A thing I’d have loved to see explored more is the contrast between how Haruka deals with this stuff vs. Usagi. AT THEIR CORE THEIR FEELINGS ARE THE SAME. Haruka knows nothing about the situation OR THIS KID, but she can’t attack the monster because it was a person. If there’s any chance it’s still a person, she can’t hurt it.

EXCEPT SHE CAN AND WILL IF IT ENDANGERS OTHER PEOPLE.

I think there’s ground in someone who has to make that choice vs. someone who doesn’t. Usagi gets to save everyone (and that may be bullshit, but let’s say we accept it for now). Haruka has to choose. This guy, or herself and Michiru. Hotaru, or the world. I think she’s helped by her low self-esteem, she WOULD be a believer in saving everyone if she wasn’t chasing goodness. She’s willing to damn herself for the good.

Her post-S guilt must be ASTOUNDING, having seen Usagi pull off what she wished she could do but couldn’t, having seen Usagi avoid the choices she hated herself for making.