"the Rei." Not "Rei." Ominous.

Edit: isn't Wednesday when Rei got talent scouted by one of Blue's fairies?
I think that would have happened while Rei was at school, now that you mention it?

Given likely timings there's actually a good chance she's being scouted as we speak, we woke up about an hour before Japanese schools apparently usually let out.
Minako attends school now, so I'm pretty sure that this conversation would have to take place at least noticeably after Azabu-Juban Middle School or whatever the name is lets out. Rei's school seems to let out at just about exactly the same time.
 
It had the head of a bull and a body like a gorilla's and wings on its back and a long tail and the tail had a snake's head on the end.

Hey Pantyhose, how's it going?

"Uh… okay, maybe a few one hundredths, I dunno. She had hand grenades. And… stuff. There was a lot. She's better at smashing up wood and concrete than she is at smashing up Sailor Venuses; we dodge better. Really, though, her best move was the noodle attack."

Oh, yeah. I forgot Shampoo knew Martial Arts Takeout.

... Yes, that is an actual fighting style in that series.
 
[X] The Wok

The sword is a mystery box, but we already have one, and I don't really see us going down the Jar'Kai dual blades route. This is also not the sort of gift that we can just re-gift to another one of our allies to make better use of, because there are political ties to it. We couldn't be blamed for hanging it on a wall or stuffing it in a basement of our own though.

This additionally has other possible practical use beyond potentially dream walking with Serenity.
 
[X] The Wok
Least redundant of the items. Although I'm honestly far more interested in the political goodwill that the head buys than in a trinket.
 
The sword kinda feels like maybe it's a compass? If the rotation is roughly once per day, then it might suggest it's pointing to something not on Earth.
 
[X] The Wok

We don't need another sword. Also the wok can be useful to Paprika as well in the future.
 
For all that Fudo is dangerous and suspicious. It's clear that his specialities are in non-magical politics and business.
He can't sense qi nor does he have the knowledge of the supernatural world to accuratly gauge strength.
Using Pantyhose Taro as a heavy against a old martial artist is one heck of a fail. That no one who knows martial artists would do.
 
Had this idea more related to the Missy side plot going on than anything.

American Codenames for the Senshi. Britain used Longstocking, but what if the USA used days?

Sailor Mercury/ Christmas Day
Sailor Venus/ Valentine's Day
Tuxedo Mask/ Independence Day
Sailor Moon/ President's Day
Sailor Mars/ All Saint's Day
Sailor Jupiter/ Arbor Day
Sailor Saturn/ Memorial Day
Sailor Uranus/ Labor Day
Sailor Neptune/ Thanksgiving Day
Sailor Pluto/ New Year's Day
Lady Sei/ Birthday
Luna/ All Hallow's Eve
Artemis/ Christmas Eve
 
*"Love" and "Justice" are Minako's fists.
Now now, the fight ended with Shampoo in some kind of wrestling hold!

The sword is a mystery box, but we already have one, and I don't really see us going down the Jar'Kai dual blades route. This is also not the sort of gift that we can just re-gift to another one of our allies to make better use of, because there are political ties to it. We couldn't be blamed for hanging it on a wall or stuffing it in a basement of our own though.
I'm pretty sure we could give it to Haruka and no one would complain.

Not least because Haruka probably saved at least one if not multiple Amazons' lives by solo-ing that giant rock oni youma.

For all that Fudo is dangerous and suspicious. It's clear that his specialities are in non-magical politics and business.
He can't sense qi nor does he have the knowledge of the supernatural world to accuratly gauge strength.
Using Pantyhose Taro as a heavy against a old martial artist is one heck of a fail. That no one who knows martial artists would do.
To be fair, Cologne probably routinely allows people to underestimate her just for shits and giggles, and Cologne is in a category of "old monster" that is very, very rare and 'a cut above' compared to almost anything vaguely human that walks the Earth.

Had this idea more related to the Missy side plot going on than anything.

American Codenames for the Senshi. Britain used Longstocking, but what if the USA used days?

Sailor Mercury/ Christmas Day
Sailor Venus/ Valentine's Day
Tuxedo Mask/ Independence Day
Sailor Moon/ President's Day
Sailor Mars/ All Saint's Day
Sailor Jupiter/ Arbor Day
Sailor Saturn/ Memorial Day
Sailor Uranus/ Labor Day
Sailor Neptune/ Thanksgiving Day
Sailor Pluto/ New Year's Day
Lady Sei/ Birthday
Luna/ All Hallow's Eve
Artemis/ Christmas Eve
Too polysyllabic, too likely to lead to confusion when spoken aloud. I think they'd just get random words or something. Probably less subtly punny than the ones the Brits use.
 
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Longstocking alone is as many syllables as most of those in their entirety you know.
Eh. Fair. I was looking at "Independence Day" and "Memorial Day."

Notably, the 'Longstocking' designations have the advantage that they continue to work if new Senshi are discovered; they don't rely on knowing exactly how many of them there are before you give them the codenames.

(Which is a good thing for the Brits because they went from thinking there are one to six to eight and probably won't find out about Chibiusa or Hotaru for quite a while)
 
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Had this idea more related to the Missy side plot going on than anything.

American Codenames for the Senshi. Britain used Longstocking, but what if the USA used days?

Sailor Mercury/ Christmas Day
Sailor Venus/ Valentine's Day
Tuxedo Mask/ Independence Day
Sailor Moon/ President's Day
Sailor Mars/ All Saint's Day
Sailor Jupiter/ Arbor Day
Sailor Saturn/ Memorial Day
Sailor Uranus/ Labor Day
Sailor Neptune/ Thanksgiving Day
Sailor Pluto/ New Year's Day
Lady Sei/ Birthday
Luna/ All Hallow's Eve
Artemis/ Christmas Eve
Too on the nose. Once you draw a connection between holiday codenames and the Senshi, then anyone who knows the Senshi powerset can guess at least half of those. Defeats the purpose of codenames.

Despite this, I approve of Luna being named after Halloween, because it's funny.
(Which is a good thing for the Brits because they went from thinking there are one to six to eight and probably won't find out about Chibiusa or Hotaru for quite a while)
And then the Starlights and Galaxia show up and they start just shoveling placeholder Longstocking names into a folder like they're the National Hurricane Center.
 
For all that Fudo is dangerous and suspicious. It's clear that his specialities are in non-magical politics and business.
He can't sense qi nor does he have the knowledge of the supernatural world to accuratly gauge strength.
Using Pantyhose Taro as a heavy against a old martial artist is one heck of a fail. That no one who knows martial artists would do.
He's a Genjuro-level combatant with the right sword(as Mina managed to notice when he dragged out Taro) and probably has some Ki given IIRC it can manifest as battle auras in this setting; this seems to be more his other big flaw from 'Gear, namely that he's an arrogant insult to bastards that consequently has issues sometimes realising people aren't just going to do what he wants. He can put together measures to avoid that, sure, but he tends to be blindsided when those measures backfire(such as his 'Basa brainwashing).
 
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