#also fuck papa usagi

[k-kizkhalifa]

junjo romantica s2ep10--

alright lets get this one going then i'll lay down for bed. if my computer survives. it's dying.

lol at misaki HAPPY AS FUCK ABOUT USAMI BROTHER GETTING MARRIED. OKAY WHO THE FK IS THIS GIRL?!?!?! COMING IN LIKE THAT??? IMMA GET NOWAKI AFTER HER REAL QUICK.

lol at usagi: im with misaki not lol at misaki: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

oh man misaki standing up for himself. I LOVE TO SEE IT! also i am nervous at the foreshadowing about misaki not being okay. bro.

AWE MISAKI BEING PROUD OF HIS CAKE. alos i wanna fk this bitch up. i'll destroy her. being mean to misaki like that. wtf.

not haruhiko apologizing to misaki about having to marry this chick. lol boy misaki doesn't want you! also, you gotta feel bad for haruhik---NO WE ARE NOT FEELING BAD FOR THIS CREEP. but his back story is a bit sad. ugh.

lol misaki a fkn philosopher now-a-days. HAHAHAHA. damn misaki giving everyone a green light at life these days.

oh misaki contem--OH GREAT THE FATHER IS HERE NOW.

yo if papa usagi says some shit to misaki i am going to KILL HIM. WELL HE DID. BYE ON MY WAY TO KILL HIM. i don't need nowaki for this one.

awe tho at the: i have to hurry home and see him. see usagi.

my hearttttttttt. i love that.

why can't tehse two communicate??????? WHY IS IT SO HARD FOR THEM??

oh misaki talk to this man. please. he is begging you and misaki is just crying. oh man it is hurting my heart. UGH Y'ALL. god damn it got so sad so quick. (is that why i have forgotten this season so much??? bc of the sadness??)

good lord this girl is such a mess.

her: i love you. (OF FUCKING COURSE BC EVERYONE LOVES MISAKI) misaki: AHHAH IM A LADIES MAN. usagi: KIZ I NEED NOWAKI! NOW.

[ray-the-fanatic]

lita, opening the door to her dads' room: daddy, papa, i heard a noise-

[ she sees future leo beneath future usagi, in bed and underneath a blanket. they're both shocked and red faced obviously getting caught by their daughter ]

lita: what are you two doing?

future leo: u-uhhhh.... playing... t-twister? (smiles nervously)

future usagi: a-also the noise was us sweetie, you can go back to bed h-heh

lita: ... (smiles) okay! (goes back to her room while her dads sigh in relief)

– the next day –

casey jr, carrying supplies: thank you for helping lita, master michelangelo says you're doing a great job

lita, carrying small supplies: where's papa? i thought he was gonna be here with us?

casey jr: he's helping the others with map rerouting, master usagi said master leonardo's back isn't in good shape for carrying supplies

lita: oohhhh, he must've played too much twister

casey jr: hm? what do you mean?

lita: him and daddy were playing twister in bed last night, papa's back is probably sore from that (she whistfully goes ahead of cj, unaware of his expression)

casey jr: what??? twister in bed... (stops in his tracks and starts putting two and two together)

– meanwhile, in the map room –

[ future usagi, with his arm around his husband's waist, is talking about battle plans while future leo is looking at him fondly when all of a sudden- ]

casey jr, kicking the door open: (upset) YOU TWO WERE NOT PLAYING TWISTER!!

future leosagi: (surprised and red faced)

(( i made a rise version of lita, she's from the idw comics, who is leo and usagi's daughter in the future, she's an albino red eared slider and is 5 years old in this as well ))

Leo and Usagi are horndogs and I refuse to hear otherwise. but also XD these two having no shame and taking any chance for some time together only to get fucking ratted out on it XD Casey yes call em out on it! Least Leo ain't too upset about his back pft considering how it happen that likely why XDD Ahh LITA I was curious when I saw the name on if it was that Lita and it is and now I am sobbing ;3; I'm also just dead over these two getting fucking called out XD

[aceofspadegrass]

Testimony

Characters: Aguni Morizono, Niragi Suguru, Ann Rizuna, Last Boss, Arisu Ryohei, Usagi Yuzuha

Genre: Crack. It's just Y/N telling a story, but I, the writer, went off the wall and now you have the misfortune of figuring out who is who.

1.2k words

Remember when I was talking about writing a story that included none of the AIB characters names? Yeah, this is pretty much it. I didn't add all the characters, but then it would've just been a chore to decipher what I was even saying.

Yin sits down at the table, the officer in front of her nodding their head in greeting, Yin keeping a blank face as they fold their hands in front of them.

“ You are aware why you have been called in here for, correct?” Yin hums, kicking their feet idly. “ Well, kind of! I was a witness, and you want my statement, right?” The officer nods, Yin nodding and tapping their chin in thought. “ Well, I can describe it pretty well, but only problem is that I kind of don’t know any of the names of the parties it involves. Do you mind if I just described them instead?” The officer waves at them to continue in response, Yin grinning as if they were the cat that caught the cream. “ Okay! Strap in, this is gonna be a doozy.”

“ Alright. Remember that anything that you say will be recorded and documented for evidence.”

Yin nods, smiling and eyes twinkling.

“ So! Basically I was walking down the street, right? Minding my own business, bought a snack at the nearby shop, munching away. Gotta make sure to keep my energy up, you know? And suddenly I see what was basically a giraffe wearing a rather sketchy fedora running past me, apparently either training to become the next Olympic runner, or he got in trouble with his mom and she’s coming to smack him sideways to Tuesday evening on a Wednesday morning.

So I turn and watch this oil spill book it, and when I turn back around I see several other people. One was this really pretty lady with fashion that I thought I’d only see in Vogue and the strut that makes me think she’s like some goddess coming to talk to the manager only to point out how terrible they were treating the staff, and the other was like…. dad material. He looked like he belonged in an army or something but would also totally have unironically cried during a sad scene involving a kid in a movie, but at the moment I’m pretty sure beefcake over there was gonna bust a skull open like a weak watermelon. Probably the burnt coffee bean wearing guy. The swan queen probably could’ve annihilated him with just a fucking stare, I swear.

So anyways, they walk past me and I’m pretty sure I got hit with so much raw authoritative energy I could’ve taken over the prime minister or something just by politely asking, and I couldn’t help but be like….. curious.”

“ So you went ahead and followed them.”

“ So I went ahead and followed them! Did you know giraffes run at 37 miles per hour? Crazy, isn’t it! Well this guy was actually running pretty darn fast, but then he kind of tripped and ate shit on the sidewalk. Not like, literally, that’s a figure of speech, but like he went bonk on that sidewalk. I think he was okay though, but then the army general looking guy grabs him and kind of pins him to the ground, and the fancy fashion lady just stands there to the side like a disappointed secretary who is standing behind the boss and only makes you feel super fucking tiny in that situation.

So the raccoon man is screaming, with papa beef on top and reprimanding him, and I have noooo clue what was going on here. That is until some more people show up. There was this guy that I’m pretty sure looks like he belongs in some cheesy superhero cartoon with how much tattoos he had on without it being like…. a bunch of pictures that cumulated, but like one coherent design that took up his whole body, and a guy who looks like he rolled out of bed at 4 in the afternoon in a shopping cart. This girl wearing a windbreaker was pushing the cart, and she looked really disappointed for some reason, and I think she was disappointed at the chocolate rice krispie man.

Now, the puppy looking fellow was clutching a bunch of shirts, a box of crackers, and there was a pack of toilet paper at his feet, so I’m pretty sure that either they stole a shopping cart, or the raisin man made the rest of this squad have to run from a nearby supermarket to chase him down. Either way, there’s a man who looks like he hasn’t showered in weeks in a cart, a disappointed mom, a marble countertop if humanised, a second, more disappointed mom, a rooster, and a puddle of tar mud just there in front of me, with the latter being hung up on each other. The kangaroo was winning though, but kangaroos are fucking built like a wrestler, so even I wouldn’t fuck with that. So there’s yelling, there’s a lot confusion, and I’m kind of alone in this because other people were doing other shit and didn’t get to see whatever the heck was going down here.

So finally the black bean guy is allowed to get up and gets a pat down, so I guess he stole something? I dunno, but the crane looking manager lady was the one to do it, with the other man holding him still. Guess he has a lot of fight in him. It was like holding a feral hissy cat at the vet, it was kind of funny to watch. I don’t know if they found something or not, because I couldn’t actually understand what they were saying. I think it was Japanese? But I can still sense the energy, and I guess the guy got in trouble.

Now, this is the part that you probably wanted to hear, officer. Because moments after whatever was going on, suddenly this car pulls up. Really nice car, standard brand and practically inconspicuous. It opens up, and apparently it was like….. some drive by robbery or something, but I really don’t know what the people wanted. Toilet paper? Crackers? A shirt that was very neon yellow?

Anyways, what I saw was nothing less than something that came out of a movie. So one of the robbers tried to steal from them by pointing I think a gun at them, but the buff potato attacks and very quickly disarms them. Meanwhile, the one that kind of was wearing a pink peep jacket? Yeah, apparently she wasn’t having any of it as well when another approached the trolley containing what might have been her best friend or something, because she absolutely punches them in the face before they even got too close. Oh, and remember the blackberry yoghurt parfait and the guy that got tackled? Yeah, so turns out the pool noodle giraffe whips out a slingshot from his pocket and pops a rock into one of the robber’s eye, and the tiger man just takes his sandal off and smacks them like a grandma. It was very weird to watch.

But it like…. worked? Somehow? Because these robbers were, no offence, dumb as shit to try to rob a group of six people, especially when one looks like he could punch a tiger and not care at all. So they were knocked down, I guess the shopping cart chilling border collie man called the police, which is when you guys came down to arrest said robbers, aaaannnnd here we are!” Yin finishes, smiling proudly.

The officer can only stare at them, trying to process whatever the hell that story meant.

“…. Alright, thank you.”

Yin nods again, still smiling at the officer until they were escorted out, the officer looking up at the camera that recorded everything. Their eyes only showed pure confusion and a silent hope that the rest of the statements weren’t as….. chaotic.

[italian-pastry]

BNHA Kid Headcanons

(For @yourwildflowerbouquet )

KIRIBAKU

-Eijirou had always wanted a lot of kids

-and Katsuki can't say no to his husband

-so there's 5 of them

-(damn 5 whole children)

-their kids call them Papa (Eijirou) and Dad (Katsuki)

-the first one is a girl

-she's just a copy-paste katsuki (personality wise) but with a better attitude

-they were figuring out how to raise kids

-they did pretty well, I think

-Her quirk is Fragmentation (She can make spikes on her body, then shoot them off like missles)

-her name is Mieko (Already Prosperous)

-the second one was a boy

-he ended up much more like Eijirou

-overall a radical little dude

-his quirk is Lavanic (he secretes lava like how Mina secretes acid)

-his name is Akio (Bright Man; Manly; Hero)

-(wow so original)

-the third one was born a male but she's more comfortable identifying as a girl so she's a she and that's that

-suprisingly timid for being raised by Katsuki and Eijirou

-also surprisingly, she still manages to be more like Katsuki whilst being timid

-passionate, stubborn, probably has some sort of complex, etc.

-her quirk is Pressure Blow (she hardens her own skin, but not as strong as Eijirou can, and when it breaks, there's an explosion)

-her name is Hiroki (Bright; Hope)

-the last two are twins

-which really surprised Katsuki

-"wtf why are there two"

-"well, kat, there is such a thing as twins"

-there is a girl and boy

-katsuki was horrified when his mom told him that the girl acted just like he did when he was a baby

-the boy is much more chill

-he just wants to play sports is that such a crime?

-the girl's quirk is Explosion (can send out a burst of energy like an explosion) and the boy's is Implosion (Explosion but in reverse)

-the girl's name is Kana (Powerful) and the boy's name is Tatsuhiro (Dragon, Immense Power)

-they're one big happy family

-Mieko has fully sharp teeth (like Eijirou) and the twins have partially sharp teeth

TODODEKU

-Shouto was worried when Izuku brought up the prospect of having kids

-he didn't want to fuck them up because he had a terrible dad

-"Izuku you didn't have a dad and I wish I didn't have a dad we're gonna fuck up this poor kid"

-Izuku respected his wishes and accepted the fact that they probably wouldn't have kids

-until Shouto had a chat with Natsuo (after Natsu became a dad)

-"Here's how I think of it, little bro; I'm gonna be the best fucking dad to this kid to show Endeavor that no matter how badly he fucked me up, I can still be happy with a better family than he will ever have"

-that certainly changed Shouto's perspective on things

-"oh yeah don't forget to have a good support system and do research on how to raise a kid or idk ask someone with actually good parents ok good luck buddy"

-So Shouto was lile "hey maybe we can try this kid thing out I did research and I'm feeling a bit more confident in my ability to raise a human"

- Izuku: :DD

-So they had a son!

