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Façade
By Silver Sailor Ganymede

She had always wanted to be an actress, always wanted to escape to her own little world and become somebody else. She didn't know why; she didn't have a particularly bad life. At least that was how it would have appeared. She had always pretended to be someone else, always, if only to please herself. Life was more fun that way, wasn't it?

Or rather, life was liveable; had she lived as herself and not some other person she would not have lived at all. She supposed it was good in a way; she could be a teenager with way too much emotional baggage, a normal average girl, and a crime fighting superhero all at once. And that wasn't even the fantasy; that was the truth. She was living her dream and yet it was a nightmare, not a dream.

She had dreams but she knew that her true experiences and her role as a senshi would affect it, so she became someone else. She shook off all the pain and hurt she had acquired when she had fought alone and began anew. She had made herself appear naïve. She had made herself appear immature. She had made herself appear a dreamer. She had made herself appear to be Usagi's clone… and everyone believed it. No one remembered what she had been like when they had fought the Dark Kingdom, no one remembered her true identity and personality; everyone just thought of her as being almost exactly like Usagi, nothing more. The others never thought of how her time as Sailor V had scarred her, had they? Usagi had known, so had the others, but they had never truly even began to understand.

So she lived her life an actor, a woman's mind, a girl's body, and one who appeared nothing more than a child to others. She lived a fantasy, ignoring the truth and the scars of the truth. She lived her life behind a brightly lit and grand façade; it was just easier that way.