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Sailor Moon 30 Day Challenge
Best Friendship

At first I had a hard time making a choice for this day. But the moment I started thinking about PGSM, I knew my decision. It might be an odd one, since it’s mostly just shown in one episode. But god, this episode.
I love Makoto and Rei because they’re almost not friends. If they met in some other random circumstance and were left alone, they wouldn’t get past the vague acquaintance stage. But they have this thing, this huge, impossible to ignore, being a soldier thing, that links them and opens the door for them to connect. And then they still don’t. Mako has these friends now and she loves them so much that she’ll do anything and she doesn’t understand why Rei won’t. And Rei (though she wouldn’t admit it) ALSO has these friends and loves them, but she wants them to improve and doesn’t understand why Mako is fine with letting them stagnate.
Until it’s her.
The moment Rei realizes Mako thought she was being kidnapped and chased the car all the way to the hotel, the moment Mako stands up to Rei’s father’s associates for her, that’s the moment they click. Rei believes what she says about getting better alone, she believes in independence and not needing anyone, but a little secret part of her wants someone to be there for her so badly. And Makoto is there. She’s there forcing people out of the room and making escape plans and actually listening to Rei and it’s more than Rei’s had in a long time.
But it’s not one-sided. In PGSM Mako has so much trouble with her feminine side, and Rei breaks that down a little. Rei is actually someone who doesn’t like girly things and boys, but she makes it so clear that it’s okay Mako does like those things. She teases her, but the message isn’t, “It’s funny boyish Mako-chan likes such cute things.” It’s, “It’s funny you’re so embarrassed about liking such cute things.”
There’s just so much acceptance between them. Rei accepts who Makoto really is, Makoto accepts that Rei can’t love her father. They accept that they’ve had similar losses but they happened very differently and had different effects. And they accept that no matter what they say, they’ll always end up helping Usagi as much as they can.
Even though it wasn’t touched on much for the rest of the show, and even though it wasn’t really dealt with in the other canons at all, there’s enough just in this one episode for me to love it forever.

Sorry I’m Late- A La Reconquista Mini-Fic

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I went to my parents’ grave. I didn’t know if I’d get a second chance to do so.
Makoto has something she wants her parents to know.
Word Count: 559
 This scene has been at the back of my mind for ages, and I finally got it out. I hope you enjoy.

            “Hi mom. Hi Dad.” She puts the picture she keeps in her wallet in the grass between her gravestones. The creases are too deep to unfold completely anymore, but that’s okay. The two crinkly white lines converge on her nine-year-old face so that if she doesn’t look closely, it’s like it’s just the two of them. It’s more like she’s really talking to them if she can’t see herself. “I’m sorry I haven’t visited for awhile. I’ve been busy.” Her fingers pull her skirt along her thighs. “I… I’m actually a soldier of justice. A magical girl like in the stories you used to read me.” She takes a deep breath. She aches to know their reaction. None of the others have told their parents, but surely, surely hers would have been understanding enough to know. “You always told me to be strong, Daddy, and I am. I’m strong enough to fight monsters and pull lightning down from the skies. But I worry that’s not eno…”

            She shakes her head. “That’s not what I wanted to talk to you about. I want to make sure you know about my friends.” Another picture comes out, a photo strip with an English phrase written across the top. Minako said it meant “hot babes,” but Ami said it meant “friends forever.” Their five faces crowd into each panel. “That one’s Rei. When you’d first meet her, Mama, you’d purse your lips and say, ‘Well, she’s an interesting girl.’ She comes off as a little brash at first, but once you get to know her, you see she’s really got a big heart. You might know her mom. She’s somewhere up there with you.

            “And Daddy, Minako would make you laugh. Everything she does is like a performance, even fighting.  She’ll be famous someday. She sort of already is. Before any of us found each other, she fought alone…” She shakes her head again. “You’d both love Ami. She’s a genius who gets top scores on all the exams, but she’s the most sweet and modest person you can imagine. She says she’s going to make sure we all get into high school. If you knew us all, you’d know how hard a goal that is.”

            She points to the final girl in the pictures, the one who only managed to get her full face into the frame in the last shot. “And that’s Usagi. She’s… she’s the one who found me first.  We’re a perfect pair, really, she eats anything I cook and says it’s the best I’ve ever made. A little like you guys used to. We’re supposed to take care of her, but I think maybe she actually takes care of us. But that’s why…” Her fists ball around her skirt. “That’s why we’re going without her. They have Ami, and…”

            She shakes her head again and smiles through her watery eyes. “I wish you could meet them so badly, but I don’t want any of them to meet you anytime soon. So I’m going to fight. And we’re going to win.” She carefully folds the pictures back into her wallet. “I just wanted you to know.” One drop of water hits the grass as she stands up. “And I love you.”

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Somehow this is my first coloring of Mako. She didn’t turn out as well as I hoped, but I think she’s more fun to color than what I’ve done before. 🙂
As always, original scan is from Miss Dream.