dusting off unused characters

[gracemyheart]

Whaaaaat? You forgot about me? No way, that's impossible! No one could forget the goddess of love and beauty for long!

[...]

Now that I'm here, though, I hope you have something really, really fun in mind. I've been so bored, you wouldn't believe it!

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[waterfell]

Shall we have fun together?

[Might want to refuse that offer, considering the cold smile and the way light glints off the ice of her sword.]

[gracemyheart]

Huh? Who are you?

[...looks sort of like Mercury. Only not quite. Especially since Mercury has never had that expression on her face. Still, Minako will back away, suddenly wary, hand lifting to her chest in unconscious readiness to transform.]

[waterfell]

[She doesn't raise the weapon in threat, but she does take a decided pleasure in the introduction she's about to give.]

From the Dark Kingdom, the soldier of Water and Knowledge, Mercury.

[Her voice is deliberately overly sweet on the following words:] Don't you remember me, Sailor Venus?

[gracemyheart]

...Ami-chan?

[But wait. Dark Kingdom?

This is making no sense at all. Lots of things in Minako's life don't make sense, so when in doubt...

IT'S HENSHIN TIME.

And a few sparkles and lights later:]

Who are you and what have you done with Sailor Mercury?

[waterfell]

[Oh, Venus. If she stopped to think, she'd realize that very act and that very question meant Venus believed in her, to find it so incomprehensible that this could be Mizuno Ami.

But it is.]

This is who I am!

[gracemyheart]

But you're not Sailor Mercury— she would never work for the Dark Kingdom! Who are you?

[waterfell]

[The question shouldn't have been unsettling. But since... then... she'd begun to ask herself that very question. Venus' insistence that Mizuno Ami was the girl in those flashes of memory, among the sailor senshi, with them smiling...

But she was very very certain of her present. And she was even equally certain that she was Mizuno Ami.]

Oh, she'd side with them.

[moonlit_star]

And what did you have in mind for fun, Minako?

[strongestcoward]

You don't look like a goddess.

[gracemyheart]

Hah! Shows what you know!

[gracemyheart]

Hah.

[The denial is almost a graceless snort; Sailor Venus is all business now, none of Minako's bubbliness left to be seen.

She takes a step back into a ready stance, a swift gesture of her hands drawing her glowing chain between them.]

You really think I could believe that? I've known her far too long. Whoever you are, I can never forgive you for trying to trick me by wearing her face.

[strongestcoward]

You look like a human. [Which is said like 'trash.']

[gracemyheart]

Yeah, well, you look like...

[Pause. Um.]

...what are you, anyway?

[strongestcoward]

A god.

[A demon god, specifically, but he won't be saying that right now.]

And not fond of those trying to claim a rank they are unworthy of.

[misperceived]

The goddess of what now? [Oh, Chiasa heard, she's just- yeah. Goddess? Huh.]

How'd you get that job?

[waterfell]

[Oh, she has a feeling she can play a much, much worse trick. She smiles, almost pleasantly except that it's a sure sign of unpleasantness.]

Shall we fight, then?

[queenofnight]

How could your mun forget about you?

[She slowly starts to cry upon hearing this.]

[lead_shitennou]

Would you have enough manners to keep that infernal noise down, which you call your voice.

[pinkifying]

How could anyone forget you? You're too...exuberant!