What was Venus' power?

Just a note, Mercury doesn't control just ice but water in general as an element, like how Mars is fire-based and Jupiter is electric/wood-based.
Uranus controls wind/ground with her more ground-based attacks. Neptune controls the sea and her attacks are more deep-sea pressure based.

I feel like Venus may have had a less clear element just because Naoko created her character first. Originally, she was a reincarnation of the Goddess Venus. Otherwise, she IS the soldier of love and beauty, and some of her attacks are metal-based.

Sailor Moon - Purity/Love

Sailor Mercury - Water (more specifically, the transformation of water into ice)

Sailor Mars - Fire

Sailor Jupiter - Nature (primarily Thunder but also Plants)

Sailor Venus - Love (represented through light and gold)

Sailor Uranus is The Heavens (space, wind, ect)

Sailor Neptune is The Ocean (more specifically, tides, currents, waves, ect)

Sailor Pluto is Time

Sailor Saturn is Death/Rebirth

Sailor Chibi (Mini) Moon - Purity/Dreams

The reason Sailor Venus's powers are so ambiguous and overlapping with Sailor Moon is because of her time as Sailor V. Before taking on the full power of Venus, she drew power from the Moon. A lot of her motifs were moon-based and her attacks fueled by moonlight and love.

http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/32600000/Sailor-V-codename-sailor-v-32681355-1191-671.jpg

Furthermore, both the Moon and Venus represent love but in different ways. While the Moon represent unconditional love and the purity that comes with it, Venus represents romantic love and the beauty of that love. As Sailor Venus's power grows (from Sailor V to Basic to Star to Crystal), we see more distinction from her type of love from Sailor Moon's. Sailor Venus stands for (romantic) Love and Beauty while Sailor Moon stands for (unconditional) Love and Justice (i.e. the safety of all good things).

The two are as similar as Sailor Mercury and Neptune who themselves share an element but differ in their concepts and uses of that element. While Mercury represents the transformations of water (particularly to ice), Neptune represents the power and force of water's greatest body: The Ocean. In a simplistic sense, Mercury represents lakes, rivers, rainfall, fogs and the arctic while Sailor Neptune gets the vast ocean and its fury. While Sailor Mercury's actions are all predictable and seemingly calculated (like how a stream leads into a river or how water will always freeze at a certain temperature), Sailor Neptune's power is unpredictable (like a tsunami or what occurs at the depths of the ocean floor).


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