Tag: Makoto

wrt Mako/Michiru/Nehellenia as a thematic trio, you could potentially spin that Mako and Michiru are afraid of the future cause while their friends have dreams that easily lend themselves to their basic natures (Ami’s already smart, Haruka’s adventurous, etc.) Makoto and Michiru might feel like they’re fighting expectations of what they are/should be, and feel like they can’t break out of those hangups as easily.

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KEET YOURE A GENIUS I LOVE THIS
I love that it keeps to the dream theme, and it’s so absolutely true for them. Everyone else has obstacles to their dreams, but for the two of them THEY are the obstacle. Mako has a ton of baggage around the way she presents and wanting softer things from life vs what she feels is expected of someone her size and strength, and Michiru I think more than anything wants to be free, and while that ostensibly means from expectations from parents/society/senshi life, SHE’S what really holds herself back.

Harumichi flower shop AU

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  • Okay so, backstory: Haruka and Mako met in foster care.
  • They were briefly sisters, and kept in touch. They
    understood each other, both considered delinquents, both a little too quick to
    throw a punch, both full of good intent. Mako had a knack for growing things,
    and Haruka liked to learn to do things with her hands.
  • They got through their teenage years planning how they could
    open a flower shop, saving money from weekend jobs and change found under
    couches, and it’s really Mako’s small inheritance from her parents that she can
    legally use at 18 that lets them buy a little place and get started, but they
    still feel proud. Haruka is handy enough to get their fixer upper in working
    shape, and then they’re on their feet and their combined talents mean they get
    by.
  • They build their reputation for years. Mako’s got a green
    thumb, and no matter the conditions they have beautiful blooms. (And if their clientele
    skews largely into the gay community it doesn’t hurt, they don’t advertise themselves
    as a gay shop but they’re a lesbian and a bi woman and people are comfortable
    and are you telling me you wouldn’t shop there?)
  • And once they book a few events, they get on the radar of
    higher class buyers.
  • That is how Michiru Kaioh comes through the door one day.
  • She is, perhaps unfortunately, looking for a break up
    flower. Something that conveys, “You’re getting too attached, so I want to cut
    things off cleanly, but not too cleanly because I want to keep you as an option
    and an occasional late night romp.”
  • But then Haruka turns from tending the soil to greet her and
    wipes her brow and Michiru knows she is not going to say any of that.
  • She makes up some reason to be there, she’d heard about the
    shop from their work at the gala, which was true, but doesn’t give her a reason
    to buy something.
  • But Michiru is not one to be defeated so easily. She has
    Haruka show her the most beautiful flower in the shop. She decides will buy it
    and give it to Haruka, and Haruka will be charmed and then Michiru will spirit
    her away to a night on the town, and they will have red wine and explore each other’s
    bodies and—
  • And Haruka works in a flower shop, Michiru realizes, and has
    no use for a flower of her own growing.
  • So when Haruka asks if she would like it wrapped, Michiru
    says yes, and with Haruka’s back turned she takes her leave before she can
    embarrass herself.
  • Haruka is left holding a rose and wondering about the
    strange, beautiful girl she met.
  • She looks for her at every event she and Mako do flowers
    for. (Not that there’s much chance, they’re in and out before anything starts.)
  • But one day, they’re commissioned to do flower accents for
    an art show, and who should the artist turn out to be?
  • She was hoping Haruka would forget and she could have a
    second chance to make a good impression. But Haruka remembers, and there’s a
    good bit of very awkward attempts at small talk, but then
  • BUT THEN
  • Haruka manages to choke out something resembling an
    invitation to get drinks sometime to learn more about each other, and Michiru
    manages some polite approximation of acceptance.
  • (Mako, on the other side of the room, loudly announces that
    It’s fine, she can do the arrangements on her own, no need to do your job
    Haruka just keep flirting)

Mako, Sympathy

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Mako is very much of the mindset that sympathy is an empty
feeling that leads to empty gestures. I think this would lead to some of the
only fights Mako and Usagi ever have. There’s a year when Usagi figures out the
anniversary of Mako’s parents’ death, and brings her flowers. Mako’s
purposefully never told any of them (besides Rei) when it was, because she
lives with the loss every day and the idea that people have one day a year to
give her sympathy to check off caring for her infuriates her. (It’s also not
the day she’s saddest, because it’s a day she remembers the fear and shock. It’s
their birthdays and father’s/mother’s day that give her pause as she feels all
the happiness they had and all the happiness they missed having together).  Mako shuts the door in Usagi’s face and
struggles to remember Usagi loves her and it isn’t the same pity she got from
her first guardians or her old boyfriend or any of them. (It helps that Usagi
goes back the next day, flowers again in hand, and says that Rei told her off
but she’d like Mako to have the bouquet anyway, because Usagi knows she likes
them).