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Depths of My Soul
Ten'ou Haruka/Sailor Uranus
I knew I would like Sailor Uranus ever since
I found out there was one; partly because I've always loved the planet
Uranus, but also because I always love tomboy characters best :-) .
I've had a crush on Haruka from the moment I saw her! By now I've
seen every anime ep and movie she's in (subs, of course! dubs are not
the real story, haven't got the real voices, and don't even portray the
same characters at all! I only watch subs, exclusively!), but I still
watch my sub vids to see her, and she's still just as perfect every time.
I could rant about how wonderful she is for pages, but then I'd have no
room to talk about Michiru or their beautiful relationship, so I'll just
get the basics over for now.
Haruka is a tall, beautiful, athletically-built
girl with short sandy-blonde hair and eyes that look blue or green depending
on pictures. She talks like a boy, dresses in boyish clothes, and
wears her school's male uniform. Except in her first appearance (where
they drew her like a boy on purpose to surprise us), I can always tell Haruka
is a girl no matter how she's dressed, but most characters in the anime
think she's a boy until told otherwise. When they first saw her,
Usagi and Minako thought she was a cute boy and got crushes on her, and
their reactions on finding out she was a girl were pretty funny. But
even when they know she's a girl, the Inners still forget and get crushes
sometimes, especially Mako.
Haruka runs track and races both cars and motorcycles
(all of which she wins often at), and is great at all sports. She
owns at least two sports cars of her own, as well as her own motorcycle
and helicopter. She apparently does all that without any help from
her parents, probably due to race winnings and money she gets playing piano
professionally.
When Haruka becomes Sailor Uranus she wears a
navy fuku with a yellow bow at the front. In her normal Uranus
form she wears one gold hoop earring in her left ear, but in her Super
form (with the star choker, heart brooch, and longer bows) she wears
one in each ear. I like her better with one, because it helps her
look almost like a pirate :-) . *loves pirates* Uranus' power
is "World Shaking," in which she hurls a yellow ball of energy (some people
say compressed wind) that shakes the ground. (Why "World Shaking"
for the Senshi of the wind? My current theory is that since Uranus is a
gas giant planet, with no real surface, shaking the world there would have
more to do with the wind than dirt!) Her talisman is the Space Sword,
which she uses with her "Space Sword Blaster" attack. Though the
Space Sword can be used as a conventional sword, she doesn't need
to touch the enemy to do damage with it--she can slice through the air
and knock her enemy with a bolt of energy.
Contrary to popular Internet rumour, Haruka has
never been a man in any life, can not and does not change genders, and
is not a hermaphrodite. She is a tomboyish lesbian girl who never
shows romantic interest in any men. Haruka flirts with many other
women, but I don't take that seriously; I think it's partly because she's
a natural flirt, and partly because she enjoys their reactions so much
when they find out she's not a real boy. In truth, Haruka is extremely
loyal and devoted in her relationship with Michiru.
Kaiou Michiru/Sailor Neptune
The first I heard about Sailor Neptune, it
was that she was pretty and had nifty powers. When I saw her pictures,
I was stunned at her beauty but didn't know if I would like her because
I thought she might be vain. (That was largely due to her talisman
being a mirror, I'm afraid :-P .) It wasn't until I saw Michiru on
video that I decided I liked her despite her being very feminine (I very
seldom like characters who are very feminine), because of her sweet personality
and devotion to Haruka.
Michiru is a bit shorter than Haruka (though still
taller than tiny me :-( ) and has shoulder-length, curly, aqua-green
hair that sometimes looks blue and big, exotically-shaped, deep-blue eyes.
I think she's the most beautiful Senshi of all, but I haven't got a crush
on her because she's very feminine and I'm only attracted to tomboyish
girls. Michiru always wears dresses, often seems to co-ordinate her
outfits to match with Haruka's so they look nice as a couple, and likes
to collect make-up.
Michiru can swim like a fish, paints professionally,
and plays violin so well she can bounce a lemon on her violin easily
without messing up her song or looking clumsy. Apparently
she does that a lot, since even though Usagi's mouth hung open at the
sight of it, Haruka didn't seem surprised or anxious at all.
When she's Sailor Neptune she wears a dark-green
fuku with blue bows and a pretty cross-shaped charm on her choker.
In her Super form the choker is just a star (the cross was better) and
her fuku of course has the heart brooch and longer bows like the others'.
