>>34825408
I REGRET NOTHING!

>>34825408

Breath is caught in your throat. It continues to tap.

Your roommate continues to sleep. Prayers form soundlessly from your lips.

Please don’t wake up, please.

She doesn’t deserve to feel terror like this.

Interlude End

>>34825533
Quest Start

Anger splinters and arcs through your being, even with the closure of a few nights past you surge with a reactionary upset weighted directly at your sister. Her confession of new guilt in the wake of the return of her love to this mortal plane of existence. Anger breaks to worry, worry gives way to sadness.

Oh sister, what have you done? Have you thrown away the feelings of someone who truly loves you, who you know you truly loved? There was nothing in his twisted emotion or her own to suggest this was even happening.

Maybe you are over reacting? She did say she fell in love with another.

She sits, eyes leveled upon you, with an even and stern expression lain across her features. The demeanor of the princess, that underlying emotive state she, your mother, and likely yourself hold within you, radiates off of her. It warps her body language, her tone, and her eyes. This presence is not that of a conqueror, but of a sovereign where they rule.

The thought that such of version of yourself exists like that inside of you scares you, slightly.

Usa waits, patiently through the phases of your gut reaction to her words, to see what conclusions you reach. Does she expect accusations? Does she expect judgement? Perhaps she waits for a sympathetic ear and the embrace of her own sister. Or more likely, she expects questions.

Or even less likely she expects us to lunge across the distance between us and drink the sorrow from her heart, that we come to understand her and she feels their weight momentarily lifted?

You aren’t entirely sure which, if any of those, you’ll pursue as you settle your shock. Shock at the circumstances surrounding a young woman you could have been. However, she is not you and you are not her. Mikage Chiba is still trying to figure out who she needs to be.

>>34825559

You are Mikage Chiba, second year high school student age 15. Formerly you were the Champion of Love & Justice, the third to carry the title of Sailor Moon after your mother and your elder sister. Now you have left that name to your younger sister and have tried to forge an identity of your own...you’ve spent the past year or so hiding behind several. Recently you have forged a name for the purpose of protecting your little sister and being her guide and guide for the other new generation of Sailor Senshi, the enigmatic shadowy cloaked figure of Eclipse.

Presently you are in the room of your big sister, sitting near her on her bed whilst the two of you had been talking and sharing a plate of cookies. She had recently returned home from her continuing adult education abroad for an ongoing family matter.

Your elder sister waits, her expression unreadable to the unfocused periphery of your awareness.

>Write in

>>34825582
Hm... try to guess? Doesn't feel like Mikage, and she'd never suspect her old drill sergeant.

Dig for salacious details? Also not quite Mikage. Red Eyes, maybe, but not Mikage.

Anemia option? Alas, wrong quest entirely for that.

I guess it's okay to be caught off guard by this. I mean, fuck. What does one even say to that?

>>34825582
Hello anons, Quest master, this is the first time I have attended a live thread of this quest from the inception.
I have spent the past 48 hours going back through the archived threads, and I have a couple things I wish to say you lovely people, because this quest is awesome. Unfortunatly, I have no experience with D&D/d20 stuff, so I will be mainly contributing to interaction
To the anon players: you are awesome, at both combat for a stealthy, yet maximum-applied-force fighter, and at making a consistent, three-dimensional character: a girl who’s been broken by life, but has pulled herself somewhat back together to prevent others from becoming the same, even as events, both in and out of her control, conspire to batter and break her and those she loves. Keep up the good work.
To Artimis: you have taken a premise that I have seen many authors turn into simple fanwankery, kids of main characters interacting and ‘carrying on their legacy’. However, you have made something delightfully sinister and uncomfortably realistic that keeps me on the edge of my seat, makes me sympathize with both hero and villain, and leaves me in an unusual position: I don’t know if I’m waiting for Mikage to reforge herself totally, break completely and go nuts, or both! A feline advisor to the moon queen having a dark streak of his own, who‘d have thunk it? :) Great job anyways!

Missed comedy: Note, this potential bit got nixed in the Metalia being purged from Beryl aftermath. Luna got wasted when she thought we were boy hungry, wonder how she’s react to finding out that we’ve got both men AND women lusting after us as Eclipse, and potentially vice-versa. In other words, Bisexual harem.

Prediction: early on we players got a vision of the new Sailor Moon holding a dark figure while crying. I’ve got 10 bucks that’s going to be us, AKA Mikage, or at least her shadow.

Write in: ~Alright, you want to tell me quick and hard or slow and delicate?~

>>34825582
Deep breath, questions it is. Try to stay calm first, we may still need to Get Mad, but not yet..
"Ok.. something you felt no regret for.. and something not even Helios' Shadow held against, so either he didn't know or didn't object to while he was in dreamland.. which would it be?

Kind of late for a thread, isn't it?

>>34825963
this is more specific than mine, ignore my idea, I like this.
>>34826000
sleep is for the weak. and those not in college.

>>34825762
The other suspicion is that it is corrupted original senshi, but it is one of those fun predictions that leaves room for questions like that.

Our turn to be a bit nonplussed.

Not what we'd expect from Usa The Great, but falling in love isn't a crime, or Koyomi'd in prison

>>34826106

...I giggled

>>34826070
Depends on what causes more heart break, most likely. After all, Who would little-little moon get so distressed over: us, mother*, Chibi-Usagi, oth one of the others.
*probably not her, hard to see a victory scenario if we lose Usagi, the walking Phoneix Down.

>>34826000

Tomorrow morning got eated.

>>34825582
"I do not condone. But I do not condemn either."

Writing

>>34826152
Hm, Usa's team could be a thing too. Hadn't thought about it.

Sitting on your sisters bed, you just short of stare at the girl for a moment longer. Until your confusion and uncertainty abates you begin letting your vision look about the room, pink surfaces abound, and avoid your sister’s gave. Sighing deeply you find yourself and think of where to start.

You just let Usa back into your life,and now she’s confiding in your something important after previously trusting her darkest feelings to you back in the dream. She is your sister, so you’ll give her the benefit of the doubt.

~I do not condone, but I do not condemn either,~ you begin unsteadily.

“You don’t even know if there is anything to condone or condemn,” she says evenly.

~Well, I didn’t want to open with invasive questions...okay!~ you snap.

“Fair enough,” her weary eyes shimmer and lose the quality of the sovereign that had consumed her moments before.

Her posture loses its earlier stiffness, but takes on a nervous curling as she brings her knees to her chest.

“Invade away,” she exclaims with a heavier sigh.

~So...do you want to tell me about this quick and blunt or give me a bigger perspective?~

“I really don’t know,” she drops her face into her hands and gives frustrated groan, “this is harder to talk about than I thought it would be,”

~Okay, no regret...something even Helios’s darkness didn’t hold against you. So he didn’t know or he was okay with it because he was still in dreamland?~ you venture.

“He didn’t want to be responsible for holding me back from something I needed,” she sighs, “Or from someone who needed me,”

You nod and slide your hands to your lap where you inspect them awkwardly.

>Does he still feel that way now?
>Who stole your heart, a second time?
>Do they know about Helios?
>Say something comforting, she seems shaken up about this.
> Do you need a bite? I do.
>Write in?

>>34826771
>Who stole your heart, a second time?
let's at least get a name here.

>>34826771
> Do you need a bite? I do.
Y'know in a way it wouldn't be incest~

>>34826771
>Who stole your heart, a second time?

I need to be asleep like an hour ago, so I'll just say it now since I won't be around:
Thanks for running Artemis, and I hope you enjoy the rest of the thread.

>>34826998
nah, just temporal-displaced masturbation.

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Going to write.

Give me a Persuasion Test, best of three. 1 & 20 wild. 1d20+10 against DC 20

Rolled 19 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>34827226
Face for the face god~ Talky talky for the talky talky throne~

>>34825408
>>34825533

wow, it sucks to be Niji. That is Niji, right?

>>34827226
Let's try that again
>>34827245
1. I think we're good.
2. remembering that line.
>Face for the face god~ Talky talky for the talky talky throne~

>>34827394
"Maybe we should just start a manharem and be done with it?"

>>34827394
I wait for 3 rolls.

Rolled 11 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

Ok, got it this time!

Rolled 9 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>34827226
Rollin dem bonez

>>34825408
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYyd0dvNNXU

>>34826771
>Does he still feel that way now?
Have you talked to him yet?
>Do they know about Helios?
Important question, there would be things that would need to be explained.
And may we ask
>Who stole your heart, a second time?

(Greetings from spotty signal land, no sign of aurora yet..)

29 vs 20

1 Degree of success

>>34827409
At least we know one of the tenants in our head would approve

>>34827409
but what about the women who want Eclipse and/or us? just saying. :)

>>34827659
They can start their own harems

>>34827847
and if they want to add Eclipse to the ranks?

~So then, Usa,~ you venture closer to her and lay a hand on her shoulder, ~who stole your heart a second time?~

Usa looks away from you and crosses her arms over her knees, pulling into herself a bit more. Glancing over to a few photographs sitting framed on her dresser she finds her resolve. One is of her, the Amazon sisters, Diana, and Tomoe sensei at her senior year culture fair in high school. Another is of her, you, and baby Koyomi a few Christmases ago.

She closes her eyes and nods her head slowly.

You think about joking that since you both have so many suitors you could just start royal harems, but think better of it. That cloying hunger briefly bubbles up in the pit of your being to drink your sister’s pain away, for her sake and your own selfish hungers, but then you remember being engulfed in her silver light and almost losing yourself.

How different are the two of you, really. Looking at her now, you are glad that you’ll grow up so beautiful. It isn’t fair to know that about yourself, isn’t it?

