SAILOR MOON (Usagi Tsukino, aka Princess Serenity, Neo-Queen Serenity)
Dub Name: Serena
Role: The Main Hero, The Crybaby
Main Fuku Colour: Blue
Elemental Alignment: Love
Hair Colour: Strawberry Blonde
PL 12 (175)
STRENGTH 0/1 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 1
INTELLIGENCE 0 AWARENESS 0 PRESENCE 4
Skills:
Athletics 6 (+6, +7 Sailor)
Deception 2 (+6, +8 Attractive)
Expertise (Pop Culture) 10 (+10)
Investigation 3 (+3)
Perception 3 (+3)
Persuasion 5 (+9, +11 Attractive)
Ranged Combat (Moon Attacks) 2 (+9)
Stealth 1 (+4)
Advantages:
Attractive, Daze (Persuasion), Defensive Attack, Equipment (Sailor Communicator), Ranged Attack 5, Taunt, Teamwork, Ultimate Will Save
Powers:
"Sailor Strength"
Enhanced Strength 1 [2]
Strength-Damage +2 [2]
Leaping 2 (30 feet) [2]
Movement 1 (Safe Fall) [2]
Features 1: Boots Form Ice Skates [1]
"Sailor Planet Attack!" Damage 14 (Extras: Area- 60ft. Burst +2, Penetrating 6) (Flaws: Requires Other Sailors -2) (20) -- [23]
- AE: "Sonic Cry Attack" Affliction 5 (Fort; Dazed/Stunned) (Extras: Area- Hearing Perception) (Flaws: Limited Degree) (5)
- AE: "Sailor Teleport!" Teleport 14 (Extras: Extended Only +0, Accurate) (Flaws: Requires Other Sailors -2) (14)
- AE: "Sailor Planet Power!" Force Field 8 (Flaws: Requires Other Sailors -2) (2)
"Moon Tiara Stardust!" Nullify Mind Control 8 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Cloud +2) (24) -- (26 points)
- AE: "Moon Tiara Action!" Blast 9 (Feats: Accurate, Ricochet 3, Homing) (23)
- AE: "Moon Tiara Snare" Snare 8 (Feats: Accurate, Reversible) (Flaws: Limited to One Target) (18)
Morph 2 (Women) (10 points)
"Spiral Heart Moon Rod" (Flaws: Easily Removable) [27]
"Moon Spiral Heart Attack!" Blast 14 Linked to Weaken Toughness 14 (Extras: Ranged) (Flaws: Distracting) (42) -- (44 points)
- AE: "Rainbow Moon Heart Ache!" Blast 16 (Flaws: Source- Holy Grail) Linked to Weaken Toughness 16 (Extras: Ranged) (Flaws: Distracting) (32)
- AE: "Giant Heart Attack" Damage 10 (Extras: 60ft. Heart-Shaped Burst +2) (Flaws: Distracting) (20)
Unarmed +6 (+0 Damage, DC 15)
Sailor Strength +6 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Moon Tiara Action! +10 (+9 Ranged Damage, DC 24)
Moon Spiral Heart Attack +8 (+14 Ranged Damage, 29)
Rainbow Moon Heart Ache +8 (+16 Ranged Damage, DC 31)
Giant Heart Attack +10 Area (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Planet Attack +14 Area (+14 Damage, DC 29)
Initiative +9
Defenses:
Dodge +11 (DC 21), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness +4, Fortitude +5, Will +10
Complications:
Power Loss (All Powers)- Sailor Senshi must be able to gesture and speak freely to use their powers. If they are Bound or Snared, they cannot use their attacks easily.
Normal Identity (Tsukino Usagi, Without Power Stick)
Responsibility (Sailor Senshi)- The Senshi are charged to fight evil.
Responsibility (Schooling)- Unfortunately, Usagi is terrible at it.
Secret (Identity)- The Senshi must not reveal their identities to the world at large, nor their villains.
Responsibility (Princess Serenity)- Usagi/Serena is both the Princess of the Moon Kingdom, and the future Queen of the World. This makes her many enemies, and gives her numerous responsibilities.
