The Many Faces of Usagi: Dreamscape
Characters: Usagi/Sailor Moon/Serenity (buntails) and YOU
When: March 6th - 12th
Where: Usagi's Dreamscape
Rating: PG - R for violence, depending
Summary: The genki girl, the soldier, and the princess
This is a typical arcade. Games are lined up all along the walls and throughout the building. No one seems to be here, but a selection of games are still turned on, brightly lit, and seem to require no money at the moment. Any game can be played endless times. There may be prizes.
The racing game drives past Tsukino Usagi as most people see her. There are flowers growing along the roadside, plenty of rest stops for food, and billboards showing scenes from her childhood: her first day of school, her mom scolding her for bad grades, arguing with her brother over the game system. These are the normal, everyday memories she loves so much. If the player drives far enough, they may see her meeting the senshi, arguing with Rei, trips to the beach, visiting each other's school fairs, and the like. The final level is difficult to achieve, but provides a brief memory of her ultimate dying wish: this kind of normal life.
The Sailor V game is placed prominently, because of its popularity and significance to the senshi. It's a platform side-scroller, with items gathered to help battle monsters. Depending on which levels are cleared, the cutscene at the end may show Usagi's first battle, all the senshi in their roles as battle-ready soldiers, their heroic deaths at the hands of Beryl's minions leaving Usagi to face the enemy alone, Usagi's final battle of faith against Beryl, or even Sailor Moon's sacrifice of her own life to save Earth from an asteroid collision sent by an enemy and the bond she has to the senshi. It will show her teaching her daughter the same self-sacrifice after that daughter was finally healed from Black Lady who tried to kill Usagi. Clearing the later levels here will show what happened after that dying wish for normalcy: A restored and healed Earth, but with the senshi and Mamoru having forgotten her.
The next game is a dating sim where the choices lead to different endings: The red rose ending provides cutscenes of Usagi's relationship with Mamoru, from the start when they met over yet another of her failed exams through all the trials and tribulations they've overcome, the times they've saved each other in battle, to the powers they've created by their love. It will show the time his kiss brought her back to life, and it will include the past when their love was forbidden as Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion. The white rose ending shows the Moonlight Knight, a being created from Mamoru's love and desire to protect even while he had no memories of Usagi. The black rose ending shows Mamoru trying to kill Usagi under the Dark Kingdom's influence; alternately, it may show Mamoru breaking up with Usagi under pressure from ominous dreams (and her own insistence that she doesn't care if she does die, or even if Earth is destroyed, if she can't be with him). The dating sim also has a secondary bad ending: Demando. It shows his attempt to kidnap, hypnotize, and force Usagi until the spell was overcome by her feelings for Mamoru.
The UFO Catcher has a lot of prizes. Winning and touching the plushie moon scepter will release the memories of Usagi as Neo-Queen Serenity awakening the world from an ice age and creating Crystal Tokyo where she rules in the future, unlocked when she merged with her future self during the battle with Wiseman. The plushie of the holy grail will unlock Usagi's memories of Adstringendum: dying at Aizen's hands with Rei, making new friends, the pain of loss when her friends from home have disappeared, forgetting and remembering Mamoru only to lose him again, the string of friends forgetting her when they've left and returned. The Luna-P plushie reveals memories of Chibi-Usa from the first time Usagi and Chibi-Usa meet to the rocky but loving relationship they had until the time it was revealed: Chibi-Usa is Usagi's daughter.
Then there's the hallway. It's not as well-lit, and the doors stand closed but not locked. All of it is clearly marked for Staff Only. Behind one is a grand ballroom in a graceful marble palace; exploring further will lead to other rooms in the Moon Castle. Watching the ball play out will lead to the end of the Silver Millenium kingdom, and the death of Princess Serenity - Usagi. In the process, it will reveal the senshi's true past as immortal beings of great power from the moon whose mission was to oversee the evolution of Earth. It will show Serenity's love of the real winds and flowing waters of the planet, and how she one day met its prince. The rest is history and myth.
One door in the hallway is locked, firmly. The only means of entrance would be to break it down - and it is very strongly reinforced. This memory of the Dead Moon's first attack when Queen Serenity sealed away Nehellenia for claiming the light needed darkness is unknown even to Usagi herself; it's been suppressed since the time of the past on the moon.