-He's real chill (he's the mom friend and proud of it)

-imagine Shouto's overall chillness, but with Izuku's caring nature

-his quirk is Half-Flurry Half-Firework (he can make snow from one side of his body and sparks from the other)

_his name is Toshi, for obvious reasons

-(All Might cried)

-Izuku was like "look at how well we're doing with our son! Man, we we're worried over nothing!"

-"let's have another"

-"what"

-"you heard me"

-so they had another!

-Poor girl was born with the curse of blue eyes and red/pink hair

-Shouto was happy that she at least got Izuku's freckles to balance it out

-Homegirl is just Izuku minus anxiety

-she'd be unstoppable if she really tried

-her quirk is Thermostat (she can raise or lower the temperature of the air around her)

-her name is Arakan (Worthy One; Hero)

-Izuku: Wow I love our kids and how not screwed up they are :D

-Shouto: one more

-Izuku: wha

-Shouto: Just one more

-So they had one more

-she's a very good girl

-very respectful and sweet

-her quirk is black ice (ice, but black)

-her name is Youdai (Gentle; Shine)

- The kids call their parents Chichi (Izuku) and Daifu (Shouto)

-Sometimes called 'Chi' and 'Dai'

-These kids have 1 (one) grandpa and his name is Toshinori and he's their favorite

-The kids' grandmas are also very popular in this household

TSUYURAKA

-Ochako was pretty excited to have kids

-And tsu wanted them too so it all worked out

-They had a son first!

-he's a sweet boy who loves everyone and has a deep passion for life

-he does fall on the autism spectrum, but he works hard to not let that hold him back

-Tsu and Ochako are very supportive of their boy

-his quirk is Space Boy (He can increase or lower the amount of gravity affecting himself or anything he kicks)

-his name is Takiyo (waterfall)

-fun fact: he has half-n-half hair (half brown half green)

-their second child is a beautiful girl

-she's sisterly and energetic

-she doesn't really "get" hero culture and the desire for that lifestyle

-her quirk is Frog Morph (she can turn into a frog)

-her quirk is pretty plain, but she doesn't care

-her name is Ezumo (Fountain; cloud)

-Ochako and Tsu didn't have another kid for some time for no one reason

-but they did have another!

-he's a wittle itsy bitsy baby boy!

-he has a moon birthmark around his left eye

-AND heterochromia

-(man their kids have alot of half-n-half bastard traits)

His quirk is Orbit (anything he touches starts to orbit around himself)

-His name is Tsuki (Moon), but he's nicknamed Usagi (Rabbit)

- the kids call their moms Haha (Ochako) and Mama (Tsuyu)

-Since Ochako and Tsuyu didn't take each other's last names, their kids have alternating last names

-Takiyo and Tsuki have the Asui last name, and Ezumo has the Uraraka last name

SHINKAMISERO

-Denki and Hanta were the ones most excited to have kids at first, and Hitoshi was like 'cool go nuts I'll help raise them'

-So, biologically, their first kid's parents are Hanta and Denki

-but he's still very close to Hitoshi

-he looks and acts a lot like Hanta

-he's an all around sk8r boi

-his quirk is Electric Tape (basically Hanta's quirk but he can send and harness electricity via his tape)

-His name is Takeo (Warrior)

-one day when he was young, he had a really bad nightmare, and the only one of his dads awake was Hitoshi (since he's an insomniac)

-Hitoshi listened to his boy's rambling, and told him that no matter what monster or villain comes after him, he promises that he'd always protect him

-but one day, some B-tier villains broke into their home while Hanta and Denki were out doing Hero things

-Hitoshi tried to take them down, but they anticipated fighting him and had a strategy to take him down and ended up knocking him out

-when he was woken up by the police, they discovered that Takeo had been taken by the villains

-for five days, the villains had held him for ransom

-and for those five days, Hitoshi worked literally non-stop to try and track down and rescue Takeo

-after those five days, they ended up paying the ransom, and Takeo was returned to the police and his family safely

-except for a large gash on his shoulder he got during the initial break-in

-the whole event deterred Hitoshi from having more kids

-he was very anxious about being there for Takeo, and Hanta and Denki understood that

-so he and his husbands didn't have kids for like 15 years

-at this point, Takeo is a teenager, more independent, and is stronger/can tale care of himself

-Hitoshi feels better now about being able to put his attention elsewhere (focus less on Takeo)

-so he brought up to his husbands "Hey, do ya maybe wanna have another kid?"

-and they were like "omigosh yeah totally yes let us have another child"

-and there were twins!

-one boy and one girl!

-Hitoshi was just as confused as Baku when twins showed up

-"hol' up I only signed up for 1 kid not 2"

-"too bad they're yours"

-"Two for the price of one!" <- that's Hanta

-Biologically speaking, both of them are Hitoshi's, but the boy has Denki's DNA and the girl has Hanta's

-the boy has a resting bitch face and cries a lot

-the girl has resting sad face, but she's actually pretty cool

-the boy's quirk is Electroshock Therapy (mostly like Denki's quirk, except when he shocks you, you're under his control) and the girl's name is Mind Bind (it looks like Deku's Black Whip, except whenever it wraps around someone, they're under her control)

-the boy's name is Masashi (Commander; General) and the girl's name is Maemi (Honest Child)

-it's a bit weird for Takeo to have newborn siblings, but he loves them regardless!

-the kids call their dads Dad (Hitoshi), Pop (Denki), and Dada (Hanta)

AOMINA

-since I HC that Yuuga is graysexual, he didn't really vibe with kids for a while after they were married

-but Mina was totally fine with that!

-"hey it means I can still say fuck in my own house it's cool it's cool"

-although when Mina expressed further interest in kids a bit down the line, Yuuga was like "mmmmokay why not"

-and they had a girl!

-she has pink skin and weird eyes like Mina, but blonde hair and purple eyes like Yuuga!

-she also doesn't have horns

-she's very much like Mina

-she comes off as narcissistic at times, but she just has enough self-confidence for two people

-her quirk is Glo Splash (from one side of her body, she secretes one of the chemicals that make up the liquid in glow sticks, and the other half of her secretes the other chemical. She can mix them together to make it glow!)

-her name is Minako (child of Mina)

-Mina is not allowed to name their children anymore

-so when their son is born, Yuuga named him

-he got pink hair and horns and yellow eyes, but normal skin and normal eyes

-he's oddly very timid and anxious, which gives him a disconnect from the rest of his outgoing family

-his quirk is Lazer Horn (he can shoot lasers like Yuuga's from his horns)

-his name is Yukio (Snow Boy)

-the kids have hyphenated last names (Ashido-Aoyama) as opposed to having only one last name like their parents

-the most fab family has matching names: Yuuga and Yukio, Mina and Minako

-both the kids are fluent in French, and know snippets of English (we stan multilingual families)

-the kids call their parents Père (Yuuga) and Mama (Mina)

HAGOJIROU

-since Tooru was already pregananant when they got married, their first kid was quite a tad older than the majority of their Classmate's kids

-eh it's fine tho

-the first kid was a beautiful girl!

-due to her quirk, she likes to wear bright, complex clothing as to not go unnoticed

-she also makes a point to talk relatively loudly especially when in crowds

-her quirk is Ninja (physically, she is only an outline. She cannot be seen if she is standing still or the person looking for her doesn't know she's there)

-her name is Chieko (child blessed with wisdom)

-they had a second child a few years later on

-a boy!

-his fav hero is Ground Zero (to Mashirao's dismay)

-anyone who says otherwise can catch these hands

-he is also a woman respecter 100% through and through

-he can and will kick ass

-his quirk is Invisishift (he can turn himself invisible)

-kinda plain, but he loves it!

-his name is Ryuji (Dragon Child)

-A couple years after that (7-8 years or so) they had one more kid

-yet another boy!

-he's a lot like his mom (likes pranks, friendly, just a cool dude)

-he has really poofy curly hair

-his quirk is Tail (it's just Mashirao's quirk idk what to tell y'all)

-his name is Taishiro (Ambitious Boy)

-(i JUST learned that he shares his name with Fat Gum that was not planned I promise)

-all the kids can kick ass

-"Martial arts is an excellent form of exercise for children!" <- Mashirao

-the kids call their parents Mum (Tooru) and Pops (Mashirao)

-everyone's last name is Ojirou

MOMOJIROU

-Momo was really excited to have kids when their friends started announcing their pregnancies/having kids

-Baby Fever if you will

-Kyouka also wanted kids, but wasn't as outwardly excited as Momo

-and they had twiiiiiiiins

-also one boy and one girl

-because apparently there can't be same-sex twins in my headcanons

-the girl is more like Kyouka

-kinda punk, wants to be a hero, all that jazz (haha music)

-the boy is more like Momo

-elegant, charismatic, wants to go into Hero Management

-the girl's quirk is Stereo Heart (she has earphone jacks, and can play any sound she's ever heard, plus combinations) and the boy's is Bass Boost (he also has earphone jacks, but he can only alter his heartbeat (increase bass, vibrato, ect.))

-the girl's name is Satoshi (Intelligent History) and the boy's is Utano (Field Of Songs)

-both the kids are musically talented and very smart

-thanks for the great talents, moms!

-the kids call their parents Mom (Kyouka) and Mama (Momo)

-sometimes Kyouka and Momo can't tell which parent the kid is calling for, so they usually both yelling back (or the wrong one)

-it's a whole process to get the attention of the mom you want

-"HEY MOM"

-"YEAH?"

-"NO NOT YOU, MAMA, I SAID M O M"

[softdadcarlos]

Reunion 2: The Inbetween

Masterlist

Fandom: Resident Evil/Biohazard

Pairing: Jill/Carlos

AU: Family Life

Summary: Set after Chris tells Carlos and before Jill’s return, we see how Carlos struggles as a single father while dealing with his grief. 

Carlos rested his head against the door after he showed Chris out, letting loose a long shaky breath. She was gone. She wouldn’t be coming back. At least not anytime soon because Carlos refused to accept she was dead until he saw a body. And they did not have one. So, for the sake of their baby girl, he couldn’t doubt her will to live and drive to come back home. A part of him blamed himself, he let her go on that mission to find that fucking Spencer guy. He let her go and lost her for it. After a blissful two years of just them and their daughter, he lost her. A larger part of him blamed the B.S.A.A for sending out teams of two because of course with such tiny squads someone was going to go to an extreme to save their teammate. He didn’t blame Chris at all, just by looking at the man Carlos could see the guilt weighing him down.

He pushed himself away from the door and made his way up to Eliza’s room. He had placed her in her playpen there with large soft toys after inviting Chris in. She might have only been two but she was smart enough to understand what is being said around her. Hell, she was starting to string together sentences in three different languages. He slowly pushed open the door, not making a sound, and stood there watching her as she played. For now, she was all he had of Jill other than pictures, clothes, an empty side of the bed and a lifeless office. He watched as she brushed the hair out of her doll’s face.

“Mucho mejor (much better)! You pwetty dolly.”

How was he meant to tell her that Mama wouldn’t be coming back? That it’d just be her and Papa for a while until Uncle Chris finds her? He covered his face with one hand and took a deep breath. He had to be strong for her. He can save his tears once he put her to sleep. Jesus Christ he knew he wouldn’t be getting any sleep for god knows how long.

Eliza must have heard him as she whipped around to face him, “Papa! Where Unc’ Cwis and Mama?”

Carlos swallowed the lump in his throat, he needed to think fast. Looking around her room for inspiration, he spotted her chibi moon bedsheets. That’s it!

Carlos lifted her out of the pen and bounced her slightly like he used to do to soothe her when she was a newborn, “Remember when Usagi got captured by Prince Demande and Tuxedo mask and the sailor scouts had to save her?” Eliza nodded, her thumb in her mouth, “Well when Mama and Uncle Chris were on a mission, Mama got taken by a bad man when she was trying to save Uncle Chris from them. So now Uncle Chris is going to find and rescue her.”

