here for the other thing now." You scoffed nervously then looked around. "I dunno, Frankie. I'm scared."

"Take all the time you need, babe."

"I wanna learn but...look at me..." You held your hands up to show him how you were shaking. But Frankie grabbed your hands and held them.

"I'm right here, okay?"

You nodded a few times before answering. "Okay. Uh...guess I should be in the driver's seat, huh?"

"Yeah." Frankie climbed out of the truck and you followed. When you two crossed paths at the front of the truck, he pulled you to him and kissed you. "You got this."

"Yeah...yeah..." You climbed into the driver's seat as he climbed in the passenger seat. "Feels different," you joked to ease your nerves. You wiped your hands on your thighs before grabbing the steering wheel. "Okay..."

"You don't have to if you don't want to, okay?"

"I want to," you said quietly. You reached for the key and started the truck. "Uh..."

"So now you wanna what?" Frankie asked.

"Put it in drive?" You knew that was the answer but your nerves made you question everything.

"Good girl. Go on." He watched as you reached down and put the car into drive. "Now..." He took your hands and placed them where they needed to be on the steering wheel. "Ready?"

"I think so..."

"Gently push down on the gas." The truck started to move and you gasp. "Nice and easy, babe. Just like that." You couldn't see him but he was smiling brightly. "Atta girl." His praise made your face hot even as your fear sent shivers down your spine.

"We're moving," you breathed.

"Yup. Remember, you have all the space you need. You can keep going straight or you can try some turning."

You flexed your hands on the steering wheel and slowly began to turn it. Frankie smiled even bigger.

"Look at my baby being brave. Look at my girl go," he cheered. He noticed that you were breathing heavier. "Alright baby...alright baby. It's okay. You're doing great."

"I am?"

"Yeah. Wanna try speeding up a little?" he asked and you nodded. He clapped once and chuckled. "That's my girl. Don't go peeling out or anything though." That made you laugh.

"I'm a long way from that." You took a deep breath and pressed down on the gas a little harder. "Is this okay?" you asked nervously.

"That's great, baby. I'm so proud of you."

"If you...if you don't stop with the praise I'm gonna stop this truck and jump your bones," you warned and he laughed loudly.

"Well, isn't that what you thought I brought you here for in the first place?" He stayed quiet for a while, watching you proudly. "Look how good you're doing."

"Yeah?" You laughed nervously.

"You'll be on the road in no time." He wanted to give you a reassuring touch on the thigh but decided against the distraction.

"I don't know about that, Frankie." You stepped on the brake gently, bringing the truck to a rolling stop, then turned it off. You let out a deep breath then turned to him. "I did it."

"Yes, you did. Come here." He leaned over and you did the same to meet his lips.

"I wish I did a little more..."

"Baby steps, baby. Baby steps." He caressed your cheek with his thumb. "Now...about that other thing you thought I brought you here for..."

"Frankie!" You shoved him and he cracked up. When he sat correctly in his seat again, you climbed over the center console and into his lap, straddling him.

"Oh? Hello." His hands found your ass immediately.

"So...I was thinking...I need a license to drive but I don't need one to ride, do I?" You pulled on the little lever that adjusted the seat, making it so that Frankie was nearly lying down.

"No, ma'am, you do not." He grinned then bit his lip. "And you definitely don't need lessons but feel free to use me for practice any time."

"Planning on it." You kissed him as his hands began working their way under your shirt.

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Jet Wolf Summarizes Act 40

The manga and I kind of hate each other. This is unfortunate, but still, I’m determined to come out of this with something. Rather than spend energy on a liveblog that’s increasingly negative, I’m reading each manga act (mostly) silently, and then writing up summaries at the end. I won’t pull my punches. There’s going to be criticism and snark about the manga, either wholesale or in details. If that isn’t a thing you feel like reading, please skip this post!

Mercury is in the title, so I am of course immediately suspicious. She doesn’t actually show up until thirty-five pages in. I’m SUPER suspicious. But I get ahead of myself.

