FictionPack
Monochromatic Ursine
- Location
- Tennessee
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Call her Thirteen then with no further explanation. XD
Usagi Quest (CK3/Princess Maker) (Sailor Moon)
Winged One
Not the Simurgh
- Location
- definitely the ground
- Pronouns
- They/Them/It
Yeah, if Cologne had knocked him out with a glance in canon I wouldn't be surprised by anything other than that he had somehow convinced her to give a shit about him.
Our naming scheme implies the existence of Sailor Saturn, at least.
Also, I don't remember if the Brits captured anyone old enough to know why we're not looking too hard for Sailor Saturn.
[X] The Sword
This sounds like it's pointing at something.
This sounds like it's pointing at something.
Almech_Alfarion
(Unverified Paradox)
- Location
- Roaming the Void of the Space between Spaces
Cologne is actually rather affable. It takes a lot for her to actually get serious about something, and I'm not unconvinced that she sees the antics of Shampoo and Mousse towards Ranma primarily as great entertainment rather than as an Amazon Elder supporting her Great Great Granddaughter and her stalker.
[x] The Wok
Mercury: Speedy
Venus: Vanity
Moon: Cheddar
Mars: Manhunter
Jupiter: Divorcee
Saturn: Ringbearer
Uranus: Big Blue
Neptune: Seafoam
Sei: Alfred
Luna: Witch
Artemis: Hunter
In that vein, how about
Mercury: Speedy
Venus: Vanity
Moon: Cheddar
Mars: Manhunter
Jupiter: Divorcee
Saturn: Ringbearer
Uranus: Big Blue
Neptune: Seafoam
Sei: Alfred
Luna: Witch
Artemis: Hunter
Lunaryon
Dual Aurora Wave
- Pronouns
- She/Her
You say that as if supporting her great granddaughter's attempts at wooing a strong contender isn't great entertainment.
Almech_Alfarion
(Unverified Paradox)
- Location
- Roaming the Void of the Space between Spaces
I say that as though I don't think that she's actually supporting Shampoo's attempts at Wooing Ranma. Think about it, other than a select few incidents, she spends more time training Ranma (and therefore making him stronger and less likely to lose to Shampoo and be dragged back to Joketsuzoku) or helping him undo whatever enchantment Shampoo has accidentally placed on herself by rifling through her magical trinket collection than she does actually helping Shampoo win him over.
FictionPack
Monochromatic Ursine
- Location
- Tennessee
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Mercury: Bootstrap(Hermes winged shoes and Macguyvering)
Venus: Pondscum(acid residue on mirror reflection plus Narcissus)
Moon: Cheddar/Rodent/Hickory(Dickory Dock)/7
Mars: Manhunter/Clerk/Paper Pusher
Jupiter: Divorcee/Widow/Juliet(honestly these 3 fit Venus too)/Spotter/
Saturn: Ringbearer/Pallbearer/Bride
Uranus: Rear Bumper
Neptune: 69(star 69 XP)
Sei: Alfred/Mary/Shark
Luna: Witch[hunter]/13
Artemis: Hunter/Snowbell/9
- Location
- San Ramon, CA
I must confess that I'm not familiar with the entirety of Ranma 1/2, but there is a possibility that Cologne training Ranma is her way to try and convince Shampoo to stop viewing "defeating Ranma" as the end-all-be-all of gaining his affection, and try literally ANYTHING ELSE. Like, yes, martial prowess is THE desirable trait in a partner in Amazonian culture, but spending any length of time around Ranma would make it clear that prowess is not what HE considers the most desirable trait.
Ask him about his day. Make him Bento boxes for lunch. Volunteer to teach (not beat to a pulp) those new students of his. Become someone he can rely on and relax around, not one of the endless parade of individuals that make him say, "Oh, gods, what now?" every time he sees them approach.
Noncanon? : Contemplation
Almech_Alfarion
(Unverified Paradox)
- Location
- Roaming the Void of the Space between Spaces
Omake time.
So, this is entirely unprompted. I have not consulted with anyone over if this scene is canon compliant or not. This is entirely my brain running off on a tangent and having some version of this or other running through it every time Shinju's Crystal Millennium arc comes up ever since the first time I realized she would be stepping foot on the moon sooner or later. This takes place at no determined time within the greater scope of the Quest other than potentially "sometime maybe yet to be".
-o-o-o-o-o-
Contemplation
-o-o-o-o-o-
Shinju staired up at the Earth.
...
And wasn't that a thought. The Earth.
It was sobering, in a way.
This was hardly the first time she had come up to the Moon Palace to fetch something for Artemis Sensei. It also wasn't the first time she had seen the Earth from the Moon.
It was, however, the first time she had made a detour to see the palace gardens, and something about how the planet above was framed by the trees and paths leading up to the hill at the other end, no glass or crystal or anything physical between her and the great expanse of black and stars and the Milky Way Galaxy above hit differently than seeing it hanging above an endless expanse of grey through a window.