Her power is "Deep Submerge," which involves a huge wave of water that
crashes over the enemy. Neptune's talisman is the Aqua Mirror, which
she can gaze into to see danger, or with her "Submarine Reflection" attack
she can shoot a beam from it.
A lot of people think Michiru is straight or bisexual
because she's flirted with guys before, most notably Seiya (or does that
really count as guy flirting, since the Lights are all really girls?),
but if you pay attention you'll notice her flirting is never for real.
Michiru's most common reason to flirt with a guy is because she's trying
to get information from him, and flirting is how pretty girls generally
get what they want from guys. But occasionally, she'll let Haruka
think she's interested in a guy just to make her jealous (perhaps in retaliation
for Haruka's rampant flirting?). In either case, it's important
to note that I've never seen Michiru display real interest in any guy,
or real feelings for anyone other than Haruka. Their relationship
is completely monogamous :-) .
How Haruka and Michiru Met
Ten'ou Haruka had terrible dreams, in which
the sky had turned red, the streets were quiet, and everyone had turned
into stone statues. Then a cyclone ripped up the buildings and smashed
the people statues; she was dreaming the destruction of the world.
Then there was a bright light, and when she looked around she saw a beautiful
woman with curly aqua-green hair and a green sailor fuku with blue bows,
who was glowing and floating in the air. The girl in the fuku told
Haruka that the Silence was coming, and she had to help find the Messiah
and stop it. That's why Haruka was frightened when she first met
Michiru.
Haruka had just won a track meet when her best
track rival Elza Grey introduced Haruka to her artist friend, Kaiou Michiru.
Haruka recognised Michiru as the girl from her dream and was surprised.
Michiru said she was interested in Haruka and wanted her to pose for a
painting, but Haruka refused because she was too busy with her racing.
I'm sure even then Haruka was attracted to Michiru; she was just afraid
of the responsibility of saving the world. She didn't want to give
up the things she loved, especially car racing, to look for the Messiah.
Haruka didn't want responsibility. She just wanted to be the wind.
The next time Haruka and Michiru met was on a
cruise boat, where Michiru was performing on her violin. Haruka
left the concert down the stairs, where there hung a painting Michiru
had done about the end of the world. That was how Haruka knew Michiru
had the same dreams she had. Michiru approached her on the stairs,
and Haruka said it was weird that someone like Michiru could imagine something
as terrible as that. Michiru said it wasn't her imagination, it was
the future, and she knew Haruka had seen it too. Haruka said
she didn't want to deal with it, that she just wanted to race. She
told Michiru to deal with it herself, and asked Michiru to stop following
her. Michiru said she didn't want to do the mission, either, because
she just wanted to play violin.
One day Haruka was at the racetrack when she saw
an open garage and went in to see who was inside. A male Mugen
Gakuen student was there, in obvious distress, and when Haruka approached
him, he turned into a part-human/part-car monster. Haruka's henshin
wand appeared in the air, but Michiru appeared and told Haruka not to
take it or she'd never be able to live a normal life. Then Michiru
became Sailor Neptune to fight the monster. Haruka told her not
to kill it, because it used to be human, and Michiru said if she didn't
there would be more victims. When Michiru's arm was cut during the
fight with the monster, Haruka wondered why Michiru was protecting her,
because if Michiru hurt her hand fighting she couldn't be a violinist.
Michiru said she had been watching Haruka for a long time, even before
she knew Haruka was a Sailor Senshi. Michiru said she'd watched Haruka
racing, and confessed indirectly that she wanted to ride in Haruka's car
by the seashore. She said she didn't want Haruka to choose the same
path she had, but was glad when she found out Haruka was her partner.
Michiru's words finally convinced Haruka, and she accepted both her henshin
wand and her responsibility.
The Perfect Romance of Haruka and Michiru
Of the people who believe Haruka and Michiru
are in love (and if you don't, you're definitely on the wrong page!),
I think the popular opinion is their romance developed from friendship.
Maybe I'm too much of a romantic, but I like to think of it as love at
first sight. I think it was only her Senshi duty Haruka was rejecting
at first, not Michiru herself. I'm convinced that Haruka was attracted
to Michiru from the moment she saw her (she'd have to be blind not to
be!), but was afraid to admit that at first because Michiru was the girl
from her nightmare. It's bluntly stated, however, that Michiru was
already interested in Haruka even before she knew she was a Senshi, and
had been admiring Haruka from afar and learning about her for a long time.
Maybe if Michiru had approached Haruka before the Senshi thing came up
it would have been easier.