First we have to deal with Mamoru in the hospital, where he regrettably regains consciousness. The Senshi run in like they’re a) concerned, and b) were notified, both of which we know are patently untrue. So since Ami isn’t with them, I’m going to assume she had one jello shot too many and passed out. At which point Mako hefted her up piggyback and ran all the way to the hospital like a charging bull, drunkenly barreling down the street and mowing down all passersby while Minako kept pace in her wake despite drinking more than anyone, making ambulance siren sounds and also carrying Rei piggyback style who made it a point to scream at everyone to get out of the fucking way and turn and nearly but never quite fall and yell at anyone who had the gall to not possess her precognitive abilities and ALREADY be out of the way, which meant, not coincidentally, that she was yelling at literally fucking everybody.

Unfortunately the manga didn’t have that, it had this.

Yet another wasted opportunity, manga.

They get an eyeful of bodyswapped Usagi and Chibs, and conclude that Black Lady’s back, which I’m sure wouldn’t have traumatized Chibi-Usa in any way. Talk talk, recounting last issue, Ami enters! MERCURY DREAM!

Oh, not yet, she was just late, despite the Senshi otherwise all consistently arriving at the same time always. She says they should get Usagi and Chibs checked out, and she called her mother to look at Mamoru, too. Speaking of, Ami’s mum enters. She looks, creatively, exactly like an older Ami.

I guess hairstyles are hereditary after all. NOW YOU KNOW.

Ami’s mum finds nothing wrong with Usagi and Chibs, and I can only assume that includes the fact that Chibs is a sixteen year-old girl impossibly squeezed into a ten-year old’s clothes, SERIOUSLY WHY DON’T USAGI AND CHIBS AT LEAST EXCHANGE OUTFITS CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW UNCOMFORTABLE CHIBI-USA IS

I MEAN THE UNDERWEAR ALONE NOT TO MENTION WITH THE SKIRT SITUATION

SHE’S WEARING SUSPENDERS WITH NO BRA YOU GUYS COME ON SOMEONE PLEASE GET THIS CHILD ACTUAL FITTING CLOTHING

Anyway, Usagi and Chibs are medically fine, but Mamoru has “shadows over the lungs”, which is apparently so unusual that the doctor “has never seen anything like it”, and I’m just sitting here UHHH MAYBE GET THIS GUY AN ONCOLOGY REFERRAL RATHER THAN LET HIM WALK OUT WITH A VAGUE PROMISE TO SCHEDULE A FOLLOW-UP SOMETIME MAYBE

Of course this is probably the same hospital that let Mamoru walk out with a ten year old child for whom he has no parental or legal guardianship and despite her suffering from cardiac arrest and no blood flow, SO CLEARLY I AM EXPECTING TOO MUCH OF THE MEDICAL STAFF HERE AT FUCK YOU HOSPITAL.

Chibs decides to try and trick Ikuko, so she goes home and pitches Luna-P at her. It works! I can’t even be surprised. She goes up to Usagi’s room, and rather than, I dunno, CHANGE CLOTHES, she thinks about how Mamoru said she was pretty and ughhhghgh. The Pegabell accidentally falls and instantly summons him, and someone really needs to tell Pegasus to let the phone ring a couple times because desperaaaate.

Pegasus says he can sense this is a bad spell cast on her by “someone”, but he refuses to answer any other questions, proving that no matter the continuity, Pegasus will never be helpful and needs to fuck off.

“I won’t tell you anything at all whatsoever, not about me or the enemy you’re risking your life to fight, but trust me, okay? PS: GIVE US YOUR POWER PRECIOUS”

One thing I will say is that Chibs immediately is like “I GOTTA TELL EVERYONE PEGASUS SHOWED UP AGAIN”, so while this is super jacked up, it’s not SuperS jacked up, so I can avoid screaming about everyone neglecting Chibs while she’s being secretly groomed by a fucking magical ungulate, and yes, I WILL take my small mercies.

Meanwhile, Usagi’s hanging out with Mamoru, who is intensely weirded out by the fact that Usagi is now a child, which I have to say that I was more than a little concerned about given the Chibi-Usa stuff.

Hm, this is twice in a row the manga’s not exceeded my expectations in a negative way.

OH GOD SOMETHING HORRIBLE IS COMING ISN’T IT

Well certainly Mamoru angst is coming, and jesus fucking wept. “I’M SICK I’M DRAGGING YOU DOWN PERHAPS WE SHOULDN’T HAVE A FUTURE TOGETHER”. And while fundamentally I’m fine with this conclusion, dude, you’ve been ill like A DAY, maybe take some Nyquil and calm your shit. And while I could maybe appreciate this from a flipping of stereotypes to have Mamoru the one so uncertain and worried, given how EVERY OTHER FUCKING PAGE OF THIS MANGA is about lifting Mamoru up and making him critically important, it reads less like a reversal and more Takeuchi grasping at a reason so she personally Usagi can remind us how wonderful he is. These plagues of doubt only work if something ever happened for him to be doubtful ABOUT.