Eliza dropped her thumb with a gasp, “Mama got captured! No no! Es no bueno!”

He felt powerless as Eliza’s bottom lip quivered, fat tears rolling down her chubby freckled cheeks. He tried his best to wipe her tears away one-handed before giving up and just cradling her against him, letting her cry.

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The first couple of months were hard. It was difficult to get used to Jill not being there. He was at a loss at what to do. Especially when Barry informed him that the B.S.A.A were holding a funeral for Jill. They didn’t even have her body and they were already putting her name six-feet in the dirt. It made him feel sick. He refused to go. Instead, Barry, Rebecca, Claire, Leon and Sherry came over offering their support and understanding. Carlos was very much thankful for that. He was thankful that at least they didn’t act like she was already dead. Sherry volunteered to help him around the house and with Eliza but he rejected the idea. He and Eliza didn’t need a replacement, they would make do until their family was whole again.

One thing he had taken to from the very first night was talking to a picture of Jill, the only one that was just of her. She was never fond of having her picture taken, especially alone. He would just talk about how he felt, how much he missed her, what he did that day and how Eliza was doing. Which led to him having the brainwave of writing a diary that recorded Eliza day by day so Jill wouldn’t have missed a thing. He could already feel her guilt over missing Eliza’s little moments in his soul.

Jill’s birthday came and went and Carlos’ heart ached for it. It ached for their daughter who placed an illegible handmade birthday card by their wedding picture, as if her mother would magically appear like Santa Claus on Christmas day. That night he put her to sleep on Jill’s side before heading downstairs to let the other former S.T.A.R.S members and their friends in. They all shared a drink in her memory while sharing stories about her, just to feel close to her. This gave him another idea. He didn’t want Jill to fade from Eliza’s memory while she was gone. So that night he decided that he would tell her stories of Jill every night and show her pictures from the family photo album during the day.

Their first Christmas without her hurt. And with Eliza’s arising mischievousness, he was hopeless at hiding presents from her. He couldn’t help but think that if Jill was there, she would’ve known where to hide the presents from their daughter’s prying eyes. But he was thankful that it wasn’t just him and Eliza. Thankful that Barry came over with his family baring gifts and a Santa costume. Then Claire and Leon with decorations and desserts as well as an announcement that Eliza would have a ‘cousin’ soon. Carlos felt a pang in his chest. Jill would’ve loved to have been there to hear it, to congratulate them as they had her. It was loud and joyous like Christmas with family should be, but Carlos couldn’t shake the emptiness he felt.

When his birthday came, he found he missed the smell of burnt toast as Jill would try and fail to make him some form of breakfast. He missed walking into the kitchen and hugging her from behind as he teased her mercilessly. He missed her stoney mask and watching it crumble into that radiant smile reserved only for him and later Eliza too. His only solace was the sleeping child starfishing and snoring loud enough to wake someone from a coma. He smiled down at her, biting his lip to hold back tears so that she wouldn’t see them if he accidentally woke her. He noticed her hair had grown so much in the last six months and her third birthday was fast approaching. He hoped that Chris would find Jill before then.

It was their wedding anniversary before he knew it. And as much as he hated to be apart from Eliza, he let Barry take her for the day. He needed this day to grieve without being interrupted. To let himself wade through the pool of sorrow in his heart and try to drown it with expensive wine he had saved for this day to share with Jill. What would she think if she walked through the door and saw him in that state? His hair in desperate need of a cut, his beard scruffy and overgrown. Would she tenderly trace the discoloured skin under his eyes and kiss him better? He wished. He wished she was there so he could give her the gift he still bought with the tiny sliver of hope that she’d be back by now.

Leading up to Eliza’s birthday Carlos watched lots of video tutorials on a new-ish website called Youtube. Learning how to style hair because someone in this family had to know how to do their daughter’s hair and in the time he was with Jill, he never witnessed her styling her own hair. He didn’t want Eliza to be upset on her day, so on the morning of her third birthday, Carlos woke her to breakfast in bed - pancakes. And once she had scoffed them all down, he sat her on his lap, combing through her hair and making quick work to put it up in a plaited bun. He helped her to pick an outfit to wear for the day, choosing khaki shorts and a Saint Seiya tshirt. ‘Granpa’ Barry, as Eliza had taken to calling him, came over with a gift but couldn’t stay long. Claire came over with Sherry, she was heavily pregnant and let Eliza feel the baby kick. She said Leon couldn’t be there because he got sent out on a mission but he was on his way back. Carlos felt an ounce of jealousy that Claire knew her partner was safe and sound then immediately felt bad for it. While Sherry and Claire kept Eliza’s attention in the living room, Carlos went into the kitchen to bake the birthday cake.

Far too soon it was a year since Jill’s disappearance. Chris tried to send him monthly updates on his progress in trying to find her but sometimes he couldn’t. Sometimes he just had nothing to report. This was one of those times.

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I just finished Fruits Basket Another and I have some Feelings, okay? Under the cut, because spoilers.

THE CHARACTERS

Hoooo boy let’s unpack here. Furubana is about Sawa Mitoma, a nervous first year in high school. She firmly believes that she’s basically human trash, and resolves to take up as little space in the world as possible, and that’s not even me paraphrasing. She says within the first few pages she wants to take up as little space as humanly possible. We find out that she’s the daughter of an extremely abusive mother - emotionally abusive. Sawa’s mother never hits her, but she’s also never once nice to her in any of her appearances. She isolates Sawa from any and all friends, she constantly drags Sawa down, and she’s rarely even at home, even back when Sawa was a little girl. How long has Sawa been looking after herself? Sawa is what Tohru could have become if Kyoko had been involved with a gang member rather than Katsuya. 

The main trio of characters is rounded out by essentially the same trio as before: Mutsuki Sohma as the son of Yuki and Machi and Hajime Sohma as the son of Tohru and Kyo. Visually, they look nearly identical, which is why I chose that ^ picture. But they could not be more different. Sawa is every Sohma insecurity rolled into one, and the Sohmas are what their parents could have been without the curse and the constant abuse. Hajime is one of the oldest of the cousins, smothered with love and affection by his entire family, and is lovingly referred to as Dad and Papa (which annoys him), being one of the few in the family who cooks, cleans, or is, y’know, responsible. (Good job, Kyoru! Teach your boy right!) He is unwillingly elected student council president, and manages it easily. Unlike his father’s life, things come easily to Hajime, but he doesn’t let that make him conceited. He’s a down to earth character who trades biting remarks with Mutsuki. Mutsuki, on the other hand, I love. I adore. I want to erect a shrine to this boy. Poor Yuki, his wife hath birthed him a miniature Ayame. Mutsuki is trouble under a beautiful exterior, subtle snark and gentle teasing, but over the top in other aspects (like his thing that was once a desk and complete inability to do the most basic of tasks like buy laundry detergent, his utter willingness to let other people do things for him). He is also a deeply caring individual, and has an extremely close relationship with his cousin Shiki which is the complete opposite of his father’s relationship with Shiki’s mother that I nearly cried right there while reading volume three.

Kinu Sohma is the daughter of Hatori and Mayuko (a pairing of which I am not fond), and I actually was not fond of her until volume three, at which point she became a treat. A college student, Kinu seems to have no real ambitions or life goals (much like many college freshmen), spends much of her time sleeping, and only really sweeps in at the last chapter to comfort a very distressed Sawa in the way only a fellow woman can, delivering a wonderful speech right up with Kyoko’s Words Of Wisdom about how no one has the right to treat you badly, even your own family. No one has the right to abuse you, demean you, hurt you. That is a curse. She actually uses the word curse, and it makes me wonder what her parents told her of the Sohma curse, if Hatori ever mentioned how Akito used to be, or how Shigure was such a piece of shit about the seahorse, and it made me love Hatori all over again, for teaching his daughter such a powerful thing. Volume three also gave wonderful interaction between Kinu and the entirely deranged (but perfectly appropriate) Hibika Sohma, the daughter of Ayame and Mine. Just like Hatori is the only one who has any sort of control over Ayame, Kinu is the only one who can reign in Hibika. I believe these two are the oldest, out of all of the cousins, because in volume two, Hibika just fucking jets off to Paris with no warning, at the top of one of her tiny tophats instead of setting up her parents’ second store, because she needed inspiration to create new dresses. I don’t think a high school student could do that. Hibika may possibly be the oldest (Kinu is still a minor at 19 [Japan’s age of adulthood is 20]), because I don’t think a minor could do that either. She’s obsessed with Sawa and playing dress up with her, something Kinu is able to reign her away from doing with ease. She’s only the tiniest bit toned down from Ayame. I love her.

Michi Manabe is the daughter of Kakeru and Komaki and is sometimes at odds with Hajime. My biggest complaint with Furubana is that she is not in it enough!! Despite not being a Sohma proper, Michi is included in nearly all Sohma activities and all the Sohma cousins know her. She and Mutsuki were raised as siblings and address each other as such, which is precious because awww, but also because Kakeru has a deep sibling bond with his half sister as an adult, Komaki (who I view as another Tohru in a way, from how she was introduced) made an effort to keep Yuki and Machi in their lives and comfortable, and Yuki and Machi both created a family unit with the one family member who wanted Machi around, a bond so strong that their children saw each other so much growing up that they refer to each other as siblings. How precious is that?? Poor Hajime is probably the only voice of reason Mutsuki ever had in his life because you know Michi is to Mutsuki what Kakeru would be to Ayame. God I need a Kakeru-meets-Ayame-centric episode right now. Yuki would DIE. Riku Sohma is one half of the twin siblings born to Haru and Rin, and while he looks like Haru, this boy is a lot like his mother. He doesn’t have the anger issues his parents have, not really (except for instance of punching out Hibika’s brother), but he can be a bit spacey, he’s very serious and literal, and he likes to sleep. Everywhere. This family and their sleep. It kills me. He also gets himself a cute little girlfriend, and because of his crush on this girl and his watching of her, he notices her wanting to reach out to Sawa, and Sawa makes her first friend (mostly) on her own in nearly her entire life! On the other hand, Sora Sohma, his twin sister, is cute and spacey, a bit ditzy, and looks like their mother but is 100% Haru. She has nicknames for everyone in the family, and never calls anyone by their actual name. She’s my second favorite character after Hibika. Sora reminds me very much of Usagi Tsukino: instead of seeing a person, Sora sees a friend.

Poor Chizuru Sohma should’ve been Yuki’s kid. Honestly I’m surprised Ayame and Mine don’t have more kids, given how passionate I’m sure they are. And while Chizuru loves his father, he does declare the man crazy (as does every other character, minus Mutsuki, who says he’s “the most terrific of all uncles”) on more than one occasion. Chizuru is the more responsible of the Ayame/Mine Sohma children, setting up the Ayame II shop essentially on his own until Mutsuki offers Sawa’s help as a part timer (because remember, Hibika decided to go to Paris for the week).  He hates that others view his family as eccentric and him as normal and especially hates when they comment on it, and he tends to be a bit foul-mouthed and outspoken. A bit like Hiro. Poor kid. Rio Mosca is Saki Hanajima’s boy and he is NOT KAZUMA’S SON AND THIS MAKES ME SO SAD. His parents’ love story is rather cute, however. His father is a foreigner (Italian, given that his surname is Mosca), and the two met on a plane, making this a cute little callback to when young Megumi prayed for a someone for Saki to “get on a plane and meet her.” Mina Sohma is the most precious baby and is the daughter of our boy Momiji! Although, look at her - could she be anyone else’s child? She is sweet and cute and seems to be without Momiji a lot - Momiji inherited his father’s business (which seems to be international?), and he travels all the time. Mina has a great talent for batting and rather than be privately tutored and follow her father all over the world, she stays behind in Japan to play baseball for her school. Her dream is to take over the family business from her father like he did from his. It seems Momiji’s terribly tragic story ended happily, as it seems he reconciled with his father enough to inherit his business... (more on this later). And then we have Shiki Sohma, who is surprisingly the son of Shigure and Akito! :O Shiki seems to inhabit two worlds, much like the Sohmas of Furuba. On the one hand, he is part of a generation who was raised by those healed by Tohru Honda. Loving, caring parents who love and adore their children. He has friends who care deeply for him - his best friends, despite all being in different grades, are Chizuru and Rio, and they all play Go together in the school club. His family are all deeply committed to him - Mutsuki especially is close to him, as seen in the first volume where Shiki was teased at but not seen, as Mutsuki called him to come to the house where he, Hajime, Kinu, and Sawa were having a hot pot with Michi, Riku, and Sora.  His parents both are and aren’t the Shigure and Akito we know from Furuba - Shigure is still the immature jokester and Akito is still the serious head of the family, but they both love their son immensely, totally and completely in a way that Akito remembers being loved as a child by her father, in a way that Shigure’s parents probably loved him. On the other hand, in volume three, it is shown that, being the son of the head of the family, and living in the Sohma compound, with the old servants, the “old timers,” and Ren, subjects Shiki to some truly horrific abuse the likes of which no other second gen Sohma child has had to go through. Shiki would greet guests who would give him gifts, only to find that within those gifts were notes badmouthing his mother. Ren attempted to stab him as a small child, something the old Akito would and has attempted on the first gen Sohmas, and it’s implied the only reason was because Shiki was Akito’s child. Akito threw herself in front of Ren’s knife and took the blow for her boy. Shiki is a quiet and withdrawn child, one foot in each of these worlds, and seemingly paralyzed over how to act. Much like Sawa, especially once she meets the Sohmas.

