I love Little Women! I am all about those civil war era novels about sisters becoming the inspirational female leads that fiction needed. Also, let me know what your casting ideas are! I initially wanted the Inner Senshi to be the March sisters, but for reasons which will be revealed shortly, I changed it up a little bit.
Jo: REI (probably one of the greatest female leads in all of the literary canon. Hot-tempered, goal-driven, will eventually lead an international success life.)
Meg: Michiru (she’s kind of obsessed with feminine vanity for a while but she gets better when she meets John Brooke and realizes that her love should not be measured in what it can bring to her advantage but what they can bring together. Anyway.)
Beth: Ami (the smart shy peacemaking angel of the house who is literally so perfect that she cannot be allowed to live, symbolizing the death of the ideal female archetype. CLASSIC.)
Amy: Usagi (The whiny vaguely incompetent crybaby; the only difference is I don’t hate Usagi)
Laurie: Mamoru (HE’S JUST ONE OF THE GIRLS)
Marmee: Mako (I always cast her as the mom. Because she IS the mom. Head of household, always giving to charity, has learned to temper her Jo-like temper with Beth-like kindness.)
Fritz Bhaer: I don’t really want Rei to marry anyone let alone a middle-aged professor. (Or Jo, for that matter.) Therefore, I propose another internationally-educated, delightfully witty individual: Minako Aino. She’s no intellectual but anything that can make this narrative gayer is welcome by my standards.
Mr. Laurence: Artemis (cat dad theory is still real; but whose dad is he)
Fred: Seiya (because plot reasons)
Hannah: Chibiusa (Extra Child)
Mr. Brooke: Haruka (consider: class-based romance with Meg that nearly drives them apart but ends up bringing them closer together)
Aunt March: Setsuna (disapproving aunt is disapproving, kind of only exists to call into question whether or not the protagonists are doing the right thing)
And then there were a metric truckload of various children and side characters. Stay tuned for a SM fancast of “Little Men.”
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