Anyway, Chibs walks in and sees them (specifically she sees ten year old Usagi kissing an unconscious Mamoru but I can’t you guys I’m so tired) and she has a thought.

A THOUGHT I KIND OF FEEL YOU SHOULD HAVE HAD BY NOW CHIBS I MUST BE HONEST WITH YOU

She thinks about how her dream is to become an amazing lady and meet her own prince, and then we cut to Pegasus and then I threw up everywhere. BUT JUST IN CASE YOU NEEDED A PARALLEL TO DRIVE THE POINT FURTHER HOME, Pegasus is thinktalking to Mamoru and apologizing for not protecting him, because they’re trading positions now you see like Usagi and Chibi-Usa with the bodyswap and blaaarg. I much preferred all this last arc, when Mamoru was like “Huh I feel like I just married Chibs and Hotaru, THAT WAS WEIRD.”

Meanwhile at Ami’s house – YES AMI ACTUALLY APPEARS OVER THIRTY PAGES LATER – she’s up late doing research on the Dead Moon Circus. She pauses for a moment to have a really nice flashback with Pluto:

Sweet, huh? ONLY IT’S NOT A FLASHBACK IT’S A BRAND NEW SCENE AND WHAT’S MORE IT’S A BRAND NEW SCENE THAT DOES NOT FIT WITH WHAT WE JUST READ LAST FUCKING ARC.

You guys know me. You know I fucking LIVE for Senshi moments. But the Outers spent THE ENTIRETY OF LAST ARC actively avoiding the Inners. THAT WAS LITERALLY A PLOT POINT. You can’t work so hard to sell them as separate teams unable or unwilling to come together until the climactic final moments of the final battle and then turn around and pretend that Ami and Pluto were hanging out every weekend trading cool links and writing Perl applets. And it can’t have happened after, because as soon as they learned they’d gotten a baby out of the deal, the Outers fucked off before the dust had even settled.

I realize I should just be happy I’m getting anything at this point, but I’m ACTIVELY IRRITATED that this is being painted as something that was there all along when you know and I know that Takeuchi hasn’t been able to scrounge up two fucks to rub together about the Senshi before this point, let alone them interacting in any capacity that didn’t have Usagi at its center. OWN YOUR TERRIBLE DECISIONS DON’T STARVE ME AND THEN ACT LIKE YOU’VE BEEN SERVING ME STEAK DINNERS FOR THE PAST SEVEN MONTHS

Not to mention how it makes exactly zero sense for Ami to be all wistfully missing Pluto.

WHEN DID YOU EVER AMI WHEN DID YOU LITERALLY EVER

Which brings us to Part Two (through fucking Ten, I’m so angry) of why this pisses me off: it attributes whatever accomplishments Ami has had to this point TO A MENTORSHIP THAT LITERALLY NEVER EXISTED UNTIL THIS MOMENT. This Act is ostensibly about Ami learning to trust and believe in herself and blah blah blah THESE ARE NOT PROBLEMS MANGA AMI HAS BEEN WRESTLING WITH. Manga Ami hasn’t been wrestling with ANY problems, because Manga Ami has all the characterization of my partially-filled Papa Murphy’s punch card. But at least she could own whatever tiny moments of achievement she managed scrap together for herself out of this dismal fucking story that barely remembers she exists. BUT NO. Now she has to be smacked back five steps just to watch her walk back to where she started and call it development.

Jesus fucking WEPT I hate the manga.

All right, let’s blast through the rest of this since it means literally nothing. Ami begins to feel ~a stirring~ or whatever, prepping for her end of episode power-up. Her mum finally comes home at 1am and laments that she’s not a very good mother, but seems to make no actual effort by the end of the story to change that, so yeah, I guess you are. Ami zones out partway through to tell us about her father, who was an artist who fucked off to paint fish or something.

Blah blah bad guys, blah blah Fish Eye and PallaPalla will go after Ami because they’re blue.

Next day, Ami goes for a walk and spontaneously buys a fish, as you do.