As her eyes open, she tilts her head to meet your gaze and smiles weakly.

“Hotaru-chan,” she says simply.

What!?

Tomoe-sensei?

>Anger
>Confusion
>Calm
>Introspective
>write in

>>34827912
Well this just became even more awkward.

>>34827912
wow. taking a page from Michiru and Haruka. I'm... not as suprised as I should be, given Hotaru's adpotive parents.

>Confusion
Can we get her to walk us through and explain how it progressed from friends to... more?
>>34827955
you've got a point, this adds a WHOLE NEW layer of awkward we have to deal with when we meet Saturn. Love it!

>>34827912
>Introspective
Oh, sure, rely on the voice in your head to come up with all the answers. "Are we hot for teacher, other me?" Figure it out for yourself!

>>34827912
that's why Helios didn't care

He wants in on this

>>34827912
I'm feeling blue-screen moment here.
Oddly based more on how cold she's been toward us than on the more obvious confusion.

>>34828103
Ok, you're gonna have to break out down for me.

I can't for the life of me see why you'd pick him on staff of a flying dream-.

Are just joking or something?

>>34828103
are you angling for Mikage having a hard time comprehending Hotaru as emotional/feeling, or something else?

>>34828229
It wouldn't be unrealistic. As much as Hotaru loves Usa, she forced herself to be extremely harsh when training Mikage. Mikage probably sees her more as an unpleasable drill sergeant.

Writing

>>34828280
your reasoning has merit... let's see what Arty thinks...

>>34828103
Shift uncomfortably.
"Well that answers whether she knows about Helios."
Frown, sigh.
"Not sure how to feel there, I'd been mad with her for awhile now, and trying really hard not to question whether the ice queen has feelings."
Focus.
"So, have you talked to either of them about the new situation?"

>>34828229
Yes, is what I meant. Mikage seemed to see her as icy and harsh, though we the audience have some idea why that was.

Unrelated, trees are many and city lights are hard to escape around.

>>34828429
ok, sound's very logical. now everyone's on the same page.

>>34828322
I like what you've got, but it looks like just a few minutes late friend.

>>34828479
I can incorporate it, it does not change the flow of Mikage's reaction.

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>>34828547
You're the one running the show, Its up to you. It does open many things that need to be said, so I would appreciate it.
>new topic
has nobody in-universe know of Kang's third law of time? Would clear some personal issues up if it is applicable.

>>34828638
>google it
>marvel universe
>close tab

Nope.

>>34828677
is that a 'nope, no one's heard of it' or a 'nope, comics are insane, not touching that'?

>>34828638
Familiar with it, though in this scenario Usa's future has now become a stable alternate timeline, rather than her just existing through conservation of continuity.

>>34828834
Thank you for the confirmation, but to continue my line of thought, are the individuals directly affected by the alternate timeline aware of this? The individuals being, but not limited to, Chibi-Usa, Mikage, Hotaru, and Setsuna,

You stare at her for a bit, eyes wide in shock and confusion. Usa and Tomoe-sensei? Its just...weird. Sure the woman was soft spoken around you sis when you were little, but the only thing you can think of right now about Hotaru Tomoe is how stern and cold of a teacher she was.

It raises a few hackles of worry in the back of your mind, in relation to your own ongoing who likes who drama. Some of your exaggerated behavior whilst your frumpy ever sweatered scoured the back racks at the comic shop and a few offhand comments you’ve made as Dan strike foremost in your mind, and you file them away for later in the also ongoing drama of who is who in your own mind.

~You and the ice queen?~ you murmur, ~I’m having trouble comprehending that,~

“Mikage, what’s not to understand. I love Hotaru-chan and it isn’t just some school girl crush. A person can be attracted to-”

~Usa, I get lesbians. This is just...Tomoe-sensei has a heart?~ you continue to have difficulty grappling with this foreign concept.

She puffs her cheeks and looks at you sternly.

“Watch it,” she says evenly, “That’s my girlfriend, and she has one of the warmest and most caring heart I’ve known,”

You laugh a little at that. Its involuntary and you calm yourself quickly.

~Are you sure we’re talking about the same Tomoe? She was always miss ‘Do the magic again, kick higher, twist like this not to die, another go on the uneven bars’ with me,~

Your sister sits there in silence as you briefly recount the mannerisms and demeanor of your so called drill sergeant. How she eventually stopped going on patrols with you, but still sometimes dropped into the middle of your fights to scold you. Your firm disbelief that Hotaru Tomoe could feel continues until you see the sadness welling in your sister’s eyes.

>>34828939

“She didn’t want you to get hurt. To her, you were me,” she begins, “And she worried constantly that if she wasn’t stern with your training...that you’d get hurt and it would be her fault,”

Its earnest, the repeated confession of a lover. The thought strikes you that you’ve heard something you really shouldn’t have been privy too, given the long look upon your sisters face.

“She told me that would have been too much for her heart to bare,” she sighs, “but in the end you still got hurt,”

You awkwardly fidget and inch away from Usa as you try to collect your next set of thoughts.

~So...that answers whether she knows about Helios or not,~

Your sister rolls her still watery eyes and shrugs.

~I’m sorry. I’m not sure how I feel about all this. I’ve been mad at her for a while now,~

“Like you were mad at me,”

~Those are different circumstances and you know it,~

“Though not quite as far removed,” she reasons back at you, which you ignore.

~I really didn’t mean to upset you, I just couldn’t fathom her having feelings,~

“She used to cry about having to be so hard with you. I told her she didn’t have to be, but she was adamant that neither of us get hurt because she wouldn’t be a sub par teacher,”

You wrench the conversation to more pressing issues to avoid further talking around things that are making you mildly uncomfortable.

~So, have you talked to either of them about the new situation?~

“Only Hotaru-chan. I actually haven’t seen Helios in person yet,” she blushes, “I’m worried,”

>write in

>>34828954
If I'm a masochist or a sadist, she's why

>>34828954
>well, shit. Look, if Helios is as nice a guy as you say he is, he'll understand. If not, screw him. Sorry if I'm being blunt here, I'm just trying to figure out how I'm going to deal with the bombshell you just gave me.

Two major personal revisions right on top of another? I'm thinking Mikage is being pulled mentally back onto old issues now, and is thinking about what she says less and less.
>>34829043
or disarm/distract with humor, I'd be ok with that.

>>34829063
hey, since you've just binged the archive, what did you think of the subtle/blatant reveal about Venus?

>>34828954
How about offering to go with her?

>>34829149
Interesting road to take, good drama incoming, particularly for Usagi. Something magic can't fix? Someone she can't rez AND one of her best friends being heartbroken? that's going to leave a mark. Bold direction foIEr QM to take, and a part of 'chilling realism' that I find delicious.
>>34829196
to see Hotaru, Helios, or both?

>>34829196
Feels creepy to me. And not just because Mikage used to share her wet dreams.

Writing

>>34828954
Well what did Hotaru say?

>>34829410
good question. I think we're getting that soon.

Levity. Levity is certainly the best idea right now.

~You know, if I am a masochist or a sadist it’s totally her fault,~ you muse and nod sharply.

Your big sister stares at you a moment, surprised, but then brings a hand to her lips and laughs lightly. Her eyes are a bit further from half lidded as the creeping want of sleep continues to pour into her, though not so much that she can’t return the fire of your attempt at disarming humor.

“Ironically, she’s very vanilla,” she giggles and rests her back against the wall.

Nodding, and blushing a tad uncomfortably at the turnabout thrown at you, you smile as the want for sleep continues to sneak up on your as well.

~So, what did Tomoe-sensei say when you told her?~

“That she just wanted me to be happy, however this winds up ending,” your sister yawns as her eyes begin to slip into the dark.

You find yourself her delayed mirror a few seconds later.

Sleep sounds good, but with so many heavy revelations about the people around you tonight leaves you a bit apprehensive about being alone.

Like you’re ever alone these days.

>Head back to your room and collapse into bed.
>Stay with Usa, its okay to cuddle your big sister.
>Enter Koyomi’s room and cuddle your sleeping little sister.
>write in

>>34828954
Rub temples. Put off the knot of feelings regarding the new revelations about Tomoe, we'll unravel/ignore that later.

"I can't claim to have answers to how it can turn out-" naughty manga aside "-but I can tell you that even Helios' worst aspects trusted you and wanted to be with you, albeit as his dark queen ruling the waking and dreaming world alike.. but you should talk with him, and probably her too.. together. He didn't have negative feelings about Tomoe senshi, at least not that I could taste.."
Trail off because we aren't sure where that could lead. Yes we are


(Aurora hunt ends in failure, clouds appeared, on bouncy road to civilization again)

>>34829614
Dang took too long to get that to send.

>>34829609

>>34829649
>Stay with Usa, its okay to cuddle your big sister.

>>34829609
>Enter Koyomi’s room and cuddle your sleeping little sister.
>Stay with Usa, its okay to cuddle your big sister.
When's the last time we did a sleepover and did something normal. Plus, we need ALL the comfort right now.

>>34829614
Can we do this reassurance about Helios' feelings and snuggle in for the night?

>>34829609
>Stay with Usa, its okay to cuddle your big sister.

>>34829609
>Stay with Usa, its okay to cuddle your big sister.
We were probably going to have the same dreams anyway. Might as well get comfy.

>>34829609
>Head back to your room and collapse into bed.

>>34829820
Huh. That could get interesting.
Tendency to share dreams, close proximity, and both having a lot to process/think about.
Among other concerns about Metallia lurking. Had hoped to do a self inspection to look into that strange feeling earlier.

