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28. writer. anti ai. he/him. Anonymity, part one of Odyssea Serenitatis out now on AO3 and FFNet!

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Chapter 8: Finale – Home is out!

Serenity must deal with the abrupt breakup between her and Nehelenia. Will she be able to go on with her journey, without her lover by her side?

And so, it’s the end of part one!

I’m so relieved to have finally put it out in its entirety and I feel accomplished to have completed the first part of this project, I started it a little over a year ago and in that time I’ve become much more familiarized with the craft, I still have a long way to go and I will do so no matter what.

When I decided to split Odyssea Serenitatis into many parts I took the drafts I had for this first part and ended up getting to know the characters I’ve been writing for a lot better, to the point that I wrote this last entry to part one solely with the intention of dealing with the aftermath of the finale rather than moving the plot forward.

One thing I can say about what’s coming up is that, the entire time I’ve been making the last few edits, translating and then posting this story, I’ve also been working on part two (Side note: This may have driven me damn near burnout). I can tell you that it’ll be about exploring the lead up to Serenity’s coronation and it’ll involve the introduction of a bunch of Greek and/or Roman mythology characters.

For the time being this series is on hiatus. If you’ve read all eight chapters I hope you can let me know your thoughts, you can comment as little or as much as you’d like, criticisms are welcome so long as they’re constructive.

You can read the last chapter on AO3 or FFNet, también disponible en español tanto en AO3 y FFNet!

Goodbye for now!

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Writing Poll: Individual Chapters or One Big Doc

Fellow fanfic writers I have a question!

When writing a multi-chapter fic do you

Save each chapter as a separate document

Have everything in one big document

Nuance (elaborate in tags)

Voting ended onJan 13

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IDK if I’ve mentioned this before, but since there’s talk of how to approach an accurate/nuanced translation of the word “baka” in anime on my dash, I thought I’d share one of my other favorite bits of oft-overlooked translating-Japanese nuance and how it applies to Sailor Moon. 

Basically every Sailor Moon fan knows Sailor Moon’s catchphrase, “tsuki ni kawatte oshioki yo!” which translates more or less into “In the name of the moon, I’ll punish you!”

The fun part, that I learned a few years back from my half-Japanese friend who has, since high school, lived full time in Japan, is the “oshiokiyo” bit. 

Oshiokiyo does, in a literal sense, mean “I’ll punish you”. It’s a perfectly fine translation. But what it doesn’t get across is that the main people who use the phrase are parents, especially mothers, and it’s primarily used against children. 

There’s not a perfect English equivalent, but it carries a similar tone to “someone’s getting a spanking!” or “you’re going into time out!” or “you’re in big trouble, missy!” 

Basically, it’s not particularly threatening, and anyone who would think it was would be pretty childish. The fact that Usagi uses it as a legitimate threat is adorable in how much is reveals her age. It’s also badass and kind of condescending in that she’s basically treating the villains as unruly children instead of legitimate threats. 

So there you go. Take this information and put new joy into one of the most well-trod parts of the Sailor Moon universe. 

[sailor-moon-rei]

by MIIR

art republished with artist’s permission

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Chapter 7: Möbius – The Truth is out!

Serenity and Nehelenia get Luna, a witch from Mau, to help find their home. The shadows that have been going after them finally come into light.

I’ve previously mentioned here how at first I only envisioned six chapters for this story given the fact that I had the draft for four and was planning on adding two shorter ones at the beginning and how I had an epiphany as I went into writing Chapter 3 that grew the story a bit more. The change I implemented was including Nehelenia throughout the entire story.

Initially I had planned to split them up in Chapter 3 following Nehelenia's corruption by proto-Chaos, as well as portraying their relationship in a much more vague manner, and I wasn't going to involve Nehelenia again until Serenity learned of her own identity in Mau.

Instead, I ended up making the second protagonist of the story. Including Nehelenia into all of these interactions allowed me to lean into the limits of my skill, so to speak. I was able to push some of them a little bit further, have somebody else to play off of in relation to Serenity, which ended up lengthening the depiction of the long journey. I was able to explore Nehelenia's struggle between giving in to darkness versus her desire to be with Serenity. At the same time it's allowed me to showcase Serenity's fear or hatred of the darkness in a way that's more personal rather than purely instinct or second nature.

