Quote:Now, I had a thought just recently, while musing on this. The idea that Luna was a court flunky type seems to be one of the recurring memes of SM fanfic - tutor, nurse, lady in waiting, whatever. This can be argued as borne out by her attitude and her failure to train the Senshi better.
"Look, Luna, were you a military advisor back in the old Silver
M? Tactical advice, strategic things, stuff like that?"
The cat looked a bit confused. "Noooo," she admitted. "I was
a royal advisor on protocol and etiquette."
"Right," I said, valiantly avoiding sarcasm. "Well, then, Lu,
why don't you just leave the business of training Usagi to fight
in my hands, and when we find your Moon Princess, you can tell
us how to say hello to her properly."
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"You, I like. You're a mensch," I said, and Artemis preened.
I jerked a thumb toward Luna. "*She's* an old biddy." The
white cat snickered while Luna faced away from me and
superciliously raised her tail and nose.
It's pretty well established, I'll grant, that -whatever- her role and skills, Luna's a conservative sort.
But, here's a competing idea: Luna doesn't know small unit tactics... because she was a -naval- officer, not an army one. She's doing her level best to operate in a field that's -just- close enough to her own to cause the sneaky problems instead of obvious ones.
Artemis's problem is a little different, let's say, and cast him massively against type... as a spymaster. In the Moon Kingdom, he was James Bond's M. Now, this gave him the knowledge to do a decent job training Minako to operate on her own... but -he- was a lone operative, way back when, and his skillbase is heavily oriented towards that.
Blessed be.
-n
(Continuing the theme of playing with the chestnuts of the genre.)
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."