Remember I said we’d come back to Momiji’s happy ending? See that woman in the top left? That’s Momo Sohma, Momiji’s sister. In Furubana, Momiji has reconciled not only with his father, but with his sister as well! Momo appears to pick up Momo from the Sohma house; she is Momiji’s assistant and Mina seems to stay with her sometimes when Momiji is out of the country. Momiji has his family back!!! Speaking of families, Hinata Sohma, Hiro’s little sister, is all grown up and makes her own appearance in the third volume (and is a slight alcoholic, lol). She also mentions brothers - did Hiro did another sibling after his curse broke?? Megumi Hanajima makes an appearance as a teacher at Kaibara High School, and this is my second complaint about Furubana - there is not enough Megumi!! He grew up sexy! Second best glow up in the series after Momiji! It’s Megumi who tells the romantic story of how Saki met her husband on the plane. Also making an appearance is Makoto Takei, former student council president, unwilling witness to Haru’s natural hair color explanation. He is now a teacher as well, and Sawa and Riku’s homeroom teacher. He’s also still in love with Yuki, and lets Mutsuki get away with anything. He is often at odds with Ruriko Kageyama, the daughter of Motoko Minagawa of the Prince Yuki Fan Club. Ruriko has inherited her mother’s obsession, though unlike Motoko and Makoto (god those two would’ve made a great obsessed couple), Ruriko loves ALL Sohmas. I don’t understand how the worship of an entire family to stalker levels is an official school club but whatever. Ruriko is actually pretty cool, and while she’s pretty strict, she’s also on somewhat friendly (like, “person I talk to at school but nowhere else” type friend) terms with Sawa. 

THE STORY

I feel this can best be summed up in five sentences and in reverse: When Sawa was little, she fell down the stairs. She was found by Shiki, who simultaneously called an ambulance and fell in love with her. Her piece of shit mother sued Shiki because he was rich as shit. Ten years later, no Sohmas harbor any grudges against Sawa, her mother is still a piece of shit, the Sohma children are full of Tohru-and-Kyoko wisdom passed down from their parents, and try to help Sawa. And also they all hardcore ship Shiki/Sawa. The end. 

No seriously, that’s the story. It’s beautiful. I wish there was one or two more volumes, a cameo featuring the adults, it would be perfect. Could you imagine the terrible awkward jokes Shigure would make? “Honey look, Shiki’s in love with the girl he pushed down the stairs as a kid. Was marrying her one of the terms of the lawsuit? Hahaha.” And Akito would just be like “....baby, you and Sawa go outside while I smack your father, you don’t need to see this.” And the two go outside and we then see Shigure fucking fly through the paper door and a loud “YOU FUCKING MORON” follow him out with the classic -_- “did I say something wrong?” Shigure face. And Shiki is just a fascinating color of ruby fire about the cheeks and mumbles, “so yeah... that’s my father....” and Sawa is a similar color and staring at her shoes like “he seems nice...” and Akito opens the ruined door as though she didn’t just beat the shit out of her husband and calls out to them, “come and have tea, your father had to step out for a bit. Sawa, dear, I’d love to hear more about you. would you prefer jasmine tea or green,” because Akito has done a complete 180 and become a decent human being since becoming a mother and Shiki is EVERYTHING to her and if her son loves this girl then GODDAMNIT SO DOES SHE. 

[docholligay]

Series Finale

Another release from the patreon vault: My rarely-publicly-published Au of Mystery and Shadow, my “good end” AU--this is a special piece I wrote for Jet to commemorate her finishing the anime! almost 3,00 words.

Mina put the pizzas down on the ottoman, placing some paper plates next to it. “Domino’s finest!” She walked toward the kitchen. “Hey buddy, you need a beer?”

“Love one.” Haruka called from the couch, tucking her legs under the soft blanket. “Thanks. Kimi did NOT want to go down tonight, I’m not sure what her deal was.”

“Well, you know how children are,” Michiru set down her glass and passed the champagne bottle over to Haruka, “they have a miraculous sense of whenever their parents would like to do something.”  Haruka twisted the bottle open and passed it back to her. “Thank you, my love. Rei?” She carefully poured into the glass set on the end table, “May I offer you a glass?”

“I’m taken care of.” She patted the box of Franzia next to her.

“Of course you are, I’m foolish to have asked.” Michiru tossed her hair, her voice teasing, and settled in next to Haruka on the couch.

There was a time when Rei would have blushed, and tried to imitate Michiru’s fineness, but, as it was, she grinned. “Just pass me some of those breadsticks.”

Haruka tossed the box over to her as Mina reentered the room, beers in hand. She handed one off to Haruka and plopped in the oversized beanbag next to Rei.

“I’m fascinated to see their take on this. I haven’t been watching since the turned me into an Usagi knockoff. Blonde isn’t a personality type, people.” She took a chug. “Also, why the fuck did we all have a crush on your gay ass?” She shook her head at Haruka. “Also, we were young, not idiots, I think Usagi was the only one who mistook you for a dude at first. And for like, 20 minutes tops.”

Haruka draped her arm around Michiru, who snuggled into her shoulder. “So you did watch the third season.”

“Just enough to see what they did with you. Heartthrob my ass.”

Michiru gave a careless shrug. “I never watched any of it. I never imagined it would tell the story fairly. Though,” she smiled up at Haruka, “it is true that your handsomeness is without measure.”

“AT LEAST THEY DIDN’T MAKE YOU STRAIGHT.” Rei shouted across the room.

Mina rolled her eyes. “Speaking of incapacitatingly homosexual…”

Michiru put a finger to her lips. “My children are sleeping.”

Rei reiterated in a harsh stage whisper. “At least they didn’t make you straight.”

Mina drew her arm around Rei. “Honey, you are not the only one this happened to. Like...maybe all of us. Except those two.”

“Me! With men!”

“Well you know what they say, “ she smiled, “Men are from Mars--”

“No men are not from Mars no men on Mars ever Mars hates men Mars is women’s space only Mars--”

“Rei.” Michiru called over to her. “We’re all very aware of the...she weakly waved her hand in the air, “lack of historicity involved in this production.”

“Mina, did you see the cathedral episode? They had Usagi trying to convince me not to shoot myself.” Haruka chuckled.

“Oh, did you punch her in her fucking face like you did me, or is that not a magical friendship moment?” Mina shot back.

“Oh, like you didn’t punch me in the face as soon as I got better. And no.”

“You had it coming, buddy.”

“I really did.”

“Ladies.” Michiru steeled her voice just a hair. “If we don’t start catching up, we’ll miss the finale, you know.”

Rei pressed play.

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“THAT’S NOT WHAT HAPPENED.” Rei sat bolt-upright, which was an impressive feat in a beanbag, such was the quality of her rage.

Mina chuckled. “I didn’t really think they were gonna use my parting words of ‘earn it, assholes’ on a kid’s show.” She took a drink of her beer. “Usagi literally did cry this much though.”

Rei ignored hend continued her rant. “Where’s the battle we had with Galaxia? Where’s Mina crossing swords with her?”

Mina rolled her eyes. “Where’s my sword at all, is the real question here.”

“WE DIDN’T JUST JUMP IN FRONT OF THE FUCKING STARLIGHTS.” Rei was practically out of the beanbag now, near levitating with anger. “We fought to protect everyone, Galaxia STRUGGLED WITH US.”

“I hardly think they would be willing to express the brutality of what actually happened in a children's cartoon, Rei.” Michiru tried to reassure her. “If they even know. We are a fiction, a story, to everyone in this world except ourselves, and so they may bend it however they like, without worry of being ahistorical. I assure you, it isn’t personal.”

“Also,” Mina playfully kissed her cheek. “Shut the fuck up. You get a loving exit, I get to say,” she affected a high and mocking voice. “I have to protect important people!” she fell back into her normal range. “What kind of shitpot strategy was that? I KNOW how I fight, why would I trust it to people who’ve clearly lost before? The whole thing makes no sense.”

Rei seethed. “That’s not how it happened.”

“I was about that shocked?” Haruka tried, helpfully. “Being dissolved hurt about that bad?”

Rei looked down at her large watch. “I think I lasted longer than that.”

“That’s what they all say.” MIna playfully poked at Rei.

Rei’s face twisted up in a scowl. “That’s not what I meant, Mina!”

MIna lay on top of her. “Oh, I know that.”

“Hey!” But she laughed playfully. “Mina, I can’t see the TV.”

“Oh, you can hardly see the TV anyway, and it’s just the long legged senshi disco.” She straddled Rei. ‘I, GALAXIA, WILL GIVE YOU A GREATER CHALLENGE.” They tussled on the beanbag in their teasing, loving way.

“Ruka,” Michiru brushed back Haruka’s hair. “Are you going to be all right?”

Haruka looked at her softly.  “Yeah, I’m fine, Michi, why?”

“The next episode treads into...tender territory for you, I know.”

“Oh.” Her face fell a bit. “I forgot.” She took a deep breath. “I mean, I made peace with it, we did what we did because we thought we had to. We did have to, I guess. I don’t know. I tried my best. It was all I could think of.” She snuggled in a little closer to Michiru. “I asked for forgiveness. She forgave me, I think, somehow.” She gave a weak laugh. “I guess.”

“You don’t have to watch, Haruka.”

“I know. I’m okay.”

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Even Rei was quiet. She wanted to argue about the unfairness of the four of them getting some kind of battle, of their struggle being made known while hers was hidden and made into another person’s moment, and yet, watching Haruka and Michiru look quietly at the screen, while the girl was meant to be Hotaru (They called her Chiyoko, and her hair was too long, but that was the least of everyone’s problems.) faded away, without a word.

Rei had not been there, and so she did not know except by rumor, but it couldn’t have been like this, a perfect emotionally convenient peace. Hotaru had been confused, and hurt, and angry, and she had continued to be so for many, many, years.

Haruka and Michiru held each other quietly, bearing witness to the terrible honesty of what they had done. Of course that was the part they got right.

Children had a gift for many things, and timing would always be chief among them, as the girls heard the small patter of a child heading down the stairs.

“Mama? Papa?” MA crept into the living room. “Can I have some juice?”

She looked so little there, standing in the light of the foyer, the light behind her casting a shadow across her face. Michiru and Haruka sat still for a moment, trapped in the space between their past and their present, where demons, however captured, still called from the basement.

Michiru was the first to move, noting her daughter’s confused expression. “Sweetheart, we don’t often have juice after we go to bed, you know.” She walked toward her, extending her hand, “But I’m certain we can find something acceptable to both of us, can’t we?”

“Uh huh.” She nodded and took Michiru’s hand in hers, as they walked toward the kitchen together.

It was only when they disappeared from the kitchen that Haruka seemed to regain herself, and wiped at her face for a moment before pulling over her chair and following them into the kitchen.

“I think a cheese stick and a glass of water is an excellent compromise, my darling.” Michiru was knelt at MA’s level. “Much less sugar and twice as delicious.” She handed MA a cheese stick. “Now, let’s go back up to bed. I’ll tuck you back in.”

