History Fanfic / OfTheStars

Take ''Franchise/SailorMoon''. Now add influences from ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}''[[note]]which is admittedly influenced by ''Sailor Moon''[[/note]], aesthetics from ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath''[[note]]which has been admittedly compared to ''Exalted''[[/note]], observations from ''Script/ShadowjackWatchesSailorMoon''[[note]][[RuleOfThree which is]] [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers admittedly]] [[AffectionateParody a parody]][[/note]], and have it all written by an author with a background in physical cosmology and [[UsefulNotes/QuantumPhysics particle physics]].

** In Chapter 12, Naru reads ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'', while Usagi reads ''[[Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman Gatchaman]]'' and ''Manga/LuckyStar''. Usagi also asks Ami if she plays ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' or ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]]''.

** [[spoiler:Taken UpToEleven in chapter 8 see PowerIncontinence below]]

* AscendedFangirl: Usagi, a fan of Sailor V, realizes she can use her new powers to imitate her idol

* FightingAShadow[=/=]SelfDuplication: [[OriginalCharacter Hubnerite]] creates a shadow copy of herself in Chapter 12.
* FixFic[=/=]TheRemake

* NotWhatItLooksLike: In Chapter 11 Ikuko notes Usagi invited Ami to her house after meeting her only a day and a half ago, and asks Usagi if there's anything she'd like to talk about. The implication is that Ikuko is asking about Usagi's [[SchoolgirlLesbians romantic preferences]]. At least, Usagi thinks something like this and insists that it's not like that. [[spoiler:It's then subverted when Ikuko confronts Luna and reveals she knows Usagi is Sailor Moon.]]

%%* AristocratsAreEvil

* MysteriousProtector: Tuxedo Kamen as per usual [[spoiler:and now we have the myserious Moonshadow from the interlude helping Rei, who gets bonus points for the all WildMassGuessing involving his identity]]

->''In ancient times, ten thousand years and more before the now, the world was not as it is today. Before the threads of heaven were woven into a girdle around the world, before traitors tore them down, before the celestial spheres long since broken by betrayal were even glimmers in the eyes of dreaming visionaries – in that dreaming age, Earth was a very different place.''

->''In ancient times, ten thousand years and more before the now, the world was not as it is today. Before the threads of heaven were woven into a girdle around the world, before traitors tore them down, before the celestial spheres long since broken by betrayal were even glimmers in the eyes of dreaming visionaries – in that dreaming age, Earth was a very different place.''

-->''So I thought we’d talk, you and I, [[spoiler:Luna, about my daughter. My daughter, Sailor Moon.]]''

-->''She’s not a youma!''

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: On the Spacebattles thread, Tropers/EarthScorpion has a RunningGag where the story is actually a tabletop roleplaying game being played by people with names from the American ''Sailor Moon'' dub (except for the nameless GM).

* UrbanFantasy: The "intended" setting of the fanfic. See LiteraryAgentHypothesis and NeverWasThisUniverse above.

* SettingUpdate: The story starts in 2008 rather than the nineties, and many of the setting elements reflect it, as shown [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/of-the-stars-sailor-moon-fic.1295/page-31#post-64901 here]].

Take ''Franchise/SailorMoon''. Now add influences from ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}''[[labelnote:*]]which is admittedly influenced by ''Sailor Moon''[[/labelnote]], aesthetics from ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath''[[labelnote:*]]which has been admittedly compared to ''Exalted''[[/labelnote]], observations from ''Script/ShadowjackWatchesSailorMoon''[[labelnote:*]][[RuleOfThree which is]] [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers admittedly]] [[AffectionateParody a parody]][[/labelnote]], and have it all written by an author with a background in physical cosmology and [[UsefulNotes/QuantumPhysics particle physics]].

Take ''Franchise/SailorMoon''. Now add influences from ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}''[[labelnote:*]]which is admittedly influenced by ''Sailor Moon''[[/labelnote]], aesthetics from ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath''[[labelnote:*]]which has been admittedly [[CounterpartComparison compared to]] ''Exalted''[[/labelnote]], observations from ''Script/ShadowjackWatchesSailorMoon''[[labelnote:*]][[RuleOfThree which is]] [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers admittedly]] [[AffectionateParody a parody]][[/labelnote]], and have it all written by an author with a background in physical cosmology and [[UsefulNotes/QuantumPhysics particle physics]].

** Usagi's reaction to her broach: "It was hers, and [[Literature/LordOfTheRings it was precious.]]"

The result? ''Of The Stars'', a ''Sailor Moon'' fanfic by Tropers/{{Aleph}} (author of ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' fanfic ''Fanfic/GameTheoryFanFic''). A [[TheRemake re]][[FixFic make]] of the original series, [[PatchworkFic it incorporates elements of both the manga and the anime]] along with the [[AdaptationalBadass competence upgrades]], extensive WorldBuilding, and [[TheStationsOfTheCanon willingness to break canon]] that the author is known for. However, [[WordOfGod it has been stated]] that the story will be a {{Reconstruction}} of the themes of the anime.

