TEARS. ALL THE TEARS.

She’s amazingly stern and stony all through her song and right up to this moment. A little terrifying, even.

But then she just breaks. She is so scared of losing Chibiusa. She’s begging her not to do that again, she makes herself smaller than Chibiusa because that’s how she feels. Her whole world is her duty and this girl, and she can’t bear to have it shrink down to just her duty again.