A girl with beauty, good cooking skills and lots of “talent” should have had no trouble finding a cute boyfriend. A super-powered champion of love and justice should definitely have one. After all, if she didn’t find love, where was the justice? However, most boys her age were intimidated by a girl who was not only as tall or taller than they were, but most likely more dangerous in a fight. That wasn’t even including her role as the heavy-hitter on a magical girl team.
When one added in her abilities and activities in the short green skirt and pink bows, things looked truly bleak. How do you pursue love when you can’t tell the other person about the most important parts of your life? How do you bring someone you love fully into your life when it almost guarantees they will be the hostage de jour once a month?
It wasn’t that surprising that out of eight Senshi old enough to be pursuing serious relationships, only three managed to make those relationships work in an enduring way. Of those three, one was a “fated by destiny” arrangement and the other two were involved with each other. This was not a promising trend for Makoto unless she wanted to try for Ami or Minako. (She suspected that if Rei were to ever go that route, she would be going after Usagi.)
Once, in her past, she found a boy who appreciated her and made her feel like the princess she actually turned out to be in a past life, but fate (and the Japanese school system) separated them. All of Makoto’s friends could tell you that her lost love was never far from her mind and heart, but she did not seek to re-establish her relationship or even contact with her sempai. As much as she continued to pine for him, she did not think he would be able to handle her new life.
So, when a genie showed up and offered her a wish, Makoto knew what to do. Especially since the genie mentioned in passing that Makoto was “living in great hardship and doomed to suffer” unless she made some sort of major change in her life. Thus she wished for a boyfriend with a few conditions to avoid the obvious pitfalls for wishes.
Mihoshi, being a kind-hearted person, filled in a few more items that Makoto missed, such as “able to handle Senshi-related weirdness and hazards.” On the other hand, having Mihoshi grant one’s wish had some inherent hazards of its own. This was demonstrated as a young man who reeked of rice wine landed on the “lucky girl” with more force than one might expect even if falling from somewhere around the ceiling. The physical arrangement of the couple-to-be after impact, with each person’s face firmly pressed into the area between the other’s hips, was also the sort of thing that might occur with the bubbly Galaxy Police Detective/Genie’s involvement.
Mihoshi had time for an embarrassed “Oopsie” before she and her lamp vanished in a swirl of smoke to meet the third and final poor shmuck deserving soul to receive her services.
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(Posted Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:45)
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