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fake dating

SECRET dating

being locked in a room or trapped in a small space

huDDLING FOR WARMTH

BEING ON THE BRINK OF ADMITTING THEIR FEELINGS FOR EACH OTHER BUT THEN GETTING INTERRUPTED

finishing each other’s sentences, KNOWING WHAT THE OTHER IS ABOUT TO SAY

tou chi NG!!!! FOr eheA DS!!!!!!11!!

wearing each other’s clothes

doing that thing where they accidentally get real close and, like, stare meaningfully at each other for a few seconds too long

channeling the inner romcom and having an epiphany about how much they care about each other and RACING TO CONFESS THEIR LOVE

fucking. Now or Never Kiss

HEIGHT DIFFERENCES

defending each other to scathing tertiary or otherwise minor characters but ONLY WHEN THE OTHER ISN’T AROUND

reincarnation or time loop or OOOOH TIME TRAVEL SCENARIOS

dramatically saving each other from certain death or barely surviving something that almost makes the other break down and just smirking wearily and mumbling flippant smartass remarks to HIDE THE DEPTH OF THEIR FEELINGS

undercover as lovers, the classic

ALMOST KISSING. like getting so close that they start to close their eyes and hold their breath and then SOMETHING HAPPENS and they jump apart, that is MORE VALUABLE THAN ANY ACTUAL KISSING

casually sitting on each other’s laps during ensemble cast conversations or scenes

YESSSS!!!!!

The Character-Driven Plot Wheel

1. Emotions drive actions.

Make your hero act on their deepfelt emotions. This not only adds meaning to their actions, but also helps communicate to readers your hero’s core emotional struggle.

2. Actions trigger consequences.

When your hero acts, give their actions consequences that affect the plot, themselves, and/or the surrounding characters. For example, driven by curiosity, maybe your hero opens Pandora’s box; maybe they act recklessly and someone dies; or maybe they stand up for what they believe in, but at great personal cost. Consequences raise the stakes and empower your hero with agency.

3. Consequences compel change.

Use the consequences of your hero’s actions to create a crucible of growth — challenges and situations that force them to take the next step on their character journey. That step may be forward, or backward, and it may be large or small; but something inside them changes.

4. Change influences emotions.

When a character goes through a change, even a small one, allow it to affect them emotionally. Maybe they feel increasingly frustrated or guilty. Maybe they’re afraid, having just taken another step closer to abandoning their old way of seeing the world. Or maybe they finally feel peace.

Regardless of the form it takes, remember to reflect your hero’s change in their emotions. Then let their emotions drive action, to trigger consequences, which will compel further change.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

And there you have it! That’s how you write a character-driven plot.

So what do you say?

Give the wheel a spin.

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Now brace yourself cause this is going to be loooooooooong

In the infinity arc,after eternal sailor moon purifies the galaxy cauldron from Chaos presence with her sacrifice, Usagi and all others are restored to their original forms, as well as all other sailor scouts that were captured and melted away by Sailor Galaxia, the inner and outter scouts along with Mamoru and Chibiusa are reunited inside the cauldron.

That`s when Cosmos star seed guardian fairy appears and explains how Queen Serenity brought the princess star seed to the cauldron to be reborn on Earth during “our” time.

The guardian offers two paths for Sailor Moon. She can do as Queen Serenity did back at the time of the Silver Millenium, throw her life at the cauldron and restart anew. Or remain inside the galaxy caludron in this form. Sailor Moon chooses a human life, no matter how many times Chaos is reborn. 