Responsibility (I Just Want To Be Normal)- Usagi hates the constant violence, and the threats against her life. Her fondest wish is to "just be a normal girl" once again, and leave all this super-heroing behind.
Power Loss (All Powers)- At times, Usagi's desire to be normal actually affects her powers, and she loses her special abilities.
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Responsibility (Lazy)- Usagi does not like to do things that require effort.
Responsibility (Gluttonous)- Usagi LOOOOOOOOOOOVES to eat, particularly sweet things.
Responsibility (Incompetent)- Usagi is a poor student.
Responsibility (Sleepyhead)- Usagi is famous for her ability to sleep in past her alarm and be late for school.
Responsibility (Crybaby)- Usagi's first reaction to almost every bit of stress, for YEARS, was to openly cry rivers of tears.
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Relationship (Naru Osaka)- Naru was Usagi's best friend in the early days- it was them plus two other background girls, and later, only Naru as Usagi's Non-Sailor-Friend.
Relationship (Ami- Sailor Mercury)- Usagi was the only person to befriend the "snobbish" world-class student, and deeply admires Ami's brilliance.
Relationship (Rei- Sailor Mars)- Sailor Mars is grouchy, hard-working, snide and arrogant- she despises all of Usagi's above-mentioned Responsibilities, and is constantly screaming at her to improve. Usagi both hates to be insulted, and spitefully argues back with Rei, who is "So mean!" The two pick at and tease each other, and generally never go more than a day without a big fight. However, Usagi deeply respects Rei's work ethic, beauty, grace and toughness- it is Rei to whom Usagi entrusts the Silver Crystal when she fears she'll break and give it up, and it is Rei's loss that Usagi feels most deeply at D-Point.
Relationship (Mamoru/Tuxedo Mask)- Usagi & Mamoru argued non-stop at first, with him gladly teasing the silly young girl. However, she had a serious crush on the mysterious, handsome Tuxedo Mask, who always came to her rescue. Only later did they realize their true feelings for one another, as they were in fact lovers in another life, and destined to be together in the future. When he breaks up with her in Sailor Moon R, she is emotionally shattered to the point where even her closest friends won't tease her.
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Relationship (Minako- Sailor Venus)- Usagi was once worshipful of the possibly-fictional Sailor V, but soon comes to view Minako as a kindred spirit in Idol-loving weirdness.
Relationship (Makoto- Sailor Jupiter)- Usagi was the only person to befriend the violent giantess, and comes to deeply admire Mako's strength, hatred of bullies, and cooking ability. That the two have the same taste in men (such as Motoki) is helpful as well.
Relationship (Motoki)- Usagi nursed a serious, but childlike, crush on Motoki Furuhata in the first season.
Relationship (Chibi-Usa)- Usagi finds the bratty little "spore" as annoying as anything- the two are entirely too much alike. It's only later, once she realizes that "Little Usagi" is actually her own DAUGHTER, from the future, that they start to get along.
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Phobia (Thunder)- Usagi is petrified of thunder, to the point of screaming, crying and running away to hide when she hears it.
Responsibility (Believes in People)- Usagi has an obsessive desire to see the best in people- she refuses to see only the negatives, and is constantly willing to help, even towards people who despise her (like Nastumi/An).
Responsibility (That Kind Of Girl)- Usagi tends to draw strong reactions from some men, who fall obsessively in love with her at first sight. Umino crushes on her during their time at Junior High. Seijuro/Ail openly crushes on her as soon as he comes to Earth, almost abandoning his lifelong companion for her. Prince Demande is so obsessed with Sailor Moon/Neo-Queen Serenity that he tries to use his powers to RAPE HER.
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Enemy (The Dark Kingdom, Ail & An, The Black Moon Clan, The Death Busters, Queen Nehellenia, Sailor Galaxia)
Total: Abilities: 38 / Skills: 32--16 / Advantages: 12 / Powers: 86 / Defenses: 23 (175)
Sailor Moon- Loser-As-Audience-Surrogate:
-Sailor Moon is a character that I found tough to like. Given that the TV show is CALLED Sailor Moon, this is perhaps not a good thing, but let's face it- the girl is kind of annoying. It's ultimately the POINT of her character, though- she's meant to represent the "Everygirl". Rather than excelling at things or being a role model, she's lazy, clumsy, a sleepyhead, a crybaby, argumentative, and prone to mindless crushes. Running gags about her involve incredible gluttony (scarfing down candy by the ton) or sloth (her mother is constantly screaming at her over being late for school). She's even DUMB- her repeated failures on tests is another constant source of embarrassment- in the first first episode, some handsome stranger sees her crumpled-up test score and asks if she's "just stupid".
