I have long been reluctant to take on multiple projects at once -- DW8 and DW13 together were mainly because Helen's writer's block has been long and profound -- but dammit, this suddenly started insisting on being written and I couldn't say "no" any more.
EDIT: Let me note that I am doing my research on this, and you will see things that just don't appear in the usual Sailor Moon fic. For instance, I don't think any SM fic I've read notes that Azabu (not "Juuban", although "Azabu-Juuban" is acceptable) is one of the districts of Tokyo where foreigners live in large quantities, and is very multicultural while deliberately maintaining a Japanese appearance and flavor. Doug will notice this. It's also one of the more expensive areas of Tokyo, though not the most -- we knew that Ami and Rei are both well off and given how easily she went to England Minako is very likely so as well, but I doubt anyone's really considered Usagi or Makoto as anything but middle class before. Makoto in particular must have a hefty trust fund or something, given the rents in the area. I need to get a really good visual reference yet on her apartment, but the partial images I've found suggest that by Japanese standards it's huge -- bigger than the one I gave Doug, and he's got his usual IT professional job plus trade goods plus leftover cash from a similar Japan in another timeline to pay for it. I'm rambling. Anyway, the point is, I'm doing my research, right down to the weather and of course the phases of the moon as usual, and it's paying out unexpected dividends for this story.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
EDIT: Let me note that I am doing my research on this, and you will see things that just don't appear in the usual Sailor Moon fic. For instance, I don't think any SM fic I've read notes that Azabu (not "Juuban", although "Azabu-Juuban" is acceptable) is one of the districts of Tokyo where foreigners live in large quantities, and is very multicultural while deliberately maintaining a Japanese appearance and flavor. Doug will notice this. It's also one of the more expensive areas of Tokyo, though not the most -- we knew that Ami and Rei are both well off and given how easily she went to England Minako is very likely so as well, but I doubt anyone's really considered Usagi or Makoto as anything but middle class before. Makoto in particular must have a hefty trust fund or something, given the rents in the area. I need to get a really good visual reference yet on her apartment, but the partial images I've found suggest that by Japanese standards it's huge -- bigger than the one I gave Doug, and he's got his usual IT professional job plus trade goods plus leftover cash from a similar Japan in another timeline to pay for it. I'm rambling. Anyway, the point is, I'm doing my research, right down to the weather and of course the phases of the moon as usual, and it's paying out unexpected dividends for this story.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.