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Harumichi, 12

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12. What they do for their anniversary

Their first few anniversaries, Haruka plans big elaborate
surprises. Sky writing timed perfectly for Michiru to see the moment she steps
out of work, singing candy grams, rose petal walkways; if it can be classified
as a grand gesture, she’s done it. It’s always followed with a trip to Red
Lobster or something similar, because Haruka cannot let go of the idea of that
as a special occasion place, and it’s seafood and Michiru is the sea isn’t that
poetic?

The third or fourth year, though, Michiru suggests a few
months before that she get to surprise Haruka that year. Haruka still sends
flowers, but otherwise agrees. Michiru plans something much more low-key. Or at
least, Michiru’s take on low key, which mostly means less public. She doesn’t
want the grand gestures, she likes the smaller things, but she also is keenly
aware of how much Haruka tries and feels the pressure to match it. So she buys
out her favorite restaurant for the night. It’s just the two of them in
candlelight, with the best service and even better food.

Unfortunately for Michiru, this gives Haruka the idea to
rent out the event room at Red Lobster the next year.

Michiru, 16

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NOW THAT THIS HAS SAT HERE FOR NEARLY A WEEK I’M FINALLY GETTING TO IT, SORRY

16) The biggest sacrifice they make for their family

If you asked Michiru about this, she’d probably mention some big concert she missed for an elementary school pageant or having to give up the ability to go on luxurious vacations at the drop of a hat, but it was worth it.

And THAT– it being worth it– is her real sacrifice. Michiru spent a long time convincing herself that emotionally, at least, she didn’t need anyone. Her parents only ever treated her as a show pony they gave financial support to, so that’s all she needed from them. Any nanny she got attached to inevitably got dismissed, so she learned to not to need them either. Michiru prided herself on this independence. Her detachment and disdain for everyone else let her position herself as better than them all in her mind.

Haruka was first to ruin her perfect detachment, but I think when they have kids it’s an even bigger thing. Michiru can hold Haruka up as the single good point of humanity, but kids take even that away. She doesn’t love them because they’re pure beautiful good people, she loves them because they’re her kids, her bratty, messy, imperfect kids. And the illusion that she could ever survive without people, without these people, is utterly shattered. 

Haruka, 14

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,14) Would they ever want to be a stay at home spouse or parent

A stay at home spouse while there are no kids is a definite no as far as I’d see it, at least so long as she’s . Haruka wouldn’t *have* to work, and I think that’s why she’d want to. She takes immense pride in being able to say she did something or bought something for Michiru with her own money. I can’t see her giving that up.

With kids, though, I think they’d *both* try out stay at home parenting, so long as Michiru continued to have the money to support them. After the first year, give or take a few months, Michiru goes back to work. Haruka, though, loves parenting so so much that she has zero desire to do anything but care for their kids as much as possible. 

Michiru has to draw a line, when the youngest starts school, Haruka has to go back to work, or at least take back up her more time-consuming hobbies. (She can see the empty-nest fall out miles away). Haruka starts suggesting they have another kid as the time draws near, but Michiru’s firm on no more, as she knows in four years thy’d go through this all again.

So Haruka does go back to work, and she’s still an emotional wreck over not being 100% parent 100% of the time, her babies are in school and are starting to not need her,  but it helps keep her going. And later, when the teenage years start and her babies are starting to not WANT her, work turns into her saving grace (though only Mina and Michiru and others would see it that way, Haruka would never think of it).

Haruka, 10

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10) How they deal with pain

I think there are certain types of physical pain Haruka handles very well. Cuts and bruises don’t really bother her. She’d probably swear, say, if she drops a wrench on her foot, but she’s not going to make a big deal out of it. It’s the one way she lives up to the tough, cool front she’d like to think she exudes.

Anything to do with illness, though, stomach ache, sinus pain, anything like that, and Haruka’s the… I don’t want to say whiniest, as that sounds to negative, but something along those lines.

She can’t deal with internal pain at all. She all but demands pampering, even for minor things. And the worst part is, it’s only when she’s started to feel better that she can enjoy the attention at all. People have definitely accused her of milking it (which to be fair, she has occasionally done) but for the most part, she actually just feels that bad.

Michiru, 1

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1) Something this character is truly proud of.

I think it would be a long time before Michiru gets to a place where she can feel completely, unambiguously proud of anything she’s done. As a child she realized that her parents valued her work more than they valued her as a person, so any pride she might have in art or music got squashed out of her pretty quickly. And I think senshi work is very tied up in guilt and self-loathing for her, so she can’t feel pride in that.

But one day, when she and Haruka have been married a little while and have started having kids, she looks at her family and realizes that there is one thing she’s proud to be a part of. And after that, she realizes she’s proud of herself for being happy, because that never felt like somewhere her life could go, and here she is.

Here’s a good one: Which of your SM/HP house things do you think goes AGAINST the grain?

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That IS a good one. 

I think my big one is I don’t personally go with Pluto/Setsuna being a Ravenclaw, which I see a lot. She’s smart, definitely, and has such a vast store of knowledge, but I don’t know that she’d really value knowledge for knowledge’s sake the way ‘claws do. I think for me it comes down between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor, because her loyalty and duty and love are the most central things to her, and Gryffindor edges ahead.

The few Ravenclaws in HP canon came off as pretty cerebrally-orientated, and I see Setsuna as being led a lot more by her heart. She could watch the Silver Millenium burn not because there’s calculated thought behind doing so or anything, but because guarding the time gate is the one thing she can do, her last act of love for her queen and the rest of her people. And then, in every canon, which she gets a chance to do more, she loves enough and is brave enough to lay down her life. 

So to me, Setsuna’s pretty firmly a Gryffindor.

Haruka x Michiru

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I debated a sarcastic answer, but honestly, if there was an actual rule that you could actually only have one One True Pairing, Haruka and Michiru would be mine. They weren’t really the first girl/girl pairing I saw in a television show, but they were the first I got to see and form an opinion of on my own, so they’re very important to me. But besides that, their dynamic is amazing. There’s so much to explore with them. They’re such beautiful, deeply flawed people who love each other so much, and I will probably literally never get over that.

Mina x Rei

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Mostly an OTP. I don’t really feel it in the anime, but any other canon and most fanworks, I love them together. And when it comes to PGSM, it’s the number one ship. I love thinking about what happens after the series, when Rei really gets to see Minako’s playful side. Because when Minako had her dress up as her unicorn mascot, Rei had no idea what was happening. She was too focused on senshi business. A few months after everything, though, she finds out that Minako had the camera men take pictures. Which naturally are now on Minako’s website for all her fans to see. The fallout, of course, would be glorious.

Haruka and Mina

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BroTP, mostly because of your fics. There’s definitely a spark for it in canon, but I would have never thought about it or have gotten so invested in it. I was on the Haruka and Mako BroTP train before (and still am, to an extent, but I think Haruka and Mina would ultimately be closer). Now I’m basically set on Mina sort of being Haruka’s friend soul mate.