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“When were you born?” She asks the thing inside her, one year when she is feeling raw and alone— alone, save for that which she most and least understands.

When the morning star and evening star crossed paths, married and became one, I first burned in the sky.

Mina sighs. Even her clearest memories of that life are mosaics of myth and reality, pieced together to value beauty over truth. “Did you have calendars back then? Moon years, or something similar?”

Her arms cross, an action of the thing. Such distinctions were superfluous.We marked Our Princess’s christening day and little else.

“So she got a birthday, and you got a legend?”

The thing smiles with Mina’s lips. Which would you choose, if you could?

Utterly different, utterly the same. Mina smiles the same smile.

I was conscious some of the time, waiting for you, the thing says unprompted. All I knew had died, and I listened to the ages of the world pass until I could merge with a new star. Your ascent on my horizon is a date worth noting.

Mina can feel the thing’s loneliness eclipse her own. A void of nothing, and then one tiny light— her light, the third star of Venus. In memory she is overwhelmed with wonder, disgust, gratitude and abhorrence. Her own feelings, mirrored.

“You’re using a lot of words to say you’ve co-opted my birthday as your own.”

It passes the time.

Mina looks up to the clock, reminded at the perfect moment to see it cross into midnight. “Well, happy re-birthday, then.”

Happy birthday.

For a rare moment, they are at peace with one another, and the world. Mina closes her eyes and lets the thing have her body, lets it feel the quiet night, the warm blankets, the soft sleepiness building behind her eyes. In the light of day, they will be at war again, but here, while the morning and evening stars have crossed paths, they are one.

Minako!

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sexuality headcanon: Bi with a preference for women that grows after high school


gender headcanon: I see her as a cis girl, although with or without the disguise pen, I think she’d enjoy rare occasions of cross dressing (especially to prove she’s hot whatever gender people think she is)


a ship I have with said character: Rei/Minako. Also Ami/Minako, if I’m being honest.


a BROTP I have with said character: Haruka&Minako, obviously, and Mako&MIna. I like to think they all hang out together sometimes and Mina jokes that you have to be this tall to be her friend. 


a NOTP I have with said character: Minako/Kunzite. I actually really like SilMil Venus/Kunzite as a tension that never gets acted on, since it makes a great divide between Venus and Serenity, but I don’t think it works in the present day


a random headcanon: Minako has about equal amounts of pride in and resentment of being a soldier, but sometimes the resentment wins out  And as much as she hates herself for it, a lot of that resentment focuses on Usagi/Serenity. She loves Usagi, more than anything else in some ways, but sometimes she looks at their lives and bitterness curls up next to that love. In a lot of ways, she sees Usagi as getting to have it all. As Sailor Moon, she is the “star,” so to speak, of the senshi. She gets the most media attention, she’s the hero people focus on, the rest of them are slated as her sidekicks. As Usagi, she has the balance Minako never feels. Usagi feels the pain of fighting, she has that sacrifice, but the next morning she’s always the same old Usagi (on the surface, at least). Minako hasn’t been the same old Minako since she first touched her transformation pen. And as Serenity, she is the reason Minako has Venus inside her in the first place. And as much as Venus blames herself for the fall of the Silver Millennium, as much as she blames Endymion and QUeen Serenity and Beryl, there’s a part of her that blames her Princess. She put her love above everything else. And now, in a second life, she gets that love exactly how she wanted it, she gets assurance that it will last a thousand years, she gets it all with almost no consequences. Venus is the goddamn soldier of love, but she can never choose love the way Usagi/Serenity does.

Minako is grateful that the Outers never fully gell with the inner senshi, even after they become friends, because on days when it’s bad she can drag Haruka to a bar and know she won’t have to hear about Usagi at all for a few hours. 


general opinion about said character:  I don’t always count her as one of my favorite characters, because my love for Mako and Haruka kind of steamrolls over everything else, but if I think about her for more than two seconds, I love her just as much as them.

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MINAKO.

Okay, but flailing aside, I really really hope that Crystal elaborates on this more, because this feels very much like they’re drawing on PGSM, and that just doesn’t work in the manga timeframe. 

BUT they seem to get Minako, at least, so I’m hopeful.

I mean god look at Artemis trying to convince her she doesn’t have to be alone anymore. She has people to rely on. But Minako remembers the Silver Millenium, and even if they all did she’d have a hard time joining the group. Because in her eyes, that fall of the Silver Millenium? Venus’s fault. She was the leader of the senshi, and she didn’t save the princess, or the kingdom, or anything. And only Minako can make that different this time.