>>34829609
>>write in
dog pile on Koyomi

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>>34830182
1. how much later?
2. Joke I've always wanted to make for that image: If you're going to bang her that hard, at least buy her dinner first.

>>34830249

Late morning, early afternoon EST.

REM cycles required, as sleep smacks me in the face like it did Usa.

>>34830355
Got it, see you round... 1 pm-ish, Eastern time then?
Enjoyed the thread so far, can't wait for more

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Oh good, I finally get to use this image in context for once!

I doubt their relationship is as feathery, though

>>34830403
Well, Chibi looks... guilty/uncomfortable enough for me to believe it.

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>>34830448
Yeah she does. It looks delicious.

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Home I am.

>>34830355
I shall catch you then, then.
Rest well.

>>34830403
Having fitting images is pretty nice.

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>>34828899
I think everyone is aware of it. Though a barrel of Mikage's issues came from specifically not being told about it when she was younger and finding out about it.
Actually, not entirely certain the next generation actually know, except for new Jupiter, since I think we may have included that in our big blow up at her.

The general theory, I believe, is that Usagi forced Chibiusa's future to stabilize so that her existence was saved.
Silver Crystal & Serenity-mode Usagi has epic-scale effects. Resurrecting the recently deceased, making years not happen, bending time & space, reincarnating people, etc. Seems to take extreme effort/focus/desperation though.

Stuff I still don't know what to make of, temporally speaking would be things like Nehellenia's end.
Though maybe it's like that episode of DS9 where a poet was returned to his time by the Prophets and everyone still remembered history as it happened originally but the world, historical record, and additional books he wrote after he had originally disappeared never to be seen again were in place. Such that history didn't change but it did. Non-linear beings are total hax, by the way.

>>34832039
I like to imagine that timeline is stable because "magic, bitch". It continues to exist because the Crystal says "fuck you" to temporal causality as humans understand it.

>>34832180
Well, the anime version was a separate asteroid kingdom, so just it puttering off elsewhere or something wouldn't hurt things muchly.
A more tragic end would it being just one more kingdom that later fell following the lost of the Moon Kingdom, while a more interesting one would be her dream memories helping warn her enough the guide her people to safety (or stasis) quietly away from everything else.

>>34832287
Reminds me that we'll have to go looking for the future quartet's asteroid sometime, since Usa apparently poached ones from this timeline.

>>34832318
That also confuses me a bit.

>>34832318
Maybe we can trade. Her world's asteroid senshi are probably closer to Mikage's age anyway.

>>34832381
Time-Travel. Just go with it.

>>34832180
Considering that pretty much everything else in that universe is dead, I'd guess stabilizing it is a bit easier.

>>34832587
Bah, time travel.

(Resumes sleeping)

>>34832775
Sleep! Damn, knew I forgot to do something.

I do not get the level of acceptance we are showing. I mean we've just barely gotton over the fact that our 'one true love' was actually hers. Now compund this with, Actually lol I love some one else! Worse apparently this womans love for not us... led to Mikage beimg treated as a weapon tather than a person. Culminating in the single most tamatic experience of her life. Big sis has done nothing but fuck thongs up for us. The last tging I'd want to do is embrace this woman. Our whole foundation for forgiving her was that Helios was her one and only. Does she have any concept of how fucked up Mikages life is because of her?

>>34833381
Can our capacity to forgive be perhaps an inherited strength? Or are we just too tired to give a fuck right now.

Or perhaps empathy and sympathy having seen Her at her worst.

Or we're just mature enough?

Take your pick. We did omnomnom dark Helios already and got a measure of closure.

>>34833566
I'm just feeling like Mikage needs some serious help. Even her knights arw worried about how fragmented her mind is... Big sis should be helping her not the othwr way around. And expecting Mikage to be fine... with this Hotaru shit is just awful. She's apparently decided to take the HOTARU DID NOTHING WRONG stance on things. Where is the empathy from Big sis? Hell when comforting Helios she reverted to chibiness and childishness forcing responsibility on Mikage. I think Mikage is directly suffering from the culminated failures of those who were supposed to raise and guide her.

We are back. Relaxed pace as I post from my phone while managing my yardsale table at my parent's.

Looks like we have a casual flight instead of a final destination.

30 minutes to vote. Comments encouraged. Just the Nee-San or both her and the imouto?

1. Cuddle with Usa.
2. Obtain a Koyomi and sleep among both your sisters.

>>34833731
1. Cuddle with Usa. Maybe a backhanded. "I hope you'll be there for me when I need you." Because you sure as hell haven't been.

>>34833731
This was me.

>>34833381
We've had a long time to accept the whole 'early dreams were not ours' thing, even if we are a bit messed up from it.
Acknowledging that we might actually like someone is a big step for us.
As for Usa, we buried a lot of that hatchet last week (nearly merging in the process).
Now we're feeling things out in the real world. We aren't really all the comfortable with her.. but we are very tired, now with some emotional tired layered on top like molten cheese.

Also both nodding off while tired and chatting super late seems very natural.

>>34833566
In short instead of understanding how harsh or awful Hotaru was/is to Mikage we got a SHUTUP MY WAIFU LOVES ME AND IS WONDERFUL.

>>34833815
I guess anon I just wanted some reciprocal empathy from who should be a version of Mikage... at the moment I see big sis as a horrible selfish monster.

>>34833731
Reassure about Helios' feelings, from our glimpse into his darkside. Suggest talking, see how they feel about each other, deflect questions of where that might lead with being super pissed if she breaks Helios' heart. Headbutt. Chat. Be drowsy, fall asleep.

Not on board with grabbing younger sis, trying too hard and this is more of a 'me and other me' thing, I think.

>>34833831
>>34833860
I think we're trying to put off thinking about that because Usa's revelation and information make sense together, but we aren't really ready to not be mad at Tomoe yet. Giving up mad is hard. Ignoring a problem is easier.

>>34833929
Just so long as we dont blow off crippling emotional trama with a goddam cuddle. Maybe we can pull big sis into our dream and show her just how cold Hotaru is.

>>34833731
How long has it been since Mikage had a cuddle?

>>34834045
A long while.

She has managed to maintain veto power against her more fannish persona on the matter of printed body pillows.

It's late. Even with the cookies, your energy is fading fast, and you were already exhausted when you came in here. You think you could be angrier, at Usa for Tomoe-sensei, but you just don't have the energy. That anger directed at Tomoe-sensei remains, full bore. It alone has kept you from going to her with some of the evidence and clues you've accumulated, even if she'd help.

Leaning forward, you grab Usa by the shoulders and move the most empty plate of cookies to the night table. Pulling her toward the pillows shakes her momentarily from her drifting and she meets your eyes in confusion.

"Wha?"

~You're falling asleep. I'm dead on my feet. We can finish this all later,~ you state firmly and pull her down on her side.

You fall alongside her. From the way she is looking at you, your face is probably a frustrated mess.

~I just hope when I need help, you'll be there to me,~ you say with a bitter edge.

Her eyes shoot wide, and she takes your hands from her shoulders and holds them between you.

"All you need to do is ask," she quietly confesses, "In the past few days you've done so much for me...after hating me for so long,"

~Usa, it-~

"I'm serious. I couldn't reach you back then and I really didn't know why. And I can defend Hotaru-chan based on my feelings until I'm blue in the face, but that needs to be resolved between the two of you," she admits, "but just know that she is proud of you for all you accomplished. I'm proud of you. And...I'm sorry you had to suffer alone for so long, that you couldn't trust us,"

She pulls you back into a hug, and it feels warm. Usa's bed beneath you is comfortable.

~I'm still mad,~ yawn.

"And you've every right to be," she lilts, "and you've ever right to be. So, the guy, you really like him?"

>Your answer?
>anything else to say to Usa?

&

>Resist sleep
>Give in to comfy

>>34834389

>"Iunno."
>Give in to comfy

>>34834389
>noncommittal sound.

>Comfy

I kind of want an omake were she has to she tiny Mikage try to get along with the ice queen.

>>34833381
Helios is a like a five year old child's dream of a perfect boyfrield.

"'an he's forgiving, an' he's a horse, an' he flies, an' he poops magic!"

We literally just got back from a date from the cutest tiny boxer, I think we can be forgiven for buzzing a little, especially in light of the reveal about Hotaru. That just crosses the line of logic. I think we half expect that this is just some kind of crazy joke for our benefit.

Because nothing, but nothing, makes us feel better than the reminder that Usa can fuck up, too.

>>34834389
>He's pretty cute. And he has a motorcycle.

>Give in to comfy

>>34834557
I'm awake ! I'm awake! Lets do this!
>>34832039
Thank you for clearing that up for me.

Words fail to form in your throat as you let slip as you try to express you uncertainty. Escaping air from your lungs matches your shrug as you try to say 'I don't know' before you find your voice again.

~Iunnno,~ it sounds, ~but he's cute, an has a motorcycle. I want a motor-~

You yawn again and fall a bit further into Usa's warmth. Sitting in her bed, with your lounge pants and oversized sweater is just so comfortable. Just so close. As your eyes close, you think of Motorcycles, of Sasha, and of Tomoe-sensei.

~-cycle,~

Usa smiles, giggling weakly. Holding you tight.

You aren't sure when oblivion takes you, but sleep is comfortable and long. Dreams, your own and you imagine your sister's, break through the nothingness.

In these dreams, you remember Tomoe-sensei in a distorted view of unforgiving instruction. Scolding you in the field after appearing mid fight, rending a lion made of fire in twain as it hurtled toward you from your blind side, struggling against the Lion Tamer Act's whip around your wrist. The weapon is sundered by a flourish of her own as the split flames wash past you.

