That happy looking girl is Tomoe Hotaru. Her name means Earth desrtoying Firefly. (To=earth, moe=destruction, and Hotaru means firefly.)
Hotaru is the most disrespected senshi in the anime (by the writers, that is.) She never gets to use her powers (except once in SuperS, and once in SailorStars.), she never had a transformation sequence (Sailorsaturn just appears out of nowhere...) and she hardly shows up in any of the three years of the show she existed during. Naturally, this is a great injustice, because she is without a doubt, the coolest senshi ever. And she looks just like me. So she must be cool.

Sailorsaturn

Sailorsaturns powers are:
"Death Ribbon, REVOLUTION!!"
destroys the world! She never really got to use this one...(SailormoonS)

"Silence Glaive APPLY!" (could be Silence Glaive Surprise, but that sounds silly.)
destroys whatever she 'applies' her Silence Glaive to. (Like Neherenia's castle in SuperS. Chibi-moon stopped her in the middle of the attack, and it still blasted it to bits!)

"Silent WALL!"
creates a barrier to block any attack (Sailorstars)

SD Sailorsaturn

Hotaru first appeared in Sailormoon S. She had no friends in school, because of her strange healing powers. All the other kids thought it was 'gross'. One day she was in the park, and her hat blew away. She ran after it, but she's not very strong, so she tired out before she got to it, and a little, pink haired girl named Chibi-usa brought it back to her. They became good friends, even though Chibi-usa was much younger. Hotaru lives with her scientist father, in a huge mansion.

Hotaru and her father
Hotaru's mother (I think her name was Keiko.) died in a fire a long time ago. Once, when Hotaru was little, she visited her father in his lab. Unfortunately, that was the day of a huge explosion. Everyone (including Hotaru) except Dr. Tomoe died. He was quite upset naturally, and sold his soul to the Death Busters to bring his little girl back to life. The Death Busters are the enemy in Sailormoon S. They possessed Hotaru, and turned her into Mistress 9.

Mistress 9

Mistress 9 wanted the Holy Grail, which Sailormoon uses to transform into Supersailormoon. She needed the Grail to summon Pharaoh 90. She tricked Sailormoon into giving it to her (Maybe Sailormoon IS a ditz...) and began to call him. Then her father tried to get Hotaru back from Mistress 9. Hotaru turned out to be stronger than Mistress 9 expected, and she was defeated when Hotaru remembered the people that were special to her. Then she transformed into Sailorsaturn, and went to destroy Pharaoh 90. But to do that, she had to destroy the world! Sailormoon tried to stop her, but she met the point of Saturn's Glaive. Saturn went inside Pharaoh 90 and began her attack. Sailormoon tried to transform into Supersailormoon, but since the Grail had been destroyed, she couldn't do it. Suddenly for some reason she transformed, and went after Saturn into Pharaoh 90, and there was lots of bright flashes and whatnot, and Pharaoh 90 was destroyed, and Supersailormoon appeared holding a baby wrapped in purple cloth. Hotaru had been reborn!

Supersailormoon holding baby Hotaru

In SuperS Hotaru is taken to live with the outer senshi (Uranus, Neptune and Pluto). She ages quickly to about the same age as Chibi-usa. Living with the outer senshi while she is a child, makes her see them as her parents. She calls Setsuna 'Setsuna-mama', Michiru 'Michiru-mama' and Haruka 'Haruka-papa'. Isn't that adorable?

Sailorsaturn manga picture

Hotaru's birthday is January 6th (Capricorn). Her bloodtype is AB (proud, diplomatic, discriminating). Her favorite color is purple, and her hobbies are collecting lamps and reading. Her favorite food is soba (a kind of noodle), and she hates milk. Her best subject in school is history, and her worst is Phys. ED. She hates marathons. Her strong point is injury treatment, and she wants to be a doctor. Her favorite gem is flourite (it's purple).

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