Alright guys, need to ping the hive mind for this one.
I've had a terrible terrible idea.
And the fucking magnificent part is that it both makes sense AND it would be exactly the sort of thing that would happen to me.
See, once Hotaru gets her memories back, they're gonna be pretty vivid. And she's going to clearly remember her previous lover, the last Knight of Void.
Of whom young Benjamin would remind her very much of.
She is GOING to have hang ups about this.
Hang ups bad enough that she is going to push Ben away and break his heart.
Now, I already have the idea of putting in a 'sixth season'. So what if I set this Season after a time-skip. Benjamin has gone his own way, divorcing himself from the rest of the Senshi. They've defeated Galaxia, or at least the dark and destructive Chaos that had taken root in her. What more could there be? Benjamin says good bye and leaves Japan behind, going back to his family who had gone back to America and left him in Japan where he seemed happy.
The sad truth is that Ben just isn't right anymore. Everything that he's gone through, from basically being forced into being a child soldier by Queen Beryl to the 'I Have Seen Some Shit' memories from fighting the likes of Wiseman and Pharoh 90... And then in the end to be rejected by the girl he sees as the most perfect angel in the world... It just doesn't help. His mind goes to a bad place and it is hard as hell to get out of.
And by bad we mean he's practically killing himself by throwing himself at various crisis situations. Disasters and domestic terrorist attacks, and even the September 11th Attacks (he was not able to stop the planes, but he was at least able to get to the fourth one and safely land it).
No one talks much to or about Hotaru. They all know what she did to Ben, and even her relations with Chibi-Usa are strained. Hotaru may be the sort who would quickly do what's needed to make amends, but seeing as how she estrange their brother, their Ohana from them, it's going to take a lot of making up.
And one of those is going to be making things right with Benjamin.
Thing is, they all know that these two are pretty much meant for each other. Minako saw it clear as day. Rei did fire readings. Usagi SENSED it - the deep sense of budding adoration that would blossom into love. So what if he's not the reincarnation of the Void Knight? THE ONE YOU LOVE WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!
It takes her a while, and even a few heated shouting matches between herself and her adoptive parents*, but she finally comes to realize what she's done and goes out to find Benjamin.
In a ways it's easy to find him. Benjamin, in his anonymous identity granted by his Void Knight's armor, has gone to Afghanistan to help out however he can there, rooting out snipers and rescuing civilians. And yet he is bouncing around so tirelessly that it's difficult for even the Senshi of Death and Rebirth to pin him down.
It's not a pretty confrontation.
They meet in the midst of an intense firefight between Taliban guerilla fighters and coalition soldiers. Hotaru is horrified by the things she sees.
For Ben, this has become Tuesday.
"What do you want, Tomoe-san? I apologize for seeming rude, but I am incredibly busy here."
"I just wanted to ask you to come back."
"Tokyo is safe. I'm needed here."
"No, I should rephrase that. *I* need you back. I have been an idiot and a fool. I loved you before I got my memories back. I should not have allowed my old memories to influence me so."
"And you think that makes it okay now? Especially when there are dead and dying all around us? Especially when their are men with warped delusions that they are God's chosen ones raining death all around us?"
"No, it's not okay! I know I need to make things right with you! But I don't know where I can start!"
"Start by staying out of my way!"
And so it would go from there.
Sixth Season will be an entirely original plot I'm cooking up for Sailor Moon with a home-grown villain who has gotten themselves a piece of ancient Voider tech that was dangerously powerful - an entropy sink that makes a person quantum entangled with the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. And this person is entirely the wrong sort to have this kind of power.
Thoughts?
* - Haruka and Michiru had come to like Ben as well - For Haruka, Ben was her 'Little Motorhead' with his mechanical aptitude and love of all machinery; for Michiru he was a fellow creative spirit, loving music in all its various forms.
I've had a terrible terrible idea.
And the fucking magnificent part is that it both makes sense AND it would be exactly the sort of thing that would happen to me.
See, once Hotaru gets her memories back, they're gonna be pretty vivid. And she's going to clearly remember her previous lover, the last Knight of Void.
Of whom young Benjamin would remind her very much of.
She is GOING to have hang ups about this.
Hang ups bad enough that she is going to push Ben away and break his heart.
Now, I already have the idea of putting in a 'sixth season'. So what if I set this Season after a time-skip. Benjamin has gone his own way, divorcing himself from the rest of the Senshi. They've defeated Galaxia, or at least the dark and destructive Chaos that had taken root in her. What more could there be? Benjamin says good bye and leaves Japan behind, going back to his family who had gone back to America and left him in Japan where he seemed happy.
The sad truth is that Ben just isn't right anymore. Everything that he's gone through, from basically being forced into being a child soldier by Queen Beryl to the 'I Have Seen Some Shit' memories from fighting the likes of Wiseman and Pharoh 90... And then in the end to be rejected by the girl he sees as the most perfect angel in the world... It just doesn't help. His mind goes to a bad place and it is hard as hell to get out of.
And by bad we mean he's practically killing himself by throwing himself at various crisis situations. Disasters and domestic terrorist attacks, and even the September 11th Attacks (he was not able to stop the planes, but he was at least able to get to the fourth one and safely land it).
No one talks much to or about Hotaru. They all know what she did to Ben, and even her relations with Chibi-Usa are strained. Hotaru may be the sort who would quickly do what's needed to make amends, but seeing as how she estrange their brother, their Ohana from them, it's going to take a lot of making up.
And one of those is going to be making things right with Benjamin.
Thing is, they all know that these two are pretty much meant for each other. Minako saw it clear as day. Rei did fire readings. Usagi SENSED it - the deep sense of budding adoration that would blossom into love. So what if he's not the reincarnation of the Void Knight? THE ONE YOU LOVE WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!
It takes her a while, and even a few heated shouting matches between herself and her adoptive parents*, but she finally comes to realize what she's done and goes out to find Benjamin.
In a ways it's easy to find him. Benjamin, in his anonymous identity granted by his Void Knight's armor, has gone to Afghanistan to help out however he can there, rooting out snipers and rescuing civilians. And yet he is bouncing around so tirelessly that it's difficult for even the Senshi of Death and Rebirth to pin him down.
It's not a pretty confrontation.
They meet in the midst of an intense firefight between Taliban guerilla fighters and coalition soldiers. Hotaru is horrified by the things she sees.
For Ben, this has become Tuesday.
"What do you want, Tomoe-san? I apologize for seeming rude, but I am incredibly busy here."
"I just wanted to ask you to come back."
"Tokyo is safe. I'm needed here."
"No, I should rephrase that. *I* need you back. I have been an idiot and a fool. I loved you before I got my memories back. I should not have allowed my old memories to influence me so."
"And you think that makes it okay now? Especially when there are dead and dying all around us? Especially when their are men with warped delusions that they are God's chosen ones raining death all around us?"
"No, it's not okay! I know I need to make things right with you! But I don't know where I can start!"
"Start by staying out of my way!"
And so it would go from there.
Sixth Season will be an entirely original plot I'm cooking up for Sailor Moon with a home-grown villain who has gotten themselves a piece of ancient Voider tech that was dangerously powerful - an entropy sink that makes a person quantum entangled with the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. And this person is entirely the wrong sort to have this kind of power.
Thoughts?
* - Haruka and Michiru had come to like Ben as well - For Haruka, Ben was her 'Little Motorhead' with his mechanical aptitude and love of all machinery; for Michiru he was a fellow creative spirit, loving music in all its various forms.