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docholligay replied to your post “��Miracle romance”
(Also lbr I’m Usagi/Seiya trash)
SOMETHING I ALMOST SAID FOR THIS ONE IS I THINK THE IDEA MIRACLE ROMANCE TRIES TO GET AT IS “A LOVE THAT CAN DEFY ALL OBSTACLES” BUT LIKE YOU SAY, IT TRIPS ON ITS OWN CONCEPT OF DESTINY, AND USAGI/SEIYA ACTUALLY CAN HOLD THAT IDEA A LOT BETTER?
Love in spite of destiny instead of because of it is always more interesting to me.
Okay but Seiya changing the gendered parts of “Don’t Cha” by the Pussycat Dolls so she can sing it at karaoke night TOTALLY NOT DIRECTLY AT USAGI, unaware of what an utter fool she’s making of herself
Mina gets it on film, knowing Haruka’s next birthday is gonna be the best one of her life
Seiya’s been just kind of standing in the backgrond for this whole scene, and then she finally steps forward and says this out of nowhere, someone please save this butch from herself
Anon, it is a veritable CRIME I do not write more SeiUsa, I love them and they deserve to be more than an occasional background pairing in my work. So here’s a short (750 word) little piece, just for you.
There was a routine to hanging out with Usagi. Start with food, always. Seiya didn’t like to think of it as a bribe, but it certainly made Usagi enjoy herself more, and whatever else Seiya wanted, that was the most important thing.
“So,” she said, falling into step without even a hello. “Ice cream?”
Usagi shrugged. “Sure.”
That was bad. Worse still, Usagi reached for her wallet at the stand.
“You know I can get it.”
“Not today.”
So it was something awful. Seiya shifted her weight from foot to foot as the stand worker scooped their orders. “Hey Dumpling,” she said as soon as they’d taken their sweets out of earshot. “I can… go away if you want.”
“What?” Usagi turned her head so fast her ponytails whipped against Seiya’s side.
“I can leave you alone. I know I’ve… well, I’m sorry.”
Usagi stopped. “Is that what you want?”
“I want you to be happy. I know I can be… pushy about what I think that means. Yaten tells me all the time to lay off, and just… you can, too.”
She smiled a weak little smile. “That’s not… can we talk?”
“Sure,” Seiya said, letting Usagi lead her to a bench.
She stared at her ice cream for a long time, letting it melt in its cup instead of eating it. Seiya picked at the candy in hers, waiting for whatever other shoe there was to drop.
“You know I’m Sailor Moon now,” Usagi said finally, poking her spoon against the bench’s wood grain.
“Yeah, but I had some idea before.” Seiya drew one leg underneath her to face Usagi better. “It doesn’t change anything, and now—”
“Of course it does!” Usagi slammed her ice cream to the side. “You’re supposed to be just mine!”
Seiya froze, her cheeks flushing. “That’s not… exactly what you’ve been saying.”
“I know.” Usagi stood to pace. “It’s not… I know.” She puffed out her cheeks. “I’ve got a kid, you know, with Mamoru.”
Seiya choked on nothing but air, grateful she wasn’t actually eating. “A kid?”
“In the future. She comes to visit sometimes.”
“Oh.” Seiya couldn’t help but laugh.
“Hey! I’m being serious!”
“I know, it’s just absurd.”
Usagi puffed out her cheeks. “Says the alien.”
“You got me there.” Seiya put up her hands. “So you’ve got this kid, in the future.”
“And I love her, she’s an annoying brat but she’s my annoying brat, you know? But she’s also not yet. There’s a whole future that makes her happen, and no one wants to change it.” She crossed her arms and paced again. “And there’s a whole past too, and I’m the princess everyone loves, and the soldier who’s power everyone is drawn to. And just…” She faces Seiya. “Where is Usagi Tsukino in everyone’s hearts without that?”
Seiya smiled as gently as she could. “I think everyone loves you—“
“But they wouldn’t stay, without that. Ami would study abroad and Minako would be swept up in idol auditions and then fame, and they’d all have their own lives just like Mamoru is finally doing. But you…” she clenched her fists. “You just liked Usagi, I thought.”
“I like Dumpling, actually.”
Usagi glared. It wasn’t the time.
Seiya leaned forward, not quite daring to take her hand. “Hey, like you said, I’m an alien. You’re not my princess. And if I protect you in the coming battles, it’s because I want to protect Usagi Tsukino, the cute girl in my class who will ask me to be her daughter’s step mom someday.”
Usagi shoved her shoulder, but then lingered over her. “It’s not really fair to you, is it?”
