Elucidating Questions

When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I was five

I wanted to be a Sailor Senshi

The epic romance optional because, well, I was five

I wanted best friends who knew me better than anyone else

I wanted to fight evil

I had no idea that the evil they conjured up on TV was nothing like the real evil in this world

Never knew there were actually bad guys in control of the Earth

Didn’t know good had lost long before my breath had even entered my body

I wanted to fight the bad guys

Didn’t realise how many there are

Or that they weren’t aliens

They were just humans

Or that just humans had already been in the process of destroying said Earth

Didn’t know there was nothing I could do about it

I was five, I didn’t realise that Usagi was 14 (rather didn’t have a grasp that teenagers weren’t adults)

Everyone goes to school right?

Silly young me

I feel bad for them

That they’re going to find out time and again that the evil on the screen is nothing compared to real life

The things humans will do to eachother

Other living beings

The Earth

I don’t know what I’d say if I had to face that child

I’m sorry the world is so much more brutal than you can imagine

Except maybe I’m not because my shock at the brutality of the world means I wouldn’t do those things

Unfortunately, in this world, that makes you a loser