Oh no it’s really Fish Eye, who could possibly have foreseen this?! As Ami falls asleep, she begins to have a nightmare where her mum brings a new man home and disowns her. Then she becomes her younger self, and her dad doesn’t want her either. Then she sees Usagi, Mamoru, and Chibs (though bodyswapped as they currently are, wtf Ami) and imagines Usagi saying that when she’s with them, she doesn’t need anyone else.

Not a single bit of this I feel is unreasonable for Ami to be really worried about, I have to say, but since no part of this has come up before now and no part of it will come up again (PARTICULARLY LOOKING AT YOU, NIGHTMARE USAGI), it has all the staying power of a foot cramp I had once, inconvenient and a little painful in the moment, but over and forgotten five minutes later.

Ami realizes none of it is real and tries to break free, only to fall through a mirror and begin talking to herself, only tiny.

Tiny Ami says Bigger Ami should remember her real dreams and not give up. “Yes, there are so many people I love and who love me”, she says, LITERALLY THINKING OF ONLY SEVEN PEOPLE TWO OF WHICH ARE HER PARENTS BECAUSE REMEMBER WHEN AMI HAD TO USE NARU SHE DOESN’T EVEN HAVE A SINGLE TERTIARY ACQUAINTANCE WE CAN PRETEND SHE CARES ABOUT

My favourite part of this though?

IT’S A SHITTY LIST AND MAMORU’S STILL NOT ON IT

Ami goes on to say that her real dream is to become a “full-fledged soldier” (okay) and protect everyone. This triggers her power-up, and also a talking doohickey.

I can’t help but notice we’ve increased our talking inanimate objects by about 500% lately, and I’m wondering if Takeuchi was on massive amounts of painkillers.

I wish I were on massive amounts of painkillers.

“Mercury Aqua Rhapsody”, Ami breaks the mirror, and frees her mum from the nightmare. But she apparently still can’t actually do anything of real combat importance, SURE AM GLAD YOU’RE A FULL-FLEDGED SOLDIER NOW AMI. It takes Chibs and Usagi running in (Ami called Usagi earlier) and transforming – triggering the end of their bodyswap – to attack and kill Fish Eye.

Because Usagi and Chibi-Usa are here, the story is instantly handed back to them. Usagi’s awesome awesomeness is just so bloody awesome that Chibs is like “Oh man, I must not be this Princess who can help Pegasus, it’s probably Usagi.” So she calls and tells him he’s got it wrong, to which he’s “Oh? Weird, but okay. So heyyyyy, other Princess, s’up?” Which upsets Chibs and she runs off.

KEEP RUNNING CHIBI-USA

KEEP RUNNING AND NEVER LOOK BACK

[keyofjetwolf]

(pt. 1/2) One problem I've always had is the connection that is made between being a senshi and virginity and motherhood. The fact that NQS loses her transformation powers in and around the time she had or was pregnant with Chibs (because if the 8 year old is 8 for 900 years, it seems somewhat reasonable to assume it wasn't a 9 month pregnancy) and the fact that we've never seen any mother senshi - our senshi don't seem to have any family (although given how much attention Naoko's given them,

(pt. 2/2) maybe they all have 20 kids on the side for all we know. But in any case, I really think NQS’s loss of powers and the senshis’ apparent lack of kids is supposed to hint between a connection between sex and motherhood and loosing powers. And yeah, fuck the whole concept of purity/innocent = powers while sex/motherhood = no powers thing.

I’m getting a weird deja vu here. Did I get an ask about something like this before? I can’t remember. IN ANY EVENT

I’m no fan of the manga, but I have to say that I’m not making the same connections as you at all. I don’t see any Senshin/virginity/motherhood theme or implication. Not that our sample size is anywhere near large enough to try and discern a pattern here, but looking just at Usagi/NQS, I don’t think it holds up, at least not to my eyes.

I don’t know that it’s a safe assumption that Usagi’s pregnancy was anything other than normal for humans. As I understand Chibs; situation, she stopped aging altogether at eight, it’s not that her aging is so slow that in 900 years she’s only REACHED eight. My assumption is that NQS’s statement is meant to indicate that she lost most of her battle-oriented powers because her role was different now. Not because she was a mother, but because she was a queen. I’M NOT SAYING I DON’T THINK THAT’S BULLSHIT, but I don’t think it fits your theory.

