"Everyone
wants to be like Rei."
~Cierce
Imagine being a
teenager with a simple life, popular, a Shinto priestess, her only worries being school
and her grandfather. Then suppose you find out that you are a warrior for
justice. You are a Sailor Senshi. You will live for thousands of years.
You cannot fall in love with regular humans, for they will die long before you. You
have lived a thousand years before. You are Sailor Mars. You are the spirit of
the flame.
While that may prove to be next to impossible for many of you, Rei Hino lives
with that thought hovering around her every move. Nobody thinks how she feels about
this. No one asked if she wanted this lifelong task of protecting the Earth.
Rei seems to many a cool, sanguine teenager. Popular at her
school, practically worshipped by her peers. Admired by many men, and dedicated to
her life in her grandfather's temple. But nobody thinks beyond all that.
Perhaps Rei is not as perfect as we all seem to think...
She is undoubtedly worshipped at her school. Everyone wants to be like Rei.
But she is an outcast. Can she really be part of the group? People cannot
hold decent conversations if they are too busy admiring and falling over every word
mentioned by her. She walks the halls alone, a hush of respect falling over the
crowds. Is this the way one would rather live?
So Rei lives with this secret, and an ecchi grandfather (^^) whom she is constantly looking out for. He is all the family left to her. Her mother died when she was very young and her father is a wealthy politician who never returns home except on her birthday...sometimes. But Rei is a strong character who hides all this under a tough outer shell. A shell which only a privileged few are allowed to break.