ORION

Speaking of Orion, the ten-year anniversary of the release of Atlantis is this Friday. FOR REAL. My first fandom/fansite/fanfiction! There are a variety of activities tying into the anniversary that you can learn more about here. I would like to do some more stuff with my A:TLE fanfiction universe…

The fanfic and these notes were originally posted on Dreamwidth in April.

I got the idea for this story after rewatching Act Zero recently. I’ve always been of the opinion that the Shitennou were reborn as humans like the Senshi, and that Beryl brainwashed them and brought them to the Dark Kingdom. This makes sense, based on what we see of Kunzite in Act 14, not to mention what happens to Nephrite in the second half of the series.

(Maybe this isn’t even up for debate? I haven’t read the manga yet [September!], but I’ve never seen anything really definitive about this in the fandom, so I’m assuming this is just speculation.)

Anyway, so I thought it might be fun to imagine what kind of life Zoisite might have been living before Beryl captured him. I chose not to name him in this one… I thought about using Shiroi Zero like I have in other fics, but then I thought, “If Minako learns his name now, then wouldn’t she recognize it in Reunion?” So I just decided to leave it a mystery.

I also wanted to play with the idea that PGSM gave us about everyone having different personalities in the present than in the past life. Throughout the series, some of these were more obvious (Princess Sailor Moon vs. Usagi comes to mind), but others were more subtle. And then there’s Minako and Zoisite, who both completely surrendered themselves to their past life identities when their memories reawakened. We at least got to see a little bit of Minako’s present-life identity in Act Zero (goofy, ditzy, cutesy), but we don’t know what Zoisite was like before his memories reawakened. The boy we meet in this story believes strongly in pursuing things that make you happy; of course, when he remembers the past life and his mission, he is forced to leave all that behind, just as Minako becomes very grave and serious when her memories return. But I’d like to believe that, once Metallia was destroyed and the ties to the past life were broken, Minako and Zoisite might be able to go back to the lives we see here in this fic. ♥