Sadly I am already editing too much to be of any real use, though I'd be curious to hear more about these ideas @Galaxia-sama
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@Zam So, I think I mentioned both of these a long while ago, so might as well give a quick refresher!
So, as the avatar and user name probably give away, I am ride-and-die for Sailor Galaxia; she's my favourite antagonist in the series, so I've re-read the Stars arc a couple of times. And one part of Stars which I liked (but which wasn't particularly expanded upon) was the fact that the Sailor Animates were all fake Guardians; at one point, Luna and Artemis call out Iron Mouse as not being the real Sailor Mau.
So, I'm thinking that might be a fun twist to the old 'Make Naru a Sailor Scout' fan fic trope, as Galaxia head hunts her to become the newest Sailor Animate and set her up against Usagi.
So, I'm thinking that might be a fun twist to the old 'Make Naru a Sailor Scout' fan fic trope, as Galaxia head hunts her to become the newest Sailor Animate and set her up against Usagi.
This is the one I'm actually leaning more towards; basically a re-write of the Dark Kingdom arc, but a version where Makoto is the only active Sailor Guardian (so taking the Sailor V role). This story... actually leans a little more towards a romance, I guess, because the main crux of it - and I detailed this waaaay back during my initial pitch, so I don't care spoiling it - was the drama of a Makoto/Mamoru/Usagi love triangle.
Or, more accurately, a Makoto/Mamoru romance conflicting with an Endymion/Serenity romance. You know, digging into the idea of the 'destined love story', with some added parallels between Beryl and Makoto (since both are the outside party looking in on the prospective romance).
Or, more accurately, a Makoto/Mamoru romance conflicting with an Endymion/Serenity romance. You know, digging into the idea of the 'destined love story', with some added parallels between Beryl and Makoto (since both are the outside party looking in on the prospective romance).
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I like this idea as it reminds me of this Sailor Moon fanart
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There's definitely some dramatic intensity potential there, though if Galaxia knows Usagi's identity wouldn't she just hit her at home while she sleeps?
Ooo that does sound interesting, I can definitely see the romance angle proving engaging though as a huge Sailor V fan I am confused about the timeline a bit, as if Makoto is in her role, she shouldn't be anywhere near Japan for much of the early arcs, though I may just be being a stickler.
This is great, do you have a source on the artist?
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I'd be interested, definitely. Thanks for pointing me at this @brer rabbit
Do you have a draft or are you still plotting it out at the moment, @Galaxia-sama ?
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It's made very clear during the Nehelenia arc that Galaxia knows who Sailor Moon is but is just simply screwing around because it amuses her.
Ah good point there... Yeesh that's grim.
Huh, neato. I need to get around to reading this... even if I disagree hard with Makoto/Ami as a ship
Still plotting at the moment. Which is why I'm lumping this in with the following quote:
This is actually part of what I am struggling with myself. To clarify, I am basing this off the manga (or mostly off the manga) since that's the more accessible version to me, and aside from a brief Hawai'i arc, I'm fairly confident that Sailor V remains in Japan for most of the story.
One of the problems I'm running into, though is... well, the meta issue of wondering "how much original content should I include", mainly where the villains are concerned. The Dark Agency is very much a Minako villain faction, in that they are related to her general life goal of 'become an idol'. I feel like if I'm including that group of villains, they would need to be adjusted to something more in line with Makoto... but that makes me worried about how much I'm bending canon to fit the concept.
I really dislike the idea of doing a story which plays out the exact same but slotting in 'Makoto' anywhere Usagi is... but I also have a bit of confidence issues when it comes to introducing new characters and concepts, in case that actually takes away from what makes Sailor Moon 'Sailor Moon'.
She also went to China and starred in a movie shot there with Dark Ace while he mind screwed her, before she obliterated the entire locale and his creeper ass along with it. Plus if V was in Japan that whole time it makes her not helping the other Senshi rather confusing.
I mean Minako's thing was more finding love, or become an idol, or become a mangaka, or be a sports star, that last one was fairly recurring too, plus video games, Minako was as much a 'tomboy' character, than just an idol obsessed one. As it is, I think the changes depend on some things, are you having Jupiter activated first on accident over the seeming intentional activation of Minako, or is this a narrative swap where Dark Ace would have obsessed over the princess of Jupiter over Venus?
Wait, so Jupiter is activated instead of Usagi... Then I think Minako should still have been active? Sorry I find this a little confusing. As to a villain that contrasts Makoto, I think anime Nephrite fits that goal fairly well?
I definitely need to re-read Sailor V, because it just occurs to me that I do not remember the entire second half of that manga.
I need to check the timeline, buuuut my general impression was that she was there, but not doing stuff with them, as part of a 'they need to solve it themselves to awaken/train/whatever'? I'm basing that off the fact that Artemis was clearly around and giving Luna orders through the arcade machine, though that whole plot point is rather, uh, confusing, so...