We’ve got only one more chapter of this story left. Tomorrow, August 2nd, marks one year since I started writing again! I’m so happy I picked the pen up again, so to speak. Posting this fic has been a tremendous help in identifying what I need to get better at as a writer, as well as getting familiar with what the process looks like, I would even say it’s helped motivate me to be a lot more consistent.

You can read Chapter 7 on AO3 or FFNet,

también está disponible en español tanto en AO3 como FFNet.

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Chapter 6: Journey – Onoma is out!

The goddesses arrive at the next planet, a place filled with mystery, power and answers, this time guided by the silver haired woman. A young witch and a warrior in training join the quest.

The goddess duo finally get their names, which is why I used the Greek word for ‘name’ in the title, and now we also get to meet some familiar faces!

It may not be obvious from the summary, but if you look at the tags, this time I’m introducing Luna and Artemis into the story! When it came to adding them I knew I wanted to expand on their roles to the story as a whole. I chose to make them a part of Sailor Mau’s entourage and give them the titles of ‘witch’ and ‘warrior’ as a way to enable me to have them do more than simply give advice and know a ton about everything right off the bat.

And of course, that makes the latest stop in Serenity and Nehelenia’s journey through the Milky Way galaxy none other than the planet Mau. My depiction of it is loosely inspired by Ancient Egypt, as allegedly the naming of the planet comes from the ancient Egyptian word for ‘cat’. It is a highly advanced society, especially if we’re talking technology, they have all the information our protagonist needs to finally finish her journey.

As it pertains to Luna, I’ve portrayed her as an overly accomplished witch with a continuously growing relationship to Artemis. She has lived long enough to want more, to yearn for something she hasn’t yet found on her home planet. She’s also got another friend, someone that we already know of, Nyanko. This little cameo is meant to add onto the manga/Cosmos canon where the traitor is immediately recognized by Mauans even after all those years. And then there’s Artemis, a lovesick fool, he’s all too sure of what he wants, he hasn’t given much thought to what his future entails for himself, but rather how he wants it be like. In this chapter we’ll learn a bit about where their names came from, as well as the protagonists.

As for Serenity and Nehelenia, I went back and forth on how they’d receive their names. Initially, I depicted Queen Ma’at as an all-knowing goddess, she’d simply be able to pluck these names out of nowhere. Then I decided that wasn’t a good enough way to go about it, one thing led to another and I wrote the ‘Singularity’ and ‘Event Horizon’ chapters so that the concept of the knowledge about these names being somewhere in the universe waiting to be plucked out could have some support in the story itself. Basically, I didn’t write nearly 3k words just for none of it to matter ever again.

Now I can finally talk about Nehelenia and how I’ve expanded her character for this story. If you look up her character you’ll find that her name is very similar to Nehalennia, a Frisian-Roman goddess who deals with ships and seafaring. That’s the basis for making Nehelenia a goddess that deals with these things in a more metaphorical sense, and it’s the reason why she has the ability to “guide” Serenity through the galaxy.

And having said that, look out for Chapter 7 on August the 1st!

You can read Chapter 6: Journey – Onoma on AO3 or FFNet,

también está disponible en español en AO3 y FFNet.

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Chapter 5: Journey – Hope is out!

The voyage only seems to be getting longer. Each stop means another let down. One goddess attempts to delay the inevitable, the other is only trying to fulfill her wish.

I’d like to talk a little bit about the timeline and how it relates to how each planet is depicted. I’ve made it no secret that I’m taking us along for a ride where we get to see bits and pieces of how it all came to be, so when it came to deciding in what order would (again, not yet) Queen Serenity visit each planet I thought it’d only make sense for them to be at different stages of development, that’s why every new place is more advanced that the previous.

While outlining this story, back when it was supposed to be one long fic, I started getting more and more astronomy/physics related TikToks. The more I watched videos related to time and space, the less I understood it. If what we see when looking further into the galaxy, or the entire universe, are images of what light looked like in the past, then I’m sure that during my lifetime I’ll never find out anything about what the universe beyond this planet is truly like now. Because the way we experience time is uniquely ours, or so it seems to me at least.

Basically, I was trying to map out how long it should take an all-powerful being to travel throughout the entire galaxy, trying to make choices. Did I want to be realistic, or would I rather just tell a story? I decided on a sort of middle point. She can’t take a second to jump from Point A to Point B, but I’m also not interested in nor am I skilled enough to pull off depicting time in a non-linear way where, depending on where in the galactic map she’s at, it’s a different place in time.