Now this is basically how the rebirth system of the stars works. Why do I think this is crucial for Sailor Moon crystal is that, now that we have this information, we can nurture hope for the Shitennou and here is why. But before I continue I want to make it clear that according to the manga the shitennou do not have sailor crystals, Naoko Takeuchi mentioned once that only Mamoru had a sailor crystal being male. But sailor moon CRYSTAL MIGHT change this into giving the shitennou sailor crystals as well or something similar as each would guard a section of the STAR of Earth, same way the Amazoness quartet are less than planets, being asteroids, but have sailor crystals. The manga often mentions how unique Earth was, so this might also cause Mamoru`s guardians to be exceptions like himself, being male sailor crystals. But this is all speculation on my part. OK! SO, ON WITH THE SPECULATION 

In sailor moon crystal there is a distinctive change to the shitennou rebirth. Which made them more similar to what happened to the Amazoness Quartet. The four future guardians of Chibi Moon are corrupted by Chaos as Metallia, turned to stones for their failure and restored by Neo Queen Serenity

We could stop here and hope that Neo Queen Serenity had the power to restore the Shitennou stones back to their forms. But I want to build in reasons as to how and why Crystal Shitennou can be more similar to the Amazoness quartet than the manga counterparts.

So, in the manga, it wasnt clear if the Shitennou were victims or made a conscious choice of betraying their master. Some parts are, however, very similar to the Amazoness situation.

Both use the term enslaved, might be a different word used on each case on the original language, but still, this gives us manga-wise support for the shitennou innocence. Sailor Moon Crystal is less dubious on that.Clearly stating all humans were brainwashed, including the Shitennou. But Kunzite`s line is considerably different from the manga, instead of “selling themselves”, they “fall for her schemes”. Before we had the idea of perpetual enslaving, now the doom of the four kings is only for this time, is not something sealed away into eternity.

So much this breaks the hold Beryl had over them in the manga, that instead of repeating what he does in the manga, which is merely questioning Beryl, he and his three companions turn fully against Beryl and attempt to attack her. In the manga Beryl reminds him that he sold himself to Metalia, but in SM Crystal, the stones on their foreheads turn black, which strongly suggests brainwashing and even possession.

In their rebirth, they were returned to the Cauldron, along with the Senshi, Endymion and Serenity,as Galaxia herself proclaims, that all is created in the cauldron. I find it curious that Strong stars are not necessarily Sailor Scouts in her line here.

And Beryl promised the reborn Kunzite to restore the other three`s bodies, but they perished into stones. We might be able to consider this stones, their star crystals, therefore enabling their return.

The explanation one of Galaxia`s servant Sailor Phi gives for the star crystals is familiar to the state the Shitennou are reduced as stones.

At first I would doubt that the Shitennou could be considered to have star crystals, but then one of Usagi`s final line to Mamoru, makes me wonder if the Shitennou could have star seeds/crystals and thus be included in the whole rebirth plot over and over again, as many times as the senshi, serenity and endymion would be reborn.

So i truly think that Sailor Moon CRYSTAL will bring the Shitennou back, be on this arc, or in the infinity arc for Cristal Tokyo.

Now brace yourself cause this is going to be loooooooooong

In the infinity arc,after eternal sailor moon purifies the galaxy cauldron from Chaos presence with her sacrifice, Usagi and all others are restored to their original forms, as well as all other sailor scouts that were captured and melted away by Sailor Galaxia, the inner and outter scouts along with Mamoru and Chibiusa are reunited inside the cauldron.

That`s when Cosmos star seed guardian fairy appears and explains how Queen Serenity brought the princess star seed to the cauldron to be reborn on Earth during “our” time.

The guardian offers two paths for Sailor Moon. She can do as Queen Serenity did back at the time of the Silver Millenium, throw her life at the cauldron and restart anew. Or remain inside the galaxy caludron in this form. Sailor Moon chooses a human life, no matter how many times Chaos is reborn. 

Now this is basically how the rebirth system of the stars works. Why do I think this is crucial for Sailor Moon crystal is that, now that we have this information, we can nurture hope for the Shitennou and here is why. But before I continue I want to make it clear that according to the manga the shitennou do not have sailor crystals, Naoko Takeuchi mentioned once that only Mamoru had a sailor crystal being male. But sailor moon CRYSTAL MIGHT change this into giving the shitennou sailor crystals as well or something similar as each would guard a section of the STAR of Earth, same way the Amazoness quartet are less than planets, being asteroids, but have sailor crystals. The manga often mentions how unique Earth was, so this might also cause Mamoru`s guardians to be exceptions like himself, being male sailor crystals. But this is all speculation on my part. OK! SO, ON WITH THE SPECULATION 