They turned, and nearly ran into Haruka, who reached out and stroked MA’s hair sadly.

“You know Papa would never, ever kill you, right, honeybee?”

MA looked up into Haruka’s tear-filled eyes, confused. “Yes?” Her tone suggested she had never considered something otherwise until Haruka had asked the question. Her eyes became her mother’s for a moment as she patterned out Haruka’s emotions. “Papa are you okay?”

Haruka nodded and tried to collect herself. “The show we’re watching made me sad. It’s okay.”

���Like when Mufasa dies.” MA nodded sagely.

“Like when Mufasa dies.”

She reached out and patted Haruka’s knee reassuringly. “It’s just a story, Papa.”

“I know.” Haruka leaned forward and gathered MA into her lap, hugging her tightly.  “When you’re older sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference.” She kissed the top of her head. “I’m sorry, baby, you go on to bed.”

She slid off Haruka’s lap and took Michiru’s hand to go upstairs, Michiru reassuringly running her hand over Haruka’s shoulders as she passed.

Haruka wheeled back into the living room and sighed heavily, letting herself coast toward the couch. She paused for a moment, lost in her own thoughts, trying to pick them apart the way she’d been taught in therapy, trying to give herself the love and forgiveness she afforded Michiru.

She felt a gentle rub on her back and looked up to see Mina standing by her side. “Your kid definitely has your sense of the dramatic moment, Haruka.”

Haruka gave a chuckle. “I guess she does.” She closed her eyes and took a deep, slow breath in, and slowly let it out. “I’m doing alright.” She nodded. “I’m not the worst thing I’ve ever done.” She set the brake on her chair and transferred herself to the couch, flopping back on it dramatically.

There was a beat. “Buddy, that’s not the worst thing you’ve ever done. Remember when you bought that pink and yellow sweater?”

Haruka laughed.

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The sound of her hand connecting with Usagi’s cheek rang across the den as Michiru poured herself a cocktail in the dining room.

“You slapped Usagi?” Rei’s eyes were fierce, even with their slight cloudiness.

Haruka held her hands up in the air. ‘Ten years ago! To save the world!”

Mina took a drink of her beer. “Should have said they made it up. You’re in for it now.”

Haruka held out her hands to Rei, as if to appease her. “I didn’t know how else to make her believe it! It wasn’t my first choice, Rei!”

She set down her glass of wine. “You slapped Usagi! I AM GONNA BEAT YOUR ASS.”

Haruka pointed aggressively to the screen. “LOOK I’M BEATING UP SEIYA NOW LET’S WATCH THAT IT’S GRE--”

Whether it was the irritation of her misrepresentation, the fact that Haruka had slapped Usagi ten years ago, the idea that it even had to get that far, the bottle of wine in her stomach, or all four things, Rei Hino was no longer having any of Haruka’s excuses, and voiced her disapproval of past Haruka’s choices being presently animated on the TV screen by leaping on top of her and reaching for her neck.

Haruka held her tight in a hug, her arms pinned to her sides. “You know I, um, I have a lot more upper body strength than you? I literally spend my whole day--OW!” She jumped as Rei dug her teeth in Haruka’s shoulder. “GODDAMN!”

Rei whirled like a crocodile and dumped them both onto the floor, Haruka still holding her close.

“Rei, it's not really winning if you beat up a cripple.”  Mina called over her shoulder.

“MINA YOU’RE NOT HELPING.” Haruka struggled to keep Rei pinned against her.

“Wasn’t trying to.”

“REI IT WAS TEN YEARS AGO.” Haruka tried to flip Rei onto her back, but she sprang off her back foot and fell back on top off Haruka.

“YOU’VE NEVER BEEN HELD RESPONSIBLE.”

Michiru strolled back into the living room, drink in hand. “If either of you wake the children, you’ll be responsible for lulling them back to sleep, I hope you know.”

“Michiru, help!” Haruka struggled against Rei.

Michiru sat at the end of the couch. “Is there not some statute of limitations in play, given that Haruka did die for the cause, after it all, and also given that she still bears the scars of her devotion to her princess.”

“No!” Rei growled, still squirming.

“Well, I tried.” She sipped her cocktail.

“MICHIRU.” Haruka looked at her, wide-eyed.

Rei went limp in her grasp, suddenly. “Okay. You win. I give up. You’re right, this is childish.”

“Thank you.” Haruka released her and relaxed against the hardwood.

She was taking a cleansing breath when there was a sharp smack across her face. “OW! Fuck, Rei.”

“I WAS ONLY PRETENDING YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT WELL.” She stood up, hands on her hips, satisfied.

Haruka closed her eyes and laid back on the floor. “I’m too old for this.”

Rei marched back over to the beanbag and sat next to Mina. “Justice is finally served.”

Mina nodded. “Good job, fireball, you sure showed animated Haruka.”

Michiru set down her cocktail. “Haruka, do you need some assistance?”

“Naw.” She rolled onto her side. “I got it.” Her eyes caught the TV screen, where she and Michiru lay fading from life, and she gave a soft frown. She had heard you couldn’t remember pain, not really, but there was something about watching it happen in front of her, more graceful than she remembered it being, less like a thousand tiny pieces of her blinking and dying each second, the pin-prick holes in her body flowing with pain.

Michiru sat next to her, and slipped her hand into Haruka’s. Their eyes met, expressing what might have been a hundred comforting words.

At least, it might have been if Rei hadn’t have checked her watch and immediately started screaming about how Michiru and Haruka got more time to die than she did and this was ridiculous and unfair and unnecessary.

__

“Did any of this even happen? Asking for a friend.” Mina snacked on a last bite of cold pizza, Rei’s head on her shoulder, drunkenly half-snoozing.

Haruka stretched back against the arm of the couch. “I don’t know, we were all dead at the time.”

“Lucky us, this is garbage.” She shook her head. “This is how Galaxia should have destroyed planets, if I have to listen to these nerds whine about their goddamn planet one more time I’ll kill myself, Galaxia doesn’t even have to do anything.”

“I feel kinda bad for them, is that weird?”

Michiru’s eyebrow raised. “I know you and Seiya have made peace after all these years, but yes, I say that comes as a shock.”

“Don’t get me wrong,” Haruka motioned toward the pizza and looked at Mina pitifully, who edged the box toward her, trying not to disturb Rei. “I think they were still whiny and annoying and pathetic.” Michiru leaned forward and handed her the pizza box, which she accepted gratefully. “But I mean...they had some more going on than Seiya’s crush on Usagi. I don’t remember it being like...everything?”

Michiru smiled and teasingly ruffled Haruka’s hair. “Perhaps because mainly you spent your time concerned she had a crush on me.”

Mina extended her hand to the TV in disbelief. “Oh, we just had to tell Sailor Moon to believe in herself, why didn’t I think of that! Classic tactical mistake.”

Rei stirred. “What’d I miss?”

“Fucking nothing, let me tell you what.”

__

A commercial for potato chips was on-screen, happily singing about crunching and flavor.

Mina sat up from her beanbag nest. “I can’t believe it’s been ten fucking years. And eight since, you know,” she gestured broadly to the three of them, “everyone but me got hurt.” There was a small note of guilt and hurt in her voice, the way there always was when she spoke of it, and Rei touched her shoulder lovingly.

“Usagi didn’t get hurt. Because of you. So, we did what we were supposed to.” Her voice took on that tender tone it rarely took on in public, the one that reassured Mina in the dark.

Mina nodded half heartedly. “I guess.” Rei kissed Mina softly, and drew her close.

“Rei. Mina.” Michiru motioned to them. “Come sit over here, with us.”

They looked at each other, and smiled, linking arms as they made their way over to the couch.

“C’mon.” Haruka scooted herself over as much as she could. “We started this together, and we’ll finish it together.”  

They shared a look as the commercial began to dim, the colors fading from the screen, a sense of possibility and memory filling the room, the people they were and could have been like ghosts.

“Are you ready?” Haruka asked no one in particular.

“Ready.” Mina nodded.

The four of them snuggled together on the couch, and heard the music come up for the last time.

Makenai.  

[maq-moon]

Meme Time!

I was tagged by the lovely @cosetteskywalker

Here are the rules:

1. Post the rules.

2. Answer the questions given to you by the tagger.

3. Post 11 questions of your own.

4. Tag 11 people.

ZHE QUESTIONS

1. On a scale of 1 to 10, how excited are you about Rose?

Hm... Probably an eight. I’m excited about her, but more excited about the characters in whom I’m already invested.

2. Fuck, marry, kill: Jar Jar, Palpatine, Snoke

Marry Palpatine, obvs. He was kinda charming in his Senate days. Kill Snoke, also obviously, because KYLO MY ANGSTY BOY. That leaves Jar Jar *shudder* It would be the most horrifying five minutes of my life.

3. Do you think Rey will dab in the Dark Side? If so, how far do you think she will go?

Yes. I don’t think she’ll do it consciously the first time. As for the lengths she’ll go to, I think it will depend on her situation. She is a consummate survivor. If doing something “dark” will save her or a loved one, she’ll absolutely do it. If there’s an alternative and things aren’t dire, she’ll find a workaround.

4. What do you think really went down between Luke and Ben/Kylo?

A monumental misunderstanding followed by the fear of something intangible (abandonment, &c). It’s much harder to resolve issues that don’t resolve around something substantive. I think there was more sadness than anger. It’ll be heartbreaking, basically.

5. Who do you expect showing up as Force ghosts in TLJ or IX?

No one, really. If there is a Force ghost confirmation or whatever, I’d be like 100% sure it’s Obi-Wan.

6. Who is your favorite EU/Legends character?

Do Tag and Bink count? I never read any of the novels and such, just the Tag and Bink comics XD

7. What was your first OTP ever?

Usagi & Demando from Sailor Moon. I’ve always been shipping the hero with a villain <3

8. Least favorite fanfic trope?

Oh dear. Tropes that I like in one fandom I hate in another, and my feelings about the tropes change. I do hate the completely evil villain- the guy who hits women, drinks to excess, was born rich and is a dick about it, is incapable of love, has no redeeming qualities, and is never given an opportunity to redeem himself. 

9. What do you think is the deal with Luke? Has he become a Light side extremist? Is he just disillusioned? Was he Darth Jar Jar all along?

Nah, Snoke is Darth Jar Jar. But really, I think Luke had his dreams destroyed. He was this hopeful farm boy prodigy who was re-building the Jedi Order and then *poof* his nephew, of all people, caused everything to fail. Luke is afraid- not in awe, but afraid- of Kylo’s power and is acting how ol’ Papa Anakin would. He’s freaking the fuck out. Fear leads to anger, Luke!

10. Apart from a Blue Lagoon in space scenario, what do you think will happen if Rey and Kylo spend some time together on Ahch-To?

A grudging respect. He needs to earn her respect before he can earn her trust, so LET’S GET IT STARTED. 

11. On a scale of Harrison Ford to John Boyega, how excited are you for TLJ?

JOHN BOYEGA TO THE POWER OF JOHN BOYEGA

And now eleven Qs from me!

1. What was your first fandom?

2. Do you prefer Kylo’s Disney Prince scar or would you have liked the giant slash we initially expected?

3. What do you think “justice” looks like for the death of Han Solo? Is punishment necessary or is redemption enough?

4. Favorite Snoke theory?

5. Does Rey’s lineage matter to you?

6. Spoilers: love ‘em or hate ‘em?

7. Why do you think C-3PO has a red arm and gold leg? What happened to the sassiest droid in the galaxy? WHAT HAPPENED, LUCASFILM??

8. Which new character (or creature!) are you most excited to see in action?

9. Level with me. Would you rather have IX end with romantic Reylo or platonic Reylo? 10. What’s your favorite Star Wars parody/comedy video/comic/anything? 11. Rose, Kylo, and Finn are all in a house fire. You can only save ONE. Who do you choose? Gah... I’m KNOW I’m double-tagging some people here... @southsidestory @thegiddyowl @shelikespretties@mnemehoshiko @mollymatterrs @kylorenvevo @briarlily @cunning-crackslips @politicalmamaduck​ @lariren-shadow @thewayofthetrashcompactor

[maboroshiwatch]

Episode 61 - Huge Shock for Usagi! Mamoru Declares a Break Up

Abbey

poor usagi, not gonna be able to touch a cute dude's butt

oh man it's the sweatsuit

Jess

IT'S SO HIDEOUS

HIS FASHION SENSE

IT'S THE WORST

Abbey

so hideous

but they're so cute

Jess

yes :)

Abbey

THEY'RE KISSING, CATMOM

let them kiss a little!

usagi deserves some kisses

Jess

aww, chibiusa...

