docholligay replied to your photoset “A thing I’d have loved to see explored more is the contrast between…”

Also i wonder if she ever feels like it’s terribly unfair that Usagi never has to make those choices. Haruka is never really given the option to save in that way, she is NOT Usagi. She can’t heal, she can’t cleanse, all she can do is destroy, and how does that work into her conception of herself

^^^^^ YES

COnsider Haruka and Mina getting drunk
together one night and just letting loose all their resentment of Usagi,
the fact that she gets to make all the easy choices they never can.
Usagi gets to save and heal and love without care for the consequences.

But
under that resentment is just guilt and self-loathing, especially for
Haruka. If only she was better, she could be like Usagi. If she’d been good and pure and bright, everyone could have been saved. Usagi’s heart is an all-powerful healing crystal. Haruka’s is a sword. The fault is inside her.