Haruka and Michiru's relationship in the anime
is subtle. They aren't shown kissing (which doesn't mean they don't
kiss, only that apparently they don't do it in public), but they are rarely
seen apart and are often seen holding one another, walking arm in arm, or
holding hands. They apparently live in the same apartment for
at least part of the S series, and their sex life is hinted at several
times in their teasing dialogue, even as blatantly as Haruka's famous "save
the scolding for bed" line in Stars. Through much of the S series,
however, the relationship seems ambiguous. In between the romantic
scenes there are times when Michiru gets shy and denies the relationship,
or Haruka has a hard time expressing her feelings, and for much of that
series Uranus and Neptune act more like just partners than lovers.
I think part of the reason Haruka and Michiru
are reluctant to display their relationship at first is because they
want to avoid the stigma attached to being an openly lesbian couple.
Although homosexuality is a popular subject in fiction, it just isn't
as well-accepted in daily life, so their caution is entirely understandable.
I also think Michiru was cautious about the relationship at first because
when she first approached Haruka she was rejected, and she didn't want
to go through that again. Possibly, even after they'd obviously had
a relationship for a while, Michiru was shy about admitting it to herself
or others because she was still wounded from Haruka's earlier rejections
and thought it could all fall apart at any moment. It may even be
true that the reason they entered the love contest was for Haruka to prove
her sincerity of love to Michiru, even though the games in the contest embarrassed
Haruka terribly. But Haruka often has a hard time showing her feelings,
anyway, like a man would. Although she seems to have no doubts
about her relationship with Michiru, and can admit that she and Michiru
are much more than friends, expressing those feelings is hard for her,
especially in public. Most of Haruka's obvious statements and gestures
of love towards Michiru come when it's just the two of them, and Michiru
seems less shy about returning those affections when they're alone.
In S, Uranus and Neptune seem to be only partners
much of the time because their mission is first and foremost in their
minds. They're determined to save the world no matter what it takes;
even if one of them dies, the other must live to complete the mission.
As Uranus and Neptune, they can't afford the same relationship they have
as Haruka and Michiru. Uranus seems the easier one to keep up her
end of that deal, because her emotions are more repressed already, and
because her devotion to duty seems even greater. But just because
they can't afford as close a relationship while Senshi, that doesn't mean
there is no relationship. Sometimes their feelings and devotion for
one another show up very well even then, especially when the other's life
is at stake. After they almost lost one another in the cathedral, their
relationship even as Senshi becomes more definite, because they realised
that even the mission wasn't as important to them as one another.
The relationship gets more obvious, and they get
less shy about expressing it, as time goes on. Michiru (debatably)
risks the world by calling the dummy's bluff in the SuperS special, because
she says a world without Haruka isn't worth saving. By Stars they're
pretty open about their relationship whether as Senshi or humans, and even
though they're not in that series a lot, it probably contains more, and
more blatant, references to their love than anything else they appear in.
Though their devotion to one another is obvious,
neither is above flirting with other people to make her girlfriend jealous.
Haruka is a natural flirt who tries to charm just about every girl, including
various Inner Senshi at times, Usagi more than the others. Even
after they know she's a girl, they still aren't totally immune to her charms.
Mako spends an entire episode obsessed with Haruka, despite knowing her
gender and her friends' protests throughout the entire episode that it's
not too late and she should still give men a chance. Usagi thinks
that it's nice, like being held by a man, when Haruka protects her from
biker thugs. The Inners even have janken games to decide who gets
to dance with Haruka. Michiru usually doesn't seem to mind Haruka's
flirting, except when Haruka is sick in bed with the flu during the SuperS
special and flirts with the maid taking care of her. Maybe she only
gets upset if Haruka flirts when she's not there to keep an eye on her?
Michiru seems to flirt with Seiya in her dressing room, but I'm very sure
that wasn't serious. I really think she was just trying to get information
from him, not actually flirt. (And, for what it's worth, I don't think
Seiya was seriously flirting with Michiru, either. I think they were
both trying to get information out of the other, and flirtation is the most
usual method used by both.) But I think Michiru enjoyed Haruka's jealousy
on seeing her with Seiya anyway. Michiru also let Haruka think she
had a boyfriend when Chibi-Usa's art classmate had a crush on her and gave
her flowers. Obviously that wasn't serious--he was like ten years
old! I think she just likes seeing Haruka jealous at times, which
seems fair enough considering how much Haruka flirts. But no matter
how much flirting goes on, Haruka and Michiru are completely devoted to
each other and would never flirt with anyone else for real. It's that
total devotion to one another that I think makes their relationship the
most ideal I've ever seen. I wish I had such a perfect relationship
for myself someday in real life!