"Get your head in the game! That could have killed you!" Her eyes reflect the fire, her voice drips of remembered disappointment.

"She could have been killed," the same voice sounds sullenly and adrift in melancholy.

Hotaru leans against the pedestrian rail of a bridge across the Thames, lamp lights glow as snow falls, and she pulls her scarf tight.

"I...it's my fault. I misjudged her opponent. I shouldn't have tried to see how she'd do on her own," she sulks, "She said she didn't need me hovering over her after the last one...so I stayed back and just watched her. She was doing so well, until he feinted and snared her,"

"Happens to the best of us," you sigh and hand her a styrofoam cup of hot cocoa, "we all make mistakes,"

>>34835034

"It wasn't a mistake. He was feinting at a hostage. She made the right call," she sighs and turns to you, "She's so much like you...so ready to get hurt so others don't have to,"

The bridge is gone, you lying on your back amid torn asphalt. Behind you is the smoldering wreckage of an obnoxiously painted Mini Cooper. Scattered all around you are rapidly evaporating clown monsters, their empty frozen smiling faces laughing as they turn to dust and mist. All of them save for the one crawling out of the wreck.

His expression is one of rage, but all he can do is laugh. It must be hell, being unable to express what you actually feel.

Rising from the follow through on your automotive supplex, you grip the Crescent Wand. You did it, all without Tomoe-sensei.

"She did it, without me," she says proudly as the view from the London eye disappears beyond the apex of your car's rotation. You come up behind her and slip your arms around either side of her waist and rest your chin on her shoulder.

This continues into the night, until your eyes open to the warmth and comfort of an unfamiliar ceiling. As you become more aware, you realize your arms are wrapped around your elder sister, and her arms are wrapped around you.

Last night, your dreams flowed into one another across common threads of memory. It's mildly disorienting.

>stay for a bit. Too comfy to move.
>extract yourself carefully
>extract yourself carelessly
>wake up Usa, how?
>write in

>>34834389
>Say nothing
>Give in to comfy

>>34835053
>extract yourself carefully

>>34835067
Little late there friend, take a moment to catch up, you've time. Enjoy the comfy.

>>34835053
>stay for a bit. Too comfy to move
we need cuddles.

>>34835053
>Comfy

>>34835053
>stay for a bit. Too comfy to move.

>>34833730
Sounds like we have a lot of HEALING to do before Mikage is a functional person again

Which is, kind of the point of the quest, really.

>>34835229
Exactly. I'm hoping the adults involved take up a little responsibility. The whole oh shes just a teenager and needs space thing is a bullshit cop out.

>>34835034
Yeah I still don't forgive her, abandoning us was still a dick move and I don't think we should just say "Oh you wanted to give us space? I'm sorry!".

>>34835250
>>34835263
Holy shit I thought I was the only one that felt this way.

Really it feels like everyone has been running away from their responsibilities, and then acted all mad and huffy with Mikage when she finally came out of retirement to do something about it. Like a year+ of no one stopping the big bads was somehow HER fault.

>>34835034
Point to be made. If all Mikage was ever show was the heartless instructor then it is not a distortion.

If I kick one dog every day and pet a different one. Their conflicting views of me are still accurate.

Hotaru isnt a decent person regardless of her motives until she makes it up (highly unlikely) to Mikage.

>>34835250
>>34835263
>>34835272

Yeah, all the adults kinda dropped the ball in various ways. I wouldn't say *everyone's* been negative on us doing the whole Eclipse thing. here's the thing: if we don't fix things, millions of people are fucked. yes, we hate Hotaru for being a cunt, yes we think Chibi-Usa's being childish, but we still need to work with them to get the new Senshi combat ready. We'll resolve this when Hotaru shows up.
>>34835250
not entirely. Parents need ot be there for the teen, but if the teen doesn't want to be fixed, there's little the parents can do. here, we want to fix ourselves, and prevent others from getting broken.
>>34835314
Chibi admitted her faliure when we confronted her, she says Hotaru feels bad about it, and omakes have reinforced that. Lets just go into this willing to see it though to the end.. and If Hotaru really does think she's in the right... we'll just have to convince her otherwise.

>>34835272
Wait what? Nobody's acted like that about Mikage coming out of retirement. Most people don't even know she has.

>>34835272
Father is apparently never around. Mother is apparently aware of just how fucked up things are but continues to remain at arms length. Older sister is completely absorbed in her own affairs and uses her as an emotional crutch.
Instructor treats her harshly to... keep the woman she loves strong?

And its all played off like shes just a stupid teenager.

This is child abuse.

>>34835363
What? Sending a emotionally unstable, developing child/teen to fight monsters who can tear through professional soldiers like tissue paper is not good for the child's health? Le Gasp!
>seriously, this entire premise is fucked up and always has been. we're not going to turn the universe on its head on our own. Are you all willing to work with those who have wronged you to keep the people you love safe?

>>34835349
Teenagers need space sometimes. She needed understanding. Sailor moon giving up means her support structure fundamentally failed.

>>34835426
We probably always have been they have never worked with us. Once again it comes off as a "all you need to do is call me!" Which is a cop put we came to help big sis for instance. If womeone is in dire need and you lnow it tou dont wait for a formal invitation. The only innocent party is the younger sister who we have to keep safe from these monsters so she can fight the real onea.

>>34835427
true. we came across a situation that we were not trained for, so its the instructor's fault. although, since I'm not a big SM fan, did Usagi ever come across something she couldn't just purify and rez? One sec, let me type up a list of screw ups for everyone...

Well, we know she will soon, and it's going to give her an idea of how we felt.

>>34835470
Well considering Keiko remembers Beryl's death at Usagi's hand, I think she has.

>>34835470
Not to my knowledge. But u am by no means a sailor moon buff. From anime experience Im betting someone always fell out of the woodwork or she somehow managed it. Which is exactly what Mikage needed and didnt get.

Mom/Dad another scout. No one saved the day and they all left her alone to stew and apparently fragment into different personalities to cope. Apparently Usagi is the worst parent ever.

Mikage when I started following seemed like the brroding teenager oh woe as me. And it was just a phase. The more i see the more it becomes clear that rhshe was 100% accurate. I now ear that just to cope she is diminishing the xrimes commited against her just to receive some sort of human contact and instead of teuly realizing the gravity of their mistakes the adults are just noding their heads saying well its about time! Thank god that resolved itself and i didnt have to teqch/parent/help. Ps. My bad.

Sorry for format phones suck.

>>34835530
Ok, that's cementing the mind break as Hotaru's fault... with CHibi Usa we wanted closre and reconciliation, so a quick dunking and shadow drink solved that. For Hotaru...Now I'm thinking we may need to communicate our feelings with our fists before she comes anywhere near our little sis. anyone else?
>>34835554
I think I get what you're trying to say, and I totally agree with you, but if we don't do that, Evil wins. We are but one, and the new Senshi need experienced backup to survive what's to come. we/they need help, and we can wrangle the blame game after we're not at war.

>>34835053
>>stay for a bit. Too comfy to move.
Comfy now. Had long night. Maybe idly wonder what time it is, but don't put any head movement into finding out.

Good morning thread.

>>34835587
The training Hotaru gave us was probably the training that everyone wished Mom had been given when they were all Senshi.

And once things went wrong, Mikage stopped talking to everyone. Do you think they should have just blasted her with cleansing moon magic until she was ready to deal with things?

>>34835587
If she goes near litte sister we go ape shit.

Im not advocating not helping the kids. I support cooperation with the idiotic adults but they by no means deserve a Mikage that rolls over and forgives them. They didnt save a drowing Mikage in her what? Months of need because she flailed around in the water away from them? Clearly beeltter to let her drown than suffer possivle temporary frustration and resentment.

But it hasn't resolved itself, Usagi has been very understanding since learning about what happened. She's been hesitant to drop too much on our plate and aside from cookie palooza has been walking on eggshells around us. We don't know much about what happened during the year and a half, or how she tried to reach out to us or how if we rebuffed it.

I honestly can't see Usagi Tsukino not trying, and from what I've seen, we can be stubborn enough to keep her away.

>>34835263
Well, we know, and Mikage knows a bit more now after that dream night, that Hotaru didn't actually abandon us, she was shadowing us to offer limited support (much like we're doing with the scouts) and giving us a stren talking to whenever she would appear (unlike our approach, but then again our kinder approach to the new scouts is practically a direct response to the coldness of our trainer, and benefiting from being disguised. We're still a toad rough around the edges toward them as ourself).

>>34835680
She has meds for panic attacks. There is probably a lot more than we know about that year and a half.

>>34835671
seems to work in the anime, and that is a counter point that I myself raised: if the teen doesn't want help, parent's efforts end up doing jack.
>>34835680
ok, you think we're being too easy? what would you suggest for dealing with Hotaru and everyone else?
>>34835703
exactly, we've only recently opened up.

>>34835671
Irrelevant. Mikage was in abetter position than those who came before by far. They didnt provide the emotional support needed. It compounded and made the situation worse. Everyone around her was not blissfully ignorant and thetly still left her alone.

Hell whrn she got the fangs showing just gow dark things ehere people played it iff like a goth phase.

Should they be aware with despite how she acts on the surface if shes capble of eating negative emotions... tht maybe just maybe a wire maygave.gotten crissed?

>>34835721
If she was shadowing us, why didn't she help/comfort us That Night?
>>34835748
you do raise a good point. People took Dark Lady Chibi Usa very seriously, and when we effectively fuse with her, its supposedly all good? I've been kinda expecting a interrogation/hard grilling for that from the older senshi.