Abbey

poor chibiusa

Jess

AGAIN REVERSING IT

Abbey

WEIRD

Jess

THAT SHE SAYS PAPA FIRST IS RELEVANT.

awww, mamoruuuu.

Abbey

such a good dad!

Jess

that he got down on her level for her

Abbey

AWWWWWW

Jess

and was so gentle

awwwww

awww the way he's holding her is sweet.

Abbey

so cute

usagi is PISSED

Jess

HAHAHA usagi. jealousy ain't cute.

HAHAHA CHIBIUSA

SUCH A FUCKSHIT

Abbey

no, he's your DAD

oh usagi

Jess

usagi!!

hahaha

i feel like

Abbey

USAGI!!!

Jess

for chibiusa

Abbey

because it's CUTE, chibi-usa

she must be so lonely, poor kid

Jess

this is, you know? appropriate. she's a little girl. that's little girl behaviour. 

yeah :(

this show is so full of lonely girls...

Abbey

and she has no one! just luna-p (is that her name?)

haha usagi hasn't introduced her boyfriend

whoops

Jess

the problem is that a lot of viewers mistake it as a mutual thing, when mamoru is always appropriate with her. :/ he just recognizes she's a little girl, and takes care of her like she's a little girl

Abbey

they both look SO WORRIED

Jess

AWWW YOU POOR FUCKIN KIDS

yeah luna-p. which is a ROBOT. so...

Abbey

yeah, it's not creepy! it's just very appropriate and caring

jerk-brother haha

Jess

she also has sailor pluto, which is mega sweet; you'll see later

yeah :)

haha

oh mannnnn

UH OH

Abbey

wonk

uh oh

poor chibiusa

Jess

chibiusa calles sailor pluto Pu-chan, like the element for plutonium. SO CUTE.

uh oh

Abbey

wonk

Jess

hypno-brella

Abbey

even catmom for a second there

dang catmom

dang

Jess

hahaha chibiusa's grin

TUNED HER FAMILY AGAINST HER

Abbey

what a brat haha

Jess

hahaha

Abbey

she's such a brat, similar to the ways usagi is a brat, haha

Jess

yay crystal tokyo~

hahaha it's true. usagi doesn't really see that tho

Abbey

i can see why they're butting heads though! they are so alike in a lot of ways

Jess

yeeeep

Abbey

GO AWAY, JERKS

GO FIX YR MAKEUP AND FUCK OFF

Jess

oh no mamoru :(

Abbey

STOP TRYING TO FUCK WITH USAGI AND HER LOVED ONES

oh no mamoru 

Jess

AND THE FIRST PERSON HE WORRIES ABOUT IS USAGI

ALSO

HE'S CALLING HER USAKO NOW

Abbey

awwwww

Jess

EEE

OMG THAT WAS SO CUTE

Abbey

i know! so cute

awww usagi.

Jess

awww :(

mamoru that is not how you solve this problem.

:(

Abbey

omg poor usagi is so confused

that is not a good solution

poor usagi

cuties you are not enough to take away the tears in my eyes

Jess

INAPPROPRIATELY TIMED CUTIES LOVE TIMING THEMSELVES INAPPROPRIATELY

Abbey

haha they really do

my reaction is more like "cuties. :("

Jess

poor usagi :(

Abbey

awww girls

Jess

minako, that is not really the kind of dude he is...

AMI.

AMI KNOWS WHAT'S UP

lol

EXAMS

Abbey

AMI

haha

awww ami! you so cute

Jess

awww, REI!!

OMG THIS IS SO CUTE

Abbey

geez i just want all these girls to be my girlfriends haha

awww this is v sweet

oh no

Jess

haha i understand

Abbey

usagi

Jess

oh, usagi :(

Abbey

omg usagi

you are breaking my heart

OH USAGI

Jess

oh god

Abbey

her face.

Jess

you can see how this is hurting him too, right?

Abbey

yeah, i can!

Jess

like omg don't make me say it again this sucks

Abbey

this is just breaking my heart for both of them

Jess

:(

*heavy sigh*

Abbey

and her face 

Jess

oh god. usagi's face...

usagi...

Abbey

OH! 

USAGI.

Jess

:'(

THE WAY HIS HEAD DARTS OVER WHEN HE HEARS HER CRY

Abbey

poor kids.

i know

Jess

you poor kids :(

Abbey

like everything about that

Jess

JUST TALK TO HER ABOUT IT

Abbey

was heartbreaking

Jess

SHE IS FUCKING SAILOR MOON

Abbey

i'm crying. 

Jess

SHE CAN FIX ANYTHING

oh god :(

Abbey

her love saved everyone

OMG

Jess

oh no… :'(

Abbey

USAGI

Jess

usagi… :(((

Abbey

THAT WAS HER FIRST THOUGHT

AND NOT ABOUT HERSELF

IT WAS "I'M SORRY MOM"

Jess

that's our usagi… :(

Abbey

YOU ARE DESTROYING ME

Jess

PLEASE SELL MY EVIL COSMETICS

Abbey

OH SHIT YOU DO NOT FUCK WITH THE SACREDNESS OF MAKEUP

I'M GONNA FUCK YOU UP

IF THE GIRLS DON'T FIRST

Jess

BUT

HOW FUCKING AMAZING IS THIS, REGARDLESS

THIS SHOW

Abbey

YES

Jess

WEAPONIZED FEMININITY ON ALL SIDES

ughhhh usagiiiii

i just want to give her such a hugggg

Abbey

i wanna hug all of them

Jess

yes

but usagi the most right now :(

Abbey

yes, agreed

oh poor usagi

oh no

Jess

OH MY GOD

Abbey

oh usagi.

Jess

:(

Abbey

D:

usagi

that's right

USAGI I LOVE YOU

Jess

D:

Abbey

FUCK YEAH YOU TELL HER

GO CATMOM

CATMOM YOU SO BRAVE

SHE'S GONNA KICK YOUR ASS

SHE DON'T NEED YOUR MAKEUP. SHE'S GOT POWERFUL TRANSFORMING MAKEUP

Jess

lol

Abbey

you're telling her about your plan

GAH

Jess

PUT ON HEAVY MAKEUP

hahahaha

Abbey

oh no

OH NO

poor catmom!

Jess

omg catmom flattened

:((((((

Abbey

OMG

Jess

NO

DON'T COME HERE

Abbey

D:

NO

Jess

NOT WHEN YOU ARE BREAKING USAGI'S HEART

THAT ISN'T FAIR

Abbey

NOT FAIR

Jess

D:

Abbey

oh usagi, you are so strong <3

omg

haha

Jess

i'm making a face like i just smelled something REALLY BAD and it's making me sad

LOL OMG WHAT EVEN

OH MY GOD

WHAT

Abbey

drawing on her EYES

good work usagi

Jess

...:(

Abbey

you two

Jess

COLD.

Abbey

the way she's standing

and her hopeful face

and his hand

Jess

yes

Abbey

and just everything about this

SHE IS NOT WEAK

Jess

A WEAK GIRL IS THE LAST FUCKING THING THAT THAT GIRL IS

Abbey

and he couldn't even look at her

Jess

yeah :(

coudln't make himself say it to her face

oh god

usagi...

Abbey

omg usagi 

Jess

*heavy sigh*

Abbey

you are so strong. stronger than anyone realizes or gives you credit for

so strong and selfless and BRAVE

Jess

haven't these two been through enough already? it just isn't fair.

Abbey

NOT FAIR

JUST LET THEM BE HAPPY

otome no policy isn't enough to make me happy right now

i'm gonna need ice cream

Jess

understood. :(

Abbey

also i am going to have to fix my makeup. :(

Jess

you are going to have one hell of a time with the last season, honey...

Abbey

awwww 

Jess

oh no ami… :(

Abbey

ami :( :(

Jess

AMI EPISODE THO. MEANS I GET A LOT OF MAKO. (have you noticed how they are usually shown on screen together in group shots even, yet? like when all of the girls are together, ami and mako are usually shown next to each other)

:D

abbey needs to fuck up the black moon clan because they messed up her eyeliner

hehe

Abbey

yeah exactly

AND my mascara

[k-kizkhalifa]

s2ep11 --

alright guys.. here it is, the continuance that NO ONE ASKED FOR BUT IM IN INVESTED IN MYSELF SO I AM DOING THIS. im curled up, phone ready, computer ready, sweater on. lettttttttts ggooooooooo

i love the beginning already. misaki if you don't pick the right choice ill destroy you. but also, why are brother usami and papa usami sending shit to misaki. boy. im through WITH THEM. AND NOT MISAKI ACTUALLY CONSIDERING ONE OF THERES. oh you hopeless idiot.

Akihiko stomping on it! HAHAHAHAHAAH (i love a good ole toxic man, fk.) Akihiko so happpy. Awe my baby.

I love how chill they are together, now. I hope that everything that happened last episode was for the good. But also, lmfao, I am not getting my hopes up. This anime fucking destroys me left and right doesn't it????

i feel the butler is such a good person. he deserves some love. (i just mean in general.)

lol Misaki saying he'd go on the trip "alone" LMFAO. AWE USAGI SAYING IT WAS IMPORTANT. AWE AWEAWEAWE AWE

OH HERE WE GO. I love Misaki's travel attire. LOL

OH GREAT PAPA USAMI AGAIN. bro if papa usami shows up imma flip a switch. i feel like you all are thinking: get ready to flip a switch.

oh great usagi SPRINTING to the car. LOL HE DIDN'T FINISH HIS WRITNG.alsdkjfalskjdf

ok i will admit this scene is adorable. the way usagi is GRINNING at misaki being so happy about the ocean view. giving me hope for a future, my guys.

lol petty cash of 1.3 billion. not usagi saying: i can make it myself.

ok i love usagi in his glasses. i can't help it.

the rubber ducks are giving me a fee-- I FKN KNEW IT. PAPA USAMI. THIS MFR. lol but can we just realize this is where usagi gets his childish love for toys from? hahah.

oh great papa usami here to talk. smh. oh man the way misaki gets nervous about this convo. time to man up, misaki. you gotta have these conversations sometimes. i just think it is really sad how everyone talks about akihiko, these ppl just don't understand him at all. it makes me angry.

damn papa usami giving misaki a fkn lesson in life and love right now. man the doubts misaki gets himself into. ugh.

I LAUGHED SO HARD, bro usagi just acting like he didn't expect anything less than this from misaki.

Usagi: what fkn idiot floats in the bath that long? this fkn idiot.

alskjdfalskjf HAHAHAH

lol the BL Manag. BRO JUST BRINGS THIEM WITH HIM EVERYWHERE.

no usagi being so fkn sweet. broooooo. misaki he is BEGGING YOU TO TLAK TO HIM. TALK TO HIM. oh okay, i'll stop yelling. they're talking finally.

oh no not misaki talking about leaving. and being so worried about usagi. ugh. i just wish i could take these two and push them together and say, "now kiss and be happy and fk the other ppl!"

oh great i beat usagi is with his father. YEP. HERE WE GO, ISN'T IT? LOL AT MISAKI EAVESDROPPING.

ugh these usami ppl dragging misaki all the time, except for brother usami bc he "loves him" SMH. i mean, hot take i guess, but i don't think papa usami is necessarily bad hes just shit at being good.

oh man i feel like misaki is about to SNAP. OH HERE WE GO! HE IS ABOUT TO SAY SOMETHING ISN'T HE?! HE'S ALWAYS LIKE THIS. Angry dude and snapping on these idiot usami's alsdjflf

Misaki: I AM NOT TOYING WITH USAGI. I LOVE HIM. Papa Usami: And how do you plan to be good enough for my son? Misaki: I DON'T KNOW MFR BUT I AM WORKING ON IT. DAMN.

adlibbing, but that is the jist of the problem, right there.

oh goodness not usagi saying his love with misaki and from misaki changed how he saw the world.