The Senshi were surprisingly open about security up here. They trusted "Akiza Ano" enough to allow her up unsupervised, and there were only a few places where the doors were locked to keep her out...
Still...
Her attention momentarily drifted down from the blue marble of the Earth hanging above her, to the crystal tomb under the great tree on the hill at the other end of the gardens, and the silver haired woman in the center.
Princess Serenity.
Sailor Moon.
Despite the silver hair rather than blond, she could practically feel it in her Soul that they were one and the same.
She remembered back to that first conversation she had with Artemis Sensei when he accepted her as an assistant, and the statement that some of the Senshi "May-or-may-not" be reincarnated from this ancient civilization. She also remembered Mistress Sato, on receiving her report, declaring it imperative that she find out and report which of the Senshi were reincarnated if she could do so safely. Sure, there were other Senshi entombed here too, but Sailor Moon was their leader and likely of greatest concern to Onogoro...
And yet...
She looked back up to the Earth, as her mind drifted back to that plain of grey dust seen through so many of the palace's windows that stretched out to the horizon...
And the hundreds of bodies of all shapes and sizes draped in white sheets that she had seen placed in neat rows in the vacuum just outside of the protections of the palace so they wouldn't rot and decay before their last rites could be properly arranged...
It was all so... small, she thought, reaching her hand up so it looked like she was cupping the Earth. She could even see the island of Japan from where she sat. With a strong enough telescope she bet she could see her house from here. That realization only served to drive the thought home even further.
The world. Her entire world. Everything she had ever known and dreamed was up there, on that blue marble. It was all suddenly so much larger and also smaller than she ever thought it could be...
And it was all in danger from forces that the governments, magical and mundane, could only scarcely begin to contemplate.
And here she sat, on a bench, on the Moon, with nothing but open starry space above her, spying on the few people who actually understood that danger. They'd died fighting it to give everyone else a chance. A chance to rebuild. A chance to learn. A chance to grow.
And what had they done with that chance? Shinju clenched her fist, blocking out her sight of the Earth as she frowned at the thought.
They had rebuilt, sure, but they fought each other too. They cheated one another, and stabbed eachother in the back over what now felt like such petty reasons...
With a sigh, Shinju lowered her hand and turned around to get back to work, but not without one last glance at the Earth before she entered the doors.
Akiz-
No...
Shinju. Yes. Shinju still had to retrieve the telemetry data Artemis had asked her to get, and then probably have one of the hardest conversations she would have in her entire life...
So, this is entirely unprompted. I have not consulted with anyone over if this scene is canon compliant or not. This is entirely my brain running off on a tangent and having some version of this or other running through it every time Shinju's Crystal Millennium arc comes up ever since the first time I realized she would be stepping foot on the moon sooner or later. This takes place at no determined time within the greater scope of the Quest other than potentially "sometime maybe yet to be".
-o-o-o-o-o-
Contemplation
-o-o-o-o-o-
Shinju staired up at the Earth.
...
And wasn't that a thought. The Earth.
It was sobering, in a way.
This was hardly the first time she had come up to the Moon Palace to fetch something for Artemis Sensei. It also wasn't the first time she had seen the Earth from the Moon.
It was, however, the first time she had made a detour to see the palace gardens, and something about how the planet above was framed by the trees and paths leading up to the hill at the other end, no glass or crystal or anything physical between her and the great expanse of black and stars and the Milky Way Galaxy above hit differently than seeing it hanging above an endless expanse of grey through a window.
The Senshi were surprisingly open about security up here. They trusted "Akiza Ano" enough to allow her up unsupervised, and there were only a few places where the doors were locked to keep her out...
Still...
Her attention momentarily drifted down from the blue marble of the Earth hanging above her, to the crystal tomb under the great tree on the hill at the other end of the gardens, and the silver haired woman in the center.
Princess Serenity.
Sailor Moon.
Despite the silver hair rather than blond, she could practically feel it in her Soul that they were one and the same.
She remembered back to that first conversation she had with Artemis Sensei when he accepted her as an assistant, and the statement that some of the Senshi "May-or-may-not" be reincarnated from this ancient civilization. She also remembered Mistress Sato, on receiving her report, declaring it imperative that she find out and report which of the Senshi were reincarnated if she could do so safely. Sure, there were other Senshi entombed here too, but Sailor Moon was their leader and likely of greatest concern to Onogoro...
And yet...
She looked back up to the Earth, as her mind drifted back to that plain of grey dust seen through so many of the palace's windows that stretched out to the horizon...
And the hundreds of bodies of all shapes and sizes draped in white sheets that she had seen placed in neat rows in the vacuum just outside of the protections of the palace so they wouldn't rot and decay before their last rites could be properly arranged...
