All these canons and there’s yet to be a single one where Beryl drags Sailor Moon for calling herself a soldier of justice when her entire existence is for vengeance
-SLAMS FISTS ON THE TABLE- YES
Okay, so like I will never not be salty over the lack of characteriztion Beryl gets (either for herself or for her relationship with Usagi) but this. This could have been so good. This goes beyond a petty squabble over a man, this cuts right to the heart of both of them.
Beryl’s fine with being vengeful, she’s made her bed in it–her fucking black hair was turn red with the blood of the enemies she’s bathed in cause of it. Beryl traded her soul and heart to a goddamn space demon in the name of her hatred for the moon. She’s never denied that all plans, her abuses, all of her trauma comes down to the fact that she feels she was wronged and she wants payment for it. Perhaps when she was young and human, her rage had a different name: the betterment of her world, the rightoues of fighting against a tyrant, the protection of her prince. Now, though? She’s the Queen of Vengance, reborn from her own ashes to destroy who wronged her again and again and again.
And what better person to see right through a lie than the embodiment of it.
Beryl doesn’t give two shits about Usagi, by the way. She’s a witless vessal at best, a mask so painted on that the wearer thinks its her own face at worst. Usagi, to her, isn’t real. It’s Sailor Moon–no–it’s Serenity Beryl sees and Serenity wants vengance. Usagi can babble on about justice and love and hope all she wants and believe it to boot but at the end of the day, Sailor Moon wasn’t created because she rightouesly wanted to protect the world, Sailor Moon was created out of a need and that need was to stop Beryl.
Sailor Moon wouldn’t have been created, Serenity wouldn’t have been awakened, if Beryl hadn’t awakened first. There’s no justice in Sailor Moon’s existence, there is only an angry little princess who took up arms because she was wronged.
Say what you will about Beryl, at least she basks in the glory of her true agenda.
Meanwhile, Serenity lives a lie under the guise of a hapless little girl, trying to pretend like she’s so much better than Beryl because her words or so much prettier.
Beryl would call her a fool if it wasn’t so calculated in the end. A monster who thinks herself an angel is adorable, in a small hilarious way, don’t you think?
YES OH MY GOD YES
Give me a Beryl who will admit to all her sins but will not stand by while Serenity claims no guilt
Give me a Beryl who waits for the chance to show Serenity she’ll sink just as low, strike just as fast, a Beryl who knows what she is and craves the taste of Serenity admitting the same
Give me Beryl that knows that even if she loses, she’s already won
SittingOverHereDreaming 