...Yeah, and to rub the bad guy's theme of Capitalism is bad, the 'Generals' of the Nightmare Corporation are Salary men and women trying to break into the Managerial Track by murdering five preteens and stealing a reality warping magical artifact.
I don't know. This
However, it has been the belief of the Palmier Royal Family that there is no need for such a power, for any dream that you can truly wish for can be achieved by one's own hard work and toil.
Could be considered very capitalist, ie. 'People don't need government handouts, they need to work hard and earn things for themselves.'
eh, at the very least the transformation comes with elaborate hairstyles and makeup, so that makes recognizing them a bit harder even without a filter.
On the other hand, Precures usually have strong friendships with each other - it's part of how their powers work - so finding one Precure makes it pretty easy to find the rest of that team.
Who knows, but China probably had to deal with fuckin' xianxia cultivators at some point in their past, so they have something of an angry entitlement complex towards all things magical I bet. And I don't blame them one bit.
I'd suggest looking at the behavior of existing martial artists in China to get an idea of what they were like pre-Mao. Going by the Musk and the Chinese Amazons...it doesn't look like they were nice people.
 
Well, ok. We are backed by a subsidiary of a megacorp. Speaking of, we should probably speak with Alice's dad at some point. Probably offer him awakening and such.
Why?
If it is as a bribe to make them want support us, i am against it purely on principle.
If it is as to be nice to a friend, we should be awakening Naru's mom first at minimum.

Now we should talk to the man at some point, i agree on that, just not in favour of jumping straight to bribing the rich and powerful.
If the man can't see the value of helping people who saved his daughters life, and stopped a demonic hostile takeover of his daughters company, and are working with the government to stop a terrorist organizations (one of which tried to do the takeover, another which attempted the murder) then i am not sure we should be seeking his help anyway.

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I'd suggest looking at the behavior of existing martial artists in China to get an idea of what they were like pre-Mao. Going by the Musk and the Chinese Amazons...it doesn't look like they were nice people.
Just look at Happosai, or Nerima in general.
There's no need to go far to find out why a government, any government, would not want to stamp down, hard, on martial artists or magical practitioners if they are in anyway representative.
 
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Why?
If it is as a bribe to make them want support us, i am against it purely on principle.
If it is as to be nice to a friend, we should be awakening Naru's mom first at minimum.

Now we should talk to the man at some point, i agree on that, just not in favour of jumping straight to bribing the rich and powerful.
If the man can't see the value of helping people who saved his daughters life, and stopped a demonic hostile takeover of his daughters company, and are working with the government to stop a terrorist organizations (one of which tried to do the takeover, another which attempted the murder) then i am not sure we should be seeking his help anyway.
It's a simple matter of practicality. A CEO of a megacorp can do more with magic, and has more need for magical abilities and protections, than a random woman whose only connection to the magical world is through her daughter.

Also, it's not bribing. It's incentivizing and upgrading an ally.
 
It's a simple matter of practicality. A CEO of a megacorp can do more with magic, and has more need for magical abilities and protections, than a random woman whose only connection to the magical world is through her daughter.

Also, it's not bribing. It's incentivizing and upgrading an ally.
So bribing with extra words.
What is a CEO supposed to do with magic, that he can't do with money?
And talking of protection, Naru's mom was already attacked by a demon, Naru is known to attract stuff at random, and anyone connected to Naru is absolutely a potential target in major way because of her connection to the Senshi, and her nature as reincarnator in general.
 
Frankly, I think we need to awaken all the family members of the Senshi (except Rei's dad) and our allies as well. Not just for sentiment, since Naru's surprising birthright proves that seemingly normal people could be far more than they appear.
 
So bribing with extra words.
What is a CEO supposed to do with magic, that he can't do with money?
And talking of protection, Naru's mom was already attacked by a demon, Naru is known to attract stuff at random, and anyone connected to Naru is absolutely a potential target in major way because of her connection to the Senshi, and her nature as reincarnator in general.
At the barest minimum, make (more) informed decisions on where magic is concerned. I am also fairly sure that truth / lie detection magic is possible, which would be invaluable. Being able to make use of magical artifacts of various kinds would also be very useful. Being able to protect yourself from magic is needed, given what has happened already.