Setting this story at a time way before the Silver Millennium era I thought some characters from arcs beyond the Dark Kingdom could be present, but introducing the Starlights so soon felt out of place, so that’s why they haven’t been born yet. It’s also the reason why I assigned them specific satellites. As for the planet Coronis, I was able to put more thought and backstory into it precisely because of where its name led me in terms of information. The names for the planets Mermaid and Chuu give very little detail to work off of, and the only reason I described Mermaid’s citizens differently that Chuu’s or Coronis’ is because of that one scene in the Stars arc where Sailor Galaxia meets Wiseman in a seemingly random planet populated by fish people.

This time we’ve seen our black haired goddess’ internal struggle as the darkness within threatens to overtake her. I don’t think I can say much about it without spoiling, so allow me to only tease this one thing: next chapter the girls are finally getting their names!

I’d like to give it up for myself because I was able to stick to my self-imposed schedule, and so I’m a lot more hopeful that chapter 6 will be getting posted on July 25!

You can find chapter 5 at AO3 and FFNet,

Y como siempre, también está en español en AO3 y FFNet.

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Chapter 4: Journey – Loneliness is out!

The two goddesses have abandoned the Galaxy Cauldron, now they must locate their home in the galaxy. Along the way they come across a mysterious garden, sacred rivers and… a mice planet?

We’ve begun a long voyage, taking the girls throughout various planets at different stages of development. I realize I’ve been branding both (not yet) Queen Serenity and (defnitely not) Queen Nehelenia as gods without ever going into detail about it, and perhaps this is not yet the time for that, however, there is a hint at what Nehelenia is the goddess of during this chapter.

I will talk about the cameo hint in the summary though. One of the planets that the duo will visit is none other than Chuu, we’ll meet its Sailor Guardian briefly and perhaps get a sense of how I would interpret a citizen of any given planet in the galaxy choosing to turn on their Sailor Guardian and end up acting as a copy of them. (No, the citizen in question doesn’t appear during this chapter nor the fic or the series).

Starting from now I’m hoping to switch to (and adhere to) a weekly release schedule rather than every few days because the chapter length going forward has jumped from 2.2k to 3.5k words on average and I’ll probably need the extra days to translate the upcoming chapters. So look forward to Chapter 5 being posted July 18th!

You can read the latest chapter on AO3 or FFNet.

Como siempre también se encuentran disponibles en español en AO3 o FFNet.

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Chapter 3: Birth – Ergosphere is out!

The time to be born has come. Our duo of goddesses find each other again. Traces of insecurity stemming from lost times remain, they threaten to get in their way. How will the darkness use this to her advantage?

Chapter 3 of Anonymity has been posted! I can now yap about why I was going on about black holes and the Galaxy Cauldron.

When I first sat down to write this story I pictured it as one fanfic spanning Queen Serenity's entire life, and this chapter, albeit in several draft versions, was originally the first one. The more I came back to it, revised it, tried using prettier words, leaned a bit more into describing emotions, the more I felt it wasn't earned.

I was presenting these characters that had just come to life, suspended in the middle of quite literally nowhere with no one else to play off of, nothing to grab onto, just my intentions of presenting the process of what goes on to be the Sailor Moon universe. I kept thinking "If only I could find a way to make this make sense without scrapping this, starting the story off at a different point in time and/or using this material as flashbacks".

I went back to my understanding of the Galaxy Cauldron and realized I could expand on this chapter, which is why I split it into three. I'm no scientist, didn't study physics or astronomy, I've only watched a few TikToks by people who have and searched a bit to be able to build a rough understanding. Here's what I got from that:

It can be said that some black holes have several parts to them, a singularity is the point where space-time stretches out so far that time stops ticking, the event horizon is the point of no return or where light can no longer escape from, and an ergosphere is the surrounding area of a rotating black hole. There's more, and there's different kinds of black holes, but I decided on these three.

Singularity then becomes the first part of this Birth mini-arc, where we see the characters inside of the Galaxy Cauldron. Everything happens too fast, to an almost non-sensical point, it can seem as if everyone who gets to see it should know exactly who they are and what their destiny will entail.

