What do you think Pluto does to while away the time, at the Door? Read? Paint? Watch Space TV? Weave giant fucking rugs? Make model figures?

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I think of Pluto and the Time Door having a loose relationship with linear time. There are moments where they touch, but no strict order or, well, linearity. She spends a lot of time examining outcomes, and while she’s forbidden from altering the course of history outright, she finds ways to give little pushes while she can (whether she’s bound to a single timeline is unclear, sometimes she feels like she is a part of every possibility, and sometimes she feels aware that there are many of her, at the same but different doors, with the same but different circumstances).

Her concept of free will and free thinking is a little… underdeveloped, too, in that she can only perceive of doing things for the Moon Kingdom and for the greater good, and breaking the rules is beyond her comprehension, for the most part (bending the rules is fair game, it’s complicated. She can throw everything away for Small Lady because it is for the Good of the Kingdom, for the line she knows she must protect, and if she is doing it out of her own love it does not matter because it aids her purpose.)

Her time as Setsuna, when she gets it (and how that works is anyone’s guess, in this time she is both Pluto and Not Pluto, she is at the gate and not, she does not question it and merely Is) is important and life changing, because Setsuna has choices, Setsuna is human, there are a thousand things in every day that Pluto does not have rules for. Something as simple as having tea is a marvel, in that it’s an act entirely for her own pleasure.

(The Pluto that exists at the door having been Setsuna begins to feel boredom, begins to read and paint and write, she cries for what she was and what she could be, she reaches out for changes not for the greater good but for the good of those she’s come to love, for simple happiness and comforts that she knows don’t matter in the grand scheme but mean everything in the moment. She cannot let go of being human.)

AU where Beryl is the only threat ever. NO one but Usagi and the Inners are ever awakened.

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  • There is no Crystal Tokyo
  • CT is built on the back of tragedy and danger, in peace it can never come to be
  • Chibiusa is born in the 21st century, an ordinary child, a happy child with parents who treat her as their whole world
  • The Inners live relatively happy lives in simple peace, thought they’re never truly free. The threat that something else could come never goes away.
  • Haruka moves through life like a tornado, unable to calm the wind inside her. She can never shake the feeling she’s forgotten something, there’s a nagging at the back of her mind to do something, to be ready, to never sleep lest the moment comes
  • Michiru has always been a raging sea beneath a placid surface, she cannot distinguish the inexplicable emptiness inside her from the emptiness her poised life brings
  • She has dreams sometimes– she does not know enough to call them visions– of a past life spent fighting, and of fights that could come but never do
  • (Not awakening is different than not reincarnating, and having a part of you forever asleep is a cruel fate)
  • They never find each other, the poised socialite and the mechanic that blows through jobs and barely gets by. They went to the same school, once upon a time, but Michiru could never approach someone like Haruka.
  • Years before Beryl even came on the scene, a little girl died in a fire. No entities came to offer her father a deal for her life.
  • Pluto sits at her door. No sad child comes to befriend her. She has to believe it’s better this way. She’s found a peaceful timeline. It’s the best option. It has to be.

AU where Galaxia doesn’t get a redemption reset and has to do everything from scratch, but this time while rebuilding everything she had destroyed over the course of being the cage and vessel of Chaos

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  • Repentance is hard
  • It’s harder still when all your reasons for taking up chaos are still there
  • She still feels she deserves more than all that she is, still rages against the constraints of the world
  • But she returns to her planet, her first planet, destroyed as it is,and has a chance to build it anew
  • the survivors are few, and all distrustful, but they’ll allow her to work
  • she returns to the dirt she rose from, planting seeds, still seething hatred that all she’s done and she’s still ended up right back here
  • but then, weeks and weeks later, the first little sprout of a tree comes up from her seeds, and she feels something
  • it is not joy, or contentment, just simple growth and possibility. She can rise in a new way this time
  • Perhaps she can find her way to true justice, what she’s sought all along, her purpose that’s greater than the dirt she was born into
  • Perhaps it means she hasn’t repented at all, but she will try for a better world
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docholligay replied to your post

okay but please tell me all about Mina’s reaction to the Talismans thing in this world

By the time this rolls around Mina and Haruka’s friendship is set (It’s very different than their usual friendship, but they still connect) and there’s a certain extent of Mina REFUSING to let the talismans take Haruka away from her (if destiny can change even this little bit, Mina needs that, she needs Haruka to have a roll not set by their past life)

And with Haruka not wanting the mission of stopping Saturn anyway, Mina takes the Talisman and gives it to Michiru, saying Haruka deserves better than this, Haruka is good and if Michiru wants to kill a little girl she can but Mina won’t let her strip Haruka of her humanity

(And there is never a version of Michiru who does not believe Haruka deserves better, so she does not argue, merely takes the sword and learns to use it)

(There is a good chance this leads to her and Pluto being successful in killing Hotaru. Mina chooses not to dwell on her choice to much)

AU where Artemis and Luna never awaken. There are no guides here.

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  • Minako still becomes a soldier first. One monster encounter, and Venus opens up the memory well. She will not watch her princess die again.
  • She takes up the mission of finding her fellow soldiers– Mars first, because if there’s going to be just two, they’re a matched pair. Then Ami, to run intel, and then Mako
  • There is no Sailor Moon in this version, at least not right away, Minako’s goal is to keep the princess from awakening. That, in her view, is the happy ending– an ordinary life, free from the burdens of the past
  • When Tuxedo Mask shows up, she has two conflicting instincts:
    1. The princess wished for a second chance at a happy life with him
    2. He’ll lead to the princess’s destruction, just like last time
  • She ultimately tries to cut a deal with Beryl– her beloved prince for peace
  • Beryl laughs, because it was never just about the prince
  • Serenity awakens, not because Endymion is struck down, but because Venus is
  • Usagi wakes screaming, her pajamas replaced by a flowing white dress, mourning a friend she didn’t even get to meet in this life
  • (She is connected to her soldiers by design, Queen Serenity needed her
    daughter to know when her protectors failed, when she need to run) 
  • The fight is the same, but also different– Usagi comes to Beryl without the bonds of this life’s friendship, but she demands the chance for them, her soldiers fall one by one but she will not let them stay down, she will not let Beryl win, she will get the chance she wants and they will all live on togetherr
  • After, when everyone is back, Minako has to look Usagi in the eyes and admit all her choices. There is anger, and sadness, but most of all forgiveness, because they still have an opportunity now, they can go forward together

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)

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  • 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

AU where Michiru is the princess

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  • 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
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docholligay replied to your post

PLEASE TELL ME HARUKA STILL HATES SEIYA THO

Haruka hates Seiya EVEN MORE because along with her canon insecurity and distrust, there’s also jealousy because a) she’s meeting Seiya at the peak of her self-hatred and b) Seiya gets to have this ease in her eyes, Seiya doesn’t have to make the hard choices Seiya gets to just throw in with the inners and be fine, and even after she knows what Seiya’s gone through it doesnt go away