Plus, being a magic user would make him associate himself with magic users, which is important. Because all megacorp business is politics, and all politics is personal.
 
I'm onboard of awakening all the senshi family members (that we like).
Both because they are family, and because they kinda re in the splash zone of any crap that follows us home.
Even the most basic protective magics could go far in the long run, and earlier we start, the better.

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At the barest minimum, make (more) informed decisions on where magic is concerned. I am also fairly sure that truth / lie detection magic is possible, which would be invaluable. Being able to make use of magical artifacts of various kinds would also be very useful. Being able to protect yourself from magic is needed, given what has happened already.

Plus, being a magic user would make him associate himself with magic users, which is important. Because all megacorp business is politics, and all politics is personal.
In couple weeks time he can just hire a mage to do all of that, assumig truth/lie detection spells are actually possible (and reliable, and not horrifyingly unethical).
And if he has to be a magic user to deal with magic users, being suddenly awakened is unlikely to get him far anyway.
 
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He has to be a magic user to far more effectively and easily deal with other magic users.
In what way? Fight them?
If we are in a situation where a CEO can't even hire a mage to act as security without first defeating them in combat, things have deterriorated to a point where awakening them and giving them a basic rundown on how to cast a protective spell is not going to help.
 
Deal with them socially, I expect. For example, it'd be far easier for me to get in touch and talk business with Mark Zuckerberg if I were a multi-millionaire than I am now as a bum (relatively speaking).
And if the magicians are snooty enough that they won't take jobs from a billionaire that lacks magic, then having just bought their way into magic is unlikely to help.
We are not going to be able to teach this guy short term to do anything useful, we have too many more important things to do, nor can we give him decent referrals because we don't have any.
 
It is more than taking jobs. It's "who knows who and who thinks what of who". And the better analogy would be that a saudi prince would likely prefer to deal with a muslim CEO than with a jewish one.

This type of advantage matters. A lot.
 
Agelessness and beauty? That's all? And she wasted what is probably a stored use of Silver Millennium Crystal for that? Bah! Utter waste of limited resources. The simplest and best solution would be to grant the woman her desire. I am fairly sure that granting people agelessness on individual basis should be well within our capabilities fairly soon.
I suspect she didn't realize it was limited. Also, some things I've found claim that she's actually old/dying right now, hence why she's after youth and immortality?

"I'll use this ultimate power to fix myself up, avoiding death. Once that immediate issue is out of the way, I can figure out what else to use it." <- My guess on her thought process.
 
It is more than taking jobs. It's "who knows who and who thinks what of who". And the better analogy would be that a saudi prince would likely prefer to deal with a muslim CEO than with a jewish one.

This type of advantage matters. A lot.
Having magic is not going to magically give that knowledge.
Again, if mountains of cash is not going to make someone work for/with a CEO of a megacorp, sudden magical awakening is not going to do it either.
This is not a case of two separate societies with separate currencies, magic users want, need, and use the same money rest of us do (atleast in Japan).
 
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I don't know. This
Could be considered very capitalist, ie. 'People don't need government handouts, they need to work hard and earn things for themselves.'
Not really. Capitalism is a system where owning is considered more important than working — that's what 'capital' in this ism stands for. Though I understand where you are coming from, since "work hard" rhetoric is heavily used by capitalism apologists (not all of whom are capitalists, by the way — that word describes somebody who owns capital, rather than adherent of "capitalism" as an ideology which isn't even a thing). To put it in the words of an old joke, "if you work hard, next year I will have an even better car".

And Palmier Kingdom royal family is probably manoralist or something, I dunno.
 
hmm. I wonder if the dream Collet is meant to be a fail-safe for the silver crystal. a sliver of it's power portioned off and tucked away in a sub-diminsion. Something happens to the silver crystal (rendered non-functional, corrupted, frozen in a moment in time, ect...), it gets retrieved, used to fix the problem, then recharged with the silver crystal and tucked away again. set up as a general wish, to give flexibility for fixing the problem. it's current protectors were chosen for their beliefs, as it would prevent them from being tempted to use it unless there was absolutely no choice.
 
About the Nightmare Corporation, if the Senshi are going to be dealing with it relatively sooner rather than later, there are some important details that they will need to learn, in addition to what has been mentioned about Desperaia.