Seiya shrugged. “I’m as complicit as you are in this.” She looked Usagi in the eye. “And I want you to know I don’t really expect—“
Usagi kissed her on the cheek, and her whole mind went blank.
“I uh.. I… I don’t expect… anything will really happen.”
“Sometimes…” Usagi pulled away. “I wish I was just Usagi, and free to make mistakes.” Her eyes widened and her hand shot up to her mouth. “I mean-“
Seiya laughed. “I know.” She leaned back with her hands behind her head. “And if you ever want to…”
Usagi rolled her eyes.
“Want me to buy you more ice cream?”
She had the decency to look sheepish for all of half a second. But as the walked back towards the vendors, she took Seiya’s hand. Mistake or not, there was comfort in it.
You know that part in Le Mouvement Final when Seiya kissed Usagi’s hand? My soul left my body asdgfhjk
Bad comic, worse joke.
Seiya has mastered the flexing/finger guns combo.
Yessssssss. Also lmao these are so different in tone,
whoops.
Harumichi
Seiusa
Harumichi looking for their first apartment: a very fraught process, Haruka’s delicate feelings re:cost battle against her desire to fill Michiru’s every need, after a few tearful discussions they end up in something modest but modern and Michiru has the grace to let Haruka put in a decently fair share of the rent every month
Reinako looking for their first apartment: possibly an actual battle, Rei wants the cheapest place but also has impossible standards, Mina keeps suggesting artist housing as she is a yet-to-be-discovered actress/singer/model/general star but Rei refuses to live in a building full of theater kids, they end up spending their first year in a cramped, dirty studio because they can’t agree on anything but neither is willing to back down from their decision to live together
Seiusa looking for their first apartment: Seiya dreads it, prepares to spend everything she’s ever made to get Usagi a good enough place, but then Usagi falls in love with the first tiny one bedroom they see because “we could hang lace curtains and make cookies here!”
Mina-Mamo hatemance is stuck in my head now, not just as its
own thing but as a competing thing with Haru-Seiya.
Like, one day Haruka stomps around and throws up her hands. “Seiya
is such a jerkass! Why does Usagi have to keep bring her around?”
And Mina’s just like, “Buddy I’ve had to deal with Mamoru
for years. Seiya’s not that bad you can relax.”
“Seiya is THE WORST HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT. And what’s the
problem with Mamoru? He’s chill.”
“Only your dramatic gay ass would call a douche who runs
around in a tuxedo all night chill.”
“But he doesn’t bother anyone and he’s never hit on Michiru.”
Mina puts a hand on Haruka’s shoulder. “I know this is hard
to believe, but there are far worse things than hitting on your girlfriend.
Seiya has never endangered the planet and the princess across two life times,
and she has the decency to have a personality.”
“A PERSONALITY THAT SUCKS.”
Mina shrugs. “Just how I see it. Honestly if it wouldn’t
fuck up the future I’d rather Usagi end up with her. And maybe if it would too.”
“WHAT NO.” Haruka immediately starts drafting a list of
romance tips to give to Mamoru.
Mina wonders how out of line it would be if she let Seiya
know all Usagi’s favorite foods and date spots.
They work very hard to prove their respective points, but
before they can bring anything to Usagi or her suitors, she lets them know she’s
trying that polyamory thing, and will be dating Seiya too now.
Haruka and Mina collapse in on each other in despair.
Adding on to my thoughts on if the Starlights showed up in S, it also gives rich ground to ACTUALLY CONSIDER what it means to Usagi have her life set not just by her past life, but also by a future she’s seen. She’s 14/15 and she already knows she’s gonna have a child with her current boyfriend and also be with him for a thousand years. And while every teenager wants to believe their love is beautiful and destined and forever, ACTUALLY living with that has got to be hard.
So we throw in a charming stranger right on the heels of the full weight of it hitting Usagi, a stranger who’s cute and maybe has more in common with Usagi, who wants to take her on dates and get to know her and do stupid teenage stuff with her. And she has to wonder what it would be like to have a romance without destiny, and what it would mean for her to chose something else.
(Whatever antagonism Usagi has with Chibs, she loves that little girl and can’t fathom not having her. But that’s also a hard thing to bear so young)
I think it also gets complicated by Usagi defying fate by saving Hotaru at the end of the season, because if she can have her cake and eat it too with that, why not with other things?
(And while I think polyamory could work here, I think it’s not what Usagi would go for, because the problem isn’t really that she wants to be with other people, it’s that she isn’t sure she has a choice in being with Mamoru and she WANTS the choice)
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