I think you are hitting all of the reasons why this is still in the plotting phase, and why I'm debating whether I should shuffle events of canon around to have Makoto activate first (followed by the others), or if I should use this as a starting point to basically spin out of own canon for it.
Right now, I've mostly been approaching this project from the tragangst writing possibilites of the Makoto/Mamoru ship, and from the awesomeness having Sailor Jupiter do wresting moves
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Okay, this sounds very interesting.
You basically need to decide whether... well, first things first, is Makoto eventually going to be wielding the Ginzuisho to vanquish the Dark Kingdom or will that still be Usagi? Because that will greatly affect things.
Then there's the question of whether Makoto will start off on her own and quickly assemble a team like Moon did, or if she'll start off on her own as a big distraction while the other senshi assemble into a team, or something else.
Beyond those issues...
If you're going to be writing something Makoto-focused anyway, then you are going to have several important OCs out of necessity, simply because IIRC canonically her parents are dead and she's supported financially by relatives we never meet.
When the story is focused on Usagi, that's okay, but never meeting them and Makoto not thinking about or missing them isn't feasible when Makoto is the main character. So no matter what you need at least the OC who will be Makoto's legal guardian plus Makoto missing her deceased family and thinking back to them at times.
Then if you want Makoto-centric villains you could relate them to Makoto being an orphan, with the Dark Kingdom agents either being potentially responsible for the plane crash that killed her family (so Makoto keeps seeking them out to gain vengeance) or being agents who infiltrated Japanese Child Services, where there's a lot of IRL problems and potential to shuffle kids around and make a few go missing to drain their energy.
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I personally believe that Makoto (in the 90's anime) is BI but I don't ship her and Ami together.Huh, neato. I need to get around to reading this... even if I disagree hard with Makoto/Ami as a ship
I thought your plan was that Makoto would be the only guardian in the story?
The latter idea works the best in my opinion. Also I recall a fic (can't remember the name) where Usagi grew up in Japanese Child Services... she became a VERY bitter person and that Ami was the first Scout Luna instead of her.
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I'm leaning towards that still being Usagi. On the one hand, it might seem a little strange for the big bad to not be defeated by the main character... but I actually think that fit's with the theme that I want to go with, exploring the idea that Makoto isn't the main character in, that she is a side character to the fated love story of Endymion and Serenity.
It means I still need to come up with a way to subvert that towards the end (most likely with Makoto/Mamoru as the final ship parents, as not being the Saviour of the Universe doesn't invalidate her own importance to the story and to him)...
Putting these two together:
My plan was for Sailor Jupiter to be the only Guardian, though it's something I'm going back and forth on. She's definitely going to be the first one to Awaken (and probably have some kind of alt costume, because I have ideas for that which I think would look cool), so my only question then is whether I should have the other guardians come into the story.
Of course, part of that is going to come down to plotting. I'm planning on doing a re-read of the whole series over the next week or so, and see if I can get some ideas and inspiration from that (as well as brushing up on Makoto's characterisation).
I mean, going off of the above, Usagi would have to come into the story at some point; she's baked into the Makoto/Mamoru/Usagi angle that, frankly, is 90% of the reason this idea has any legs to me.
Ooh, I really like the latter idea. Mind if I steal it?
I have been waiting for an excuse to talk about this.
Mild Sailor Moon shiptalk in the spoiler (and an insight into how my mind works, I guess):
So, to start with, I don't begrudge anyone's particularly shippings or interpretations. This is just something I've kind of wanted to talk about and never found an excuse to before. So, I present my breakdown of Sailor Guardian Orientations and Proof I Am Right:
Sailor Moon and Sailor Venus are both qualified bisexual disasters, and I don't think anyone can argue that. Usagi goes gaga-eyed over Rei, and her only concerns when Haruka and Seiya flirt with her seem to be the "But Mamoru!" aspect of it. Meanwhile, Minako...
... Minako has a full on page where she locks arms with Rei and they both declare they "don't need men". Add the fact that Minako has a long-running arc of finding a boyfriend, and it's clear she's shopping from both sides of the aisle.
Which, by the by, means that Rei? I headcanon her as gay. There's no Mamoru-attracting in my headcanon. The closest she ever get's to entertaining the idea of a husband is when Makoto suggests she think of it as having a lackey ("Ooh, a lackey!" is still the funniest line in the entire franchise to me).
That being said she isn't going to making out with Minako any time soon, because a flashback during one of her chapters hevaily implies she took a vow of celibacy as part of her dedication to the princess. And while I'm sure Usagi wouldn't hold her to that, I feel like Rei's own sense of honor and pride would.
Ami is panromantic. The only time she shows romantic interest in anyone is when she think's they are smarter than her, and she doesn't care if it's a guy or a girl. She's literally the "I'm only attracted to smart people" idea, but played entirely straight and genuine. Ami's deal is that it's the personality she finds engaging, and actual physical stuff is probably a no-go for her.
Haruka is gay. Moving on.
