“Dawn Castle – My artist’s impression of the Sailor Castle belonging to Sailor Quartet. It is located on the dwarf planet, Ceres, the largest of the four asteroids in the Inner Belt. The castle is pink in colour close up but emits a beautiful white glow from above due to the lights: it is responsible for the bright spots seen on Ceres. I chose the name based on the 2007 to present Dawn probe, sent to study the two largest asteroids Ceres and Vesta. It is currently still circling Ceres and will remain there for the rest of time, even after it stops sending images and data back to earth.x”
This is both really gorgeous and really clever, it looks and feels like something Naoko would create.
YES TO ALL OF THIS. It’s basically reason # 6758 I love PGSM so so much. Everything Beryl did, she did for her planet. Her love for Endymion drives some of her personal vendetta against Princess Serenity, but that was just the final straw that led to the war. And it’s really easy for me to imagine that even that had a lot more than just jealousy driving it, here’s the moon princess taking away the one thing Beryl had, the one thing Earth had if Endymion had the golden crystal, here’s the Moon Kingdom starting towards a political marriage that could easily lead to them taking over Earth, Beryl has all sorts of reasons to want to drive them apart.
YES.
YESSSSSS.
Would watch
I love Beryl in PGSM too. 😀
This is something I have played around with for a while too. Definitely want to write this into a story one day, maybe once Guardian of London Town is done. I already have my vision of Sailor Earth/Beryl set up, after all 🙂
I based her design off her human form rather than her “Queen” form.
Those are such lovely designs!! I especially love the detail of the rose in the second one, that’s such a nice little touch. And the first one is so!! cute!!
The first I actually did with traditional watercolours so it’s good that it looks soft! 🙂
Yes, in my crazy headcanon world I imagine Sailor Earth coming to the canon universe from a parallel world where, instead of taking her own life, Princess Serenity was consumed by Queen Metalia’s darkness and desires nothing more than to destroy the Earth. Beryl awakens as Sailor Earth but has to fight alone – Princess Serenity and Senshi having killed Earth’s only other means of defense, the Shitennou – but fears time is running out for her planet. In a desperate bid to save it, she travels across dimensions to find senshi who will be willing to help her… until she comes across the canon universe, where she is shocked to see Serenity reborn as Sailor Moon.
I imagine there would be a lot of antagonist feelings between the two, as both only know of a cruel, cold and nasty version of each other. However meeting Sailor Earth gives Usagi, the Senshi and even Endymion a POV they had never considered before – the side of the people of Earth and how they felt manipulated by the Moon Kingdom and neglected by their Prince. In a way, I hope it would humble Usagi and Mamoru in a way as they are forced to confront the true ramifications of what their past selves did and how selfish Mamoru especially had been towards his own people.
YES TO ALL OF THIS. It’s basically reason # 6758 I love PGSM so so much. Everything Beryl did, she did for her planet. Her love for Endymion drives some of her personal vendetta against Princess Serenity, but that was just the final straw that led to the war. And it’s really easy for me to imagine that even that had a lot more than just jealousy driving it, here’s the moon princess taking away the one thing Beryl had, the one thing Earth had if Endymion had the golden crystal, here’s the Moon Kingdom starting towards a political marriage that could easily lead to them taking over Earth, Beryl has all sorts of reasons to want to drive them apart.
YES.
YESSSSSS.
Would watch
I love Beryl in PGSM too. 😀
This is something I have played around with for a while too. Definitely want to write this into a story one day, maybe once Guardian of London Town is done. I already have my vision of Sailor Earth/Beryl set up, after all 🙂
I based her design off her human form rather than her “Queen” form.
Those are such lovely designs!! I especially love the detail of the rose in the second one, that’s such a nice little touch. And the first one is so!! cute!!
Setsuna: Usagi was supposed to meet us at the station ten minutes ago
Ami: *holds hands together and yells* Hey there’s a cute girl getting the bus
Usagi: *pops up* Wha
Ami: There she is
ahaha okay so i wasn’t gonna talk about this because as a seiusa shipper this scene hurts my heart and also tends to be a scene the fandom reacts unnecessarily violently towards but i got sick of the void of empathy so here’s my thoughts
bear in mind two things: a) im not very good at analysing stuff and b) i’ll refer to seiya with she/her and i’m not arguing with regards to that (actually, im not arguing with regards to any of this stuff, this is just me attempting to shine a light on seiya’s motivations or perhaps, more accurately, lack of motivations)
for context, this scene comes at the end of an episode in which we are shown that seiya is preparing to move on from her “new life” as it were and this, unsurprisingly, is a difficult and emotional stage for seiya’s character. seiya, unlike yaten and taiki, actually settles really well into life on earth, so much so that she actually falls in love with usagi. this episode is the point at which seiya truly realises the extent to which she has fallen, when she sees usagi rather than kakyuu in her daydream about home.
i think, for a sixteen year old with a huge responsibility who is experiencing a new planet, that’s gonna be confusing as hell. seiya’s entire life and existence and purpose on earth has (supposedly) revolved around finding kakyuu thus far, with everything that came with being an idol just being part of the disguise. here though, we see that there’s more to it than that, and that seiya is indeed emotionally invested in her earth life and more specifically, in usagi. this has always been a part of her character but i think this is where it really comes to the forefront.
this all culminates in the above scene which has led to…pretty disturbing responses calling for seiya’s head which is…yikes, but anyways. it’s important to note that this scene comes after seiya has already prepared to say goodbye, after she sees the drawing of usagi and mamoru on the desk and comments how their time together has been short, but fun – there is no malice, nor motivation of any kind to change usagi’s mind or whatever. that isn’t part of who seiya is as a person and it never was.
however
whilst seiya frequently displays a casual side to her approach to her and usagi’s relationship, this doesn’t mean that seiya doesn’t have feelings too. and it doesn’t mean that she isn’t hurting as well. this is something i think the fandom at large either fails to pick up on or really doesn’t care about and like, idk, maybe it’s worth some thought.
seiya is upset in this scene. she’s upset and yes maybe she’s jealous, because she is there and she is protecting usagi and she cares so deeply for usagi. and this mamoru person (who seiya knows nothing about by the way – unlike the audience) is absent and possibly, in seiya’s perspective, appears to not care at all and yet usagi can still only think about him. and that’s going to be fucking painful. seiya doesn’t know the extent to which usagi is suffering either, because usagi up until that point has publicly kept it quiet because she is a brave little soul.
and so, seiya slips up. and i cannot say that what she says in “am i not good enough” was the correct thing to say because of course it isn’t. she takes usagi’s pain and suffering and she does make it about her. but here’s the thing – seiya is also suffering at this point. seiya is also going through pain. and seiya reacts based purely on emotion at this instant. unrequited love hurts like hell and i personally can’t begrudge her the opportunity to make a mistake here in how she deals with that. this isn’t a planned line or something she necessarily thought would make usagi change her mind or anything like that. this is literally a teenager in love expressing pain and a lack of self-confidence and not being careful of usagi’s feelings whilst doing so, because she is wrapped up in her own pain – as is natural for her to do, because seiya kou also experiences emotion, and seiya kou also sometimes lets that get to her.
it’s a mistake yes, but it doesn’t make her a bad person. we all make mistakes, especially where emotions are concerned, and i think it’s important to make note of that. im not saying u have to love seiya or even like her, but baying for her blood because she fucked up slightly in an emotional moment is just too much.
Mikako says she is feeling like Setsuna mama and wishes Karin good luck for her work and lessons today. Karin replied by calling her Setsuna mama and she will do her best!
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