When: March 6th - 12th
Where: Usagi's Dreamscape
Rating: PG - R for violence, depending
Summary: The genki girl, the soldier, and the princess
This is a typical arcade. Games are lined up all along the walls and throughout the building. No one seems to be here, but a selection of games are still turned on, brightly lit, and seem to require no money at the moment. Any game can be played endless times. There may be prizes.
The racing game drives past Tsukino Usagi as most people see her. There are flowers growing along the roadside, plenty of rest stops for food, and billboards showing scenes from her childhood: her first day of school, her mom scolding her for bad grades, arguing with her brother over the game system. These are the normal, everyday memories she loves so much. If the player drives far enough, they may see her meeting the senshi, arguing with Rei, trips to the beach, visiting each other's school fairs, and the like. The final level is difficult to achieve, but provides a brief memory of her ultimate dying wish: this kind of normal life.
The Sailor V game is placed prominently, because of its popularity and significance to the senshi. It's a platform side-scroller, with items gathered to help battle monsters. Depending on which levels are cleared, the cutscene at the end may show Usagi's first battle, all the senshi in their roles as battle-ready soldiers, their heroic deaths at the hands of Beryl's minions leaving Usagi to face the enemy alone, Usagi's final battle of faith against Beryl, or even Sailor Moon's sacrifice of her own life to save Earth from an asteroid collision sent by an enemy and the bond she has to the senshi. It will show her teaching her daughter the same self-sacrifice after that daughter was finally healed from Black Lady who tried to kill Usagi. Clearing the later levels here will show what happened after that dying wish for normalcy: A restored and healed Earth, but with the senshi and Mamoru having forgotten her.
The next game is a dating sim where the choices lead to different endings: The red rose ending provides cutscenes of Usagi's relationship with Mamoru, from the start when they met over yet another of her failed exams through all the trials and tribulations they've overcome, the times they've saved each other in battle, to the powers they've created by their love. It will show the time his kiss brought her back to life, and it will include the past when their love was forbidden as Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion. The white rose ending shows the Moonlight Knight, a being created from Mamoru's love and desire to protect even while he had no memories of Usagi. The black rose ending shows Mamoru trying to kill Usagi under the Dark Kingdom's influence; alternately, it may show Mamoru breaking up with Usagi under pressure from ominous dreams (and her own insistence that she doesn't care if she does die, or even if Earth is destroyed, if she can't be with him). The dating sim also has a secondary bad ending: Demando. It shows his attempt to kidnap, hypnotize, and force Usagi until the spell was overcome by her feelings for Mamoru.
The UFO Catcher has a lot of prizes. Winning and touching the plushie moon scepter will release the memories of Usagi as Neo-Queen Serenity awakening the world from an ice age and creating Crystal Tokyo where she rules in the future, unlocked when she merged with her future self during the battle with Wiseman. The plushie of the holy grail will unlock Usagi's memories of Adstringendum: dying at Aizen's hands with Rei, making new friends, the pain of loss when her friends from home have disappeared, forgetting and remembering Mamoru only to lose him again, the string of friends forgetting her when they've left and returned. The Luna-P plushie reveals memories of Chibi-Usa from the first time Usagi and Chibi-Usa meet to the rocky but loving relationship they had until the time it was revealed: Chibi-Usa is Usagi's daughter.
Then there's the hallway. It's not as well-lit, and the doors stand closed but not locked. All of it is clearly marked for Staff Only. Behind one is a grand ballroom in a graceful marble palace; exploring further will lead to other rooms in the Moon Castle. Watching the ball play out will lead to the end of the Silver Millenium kingdom, and the death of Princess Serenity - Usagi. In the process, it will reveal the senshi's true past as immortal beings of great power from the moon whose mission was to oversee the evolution of Earth. It will show Serenity's love of the real winds and flowing waters of the planet, and how she one day met its prince. The rest is history and myth.
One door in the hallway is locked, firmly. The only means of entrance would be to break it down - and it is very strongly reinforced. This memory of the Dead Moon's first attack when Queen Serenity sealed away Nehellenia for claiming the light needed darkness is unknown even to Usagi herself; it's been suppressed since the time of the past on the moon.