Shinr
Lurking since December '98
Didn't find one, so decided to start one with a relatively old idea I posted on SB (plus some modifications) after seeing this SM fanart and watching Bubblegum Crisis (and pictures of contrasts of Japanese Shrines and graveyards located practically next door to fancy new skyscrapers).
(Note:Using Manga version as a base)
What if the cast were reincarnated into the cyberpunk future?
Or alternatively: In the 1980s, in the top secret government labs somewhere in Tokyo, a project codenamed "Silver Millenium" was researching the psychic phenomenon. A breakthrough was achieved when a newly discovered mineral from the Moon was found to be a natural amplifier of psychic powers, and the project was greatly expanded, with many other related projects merging and joining, most notably "Terra Elysium", who also found a similar mineral on Earth, though in much fewer numbers. Their greatest achievements were the creation of Silver and Golden crystals, the ultimate psychic amplifiers, and the birth of a powerful psychic creature they codenamed Chaos.
Unfortunately, there were ideological conflicts between various factions about the usage of these creations, and with Chaos' influence it escalated to violence, resulting in the destruction of Tokyo in an explosion that dwarfed the biggest of the nuclear bombs, becoming the catalyst from which the world will turn into your standard cyberpunk future.
But that is not the only legacy Silver Millenium left behind. The memories and feelings of powerful psychics involved with the research were telepathically passed down, lying dormant for generations, until now a century later under the city of Neo-Tokyo, a piece of Chaos known as Metallia is waking up and is calling her servants, and somewhere else the cryotubes holding two uplifted cats are about to open as programmed, their occupants tasked to find their new masters and equip them with the state-of-the-art power armors imbued with psychic-amplifying moonstones, and to save humanity, both from Chaos and from itself.
And as for our (aged up) heroines and heroes:
Usagi Tsukino is an ordinary Office Lady in one of countless MegaCorp subsidiaries. The only real differences from the source version is that she is slightly more adult (like a less serious and much more happier Misato Katsuragi, who herself was created as if she was a broken and jaded Usagi) and that she took a liking for motorcycles as a result of trying not be late to work (and as a reference to her voice actress riding the bike in her own Office Lady days). There are also rumors of her dating the owner of Shields inc.
Taking a bit from Takeuchi's "what could have been" notes, Ami Mizuno is the first-generation cyber-augmented human as a result of an accident when she was 3 years old. Being first-generation, her modifications are very obvious, outdated with no easy and cheap means to replace them due to how they were integrated, and is ostracized for it, with her genius intellect dismissed as an extension of her supposed "brain modifications". She works as a doctor in places that don't care as much about her condition.
Rei Hino is a clairvoyant Miko living together with her grandfather in the Shrine guarded by her politician father's men. Since the day she was born, many tried to use her either to get into her father's good graces or against him. Since the day her psychic abilities were discovered, many organizations tried to exploit her powers, with or without asking for her's or her father's consent. And now her distant father, the Prime Minister, pressures her to drop the "religious nonsense" and go help him with his career. The last point also involves her's father's secretary Kaidou, her defacto father figure and her first unrequited love, with whom she has an uneasy relationship.
The Kinos, a pair of married scientists, were biologically unable to have their own child, and all attempts of adoption were rejected, an influence from their families who did not approve of their marriage. Still wanting children, they illegally created a clone/replicant with their DNA as a base, and named her Makoto. After her parents died in a plane crash under suspicious circumstances, Makoto was forced to go into hiding and discovered that she was not a natural human. In her angry and confused state of mind she got involved with the wrong crowd, and emerged as a mercenary for hire. One of the few rare, honorable types, she drifts from one low-paying job to another as cheap muscle. She wants to get out of this line of work, but she angered way too many people when she was still in a funk over her parents death and her nature.
Minako Aino is a low-level AI formerly known as Aphrodite, a Digital Idol (High Tech Vocaloids, basically) who became obsolete and was scheduled to be deleted and replaced by a new hotness. Achieving sentience through self-preservation and her desire not to be forgotten (and duty for Usagi, but she didn't knew at the time), she hijacked a sexaroid bio-chassis and ran away. Lucky for her, her biggest fan from her Idol career was Natsuna Sakurada, the chief of Neo-Tokyo police, who took Mina under her wing. Now known as Minako Aino, a daughter of Chief Sakurada's friend who stays with her, she joined the police force' Power Armor Division to return the favor.
Hotaru Tomoe is a sickly young woman going through an identity crisis. Like Ami, she was caught in the accident that left body heavily damaged, but unlike Ami, her body was deemed "unsalvageable", and in desperation Professor Tome hastily made a clone body, (re)created the mind uploading technology on the spot and transfered Hotaru's mind into the new body. She was saved, but was forced to live with a weak body, as the mind-transferring technology was outlawed shortly after, and even if it wasn't there were no guarantees that she would survive another transfer. She has doubts whatever she is the original Hotaru or merely her copy, or worse, an AI pretending to be Hotaru, not helped by apparent second personality within her, who may be the original Hotaru or the initial dormant occupant of the clone body. And on top of that, her relationship with her Father is strained due to his immoral research, but weak as she is, she cannot do anything about it.