In sailor moon crystal there is a distinctive change to the shitennou rebirth. Which made them more similar to what happened to the Amazoness Quartet. The four future guardians of Chibi Moon are corrupted by Chaos as Metallia, turned to stones for their failure and restored by Neo Queen Serenity

We could stop here and hope that Neo Queen Serenity had the power to restore the Shitennou stones back to their forms. But I want to build in reasons as to how and why Crystal Shitennou can be more similar to the Amazoness quartet than the manga counterparts.

So, in the manga, it wasnt clear if the Shitennou were victims or made a conscious choice of betraying their master. Some parts are, however, very similar to the Amazoness situation.

Both use the term enslaved, might be a different word used on each case on the original language, but still, this gives us manga-wise support for the shitennou innocence. Sailor Moon Crystal is less dubious on that.Clearly stating all humans were brainwashed, including the Shitennou. But Kunzite`s line is considerably different from the manga, instead of “selling themselves”, they “fall for her schemes”. Before we had the idea of perpetual enslaving, now the doom of the four kings is only for this time, is not something sealed away into eternity.

So much this breaks the hold Beryl had over them in the manga, that instead of repeating what he does in the manga, which is merely questioning Beryl, he and his three companions turn fully against Beryl and attempt to attack her. In the manga Beryl reminds him that he sold himself to Metalia, but in SM Crystal, the stones on their foreheads turn black, which strongly suggests brainwashing and even possession.

In their rebirth, they were returned to the Cauldron, along with the Senshi, Endymion and Serenity,as Galaxia herself proclaims, that all is created in the cauldron. I find it curious that Strong stars are not necessarily Sailor Scouts in her line here.

And Beryl promised the reborn Kunzite to restore the other three`s bodies, but they perished into stones. We might be able to consider this stones, their star crystals, therefore enabling their return.

The explanation one of Galaxia`s servant Sailor Phi gives for the star crystals is familiar to the state the Shitennou are reduced as stones.

At first I would doubt that the Shitennou could be considered to have star crystals, but then one of Usagi`s final line to Mamoru, makes me wonder if the Shitennou could have star seeds/crystals and thus be included in the whole rebirth plot over and over again, as many times as the senshi, serenity and endymion would be reborn.

So i truly think that Sailor Moon CRYSTAL will bring the Shitennou back, be on this arc, or in the infinity arc for Cristal Tokyo.

I love it when Mamoru calls Usagi “Usako”, and although I’m sure everyone already knows what -ko means, let me gush over it for a second😂 

So adding the suffix -ko, make someone’s name sound more feminine (which I’m sure everyone is well aware of). It’s a bit old-fashioned but -ko is a fairly common nickname for women. But on top of making it sound more feminine, calling someone -ko sort of displays the speaker’s affection AND possessiveness towards the other person. Like if my name was Nana and someone called me “Nana-ko”, that would pretty much sound like “You are my girl (whether that’s a girlfriend or a wife)” to me. And for those listening, it will sound like “you know, she is my girl”. And because of this -ko is usually a nickname only allowed for your significant other (and maaaybe a really good friend). So If someone calls you -ko out of blue, and you don’t know this person very well or don’t LIKE this person, it could be super awkward, intrusive even. 

Here Mamoru calls Usagi “Usako” for the first time and Usagi blushes hearing it. This shows that 1) Mamoru has feelings for her (obviously) and is willing to let her know his feelings 2) Usagi has feelings for him too (obviously), enough to be comfortable with him calling her that. ….Yeah, I mean, how sweet is that? (And personally I don’t even know how Mamoru would know -ko in the first place because he could not have picked it up from his parents and he doesn’t really seem like the person to watch a lot of romcom tv shows and stuff) 

Please please please keep sharing details like this with us! I live for learning details like this. I had no idea that adding “-ko” at the equates to “you’re my girl”! This makes me love the name Usako even more.

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