One variable is that Desperaia's secretary, Kawarino, is far more dangerous and even vile than Desperaia, in many ways. Kawarino is the one responsible for the invasion and destruction of the Palmier Kingdom, along with overseeing the fulfilment of Desperaia's wish for eternal youth and beauty via charging and obtaining the Dream Collet.

Furthermore, regarding the eventual assault upon the Nightmare Corporation, well, the Senshi need to know about a crucial fact. It seems that a majority of the employees happen to be Palmier Kingdom citizens that were forced to wear Kawarino's Despair Mask.
 
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She was giving her satellite nation a nuke, basically. A MAD deterrent. Or a way to rebuild, escape, protect themselves.
Yeah, all those things are subsets of "one-shot wish-granting artifact."

I don't know. This...

Could be considered very capitalist, ie. 'People don't need government handouts, they need to work hard and earn things for themselves.'
I don't think that's "capitalist" so much as it's a pre-existing belief that's been adapted by many cultures. Including pre-capitalist ones, and also avowedly socialist ones ("There is no fortress the Bolsheviks cannot storm!")

I'd suggest looking at the behavior of existing martial artists in China to get an idea of what they were like pre-Mao. Going by the Musk and the Chinese Amazons...it doesn't look like they were nice people.
Yeah. My working hypothesis is that Mao got fed up with their bullshit, said "FUCKIT, KILLING YOU ALL!" and actually put in the time, effort, and pile of dead bodies necessary to make that happen. Or at least to push the remnants into hiding in remote areas.

I'm struggling to blame him.

It's a simple matter of practicality. A CEO of a megacorp can do more with magic...
That's not how executive leadership figures work.

With the notable exception of cases where there's some unique cosmic power locked away in the leader (e.g. Usagi), it will nearly always be more effective to give the magic powers to someone else and delegate...

... and has more need for magical abilities and protections...
...So if we really want to keep Mr. Yotsuba safe, we awaken the magic of a bodyguard detachment to cover him, and I wouldn't actually mind doing that because as a practical matter that probably will do more to keep him safe than giving him magic of his own that he doesn't really have the time to focus on as a personal skill...

than a random woman whose only connection to the magical world is through her daughter.
...Reality check, Naru's mom has been targeted by scarier supernatural threats than Alice's dad. :p

It is more than taking jobs. It's "who knows who and who thinks what of who". And the better analogy would be that a saudi prince would likely prefer to deal with a muslim CEO than with a jewish one.

This type of advantage matters. A lot.
Look, it sounds to me like you're trying to cater to the prejudices of mages who consider non-magical human beings to be significantly lesser than themselves.

This is a bad idea. Because the kind of mages you're talking about... Well, that's the kind of mage that works for and supports the IMO, for instance. The same kind of mages who tried to mind-control and sabotage Mr. Yotsuba just a few weeks ago. Untrustworthy mages.

The kind of mages we can trust, that we want working with Mr. Yotsuba, are the kind of mages who aren't going to think less of Mr. Yotsuba for not being a mage. If anything, any prejudice mages may have against "working for muggles" is doing us a favor, because it pre-screens out mages who are relatively likely to stab our allies in the back.

I suspect she didn't realize it was limited. Also, some things I've found claim that she's actually old/dying right now, hence why she's after youth and immortality?

"I'll use this ultimate power to fix myself up, avoiding death. Once that immediate issue is out of the way, I can figure out what else to use it." <- My guess on her thought process.
Even without that last part?

I have absolutely no difficulty imagining a multimillionaire CEO being willing to pillage a small country and murder children for a one-shot magical artifact that they can use to grant themselves eternal youth.

hmm. I wonder if the dream Collet is meant to be a fail-safe for the silver crystal. a sliver of it's power portioned off and tucked away in a sub-diminsion. Something happens to the silver crystal (rendered non-functional, corrupted, frozen in a moment in time, ect...), it gets retrieved, used to fix the problem, then recharged with the silver crystal and tucked away again. set up as a general wish, to give flexibility for fixing the problem. it's current protectors were chosen for their beliefs, as it would prevent them from being tempted to use it unless there was absolutely no choice.
That... is also very plausible and would be a clever if bold move on Queen Selene's part.