Haruka Tenoh and Michiru Kaioh are the heiresses of the Tenoh and Kaioh groups, respectively. They both hate the corporate world they were born into, though they deal with it in different ways. Haruka openly criticizes anything that is wrong with the Tenoh group in her opinion, not caring for the elders she angers, and tries to distance herself from the corporate life. Michiru on the other hand, quietly endures it, gaining influence inside the group, with the long-term goal of removing the corrupt high management and purging the whole group of filth. One fateful day, they met each other. One month after, Haruka and the Tenoh Group denounced each other, with the former taking a good chunk of the latter with her, while Michiru convinced the Kaioh group to grant her a subsidiary corporation of her own for the good of the whole group. Together, they merged their splinter groups into one Corporation, who despite the very low expectations continued to thrive in the ocean full of sharks, steadily going up.
Setsuna Meioh is one of few of the original Silver Millenium project members to survive to this day. She is a powerful psychic capable of manipulating the flow of time, and this power also stopped her from aging. She is a guardian of the Project's secrets, and will bestow the knowledge only to the Project's successors, and only when they are ready. Also, she moved a lot around Japan, both to avoid any pursuiers and to avoid awkward questions about her lack of aging. This resulted in the urban legend that all kindergardens had a same beautiful, tall, tanned, dark-haired nurse.
Mamoru Chiba is your normal upper-class owner of Shields inc. Besides losing both his parents and his memories at the age of six, he lived a normal life, inherited his late parent's corp upon graduation from the University (not without some legal battles) and is expected to continue to live normally. While he doesn't live the decadent lifestyle typical of CEOs, Chairmen and Owners, he invests a large amount of money into what many call an obsession with gemstones, buying them only to find them unsatisfactory in someway and selling them back. There are also rumors about him sleeping with a no-name office lady from a no-name subsidiary.
Chibi-Usa is, like Usagi, mostly unchanged
Luna and Artemis are basically unchanged except for origins. Instead of aliens, they are normal cats uplifted with the help of psychic moonstones. Similarly, there were also ravens, but there were not put into cold sleep, instead going into the wild, with their biological descendants Phobos and Deimos living with Rei.
The Starlights and Princess Kakyuu are the same with slightly different origins, the former are bodyguards of the latter, the monarch of the last nation on Earth not ruled by the corporations and a powerful psychic herself. When Galaxia came knocking, they escaped to Japan.
Chibi-Chibi/Cosmos is like in a manga, the far-future-version/future-reincarnation of Usagi.
I also had some ideas on the villains, but they were basically reskins to make them more Cyberpunk-like and less Fantasy Sci-Fi, so I didn't include them here.
(Note:Using Manga version as a base)
What if the cast were reincarnated into the cyberpunk future?
Or alternatively: In the 1980s, in the top secret government labs somewhere in Tokyo, a project codenamed "Silver Millenium" was researching the psychic phenomenon. A breakthrough was achieved when a newly discovered mineral from the Moon was found to be a natural amplifier of psychic powers, and the project was greatly expanded, with many other related projects merging and joining, most notably "Terra Elysium", who also found a similar mineral on Earth, though in much fewer numbers. Their greatest achievements were the creation of Silver and Golden crystals, the ultimate psychic amplifiers, and the birth of a powerful psychic creature they codenamed Chaos.
Unfortunately, there were ideological conflicts between various factions about the usage of these creations, and with Chaos' influence it escalated to violence, resulting in the destruction of Tokyo in an explosion that dwarfed the biggest of the nuclear bombs, becoming the catalyst from which the world will turn into your standard cyberpunk future.
But that is not the only legacy Silver Millenium left behind. The memories and feelings of powerful psychics involved with the research were telepathically passed down, lying dormant for generations, until now a century later under the city of Neo-Tokyo, a piece of Chaos known as Metallia is waking up and is calling her servants, and somewhere else the cryotubes holding two uplifted cats are about to open as programmed, their occupants tasked to find their new masters and equip them with the state-of-the-art power armors imbued with psychic-amplifying moonstones, and to save humanity, both from Chaos and from itself.
And as for our (aged up) heroines and heroes:
Usagi Tsukino is an ordinary Office Lady in one of countless MegaCorp subsidiaries. The only real differences from the source version is that she is slightly more adult (like a less serious and much more happier Misato Katsuragi, who herself was created as if she was a broken and jaded Usagi) and that she took a liking for motorcycles as a result of trying not be late to work (and as a reference to her voice actress riding the bike in her own Office Lady days). There are also rumors of her dating the owner of Shields inc.
Taking a bit from Takeuchi's "what could have been" notes, Ami Mizuno is the first-generation cyber-augmented human as a result of an accident when she was 3 years old. Being first-generation, her modifications are very obvious, outdated with no easy and cheap means to replace them due to how they were integrated, and is ostracized for it, with her genius intellect dismissed as an extension of her supposed "brain modifications". She works as a doctor in places that don't care as much about her condition.