(Well, Haruka is actually probably genderfluid or maybe even trans, but that's my attempt at figuring out how 'Tuxedo Uranus' fits into the canon. That being the tail end of a gender exploration arc is my easiest no-prize.)
Michiru, I think, is actually bi, but only because Haruka's jokes about her flirting with guys felt like they had a little bit of truth to them.
Pluto is a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, sealed inside a time-space corridor. I mean, she canonically has a thing for King Endymion, and that angsty unrequited love is the kind of shit I love. But she also goes off to raise Saturn with Haruka and Michiru, going so far as to get a promise ring with them. A promise ring which the text itself has people mistake as an engagement ring.
So, is Pluto actually in a poly relationship with Uranus and Neptune?! I have no idea. The ages seem... weirdly off, but the manga seems to treat Haruka, Michuru and Setsuna as being high school age, college age and adults at the same time, so I don't even know.
My point from all this is that Makoto - the way I picture her, and the way I write her - is actually the only straight character in the entire cast, since I can't think of anything that supports her being female-attracted. So I actually tend to rather dislike Makoto/Ami as a consequence
Sailor Moon and Sailor Venus are both qualified bisexual disasters, and I don't think anyone can argue that. Usagi goes gaga-eyed over Rei, and her only concerns when Haruka and Seiya flirt with her seem to be the "But Mamoru!" aspect of it. Meanwhile, Minako...
... Minako has a full on page where she locks arms with Rei and they both declare they "don't need men". Add the fact that Minako has a long-running arc of finding a boyfriend, and it's clear she's shopping from both sides of the aisle.
Which, by the by, means that Rei? I headcanon her as gay. There's no Mamoru-attracting in my headcanon. The closest she ever get's to entertaining the idea of a husband is when Makoto suggests she think of it as having a lackey ("Ooh, a lackey!" is still the funniest line in the entire franchise to me).
That being said she isn't going to making out with Minako any time soon, because a flashback during one of her chapters hevaily implies she took a vow of celibacy as part of her dedication to the princess. And while I'm sure Usagi wouldn't hold her to that, I feel like Rei's own sense of honor and pride would.
Ami is panromantic. The only time she shows romantic interest in anyone is when she think's they are smarter than her, and she doesn't care if it's a guy or a girl. She's literally the "I'm only attracted to smart people" idea, but played entirely straight and genuine. Ami's deal is that it's the personality she finds engaging, and actual physical stuff is probably a no-go for her.
Haruka is gay. Moving on.
(Well, Haruka is actually probably genderfluid or maybe even trans, but that's my attempt at figuring out how 'Tuxedo Uranus' fits into the canon. That being the tail end of a gender exploration arc is my easiest no-prize.)
Michiru, I think, is actually bi, but only because Haruka's jokes about her flirting with guys felt like they had a little bit of truth to them.
Pluto is a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, sealed inside a time-space corridor. I mean, she canonically has a thing for King Endymion, and that angsty unrequited love is the kind of shit I love. But she also goes off to raise Saturn with Haruka and Michiru, going so far as to get a promise ring with them. A promise ring which the text itself has people mistake as an engagement ring.
So, is Pluto actually in a poly relationship with Uranus and Neptune?! I have no idea. The ages seem... weirdly off, but the manga seems to treat Haruka, Michuru and Setsuna as being high school age, college age and adults at the same time, so I don't even know.
My point from all this is that Makoto - the way I picture her, and the way I write her - is actually the only straight character in the entire cast, since I can't think of anything that supports her being female-attracted. So I actually tend to rather dislike Makoto/Ami as a consequence
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I mean, Usagi is heavily implied to be bisexual and crushing on several fellow senshi at one time or another even canonically. She literally had hearts in her eyes and followed Rei off the bus because Rei was so pretty, IIRC.
Having Usagi decide to start dating Rei or Ami (given your head canons, probably Rei,) because this life doesn't have to mirror her last one (especially if the dating begins before they regain their memories) seems like a pretty good way for it to go down to me.
Maybe instead of a Senshi Team, all the Senshi are spread around different cities with their own advisors to get a better spread on fighting Dark Kingdom activities?
Minako is handling things abroad, Rei has the Tokyo area locked down around Hikawa Shrine and can make day trips with Phobos/Deimos elsewhere if other shrines reach out to her grandfather for help, Ami can go to any hospital with energy drain victims and reverse track from there, Makoto ends up wherever social services shuffles her off to this week or wherever her constantly moving Aunt/Uncle are staying...
So they all ostensibly are on the same side but they don't regularly meet and cooperate because putting them all together would make it too easy for the Dark Kingdom to go where they aren't. Does that sound feasible?
EDIT: Thus making Jupiter feel like the only guardian because she's always working alone, but there are members of what can become a team when you need to get to that part of the story, and Jupiter being the first to awaken has seniority (plus presumably she'd have bigger adventures than the others due to being on-screen at the time) so they end up putting her in charge?
