in the tags tell us about that one anime character you love so much you would die for them
Tag: MAKOTO KINO
Concept: we do not need to genderswap the senshi, but if we do Mako should be smol
Since Mako’s canonically the youngest of the Inners, I like to think there’s a moment where everyone’s like “shit, our mom friend is a baby” and they spend like a week trying to baby her. Usagi brings her candy and baked goods from Ikuko. Rei is constantly set to ~totally sage advice~ mode. Mina tries to cook for her. Ami is just more forthcoming with hugs and a little more bent on “now listen, take care of yourself.”
Mako insists they don’t have to and is kind of frustrated by some of it (Mina you’re going to burn this house down), but she’s also incredibly touched that they want to take care of her so badly.
Headcannon: Makoto is amazingly light on her feet. It’s part of what makes things like dancing come so easily to her.
When Minako first notices, she assumes it’s a habit based in sports or fighting tactics. That’s why she’s light footed, after all.
But really, it’s something Makoto learned to try and negate her size. She’s always been too tall for her age, “too big,” so she learned to sound small, especially after her parents died and she was shuffled among guardians who didn’t really want her. No stomping, no shouting, no big laughter. She learned to step so quietly that they had to see her to know she was there.
They made my girl so beautiful and so expressive this week.<3 ❤
THIS JUST IN
MAKO IS A PERFECT ANGEL AND IF YOU HURT HER FRIENDS SHE WILL HUNT YOU DOWN IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT AND MAKE YOU NUMB WITH REGRET
“Anata No Sei Janai” translation from sailormusic.net
In case you didn’t have enough Makoto feels, I thought I’d combine senpai flashbacks for you.
This scene hurts so much.
I’m definitely still interpreting it as she slept with him (though I absolutely support people who see it differently; teach me your ways because that’d hurt so much less).
The thing here is, Mako’s not nervous. She’s doing her best to appear casual, but she’s happy. She believes senpai loves her; she has no reason in the world to think he’ll say no. She probably thinks they’re dating. They never said they were, but he was so nice and they did things and how could they not be together?
But now he has a girlfriend.
Didn’t he tell her?
No, he forgot her. He used her and forgot her and found a real girlfriend.
Was I fooled? Makoto asks after this flashback. She believed he loved her so much. I think she still believed he loved her even after this. He just fell out of love or she did something wrong or he just fell more in love with the other girl. Of course he loved her. Makoto has to believe that.
And the realization that maybe he didn’t crushes her. If they could do those things without love, what even is love? And if he didn’t love her, then has anyone loved her since her parents’ death? Maybe no one ever will. Maybe no one will ever see past her rough exterior.
But that’s not true either. Usagi is there, Usagi has seen how lovely Makoto is, Usagi will love Makoto with all her heart, and the others will too. And that’s all Makoto needs. Just a little love, a little support, someone to tell her, for the first time in years, that she’s wonderful.
What I really, really love about this is that it’s Makoto reaching out. With Ami and Rei, it’s Usagi building the connection all the way. In Crystal, more than the other versions, they’re ready for that connections, but within their episodes Usagi has to come to them, she has to be the one inviting them out or visiting them.
But once Usagi shows herself to be genuine, Makoto reaches back. It’s a really simple question, but it’s also an open invitation for Usagi to keep spending time with her. It’s not just that Makoto wants friends, because Rei and especially Ami do to, it’s that Makoto knows how to make friends. Makoto has these social skills. Once she gets to talking to someone, she knows how to handle it.
The problem is getting people to talk to her. Girls are afraid of her because of her reputation. Boys vary more, I think, but are mostly the same. That’s why she’s so happy Usagi notices these other aspects of her. Mako definitely plays up her feminine side to try and combat her appearance and reputation (though she also just likes feminine things, too) and Usagi is possibly the first person to notice.
Please enjoy (and by enjoy I mean cry over) the image of young Makoto digging through her parent’s stuff in the wake of their deaths because she can’t take it all with her (as I firmly believe she did have a guardian (or several different guardians) for the first few years, and she’d have limited space in their house), and finding the lunchbox that was her mother’s. Imagine little Makoto clinging to it, taking it everywhere while trying to keep it in pristine condition. Imagine little Makoto using what little allowance she gets from her guardians to buy paint to keep retouching where ever it gets scuffed. Imagine little Mako throwing her first punch when some bully decides to steal her lunch box and tries to smash it. Imagine Mako getting kicked out of her first school for that punch, and imagine her getting shuffled to a new guardian because whatever relative she’s living with doesn’t want to handle a delinquent like her.
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