What started as a few miscellaneities page had become a NAQ as I've thought of things to explain but obviously haven't been asked about. This is the fic NAQ, there may be another general site NAQ if I either think of anything generally which needs explaining.
Why Zodiacs? -
Well I would guess there are two reasons to this. Firstly when I created my otaku senshi it was around November 2000 and I had only just discovered Sailor Moon lurking on Fox Kids and as I was into an FF8/GG RPG at the time I decided to write my own SailorMoon story and didn't know Zodiac Sailors existed. I thought I was being fabulously original at the time, (oh well). The other reason is that I love astrology and have been fairly obsessed by my own starsign for a long time. I used to spend quite a few of my breaktimes in our school library reading the basic astrology and starsign traits learning about gemstones and for about 5 years now I have worn a little amethyst around my neck which VERY rarely comes off.
Why the focus on Aquarius? -
I will state now that I am an Aquarian and Aquarius was the first senshi I created wondering how you may create a typical Aquarian senshi. The extra bits - planet profile, History etc - are to do with my own interest simply in my own sign and wondering if it were this planet of my mind what it would be like.
All the crossover characters are male... -
Ha ha ha....I'm basically a complete fangirl, although I'm not the biggest fan on earth of yaoi. Anyway yeah, and also there are enough women courtesy of the senshi and Sailor Moon has many romance themes. Why didn't I make up my own...dunno really. I like chucking characters together in a Big Bro-esque idea, I wanted to see how they may react but more than likely with so many made-up girlies my poor brain couldn't take anymore.
Why is the fiction taking so long and why write a history of Aquarius before completing the story -
Fiction is taking so long because I get frequent creative blocks and then spurts of inspiration. Currently my mindset has been on 'factual' work. The History is fictional but not in a story style necessarily. I did History for 2 years at GCSE then 2 years at A-Level and thought I'd have a go at writing my own history. Plus I've been working recently and in a bored spaced-out trance as i piece-up clothing at Johnsons Dry Cleaners led my mind to wander and think up ideas. The untitled fiction in Other Fics accelerated in its progress so much because of dreaming at Johnsons and in one saturday I did very little work and instead hid away with my notebook.
Who are Sakura??? -
Nothing to do with Card Captoring (is that even a word??), I just have an obsession with Sakura trees as curious as Ariel's with DiGi Charat. I loved them even before I began calling them Sakura trees, you see we have a big one right in front of our house. Actually our whole road is dominated by cherry blossom trees. It was always a sign of spring, and sunny days, and going to the park when the pink blossoms came out and my room facing the front of the house can see all the trees along the road, and it just became a Thing. Back to original point, what does Sakura have to do with my fic. Well, the three Chibis all like to sing and in this age of the tweenybopper and 2-a-penny bands from the tv shows (brrrr) I thought it would not be beyond little miss limelight Athene to create her own band. So "Sakura", the fan-band of Ariel and Athene and Juno.
So what do they actually sing? Well on the soundtracks there are three, 'Happy Day', 'Megami ni naritai', and 'All the Best' with the boys (all DiGi C songs by the way... isn't that odd...). In addition to this, a 'World Concert' at the school is mentioned and the three are asked to perform a Japanese song - for this I thought of Glass Hand Ball Dance from VPM, so incredibly elegant and very traditional sounding which the girls perform on a stage made up like a traditional house in kimonos. The others, well later on they sing 'Suki suki suki suki kisu shite' from Steel Angel Kurumi, 'Shukufuku' from Love Hina and 'Friendship' along with all of the girlies. As per usual, i'm always on the lookout for songs which would suit them (happy, smiley bright jpop really), when I've got enough I'll design an album for them. Hehehe...oh dear im sad.
The images of the Queens are original manga images -
The images of the Queens I had in my mind, (Ryian, Aulis and Ria) and I find on many otaku senshi sites that people edit the manga images. So I found three very different pictures of Usagi as a princess or looking particularly royal and edited them in photoshop just enough to make them look different from Usagi while still retaining the original picture.
What are the inspirations/sources/ used in writing this fic -
Many many many, so I shall provide a list. In no particular order:
Sailor Moon (of course), other Otaku senshi and sites, astrology, Gladiator, Gundam Wing, Gensomaden Saiyuki, Weiß Kreuz, Final Fantasy, music of Nobuo Uematsu, DBZ, Tolkien (language, maps, etc), LOTR, Asterix, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Tudor England, 18th/19th Century England, Plantagenet and Saxon England, Grecian and Roman mythology, my History teachers, my Geography teachers, my Economics teacher, The Matrix, the weirdness of my own brain, a big ol Latin Dictionary, a big French dictionary, piecing up clothing at Johnsons allowing good daydreaming time, doing not-alot as a receptionist allowing both drawing and writing time ^_^
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