Eclipsed Moon sin list in progress
>Usagi: be ditzy mom and not go to her biological daughter when she’s breaking, does not team-support daughter when she’s Senshi.
Verdict: Parenting classes and mother-daughter therapy.
>Mamoru: be away from the critical times of his daughter’s development, does not tell daughter about generals.*
Verdict: forced vacation to support daughter for duration of war.
>Luna: leaving advice to Senshi Saturn
Verdict: she’s beating herself up already, no additional punishment.
>Chibi-Usa: does not tell sister about Helios and dreams, asks us to deal with Shadow-Helios rather than accept primary responsibility, is unfaithful to her beau, asks us to play relationship councilor when all she’s done is screw up what relationships we do have.
Verdict: woman-child.
>Hotaru: play hard-ass drill instructor when supposedly she wants to keep Mikage alive, fails to train Mikage for scenario that her mother encountered, abandons Mikage post-mental break, fails to communicate that she cares about us, NTRs best friend away from her lover,
Verdict: verbal, emotional, physical, magical, beatdown before possibility of reconciliation
>Other senshi: not backing up Mikage when she was Sailor Moon, post-mind-break.
Ok, anons, who else screwed up, and with what?


*point in his favor, he is supportive when he is around.

>>34835730
Well it may be as simple as asking why they didnt help. The adults are supposed to be the responsible party the fact that Mikage is saddeled with building bridges and trying to fix these relationships is enough to make me want to let them stay burnt.

>>34835729
I can only work with what I've seen. The meds could be an indication of care. Or they could have just gone through the motions and dropped her off at the docror aftwr the first few incidents.

>>34835363
Ok, that is going a bit far.

We are the ones that kept people at arms length and militantly rejected everyone around us and refused to even hint at what had happened for the past year. Short of tying Mikage down and trying to mindrape her, there wasn't much anyone could do about that.

Usa was away to school by that point, can't lay much of the recent funk against her, and we'd had her on our shit list for years beforehand.

Hotaru did fuck up, it's true, her approach to make us tough wasn't the right a approach for someone with distance and anger issues, and by her own admission in panel questioning, she just dropped out of our life entirely when we retired. So she never even stepped forward to be rejected by Princess No on her campaign of rejecting all things magical, including her family and a cat that helped raise her like a second mother. Mikage has been a stone bitch herself in the recent run. It's never been written off as 'just being a teenager', everyone around her has been deathly worried about her but couldn't force her to open up.

>>34835783
>not go to her biological daughter when she’s breaking
What makes you think she didn't try this? She even asked Principal Sakurada to help with Mikage- there's no way that was an easy thing to do given their history.

>asks us to deal with Shadow-Helios
We volunteered to do that. We actually were expecting to need her help, things just worked out better than expected.

> fails to train Mikage for scenario that her mother encountered
She's supposed to do that how exactly? How do you go about making a miraculously superpowered teenager understand that not everyone can be saved?
>post-mind-break
She wasn't Sailor Moon post mind-break. Before that they didn't have any reason to think something was wrong, and after she wouldn't talk to them

>>34835783
Do you know which thread that pannel is in I'd like to read it.

>>34835829

Haven't seen enough to determine they tried. The physiological break is enough for me to believe that the parents ininvolved did notvact accordingly

>>34835882
1. point made, editing
2. again, point made
3. by communicating that to her exactly how you just did.
4. my apologies, I was trying to imply that after we gave Sailor Moon up, none of the other senshi talked wit us about it, but, again princess No.
There is no innocence, only degrees of guilt.
Your feedback will be taken into account for the list.

>>34835680
Having been the problematic teen during an extended portion of my life, I can say that is kinda bullshit. They didn't abandon Mikage during that year, she abandoned them, actively. She was throwing the life-preservers back at them and beating the lifeguards. So they stayed nearby with lifeguards on-duty and and rescue boats circling, ready to latch on with hugs the instant we weren't pushing them away.
THAT is a sign of how much they cared, because the difference between people that just give up on you and those waiting for you is night and day, trust me. One is there to support you the moment you emerge, like Usagi and Luna were, the other is someone that doesn't even notice you making the effort, which makes reemerging so much harder.

>>34835748
Really, only Kairi and Usa know that part, since we didn't know that when disclosing everything to Dad, and we're concealing from everyone else.

>>34835971
Excellently and eloquently put anon. with your explanation in mind, does this about sum Mikage up?

>Mikage: does not go to anyone for help after traumatic event, shuts out family, actively pushed back against anyone seeking to help, accepted only limited help for her issues.

Verdict: we’re paying for it already, reconcile with those we scorned.

>>34835775
The attack at school happened too fast, we'd already beaten the transformed Kairi by the time she arrived and was looking for us, but we'd already gone to confront the Magician in his hidden lab. ..After that we quietly went home, quit, and actively bricked everyone out of our life.

>>34835971
Based on this statement Big sis and Hotaru are terrible people and we shouldn't associate with them.

My brother had problems when he was younger and when he started the loner talk to no one off alone bullshit I dragged gim home kicking and screaming because tha lt its a phase thinf is horseshit.

Reasonably sure Usagi knows what happened. They had a recording.

>>34836076
They don't have any recording. So far as we know, they found out the particulars of what happened based on the PIT report Naru Osaka gave them a few days ago at the start of the quest.

>>34835775

Final Act was a public ambush, by the time Hotaru got there it was over and Mikage had run off. Hotaru called her, but she ditched her compact comm because she "had" this en route to Magician's Lair and didn't want Saturn butting in.

Saturn didn't know where Mikage was until the next morning despite looking all night. Mikage refused to see her.

Usa was in Europe for most of Mikage's active duty. When she was home on Holiday, Mikage aggressively ignored te paradoxical double much to the then still trying to peacekeep Usagi's exasperation.

>>34835901
Unfortunately, Mikage had long been a concealer of issues, bottling up and internalizing. Usa had literally no idea why we turned away from her for the last 5-6 years, while everyone else was getting the hostile shoulder for a year and a half, we'd been giving our sister one for much longer.
We hid our anger issues and need to prove ourselves under pride, trying to force Tomoe to leave us alone and let us go out on our own.
We never blew up at anyone we should have over some early 'white lies' that turned out to have big consequences for us.
There were a number of things early on in the quest I had similar questions about, until it became clear that pre-breakdown Mikage just bottled everything up and internalized instead of letting out the things that were actually wrong, acting out through other outlets (like smashing evil clown cars) instead of expressing her negative emotions to the people around her.
Then a terrible terrible thing happened, and it is less than surprising the reaction she had.

>>34836193
Well that seals it for me. Hotaru is an awful person.

>>34836120
Early days post Magician, at the start of problems Usagi spent a lot of time talking to a locked door, or holding her hyperventilating and seemingly terrified daughter dying panic attacks until it was made clear to her by a psychiatric professional and her husband that doing that made panic attacks worse.

Mamoru was home a bit more, and he and Koyomi were the only ones she would talk to, if sparingly until she started experimenting with the pen.

Stonewalled during family counseling. Asked not to talk about magic or Senshi stuff when we did start interacting with the family again and tried to act like she was normal.

Avoided anyone not of blood relation who was still part of THAT world unless it was a large family function she couldn't weasel out of.

>>34836240
Oh no, the emotionally stunted cyborg girl failed to read the complex emotional state of a teenage girl because she thought she was doing the right thing hiding her emotions for Usa/Mikage to prevent them from screwing up her training of the girl. Yeah, she fucked up. Hard. Just not the way you seem to think.

>>34836312
Either way she appears to be the eoot cause of thismess.

>>34836076
Mikage didn't go off alone, she just socially isolated herself from everyone around her, mostly only going to her room and school, with some secret sneak-aways to be other people to relieve the emotions she was denying herself and others.
Big Sis wasn't even in the country, and Hotaru.. well we'll have words with her, but she at least thought she was doing right by us, we were the prideful super moon that was insisting on soloing things that would take a team of senshi and winning. She had no way of knowing that was a hollow pride and an enjoyment of having a violent outlet.
Given Hotaru's upbringings, she might be poor at reading people, until she grew up the second time she was pretty much limited only to the senshi, since anyone 'her own age' would soon notice her being older. And her first childhood was arguably worse.
She failed with us, but she did try her best. Which she thought was training us hard and trying to be a harsh teacher. Which did help us be a better fighter, and did give us the skills to fight Magician, she just didn't know the emotional support we needed, made harder by us hidding the need.

Everyone around us is not necessarily guiltless, but the Mikage-barrel is issues all the way down.

>>34836365
Root*

>>34836054
>>34836120
>>34836260
That you for clearing that up. I am now convinced that Hotaru should be handled the way we did Chibi-Usa, mutual acceptance and apology followed by closure and moving on to better relationships, albeit with making sure Hotaru gets how important emotional support is, ala >>34836367.

>>34836312
you keep telling people that no body is right, they just keep pointing fingers. Hotaru is going to be awkward.

>>34836367
Im still wondeeing gow her method of training was approved of.

>>34836395

I can accept it but I'll flip my shit if its as simple as sorry.

>>34836367
Right Hotaeu gave us exactly what she needed from the other scouts all that friendship love and understa- She failed at providing what she herself needed.

>>34836260
>panic attacks
Oh right, forgot to add serious traumatic responses to that hostile shoulder she gave people.
Mikage actually broke down and stopped functioning when forced into situations. That does a lot to stop 'just drag her out, she'll be fine!' talk.
I never got to that point, at least not that people could tell. My panic attacks were mild enough that people either brushed them off or thought I was being childish to the extents that I would suddenly go to avoid a situation, but I was still (seemed) largely functional.

Impossible to ignore blackout freakouts like Mikage would be harder to ignore.