Event Horizon takes us into this sort of trauma of birth scenario. I've said before that while a supermassive black hole pulls light into it, the Galaxy Cauldron shoots it out, so it only made sense to me that it would violently pull out the characters, forcing them into the outside world. Think about when people say we (usually) cry when we're born because we've been forcibly removed from a safe environment.

And lastly, Ergosphere is the actual birth. Not only for our two goddesses, but for all, including Chaos. Sort of. I'm hoping to be able to convey that these are pretty much the beginning of times for the galaxy, so nothing takes form that quickly, it has to be a process.

I think that's about as much as I can say without spoiling the whole thing, I do hope all the yapping has made you interested if you haven't checked it out already, it's now up on AO3 and FFNet.

Y por supuesto también está disponible en español, tanto en AO3 como FFNet.

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Chapter 2: Birth – Event Horizon is out!

The lonely goddesses’ wish has been granted, they’ve found each other. Now they must face a revelation about the primordial waters. Can they remain together until the end?

Chapter 2 of Anonymity has been posted. This time we'll get to see exactly how the primordial waters, the inside of the Galaxy Cauldron, work. This is a lawless plane, it doesn't play by any of the rules of the world we know, only one, and that... is on the chapter so if you're intrigued do read it!

This chapter is about the same length as the first, 1.4k words, so if you saw when I posted the first chapter and were hesitant to go for such a short read, now there's 2.8k available for you in total.

And of course I'll be continuing to work in getting the next chapter out in the meantime. I hope you'll enjoy this one!

Available on AO3 and FFNet.

También disponible en español en AO3 y FFNet.

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Chapter 1 of Anonymity is out!

A goddess born among the stars, nameless, away from home, and unaware of her purpose. What will she find along the adventure of building her own identity?

Anonymity is the first part of a Queen Serenity centric series titled Odyssea Serenitatis. The series as a whole seeks to be a deep dive into what made Queen Serenity into the character we all know of, yet know so little about, starting with the first part, a journey through the Milky Way. The first chapter, titled Birth – Singularity, has been posted! As per the summary:

Two goddesses find each other in the primordial waters, where nothing is constant and staying isn’t an option. Can they remain together in this place?

Finally, after creating this blog years ago with the intention of promoting the stories I'd write, actually getting to it exactly eleven months ago and teasing it for a bit on here, it's happened. This is first chapter is a short read. When you see this post I will already be working on the next chapter, so it should be out soon enough.

I've wanted to write a story set during the Silver Millennium times ever since I was a kid, I tried it twice before, so getting to this point is very meaningful for me. I would love it if you read it, and perhaps let me know what you think of it.

If you just came across this without having ever heard anything about this fanfic you can check out the #odyssea serenitatis tag on my blog.

And lastly, you can find it on AO3 and FFNet.

También disponible en español en AO3 y FFNet.

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So clearly I didn't post it this month.

I estimated that I would because initally the arc was 4 chapters and I only intended on writing 2 more before revising. Then as I was writing the second one I had an epiphany, I needed to make a small-ish change going into chapter three that ended up growing the story a seventh chapter.

After making all the corrections necesary to completely implement this change to the story I was left with a revised version where, not to toot my own horn but I felt I had leveled up in my skill, and what was left over from the drafts was the potential for one last additional chapter to close it all off.

So I've been writing chapter 8 the right way. Previously I was scared of doing the process in a put-together manner, I went into it as messily as possible, and after nearly eleven months of honing my skill I've found that outlining a chapter before writing it makes for a much smoother experience.

Writing based on an outline, this time I'm trying to make sure to do it at the same level as the revised drafts, meaning I'm doing it in a way that can hopefully spare me the need for extensive revisions to this last chapter.

Afterwards I'll still need to re-read and possibly do one last revision of chapter 1, then translate because in case I haven't mentioned I do write in Spanish first.

But seeing as I only have one scene left to write for chapter 8 I should actually be able to get to posting rather soon. I will be announcing it here when I do.

Also, fun story, I won't be posting it on Wattpad because the username fragmentolunar is taken! So fun! ugh...

The whole point of me using spanish, even though it's a translation of a lyric from Tsukiiro Chainon, is to signal that I'm not a native English speaker and I don't currently have it in me to come up with a different username, or use moonfragment instead.

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I've known the title for my fanfic series since around February-March and ever I've been debating with myself about keeping this all under a single part, multi-arc fic or splitting it by its story arcs. I ended up deciding on the latter and am now writing/doing the last touch-ups for the first part.