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She is attracted to men. (go read Casablanca Memories for more info)
So much happens in Sailor V, its wild XD
I thought that was more an anime thing?I need to check the timeline, buuuut my general impression was that she was there, but not doing stuff with them, as part of a 'they need to solve it themselves to awaken/train/whatever'? I'm basing that off the fact that Artemis was clearly around and giving Luna orders through the arcade machine, though that whole plot point is rather, uh, confusing, so...
I think you are hitting all of the reasons why this is still in the plotting phase, and why I'm debating whether I should shuffle events of canon around to have Makoto activate first (followed by the others), or if I should use this as a starting point to basically spin out of own canon for it.
Right now, I've mostly been approaching this project from the tragangst writing possibilites of the Makoto/Mamoru ship, and from the awesomeness having Sailor Jupiter do wresting moves
Mhm, I can definitely see the appeal, but yeah there's a few ways to play it but all very distinct and with their own unique challenges.
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Technically not fanfic as it's published, but longtime Sailor Moon fan Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant is finally doing a SM inspired Magical Girls novel. Looks like it's gonna be pretty dark too...
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So have an idea for a Sailor Moon/Worm fic in where the girls (who are not Sailor Guardians in this fic) were in Japan during Leviathan attack (their twenty-seven at this point) and while they ended surviving they all lost pretty much everything and have to leave Japan.
We pick back with them ten years at the start of worm canon.
Now all of them will be Triggered but some of their powers won't be related to their 90's Anime/Manga counterparts such as I'm thinking of giving Minako a Master ability or make some of them never meeting the other.
We pick back with them ten years at the start of worm canon.
Now all of them will be Triggered but some of their powers won't be related to their 90's Anime/Manga counterparts such as I'm thinking of giving Minako a Master ability or make some of them never meeting the other.
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So there's a new comic called Flavor Girls and it's clearly inspired by Sailor Moon.
What's interesting about this is that all four girls seem to have aspects of Usagi personality like Camille who is the Makoto expy having Usagi stomach and... vulgarness at times.
If this ever gets a movie or a show there's going to be quite a few fanfics crossing over between the two.
What's interesting about this is that all four girls seem to have aspects of Usagi personality like Camille who is the Makoto expy having Usagi stomach and... vulgarness at times.
If this ever gets a movie or a show there's going to be quite a few fanfics crossing over between the two.
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Something I wrote a few years ago over on QQ. Was reminded of it this morning, so I decided to post it here.
I stared down at the weapon in my hand. It seemed to be made entirely out of metal, and was heavier than I was. And yet, it wasn't nearly as heavy as it should have been. I could swing it around me like a baton, the curved blade slicing through the air like a whisper, and the pummel on the end smashing into walls with a satisfying thud.
Of course, with how strong I was like this, I could make almost anything go thud. It was almost unfair, how I was strong, fast, tough and had ranged powers on top of it. And I didn't even need to wear a mask. It was the weirdest thing, but even my own parents hadn't recognized me. I had the same hair color, the same eyes, the same shape to my face, but until I had said that I was their daughter, they had pleading with me to save myself, since I had disappeared in the tumult.
It was weird that my powers were like this. Being able to transform, yeah, sure. There were dozens of heroes and villains who could do something like that. But I didn't know of any who got a costume out of it. A costume I wasn't sure how to feel about.
Sure, the purple and white looked nice on me, with plenty of frills and bows. But the skirt was so short. It was a good thing the leotard that covered my body was, well, a leotard. If I was going to be doing all the flips and kicks that came so easily to me like this, then I was going to want something to cover myself up with.
I tilted my head back and closed my eyes. I could hear the speech from here. My own part ran through my head, the words floating in front of my eyelids.
"Miss?" I looked up at the assistant. She nodded towards the stage. I could hear the clicks of cameras undercutting the Director speaking. "It's almost time."
"Thank you," I said, rising to my feet.
My glaive rested naturally against my shoulder and tucked against my elbow. I still made sure it wasn't going to catch on anything as I walked towards the curtains. I breathed in and out. It was almost time.
Time for me to go into the world, and let them see me. And once I was out there, I'd do… what? There was something waiting for me. I knew there was. I didn't know what it was, or where to find it, or who I should talk to about it, but I knew it was out there. In my heart, I knew I needed to search for it.
"And introducing Brockton Bay's newest Ward," Director Piggot said, sounding kind of happy but mostly loud, "Sailor Vista!"
Taking a deep breath, I walked out from the wings, my boots tapping against the floor and my glaive providing a counterpoint. This was it.
This was my beginning.
It sure was convenient that there were some pretty tall hills right outside of Brockton Bay. That way, I could stand on one and look down over the city in a completely natural and unaffected manner. Though the optics of the situation mattered a whole lot less to me than what was in front of me.
Brockton Bay. I hadn't even heard of the city until I had pulled out a travel map two days ago. And there didn't seem to be a lot to make it stick out. Well, to most people. To me, it had given me a name to attach to the urges I'd been feeling.