And of course, if the Palmier Kingdom ever really, really needed to use it to save themselves in a crisis, well... the odds are that that same crisis wouldn't impact the Silver Millennium at the same time- at least, not in a way that would specifically render the Silver Crystal inaccessible in the way you discuss. So Queen Selene could (in principle) always replace or recharge it the Palmier Kingdom got done using it.

About the Nightmare Corporation, if the Senshi are going to be dealing with it relatively sooner rather than later, there are some important details that they will need to learn, in addition to what has been mentioned about Desperaia.

One variable is that Desperaia's secretary, Kawarino, is far more dangerous and even vile than Desperaia, in many ways. Kawarino is the one responsible for the invasion and destruction of the Palmier Kingdom, along with overseeing the fulfilment of Desperaia's wish for eternal youth and beauty via charging and obtaining the Dream Collet.
So noted- though we'll probably learn that if we really push the Nightmare Corporation. As I gather the Precure Five eventually did, given that this becomes apparent in their canon.

...

With that being said, the IMO is higher on our to-do list than the Nightmare Corporation (especially since in-character we don't know about them yet and won't learn for at least a while). While the Nightmare Corporation is probably enslaving and hurting about as many people, maybe even more, they're not a direct and immediate threat to the defense of Japan against the Dark Kingdom, and haven't directly threatened the Senshi and their immediate allies.

Furthermore, regarding the eventual assault upon the Nightmare Corporation, well, the Senshi need to know about a crucial fact. It seems that a majority of the employees happen to be Palmier Kingdom citizens that were forced to wear Kawarino's Despair Mask.
Sailor Moon specializes in dealing with that kind of gimmick. Even canon Sailor Moon, who's frankly a bit less sharp and dangerous than ours is shaping up to be, wouldn't have much trouble with that.

Moon Healing Escalation?

Moon Healing Escalation.
 
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It is still a good thing to have advance warning that enemy mooks are under magical mind whammy.
That means we start with Moon Healing Escalation, instead of any number of other openers that might hurt them.
 
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Hm, if the faeries ever become involved, it would be nice if it is something along the lines of the rich and colorful setting created by J. Corsentino, Time of the Faeries. In the beginning, there was the great mother of all, the Starlight Elemental. She expanded to fill the void and burst into so many motes of light. From this myriad flock, the faeries were born from the sparks of starlight. With them came the foremost daughters of the mother, the 4 great elementals of air, water, fire and earth.

In that primordial era, it was good, for a time at least. It was the age of the paradisiacal Kailand, the great faerie kingdom, with nature vivid and bright in its infancy, wonder and imagination flowing freely, and kai was everywhere to be had. Kai is the energy generated by all living things, and it is the sustenance of the faeries.

Alas, it was not to last, for a terrible misunderstanding between faeries and humans ignited the terrible war that consumed it all. From this suffering was born the Blood elemental, and the Machine elemental would eventually rise from man. In the end, the faeries had to withdraw from the world, and it led to what would become the great sundering of their kind. That which was one would eventually become three.

The commoner faeries withdrew beyond the veil of twilight, dwelling for countless centuries in that beautiful realm of Twilight. The royal faeries withdrew to the realm of E'ven, hidden behind the setting evening sun. It is a realm of light, heat, and air, with little water. In this place, the royal faeries would eventually metamorphose to become the angels. Finally, there were the faeries who could not escape the terrible conflagration of the eschaton. Trapped, they had something crucial ripped from their beings, a gaping hole that would drive them to endless hunger. They became the Darklings.

However, now, in the modern era, thanks to the heartfelt wish of one girl amongst other factors, the faeries are returning. From Twilight came the commoner faeries, trying to restore wonder and imagination to modern humanity, along with doing something about a world that has become so deeply choked by pollution. Those who try the old ways are the street faeries, sometimes being forced to ground their own wings for the magic necessary to work their wonders, for there is precious little of it left in the modern age. Others of them see the need to change and adapt their approach, and so they reformatted themselves, shedding their wings to become the Shadme, a new form of faerie for the new age. Finally, there are those who seek to use modern means to regain their old power, integrating modern robotics into themselves, becoming something of which none had ever conceived.