>>34836431
Just for brainstorming's sake, how about: we both admit we made mistakes, we spar to vent, we hug at the end, then I introduce you to my little sister. Though we will have a conversation later about your little love triangle with my big sis.

>>34836411

She had a teaching certificate. Usagi is a bad teacher and bad at explaining magic, and the less said about the flagpole incident, the better. Also.

"Oh man, this is the best idea. It'll help Hotaru get over the whole 'bringer of silence' guilt she's been carrying. Creating and building something instead of destroying. This is the best idea ever!"

Mamoru did tell his children about the shintennou, he just never showed them the case, or told then they were still sentient. His failure to save them and that yet still half lived was his own cross to bear.

Rin actively sabotaged her mother's fire readings into what happened to Mikage, because being a small child and seeing what she saw, she didn't want them to take Mikage to jail. She didn't understand her folley until recently.

>>34836504
wait, Rin did what? OOOOOOOOOOO Boy, this clusterfuck keeps growing the more we dig into it. that also explains why the adults didn't help, added to the sin list .

>>34836466
I seriously doubt we.would introduce her to the younger sister.
Both made mistakes but ultimately returns to proud teenager mistakes vs apparently responsible adult.

I'd love to hear the response to, "I was trying to do wht you wanted me to! I was trying to be strong!"

The drive she.iinstilled or fostered Mikage drove her all the way to failure. HGeat job coach. We should not risk lil sis with an apparently artificial person. It worked wonders for us.

>>34836395
Well, maybe not as cleanly as Usa, our issues with her were largely in our own mind and not her fault specifically, beyond existing.

Hotaru did fumble the Mikage-ball, though she was trying.

>>34836411
Put the fiery and violent girl with the cold and reserved one, both of whom enjoy academic studies, and people that knew Tomoe better knew she cared deeply for us (in an extended family where caring deeply will overcome almost anything literally).
And everyone else was either much older or on the other side of the world.
Makes some sense.Also, Hotaru was the only other person around that was more-or-less raised as a Scout, other than Usa.

>>34836504
I'm not sure how much a teaching certificate qualifies a person to train a magical vigilante Artemis.

Also:
>Rin actively sabotaged her mother's fire readings into what happened to Mikage

Well ain't that a thing. She really kept that secret hard. We should probably have a talk with her about everything.

>>34836564
I think we've previously established that she trying her best, where she failed was in emotional support. If she intends to do better, and we're going to be involved, I don't see a reason not to.
>>34836574
Yea, its going to be awkward, hence the spar. and, again, doing better on the expressing the emotions and caring.

>>34836564
We had that drive already.
Unfortunately, we were using that drive and pride to hide a host of issues from those around us.

>>34836600
Rin has long been on my 'person to have a chat with' list, this just adds one more thing of interest to the pile.

>>34836538
Welp I hate her now. Much more forgivable however if she owns up to it.

>>34836647
Innocent enough of a response from a 11-12 year old fearing for a friend.

>>34836642
>>34836647
I can see it now:
>Christ, everyone who ever hurt me 'only wanted to help'. If I didn't know already how that path ended, I'd start to think being nice only ends in heartache.
>>34836668
innocent, hardly. but still logical to her at the time. She still dun' goofed.

>>34836647
Why do you hate her now? She likely saw what Mikage saw and drew the same conclusions. She was trying to help, but was too young to really understand.

>>34836668
Thats why I said forgivable if owned up to. If the scouts saw they may hsvr neen able to provide accurate support during the initial downward spiral.

>>34836722
given how effectively we shut out anything relating to magic, including our family, it sadly can't be definitively proven. like they say, coulda, woulda, shoulda.

>>34836722
Really, the only thing that might have helped Mikage's spiral at that point would have been PIT's knowledge combined with their autopsy. Finding out that we only killed a shell that used to be the best friend's father we swore to save, instead of believing that we murdered our best friend's father that we swore to save, was a huge weight off of Mikage. Finding out after we were already steeling ourselves and trying to live again with that wieght just catapulted us that much harder into things again.

>>34836647
She was even younger and less experienced than us. She did the exact same thing we did in hiding it. Mikage would have asked to hide it, if we had known she knew what happened.

Digging back into the warm brace of the comforter, and of Usa, you shut your eyes and relax and listen to the sound of both your own and your sister's breathing. Guided by the rhythm, you fall again asleep despite the sunlight pouring into the room.

It's sunny in there as well. You are small, both of you, and wear pretty dresses as you run about in front of the fountain, sometimes splashing through it in play.

This pleasant dream comes to another end as you are jostled. Cracking your eyes open you find you are again pressed, just short of suffocation this time, into your sister's enviable chest. Well, enviable if you weren't going to have a comparable build before next year is out, probably.

"Hello?" Your sister says weakly, and not to you.

She groans against the muffled voices in electric distortion. Adjusting her position, she pulls you tighter and she offers a quick acquiescence to whomever is on the other end and you hear something hard and plastic get set down with a hard click on the nightstand.

Her hand falls on your shoulder and jostled you slightly.

"Hey, Mikage," she nudges again, "Time to get up,"

~No, -t's soft,~ you murmur.

"It's almost noon," she says sleepily, "and I've got some music to face,"

Raising your head, you blush a bit at where you chose to rest your head.

"Morning, mini,"

~Morning, paradox,~

>>34836999
"You look a bit pale, are you okay?"

~oh, hold on,~ you force color back into your cheeks as you feel your fangs retract.

Usa stares at you a bit in sudden concern.

"What does it feel like?" She asks with some hesitation.

~Pretty good, actually. Bad vibes have this weird fruity or savory flavor. And if it's mixed with that shadow stuff, I actually don't think I can describe it,~ you smile.

"Okay...are you sure it's okay, to stay like this. It seems odd that the enemy would accidentally empower someone to eat their primary weapon. It might be dang-"

~Usa, I've got this. I have a very special relationship with my less than stellar feelings. My gut instincts are good, and I trust them,~ you say between yawns and stretching.

"Okay, but you should get mom to give you a checkup. Or Doctor Tomoe," she muses, "Actually, does mom know about the fangs? I'm surprised she isn't fawning over you with a stethoscope,"

~She's been giving me some leeway...and I asked her to trust me,~ you explain.

"Yeah, that'll do it," she hops out of bed while you casually roll out, "Are you sure it's your gut instincts talking and not your greedy guts,"

Well, I'm offended. Not terribly offended because I AM greedy, but it's the principle of it.

~Look whose talking,~ you stick your tongue out at your sister.

"Right...anyway, I'm meeting up with...well, the two of them," she motions to the bed as if to reference last night, "for lunch and wanted to know if you'd like to join us. I know Helios is chomping at the bit to apologize for back then...and Hotaru-chan..."

>I've a mid afternoon thing I don't want to be late for. Not today.
>Sure, I just can't be late for another thing at 3.
>I can't, not with her...not yet.
>write in

>>34836931
It seems to be a bit silly (also we're wasting posts) assigning blame and guilt here. Both because Mikage is trying to reclaim her life as well as the fact that this series runs on Love! and Justice!

If anything we should blame Artemis, who makes bad things happen to good people.

>>34836931
>Finding out after we were already steeling ourselves and trying to live again with that weight
Ultimately, that made us a lot stronger. Finally standing again under the staggering weight of the guilt we felt, that shows an inner pillar of strength.
When the chips were down and someone was in trouble, we pull ourselves together and went.
Sure, we wrapped ourselves in a protective layer of Eclipse, but we made that choice to move, and the follow-up choice to watch over the girls, and help Luna and Artemis spend time together with their child, because, deep down, we care. Even when we had put supreme effort into trying not to care and shutting ourself down, we couldn't.
Maybe it's a sickness of heroism, but it's one we can't cure, and Mikage should feel proud of that.
I don't think she's accepted that yet, at last call she was 'only doing what needed to be to protect people' even when it is clear to those around her that she is being a hero.

>>34837015
>I can't, not with her...not yet.

Really think that sould be private... not apart of an slready complcated lunch date.

>>34837015
>>I've a mid afternoon thing I don't want to be late for. Not today.

As much as I would love to meet your harem, I've got business to attend.

>>34836931
And PIT didn't find the lab scene of the fight until fairly recently. Then Naru found Mikage's real flute inside of her abandoned magical girl weapon and snuck it the fuck out of there because she didn't think Pit should know as an organization who the Sailor Moon family is.

>>34837084
forget my earlier vote >>34837089 , this:>>34837084 makes more sense. seconding.

>>34837015
>I've a mid afternoon thing I don't want to be late for. Not today.

>>34837015
Vague tingle of panic.
"..I think I might be a bit disruptive, you do your thing with them, I think that takes precedence. Maybe later today? I'm going to be stopping on on a think with some friends around 3 anyway..

>>34837015
Didnt we just tell her we still have issues with rhst "woman."

>I can't, not with her...not yet.

>>34837143
I has just occurred to me that Usa has succeeded where Usagi has only imagined, she actually has two sincere love interests.

>>34837015
>Sure, I just can't be late for another thing at 3.

>>34837193
as far as we know. The Hotaru situation needs more info, info Hotaru herself must provide.

>>34837189
That woman*

Stupid phone keyboard.

>>34837015
While Tomoe-sensei and Helios are two people on my 'People to talk to' list, seems better for you to tackle your issues, mine will keep. Later though, ok?

>>34837258
Just keep in mind that when I do talk to her, I might be cross with her, maybe even crass. I can be a terrible person when angry.

>>34837561
Understatement.

Looking up at Usa, and the lingering question she left in the air between you stirs your feelings in familiar ways. Breaking eye contact, you bite your thumb and take a deep breath.