It seemed like I had been wandering a long, long time. At first, I was just going away, but for a while now, I had been looking for something. I didn't know what it was or where to find it, which made the dreams and hunches I had pretty hard to use. But, finally, I was pretty certain I knew where I was supposed to be looking. And hopefully, I could figure out what I was looking for as well.
At least I wasn't alone. God, that would have sucked. Nobody but me and the, ahem, friendly faces a girl traveling by herself would meet?
"What do you think, Artemis?" I asked, glancing down at the small white dog sitting next to me.
"I don't know, Sailor Insight," Artemis said, staring down at the city without looking up at me. "You probably have a good of an idea as I do. You're the one who has the dreams."
I sighed. And wasn't that a ringing endorsement? Based on dreams and coin flips, the two of us had crossed most of America, looking for something. And now we were here. At least it felt right.
I wished I could even get a guess as to what kind of thing Artemis and I were searching for. Sometimes, I thought that it was a person, and other times, it seemed more like an object. Hell, for I knew, I was looking for the True Name of God or some stupid crap like that.
And it wasn't going to be as easy as just turning over rocks once the two of us got to Brockton Bay. To continue the metaphor, there were scorpions and snakes living under those rocks. Apparently this town was lousy with assholes. And it was even getting worse, with some new gang that made monsters or something popping up.
"Think we'll be doing some fighting, Artemis?" I asked, kneeling down to scratch him behind the ears.
"You may be doing some fighting," Artemis corrected. "Things will have gone quite wrong if I'm getting involved on the physical side of things."
"Just so long as you have a roast waiting for me when I come back home from work, dear," I said, smiling a bit.
Well, even if there were people who'd get in the way of searching, I had an answer to that. Two answers, really. The first was my brain, for all the good it was doing me in finding what the hell I was supposed to be looking for. And the second was fucking laser beams, just like a female, non-gay Legend.
I lifted Artemis up and perched him on my shoulder. He wiggled a bit, getting comfortable, while I tried to deal with the weight of carrying even a small dog for the next few miles until I got into town. Doing this was so much easier in my cape form than as regular old me.
I wondered what name I should use when I got into Brockton Bay. Sailor Insight, obviously, as my cape name. It felt right, somehow. Hell, it seemed a lot more right than my old name. But I'd get some funny looks at the coffee shop if I said my order was for Sailor Insight. I'd need some other, regular name.
Lisa, maybe.
Flying was great. No joke, it was the single best thing about my powers. Nothing else came close to matching it. Not the strength, not the forcefield, not the mist, nothing.
So was it any surprise that I was spending my patrol whizzing through the sky, looking down at Brockton Bay from half a mile up? I could see the entire city, the Protectorate base out in the middle of the bay, see the cars moving along the streets, even see the people.
And thanks to the blue visor over my eyes, I could see that there was trouble. I had no idea what, exactly, Dark Energy was, where it came from or what it did, my visor didn't like it. So I came swooping down from the sky, heading towards a block of shops.
As I got closer, I could see the problem. There were a mass of people surging along the street. Even from up here, even if the visor hadn't highlighted each of them with a warning, I could have told something was wrong, just from the way they moved. Individually jerky, but as a group, coordinated.
They were chasing a girl my age. A girl- my eyes narrowed. She was wearing an outfit a lot like mine, but with yellow instead of blue. Her blonde hair fluttered behind her as she leapt from car to car, carrying something underneath her arm and glancing back behind her as the mob of civilians surged after her.
I swooped down, hovering a few feet in front of her. From this position, I could see the snarling expressions on the people behind her as they clawed at her.
"Sailor Glory, arriving in elegance," I said, fixing the crowd with a stern glare, and giving her only a barely warmer look. "What's going on?"
The girl didn't answer. Instead, she leapt off the truck she was on for a fire escape a few yards away. She made it, clinging to the bars with one hand. She barely pulled herself up, the mob clawing at her feet as she landed with a clang on the platform. I flew after her, the mob barely paying attention to me.
"What do you think?" The girl said, panting for breath. "There's some mutant bitch back there who set these assholes on me." She wiped a gloved hand across her forehead. "I'm fine, by the way."
I looked back where the girl had come from. There was nothing on my visor. But down below us, the crowd had split up. A good half of them were staying put, staring up at the two of us with hateful expressions while the others circled the building. Looking for an entrance. There hadn't been any sign of coordination. In fact, I hadn't heard them make a single sound beyond gasps for breaths the entire time.
"What's that," I said, pointing at the off-white ovoid object tucked underneath her arm.
"Don't know," she shrugged. "Saw it, grabbed it, they started after me. Just knew it didn't belong in the center of a massage place with people praying to it."
I grabbed my supercomputer from my belt and started tapping keys, staring at the object with my visor. After a few seconds, a readout started to play in front of my eyes.
