sm_monthly Mar 10 theme
Set vaguely with this stuff, with more than a little influence from Shade and Shadow worldbuilding.
Title: In the Dark
Author: purplekitte
Theme: Villains--Attention to Detail
Genre: General
Version: Anime
Rating: PG-13
How did the Black Moon Clan come about then?
The first question to answer is when. The original rebellion and exile were eight or nine years after Neo-Queen Serenity melted the thousand years of Ice. They awakened the demon in the dead rock, dark crystal, and its shrouded avatar. They fled the light of Crystal Tokyo and, in one burst of power that exhausted them for generations, moved in time. They landed about a thousand years earlier, a little after the Ice encompassed Earth, and Nemesis floated out in the cold, between lost, empty Pluto and the longer deserted Kuiper belt.
A thousand years passed on the slow path. They learned time travel more easily than most, a natural trait of those who lived in that region of the solar system. The four sisters were recruited secretly as young girls for their magic and their recent knowledge of the Earthlings in the last generation of Nemesis. Prince Diamond approached Neo-Queen Serenity in the fifth year of her reign. Negotiation broke down and he attacked. The princess escaped to four years before the Millennium of Ice and was followed by the timeships of the Sisters Ayakashi and their handler Rubeus.
The princess returned to Crystal Tokyo with the Tokyoan senshi and destroyed Nemesis five years after she had been born. The sisters were trapped in the past, relived the Ice, and two timesplit versions of them existed until the War. The ancestors of the Black Moon rebelled a few years later.
So what were all those fifty generations in the dark like? There were never that many of them. They started as noble patriots to their cause. Within a few generations they had forgotten why, more than that their ancestors were rebels criminalized and unjustly persecuted by Crystal Tokyo. The new, mysterious advisor to the president turned prince, Wiseman, helped.
Resources were limited. Heck, there wasn’t a sun. Everything had to be done by magic, from producing heat and atmosphere to building and manufacturing to growing food. They used eugenics to selectively breed for magical ability. They lost their incest taboos very early on. Marriage, monogamy, and even a stable family became things of the lost past. Drunkenness, debauchery, and Babylonian, Dionysian revel reigned. Such a people normally would have gone completely matrilineal, but magic made it possible, rather than completely unreasonable, to record paternity on the lineage charts. It worked, all things considered. It resulted in a horribly inbred population, but a magical one.
The planet wanted the people to be evil. It’s not sustainable, it’s not natural on a sociological level for there to be a culture of evil people making virtue of ambition and betrayal and murder. Australia is not populated solely by criminals. Therefore it must be unnatural, created and maintained by the Black Crystals.
It could not destroy what made them human but it could turn it against them, twist it. It couldn’t stop Blue Sapphire from loving Diamond or his brother from loving him but it could keep them suspicious of each other. It couldn’t stop Sapphire and Petz from coming together but it could push them apart. It couldn’t stop Kouan from loving Rubeus but it could use it to make her blind. It could not stop Emerald from loving Diamond but it could turn that love into obsession excluding all else. It couldn’t stop Diamond from loving Serenity but it could turn that into a need to posses.
That part was the easiest. On Nemesis one could only believe in that which one completely owned. And yet Clan was clan. It held together somehow. It was family.
Title: In the Dark
Author: purplekitte
Theme: Villains--Attention to Detail
Genre: General
Version: Anime
Rating: PG-13
How did the Black Moon Clan come about then?
The first question to answer is when. The original rebellion and exile were eight or nine years after Neo-Queen Serenity melted the thousand years of Ice. They awakened the demon in the dead rock, dark crystal, and its shrouded avatar. They fled the light of Crystal Tokyo and, in one burst of power that exhausted them for generations, moved in time. They landed about a thousand years earlier, a little after the Ice encompassed Earth, and Nemesis floated out in the cold, between lost, empty Pluto and the longer deserted Kuiper belt.
A thousand years passed on the slow path. They learned time travel more easily than most, a natural trait of those who lived in that region of the solar system. The four sisters were recruited secretly as young girls for their magic and their recent knowledge of the Earthlings in the last generation of Nemesis. Prince Diamond approached Neo-Queen Serenity in the fifth year of her reign. Negotiation broke down and he attacked. The princess escaped to four years before the Millennium of Ice and was followed by the timeships of the Sisters Ayakashi and their handler Rubeus.
The princess returned to Crystal Tokyo with the Tokyoan senshi and destroyed Nemesis five years after she had been born. The sisters were trapped in the past, relived the Ice, and two timesplit versions of them existed until the War. The ancestors of the Black Moon rebelled a few years later.
So what were all those fifty generations in the dark like? There were never that many of them. They started as noble patriots to their cause. Within a few generations they had forgotten why, more than that their ancestors were rebels criminalized and unjustly persecuted by Crystal Tokyo. The new, mysterious advisor to the president turned prince, Wiseman, helped.
Resources were limited. Heck, there wasn’t a sun. Everything had to be done by magic, from producing heat and atmosphere to building and manufacturing to growing food. They used eugenics to selectively breed for magical ability. They lost their incest taboos very early on. Marriage, monogamy, and even a stable family became things of the lost past. Drunkenness, debauchery, and Babylonian, Dionysian revel reigned. Such a people normally would have gone completely matrilineal, but magic made it possible, rather than completely unreasonable, to record paternity on the lineage charts. It worked, all things considered. It resulted in a horribly inbred population, but a magical one.
The planet wanted the people to be evil. It’s not sustainable, it’s not natural on a sociological level for there to be a culture of evil people making virtue of ambition and betrayal and murder. Australia is not populated solely by criminals. Therefore it must be unnatural, created and maintained by the Black Crystals.
It could not destroy what made them human but it could turn it against them, twist it. It couldn’t stop Blue Sapphire from loving Diamond or his brother from loving him but it could keep them suspicious of each other. It couldn’t stop Sapphire and Petz from coming together but it could push them apart. It couldn’t stop Kouan from loving Rubeus but it could use it to make her blind. It could not stop Emerald from loving Diamond but it could turn that love into obsession excluding all else. It couldn’t stop Diamond from loving Serenity but it could turn that into a need to posses.
That part was the easiest. On Nemesis one could only believe in that which one completely owned. And yet Clan was clan. It held together somehow. It was family.