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[Usagi is not smooth in the slightest when it comes to pickup lines, so if she ever is, it's by pure accident]

EEEEEEEEEE YOU'RE THE BEST! AND ANY TIME! Like... okay well maybe not NOW, I am under strict rest and relaxation orders but maybe later in the week?

Ah, Makoto's orders, I take it? Later in the week it is then. How has she been settling in?

It... yeah. She opened my eyes to just... how ragged I've been running myself... again.

And good! She's making friends and fast, which was always her problem back home but here she fits right in!

Ah, so there is somebody you'll listen to on that front. You'll have to thank her for me.

[She teases, fully aware that she can be just as bad, if not outright worse.]

That's good. She seems like a very good friend, and I'm glad you have someone else from your world to keep you company.

Edited 2017-09-05 06:53 (UTC)

I listen to Setsuna-san too! [Probably more in fact cause Sailor Pluto is just that wise.]

Ah yeah, she's one of my best friends. I love Setsuna-san, but we're not the same age, ya know? She's more like a mom and Mako-chan is more like a sister.

I do love them both though.

AND HEY! I LISTEN TO OTHER PEOPLE!

[Okay, she can't help but laugh a little at that.]

So you say, twice even.

Very well, later this week it is. Where would you like to meet up?

How about my house! I'll make you some pancakes as a thank you! Have you ever had my pancakes, Allura?

I can't say that I have; Hunk makes them fairly often at our house, but I haven't had much chance to taste others' variations.

[Meanwhile, she's very lightly happier that Usagi's wanting to cook for her.]

Well, they're one of the things I've actually perfected, so now you can have mine! What kinda fruit would you want with it?

I think you know I'll like any kind of berry you put on them, but I'll leave the choice up to you. They're your pancakes after all.

Strawberries it is! Those are my favorite!

[Fast forward to the end of the week, and an Allura prepared to be especially prim is calling at the Moon House door.]

Usagi? It's Allura!

[Usagi opened the door before she hurried back to the kitchen.]

Come on in, Allura, house slippers by the door!

Sorry just don't want the pancakes to burn, taking the last ones off the stovetop! Will be there in a sec! Just have a seat in the dining room!

[She can't help but chuckle a bit as Usagi dashes back, calling out a "thank you" before changing into the slippers and making her way to the dining room.]

How are you doing today?

GOOD! [She called from the kitchen, a few minutes later, she walked out, a plate of pancakes in hand, each one covered in strawberries made to be in the shape of a rabbit atop the pancakes. Juice and tea were on the table as were place settings.]

Breakfast is served! [She and the girls tended for a more traditional Japanese breakfast, but the point was pancakes since it was something she knew how to make.]

[Yes good, Makoto approves from wherever she is offscreen. And Allura's grateful too, smiling and even lightly blushing at the cute shape in the strawberries.]

Thank you very much; these look delicious. [She gives a quick but formal "itadakimasu," habit learned from sharing quite a few meals with Usagi by now, takes a bite, and the air begins to faintly sparkle.] Mm, and I was right!

Hee! [She hadn't eaten anything yet, just watching Allura eat and then little bubbles filled with light appeared around her head.] I'm really glad you like it!

[A few more happy bites... and then Allura puts on her business face, laced with some concern for her friend.]

So why don't you start by giving me an overview of what was troubling you at the meeting. I was a bit focused on the discussion concerning arrivals. I'm... sorry I couldn't leave to talk with you when you got too frustrated, or afterwards.

Well, for starters, even though they didn't mean me personally it sure as hell FELT personal when they made all their snide, snippy, asshole comments. Leia-san even had to point out to me it WASN'T personal, and she shouldn't HAVE to do that.

Then it was like people only focused on my ONE idea for a while and I know it wasn't the greatest but I just wanted to get SOME sort of idea out there to get stuff started but rather than using that as a "and here's another idea" sorta way, it just felt like everyone wanted to critique the one idea.

Now I don't even want to start up a topic no matter how important it might be.

[Allura sighs and shakes her head, smiling with an odd mix of exasperation and nostalgia.]

Reminds me of some of my first practice forums back on Altea. Thankfully I had a few classes with children of other nobles and politicians, from Altea, the surrounding planets, and a few others, so we could have hands-on experience communicating with other people and especially other cultures.