OH I REMEMBER THIS SCENE. THE HOT SPRINGS. CUE THE MUSIC. CUE THE KISS. CUE THE SOFT WORDS.

oh yeah this scene is really just so sweet guys. like. okay, we get a look into misaki and seeing how is opening up to akihiko. he's all, in his thoughts: these conversations happen, we're together, we are intimate more, we spend out time togehter, i feel okay when usagi says to feel okay (implying that he has opened up to usagi in ways he hadn't been doing. that misaki is truly falling for usagi. like it's not the whole: "i love you/i don't love you" take anymore.) but then it's like reality does hit him (and maybe it should) that he and akihiko are so different, they're from two different worlds and after he thinks all those things he says: i am almost tricked into believing him.

I think what we can take away from this is that Misaki has very real concerns about the reality of their relationship. In a way that, maybe because Usagi is older, he doesn't... It really seems, a lot of the time, that the world is very black and white to Usagi. It's a "i want it, i get it" type of world, because it's always been that way and maybe that is why he fell so hard for misaki because misaki gave him a different look at the way the world really is.

And here we see Usagi, ONCE AGAIN, begging and pleading and praying with Misaki.

Usagi: Fall in love with me, love me 10x and 20x more than you love me now and become unable to part with me. That's all you have to do. I'll protect you from everyone else in this world, without fail.

It's just... I feel bad for Usagi, and I hate to be this person but I understand where Papa Usami is coming from. We want our children to have everything and love and happiness and all the world can have but we also don't want to hold them back from whatever they want as well. It's a fine line. I think there is just a lot at play in the whole thing.

okay okay im done. hot take over.

[maniacollisionarchive-blog]

Were you two close? How are you most alike? [dad meme for any - or all - of your muses !]

Oo thanks! Readmored because I answered for as many muses as I could because I am like that and you said I could so I did. Also some muses answered for themselves, some I answered for. 

---Chronos and Pride are both dadless -- Chronos has always existed and Pride was born of Sin. Theoretically, Pride could claim Lucifer as a Father figure, just as the Angels claim God, but he was more an essence that came into being rather than created, and he sees Lucifer as a master or a King rather than a dad.

--- Talia’s dad died too early for her to have really gotten to know him. She grew up with more guidance from her fellow street orphans and occasionally, those she worked under during Skyrim (see Tolfdir and such), but none were really ‘dads’. She not really a family person in that sense; everyone is her family but also nobody is.

--- Elliot: My dad is an asshole. I am not like him at all and I’ll fucking take you on if you say otherwise. (Elliot’s dad was a politician and as such, Elliot grew up distant from his father. Truthfully, he’s probably quite similar to his dad in terms of being terrible at relationships, loving publicity, and having a huge ego)

--- Fabian: Father was a hard worker in the Ministry, and he had a lot to contend with when it came to Gid and I. I give him a lot of credit for that, especially because he was a favorite target of Gideon. He always seemed to be exhausted, but he loved family and he was the one that bought me a lot of my books and encouraged me when I felt left out due to being in Ravenclaw while my siblings were in Gryffindor. I was probably closer to him than Mother; I would say we’re pretty similar too, for a lot of the same reasons. 

-- Fenris: doesn’t remember a thing about his dad, thanks. I don’t have much a headcanon for him either. Probably another elf slave, and given DA2 only mentions his mother and sister (from what I remember), probably died before Fenris (or Leto, rather), could spend much time with him.

-- Lilli: I was not close to my father. My parents dropped me off with Georgia when I was fairly recently born; they stopped by sometimes, but mostly our conversations involved what they were doing and why my interests were not suitable to that of a woman my age (regardless of my age). I like to think we’d have something in common, but I hardly know what that could be.

--Jamie & Jim: share the same abusive asshole drunk of a dad, whom Jim killed when he was 14 and Jamie was 7. Jamie and Jim are not much like their father; their older brother took after him most. And they were very much not close to him; actually, they tried their best to stay as far from him as possible. It’s the one thing they agree on, really

--- Sirius:  I’m pretty sure we all know that Sirius was not close to his dad at all. I would say, however, that of the two, Sirius is most like his dad in his impulsive and irrational nature and explosive anger.

--- Reggie: Closer to his father than Sirius was, particularly after Sirius was sorted, and even more so after Sirius ran away. Notably, however, takes after his Mother more, mostly due to his Mother’s incessant interfering to make sure he was raised with the proper ideals.

-- Elyssa: Papa had to deal with four women in the house and being the only man, he did well. For living in the land where we all had to work to keep our house running -- hunting, dog sleds, cutting our own fire wood -- he was a big softie. He was supportive of my ballet, and I love him a lot. I wish very much to be like him, even if I have left Alaska to be something different. Should I have children, I will hope that I am like my father.

--- Jodie: never met her real father, had an abusive dick as an adoptive dad (and nearly killed him once), and was instead raised by two scientists. Nathan and Cole were more parents than her parents had been, and Cole was probably the most fatherly someone was in her life. She was very close to him -- being called his ‘princess’, and relied on him for much. Whatever softness she kept in her heart came from him. Later in life, she found other dads in Stan and Paul, both of whom gave her their own traits. However, she knows very little about her own father to say whether she takes after him or not. 

--- Kraglin: His parents died when he was young but he had a good relationship with them. It was their death that stemmed his desire to fight back against the Kree; an only child, he had a fairly even relationship with both his mother and father. His spirit to push forward comes from his dad (but he is more like his mother)

--- Liam: His parents died when he was thirteen, so he was closer to his godfather, from whom most of his traits developed. His sister is the one that got most of the family traits.

---Maya: I was created in a lab by scientists. I don’t have parents. My clone has parents, but she’s the original. So fuck off.

---Marie: her dad died before she was born, but her and siblings were raised by their adoptive dad Thomas, and they love him a lot due to him being part of the rescue mission when they were kidnapped. They’re quite attached to him, and he has been instrumental in their development

---Persephone: her dad is Zeus. they’re not the closest because Zeus is literally everyone’s dad. But she still calls him father and she’s stubborn like him. But most of her traits come from her mother. 

--- Rin: My real dad died from bandits, but that’s okay! Milord watches over me, and I love milord, and I will be with Sesshomaru-sama forever and ever. (so basically, her real dad died and Sessohmaru adopted her, and the human-hating demon cares for a human and brought her back from death twice so if that doesn’t tell you they’re close, idk what will tbh. also she thinks she can attack things and she’s not scared of a lot of things and she likes living in the woods so, yeah she’s like an honorary demon)

---Suze: when Suze was little her dad died, but it’s okay because she can see ghosts, so she still talks to him sometimes. she’s a lot like him, and he helped her figure out how to manage her ghost seeing ability and what to do with it. a lot of her compassion and sarcasm comes from him. she also gets along okay with her stepdad.

-- Usagi: idk about her moon-dad tbh, but her earth dad is a typical dad. cares about her, she loves him, they throw a lot of jokes and insults at each other, but it’s all in good fun. we see more of her mother than we do her dad, so a lot of the impulsivity and loudness comes from her mother, but i think the quietness and compassion and contemplative nature comes from her father.

[keyofjetwolf]

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

[gay-la-v]

How do you think Usagi's wedding was?

Alright, this is actually a pretty important point. I feel it makes the most sense that Usagi and Mamoru have their wedding separate. Mamoru is an Usagi-only fixture in the group and bunching him with the others doesn’t feel quite right. So I feel these two have a pretty traditional wedding. Church, tux and a dress, food and dancing, super text-book, romantic wedding like how the franchise plays it out to be. Usagi has all the senshi be her bridesmaids, and Mamoru can’t think of a single person besides Artemis (in a lil kitty bowtie) and Motoki to be groomsmen, so the senshi draw straws to see who stands on Mamo’s side during the ceremony. And it’s just a simple, fun time for everyone.

But when she marries her girls? I’ve never been able to decide if I want them all to have one giant wedding together or to have fuckin 10 seperate one-on-one weddings (the outers can pay for all the weddings to make up for being asshats all the time, shut up). I CAN’T DECIDE. I DON’T KNOW. HELP ME, I WANT TOO MANY THINGS. 10 weddings is ridiculous but it’s IMPORTANT (and Mako deserves as many fuckin weddings as she wants) but it also leaves out the cohesiveness of them all marrying each other at once. 

I guess we can levy this with maybe like, 10 real itty bitty weddings and then ONE BIG ONE ALL TOGETHER. Did you ask me to talk about 11 different inner senshi weddings? no. Am I gonna do it anyways? yup.

The itty bitty weddings are attended by senshi, mams n Chibs, the cat family, and the Tsukino;s because Ikuko can’t not. It’s pretty much just sappy af vows and the legal paperwork. Ami’s vows are always very straightforward, but adorably specific, and she rehearsed so she could get through them without stuttering (but blushes to hell anyways). Minako has limited herself to one (1) joke per vow, and is leaving all outrageous comments for the huge reception at the big wedding, she is otherwise surprisingly heartfelt. When she takes a vow, she takes a vow for eternity. Usagi has such a hard time not going off for a millennium about how much she loves everyone in all of her vows. She did her absolute best, and Mamo helped her cut them down to appropriate lengths, and she’s just SO HAPPY TO BE MARRYING EVERYONE. Rei does much better at the smaller ceremonies, where there are less people, who she’s all a bit closer with. But it’s REI and feelings are HARD and telling people you care about them is HARD. AND MAYBE SHE CAN’T QUITE LOOK EVERYONE IN THE EYE, BUT SHE DOES IT. SHE TELLS THEM SHE LOVES THEM, AND SHE GOES THROUGH WEDDING VOWS AND SHE GETS MARRIED. And finally fuckin Mako, who is SO FUCKIN WEEPY HER DREAMS ARE COMING TRUE AND IT’S BEAUTIFUL (Usagi is also exceedingly weepy, but who is surprised by that?). Everything she says is simple, and honest, and full of love and full of Mako and it’s just ALL BEAUTIFUL, IT’S GREAT.

And they have their bigass Fuckall wedding (ie mostly just a huge, gay party) that is FULL of people they’ve befriended. Even Ami’s mom shows up. (Hino-papa is not invited). And Mako has the biggest, prettiest dress, and Minako has the biggest, most ridiculous dress, and everyone is HAPPY. CHIBS AND HOTARU AS FLOWER GIRLS. MAMORU TAKING 8 MILLION PHOTOS. IKUKO OFFICIALLY WELCOMING EACH GIRL TO HER FAMILY (as if they weren’t a part of it before). USAGI CAN EAT AS MUCH CAKE AS SHE WANTS, MAKO MADE IT HERSELF AND IT’S FUCKING BEAUTIFUL AND GIANT.  AMI GETS OVERWHELMED WITH ATTENTION AND SITS AND WATCHES HER PRETTY WIVES DANCE WITH EACH OTHER. THERE ARE FLOWERS EVERYWHERE. MINAKO RIGS C’EST LA VIE TO PLAY LIKE 6 TIMES. USAGI AND REI FIGHT ABOUT THROWING THE BOUQUET.  EVERYTHING IS GOOD AND EVERYONE CRIES, THE END.

[sarazanmai]

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

wait a minute they cut the part where Chibi-Usa saw them un transform

what I mean is in the manga this confrontation occurs after she undid her transformation so instead of Sailor Moon confronting Chibi-Usa its Usagi

why did they change that? having her do this while in full senshi attire makes her look absent minded like she just let the secret out she’s Sailor Moon (granted Chibi-Usa knew this already, but she didn’t know that) to someone she thinks is conspiring against her

also in the manga she almost hits her

I get why that was cut

how did Luna ring the doorbell?

um okay if a cat stands on you while you’re asleep, you aren’t staying asleep

the people who made these episodes went in knowing the Chibi-Usa reveal isn’t a surprise to anyone anymore and it shows in the dub because that’s clearly Stephanie and Robbie’s voices (though Stephanie is going for a more regal thing)

that isn’t really a bad thing because in between the manga, the 90s anime, seramyu, and so on plenty of media depicting this plot exists so nobody is going to be surprised that a child who is named Usagi and wears odango hair and has the Silver Crystal is her daughter

why isn’t she calling them Mama and Papa....

