OUTERS ARE WAY MORE OSTRACIZED BECAUSE THE STARLIGHTS ARE THE SAME AGE OF THE INNERS AND IN THIS VERSION THE GENUINE CHARM OF THE STARLIGHTS IS PLAYED UP
Rather than “everyone has a crush on Haruka” everyone has their newcomer they’re most interested in (perhaps to rub salt in the wound, Usagi has a five second crush on Haruka because baby’s first butch, but then Seiya immediately shows up and is gregarious and more of what Usagi really likes in a person and her idolization of Haruka is so short lived)
The Starlights do the reasonable thing and team up with the inners, because this is not their fight but when their fight comes, they want to have the most powerful people on the planet on their side
Minako and Rei don’t trust the Starlights, there’s too much they don’t say and Mina and Rei know too much about their own loyalties to not recognize the same ruthlessness in someone else
They’re the main bridge between the inners and outers, being the types that Haruka and Michiru gravitate towards
INSTEAD OF HORSEBOY SUPERS THE SEASON END WOULD LEAD TO A SEASON ABOUT THE HUGE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE STARLIGHTS AND USAGI (and everyone else) BECAUSE THEIR PLANET WAS DESTROYED AND HOW DARE SHE RISK THAT FOR ONE GIRL.
you know that one stupid episode where Haruka and Michiru fight Usagi? That but with the Starlights and a season long and it’s justified because they LIVED the consequence she couldn’t accept as a possibility, it doesn’t matter that it turned out okay because they knew she didn’t feel the weight of it and they’re traumatized
Also just. THe whole idea of people who lived through their planet being destroyed seeing the awakening of a soldier who’s purpose is to destroy the planet. That’s some GOOD SHIT. And their sympathy would switch from the inners to the outers SO FAST, if the outers accept the starlights AREN’T the outside threat it’s a hell of a team up
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