"It's a-"
"energy gathering-"
"dev" "ice."
The two of us spoke simultaneously. We both glared at each other for a moment before looking back at it. And then at the shattering sound of glass from deeper in the building.
"Time to go," the blonde girl said. "You going to give me a lift?"
It was odd. She was blonde and she was white, and she was a girl. That was all I could remember about her. I glanced away, and I couldn't remember what color her eyes were.
Later. I glanced down the road where she had come from. I thought I could see where the massage parlor was.
"No." I said, Mom's training forming in my mind. "We've got to go back and deal with whoever made this."
"Not with these guys- you have a plan, don't you?" The girl said, cutting herself off.
I nodded. It was as easy as breathing to generate my aura. Instantly, the fire escape and the street were buried in a thick fog. Thick for others. I could see through it like it was the lightest type of mist. So could the girl, since I wanted her to. The crowd below us, though, couldn't see anything beyond their hands or hear anything but their own voices.
"Let's go," I said, flying down the street.
We'd do some running, I'd do some digging, since I had the Glory computer, and then I'd punch whoever was responsible. A nice, simple job.
And after that, we could have a long talk about who this girl was and what she was doing here.
I breathed in and out. I could do this. I was a superhero, of course, I could do this. There was a crime happening over there, and it was my job to go and stop it. Simple. Easy.
Sure, this was going to be the very first time anybody had seen me as Sailor Skitter, but… heck, everything had to be a first once, right? I just needed to go out there and stop the robbery.
I dropped down from the rooftop I was on, my white and green uniform fluttering as I landed on the sidewalk with an ease that Taylor Hebert could never even survive, much less try. I gathered my lightning bugs around me, the fist-sized, electric-yellow beetles crawling and flying. I took a deep breath, and strode into the convenience store, trying to look as intimidating as I should be.
The massive girl inside the store, in a white and blue uniform so much like my own, looked up from the cowering clerk as the bell rang. She snarled at me, her lips drawing back to reveal honest-to-god fangs. I swallowed, but did my best to stare her down.
The girl… she looked like she could break me in one hand, with a massive amount of muscle bulging out from her mostly bare arms. She barely encased in an outfit so much like mine that I couldn't believe it. We didn't quite match, but you had to really look to see the differences beyond the color scheme.
"Let the man go," I said, pointing a green, gloved finger at her and keeping the tremble from my voice. "And put down that money and…" I blinked, looking at the cans she was holding, "dog food."
"Fuck off," the other girl snarled, dropping the cans and tucking the money behind her back. "You don't tell me what to do."
She took several long steps towards me, crossing half of the store in just a few strides. I breathed in and out, feeling my lightning bugs crawling into the store behind me, going up along the walls and fanning out along the floor. Was this going to be my first cape fight?
"I'm Sailor Skitter, and I'm a heroine," I said, glaring at her as best as I could.
"I'm Sailor Luna, and I don't give a crap about what you are," the other girl, Sailor Luna, growled, her huge hands flexing as short claws appeared at the end of her fingertips. "You turn around and get out, right the hell now."
Behind Sailor Luna, the clerk was scrambling out the back door, clutching his side. She didn't turn to watch him go, and stayed staring at me. Her lips had drawn back, showing that her entire mouth was full of sharp, animal-like fangs. How could she even talk? And her hair seemed to be growing, blonde strands appearing around her neck like a collar.
I stared back at her, my beetles forming a circle around me and flying in the air. My heart was pounding in my chest, but I wasn't going to back down. Not from her. Not from anyone.
Nothing was going to stop me from being a hero.
Fighting Crime by Moonlight (Part One?)
I stared down at the weapon in my hand. It seemed to be made entirely out of metal, and was heavier than I was. And yet, it wasn't nearly as heavy as it should have been. I could swing it around me like a baton, the curved blade slicing through the air like a whisper, and the pummel on the end smashing into walls with a satisfying thud.
Of course, with how strong I was like this, I could make almost anything go thud. It was almost unfair, how I was strong, fast, tough and had ranged powers on top of it. And I didn't even need to wear a mask. It was the weirdest thing, but even my own parents hadn't recognized me. I had the same hair color, the same eyes, the same shape to my face, but until I had said that I was their daughter, they had pleading with me to save myself, since I had disappeared in the tumult.
It was weird that my powers were like this. Being able to transform, yeah, sure. There were dozens of heroes and villains who could do something like that. But I didn't know of any who got a costume out of it. A costume I wasn't sure how to feel about.
Sure, the purple and white looked nice on me, with plenty of frills and bows. But the skirt was so short. It was a good thing the leotard that covered my body was, well, a leotard. If I was going to be doing all the flips and kicks that came so easily to me like this, then I was going to want something to cover myself up with.
I tilted my head back and closed my eyes. I could hear the speech from here. My own part ran through my head, the words floating in front of my eyelids.
"Miss?" I looked up at the assistant. She nodded towards the stage. I could hear the clicks of cameras undercutting the Director speaking. "It's almost time."