It was all so... small, she thought, reaching her hand up so it looked like she was cupping the Earth. She could even see the island of Japan from where she sat. With a strong enough telescope she bet she could see her house from here. That realization only served to drive the thought home even further.
The world. Her entire world. Everything she had ever known and dreamed was up there, on that blue marble. It was all suddenly so much larger and also smaller than she ever thought it could be...
And it was all in danger from forces that the governments, magical and mundane, could only scarcely begin to contemplate.
And here she sat, on a bench, on the Moon, with nothing but open starry space above her, spying on the few people who actually understood that danger. They'd died fighting it to give everyone else a chance. A chance to rebuild. A chance to learn. A chance to grow.
And what had they done with that chance? Shinju clenched her fist, blocking out her sight of the Earth as she frowned at the thought.
They had rebuilt, sure, but they fought each other too. They cheated one another, and stabbed eachother in the back over what now felt like such petty reasons...
With a sigh, Shinju lowered her hand and turned around to get back to work, but not without one last glance at the Earth before she entered the doors.
Akiz-
No...
Shinju. Yes. Shinju still had to retrieve the telemetry data Artemis had asked her to get, and then probably have one of the hardest conversations she would have in her entire life...
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Ekzentric Lohner
I miss Wildstar...
I perked up at the leaf before remembering that those Uranus-marked fans we bought way back when had the handles replaced, so this wasn't a missing piece of those.
Not too fussed about the snake - we've got our own healing magic.
Dreams are neat and all, but I'm sure there are other ways to dream together.
The sword on the other hand? I want to know what it's pointing at. And even if it wasn't a shiny mystery box, Haruka's bit in the mall assault mentioned that the club she got from the Night Oni still wasn't quite the best fit for what she thought was missing, so switching to an actual sword will probably help her, even if it still isn't as good as the Space Sword she will eventually manifest.
[X] The Sword
Not too fussed about the snake - we've got our own healing magic.
Dreams are neat and all, but I'm sure there are other ways to dream together.
The sword on the other hand? I want to know what it's pointing at. And even if it wasn't a shiny mystery box, Haruka's bit in the mall assault mentioned that the club she got from the Night Oni still wasn't quite the best fit for what she thought was missing, so switching to an actual sword will probably help her, even if it still isn't as good as the Space Sword she will eventually manifest.
[X] The Sword
Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
- Pronouns
- She/Her
And if we ever do encounter a poison that we can't deal with and very badly need to, we could probably convince them to let us use it anyway.
Why did Naru only notify Minako anyway?
Lunaryon
Dual Aurora Wave
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Short answer, Naru contacted Minako first, who convinced her to let Minako handle this, like this.
DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
- Location
- within 2 hours of the White House
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Spoken like someone who doesn't own any swords
[X] The Sword
RadiantPhoenix
Trudging up the Hill
- Location
- USA, Earth
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Also, it only works on most poisons.
If it was really all poisons, I might consider it, but I suspect that any poison we can't handle on our own is likely to be out of the snake's league.
Shampoo hasn't been trying to beat Ranma, though. IIRC, she does do things like make Ranma lunch (usually delivered by her crashing her bike into him because she's just so excited to see him.) and try to get him to go on actual dates with her.
And Ranma does like Shampoo, but only as a friend.
FictionPack
Monochromatic Ursine
- Location
- Tennessee
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Would you believe my dog ate it? The sheath anyway...
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Well, the real reasons are a bit complicated. But if you mean "have they captured anyone with clear pre-Fall memories who actually knew who's-who information about the Silver Millennium," then no, no they never did. What they've got reduces to:
1) Whatever Kunzite let slip in the presence of the relative handful of lesser youma who surrendered willingly and didn't lose the bulk of their memories to Escalation, and I think that reduces to two, one of whom was new and the other of whom was a prisoner Kunzite never actually trusted even after transformation.
2) Any fixed or written records they can read from inside the hotel.
3) Anything Minako or more likely Artemis said, and Artemis was observing opsec while Minako outright didn't know and had forgotten the Outer Senshi existed.
4) Rather vague written traditions about what a Sailor Senshi that survived the ages via the Realm of Bubbles, via Colonel Blimp- but no one in the temporarily 'Blighted' Realm of Bubbles was long-lived enough to recall those days personally or for much detail to have survived.
I doubt any of that would tell them about Sailor Saturn in specific, let alone give details as to why they might not be trying to find her which is a rather tougher question.
...
Of their contacts? Hm. They could ask the Seasonal Courts, someone there might be old enough to know... but I'd hesitate to ask, if I were them.
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[X] The Sword
- Location
- San Ramon, CA
I am curious about how the more "traditional" Fey will end up interacting with this new world of Magical Girls and Mechas. I'm sure Minako's heard enough stories to insist that Usagi train up her Intrigue by a LOT before considering actively engaging them.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
That, or deal with them very openly from a position of overwhelming power.
Zeus never had to worry about their bullshit as much as mere mortals did.