Tuxedo Mask Puppet in the house

I like that Mamoru just has this, he just has this thing laying around his apartment for some reason

in all my years reading and rereading the manga I never imagined him doing a voice for it though, nice touch

but Puppet Tuxie is acting just like 90s Tuxie, its funny

I forgot Luna-P can talk

SMALL LADY

sorry it just feels nice to hear

“I wonder if she could save my Mommy” they’re the same person you ignorant child

I need you to save....yourself...

I get it, I know Chibi-Usa rationalizes them as separate entities (same with Endymion and Mamoru which has...disturbing results) but they are still the same person anyway

still the idea of going back in time to persuade a person to do things to save their future self is a good idea, even Toriyama didn’t fuck that up and he’s an idiot

oh my God Ikuko we don’t need to know all the breakfast options you have, why is her dialogue still going when she’s off camera?

she won’t hug Mamoru back, that shows how Not Happy she is

the Malefic Black Crystal

I didn’t actually know “malefic” was a real word

so he still has that vaginal looking third eye

I mean I knew they wouldn’t change it, but Jesus Naoko did it need to look like this?

maybe its a metaphor for how much he craves that pussy

“I’m sure he wasn’t questioning anything, Saphir is a good little soldier, always faithful” everything Rubeus says is so...embellished and I like that

like this works way better than it did when he tried it for Neji

so remember how I said Cindy Robinson was also playing Berthier? well now I can tell she voices Amy Rose because this is like if Amy tried to sound high class

still the fact that this is Beryl’s actress shows her range

Ami listening to the water is weirdly soothing

seeing Ami swim makes me happy

I forgot Ami had a dad

Berthier’s voice works, its just mind blowing this is still the same person behind Beryl

also does this interviewer not notice what she’s wearing?

I think Berthier was my second favorite sister as a kid, I always liked her design

the Rabbit

she just really wants a good vibrator

why am I two episodes into this season and referencing vaginas so much?

poor Ami is another victim to the “abandoned by dad” trope

I love the muffled sounds Usagi makes when he mouth is covered

all that checkmate needed was a mic drop

the noises these monsters make are...interesting

DAAAAUUUUUAAAAUUUUUGGGHHHH

hi Rubeus

bye Rubeus

tune in next time for some eye boobs

[lilietsblog]

Sailor Moon 40 (How dare you mess with Usagi’s vacation time!)

AWWW USAGI WITH LOOPED TAILS CUTE A+ WANT TO TRY FOR MYSELF BUT ALAS MY HAIR IS NOT THAT LONG

I have memorized 3 katakana characters (n, ro and su)

oh Luna I really don't think this is a fair way to treat Usagi still BUT AT LEAST YOU ARE GOING TO TRY AND TEACH HER

omg Usagi's family! let's see how this goes (probably terribly but I still wanna see it)

AHAHA USAGI ACTUALLY SNEAKED OUT SO LUNA WOULDN'T NOTICE <3333

fighting with her brother for the console <3333333333333333

USAGI-DAD GRAB THE WHEEL JFC GOING ON VACATION WITH HER FAMILY IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN FIGHTING MONSTERS

awww parents' romantic place <3

it's interesting how in the previous iteration it was a thing SHE gave HIM but now it's the other way round

...man I want to be outdoors...

...this is going to be the big romantic reunion isn't it

Beryl sweetheart you are 100% oblivious of everything he's doing not just a river in Egypt

SHINGO JFC LITTLE KID

uhhh im pretty sure you aren't supposed to be wrapped in a towel in the spring itself?... or I guess that's how mixed baths work?

HUH NICE

well at least Usagi's family haven't treated her like shit this time yet that's progress

the music box keeps starting up by itself

aww Endy doesn't remember he's just a lil shit by nature I guess

Usagi-mama's as observant as a brick wall huh

...yeah this story surely doesn't have anything to do with that is the case currently

Usagi clings to her mom please do girl please have this please take it sneak away from Luna and have your life for yourself

what the fuck are y'all even trying to do here what do you want with the monster

also, seriously, Beryl sucks at coordinating her subordinates SO MUCH

she seems like she's playing with action figures more than directing an army

oh my god this makes very little sense and I admire that things get fucked up over millenia

I DON'T KNOW USAGI-PAPA MAYBE YOU COULD SPEND SOME MORE TIME WITH HER HELP HER WITH CLASSWORK WAKE HER UP IN THE MORNING

boy it sure is convenient that Usagi ran off from her family right before the monster attacked

AH WAIT NEVER MIND NOT FAR ENOUGH

in my fanfics, this is the moment Usagi transforms into Sailor Moon right in front of them and shocks them with her heroism

aww she directs them to get down

I am so HERE for competent Usagi with vast monster fighting experience

HOW FUCKING DARE YOU RUIN USAGI'S FAMILY TRIP INDEED

I wonder if Usagi's parents meeting her by the lake has anything to do with them giving birth to a reincarnation of Princess Serenity later just thinking

oh Usagi parents you have no idea

USAGI JUST TRANSFORM RIGHT NOW oh and she was ABOUT TO but Tux interfered )=

"Don't be silly! He's on our side! Probably..." Usagi is so confused by Endy and I admire that XD

OMG THE GIRLS I CAN'T BELIEVE

THANK YOU AMI IF ONLY YOU DID THIS EVERY FIGHT

and Usagi has to ditch her family to fight )= this girl had to grow up so much so fast and this is SO UNFAIR

HOW DARE YOU RUIN USAGI'S VACATION FAMILY TIME YURUSANAI INDEED

awww Mako did not actually vaporize it for good okay

OH HEY WE HAVEN'T SEEN MOON TIARA ACTION IN A WHILE HAVE WE

oh hey Rei's expertise I love that she's allowed to be the competent one in this?? like I don't think this has anything to do with Mars powers it's just the fact that this time Mars is also a miko

and I love that Moon Healing Escalation is now their universal go-to solution their job is to heal <3

I wonder why this girl even fixated on Sailor Moon to begin with or huh was it indeed Endy that she loved and didn't recognize boy he was quite a heartbreaker wasn't he

SARAMADA AND THAT'S IT

aww and Usagi-family are actually looking for her??? they care??? I can't believe <3

HAVING A FAMILY IS SO GREAT I AM SO HAPPY FOR USAGI

ah and finally Usagi's asking the right questions <3

but uh really pushing someone underwater is not a good joke why is everyone always so rough with the sweet queen

[keyofjetwolf]

Jet Wolf and Act 21

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!

It’s taken eight issues, but Mamoru finally proves that you CAN yell out something other than a Senshi name, and that it’s super meaningful when you do! Usagi still hasn’t used the names of her supposed best friends, but who’s paying attention to such unimportant details like that when Mamoru can express a feeling?

ME FUCKING ME THAT’S WHO OH MY GOD I AM LOSING MY MIND ABOUT THIS I’M SO IRRITATED

Floating in the inky black nothingness, Usagi sees a vision of Mamoru, running away from her with an adult Chibi-Usa on his arm. I suppose I should be happy she was grown but mostly I just want to sit manga Usagi down and have a very long lecture about literally everything.

She wakes up to find herself in a new dress, and my dislike for manga Usagi in no way makes this fact less fucking creepy and repulsive. She and Demande chat, and by “chat” I mostly mean “rough draft Usagi’s restraining order”. They kind of talk about the Black Moon Clan’s motivations, but it’s like trying to explain why we need twelve different versions of Coke. WE JUST DO BRENDA. Clearly the best part of this entire issue is when the Black Moon Clan turn into a deeply indie hipster band for one panel.

I’m pretty sure these guys were at The Crystal Ballroom last Thursday.

Seriously, their entire reasoning seems to be “We don’t like it when people live a long time”, and in fairness, genocide does address that problem.

There’s also this bit where  Demande indicates that Wiseman was like “Come to Nemesis my guys”, but we’ll come back to that.

Anyway, Demande does what we all know Demande does and fuck Demande by the way. Also it looks like Saffir and Rubeus are hanging out in the bedroom too? IF YOU WERE AFRAID THE MANGA HAD LOST ITS EDGE AT MAKING UNCOMFORTABLE SITUATIONS WORSE ALLOW ME TO REASSURE YOU

Back at the palace, Endymion has a suddenly flash that several pages have gone by without him explaining something. Horrified, he quickly begins to tell us about Nemesis, and manages to spend about three pages on what is functionally “I dunno”. OH BUT WAIT BECAUSE HERE COMES MY FAVOURITE PART

I’M WILLING TO SACRIFICE MYSELF FOR SCIENCE AT THIS POINT

ANY SCIENCE JUST PICK ONE

I don’t now how much more detail we’re going to get on this, but Endymion shows literally zero problem with the situation, just being “Yeah, she stopped growing up nearly a thousand years ago, but have you seen me do THIS??” before phasing his hand through his own head and making spooky “OOOOoOOooooOOooo” noises. He then goes on to say that he’s sure it’ll all work out okay because “her destiny is to protect this planet”. I’m once again reassured that free will for the characters in the Sailor Moon manga is alive and well, and that Usagi’s words a few issues ago weren’t remotely lip service.

But Endymion hasn’t yet begun to explain! Endymion could only be worse if he added “Well, ACTUALLY” at the start of each new topic. From here we go into backstory on Nemesis and Wiseman, and for a guy who keeps insisting they didn’t know shit for centuries and never saw this coming, Endymion sure knows a metric fuckton about the hows and whys of these people.

I don’t know how much of this is accurately translated, so I’m not going to rant about it too much specifically. Suffice it to say that my version has Endymion claiming that Wiseman “revived crime”. Then NQS showed up, said “stop that”.

AND AGAIN I JUST HAVE TO SAY THAT “FORGETTING” ABOUT THE DUDE WHO LITERALLY REINVENTED CRIME IN YOUR UTOPIA IS PRETTY FUCKING IRRESPONSIBLE FROM A HISTORY PERSPECTIVE IF NOTHING ELSE, NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT HE WAS POPULAR AND RESONANT ENOUGH TO RAISE AN ENTIRE GROUP OF PEOPLE TO FOLLOW HIM IN SUCH A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME WHICH MAYBE SUGGESTS THINGS AREN’T SO UTOPIAN IN YOUR UTOPIA AND THAT MAYBE THE MORE RESPONSIBLE ACT WOULD BE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU’RE MISSING BY SITTING IN YOUR GIANT ISOLATED CRYSTAL WINDOW SEAT RATHER THAN SHOVING EVERYONE YOU DON’T LIKE ON A PLANET AND GETTING LUNCH FOR THE NEXT 600 YEARS

Point being, I really hate this fucking storyline.

Back to Usagi, who is understandably not doing so well. She worries about Mamoru, LIKE A LOT, and the concludes that the ginzuishou isn’t working because she’s been worried about Chibs stealing Mamoru away, and did I mention I hated this fucking storyline?

Then Usagi finally remembers she has friends! Wassername, and Whozzit, and Sleepy, and Doc!

FINAL COUNT BECAUSE YOU’D BEST BELIEVE I AM PETTY ENOUGH TO HAVE COUNTED:

Total times Usagi calls them Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus: four

Total times Usagi calls them Rei, Ami, Mako, and Minako: zero you fool of course it’s zero

Total times Usagi calls him Mamoru in the same stretch of story: six

Total times Usagi calls him Tuxedo Kamen in the same stretch: zippo

Anyway, Rei, Ami, and Mako wake up for a second, do nothing, and maybe die, but who cares.

Over to Chibi-Usa, who reflects on the time she’s spent with Usagi, and then the time she didn’t spend with her mother. Kids are awful little bastards and I don’t understand why exiling THEM doesn’t appear to be an option. She literally says (per this translation), that “The only one [my mum] loves is my papa”, and you know, it’s good that Chibi-Usa is on my side in spirit, at least.

Then flashback!Chibs steals the ginzuishou, gets her mum nearly killed, and runs away to see Pluto, as you do. Theeeeennnn I THINK Chibs gets pissy because Pluto smiles at Endymion? And maybe this isn’t a flashback now? SERIOUSLY I HAVE NO IDEA HOW ANYTHING’S FLOWING HERE LIKE I’M SURPRISED THERE’S NOT A LITTLE BUNNY HEAD IN THE CORNER SAYING “I can draw this dress I saw in a fashion magazine or I can make my plot make visual sense. Fuck it, just watch the anime.”

What/when/however this is happening, Wiseman finds Chibs, and I’m not sure it’s a good thing that I can say with complete honesty that it’s not the creepiest thing that’s happened in this arc.