So without further ado, I'll be publishing Odyssea Serenitatis, Part 1: The 'Milky Way' Arc sometime this month.

And I've got a few things to talk about. First of all, is it about a particularly serene journey? Not quite, rather not at all. To be completely honest I went for a title in a (perhaps misused) language that isn't English nor Spanish precisely so I didn't have to settle on a string of words I'd have to translate, on top of also translating the entire thing to English. My first language is Spanish and as such, all writing for this fanfic has been done first in my mother tongue.

Could I have just gone with Serenity's Journey? Maybe, but that being (one of) the name(s) of two other characters, I felt it might be slightly confusing. But then again, the main reason is the first. Also I've kind of established Latin in this little universe of mine as something that was first an universal language of magic, among other things.

Seeing as AO3 has a system to automatically dub your works as numbered parts I will be foregoing the usage of "Part 1" in the title for that specific platform. There's also a bit of personal history woven into the making (writing) of this fic, but I think I'll save that for another post.

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Been thinking about the title some more. The whole reason behind calling it "The [insert name] Arc" was I couldn't think of a title that encapsulated its story well enough. It would also go on to become a naming custom, as in, I'd name the next parts the same way.

But as I continue working on each chapter there's been a concept on my mind that I could use as a proxy to an appropriate or adept title. The protagonist spends most of this first part of the story nameless, unaware of her own identity, so how about calling this fanfic Anonymity instead?

The only thing I still haven't decided on is, do I call it just that at least on AO3 where you can classify several fics as part of a series? Do I name it Odyssea Serenitatis: Anonymity on other platforms? I think I like the sound of that.

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The Actual Lead-up to 'Odyssea Serenitatis'

It's July of last year. I've graduated from university months ago and am waiting for the ceremony itself to take place. I'm depressed because I can't find a job in my field, among other personal stuff. I had told myself after finally completing all academic obligations I'd look into getting into the arts in general once again.

I must have given up on writing around the same time I entered uni, perhaps decidedly so during the second year. But even through trying to lead this "normie" life I would still occasionally fantasize about trying again. I almost did it but something about that period of my life wasn't lining up with how I envisioned the story.

So during that month, here in the Southern hemisphere, it was quite the cold fall/winter. I spent half the day cooking, half the day in bed, rotting away but warm. Fantasizing about doing something instead. The first day that the temperatures weren't freezing I sat down in front of my desk, picked up a notebook and started a diary. Days later I wrote a monologue, that of Sailor Cosmos, and then I started writing down ideas for how I'd approach that elusive SilMil fanfic.

I decided on an approach, I wanted to write solely from Queen Serenity's perspective because, despite the manga providing her with a much bigger role, she was still one of the most mysterious and thus most interesting characters of Sailor Moon to me. I wanted answers to all the questions the manga and thus Crystal plus the Eternal and Cosmos movies left.

And then come August 2nd I've officially started up the third version of my Silver Millennium, Queen Serenity focused, canon compliant fanfic. I've already mentioned briefly that I intend to take us through her entire life, but I haven't mentioned the specifics.

The first part will be an exploration of the Milky Way's early days, how it all came to be, through Queen Serenity's eyes. It's the start of her journey of becoming the character we all know of, and how she went about constructing her own identity.

I can tell you that there will be appearances by characters only briefly mentioned in the manga and Crystal, and some easter eggs here and there. At the moment I'm working on finishing up all chapters so that I can come up with a release schedule. Just trust that it's coming to AO3, possibly FFNet and Wattpad as well.

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Road to 'Odyssea Serenitatis' (cont.)

And now we're in 2013. I open this blog around the same time I decided to try my hand at writing and completing that unfinished and deleted SilMil fic.

By this time I've already read the manga, watched PGSM and was waiting for the "reboot" to premiere, so it's safe to say my understanding of the Sailor Moon universe is much bigger. I mentioned it on another post, for this version I decided to start with Queen Serenity's birth.

I had Guardian Cosmos essentially give her an exposition dump speech, telling her who she was and assigning her a mission, and then I must have written another chapter or two solely focused on her.

I know I had some leftover ideas from the previous version, but I can't remember how much I knew back then, so I can only truthfully say that for this version I wanted to turn Luna into Queen Serenity's first daughter. I used to be really into the idea of making her and Princess Serenity sisters, mostly because I didn't understand or accept the whole Luna-being-from-a-far-away-planet thing while still having a crescent moon mark.

