AU where Michiru is the princess

Mina’s whole life is suffering
She is a good soldier she knows her duty but goddamn she wants to put a knife in her princess’s back
Usagi/Serenity is selfish, absolutely, but Mina can handle it and let love outweigh resentment because it comes from naivete, she sees her as a child. Michiru has none of that, she is cold, her selfish moments have no pretty wrapping
Michiru’s life is also suffering, she goes from being her parents’ porcelain poseable doll to the perfect protected princess, and there’s no room for her to ever be a person
She tells Beryl to take the crystal, take the kingdom, take the whole goddamn world because there’s never been anything in it for Michiru
Well, there was one thing, but she died alone in the snow for a destiny Michiru doesn’t even want
(On Haruka’s lips she tasted a simpler life, but even that she couldn’t trust because they were princess and knight, and what feelings were real and what were Haruka playing her assigned role?)
Beryl has everything she wanted– not the crystal, but the moon laid low
she doesn’t take the crystal. she sees now her greatest revenge– the moon princess gets to live on, knowing her soldiers died for her, knowing she gave up, knowing she’ll never have the life she wants
there is no resurrection, the crystal too is cruel at times

Published by sittingoverheredreaming