"Thank you," I said, rising to my feet.
My glaive rested naturally against my shoulder and tucked against my elbow. I still made sure it wasn't going to catch on anything as I walked towards the curtains. I breathed in and out. It was almost time.
Time for me to go into the world, and let them see me. And once I was out there, I'd do… what? There was something waiting for me. I knew there was. I didn't know what it was, or where to find it, or who I should talk to about it, but I knew it was out there. In my heart, I knew I needed to search for it.
"And introducing Brockton Bay's newest Ward," Director Piggot said, sounding kind of happy but mostly loud, "Sailor Vista!"
Taking a deep breath, I walked out from the wings, my boots tapping against the floor and my glaive providing a counterpoint. This was it.
This was my beginning.
New Arrivals
It sure was convenient that there were some pretty tall hills right outside of Brockton Bay. That way, I could stand on one and look down over the city in a completely natural and unaffected manner. Though the optics of the situation mattered a whole lot less to me than what was in front of me.
Brockton Bay. I hadn't even heard of the city until I had pulled out a travel map two days ago. And there didn't seem to be a lot to make it stick out. Well, to most people. To me, it had given me a name to attach to the urges I'd been feeling.
It seemed like I had been wandering a long, long time. At first, I was just going away, but for a while now, I had been looking for something. I didn't know what it was or where to find it, which made the dreams and hunches I had pretty hard to use. But, finally, I was pretty certain I knew where I was supposed to be looking. And hopefully, I could figure out what I was looking for as well.
At least I wasn't alone. God, that would have sucked. Nobody but me and the, ahem, friendly faces a girl traveling by herself would meet?
"What do you think, Artemis?" I asked, glancing down at the small white dog sitting next to me.
"I don't know, Sailor Insight," Artemis said, staring down at the city without looking up at me. "You probably have a good of an idea as I do. You're the one who has the dreams."
I sighed. And wasn't that a ringing endorsement? Based on dreams and coin flips, the two of us had crossed most of America, looking for something. And now we were here. At least it felt right.
I wished I could even get a guess as to what kind of thing Artemis and I were searching for. Sometimes, I thought that it was a person, and other times, it seemed more like an object. Hell, for I knew, I was looking for the True Name of God or some stupid crap like that.
And it wasn't going to be as easy as just turning over rocks once the two of us got to Brockton Bay. To continue the metaphor, there were scorpions and snakes living under those rocks. Apparently this town was lousy with assholes. And it was even getting worse, with some new gang that made monsters or something popping up.
"Think we'll be doing some fighting, Artemis?" I asked, kneeling down to scratch him behind the ears.
"You may be doing some fighting," Artemis corrected. "Things will have gone quite wrong if I'm getting involved on the physical side of things."
"Just so long as you have a roast waiting for me when I come back home from work, dear," I said, smiling a bit.
Well, even if there were people who'd get in the way of searching, I had an answer to that. Two answers, really. The first was my brain, for all the good it was doing me in finding what the hell I was supposed to be looking for. And the second was fucking laser beams, just like a female, non-gay Legend.
I lifted Artemis up and perched him on my shoulder. He wiggled a bit, getting comfortable, while I tried to deal with the weight of carrying even a small dog for the next few miles until I got into town. Doing this was so much easier in my cape form than as regular old me.
I wondered what name I should use when I got into Brockton Bay. Sailor Insight, obviously, as my cape name. It felt right, somehow. Hell, it seemed a lot more right than my old name. But I'd get some funny looks at the coffee shop if I said my order was for Sailor Insight. I'd need some other, regular name.
Lisa, maybe.
Team Up
Flying was great. No joke, it was the single best thing about my powers. Nothing else came close to matching it. Not the strength, not the forcefield, not the mist, nothing.
So was it any surprise that I was spending my patrol whizzing through the sky, looking down at Brockton Bay from half a mile up? I could see the entire city, the Protectorate base out in the middle of the bay, see the cars moving along the streets, even see the people.
And thanks to the blue visor over my eyes, I could see that there was trouble. I had no idea what, exactly, Dark Energy was, where it came from or what it did, my visor didn't like it. So I came swooping down from the sky, heading towards a block of shops.
As I got closer, I could see the problem. There were a mass of people surging along the street. Even from up here, even if the visor hadn't highlighted each of them with a warning, I could have told something was wrong, just from the way they moved. Individually jerky, but as a group, coordinated.
They were chasing a girl my age. A girl- my eyes narrowed. She was wearing an outfit a lot like mine, but with yellow instead of blue. Her blonde hair fluttered behind her as she leapt from car to car, carrying something underneath her arm and glancing back behind her as the mob of civilians surged after her.
I swooped down, hovering a few feet in front of her. From this position, I could see the snarling expressions on the people behind her as they clawed at her.
"Sailor Glory, arriving in elegance," I said, fixing the crowd with a stern glare, and giving her only a barely warmer look. "What's going on?"
