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Sep. 18th, 2008 03:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azuriteSo, I was checking out DeviantArt activity and saw someone added one of my images to a collection. I checked out the rest of the collection and then got to thinking, "Damn, I've actually designed a lot of Otaku Senshi over the years, I just haven't touched up and scanned their images to upload." Usually my default action then is to create a mock-up in the most up-to-date KiSS doll generator, Sailor X v2.10. It's fun! But not so much when I can't remember what one of my Otaku Senshi looks like, only her backstory.
As many people on this FL may know, my favorite season of the Sailor Moon anime is R. I loves me some angst. It's funny how, back when I first started writing fic, I thought I could never write TAFF (Twisted and Fuzzy Feelings, aka Romance + Angst/Drama). Now it's practically ALL I write.
Well, one of my fic ideas that never got off the ground was a decidedly TAFFy fic about how Demando succeeded in brainwashing Usagi (post-Mamoru breakup; anime!Mamoru is such a jerk and I love him for it) and turned her into a "Dark" Sailor Senshi-- Sailor Black Moon, perhaps; I don't know what name she might have had, if I even changed it. (There are a ton of possibilities, and frankly, it's not even the point of the story.) So the Senshi have to find out what to do: how can they possibly battle Usagi/Sailor Moon, let alone "one of their own?" She's their princess, after all, the one they're sworn to protect. But it's not like they can all suddenly defect from their "duty" and join Usagi with the Black Moon clan.
Somebody (probably Luna; cats make useful deus ex machina) says there's a way to replace Sailor Moon --albeit temporarily-- within the team so they're not so handicapped. It's only now that they realize just what Sailor Moon does for the team. She might be a klutz, but she's the only one with the Ginzuishou, the only one who can heal normal-people-gone-bad, the only one who has enough strength to tap into OTHERS and still live to tell the tale. Or so they think. Mars and Venus, the "strongest" Senshi (the ones closest to Usagi) join with a semi-reluctant Tuxedo Mask (esp. because they find out he's the reason why Usagi didn't want to be around anything that reminded her of HIM anymore, and that included the Sailor Senshi) and "create" a new Sailor Senshi: Sailor Trinity.
Her color scheme would have elements of Mars, Venus, and Tux in it (so, red/violet, orange-yellow/navy blue, black/red), but she'd also have elements of Sailor Moon in there, because she was "created" to replace Sailor Moon, to "save" her, and with thoughts of Sailor Moon in all their minds. So the question is, what colors would be where? The mock-up I made looks... like confetti barf, frankly. There's got to be a tasteful way to blend these colors and ideas together.
The whole crux of the story comes in that Trinity's powers aren't just Mars, Venus', and Tux's combined-- she's technically a whole other person, with a whole other consciousness. Even if they all succeed in their mission to get Usagi back, what happens to Trinity afterward? (This is rhetorical question, mind. I already know the answer.)
I also found out that I have sketches lying around of...
* Sailor Mirage and her best friend thought-dead, Sailor Lotus
* The Neo Sailor Senshi (an old term now, but a new term when I first came up with what was going to be a webcomic), who look like Senshi in Trek uniforms
* Sailor Cascadia
* Sailor Star Beam and her friends, Sailor Star Sparkle, Sailor Star Blaze, and Sailor Star Crystal (Team Mary-Sue)
* Sailor Nautica (not related to Sailor Nautilus, the one I just posted a DeviantART mock-up of)
* Apsu and Sin from the "Another Story" RPG, plus part of a Radina and a tilted Verna
* Old, old sketches of the Senshi in various outfits I based off ones I saw in a Barbie collectible magazine
* A halfway decent sketch of Usagi/Serenity in a dress covered with butterflies
* A sketch of most of the Senshi in their "Quicksilver"/Neo Senshi uniforms (Mars doesn't have a right hand for some reason; I suck at drawing hands)
AND a bunch of other random drawings, like a zoned-out Mitsuki from Full Moon o Sagashite, some ass-kicking Akanes from Ranma 1/2, a few Hitomis from Escaflowne, a bunch of Téas from WDKY's early planning stages (I went a little crazy with glitter pens there), and even a series of Ranma characters through time, e.g. Shampoo's ancestors, the original "drowned girl" that was the basis for the Nyannichuan, a Tendou girl who resembled Kasumi but was an ass-kicker, etc.