*** The other manga Usagi gets is titled "Games Team Seventeen". [[WordOfGod When asked]], [[TeasingCreator the author smiled]] and said it might be a SpinOff {{Doujin}} of a [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha magical girl show]]. In other words, Usagi reads ''GameTheory''.

Each chapter of the story is part of an arc, which is equivalent to an episode of the original series. Each arc is part of a season, which is equivalent to about half a season of the original series. As of June 2017, a prologue, an interlude, and seventeen chapters have been written and the story is in the sixth arc of the first season. The story can be found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9059345/1/Of-The-Stars here]].

->''At last, I have found you.\\
You are a sacred warrior, a chosen child of the Moon.\\
And you are needed.''
-->-- '''Luna'''

* DarkerAndEdgier: Oh yes. The youma in the first arc is not messing around, and in the second arc there are riots going on in the city. And in chapter 15 [[spoiler: Jadeite actually abducts Rei.]]
* DieOrFly: In the first interlude [[spoiler: this happens to Rei when she's nearly killed by the chanelas. This results in an OutOfTheInferno situation.]] In chapter 10, [[spoiler: Ami's powers begin activating uncontrollably when she's being drained by a youma, though all she does is create water and mist.]]

** [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven in chapter 8 see PowerIncontinence below]]

* HolyHalo: [[{{Homage}} Taken directly from]] ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath''. [[spoiler: And according to Luna, one of Usagi's souls. Yes 'souls' as in plural]]

* ISurrenderSuckers: [[spoiler: Hubnerite's surrender offer confused Usagi enough to get her and Mercury captured. Even when they got out of that mess, in the following interrogation she learnt more from the Senshi than they from her.]]

* TheManBehindTheMonsters: [[spoiler: Moon and Mercury are shocked to find OriginalCharacter Hubnerite is actually a human. It turns out she's a reincarnated Martian who joined Metallia's side in her past life.]]

* MysteriousProtector: Tuxedo Kamen as per usual [[spoiler: and now we have the myserious Moonshadow from the interlude helping Rei, who gets bonus points for the all WildMassGuessing involving his identity]]

* NotWhatItLooksLike: In Chapter 11 Ikuko notes Usagi invited Ami to her house after meeting her only a day and a half ago, and asks Usagi if there's anything she'd like to talk about. The implication is that Ikuko is asking about Usagi's [[SchoolgirlLesbians romantic preferences]]. At least, Usagi thinks something like this and insists that it's not like that. [[spoiler: It's then subverted when Ikuko confronts Luna and reveals she knows Usagi is Sailor Moon.]]

* OutOfTheInferno: In the first interlude. [[spoiler: Rei's power awakens semi-uncontrollably while she is on the verge of death. Without regaining consciousness or transforming, she incinerates her would-be killers, destroys one of the youma standing guard, and emerges from the conflagration only somewhat singed.]]

* PocketDimension: [[spoiler: The Dark Kingdom, and it has more Pockets within Pockets. The initial pocket is where the palace and the Youma upper class is located, and almost looks like it is on Earth itself if one doesn't pay attention at the sears of reality. Next are the various fiefdom pockets within the initial pocket, and the effects of being removed from reality are much more obvious here, with the colors, sound, emotions and the like being stretch thin. The lords of these fiefdoms have their own pocket dimensions within the fiefdom, but avoid the above problems by the powering these pockets via the energy tax from their subjects.]]

* PowerIncontinence : In Chapter 8, Usagi loses control when trying to heal everyone. [[spoiler: "Everyone" changes from "every human" to "everything".]]
** It happens to both Rei and Ami [[spoiler: when their energy is being drained.]]

* RaceLift: [[spoiler: The original Endymion is described as dark-skinned.]]

* SpotTheThread: In chapter 4, Usagi quickly learns the location of the youma's fortune telling house when she sees that it's the brightest store in the area...and also that it's ''open'', other stores having closed due to the riots.
* TheStationsOfTheCanon: Barring certain events like Usagi meeting Rei, the first two arcs are mostly based on the anime's first two episodes. The third arc apparently skips to Episode 7...but then it turns out to be a fusion with Episode 5.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Jadeite thinks of this in chapter 15, when he muses that his youma would just [[LeeroyJenkins throw themselves at Hikawa Shrine and die at its wards]]. [[spoiler: Which is why he decides to abduct Rei personally.]]

-->''So I thought we’d talk, you and I, [[spoiler: Luna, about my daughter. My daughter, Sailor Moon.]]''

Each chapter of the story is part of an arc, which is equivalent to an episode of the original series. Each arc is part of a season, which is equivalent to about half a season of the original series. As of March 2017, a prologue, an interlude, and sixteen chapters have been written and the story is in the sixth arc of the first season. The story can be found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9059345/1/Of-The-Stars here]].

->''In ancient times, ten thousand years and more before the now, the world was not as it is today. Before the threads of heaven were woven into a girdle around the world, before traitors tore them down, before the celestial spheres long since broken by betrayal were even glimmers in the eyes of dreaming visionaries – in that dreaming age, Earth was a very different place.''\\
-- '''Opening Words'''

And you are needed.''\\
-- '''Luna'''

The stoy has now been moved to [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/of-the-stars-sailor-moon-fic.1295/ here]].