Most of my annoying ideas are simple, harmless. Some of my ideas result in pain, but those are usually the ones that involved new, creative ways to try to give Rajah a bath. Occasionally my ideas will get me in trouble, but not often. In all, most of my ideas don’t amount to much.
This one is different.
It started when I became Sailor Pomona. My introduction to Senshi-dom was… lacking, to say the least. I had many questions, but no idea who to ask them to. By the time I met some experienced Senshi, I had already learned some things through trial and error. I began to think that there needed to be a better way to help new Senshi adjust to their new roles.
I had ideas for this. Oh, I had lots of ideas; problem was, few of them were practical. Instructional pamphlets wouldn’t work, nor would anything written or recorded. The problem there was the Negaverse, and the chances of them getting their hands on something. If the instructions were too vague then they’d be useless for Senshi, but if they were too detailed then there’d be the risk of giving the Negaverse new information. So no, nothing written or recorded would work. What then?
I thought it would be good if some of the Senshi teams would take in the new Senshi. Of course, I realized this might upset the balance of an established team, so that wouldn’t work. If only there was a team designed to take in new Senshi…
Then my world changed. I discovered that Sydney, my best friend Sydney, was actually Sailor Sinon. We discovered one another’s identities after she helped me defeat a youma. We talked, and I jokingly raised the idea of us starting a Senshi team.
The idea stuck. I couldn’t stop thinking about it, and the more I thought about it, the more it evolved. Suddenly I realized that I was making plans, and that there was nothing to actually stop me from doing this. I was going to try to help new Senshi, and with the help of Sinon, perhaps even form a Senshi team.
Sometimes the idea still gives me pause. I had never intended to pick up a position of power, no matter how small, in this continuation of an old, magical war, and yet it seems that I’m doing just that. Perhaps my team will be such a strange hodge-podge as to merit little attention from the Negaverse.
So far we do make for a strange group. I think the first member will be Sailor Sirius, recruited by Sinon. Sirius is an experienced Senshi, something neither Sinon nor I can claim. The rest of the team will likely be made of Senshi even greener then us. If Sirius doesn’t help us, it’ll be the blind leading the blind.
Too late to go back though. The idea has spread too far, and things are now in motion. If things go as planned, I will end up calling a new, motley group of Senshi my team.
Hm, Motley. Now there’s an idea…
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