And even just looking at NQS and her treatment of Chibi-Usa, motherhood seems to literally be the least of her concerns.

Most compelling though, I think, is Usagi herself. Whatever else I think of her and Mamoru in the manga, I don’t think it can be denied that their relationship is pretty sexual (whether or not it includes actual sex yet or not). They’re making out every other second, and it’s clear they’re physically attracted to each other. Including her constant attraction to basically everyone who crosses her path, Usagi’s simultaneously the most sexual character we have in the manga, and the most powerful.

And much as we laughed about it then and now and forever, we LITERALLY have Minako becoming sexually excited by her own transformation in Sailor V.

I’m not arguing with you that sex and innocence and purity and power is handled really, really badly in a whole lot of media. I just don’t think the Sailor Moon manga is one of them.

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Jet Wolf and Act 20

The manga and I are repeatedly clashing, and so instead of full liveblogs, I’m reading each manga act (mostly) silently, and then writing up summaries at the end. I’ll be very candid, which could well include criticism and snark about the manga either wholesale or in details. If that isn’t a thing you feel like reading, please skip this post!

"Papa!” Chibi-Usa cries, as her hands slide through the hologram. With a sigh, she adds, “Well, that’s another thousand years of therapy.” King Endymion doesn’t even try to instinctively hug her back. King Endymion is a fucking douche.

He doesn’t do emotions or leadership or fashion choices well, but god damn, this boy can drop some mad plot, and he wastes no time in getting to what’s really important: TWENTY-ONE STRAIGHT PAGES OF EXCRUCIATING EXPOSITION I AM NOT EVEN KIDDING I JUST FUCKING COUNTED THEM

We all know the basic story here, and thank god for that, because I can skip a literal third of this issue without having to reread it. If you’re familiar with the anime over the manga, what you basically need to know is even in the future, the Senshi are denied literally any modicum of agency and effectiveness. They don’t get to be the ones who used their powers to protect NQS from the Black Moon, it’s just a thing the ginzuishou does. The ginzuishou is more proactive and useful than Usagi’s four guardians and best friends. AS ALWAYS I APPLAUD THE BEST AND MOST INTERESTING CHOICES

And remember the cool shit where the Crystal Tokyo Inners combined their powers to shield the palace from the unrelenting attack of like six million UFOs, but were trapped and unable to do anything else or risk the shield dropping and everyone dying?

Nope! Just unconscious. In one hit. They don’t even get to be plot holograms (plolograms?) like Mamoru.

AWESOME THE MANGA IS DEFINITELY THE EXPRESSION OF FRIENDSHIP AND FEMALE EMPOWERMENT I WAS HOPING FOR

We also get a more manga Crystal Tokyo backstory, about how Usagi became Neo Queen Serenity at 22. I CAN ONLY ASSUME TAKEUCHI NEVER ACTUALLY MET A 22 YEAR OLD. I’m also not super convinced that Takeuchi didn’t settle on 22 years old because she thought that was when you were the most smoking hot. Seriously, this could just be a translation thing, but my copy puts huge emphasis on how everyone looks so young, even going so far as to say that Usagi’s “figure has remained the same”. Given the flashes of extreme physical shallowness we’ve seen from Takeuchi in the manga so far, I’m just not unconvinced Usagi became queen at 22 because OH MY GOD COULD YOU IMAGINE HER IN HER THIRTIES OR FORTIES OR EVEN FIFTIES FOREVER DEATH WOULD BE PREFERABLE.

(At fifty currently, I assume she’s gotten a bit better about that now, but yeah.)

Anyway, I ignore all this and encourage you to do the same. BUT WAIT ENDYMION STILL HAS SEVERAL HUNDRED PAGES OF SHIT TO TELL US. He goes on to say stuff that got me all pissed off, and you can see my rant here.

So we get backstory on Planet Nemesis, ABOUT WHICH I TAKE SOME ISSUE. More talking, more talking, Minako drifts in and out and begins imagining she is the star of her own telenovella. “Minarita, Duchess of Loooove.” She has thrilling adventures and many lovers, and the Senshi are there, and every week she’s a favoured guest on Sabado Gigante.

Usagi ruins it all by doing her best Marty McFly impression.

Endymion explains that “you can’t exist in two places in two forms at the same time”. When asked why he didn’t bring this up three hours ago before starting his lecture, he shrugs and says “I’m a douche.”