My Fanfics
I've read too many authors' fics where every story
they write is set in an entirely different reality, which I find confusing,
so I write all of mine in the same reality. I have my own personal
Haruka and Michiru continuum running through all my fics. Even "Masquerade"
can fit into that continuum, if you remember that Meliai and Amphitrite
are just former lives of the Haruka and Michiru in my other fics.
Perhaps the lives of Meliai and Amphitrite can even explain some things
about their future as Haruka and Michiru.
In my fanfics, Haruka was born to rich parents,
Ten'ou Kazashi and Masato. Her mother, Kazashi, is a good person,
but with a controlling personality and some old-fashioned ideas of what
little girls should be like. She loves Haruka and treats her well,
but for Haruka's whole childhood she either couldn't or wouldn't see
her daughter's real personality. Even after Haruka fully reinvents
herself the way she always wanted to be, Kazashi is slow to accept it
and holds out hope for a long time that her daughter is just going through
a phase and will revert to her old self eventually. She only gives
up on that after Haruka brings home her girlfriend, Michiru, whom Kazashi
adores and bonds with instantly. Michiru is like the daughter Kazashi
always wanted Haruka to be, and as long as Michiru's around, Kazashi seems
fine with all of Haruka's "shortcomings" and seldom complains about any
of it anymore. Haruka's father, Masato, is a kind, friendly man who
seldom raises his voice to anyone. He's known about his daughter's
real self the whole time and is quick to support her in everything, even
lesbianism, when the truth finally comes out. The only thing he can't
condone is Haruka's constant secrecy; that's the only thing standing in
the way of an otherwise perfect father-daughter relationship.
Masato also has a good relationship with his wife, although with his meek
ways it often seems like overbearing Kazashi is the real master of the
house. If Kazashi throws her weight around too much, Masato usually
tries to reason with her rather than argue, and seldom really stands up
to her except in his daughter's defence.
Haruka's best friend since grade one is Kobayashi
Urano, the "school nerd" who was the first kid in school to show young
Haruka any kindness. He's unfailingly kind, shy, loyal, honest,
helpful, and sincere, but his easygoing nature allows Haruka to control
him too much at times. Urano is good at listening and great at giving
advice, though Haruka seldom listens to any of it. More often he's
relegated to the role of Haruka's "partner in crime," as she talks him
into one strange, ill-advised scheme after another. She even talks
him into helping her spend a day as a boy in an effort to find her real
self, a plot he's perfectly happy to go along with if it makes his best
friend happy. Urano gets on well with Haruka's parents, once he's
finally allowed to meet them, and becomes as much like a son to them as
he is like a brother to Haruka. He becomes friends with Michiru, as
well, despite sometimes feeling jealous of her for monopolising all of Haruka's
time with Senshi duties--and yes, he does deduce that's what they're up
to, all on his own. Urano and Haruka remain friends even while she's
a Senshi, but they'll probably never be the same best friends they were
as young children.
Michiru's family finally appeared in a fic!
It seems she's the elder daughter of rich Christian parents, Hideyo and
Umi. I'm not sure what her father did for a living (in the fic
he died of a stroke), but I think her mother's always been a housewife.
Even now Hideyo's passed, I don't think she'll have to work, though,
since I'm pretty sure they're "old money". Michiru's parents did
treat her well as a child, and filled all her needs and desires.
They were still fond of her when she introduced them to Haruka, whom Michiru
introduced without mentioning her gender, and they assumed by her looks
she was a boyfriend. Michiru's parents liked Haruka and were happy
their daughter was seeing such a "fine Christian boy", until they found
out Haruka was a girl. They wanted nothing to do with her after
that, even snubbing her on her commitment ceremony and on adopting a
child. Michiru's younger (teen-aged) sister, Shihobu, was studying
abroad at the time of the wedding and adoption, so couldn't be there,
but seems very accepting of her sister's preferences, and gets along
well with Nami. Shihobu is in a rebellious period now, sporting
tattoos, piercings, and trendy clothes like an American teen, and Nami
looks up to her for that. Hideyo was too incoherent to really meet
Nami, but he did seem to smile when he saw her. Umi, too, seems
to be trying to accept both her daughters' differences now that she knows
how fleeting life is, and seems eager now to act the grandmother to Nami.
I think they're all going to get along just fine :-) .
