Mako, Sympathy

Mako is very much of the mindset that sympathy is an empty
feeling that leads to empty gestures. I think this would lead to some of the
only fights Mako and Usagi ever have. There’s a year when Usagi figures out the
anniversary of Mako’s parents’ death, and brings her flowers. Mako’s
purposefully never told any of them (besides Rei) when it was, because she
lives with the loss every day and the idea that people have one day a year to
give her sympathy to check off caring for her infuriates her. (It’s also not
the day she’s saddest, because it’s a day she remembers the fear and shock. It’s
their birthdays and father’s/mother’s day that give her pause as she feels all
the happiness they had and all the happiness they missed having together).  Mako shuts the door in Usagi’s face and
struggles to remember Usagi loves her and it isn’t the same pity she got from
her first guardians or her old boyfriend or any of them. (It helps that Usagi
goes back the next day, flowers again in hand, and says that Rei told her off
but she’d like Mako to have the bouquet anyway, because Usagi knows she likes
them).