The girl didn't answer. Instead, she leapt off the truck she was on for a fire escape a few yards away. She made it, clinging to the bars with one hand. She barely pulled herself up, the mob clawing at her feet as she landed with a clang on the platform. I flew after her, the mob barely paying attention to me.
"What do you think?" The girl said, panting for breath. "There's some mutant bitch back there who set these assholes on me." She wiped a gloved hand across her forehead. "I'm fine, by the way."
I looked back where the girl had come from. There was nothing on my visor. But down below us, the crowd had split up. A good half of them were staying put, staring up at the two of us with hateful expressions while the others circled the building. Looking for an entrance. There hadn't been any sign of coordination. In fact, I hadn't heard them make a single sound beyond gasps for breaths the entire time.
"What's that," I said, pointing at the off-white ovoid object tucked underneath her arm.
"Don't know," she shrugged. "Saw it, grabbed it, they started after me. Just knew it didn't belong in the center of a massage place with people praying to it."
I grabbed my supercomputer from my belt and started tapping keys, staring at the object with my visor. After a few seconds, a readout started to play in front of my eyes.
"It's a-"
"energy gathering-"
"dev" "ice."
The two of us spoke simultaneously. We both glared at each other for a moment before looking back at it. And then at the shattering sound of glass from deeper in the building.
"Time to go," the blonde girl said. "You going to give me a lift?"
It was odd. She was blonde and she was white, and she was a girl. That was all I could remember about her. I glanced away, and I couldn't remember what color her eyes were.
Later. I glanced down the road where she had come from. I thought I could see where the massage parlor was.
"No." I said, Mom's training forming in my mind. "We've got to go back and deal with whoever made this."
"Not with these guys- you have a plan, don't you?" The girl said, cutting herself off.
I nodded. It was as easy as breathing to generate my aura. Instantly, the fire escape and the street were buried in a thick fog. Thick for others. I could see through it like it was the lightest type of mist. So could the girl, since I wanted her to. The crowd below us, though, couldn't see anything beyond their hands or hear anything but their own voices.
"Let's go," I said, flying down the street.
We'd do some running, I'd do some digging, since I had the Glory computer, and then I'd punch whoever was responsible. A nice, simple job.
And after that, we could have a long talk about who this girl was and what she was doing here.
First Impressions
I breathed in and out. I could do this. I was a superhero, of course, I could do this. There was a crime happening over there, and it was my job to go and stop it. Simple. Easy.
Sure, this was going to be the very first time anybody had seen me as Sailor Skitter, but… heck, everything had to be a first once, right? I just needed to go out there and stop the robbery.
I dropped down from the rooftop I was on, my white and green uniform fluttering as I landed on the sidewalk with an ease that Taylor Hebert could never even survive, much less try. I gathered my lightning bugs around me, the fist-sized, electric-yellow beetles crawling and flying. I took a deep breath, and strode into the convenience store, trying to look as intimidating as I should be.
The massive girl inside the store, in a white and blue uniform so much like my own, looked up from the cowering clerk as the bell rang. She snarled at me, her lips drawing back to reveal honest-to-god fangs. I swallowed, but did my best to stare her down.
The girl… she looked like she could break me in one hand, with a massive amount of muscle bulging out from her mostly bare arms. She barely encased in an outfit so much like mine that I couldn't believe it. We didn't quite match, but you had to really look to see the differences beyond the color scheme.
"Let the man go," I said, pointing a green, gloved finger at her and keeping the tremble from my voice. "And put down that money and…" I blinked, looking at the cans she was holding, "dog food."
"Fuck off," the other girl snarled, dropping the cans and tucking the money behind her back. "You don't tell me what to do."
She took several long steps towards me, crossing half of the store in just a few strides. I breathed in and out, feeling my lightning bugs crawling into the store behind me, going up along the walls and fanning out along the floor. Was this going to be my first cape fight?
"I'm Sailor Skitter, and I'm a heroine," I said, glaring at her as best as I could.
"I'm Sailor Luna, and I don't give a crap about what you are," the other girl, Sailor Luna, growled, her huge hands flexing as short claws appeared at the end of her fingertips. "You turn around and get out, right the hell now."
Behind Sailor Luna, the clerk was scrambling out the back door, clutching his side. She didn't turn to watch him go, and stayed staring at me. Her lips had drawn back, showing that her entire mouth was full of sharp, animal-like fangs. How could she even talk? And her hair seemed to be growing, blonde strands appearing around her neck like a collar.
I stared back at her, my beetles forming a circle around me and flying in the air. My heart was pounding in my chest, but I wasn't going to back down. Not from her. Not from anyone.
Nothing was going to stop me from being a hero.
- Location
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The pilot for Toonmakers Sailor Moon has finally been found and is glorious bad.
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... Ami as Glory Girl?
- Pronouns
- He
More Victoria as Sailor Mercury, but yeah.