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Usagi Quest (CK3/Princess Maker) (Sailor Moon)

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She had also not planned on learning that what was, so far as she knew, the most blatant and life-threatening Masquerade violation since the Sengoku period had resulted in the High Council of Onogoro… doing nothing.

The thoughts ran through her head, circling around and around.

No overt assistance during the attack. No intention of coordinating with MCAT or the Senshi after the attack. It makes no sense! The people of Japan are suffering from outright malevolent use of magic; it's the duty of Onogoro to keep Little Brother safe from exactly this! If the Uminari Incident wasn't enough to at least start the conversation focusing on Japan's mutual enemies, what would be enough? Legions of devils spilling out of fiery portals in the clouds? Godzilla rising from the sea? Would the Senshi keep saving Japan over and over again while Onogoro sat back and watched?! IF WE SEE NO DUTY, IF WE HAVE NO HONOR, HAVE WE NOT AT LEAST SOME SLIVER OF PRIDE-
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They are practically turning her for us at this point.

When she asked Professor Artemis about it, he answered that the building had been upgraded with "state-of-the-art" protective wards. Artemis said that the Senshi were extraordinarily lucky to find a specialist capable of designing wards that were up to their standards.
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Yuuno and the TSAB in general will doubtless be thrilled to hear that their wards are up to Silver Millennium standards.
Be interesting to see what the Mercuryian (Murcyrites?) think of the fact that they were asleep for tens of millennia and basically no progress has been made.

"Oh, stars, no! The oxygen up on our moon palace has been completely restored for weeks now. You should be perfectly safe up there."
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Come to think of it did the Senshi actually decide to keep the Moon Palace secret? Or have we just not announced it and no one has thought to ask?

"I'm sorry, you mean the Moon? Our Moon, the actual Moon!? Artemis, I know that you said at the start of my class that you're technically an alien, but… where are you from? Where are the Senshi from?"

Artemis sighed. "…I suppose that's a fair question. If you'll be working with us, then it's best if you're 'read in,' as it were. I should warn you, some of this may be difficult to swallow at first. I'd appreciate it if you at least let me explain without interruption for a while, before I answer questions."

"…I'll do my best," Shinju said, sitting back in her seat and mentally bracing herself, suppressing a shiver of sheer confused tension. If this turned out to line up with the story Homari heard, she... wasn't sure what she'd do.
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Either this info dump or Mistress Sato's reaction to it are probably going to be the final straw for Shinju.
Be interesting to see if she tries to talk her team around before telling the Senshi who she is.
 
FictionPack said:
Just something fun I put together.

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Must be older than dirt by now. Lots of references to this guy during the Youkai Rebellions; he'd show up, turn in impeccable requisition forms, grab stuff, and then disappear again. Occasional reports of his presence ever since. Recently sent in a form requesting forty-five years of uncollected back wages. Half the accounting team is frantically looking for a fully legal excuse to deny it. How does the paperwork check out so neatly?
 
Almech_Alfarion said:
So, slight fridge horror/humor thought. With Shinju/Akiza being brought further into our fold, I wonder when she's going to run into Mini, and if she slips and refers to her as "Auntie Shunju"?
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"Oh wait, is this part of your Akiza phase?"

Well, as long as it's that and not "Auntie Nemesis" or "Auntie Sol" or something like that (Auntie Galaxia? As in the person that took up the mantle after crazy chaos lady).
 
Brightflame said:
And the mask slips further

I'm almost certain Shinju is going to jump ship sooner or later, but I wonder what's going to happen; is she going to become disillusioned by the Ministry or is the Ministry going to brand her a traitor out of fear of that possibility first?
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Honestly? I'm kind of hoping that she stays connected to the Ministry, as they keep taking in the information and then trying to "find the lie". Then, by the time the pressure has built and it has to go one way or the other... it is too late and Onogoro is taken care of and they can't exactly retaliate against a young girl.
 
Almech_Alfarion said:
So, slight fridge horror/humor thought. With Shinju/Akiza being brought further into our fold, I wonder when she's going to run into Mini, and if she slips and refers to her as "Auntie Shunju"?
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Artemis: Ah, you must forgive little Minori. She has some degree of foresight, though it comes and goes and generally not... well, useful. That she seemed to know you is a good sign for my trust in you, though, even if its under a different name. Have you been considering changing it?
 
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DocMatoi said:
Artemis: Ah, you must forgive little Minori. She has some degree of foresight, though it comes and goes and generally not... well, useful. That she seemed to know you is a good sign for my trust in you, though, even if its under a different name. Have you been considering changing it?
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I more want Shinju to hear Mini refer to Sailor Moon as her mother.
 
Chaosmancer said:
Utterly brilliant, and a good way to do a lot of good. Especially as their inside source starts reporting.... there are no nefarious secrets, there are no malicious intentions, what you see in public... is the truth.
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Counterpoint: people from a more advanced civilization trying to change your culture to be more like theirs isn't, historically, always super great. The parallels between Crystal Millennium and a Spanish mission are not entirely absent, and I'm sure Sato will be happy to draw them.
 
Chaosmancer said:
Utterly brilliant, and a good way to do a lot of good. Especially as their inside source starts reporting.... there are no nefarious secrets, there are no malicious intentions, what you see in public... is the truth.
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That just means Onogoro will decide that either she simply hasn't found said nefarious secrets/malicious intentions yet, she's been IDed as a spy and CM are feeding her false intel, and/or CM has turned her and are using her to feed Onogoro false intel.
 