~I can't,~ you exhale, ~not with her. Not yet. Besides, I have a thing to do today in the mid afternoon that I don't want to be late for,~

"Okay...it's just. I saw your dreams last night, and I think you saw mine...and if you want me to mediate between the two of you then-"

~Go meet with your harem. When I think I'm good for it I'll talk to Tomoe-sensei. I'm just too angry right now and I'm not a nice person when I'm angry,~

She blushes at your accusation and then nods.

"Okay," her blush fades and she looks a you seriously, "for what it's worth...after all these years, and last night, I'm sorry,"

~Usa,~

"And, thank you,"

Stepping out of your sister's bedroom, you head into your own and begin making plans. After a quick shower, you mull about on which face to put on today.

>Get dressed as Mikage
>Get partially dressed as Miki, fill the rest in later.
>Full Miki Miki you're so fine.
>other
>Do something else

>>34838318
PJs and poke around the house for a bit, see what family is up to, check on Diana and Big Di, maybe run into Luna and see how that goes.

>>34838318

>Get dressed as Mikage

>>34838318
Kkkkiiiiiiittttteeenn

>>34838452
Concur.

>>34838447
seconding this

>>34838318
>Get dressed as Mikage

I am now picturing chatting with Luna in our run as we change to Miki. This transmission amuses me.

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>>34838632
Explaining Ganguro to her would be humerus...

>>34838318
>Get partially dressed as Miki, fill the rest in later

>>34836365
I'd disagree. If she made a mistake, it was trying to protect Mikage from harm, when she should have been trying to protect her from ~unnessecary~ harm.

>>34836564
>Mikage drove her all the way to failure
Er, Mikage never actually failed.

She certainly feels like she did - she made a promise, couldn't keep it, and magic failed her - but at the end of it all, she kept her head and defeated the villain.

When she dropped out of being Sailor Moon... there was no apparent need for a Sailor Moon, and no apparent cause for worry: It took the adults time to piece together what had actually happened.

>>34838748
Feel free to disahee all you want. I blame her. If she would have attempted to be personable she may have induced a feeling of comradarey instead she drove Mikage away.

End result is a sailor moon that quit.

>>34838818
It's failure. She fled from the title and responsibilities.

But feel gree to sugar coat it.

>>34838318
>>Full Miki Miki you're so fine.
Is it worth keeping the disguise pen on the go so PIT can't connect Mikage to Miki?

>>34838748
>>34838818
>>34838859
>>34838928
ENOUGH! this bickering only serves to run up the post limit, we've looked at all the angles already, no one is blameless here, can we save this for when we actually meet Hotaru?

>>34838859
That's not why she quit, even with a stronger partnership, I doubt she would have wanted the job anymore after Magician.

>>34838989
True. If we need something to bicker about, we still haven't settled on the next Q&A panel.
Maybe talking about it while there's more of us around would short that out.

>>34839046
Partnership may have meant being present at the battle resolving this crap... but I'll lay down my guns for now

>>34838989
Lets get Rin on that pannel. That little girl is hiding shit.

>>34839046
A good idea.

>>34839120
for the Q&A: Hotaru. we got LOTS of questions for her.

>>34839046
>I doubt she would have wanted the job anymore
She didn't. But fortunately, as far as we can tell, Magician was the end of it, at least for a while.

And really, Koyomi is a better Sailor Moon than Mikage ever was. Mikage wanted it mostly to make her mark, to feel like she fit in after the whole Usa revelation, but she always wound up feeling like Diet Usa, and the whole "magician" debacle was just the straw that broke the dromedary.

If she'd been better, if she hadn't been in it for selfish reasons, maybe she wouldn't have "failed" so dramatically.

>>34839163
I think I'd rather hold Hotaru until after we talk to her face-to-face.

>>34839189
>maybe she wouldn't have "failed" so dramatically.
at least, I figure that's how Mikage feels.

>>34839163
Good lord... well allright but I can't. promise I wont rant at her like a madman.

>>34839046
how do you all feel about adding Beryl? I just want to know 'what are you going to do now?'
>>34839213
Thank you for your understand and cooperation anon.

>>34839163
Eh, we had her in the first one, and went over a bit of this then. May as well hold off until we can pow-wow in-character.

>>34839189
>>34839256
ok, how about Usagi? get some details on Mikage's life post-senshi, or even happy parenting memories.

>>34839235
>I just want to know 'what are you going to do now?'
the same thing she does every night Pinky.

Try to takeover the world!

>>34839297
Happy. That one time she made cookies.

Either way in finding out more about Mikage gets my vote.

>>34839297
I was thinking about Mamoru before, maybe prod him for more Prequel Movie L details.

>>34839495
I walked into that one.
>>34839518
Oh, I like that!

>>34839530
Groovy, so that gets us an ex-Beryl and ex-Endymion on the same panel.

>>34839692
and an ex-Serenity, sort of. And they have nothing to do but talk to each other...

>>34839747
Seems a bit much to have both at once. Still have other people that folk want to chat with.
Like Yoshi, the boy that seems important but we don't know why.
Ryo, the psychic father of Aiha and husband to Ami.
Sasha for some follow up.
Kino to check in on one of the few people left in the scout families who has not been filled in on things.

>>34838318
>>Full Miki Miki you're so fine.
We so awesome and we don't care who notices~

>>34839936
those all sound fine to me.

>>34839953
I'd rather not go full Miki while looking for kitten.
Mama cat might freak, we need to ease her into our fashion hobby.

>>34838318

>Get dressed as Mikage
>Go help Luna take care of Diana

Ah, after 10,000 years I'm done driving back to my inlaws, its time to write a post.

Looks like the following two things have traction.

1. Be yourself.
2. Moon Kitty

Writing

And now that I'm back somewhere with a keyboard, uh...stuff I guess.

Really all the arguing about who in the main cast are monsters tickled me. I was worried everyone would accuse me of mary suing the plot because of the all the liberties I thought the rest of the cast was willing to give Mikage, which is why I decided to roll Kanari in to a slightly adversarial role.

>>34840799
nah, you're doing great! you write your characters like real people: very flawed, but well meaning.

>>34840799
She was the sailor sue who then crashed and burned so hard it wasnt even funny.

>>34840799
Moon kitties and being ourself. Sounds like fun.

>>34841787
Well now that you've said that she'll have a panic attack.

Sliding into a fresh change of clothes, and putting your hair up into your preferred style of thin twin tails, you smile at yourself in the mirror. Its nice to smile. Wearing a pair of mid length athletic shorts and a tank top, you slip into your house slippers and glide downstairs. A mission forms in your mind, a purpose to the two hours before you need to head out to meet with Teal and the others.

That purpose is spending time with the kitten, Diana. Well, she could be a kitten or she could be a baby. As you pass Usa’s door, you hear her inside fretting over clothes and the message she wants to send with them.

Gliding down the stairs, you find no one in the living room. After some additional searching of the first floor, you find yourself standing in the kitchen enjoying a small snack of edamame. There, out in the back yard, you catch sight of Luna sleeping peacefully at the base of the tree. The older Diana leaps down from somewhere above and turns back to face the tree, calling up to something there behind her.

There is a likely bet that this is where you will find the younger Diana.

“Its okay, its real easy. I promise you just have to take that step forward and let gravity do the rest,” Big Diana calls up into the tree as you exit into the backyard.

Crossing the yard to the cats, you spy the kitten digging her tiny claws into one of the mid height branches of your mother’s sakura tree.

“Too high!” chirps the smaller Moon Cat from her secure perch.

“Yeah, so you need to jump down,” Big Diana sighs.

“No jumping!” cries the kitten.

“Okay, okay!” Diana now stands at her miniscule human stature and holds her arms up, “I’ll catch you,”

The kitten looks down at the sizable gap still between them and just shakes her head more.

>>34842196
~Maybe I can help,~ you smile and come up behind the much shorter cat woman.

“DOWN!” the kitten shouts.

“Huh, Mikage, could you lend me a hand. I lack magical tall person powers,” Diana laughs nervously and turns to face you.

Luna opens one of her eyes from within the shade, her tail lazily drifting back and forth as a thin smile spreads across her feline features.

~What about Luna?~ you ask while already walking under the tree and reaching up into the tree.

“Mother dearest and I disagreed that Little D was ready to climb a tree. She eventually agreed to let me teach her how to climb and get down...but,”

“I left it to her judgement, knowing full well my youngest would have difficulty getting down,” Luna finishes.

~Seems a little harsh,~ you muse as the kitten wraps paws around your hands and tries to perch on your cupped fingers.

“It is an important rite of passage for our kind,” Luna lifts her head and looks sagely at three of you, “Now, Diana, will you wait until you’re a bit bigger before climbing trees?”

The kitten in your now lowering hand nods sharply.

Big Diana looks sheepishly as Luna’s gaze falls on her.

“And what did you learn?”

“Probably nothing,” Big D laughs lightly, “but I did learn that I should offer my baby sister a cookie to apologize for the trouble,”

>>34842225
You are no longer holding a kitten. The sudden weight of a nearly three year old human child in your hands lurches you forward. She wears a pretty pink dress and wears her hair up in heart shaped buns like her older alternate self. She wriggles in your grasp and writhes in childish energy at the prospect of obtaining a cookie.

~Actually, you may want to go help Usa out. She’s in a bit of a panic,~ you sigh.

“What? Why?” Big Diana inquires with a cockeyed expression, “Did you throw more guilt on the fire last night? Are the two of you so narcissistic that you-”

~Don’t finish that sentence,~ you growl.

“Relax, I’m just playing,” she giggles and spins away, “I leave Little D in your capable hands, GUARDIAN MAU AWAY!”