From E'ven, the royal faeries of eld returned, now angels. They seek to control the wider global stage, viewing the longer term, adhering to doctrine and dogma, seeing the need to control man from the boardrooms and high places to ensure that another such terrible war between man and faeries will not arise. Amongst them is Inanna, one of the mightiest of the angels, and she is also one of the angels with the least love for mortals. However, not all of the angels agree with this position, those who might want to seek another way to coexist with man. They are punished by having their wings and power stripped from them, their memories sealed, and they are cast down into mortal, frail bodies, weak, confused, adrift. They are the nephilim. The first of their number was Pandora, endlessly reincarnating into new vessels, seeking to regain her old power. However, if lucky, the nephilim can remember, regain a spark of that power, a spark that can grow into a brilliant fire, making their wings strong again and carrying them back to their heights of eld. Such is the case of Halyon. She has always been the greatest of the angelic host, and now she will stand at the forefront to lead the great angelic rebellion.

As for the Darklings, lurking in the shadows, feeding from human spirits and emotions, they too have advanced. A street faerie attempted an experiment, infusing a Darkling with glamour, which caused terrible results. From this project gone awry were born the Vampiri. A new and glamourous sort of dark faerie, an even greater threat than the Darklings, for the Vampiri can actually propagate and increase their numbers. Dangerously beautiful and alluring, the Vampiri seek to partake and indulge in it all, blood, sensations, pleasure, and emotions. Those that continue along this path far enough are becoming something else, something actually akin to dragons.

However, even for these darkest of the faeries, there is still hope. For some of the Vampiri, having gorged for so long, actually feel a need to use their abilities for good, to redeem themselves. Their nature is to consume. It cannot be changed, but they can change what they choose to consume from humans. These repentant Vampiri have become the Sin-eaters. What the Sin-eaters consume from humans are such things like incurable cancer or pain that they simply were never able to overcome, causing them to fester and stagnate. By doing so, the Sin-eaters allow the humans to recover, heal, to actually continue improving and progressing. Of course, this pain does not simply disappear, for the Sin-eaters took it into themselves. Therefore, the Sin-eaters need to suffer the entire length and intensity of all that anguish. The agony that Sin-eaters endure can never be fully measured, and it is a terrible burden. To paraphrase, some of the Sin-eaters go mad, while others backslide into the ranks of the Vampiri; as to the rest, however, the rest of the Sin-eaters soldier on as best as they can, hoping that their continued good deeds will someday right their karmic balance, allowing them to walk freely in the light once more, glad of the overall positive effect that they have had upon creation.


It would certainly be rather interesting for the Senshi to encounter faeries like Corsentino's Sin-eaters. Perhaps the Senshi and such Sin-eaters could help one another.
 
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Look, it sounds to me like you're trying to cater to the prejudices of mages who consider non-magical human beings to be significantly lesser than themselves.

This is a bad idea. Because the kind of mages you're talking about... Well, that's the kind of mage that works for and supports the IMO, for instance. The same kind of mages who tried to mind-control and sabotage Mr. Yotsuba just a few weeks ago. Untrustworthy mages.

The kind of mages we can trust, that we want working with Mr. Yotsuba, are the kind of mages who aren't going to think less of Mr. Yotsuba for not being a mage. If anything, any prejudice mages may have against "working for muggles" is doing us a favor, because it pre-screens out mages who are relatively likely to stab our allies in the back.
Everyone thinks better of their ingroup. That's how humans work. The more points of commonality there are between people, the easier it is for them to communicate. Academics will react better to someone with a PhD or working towards one. Muslim leaders will be more inclined to talk to someone who converted to Islam and is making effort to study Quran. African Americans are more likely to vote for an African American politician. This is basic human nature, that nothing short of either a world war with dramatic casualties against an alien invader (ie, an event where all "humans" become an ingroup), or some serious brainwashing will change.

And in the situation of turmoil, where the basics of their society are collapsing, and they are rightfully fearing persecution, such factors of commonality become all the more important.

I am honestly struggling to understand how this is not absolutely self-evident.
 
Also note that none of those realms have Senshi. This strongly suggests that they don't actually live on planets.
That does raise questions about the Star Twinkle Precure and their two alien members-presumably there's be Senshi versions of them elsewhere on their planets?
Also raises the prospect of Sailor Santa being an Actual Thing, IIRC, apparently an episode features Alien Santa from Planet Santa
 
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