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alevolpe · 8 months ago

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your hc on the tiaras being the eyes of serenity makes me wonder if you have any hc about the planetary symbols on the foreheads aside from it being the natural state

Mmh, let’s see. Not particularly I guess, if anything I think I’d take away stuff from canon.

Like in canon is implied that the symbol appears when a senshi “needs help” or “is willing to help”, I don’t have that, cause that would imply the symbols inherently being tied to the team rather than to the individual, or it could mean that the senshis are inherently born to be tied in a connection where they would need this type of almost instinctual communication engrained into their being in the first place.

The ladder isn’t an inherently bad idea and I think you could go very interesting places with it, but I just haven’t gotten that far.

That really cuts to the question of: what is a senshi? Why do they exit and what is their purpose? And I know we have an answer in canon, but I don’t particularly love it, so I’m reworking the whole structure from the ground up.

In the general sense though, the symbols just stand as a way of identifying if one is a senshi or not. A weird analogy I have for it is like the red markings on a black widow, tho in the senshis’ case it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a threat and the symbols is a warning. The symbol just is, as far as we know, and it’s prob not as easy to understand as the red markings on a spider.

#ask me stuff #The existence of the senshi is a very interesting topic to think about #I don’t hate the canon answer about them #But I don’t like the implications of the senshis being an inherently good force #And chaos being the inherent evil #I think there’s a better way to do this that reflects our own universe #I like the idea of balance but nature and the universe don’t distinguish good and evil #Prey and predator are both equally vital to the ecosystem #Nothing but our own biased morals influence us to think that the prey is any less “evil” than the predator and yet #Most stories feature predators as villains or evil #Coming back to sm what canon does is telling me straight up that the predator is the evil one and that prey is good #When that just isn’t true #Chaos is a very abstract and sort of nonsensical idea of an evil force #Cause chaos itself isn’t an inherently bad thing #We just think it is cause of our own human morals and experiences #Hell without that we wouldn’t have even the idea of chaos #How can “the universe” even distinguish between what is “chaos” and what is “not chaos”#And if it does would that imply the existence a conscience inside of the empty abstract idea of “the universe”

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