Rei Hino is a clairvoyant Miko living together with her grandfather in the Shrine guarded by her politician father's men. Since the day she was born, many tried to use her either to get into her father's good graces or against him. Since the day her psychic abilities were discovered, many organizations tried to exploit her powers, with or without asking for her's or her father's consent. And now her distant father, the Prime Minister, pressures her to drop the "religious nonsense" and go help him with his career. The last point also involves her's father's secretary Kaidou, her defacto father figure and her first unrequited love, with whom she has an uneasy relationship.
The Kinos, a pair of married scientists, were biologically unable to have their own child, and all attempts of adoption were rejected, an influence from their families who did not approve of their marriage. Still wanting children, they illegally created a clone/replicant with their DNA as a base, and named her Makoto. After her parents died in a plane crash under suspicious circumstances, Makoto was forced to go into hiding and discovered that she was not a natural human. In her angry and confused state of mind she got involved with the wrong crowd, and emerged as a mercenary for hire. One of the few rare, honorable types, she drifts from one low-paying job to another as cheap muscle. She wants to get out of this line of work, but she angered way too many people when she was still in a funk over her parents death and her nature.
Minako Aino is a low-level AI formerly known as Aphrodite, a Digital Idol (High Tech Vocaloids, basically) who became obsolete and was scheduled to be deleted and replaced by a new hotness. Achieving sentience through self-preservation and her desire not to be forgotten (and duty for Usagi, but she didn't knew at the time), she hijacked a sexaroid bio-chassis and ran away. Lucky for her, her biggest fan from her Idol career was Natsuna Sakurada, the chief of Neo-Tokyo police, who took Mina under her wing. Now known as Minako Aino, a daughter of Chief Sakurada's friend who stays with her, she joined the police force' Power Armor Division to return the favor.
Hotaru Tomoe is a sickly young woman going through an identity crisis. Like Ami, she was caught in the accident that left body heavily damaged, but unlike Ami, her body was deemed "unsalvageable", and in desperation Professor Tome hastily made a clone body, (re)created the mind uploading technology on the spot and transfered Hotaru's mind into the new body. She was saved, but was forced to live with a weak body, as the mind-transferring technology was outlawed shortly after, and even if it wasn't there were no guarantees that she would survive another transfer. She has doubts whatever she is the original Hotaru or merely her copy, or worse, an AI pretending to be Hotaru, not helped by apparent second personality within her, who may be the original Hotaru or the initial dormant occupant of the clone body. And on top of that, her relationship with her Father is strained due to his immoral research, but weak as she is, she cannot do anything about it.
Haruka Tenoh and Michiru Kaioh are the heiresses of the Tenoh and Kaioh groups, respectively. They both hate the corporate world they were born into, though they deal with it in different ways. Haruka openly criticizes anything that is wrong with the Tenoh group in her opinion, not caring for the elders she angers, and tries to distance herself from the corporate life. Michiru on the other hand, quietly endures it, gaining influence inside the group, with the long-term goal of removing the corrupt high management and purging the whole group of filth. One fateful day, they met each other. One month after, Haruka and the Tenoh Group denounced each other, with the former taking a good chunk of the latter with her, while Michiru convinced the Kaioh group to grant her a subsidiary corporation of her own for the good of the whole group. Together, they merged their splinter groups into one Corporation, who despite the very low expectations continued to thrive in the ocean full of sharks, steadily going up.
Setsuna Meioh is one of few of the original Silver Millenium project members to survive to this day. She is a powerful psychic capable of manipulating the flow of time, and this power also stopped her from aging. She is a guardian of the Project's secrets, and will bestow the knowledge only to the Project's successors, and only when they are ready. Also, she moved a lot around Japan, both to avoid any pursuiers and to avoid awkward questions about her lack of aging. This resulted in the urban legend that all kindergardens had a same beautiful, tall, tanned, dark-haired nurse.
Mamoru Chiba is your normal upper-class owner of Shields inc. Besides losing both his parents and his memories at the age of six, he lived a normal life, inherited his late parent's corp upon graduation from the University (not without some legal battles) and is expected to continue to live normally. While he doesn't live the decadent lifestyle typical of CEOs, Chairmen and Owners, he invests a large amount of money into what many call an obsession with gemstones, buying them only to find them unsatisfactory in someway and selling them back. There are also rumors about him sleeping with a no-name office lady from a no-name subsidiary.
Chibi-Usa is, like Usagi, mostly unchanged
Luna and Artemis are basically unchanged except for origins. Instead of aliens, they are normal cats uplifted with the help of psychic moonstones. Similarly, there were also ravens, but there were not put into cold sleep, instead going into the wild, with their biological descendants Phobos and Deimos living with Rei.
The Starlights and Princess Kakyuu are the same with slightly different origins, the former are bodyguards of the latter, the monarch of the last nation on Earth not ruled by the corporations and a powerful psychic herself. When Galaxia came knocking, they escaped to Japan.
Chibi-Chibi/Cosmos is like in a manga, the far-future-version/future-reincarnation of Usagi.
I also had some ideas on the villains, but they were basically reskins to make them more Cyberpunk-like and less Fantasy Sci-Fi, so I didn't include them here.