ATTENTION PLEASE. NOW IS THE TIME WHEN JET WOLF IS GOING TO MENTION SOMETHING THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE FOR LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED IN THIS STORY TO HAVE GIVEN TWO SHITS ABOUT. ATTENTION PLEASE.

Nobody asks if Rei, Ami, and Mako might be protected against this. Nobody asks if they should maybe get a move on with the rescuing if this is a risk they’re facing. Nobody shows concern about how Usagi going Sue Storm within twenty minutes might mean Rei -- kidnapped now for the past six issues -- is already dead.

SORRY SORRY I KEEP STUBBORNLY CARING ABOUT THEM I KNOW MY BAD

Mamoru pledges to protect Chibi-Usa because Endymion is a hologram and also a douche. But Endymion went three entire seconds without explaining something, and so now has to tell everyone all about Sailor Pluto. I bet Endymion has a Reddit account. If he’s technically a computer program, can’t we just switch him off? “Sorry, bud, already tried,” Minako informs me with a sad shake of her head.

I just noticed Endymion The Hologram somehow takes a Time Key from Pluto and hands it to Usagi. SO HE CAN HAVE CORPOREAL FORM HE JUST FUCKING PHASED OUT SO CHIBS COULDN’T HUG HIM AND HE CHOSE TO NOT HUG HER IS HE SEASON SEVEN GILES WHAT THE FUCK WHY ARE YOU SUCH A FUCKING DOUCHE DO YOU NEED TO SEND NIGHTMARES BACK INTO THE PAST IS THAT YOUR OUTLET WHAT

They pop back to their time, and Mamoru says he’ll take Chibs home, and as you’d expect, Usagi handles this is a completely mature and reasonable way, having learned from her hasty accusations and ensuing make-out session last issue.

BUT WHERE WOULD BE THE DRAMA IN THAT I ASK YOU

YES I CAN’T IMAGINE WHY HE WOULD PREFER THE COMPANY OF THE TRAUMATIZED EIGHT YEAR OLD MANAGING SOMEHOW TO THROW LESS TANTRUMS POINT MADE USAGI

That night, Minako looks out of her window, wonders where her friends are, and renews her vow to rescue them. “You can’t leave me to deal with this shit by myself for the next thousand years, fuck THAT.”

Morning comes, and Chibs has disappeared. Turns out she ran off to the Gate of Time. Pluto longs for the days when she could read her trashy romance novels without getting interrupted every other century. Chibs wants to stay and hang out with Pluto, but then somehow wanders into Crystal Tokyo and the palace. YOU HAVE ONE FUCKING JOB PLUTO AND I HAVE  TO SAY YOU ARE REALLY KIND OF SHIT AT IT

Chibs wanders around the palace and finally comes to The Creepy Dead Body Room (WHY DO YOU HAVE THAT ROOM) complete with body display slabs and--

NO OKAY REALLY WHY DO YOU HAVE THIS ROOM AND WHY IS IT SET UP WHY WAS IT READY TO GO AT ANY TIME IF YOU ALL LIVE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS

And perhaps my larger question of all: WHO THE FUCK PUT YOU ALL THERE

IF ONLY TINY KITTEN AND SMALL LADY SURVIVED THE ATTACK WHO PUT YOU ALL THERE

Over to the Black Moon, where Rubeus is all “peace, baby, mellow out and be groovy”. But Esmeraude doesn’t want to be groovy, Esmeraude wants to KILL.

Specifically she wants to kill Chibi-Usa, and honest to god at this point if I were to make a list of characters I’d like to see killed, Chibs wouldn’t even rank. Usagi, Minako, and Mamoru show up (somewhere, Pluto flips her book open again with a VERY aggrieved sigh), and once again, Usagi’s attack fails to work. Guess whose does, though! GO ON GUESS YOU NEVER EVER EVER WILL.

So Mamoru kills Esmeraude, and while she did rank above Chibi-Usa on my kill list, I still feel empty inside. Excited at the opportunity to explain YET MORE SHIT, Endymion vomits some words about the ginzuishou and how it can only work in the past and that’s why Usagi’s power isn’t working. Something like that. I’m really just so beyond caring at this point, whatever.

Dimande shows up, captures Usagi, and oh good, it’s THAT time again.