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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.

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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.

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In regards to La Reconquista (and the new myu canon in general), I’ve seen the question a few times about how everyone met and became senshi without knowing about the Dark Kingdom, and that always seemed like the less important question. I figure there were still youma, either sent discreetly by the Dark Kingdom or birthed as a side effect of their resurrection. Usagi sees someone, Naru, maybe, if she exists, or a random stranger, even, being attacked, the silver crystal reacts and suddenly she’s Sailor Moon, and the others come along like they did in other canons, just without Luna’s help.

You know what’s more interesting to me?

How La Reconquista/New Myu Minako is different than other Minakos.

She’s the only Minako who didn’t have her memories back long before the others did. She only remembers at the same time as everyone else.

Was she still Sailor V? Or did she join the team just as Minako and Venus? She doesn’t have the distance Minako usually has in the Dark Kingdom Arc, so I’m inclined to think the latter. And that’s huge. This is a Minako without those burdens. The moment she remembers she takes up being a leader head on, she’s absolutely still the same Venus (and the same base Minako), but she doesn’t have the weight of facing the past alone.

She’s the only one I’m interested in how she awakened as a senshi. She’s the only one I think would be different.