Unabara Nami is an adorable blonde orphan girl
Haruka and Michiru adopt to become more like a real family. For
the first five years of her life, she was raised mostly by her mother,
under whose influence Nami was a very ordinary girl who loved pink, princesses,
Barbies, and faerie stories. When her mother died, she was left
under care of her father, who was uncomfortable with pink, feminine things
and influenced Nami to become a little tomboy. But in the grief
over his wife's death, Nami's father became an abusive sot who mistreated
her physically and sexually, and the only thing to stop him was the drunken
driving wreck that left her an orphan. Nami is a kind, gentle, loving,
cheerful, and very precocious little girl, who is adjusting well to her
new life, and gets on well with her new Senshi friends and family (whom
she does know as Senshi, having figured out their identities by herself,
based mostly on resemblances). She's especially close with her Papa,
Haruka, because they have so much in common, and Haruka is the only person
Nami feels really understands her. Nami's best friend is Moroboshi
Yuka, who plays the Sailor Neptune to Nami's Uranus in recess games of
"Sailor Moon." Yuka is the only non-Senshi to know Nami's identity
as Sailor Triton, because the first time Nami transformed was in front
of Yuka, to rescue her from an undead monster. As Sailor Triton,
she's a powerful but inexperienced young Senshi with a distinctive fuku,
whose attack, "Hurricane Smite," creates a storm of violent wind and driving
rain that can tear apart its undead opponents. Its effectiveness
against living targets is yet to be seen.
Haruka and Michiru Sounds
Mostly from various places around the Internet. A few of them I recorded
myself, but I'll warn you already those suck :-P . I'll put up more of
other types later if I can find/make them.
The sounds have now been moved to my sounds page. click here to
visit them.
More Haruka and Michiru Stuff...
My SD Haruka KISS doll On and off project over
the last few years. Finally finished, but she's primitive, gomen.
My
Sailor Uranus Gallery
My adorable Uranus and Neptune plushies
My lovely Beauty Change Uranus dolly
My kawaii Uranus and Neptune keyrings
Part of the large Christmas gift box Jason sent :-) :
My sweet little SD Neptune pin
My little SD Neptune keyring
My lovely Beauty Change Neptune dolly Now
I'll have a matched set! Yippee!
My kawaii Dream Pocket Neptune dolly
And that's not even all the box contents, just all the Neptune stuff.
. .I always feel guilty when he sends so much. . .
My kawaii Dream Pocket Uranus dolly I got
this for myself for another matched set :-)
My strange-looking IRWIN Uranus figurine
I took it out of the package long ago, gomen.
My adorable little SD Uranus keyring
My adorable SD Uranus nuigurumi keyring
It kind of looks like Nami-chan!
My kawaii SD Uranus capsule doll I'm afraid
I never actually had the capsule, though.
My Haruka-sama watch
My small IRWIN 2001 Uranus doll Pretty,
but kind of looks like Seiya instead. . . (apologies for the discoloured
pic; it had an accident. . .)
The good thing about NA SM dolls is, they're cheap enough to modify,
guilt-free! Her hair was so pretty at the front, but way too long everywhere
else, so I cut it in a more Haruka-like style. See how much nicer she looks now?
My big IRWIN 2001 Uranus doll
Even prettier than the small one, but looks exactly like Seiya in a Marilyn
wig!
Unfortunately, her hair is rooted too fluffy to modify :-( .
If I did, it would stick straight out for sure!
My Sailor Moon World Uranus Doll 2003
birthday gift I picked out myself. So kawaii and shiny! I wanted one
for like a year, but never managed one before now.
My Beanie Uranus All floppy and kawaii!
My Uranus Petit
Soldier Only a Chinese version, gomen, but still pretty, and she didn't
cost much.
My Uranus nuigurumi with her sword Her
tag was missing when I got her, but she's so kawaii nonetheless! Looks
like she's left-handed, like me! Sugoi!
My SMW Uranus figurine She is so gorgeous!
Maybe the best Haruka-sama item I own so far!
A little Haruka figurine I made out of clay
My fanarts
page, includes my drawings with Haruka-sama and Nami-chan :-)
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webpage
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© 1997-2005 Naia Zifu This probably is meant to be
a scary shrine, considering my current growing obsession with these two
wonderful characters. If that bothers you in any way, you're probably
at the wrong page.
The sounds and images contained herein are from various, mostly
forgotten sources, and probably
taken without permission. Sorry if that steps on anyone's
toes.
As always, I'm not trying to infringe on copyrights or make money
off anyone's ideas.
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