Headcanon prompt-Minako, #39

39. Secret

She never tells anyone outside of the senshi about the senshi. Not her parents (what a joke), not her old friends, not any of the people she dates or takes home or flirts with. She learned how to hide and lie at thirteen, and from there she just kept going. It doesn’t take much. That always disappoints her. One eyebrow waggle as she says she was up late, and everyone draws their own conclusion about why she looks so tired. If she misses a date, everyone’s prepared to accept her as a flake. No one suspects she was attacked. No one suspects she’s given her life to keeping them all safe. 

For the most part, she doesn’t regret it. The older she gets, the more certain she is she can’t share that part of herself. But she aches sometimes, to be understood by someone who doesn’t have to understand. She wants someone to reach her, who doesn’t start so close. She wants sometimes to have her secrets broken open.

Headcanon prompt-Michiru #17 Thanks!

17 – Scars

Michiru feels relieved, the first time she’s wounded in a fight. There’s finally something that will make it real in the daylight, something that will separate actual battles from nightmares and visions.

In the morning, she’s horrified to find it healed perfectly, without so much as a scar. She runs her fingers over where the skin was broken, where the daimon tore into her arm. The memory of pain is still there, but nothing else. Soon, she knows, that will fade, and it may as well have never happened at all.

When Haruka joins her, she takes a shameful solace in how they hold each other’s scars. She sees every injury she takes reflected in Haruka’s eyes, in the way she sometimes stares at skin that should be marked. For years Haruka’s fingers trace lines across Michiru’s back, following the claw marks that didn’t linger a day past that first battle. Michiru feels grounded, greatful, guilty, that there’s some chronicle of her pain in Haruka’s heart. She needs so badly for it to be real.

awashsquid
replied to your post “Haunt Me”

Also fuck you for coming up with such a beautiful song just Like That, jfc that’s impressive as hell

I want you to know that after I wrote this, I had a dream that I ripped off the song from some classic rock band without realizing (I think it was ACDC? there was a lot of guitar like that)

awashsquid
replied to your post “Haunt Me”

Wow I love how you wrote Pluto here and I would love to see more of her with Minako tbh

Pluto and Minako are like, my secret favorite duo. In some ways, their burdens are the same (especially since I take the line that Minako is the only Inner who got full SilMil memories). And Pluto is the singular person who can be an adult for Minako the way she needs, for lack of a better wording. For some things, she’s the only person who’s older and has seen more.

yamadara87
replied to your post “Haunt Me”

This was lovely and sad. I particularly like how you did Pluto with her mystery and compassion. You get the feeling she’s even looking over Minako a long time.

Ahhh thank you, I love Pluto so much but find her really hard to get right. Sometimes I think of her as the senshi with the biggest heart, I imagine her wanting to take care of everyone even when she cannot act outright.

yamadara87 replied to your post “It’s Friday yet again, and that means it’s time for Chapter 10 of…”

I am really enjoying this AU all around, but in this chapter I was especially amused at the ranking of Haruka’s stupid. I imagine Mina keeps a chart or graph somewhere to highlight this when she is speaking.

On their fridge they have a white board bearing the stupid o’meter, where Mina tracks Harukas latest decisions, using magnets Mina had made, because Mina does nothing half way.

Didn’t wait for your Hot Pocket to cool? Haruka that is one facepalming Mina.

Took three shots at the bar and then tried to ask a girl to dance? A solid three facepalming Minas.

ATTEMPTED TO FIND THE GOOD IN A MONSTER WOMAN HOLDING YOU PRISONER? Haruka that is five ANGRY Minas, just look at the chart. Look at it Haruka. 

yamadara87 replied to your photo “I love that everyone’s just watching their princess take on this guy…”

I love that you have the Princess’ protectors, just standing around letting her get her ass kicked. You think the Inners are still a little peeved at the singing thing earlier?
Michiru is probably secretly enjoying herself


The idea of the inners being that petty makes me laugh.

Also I’m imagining Haruka being like, shouldn’t we do something?

And Michiru, who somehow has made a cup of tea and pulled up a chair, puts her hand on her arm and says “Oh no, I do believe the savior of the universe has this handled. We’d best not meddle.”

yamadara87

 


Seiya’s been just kind of standing in the…

I don’t know why, but this cap makes Seiya seem very short. I wish Nao was Haruka here, because I would love the height difference.

SHORT SEIYA IS MY LIFE BLOOD

I’d be so interested to see Nao’s Haruka and Sayuri’s Seiya together, I could see them playing off eachother in amazing ways, and the immediate image that comes to mind is Nao putting Sayuri in a headlock. IT IS BEAUTIFUL THANK YOU

yamadara87

 


To recap, Usagi barges in, refers to herself as…

I enjoy when they show that selfish part of Usagi.

IT’S MY FAVORITE

I love the idea of Usagi being a double-edged sword in this way, like, her selfishness can be grating, it can wear on everyone and sometimes is just too much, but it’s also what makes her fight and take a stand and never, ever let go of the people she loves. I love the duality of selfish and selfless and how much they are the exact same thing just painted differently by situations and observers.