keyofnik: Before I move forward, I wanted to take a second to say something I know you all realize, and that is just how fucking much I love Rei Hino. Here’s one of the many, many reasons. Because for everything Rei has been in through in her life up to and including this moment, for all the people who have left Rei and let her down, who have been unreliable and who didn’t care enough to stay when things were hard, Rei never, ever lets it eat away at her sense of self. It would be so fucking easy for Rei to dissolve into a pit of self-hatred. If nobody loves her, then it must be because she is unlovable. How many people feel that? It’s a completely human response, to turn to ourselves and wonder what’s wrong with us. But not Rei. There isn’t any character in Sailor Moon who has the kind of belief in themselves that Rei has. At age fourteen she’s taken everything life can throw at her, and she’s used it all to make herself stronger. Rei decides that she doesn’t need anybody to love her. SHE WILL LOVE HERSELF.
