SAILOR MOON AND SAILOR V COSTUME AND TIMELINE HEADCANON

Okay so there’s Sailor V.

And at first she has a costume that is different from the other senshi, whose costumes are mostly uniform.

and that is because she became a soldier before the Moon Princess did.

But the moment Usagi became a soldier is the same moment Sailor V regained her memories and her standard uniform in Sailor V.

In Sailor Moon, just moments before she transforms for the first time, Usagi has this dream.

A dream where she rescues the guy she thinks is cute and that cat with the crescent bald spot

In the Crystal anime (which we know Naoko had input on), they even animated Luna like this

And in the final chapter of of Sailor V (which was published after the first arc of Sailor Moon had finished) we see Sailor V’s final battle.

She is in her Sailor V uniform.

rescuing the guy she has a crush on and Artemis, who is in a cage

And Usagi is seeing it in a vision, in her dream. And because she doesn’t have all the information she’s putting the cats and guys from her experience in the place of V’s.

Usagi wakes up and meets Luna at the same time Venus is realising the guy she’s with is not all he seems. The world around around her starts shaking and she’s visions of a crumbling world. Her memory starts returning.

In Tokyo (Minako is currently in China), the brooch that Usagi is holding starts glowing all on its own.

And she transforms into Sailor Moon.

Which is when, in China, Minako sees her vision of Serenity, and we get the very last shot of her in her Sailor V uniform.

From that point on in Sailor V, Minako is wearing her Sailor Venus uniform.

If Usagi hadn’t been the senshi Luna had found, even if Sailor V had started recovering her memories, her uniform would have remained unique. And if Luna had found the other girls first, they would have had more unique uniforms as well, perhaps the ones shown in the prototype art.

Similarly if V hadn’t been found by Artemis, and Usagi had been the very first senshi to be awoken, she would have had a uniform like in the prototype image, because she would have been a lone soldier, not an unaware part of a team.

While the girls and cats didn’t realise it, the unity of their uniforms was a sign of their already having found and united under the princess as a team. And if the princess had been alone, or if they hadn’t found the princess yet, their uniforms would have been more individual. And that’s why Sailor V gets her unique outfit for her first year of crimefighting before Usagi is awoken.

/headcanon

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