How would Rei react to Zoisite impersonating her?
I’ve been thinking on this for a while, and much as with Rei herself, I think the answer would be as intense as it is contradictory.
First, there’d just be pure white hot rage that someone dared DARED I SAY to steal Rei’s look, her bearing, HER RED HIGH HEELS. And are they even providing her with financial compensation? A licensing fee, if you will? NO THEY ARE NOT. (Rei scrawls herself a note for later to look into copyright law. That Sailor Mars could itself be argued an copy from the Silver Millennium does not occur to her, though if it had, she would argue full rights over the image were clearly transferred to her upon her first transformation, and if Queen Serenity doesn’t like that, she can contact Rei’s lawyers.)
Then comes a whole new level of fury as Rei notices that people are cheering for this CLEAR and OBVIOUS fake Sailor Mars. (”THAT’S NOT MY SHADE OF RED IT’S GOT TOO MUCH PURPLE IN IT AND IT’S NOT EVEN THE SAME PURPLE AS MY PURPLE WHO IS THIS MONOCHORME BITCH”) They should KNOW and that they DON’T know is such a slap in the face Rei can barely stand it. She has to be talked down from the ledge of incinerating the crowds alongside her imposter, because they are all accomplices, every last one, and thus EVIL.
Finally, when they corner Zoisite and Rei won’t stop yelling in his face, Zoisite dismissively declares he made a poor choice and should have gone for the much less shrill Sailor Mercury, and Rei immediately changes gears to affronted that Zoisite would think anyone a BETTER choice than her.
It’s tough business, being Sailor Mars.
It’s tougher business, being allies of Sailor Mars.
