Stealing this meme from littledarkvoice

[eliyes]

Give me a character (or ten) from any fandom you know I'm in, and I'll let you know:

* How I FEEEEEL about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Comments

[taichara]

Mamoru ;3

THIS IS TOTALLY INCOHERENT (and contradicts itself in places)

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, there are like three versions. *facepalm* (Not counting Sera Myus.)

* Okay, first of all I feel that Mamoru got the most character development of his three versions in the original manga, even though it's technically shorter than the anime and (comparing how many episodes it took to cover the same story arc) PGSM. He's cuter in the manga, too, in how he acts and how he looks. He said he didn't have powers (like Sailor Moon's), but he did have some. He was just more useful, and more tragic, and still a bit of a trolling dick. XD Also I like his glasses. But when he's being a troll, especially when he's being a troll to cover confusion, amnesia, or strong emotion, I love him best. In the manga he's never as mean as he can be in the anime. Also his thing with the shitennou, in the manga and PGSM, makes me all teary, damn it. THE LOYALTY, IT GOES BOTH WAYS, AND EVEN AMNESIA AND BRAINWASHING NEVER TOTALLY SEVER IT. I LOVE THAT. That's not as strong in the anime.

But poor Mamoru, he got robbed of personality in favour of becoming The Bishie Boyfriend. And also he was killed at least once. And Neo-Queen Serenity is going to brainwash him and take over his planet! That sucks. But that's not Mamoru anymore, since we don't know how they got to that point, so let's ignore it.

* So this list is basically Usagi and Fiore. There are plenty of other characters interested in Mamoru, but these are the only two people with whom he seems to return the romantic interest. And I'm not sure his feelings for Fiore were romantic, given their ages when they met, but it's obvious they both felt something very strong. And I feel like Usagi will never totally understand Mamoru, but he understands her better than she understands herself sometimes, and I'm okay with that.

I AM NOT OKAY WITH NEO-QUEEN SERENITY, IF THAT WASN'T CLEAR.

* Mamoru and Motoki are BROS FOREVER! In all versions! Even though Motoki in PGSM is very different from in the manga and anime -- but PGSM!Motoki also gets more screen time, is a complete sweetheart, and is nice to cranky weirdoes from Jigoku, to the extent that it strongly looked like Nephrite decided to stay human when his power began to come back in part because of Motoki's friendship. Also, he's the only Motoki that bridges Mamoru's current life and friendships with those of Endymion.

Which brings us to the shintennou. OMFG THE SHINTENNOU AND ENDYMION/MAMORU, THEIR BOND IS SO AWESOME AND TRAGIC AND YET KIND OF BADASS. *fountains manry tears* I just, I kind of love them because of this, as a group and individually. The glance-back of recognition between Mamoru and Nephrite and the constant bickering brainwashed!Endymion and Kunzite had in the anime made me catch my breath and think really hard. They are to him what the guardian senshi are to Usagi, and the only way he gets to keep them is as a stone collection. That's so unfair.

* I'm going to refrain from answering this one because Sailor Moon fandom is fractious and factionalized, so one group's unpopular opinion is another group's Holy Writ, and I can't be bothered to keep track of them all.

* I wish he'd had more chance to be awesome. In the manga and the anime he was the Main Character's Fated Love Interest, so he had to be less powerful and got killed or sent away or brainwashed by Beryl or given amnesia again to get him out of the way for some plots, and those latter two actually got him more screentime than otherwise. PGSM actually gives Mamoru (and the other senshi) more time in the spotlight, to develop and relate to the people around them, than do the other two formats. So that was kind of nice, actually. But in the manga and the anime, he got blanderized and pushed to one side, and his daughter from the future had the hots for him which was HELLA CREEPY, so I wish that hadn't happened.

Re: THIS IS TOTALLY INCOHERENT (and contradicts itself in places)

[taichara]

Hehehe ;3

Manga!Mamoru is and always will be my favorite version -- and yeh, much like Tamahome he basically gets gutted in the anime version in order to be made into the Bishonen Boyfriend, which is damned annoying.

He doesn't come out of things quite so badly in the manga (as opposed to the anime) as you think, though. He gets shipped off for the Stars arc but otherwise has a decent showing for the Supporting Male Character [tm]; remember, the manga is where we get all the stuff about the Golden Crystal and Elysion and all, and where there's some cute scenes in the Black Moon arc (I think it's the Black Moon arc) with the youngster at school who idolizes him and sees him heal himself. I know there's other bits but my recollection is kind of blegh atm ~

I'm cool with the Beryl brainwashing in the manga, because that was kind of the whole point of what started the whole mess ;3~

Re: THIS IS TOTALLY INCOHERENT (and contradicts itself in places)

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I need to get around to reading Stars. >.>