-One thing that's clearer in retrospect, and when I've read other retrospectives on the series, is that Usagi is basically an innocent, guileless person who believes in EVERYONE. When all of the other students are talking about shunning the brilliant, stand-offish newcomer, Usagi's the own who cuts through Ami Mizuno's defensive walls and realizes that the girl's not a snob after all. Similarly, when Makoto Kino comes to school and is openly feared as a hostile brawler, Usagi ignores their protests and makes a new friend forever. Repeatedly throughout the show, Usagi does this- ignoring the detractors, and fighting past people's defensiveness, and willingly helps people out. And really, no other character could have drawn quite the reaction we get out of her in Sailor Moon R, when she has her heart broken by Mamoru, and becomes so emotionally devastated that she can barely function, actually staring at him with a desperate smile and pleading, tear-filled eyes. It's INSANE.
-She's also a weak link in battles, and runs screaming from just about every bad guy in the early days. She cries when hurt, whines about bruises, and generally doesn't act like any real superhero. She even mourns the loss of a "normal life", and bemoans the fact that she just has to get into recurring battles and watch her dearest friends get hurt. In this, she's actually quite realistic- I think plenty of normal people, even those who idolize and fantasize about the "Superhero Lifestyle", would pretty quickly get sick of holding their bleeding loved ones or fighting monsters.
-But yeah, I found her annoying. That every male character seemed to fall in love with her instantly only made me MORE annoyed (I mean, Sailor Mars is right there). Thankfully, Mars was around to speak for people like me. That said, it was pretty neat by the end of Sailor Moon R how she'd basically had to accept her life, and instead of crying about every little thing, she decided to suck it up and walk straight into danger without even putting the others in the line of fire with her.
Sailor Moon's Powers:
-Sailor Moon is easily the most powerful Senshi, which makes her tricky to stat out. She's the worst fighter overall, and is generally the least-skilled or physically capable one, which reduces her points-cost considerably. But all those powers.... they need some explanation. The Disguise Pen was rarely-used after the first season, but allowed her to disguise herself back when there weren't five Senshi kicking around and you had one character doing everything. Her Tiara is statted separately from her other attacks, since it's a Removable Device that retained its power over the years (mainly in movies). It has been a Blast, a Snare and even once nullified Mind Control over a small area.
-For the heck of it, I included some of her varying attacks over the years, usually variations of Blasts or Transform to Regular Person, which I statted as a Continuous Affliction. It can turn various Monsters back into normal, but in Sailor Moon R, is used to turn the Black Moon Family into ordinary people. Sailor Moon is two PLs higher than her allies in any given season- as she's generally the one to score the final hit, and is DEFINITELY the only one to defeat the villains, this makes sense. She also links Weaken Toughness with the Blasts, because (as Mike5000 pointed out way, way back in the day) every enemy hit with her attacks tended to be vaporized instantly. And here I was struggling with how to properly represent how damaging Sailor Moon's attacks seemed without breaking the system- it's a much more elegant solution to make it act like the old "Corrosion" power.
-However, Sailor Moon's Defenses are no better than those of her allies, and combined with her lower Fighting Ability, this makes her vulnerable, and therefore she requires her teammates to either distract the foes, or wear them down.
-Her "Princess Serenity" stuff is in another build- that character only makes rare (ie. Season Finale) appearances.
Sailor Moon S Notes:
-This season sees a much more level-headed, mature Usagi... to a point. See, she's still lazy, kind of immature, and easily takes offense... but her days of crying rivers of tears at the slightest verbal jab from Rei are gone. Her days of begging for a normal life are gone, too- she's now fully admitted this is her destiny, and has accepted it, to a degree. And this season kind of makes her a much more likeable character as a result- she's actually grown up a bit, but retains that idealism that was really her strongest attribute before.
