I love the idea that this isn’t only Uranus’s power awakening
in a moment of danger, but also a choice, or an illusion of it. Haruka doesn’t
know what taking the rod will do, but she is taking it of her own accord. She’s
drawn to it immediately. Likely, it calls to her—she may not know what it is,
but she knows it’s a part of her.
I would pay money to have all the senshi awaken like this
instead of Luna pooping out wands, because I love all the implications. It’s
less pre-determined, they aren’t stepping into a role someone’s telling them
they belong in, they’re choosing to answer the call, even if it’s not an
informed choice.
And I think, for each and every one of them, doing it on
their own instead of being told to opens the question “Would you have taken it,
if you knew what it was?” and they all know the answer is yes, as much as some might
wish it wasn’t. We get to see it play out here with Haruka—she’s ready to take
it without knowing why, and then when she knows she still takes it.
As much resentment of their positions as I think certain
senshi have at times (I think Haruka and Mina are the biggest examples), if
they truly didn’t want to fight, they wouldn’t be senshi. If they wouldn’t
chose it, the souls of the past wouldn’t exist in them. (Michiru is almost an
exception, I think at first it’s less that she’d say yes and more that she sees
no reason to say no, and as much as she doesn’t care to save the world she’s
not quite ready to damn it either. And once Haruka comes in, she’ll fight for
her. I HAVE NOT YET FIGURED OUT QUITE HOW I SEE NEPTUNE’S EARLY DAYS)
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