Even more thankfully they were just practice forums so those first arguments didn't have an actual impact on interplanetary politics; I remember myself and two other girls trying to settle one "debate" over tellurium crystal tariffs by tackling each other to the floor and trying to pull each other's hair out. Oh, you can IMAGINE how embarrassed my father and Coran were!

Edited 2017-09-08 09:39 (UTC)

[Usagi smiles because the story IS funny, and she's glad to hear about Allura not being a perfect politician out the gate. However...]

While I don't think anyone would stop me from punching General Hux in the face, pretty sure it wouldn't help the committee stay peaceful. [Or that Kylo Ren jerk.]

Very true.

If you want my honest opinion, for a first meeting, you actually handled yourself... decently. Definitely in need of improvement, but you had good ideas, made an attempt at listening to other people, and when you realized you were reaching a certain level of frustration, you took a reprieve.

However, as you said, right now your temper and inability to be objective are your greatest weaknesses, and frankly I was surprised by it myself, considering how calm you usually are on missions, or on one-on-one mediation. Was anything else wrong at the time?

Edited 2017-09-08 10:37 (UTC)

Missions and one-on-one's aren't really the same. Like- during missions I'm Sailor Moon and I have my power, I have the ability to back myself up if something goes wrong. One-on-one is easier too... but...

I guess maybe the topic was the problem.

I'm... mnn... okay... so, you know how this world is all about balance? It's not that I can't hate, be jealous, or be angry, I can and I have been. But I have for so many years, fought with love, trust, and hope. There was never a situation I could not handle by not loving someone.

Even if Elios' condition isn't- wasn't all my fault [And she sure as hell blamed herself for it.] and that it had been going on for months... telling me "you suddenly have to hate," you know... just [Her fists clenched and she knocked the wood of the table.] It is so FRUSTRATING to have those JERKS who I've only EVER seen be assholes telling me how they can control and dampen their hate and anger if it's for the greater good but I've NEVER seen it.

Do you know how embarrassing it is to have those-those assholes sneer about my inability to hate when I've NEVER seen them show a single ounce of kindness or love but I'm the unbalanced asshole instead?

Edited 2017-09-08 20:27 (UTC)

[Allura frowns at Usagi pounding on the table, but stays quiet. When she speaks she's calm but very serious.]

Yes, I do. Unfortunately, negotiating with people you don't agree with- even STRONGLY so- is an essential part of political discourse. [She points to Usagi's fist.] Frustration is natural, but that is unacceptable, and can even be dangerous in the right circumstances. What if you find yourself needing to discuss matters with a people's leader a hair's breadth from declaring war on yours? You need to remember that this isn't just about you and them, Usagi Tsukino: you have been chosen to represent the well being and safety of someone who cannot do so themselves. In that chamber, you're not talking for yourself but for them.

Edited 2017-09-08 22:00 (UTC)

I KNOW THAT! [She stood up... and took a deep breath, sitting back down and resting her head in her hands.] I know that.

But what YOU aren't understanding is that I have people who will seek my death no matter how I act because that's what they want above all else, Allura. They want me dead, they want my planet as their own, but most of all, they don't care about any suffering they cause, that's what they WANT. I'm not dealing with someone who is a hair breadth from declaring war on me, Allura. I'm dealing with people whose ultimate goal is killing me and that is what is on their mind the entire time. It doesn't matter that they can't use my powers if I die, it doesn't matter that only I or someone of my linage can use my powers because they're linked to me, if they can't have that power, then all they want is to destroy it. Or if not to destroy it, to prove they are stronger than me and kill me for that instead.

And even though that isn't the case HERE, I can't apply the same thing here because we don't even HAVE a queen of Earth until I become it alongside Mamoru. I don't know what, how, or WHY, but somehow I become queen of the whole Earth. Never mind all the countries on Earth, and all the governments, and everything else, I've got all that plus people just wanting to kill me for existing cause I'm in their way.

I'm not... I'm not ready for that. [She finally admitted.] I'm not smart, I'm not tactful, I'm not political...

I'm a dumb blonde who is the reincarnation of a moon princess.

Edited 2017-09-08 22:05 (UTC)

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