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Happy Birthday Mamoru!

sailorfailures:

(via sailorscooby)

relativity-pudding:

I know we like to make fun of him, but can I speak for a minute about Mamoru, seriously? He’s probably the most important male character to me in any literature, for so many reasons I’ll never be able to encapsulate here.

He’s important to me as a fuck-you to this device of wronged orphaned men who validate (read: compensate) a sad existence through this fixation on aggression, revenge, deification and misogyny. His builds a life that takes takes color by virtue of of love, healing, partnership, and always working harder than anyone. And he gets it. He gets everything he wants and nothing he could have ever dreamed conceiving of (King of the Earth?)(a family?)(this nobody with nothing to his name?)(you bet). And you can bet he never forgets for a second how lucky he is because he’ll be the first to remind you in his own sometimes eloquent, sometimes choked, always physical way. 

I see a lot of strange talk about Mamoru as this normal dude that gets dragged unwillingly into someone else’s mess and hijinks. For sure he’s collected, he’s measured, he can work a situation (arguably), but no way in hell should that trick anyone into thinking he’s normal. He’d been living up to this point in a state of amnesia since childhood, with no soul alive to confide in, dreaming for years about an alien girl from the moon, and deciding one day he’s going to put on a tuxedo and become a criminal that shoot roses- of all things- in her name. Normal never had a chance. His life is weird and he accepts it in grace. He wouldn’t know or want it any other way.

This guy has been such an abiding male figure in my life, in the back of my head since I was six. Sometimes silly, sometimes too dashing to make sense of, always reaffirming. He’s trumpeted always by representatives of the realm of basic and fandumb alike as this knight in shining armor figure, swooping in to save the day. My hero. Well, yes. But not because of that. He’s my hero because SHE’S his hero.

(via idesofnovember)

I will talk about Mamoru because relativity’s post is awesome

You know one of the things about Batman is, since he lost his family, he should be about valuing family right? If that’s what he’s about. He should really value the family he’s built for himself. But routinely the comics have him put the people around him second to the cause or whatever (even though they should be part of the cause). And his past tragedy is just like…an excuse for him to treat people like shit.

I joke about Mamoru being like Batman or being better than Batman or whatever, but here’s a character that genuinely is about valuing family because he lost his. Mamoru fucking loves his kid. He never puts the people around him second. He would do anything to be a great dad to Chibiusa because he knows what it’s like to grow up without anyone to care for you. Even though it’s not traditionally masculine or whatever, Mamoru doesn’t give a shit. He legitimately thinks the world of his wife and daughter and he’s always there to support them. And yes, he’s used to being alone, he’s not good at communicating, he tends to play the martyr, and yet- he doesn’t drive the people around him away R anime arc not withstanding.  He doesn’t use his angst as an excuse to not support those he loves. I mean, Manga!Mamoru has some hella self esteem issues, all wondering why he was ever born. He could easily be some dark broody manly man, all inaccessible and tuff, but instead he genuinely knows he’s really lucky to have found these people who love them, and he’s perfectly willing to eat his girlfriend’s burnt food, hang around with a gaggle of girls fighting for justice and let them take center stage while he supports and openly like, hug kittens and shit. He’s still this super suave hero guy with a troubled past, and it’s because he’s not afraid to do these “girl” things that he’s so much better off than most of those types.

I love that Mamoru’s whole identity is about loving and supporting people. That he’ll stay and help Chibiusa grow up while Sailor Moon does her thang because that’s his top priority. That he’s so proud of his daughter as a hero, and so behind the idea of love healing the world. That instead of women being like, barriers or dead motivations to being an avenging hero or whatever, they are his partners, his heroes, his legacy, and his family, and now that he has that, he’s never letting it go. He gets that this family IS the key to making the world better.

You rock, bro.

Important mamoru tags

adventuresofcomicbookgirl:

I tag mamoru pretty inconsistently because originally I was going to let #tuxedo mask is a dork be my only tag for him because I am cruel like that

as a result there are several

tuxedo mask is a dork

seriously mamoru loves children so much

tuxedo mask is a perpetual distressed dude and we like it that way

you’ll probably find more but these are the three main ones

there’s also the rarely used regular one

and now tuxedo birthdays!

New important tags as talked of earlier

mamoru chiba

tuxedo mask is awesome and doesn’t mind reversing restrictive gender roles

mamoru loves cats and children

ebbywaffle:

luna-whiskers:

Since it’s past midnight and I’ve had wine, allow me to remind the Tumblrverse that on this day, Chiba Mamoru was born, and also on this day, his parents were tragically killed and his memories were lost and he would go on to spend the rest of his childhood in an orphanage.

I mean, as far as birthdays go

that pretty much blows.

#wait i just realized how did he remember it was his birthday #oh I guess the doctors told him like they told him his name

i believe that is the case.

:(

“HEY KID YOUR NAME IS MAMORU CHIBA AND YOUR PARENTS DIED IN AN ACCIDENT 

also happy birthday!”

“Wha?”

Important mamoru tags

I tag mamoru pretty inconsistently because originally I was going to let #tuxedo mask is a dork be my only tag for him because I am cruel like that

as a result there are several

tuxedo mask is a dork

seriously mamoru loves children so much

tuxedo mask is a perpetual distressed dude and we like it that way

you’ll probably find more but these are the three main ones

there’s also the rarely used regular one

and now tuxedo birthdays!