second-cause-genuinely-never-thought-about-it AU: Haruka or Michiru, but not both, are attacked by a Dark Kingdom-era monster and accidentally have her powers awakened early. With no Pluto around to clarify the actual mission and only everyone’s vague memories, she becomes a member of team. (When she comes in and what Inners are already active is your call)

~ sittingoverheredreaming
  • It would be Haruka, because Haruka’s already aching to be something, she’s ready to be a hero and a part of a good thing
  • She comes in around the same time as Mako, as things are starting to get a little more serious
  • She gets on great with Usagi and Mako and has tension with Rei and Ami, but they make it work
  • The fact that Haruka and Mako fill the same sort of charge-in-and-fight role is not lost on Rei and Ami, but they don’t know enough about the Silver Millenium to be sure it’s strange
  • Minako does, when she joins up, expecting four girls and getting five
  • Her memories of the Outers come easier this time, because she is alarmed and if this is a threat to her princess, she needs to know
  • She lets Haruka stay and says nothing, but she keeps an eye on her
  • It doesn’t affect the story terribly much until the Talisman arc comes around, because by then Haruka is fairly happy and well-adjusted and part of a seemingly unbreakable team
  • Michiru still sees her in her dreams, but she’s untouchable. They’re supposed to have this mission together, but Haruka has no reason to join her
  • She fights alone, pushing away the inners as much as she can. She resents them, they have what shes supposed to have.
  • THIS ALSO MEANS AS THE DEATH BUSTERS GO THROUGH TARGETING THE INNERS, THEY ACTUALLY FIND A TALISMAN
  • Haruka has a team of friends ready to protect her, but it’s Michiru who saves her– she puts it together, knowing they were supposed to be partners, and distracts Eudial by shooting out her own Talisman
  • The problem is, as the smoke clears and they know what their mission is, is now Michiru has a Haruka who’s spent a year or so on the Usagi-can-do-anything team, and that Haruka isn’t game for killing a little girl
  • Michiru is left to make the hard choices alone (perhaps with Pluto, but Pluto has a strange relationship to the concept of choice)
  • The split between the inners and outers becomes even wider than in canon, Michiru and Pluto split off entirely, only coming back when the threat of Galaxia makes their help more important than what they tried to do
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