I put Queen Nehelenia into the story, used her 90's-anime-Stars-miniarc backstory, made her initally good but had a manifestation of Chaos trick her into becoming evil by kidnapping Queen Serenity (and her husband)'s firstborn. She'd immediately regret it and turn her into a cat, then drop her off at the Queen's doorstep anonymously. Eventually she'd get corrupted by her desire to stay young, blah blah blah *swallows all her minions/citizens Dream Mirrors turning them into demons* *attacks Helios and then Queen Serenity during the princess' birth party*

Or the other way, I don't quite remember.

I also made a self-insert OC. Back in my forum days I wrote this story proposal for a roleplay, it got accepted and I got to do it with a few friends from back in the day. This was way after the first version of the SilMil fic so by this time I had formed some strong opinions on UsaMamo from the 90's anime. That is to say, I wanted to break them up. So. Bad.

It was a great time but it was such terrible writing on my part, I held so much shame from it that I wanted to make it right somehow. So I introduced the concept of this OC into the fic, made him Princess Serenity's male bestie since childhood, and he had a crush on her the entire time.

I wouldn't go on to do much with him to be honest. I never intended on writing a canon divergent SilMil fic so of course he was going to die along with everyone else at the end, but I did have plans to do sequel fics rewriting at least the Dark Kingdom and Black Moon arcs. I think that just by saying that you can guess my big plan was having this OC reincarnate along with the main cast and date Usagi during the R break-up arc just because I wanted to spite 90's Mamoru that badly.

I'm now a gay enby so I don't really care about doing any of that, meaning this OC will never see the light of day, probably.

What ended up becoming of this version was, I outlined up to the last chapter where I'd be dealing with the fall of the Moon Kingdom, incorporating the Outers' role from what the manga says during the Infinity arc.

It took way too long, I dragged this process out through academic stress/burnout, and eventually I faced facets of my own identity that made a lot of what I was writing not make any sense to me, as in I no longer understood why I was so adamant about certain choices.

On top of that I was very insecure about the writing itself. So, when I decided there was just too much to fix before I felt content enough publishing any of it, I simply deleted the files. I'm not even sure I own the hard drive they could be found in anymore.

This seems like a sad note to end on, but there is more to it still which I'll be going into for the next post.

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Road to 'Odyssea Serenitatis'

Before I try to start teasing anything about the story itself I want to talk about what led up to me writing it. This goes all the way back to my childhood, when I wrote the first version of this story.

You see, I didn't actually get to watch Sailor Moon as a baby (I would've caught about half of the 90's anime on Chilean TV otherwise) so my first approach to it was through videogames. It wasn't until what back then felt like sooo many years later that I started getting a hold of any of its episodes.

So when I finally was able to piece together one of the versions of its story I became completely fixated on the Silver Millennium. I so badly wanted to know what that time was like for the characters, and over time I've become more and more interested in Queen Serenity's point of view specifically.

I found forums on the internet where I first came across fanfic. To be honest it took me a while to understand what it was, eventually I gathered that anyone could write a fan version of what they wish to see from their favorite shows, and one day I randomly set out to write a SilMil fic.

I don't think I knew of any fic-centric platforms, I just jumped into creating my own thread to post chapters on a whim whenever I had the time and internet connection.

That first iteration of a SilMil story written by me was pretty much only influenced by the 90's anime, and perhaps only the first season since it was THAT hard trying to get access to the entire show, which resulted in me mostly focusing on Princess Serenity's life.

I can't remember much about it. I forgot the password to the account I used to write it and then I had to beg one of the moderators to allow me a second account, I'm guessing it got wiped out along with that log in. I can't go looking for it is what I'm trying to say.

I do know that I gave Queen Serenity a mother. I think I named her Selene, she had copper hair (since QS had silver and PS was blonde) and she was killed by a Metalia predecessor of some sort. Other than that, because I had played a bit of Another Story and also watched a walkthrough on YouTube, I used to ship Sailor Venus and Kunzite so at some point I went about making that happen.

I also had this idea of having Princess Serenity actually train to be a Senshi. But somewhere along the way, losing the account and the thread and most likely not taking the writing thing seriously, that fic became lost to time, the void, whatever you wanna call it.

Which takes me into the next attempt at writing this story. Saving that for another post.