-One of this season's best moments was when Rei was attacked in the VERY FIRST EPISODE, and Sailor Moon basically lost her shit, begging and pleading with the monster to spare her best friend. And that relationship had changed a bit, too- Rei was less mean and more pointed, making sarcastic points or giving unnecessary advice. This resulted in Usagi getting angry and going "You're so mean, Rei!" rather than sticking her tongue our or crying- they were argumentative, but to a point that made everyone kind of go "Friends are like that". Chibi-Usa even points out with jealousy that "They can be really honest with each other".
-But of course Usagi's biggest thing here is COMPASSION. She's MORTIFIED at the thought of sacrificing someone's life to gain the Talismans, no matter what the result. She's shocked when Sailor Uranus confesses she'll even sacrifice Neptune (her partner and lover) for the greater good, finding this too cruel and harsh. Because OF COURSE Usagi's idealism is too strong for that kind of a life. And when it turns out that sacrifice WASN'T necessary... well, they find out ANOTHER one is needed, because Chibi-Usa's brand-new friend Hotaru is the "Dark Messiah" they have to kill in order to prevent The Silence. And of course Usagi isn't having any of that shit, either- she defends the girl to the harranguing of the elder Sailors, begs for them to be merciful, and ultimately PROTECTS HOTARU WITH HER LIFE, even taking "World Shaking" and "Deep Submerge" full-force to protect Mistress 9- Hotaru's evil form!
-Anime being more cynical than comics at times, it's nice to see Sailor Moon playing the "Superman/Spider-Man" role of "NOBODY DIES" so thoroughly and so straightly. She refuses to kill ANYONE if she can help it, and even though her actions threaten all existence (they kill Hotaru; it's all over), you can see WHY she does it, and why she fights so hard. And the we get some great stuff when Hotaru reveals herself to be Sailor Saturn and dives into Pharaoh 90's body to engage in a suicidal battle, and Sailor Moon just LOSES it, crying "Moon Crisis... Make Up!" over and over again, desperately trying to empower herself into Super Sailor Moon, even without the Holy Grail, which allowed that transformation in the first place.
-Ultimately, her good heart is the key to victory, as the transformation enacts itself with not only her Pure Heart (which reveals her to be the fabled "Messiah" after all), but the love of all her friends (and even Uranus & Neptune). She forms Super Sailor Moon, dives in to Pharaoh 90 to assist her, and carries a reborn infant Hotaru out of the battle, with the biggest look of shell shock you've ever seen. Even Uranus & Neptune confess that she's earned the right to be Queen of the future, but they have to be just a little bit more bitchy and fight her just to test her resolve one more time.
S Powers:
-Like in previous seasons, her attacks no longer have the "punch" they need to attain victory- her old brooch is destroyed and her weapon gone, she gains a new upgrade thanks to her desire to save her friends. The new Moon Rod is just a fancier version of the old one, and her attack ("Moon Spiral Heart Attack!") features a lot of twirling and ribbons instead of a glowing ball of stars. The end result is a bit goofy, though- a huge candy-heart thing that smashes into the enemy, leaving a cut-out of their body. The Daimon then screams "LOVELYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!" as it vaporizes, revealing the Daimon Egg-infused item that caused its creation in the first place.
-Later, even THAT attack doesn't work, as it's deflected by Eudial's Flame Buster once, and even a Daimon avoids it. But once she gains access to the Holy Grail, she gains the temporary power-up of "Super Sailor Moon", allowing her to utilize a STRONGER version. This one's just a more swirly, twirly version, with faster ribbons, and the end result is the same heart. The Daimons, however, now scream "Love-LOVELYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!", which is somehow even goofier. This attack does more damage, but has a "Source" Flaw built into it- she needs to unveil the Holy Grail, which can only be used temporarily.
-In the final battle against a horde of Daimons, Sailor Moon actually shows an interesting one-off power- a HUGE Heart-Shaped Area Attack that annihilates hundreds of Daimons at once. This season also saw the final use of the Disguise Pen- oddly, with SAILOR VENUS using it, in order to act like Sailor Moon herself was present, even though Usagi was "Victim of the Week".