This might be a bit of speculation on my part.
Helios, Mamoru, and the senshi all would think of Luna, Artemis, and Diana as sentient and just as sentient as themselves. Usagi got mad at Luna for hiding in her dress in S1 and called her a pervert for doing that. I wonder whether they do things like avoid words specific to humans when they in their thought processes automatically think of people or individuals with rights or otherwise. I imagine that if you live with Luna for years, you probably would begin to think in your head that say six individuals live in Usagi´s home, or even start to think of that place as Usagi´s, Chibiusa´s, and Luna´s home, just because of how long you come to know them and like them. I actually realized that I do this myself in my head when I think of how many are in a given group of people in any scene or frame of SM media. I imagine that the themselves probably have an additional problem with their facade of ordinary civilians as superheroines that they don´t want to exclude any of the cats in their words but a person might get weird looks if one of the human characters do so include the cats.
I study a bit of philosophy and personhood and thinking about non human persons is quite an interesting thing we get to do in fiction today, such as how virtually nobody would exclude say a Vulcan like Mr Spock, and excluding such characters who are clearly sentient is a pretty big character trait that signifies villainy like how the Empire in Star Wars mistreats individuals like Chewy and the Wookies who get enslaved on their planet Kashyyyk. Given that I also like history going back hundreds of thousands of years, over half a million years ago, I also actually begin to struggle at times when the species is not a homo sapiens like us today and when they are different enough that I ordinarily don´t use personalizing words and I even feel quite bad about how I don´t get to talk much about Mesolithic, Neolithic, other Stone Age people as the sentient people that they were just like us simply because we have so few records of them and their cultures, barring a few stencils like the Lascaux Cave Paintings from 17000 years ago.
I imagine that the main heroes of the story of SM probably have an odd tension in their heads and thought processes tied to this. I wonder if NQS made it so that Artemis and Luna get to vote in the future just like I had the right to do a few weeks ago for a local election where I live (also probably has an interesting effect for Chibiusa given that she is clearly above the age of majority at around 900 but thinks like a child, which where I live would not be grounds to refuse to give her a ballot just like her parents and the senshi as her friends would also be able to do).
I am likely overthinking this, but that is the person I am, who obsessively dissects everything I can out of anything to its maximum extent.
Helios, Mamoru, and the senshi all would think of Luna, Artemis, and Diana as sentient and just as sentient as themselves. Usagi got mad at Luna for hiding in her dress in S1 and called her a pervert for doing that. I wonder whether they do things like avoid words specific to humans when they in their thought processes automatically think of people or individuals with rights or otherwise. I imagine that if you live with Luna for years, you probably would begin to think in your head that say six individuals live in Usagi´s home, or even start to think of that place as Usagi´s, Chibiusa´s, and Luna´s home, just because of how long you come to know them and like them. I actually realized that I do this myself in my head when I think of how many are in a given group of people in any scene or frame of SM media. I imagine that the themselves probably have an additional problem with their facade of ordinary civilians as superheroines that they don´t want to exclude any of the cats in their words but a person might get weird looks if one of the human characters do so include the cats.
I study a bit of philosophy and personhood and thinking about non human persons is quite an interesting thing we get to do in fiction today, such as how virtually nobody would exclude say a Vulcan like Mr Spock, and excluding such characters who are clearly sentient is a pretty big character trait that signifies villainy like how the Empire in Star Wars mistreats individuals like Chewy and the Wookies who get enslaved on their planet Kashyyyk. Given that I also like history going back hundreds of thousands of years, over half a million years ago, I also actually begin to struggle at times when the species is not a homo sapiens like us today and when they are different enough that I ordinarily don´t use personalizing words and I even feel quite bad about how I don´t get to talk much about Mesolithic, Neolithic, other Stone Age people as the sentient people that they were just like us simply because we have so few records of them and their cultures, barring a few stencils like the Lascaux Cave Paintings from 17000 years ago.
I imagine that the main heroes of the story of SM probably have an odd tension in their heads and thought processes tied to this. I wonder if NQS made it so that Artemis and Luna get to vote in the future just like I had the right to do a few weeks ago for a local election where I live (also probably has an interesting effect for Chibiusa given that she is clearly above the age of majority at around 900 but thinks like a child, which where I live would not be grounds to refuse to give her a ballot just like her parents and the senshi as her friends would also be able to do).
I am likely overthinking this, but that is the person I am, who obsessively dissects everything I can out of anything to its maximum extent.