Angelform said:
Yuuno and the TSAB in general will doubtless be thrilled to hear that their wards are up to Silver Millennium standards.
Be interesting to see what the Mercuryian (Murcyrites?) think of the fact that they were asleep for tens of millennia and basically no progress has been made.
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They'll be ecstatic. They didn't get in those cryo pods for fun, the solar system was in the process of being eaten. The fact that magical and technological knowledge has recovered in some respects, even after like 3 rounds of apocalypses, is more than they could've hoped for.

And it also means their own knowledge base isn't completely useless the way ours would be if we suddenly woke up in the United Federation of Planets, which is a nice bonus on a personal level.
 
And as for the proverbial Culture Wars, I can honestly see Earth humanity being more effected by the Youkai etc, the TSAB and the Realms that the Pretty Cures are connected to than the Silver Millennium remnants.

All the Senshi are from a 'modern' Earth culture and as such will likely mostly adhere to the norms that they grew up with. And there are what, a couple hundred SM survivors at most in the cryo-pods? That's not even a drop in the bucket even if they all migrate to Japan. It's far more likely that they'll assimilate into Earth culture to varying degrees rather than the other way around.
 
Torgamous said:
Counterpoint: people from a more advanced civilization trying to change your culture to be more like theirs isn't, historically, always super great. The parallels between Crystal Millennium and a Spanish mission are not entirely absent, and I'm sure Sato will be happy to draw them.
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Sure, historically not great. And Sato will totally attempt to make those arguments. But, I don't think that is an apt comparison at all.

The ONLY thing the Crystal Millenium is changing, is access to magic. For Onogoro there is also the destruction of slavery, but that is also being driven by the culture the Senshi are changing. Japan isn't too thrilled about this slavery thing either, and the people in charge of Japan's response are the Yokai, who are also natives of the culture. There is actually nothing that I can think Sato could point to that is explicitly "Crystal Millennium culture".
 
The important thing is that the CM and the Senshi are not breaking any laws, at least not overtly, and are cooperating with all local governments.
 
All local legitimate governments. And if their rescue of the Amazons gets out (hopefully after it's over), then people are going to be wondering exactly how the Senshi judge the legitimacy of a government, in terms of whether or not they should obey it.
 
Ekzentric Lohner said:
All local legitimate governments. And if their rescue of the Amazons gets out (hopefully after it's over), then people are going to be wondering exactly how the Senshi judge the legitimacy of a government, in terms of whether or not they should obey it.
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No laws were broken on our part with the Chinese government though. The Amazons sought asylum themselves.
 
Chaosmancer said:
Sure, historically not great. And Sato will totally attempt to make those arguments. But, I don't think that is an apt comparison at all.

The ONLY thing the Crystal Millenium is changing, is access to magic. For Onogoro there is also the destruction of slavery, but that is also being driven by the culture the Senshi are changing. Japan isn't too thrilled about this slavery thing either, and the people in charge of Japan's response are the Yokai, who are also natives of the culture. There is actually nothing that I can think Sato could point to that is explicitly "Crystal Millennium culture".
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I don't think it's especially good either, but if you're talking about what Onogoro will find from investigating us, you need to think about what Onogoro will see, not about what we see.

Changing access to magic isn't a minor thing for Onogoro. We're treating it as a kind of literacy program, but they'll see it as like if aliens landed in Washington DC and the first thing they did, without so much as a "we come in peace," was advocate against private property. The aliens mean well, but the American government is never going to see them as benevolent.

Similarly, no matter how much we insist even behind closed doors that the yokai stuff is out of the goodness of our hearts, it's awfully convenient that the goodness of our hearts led us to ally with magically powerful beings that will owe us a lot for supporting them.

And then there's the cult of personality Crystal Millennium is building for its monarch. This one isn't even untrue, since we are actively trying to become famous enough that middle school girls know to call us when a fluffball falls out of the sky and turns into a magic cell phone, or at least don't need an introduction when we find them.
FictionPack said:
No laws were broken on our part with the Chinese government though. The Amazons sought asylum themselves.
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We're definitely planning on crossing some borders without a visa.
 
Aaand "Akiza" gets the Mind Break tag!

FictionPack said:
The important thing is that the CM and the Senshi are not breaking any laws, at least not overtly, and are cooperating with all local governments.
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Yes, Sailor Moon, The Princess of The Moon, The Ghost of The Queen of The Moon, Sailor Moon's mom and dad, and whatever cute little robotic rover happens to be on the moon at the time as an observer.
 
Torgamous said:
Changing access to magic isn't a minor thing for Onogoro. We're treating it as a kind of literacy program, but they'll see it as like if aliens landed in Washington DC and the first thing they did, without so much as a "we come in peace," was advocate against private property. The aliens mean well, but the American government is never going to see them as benevolent.
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However while I could be misremembering, they're the only ones that really have any big issues with CM and the magic classes.
The other magical factions seem to be anywhere from 'we have more important things to worry about' to 'mind if we share notes?'.

Granted this is at least partially since they're in different countries, but Onogoro seems to be the only ones really freaking out about this.
 
Onogoro aren't the only people in the world upholding a Masquerade, and from what we've heard the global pressure for that comes from primarily from India and Russia. Though it seems like Zombie Ivan the Terrible has already accepted it's no longer sustainable and started preparing for the future.
 
Skelm said:
Onogoro aren't the only people in the world upholding a Masquerade, and from what we've heard the global pressure for that comes from primarily from India and Russia. Though it seems like Zombie Ivan the Terrible has already accepted it's no longer sustainable and started preparing for the future.
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And Egypt, because the Egyptian Gods are typical politicians given godlike power.
 
Skelm said:
Though it seems like Zombie Ivan the Terrible has already accepted it's no longer sustainable and started preparing for the future.
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He knew from the start, he just had plans that spanned several lifespans and now he has to condense all of that to like a year lol.
 
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