Synaesthesia

By SMYGO4EVA

Tsukino Usagi and Aino Minako were always mistaken for each other. Who could blame them? They looked like each other, they had the same aura from the inside out and they had the same outlook on life. These girls also bore unmistakable long blonde hair and innocent blue eyes, went to the same school and they led the bubbly, ditzy and charming personalities everyone fell in love with. Mind you there are differences within these supposed twins. And it might surprise you.

Usagi was the destined princess of the Moon and the soldier of Selene. As they said, when she put her mind to it, she was a formidable foe and fought with all her heart. Even if sacrificing her life was necessary, her friends and loved ones were all that mattered to her. She has matured through and through, dearly noted, and she survived quite a stir in her life, just so souls would be saved. It was the love in her heart that was killing her inside that troubled her.

Minako was the princess of Venus, cursed with the ability to never fall in love. The irony of being the soldier of love and not being able to love tore her apart. She wanted to love someone, to hold them close and to cherish the special person in her life. But the cruel voice in her head always reminded her of her fate; that was what held her back. The loneliness submerged mind and soul almost all the time. It was the very lack of love that was destroying her.

When affection came to mind, both girls had different answers and they never thought possible that affection would kill them on the inside. With or without love, they never knew what would become of their own psyches. It would either destroy or restore them, body and soul. But as the deities as their witnesses, Usagi and Minako would flow with synaesthesia soon enough. They just have to do something about it first.