Art by Leriisa, Aksens, Karol Hofman.
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 13 (212)
STRENGTH 0/1
STAMINA 4
AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 8
DEXTERITY 1
INTELLIGENCE 0
AWARENESS 2
PRESENCE 4
Skills:
Athletics 6 (+6, +7 Sailor)
Deception 2 (+6, +8 Attractive)
Expertise (Pop Culture) 10 (+10)
Investigation 3 (+5)
Perception 3 (+5)
Persuasion 5 (+9, +11 Attractive)
Ranged Combat (Moon Attacks) 2 (+11)
Stealth 1 (+4)
Advantages:
Attractive, Daze (Persuasion), Defensive Attack, Equipment (Sailor Communicator), Improved Initiative, Ranged Attack 7, Taunt, Teamwork, Ultimate Will Save
Powers:
"Sailor Strength"
Enhanced Strength 1 [2]
Strength-Damage +2 [2]
Movement 1 (Safe Fall) [2]
Features 1: Boots Form Ice Skates [1]
Flight 2 (8 mph) (Flaws: Winged) (2) -- [3]
- AE: Leaping 2 (30 feet) (2)
"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)
"Tiara" (Flaws: Removable) [21]
"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)
"Disguise Pen" (Flaws: Easily Removable) [6]
Morph 2 (Women) (10 points)
"Moon Kaleido Scope" (Flaws: Easily Removable) [48]
"Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss/Silver Moon Crystal Power Kiss!" Blast 16 Linked to Weaken Toughness 16 (Extras: Ranged) (Flaws: Distracting) Linked to Affliction 16 (Will; Dazed/Stunned/Transformed Back to Powerless) (Extras: Ranged) (80 points)
Offense:
Unarmed +8 (+0 Damage, DC 15)
Sailor Strength +86 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Moon Tiara Action! +11 (+9 Ranged Damage, DC 24)
Moon Spiral Heart Attack +10 (+16 Ranged Damage, Weaken & Affliction, 31)
Planet Attack +14 Area (+14 Damage, DC 29)
Initiative +9
Defenses:
Dodge +12 (DC 22), Parry +12 (DC 22), Toughness +4, Fortitude +6, Will +14
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 was to "just be a normal girl" once again, and leave all this super-heroing behind, until she finally accepted her fate in the second season.
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, Naru was Usagi's only 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 and against Galaxia.
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: 46 / Skills: 32--16 / Advantages: 15 / Powers: 108 / Defenses: 27 (212)
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 in a way, though- she's meant to represent the "Everygirl", someone who ISN'T super-perfect or even a role model. Rather than excelling at things or being an otherwise admirable person, she's lazy, clumsy, a sleepyhead, a crybaby, argumentative, and prone to mindless crushes (like on older boy Motoki). 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 "Are you lazy, or just STUPID?". That the dub played up the goofiness and cartoony behavior didn't help- it took me a long time to see the positives of the character.
-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.
Usagi as Wish Fulfilment:
-The character really stands as the "Girl Version" of the Wish Fulfilment Protagonists of male-targeted fiction. The audience reading the comic probably felt more akin to Usagi (who cried sometimes, got scared or frustrated, and struggled to do well in school) than they did the flawless superhumans of many other shows. She was treated meanly by others, lectured by parents and teachers, and more... but she got these cool transformation powers, got treated as beautiful and desirable by handsome men, got an idealized lover in the mysterious stranger Tuxedo Mask, and amassed a huge army of cool, funny, unique friends. Like... that's how the genre works, you know? We're used to seeing it from the male perspective, but it's a "This Loser is YOU!" mixed with "Hey, don't you wish you were HER?" sort of thing.
But Usagi IS a Good Role Model:
-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, and this is where she is truly admirable AND a good role model. 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, and actually quite lonely and needs a friend. 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.
-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. She engaged in real, true CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT as time went on- by the end of
R, she had fully accepted that her lot in life was to do battle, sad as that was, and she stopped regretting losing her old life and accepted responsibility. And she was one of the few characters who could find it in her heart to forgive even her enemies- in contrast to the manga (in which the Sailors just gunned down their enemies mercilessly), Usagi FREQUENTLY held out her hand and asked the villains to drop their silly games and join them. When she learns of the sad backstories of Nehalennia or Sailor Galaxia, she actually WEEPS for them and offers them an olive branch (despite the latter, you know, KILLING EVERYONE SHE'D EVER LOVED). By the end of the series, her superpowered form has angel's wings for a damn reason- she is the living embodiment of forgiveness, compassion and friendship.
-To be fair, the show wasn't entirely consistent with things, but this can be passed off as Usagi being a very complex person. The best example of "mature Usagi" is in
Sailor Moon S, where she gives better advice and is more rational than before.
SuperS degrades her quite a bit, as they decide to ramp up the comedy and make Chibi-Usa the main character, and this makes her much more jealous (she gets angry at even her FRIENDS for talking to Mamoru) and more likely to fight with her future-daughter.
Usagi- The Ultimate Team Player:
-Though she's not my favorite, Usagi is actually the best character for playing off of others. She flummoxes more serious, studious characters (Ami, Rei), who find her exasperating. She amuses more stoic ones (Haruka, Michiru), who find her amusing. Her guilless innocense thaws out aggressive types (Makoto), draws interest from "Alpha" types (Seiya, Prince Demande), and is charming to others. Her being easily goaded and offended makes her good for arguments, and her non-violent nature provides excellent contrast to others- in the "Silence" arc, it's amazing how hard she fights against the ruthless "Outer Senshi", who believe that people must be sacrificed for the greater good. Usagi REFUSES to believe this, even for a second, and also rejects their practical, cruel decision that sweet little Hotaru has to be killed to save the world, because she's the "Dark Messiah". And so while they are proven right and Hotaru IS "Mistress 9" and starts off the Silence, we're in an "Idealist"-centric world, and Usagi's compassion in saving Hotaru is what unleashes Sailor Saturn, who is the person responsible for killing Pharaoh 90 once and for all. Really, nearly every other character in
Sailor Moon (including ones I prefer to her) are as good as they are because of her very presence.
Usagi Overall:
-Ultimately... Usagi is hard to like on the surface for me, but is one of the most pure characters on the show. Her flaws stand in contrast to the heroism and courage she later displays- the absolutely INCREDIBLE end to the first season, in which her "Princess Serenity" form appears before Queen Metalia, resists her attack, and, fueled by the love and affection her now-dead friends have for her... completely immolates this Evil Nightmare Witch? That scene works so well in part BECAUSE we saw her as a whiny loser who cried at the drop of a hat all season before. She exerts real, effective character development over a hundred episodes, drawing a real line in maturity. And after the goofy
SuperS season, she's back to being more mature in
Sailor Stars, where is is mournful, regretful and pensive now that her love is far away.
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.
-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 Stars Powers:
-This season features another all-new uniform (now with puffy shoulders, actual WINGS, and a multicolores skirt) and her final attack is now a powerful Blast/Affliction/Transformation effect, turning Phages back into normal humans.