#ALSO ALSO what about that episode where Ami almost goes to germany and she decides her friends need her#instead of choosing her own happiness#WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT” I always interpreted that as Ami realizing that her happiness WAS staying in Tokyo with her friends. That Germany could wait (you will never convince me she didn’t go there eventually maybe in college) but for now she was choosing her own happiness by staying? Then again, it could an overly optimistic interpretation.

Therein lies the difference between you and I. I love your interpretation, yet I have an unfortunate penchant for bleakness. I do enjoy that her decisions can be cast in entirely different lights depending on the perspective. Her choices are personal gratification vs. social gratification, or selfishness vs. utilitarianism, or even want vs. need. I suppose Senshi are like the guardians in Plato’s Republic: they are appointed to their posts because they are best suited for the job, and their happiness does not come from satisfaction with the employment, but from living a just life that tempers unsophisticated wants with hard work and contribution to a balanced society. She might very well know it is in her best interest to stay with the other Senshi and that she can find fulfillment there, but it might not necessarily be what she wants. And the idea that Ami knows exactly what she wants to do, but stays because she needs to perform her planetary guardian schtick is too painful for me to just leave out there in the cold without adopting it as my own. 

Though she didn’t say anything, Ami was extremely annoyed that Chibiusa called shotgun before she could

Chibiusa: Humans are purely selfish creatures who only wish to use you for their own ends. Friendship is nothing but mutual collaboration.

“I will take the ring… though I do not know the way”

College student that can afford a nice car? This is the most unrealistic thing in the show so far

Chibiusa: “I love studying with you, Ami! ESPECIALLY SINCE IT ALLOWS ME TO SEARCH FOR THE SILVER CRYSTAL YOU MUST BE HIDING”
Ami: “What was that?”
Chibiusa: “Nothing”

So one of the fundamental cornerstones of the great future Crystal Tokyo is a soft-serve ice cream shop

Ami, she’s like five years old

Do magical devices just grow on trees? Does Luna have a garden of them? Was it a bountiful harvest this year?

Chibiusa gathers information about Sailor Mercury under the guise of “normal conversation” and then makes her pay for ice cream. #Mastermind