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Usagi Quest (CK3/Princess Maker) (Sailor Moon)

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Simon_Jester said:
Finally, you manage to put it out of your mind and go to sleep. It's been a good day, really. For the club, if nothing else. And you're really glad Tsubomi seems to be on the mend after yesterday…

Zzz.
You are Uttu of Shynar, recognized grande dame of your art out of all the Earth, and you regard the young prince thoughtfully. And you reflect that even though you have the justified pride of a craftswoman unrivaled under Heaven and seldom rivaled in it, you really shouldn't think of him as a boy anymore. He's become a capable warrior, and crafty in the ways of politics. And no man, young or old, keeps his dignity in the courts of Heaven entirely on the strength of how well he can fill out court fashion. Not even when it's you picking the outfits, and often making them with your own hands and will-work.

It's just that you were already nearly three hundred when he was a babe in arms, and that was… has it been so long already?

You smile at him. You've never let him down, not in anything touching on your art, and he very much depends on you for your services. Even, no, especially now.
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WCSII said:
So, please, someone quote me
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this post
 
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:wtf:

I'm almost certain I remembered an entirely different post for that scene.

But, okay fair. That is what it is.

And yes I did delete the quoted post of mine, just as you posted, because it eventually percolated in my sleepy brain that it was way to aggressive. So, sorry.
 
WCSII said:
{Edit} Or, well, that was my take away with her being fixated firstly and foremost on Ami's Mercury uniform, while only peripherally being aware of the others, and incidentally praising the tuxedo, while dissing it not ever changing.
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At the time she wrote the fan letter, Erika had only met two of the Senshi, and of the two, Ami had made the more impressive showing. Erika was also secretly convinced that she was destined to become a blue-colored water-themed magical girl herself, so part of her was mistakenly locking onto Sailor Mercury out of misplaced ambition to become her sidekick.

Torgamous said:
The reason her club has no members is kind of the opposite of that. She can get overbearing when she's excited. She becomes a really good club leader after she starts working on that.
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Yeah. At series start she's basically driven away the entire club with her personality.
 
Vehrec said:
Which, ya know, means she can't explain fashion to other teens without driving them crazy and making them leave. Or at least, she couldn't before she had an Important Life Lesson in the form of being turned into a monster and purified.
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It's not a matter of explanation. She couldn't engage with them about fashion in any way.
 
Vehrec said:
Which, ya know, means she can't explain fashion to other teens without driving them crazy and making them leave. Or at least, she couldn't before she had an Important Life Lesson in the form of being turned into a monster and purified.
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It's not that she's incapable of explaining a concept in the short term.

It's that her pre-season personality was constantly overwhelming and exhausting to deal with. She had essentially no filter, she had little if any impulse control at all, she had no respect for other people's boundaries, and she could show a stunning lack of self-awareness about how her behavior affected or seemed to other people. The only thing that kept her from being an absolutely horrible person to deal with, as opposed to a merely incredibly frustrating person to deal with, was Erika's nearly absolute lack of malice and genuine desire to do good things even if she's a loony about them.

So the Fashion Club fell apart in short order because the entire prior membership decided they'd rather do something else than be members of it so long as Erika was in it.

Torgamous said:
It's not a matter of explanation. She couldn't engage with them about fashion in any way.
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I mean, she could; we see the club collapse in Episode 1 after what is presumably a period of months earlier in the school year with her presumably driving the entire rest of the membership up the wall and onto the ceiling.
 
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...huh, I just thought of something.

Do the Missies have a Naru parallel,and if so, what type of being is she?
 
Okay, Molly theory time:

She's a cryptid. One who can, via glamour or some other method, pass as a human. Possibly a cryptid/human hybrid if we want to also have her not understand what her legacy is like the rest of the Missies. This:
- continues the 'lesser parallel' theme
- gives the orb a "only works on select types of targets" restriction (humans, in this case), which seems to be somewhat common in this setting. See all the various anti-youkai spells and specialized Precure cleansing magic.


While I'm at it:
Missy Saturn used it be in Uranus and Neptune's year, but has been in the hospital for at least this entire school year after a cataclysmic accident in the chemistry lab.
 
Pullulus said:
Missy Saturn used it be in Uranus and Neptune's year, but has been in the hospital for at least this entire school year after a cataclysmic accident in the chemistry lab
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I'm tempted to joke that she caused the accident while attempting to make Lunarian coffee. How she knows what goes into Lunarian coffee is the simple fact that she was four days deep in an all-nighter frenzy. Her mistake was that she was trying to make Element 115 and accidentally made Element 112.

Ekzentric Lohner said:
Canon Hotaru was around Chibi-Usa's (physical) age, IIRC. So a teacher's elementary-school-aged daughter is more likely.
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While that is true, it'd still be funnier if she was a fellow classmate of the Ersatz Outers. On the other hand, I could see her being the other Pluto's neighbor, with Michelle being her babysitter.
 
I am curious whether Molly has been "read in" for the Missy Mob yet.

Missy Moon: You're telling me that you broke OPSEC and immediately told your normal, helpless best friend about your powers and secret identity on Day One?
Sailor Moon: Are you saying that you didn't? And how do you know that they're actually "normal and helpless"? Maybe they're a superhero too and are just not telling you.
Missy Moon: What? No, Molly wouldn't keep that kind of secret from me, I'm her best… friend… okay, now I'm hearing it.
 
Ekzentric Lohner said:
Canon Hotaru was around Chibi-Usa's (physical) age, IIRC. So a teacher's elementary-school-aged daughter is more likely.
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SuperBigMac said:
While that is true, it'd still be funnier if she was a fellow classmate of the Ersatz Outers. On the other hand, I could see her being the other Pluto's neighbor, with Michelle being her babysitter.
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Lunaryon said:
Why not both? Genius classmate who is super tiny and younger than everyone else
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I mean, Setsuna establishes a pretty clear precedent here that the canon Senshi are under no obligation to be their OG-canon age.

Then again, Pluto would invariably be something of a special case, since time travel. But the same might be said for Saturn, because Senshi of death, rebirth, and person of mass destruction…
 
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