I'm halfway tempted to scan and maybe touch up some of them so I can upload them to DA so my account doesn't look like it's all Sailor Xv2 stuff. :P Thoughts?
As many people on this FL may know, my favorite season of the Sailor Moon anime is R. I loves me some angst. It's funny how, back when I first started writing fic, I thought I could never write TAFF (Twisted and Fuzzy Feelings, aka Romance + Angst/Drama). Now it's practically ALL I write.
Well, one of my fic ideas that never got off the ground was a decidedly TAFFy fic about how Demando succeeded in brainwashing Usagi (post-Mamoru breakup; anime!Mamoru is such a jerk and I love him for it) and turned her into a "Dark" Sailor Senshi-- Sailor Black Moon, perhaps; I don't know what name she might have had, if I even changed it. (There are a ton of possibilities, and frankly, it's not even the point of the story.) So the Senshi have to find out what to do: how can they possibly battle Usagi/Sailor Moon, let alone "one of their own?" She's their princess, after all, the one they're sworn to protect. But it's not like they can all suddenly defect from their "duty" and join Usagi with the Black Moon clan.
Somebody (probably Luna; cats make useful deus ex machina) says there's a way to replace Sailor Moon --albeit temporarily-- within the team so they're not so handicapped. It's only now that they realize just what Sailor Moon does for the team. She might be a klutz, but she's the only one with the Ginzuishou, the only one who can heal normal-people-gone-bad, the only one who has enough strength to tap into OTHERS and still live to tell the tale. Or so they think. Mars and Venus, the "strongest" Senshi (the ones closest to Usagi) join with a semi-reluctant Tuxedo Mask (esp. because they find out he's the reason why Usagi didn't want to be around anything that reminded her of HIM anymore, and that included the Sailor Senshi) and "create" a new Sailor Senshi: Sailor Trinity.
Her color scheme would have elements of Mars, Venus, and Tux in it (so, red/violet, orange-yellow/navy blue, black/red), but she'd also have elements of Sailor Moon in there, because she was "created" to replace Sailor Moon, to "save" her, and with thoughts of Sailor Moon in all their minds. So the question is, what colors would be where? The mock-up I made looks... like confetti barf, frankly. There's got to be a tasteful way to blend these colors and ideas together.
The whole crux of the story comes in that Trinity's powers aren't just Mars, Venus', and Tux's combined-- she's technically a whole other person, with a whole other consciousness. Even if they all succeed in their mission to get Usagi back, what happens to Trinity afterward? (This is rhetorical question, mind. I already know the answer.)
I also found out that I have sketches lying around of...
* Sailor Mirage and her best friend thought-dead, Sailor Lotus
* The Neo Sailor Senshi (an old term now, but a new term when I first came up with what was going to be a webcomic), who look like Senshi in Trek uniforms
* Sailor Cascadia
* Sailor Star Beam and her friends, Sailor Star Sparkle, Sailor Star Blaze, and Sailor Star Crystal (Team Mary-Sue)
* Sailor Nautica (not related to Sailor Nautilus, the one I just posted a DeviantART mock-up of)
* Apsu and Sin from the "Another Story" RPG, plus part of a Radina and a tilted Verna
* Old, old sketches of the Senshi in various outfits I based off ones I saw in a Barbie collectible magazine
* A halfway decent sketch of Usagi/Serenity in a dress covered with butterflies
* A sketch of most of the Senshi in their "Quicksilver"/Neo Senshi uniforms (Mars doesn't have a right hand for some reason; I suck at drawing hands)
AND a bunch of other random drawings, like a zoned-out Mitsuki from Full Moon o Sagashite, some ass-kicking Akanes from Ranma 1/2, a few Hitomis from Escaflowne, a bunch of Téas from WDKY's early planning stages (I went a little crazy with glitter pens there), and even a series of Ranma characters through time, e.g. Shampoo's ancestors, the original "drowned girl" that was the basis for the Nyannichuan, a Tendou girl who resembled Kasumi but was an ass-kicker, etc.
I'm halfway tempted to scan and maybe touch up some of them so I can upload them to DA so my account doesn't look like it's all Sailor Xv2 stuff. :P Thoughts?