She breaks into a run for the house, returning to her true form mid stride before bounding up to the second floor windows. The small girl in your arms stops squirming and looks at this feat with awe.

~So, cookie time?~ you look back over to Luna, ~If that’s okay,~

“Its perfectly fine,” the mother cat smiles and lays her head back down.

“COOKIE!” Little Diana cheers as you set her down and take her hand.

~You’re learning words quickly then?~

The girl nods vigorously as you lead in into the house.

Soon, the two of you are seated in the kitchen with a plate of cookies and two glasses of milk. You impart to the young mau a time honored technique and secret as Luna watches from the sill. The dunk.

>Talk to Luna about something? What?
>Talk to Little Diana about something? What?
>Write in

>>34842246
>>Talk to Little Diana about something? What?
talk about her and what she's been up to, what she thinks about things, and probably get asked a few questions in turn.

>>34842246
>34842246
>Talk to Little Diana about something? What?
Do you like the cookies? I made those.

>>34842246
>Talk to Luna about something? What?
Tell her we're going out for the afternoon, and maybe explain a bit about how we plan on dressing up.

>>34842405
Brilliant! Let us do this thing.

>>34842405
Motion seconded!

>>34842225
>And what did you learn?
That Diana the Elder has the worst plans, but that if she goes along with them she might get a cookie.

~And then before it gets so soggy that if falls apart, you pull it free above the plate,~ you demonstrate as the younger girl watches and mimics your actions.

She seems extremely happy to be dunking cookies into milk. After a few more practice dunks you engage her in some conversation.

~So, do you like the cookies?~

She nods excitedly and places both hands on either side of her glass of milk and tilts it toward her for an extended drag. Wiping the white mustache from above her lip, you ruffle her hair and smile down at her.

~You know I made them,~

She cocks and eyebrow and scrunches her lips.

“I know that,” she exclaims with very little volume control, “I was there,” she points to the archway into the kitchen in a manner to suggest this is a certain matter of fact.

~Yeah, I guess you were,~ you smile.

“You make cookies good,” she affirms and reaches for another one.

~Hold on, don’t eat too many or you’ll get a tummy ache,~ she pauses her hand at your word, but then powers through for another cookie anyhow.

While you’re talking, Usa and Big Diana stride into the living room from upstairs. Diana is porting a number of purse choices and her outfit is unchanged from when last you saw her. Usa sports a long and straight skirt, that slips out from the broad underside of her long sleeved and loose turtle neck sweater.

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>>34843337
cute babies are cute.

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>>34843337

Its...unflattering. Concealing all but the faintest notions of her figure.

Guess she found what she wanted to say. And what she wanted to say is rather anti provocative.

You could say that again.

Begs the question though, why is she trying to say that?

They offer quick goodbyes and race out the door, Usa’s long skirt fluttering behind her.

Little Diana, half a cookie in her mouth, looks up at you with large eyes.

“Whas aw hath abouth,” she inquires through a value of crumbs.

~You’re better off not knowing now,~ you sigh to her as your cellphone rings, ~Hold on, I need to take this,~

Looking down at your phone, you see its a call from Kairi.

>Answer, you need to see what you best friend is up to
>Decline, there is a kitten girl with cookies in front of you. You’ll call her back.
>Something else, any details you feel are important
>Write in

>>34843427

>Answer, you need to see what you best friend is up to
>Ask her if she wants to meet the tiny cat girl

Given the last interlude we saw of her, she might need that.

>>34843427
>Answer, you need to see what you best friend is up to.
>Ask her if she wants to meet the tiny cat girl
yes anon >>34843495, she needs the cute salve to the soul only babies can provide.
>dumb question: remind me what the event we've got at 3 is, and who it's with?

>>34843427
>>Answer, you need to see what you best friend is up to
Duty calls.

Headpats for Diana, though

>>34843495
Sounds good. If she's calling it either means there's trouble, or she's free now, If it's trouble, well we gots to go. If not, she should mean Diana.

>>34843537
Catch the fashion circle meeting with Aki the young clothing designer aka the girl we met at midnight as well. Wants to learn about the fashion, has interest in using some as models, we aren't sure about modeling, but willing to hear more, particular to see what she's like when not meeting scary people at night,

>>34843554
Poor Di, she going to start associating phones with taking us away.

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>>34843658
Thank you, just got dome cramming for exam Monday, so I'm a little shaky up there.
>>34843678
not much needed to make that association for us... or the people around her for that matter.

>>34843495
This idea pleases me.

>>34843427
>Answer, you need to see what you best friend is up to

>>34843427
>Answer, you need to see what you best friend is up to
We really do have too much stuff going on. Better that we didn't choose to go with Usa, because today is going to be a fucking mess.

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>>34843495
I say do it!

Accepting the call, you bring the phone to your ear while dropping a stray hand onto Little Diana’s head and scratching a bit behind her ear. She instantly swallows her remaining cookie and phase shifts back into her cat form, nuzzling her head into your hand.

~Hey Kairi,~ you chirp, ~Do you want to meet the cutest baby cat girl ever?~

You hear whatever Kairi was about to say die in her throat and she gives a tired laugh.

“Yeah, sure Mikage,” she takes a deep breath, “I can be over in a few minutes, but two things first. One of which is important,”

~What’s up?~

“First, I regret telling my mother anything. She had me up at dawn to start a workout routine,”

~That’s not so bad. I keep a routine at LEAST three days a week,~ you shrug and snag a cookie.

“We finished ten minutes ago and I JUST got out of the shower. I was sweating places I didn’t know I could sweat. She’s putting me through a private boot camp because of my ‘poor showing’ last night,” she whines.

~Heh...sorry,~ you sheepishly admit, ~is that the important thing?~

“No. The important thing is that there was an attack at the Zodiac Academy for Girls Dormitory last night,” she explains, “Two girls were kidnapped from the top floor through a broken safety window,”

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>>34844462

~Zodiac...do you know their names?~

“No, but Nephrite said you were meeting with a couple of girls from that school after you finished smoothing out Beryl,” she says, “Was that you or is this something we should gear up to investigate?”

~It wasn’t me,~ you grouse, ~And I should be seeing someone from that school later today while incognito. We’ll talk more when you get here, and meet the cutest kitten that ever was,~

“You know I have seen her, when I was over the house the other day with everyone,” you can hear her roll her eyes.

~Yeah, but now she can shapeshift and is the most adorable thing ever,~ you explain.

“See you in a few, then,” Kairi confirms.

With a click the conversation ends. You look down at Diana who is watching you with large and reflective eyes.

“Do you have to go?” she asks sheepishly.

~In a bit, not not for a while. Actually a really good friend of mine is coming over. Do you want to meet here?~

She smiles and nods vigorously.

Things just keep getting more complicated, don’t they? It doesn’t matter, because despite all of this chaos...its the best you’ve felt in a long time.

Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 39 End

Panel Delayed, I am too wiped out to form cogent thoughts needed to run it. And I’m not sure a list has been hammered out.

Interlude Vote
>Tabula Rasa, weight upon the heart
>Unrelated involvement, their mother’s daughters
>Get knocked down, grit and get up again
>Stumbling down marital lane, remembering the steps

>>34844462
>attack at the Zodiac Academy for Girls Dormitory last night,” she explains, “Two girls were kidnapped from the top floor through a broken safety window
Shit.

>>34844488
>>Tabula Rasa, weight upon the heart

>>34844498

Tap Tap Tap

>>34844488
>Tabula Rasa, weight upon the heart

>>34844488
>Stumbling down marital lane, remembering the steps
Naru's mom reconnecting with her love? yes plz.
>>34844498
ditto. That's going to make the fashion meetup... complicated.

>>34844551
I don't think Nephrite ever had any contact with that Jewelry Store owning woman.

I think you meant Naru herself. And that would imply he could interact with things now outside of Kairi and the ring.

Who else do we know who recently got back together?

>>34844488
>>Get knocked down, grit and get up again
You're never going to keep me down.

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>>34844531
Indeed.

>>34844623
yes, sorry, I meant Naru herself. And last I checked, Kairi had him manifest before her as part of the reveal, and I think he spoke.

>>34844623
I got it: Rei and Yūichirō

>>34844752
Rin has a dad?

>>34844807
yep. Rei made him leave because of her vision of the massive catastrophe to come, Tokyo in flames, but one of the first things that happened, quest-wise, was he came back to be with his daughter and wife.

>>34844488
Moar tomorrow?
>Get knocked down, grit and get up again

Anyone feeling regret that we didn't shadow the primroses back to their dorms?

I know we would be super-tired, but we knew shady things were occurring already.

>>34845222
Hell, I wanted to take Sasha along to rampage through the school and see what turned up.

>>34845222
>>34845373
it was either that, or cookies with mom... tough choice, but I would make the same choice again. in the long run, we need those little moments of Love to keep us sane.

>>34844531
Waaaariors, come out to plaaaaaaaay

>>34844488
>>Unrelated involvement, their mother’s daughters

>>34844488
I wonder how long 'til Mini-Di starts shadowing Koyomi?

>>34846139
when she gets tired of being left behind, so not too long.

About what time tomorrow should I check back for the main quest?

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Uncertain of what time if any I can run tomorrow.

Announcement will come once I know whats going on. I may try to start running early. We'll see about the AM.

Maybe. Stay tuned to the twitter account for pertinent announcement.

>>34846471
Awesome. Thanks for running Arty!!

Goodnight all, good journey into the unknown, and good tidings for our continuing journey.

>>34847758
Night Art

>>34847758
Just so you know, this thread is at autosage and is already on page 9, so it probably won't last until morn.

>>34847823
An auspicious milestone.