>>41607503

Quest Start


Toriko Sensei’s lecture for first period drags on a bit, as you’re well ahead of the reading today. Sitting at your desk, you take notes as a diligent student should. Everyone is paying some amount of attention forward, even with your thanking the whole of the class fresh in their minds your classmates have their day to day matters to occupy them now.

At least, most of them. Even though he sits ahead of you, you can’t help but feel that your class representative is hung up on the what you said to him earlier. Apologizing to Yoshi for everything that happened, or rather didn’t happen, between you did lift a great weight off of your shoulders; though you can’t help but feel that it threw him for a loop. Even meant earnestly, Yoshi has always been a strong and stoic person and your apology challenged the world he had learned to accept and cope with. At least, that’s what you imagine.

In this passing moment, you can’t help but wonder what he might think of you right now. Is it relief that the girl he once knew is slowly coming back? Is it confusion over the drastic shifts in your behavior the past few times the two of you have crossed paths? Is it anger, that after all this time and shutting him out you are the one reaching out to him?

You have too many questions. Such is the confusing mundane life of a recovering magical girl still in highschool.

You are Mikage Chiba, second year highschool student fifteen years old, formerly your were the third woman to carry the mantle of Sailor Moon. Your mother and elder sister carried that identity before you, and now your younger sister carries on after you as that Pretty Guardian of Love and Justice. In secret, you have been supporting her and her assembled court of young Sailor Guardians while in the mysterious identity of Eclipse.

>>41607517

A year and a half ago, misunderstood traumatic circumstances caused you to abandon your identity as Sailor Moon and withdraw from your own life. Since certain truths have been revealed to you that have brought you out of your self imposed isolation and forced you to deal with the crippling fear, self loathing, and malcontent of your recent history.

The morning hours speed by along with a few periods of class, until lunch finally arrives. Some students file out to grab something from the school store or the cafeteria, or perhaps to find a quiet place to eat. You told Yoshi you’d talk more later, maybe during lunch.

A usual crowd of hangers on surround Keiko’s desk ahead of your own, one of the girls offering you the evil eye. What the hell is that about? Midori is oddly keeping her distance from Keiko’s usual circle, perhaps trying to help keep their relationship under wraps. Gai seems to be reading a comic at his desk, while Kairi looks down at her lunch box before glancing to him and then glancing to you. As you store your notebook and class texts and contemplate the lunch box your father prepared you figure you’ll-

>Go talk to Yoshi Sakurada first, somewhere private, eat later
>Eat lunch with Kairi-chan, tease or talk to her about her conflicting feelings
>Try to talk to Keiko, publicly thank her for going to Venus’s album launch with you
>See how Midori is doing, things can’t be easy for her
>Write in

>>41607536
>>See how Midori is doing, things can’t be easy for her

>>41607536
>See how Midori is doing, things can’t be easy for her

We can talk to Yoshi next.

>>41607536
>Try to talk to Keiko, publicly thank her for going to Venus’s album launch with you
Will be back in a few hours, maybe. Crashing hard, did manual labor all day.

Writing

Leaving your lunch inside of your desk, you turn around to face Midori, leaning in conspiratorially as she looks up from her own freshly opened lunch.

~Not hanging out with Keiko for lunch?~ you ask in quiet concern.

“Just keeping my distance during school,” she whispers, “I think she could use the space,”

You glance ahead at the crowd that has formed around said girl as they exit the room for parts unknown. Keiko, before offering a short wave to Midori, disappears around the corner among her other friends in the social clique. One or two of them offering a strangely impassive look in your and Midori’s direction. Oddly enough, you feel a similar stare from a few other students, but when you pan your vision back to the width of the classroom, everyone is going about their own business.

~Yeah, that counts as space, ~ you joke, ~So, are you okay. How goes keeping things on the quiet,~

She frowns and sets down her chopsticks.

“The idea of pretending to be something else out in the world doesn’t particularly appeal to me,” she confides, “She views it as a challenge to her acting chops,”

~Interesting way to look at it,~ you muse.

“It’s only the first day of it,” she sighs, “And if I’m going to talk about it, I’d rather not do it here,”

~I know that, it's why I’m being vague,~ you explain softly and shrug.

“Are you going to take her temperature next?” she asks and leans onto her elbows on the desk.

~Probably not,~ you consider, ~some of your friends gave me the stink eye,~

>>41608336

“Well,” she considers slowly, “maybe they just need a bit of time. After everything that’s happened people might be a bit afraid of you. Afraid of change,”

~Great,~ you groan, ~I’m an outcast when I withdraw from everyone, and trying to come back I’m a worse outcast,~

“Honestly some of that is probably my fault,”

You spare her one last glance and shake your head while sporting a tired smile before rising and taking stock of things around the room. Kairi has gone over to sit near Gai and is chatting with him while eating her lunch. Yoshi is still seated at his desk, you can tell he is periodically glancing your way at you out of the corner of his eye.

>Go see what Kairi and Gai are up to
>Time for a long chat in private with Yoshi
>Go somewhere to be alone
>Write in

>>41608366
>Time for a long chat in private with Yoshi

>>41608366
>Time for a long chat in private with Yoshi

>>41608366
>Time for a long chat in private with Yoshi

Writing

Working up the courage for the task, and leaving Midori to her lunch, you walk again toward the front of the room and turn toward Yoshi’s desk. He wasn’t looking at you when you moved, so when he glances back again, he is surprised to find you right beside his desk.

~Hey,~ you offer as his eyes take a certain caution to your approach, ~Like I said earlier, I wanted to talk about everything at length. Privately if we could,~


The way he looks at you, there is a certain unfamiliar tone to it. He regards you as something foreign, something he isn’t quite certain about. Given the past few days and the past year, you don’t immediately begrudge him for feeling that way.

For a long time, you thought you genuinely hated him. You hated him for trying to reach you, for having any feelings for you even if they were at the time unspoken, because you believed so fully that you didn’t deserve someone to care about you. In your grief and the dark place you’ve managed to lift yourself out of, you wanted to suffer.

You resented how long he seemed willing to cling to the idea that you didn’t have to, that he was willing to try to help. Maybe once you made it clear you were unable to be moved from that position and wouldn’t accept his outstretched hand, you resented that he relented in his pursuit of your well being. Resented the way he gave you the space you demanded and then went about conducting himself like he wasn’t hurt.

No, that isn’t true. You could catch it in his behavior from time to time, but it wasn’t so important to you then. Now you feel guilt. Guilt and worry.

“Sure,” he says evenly and rises from his desk, “The west corner of the roof, behind on the other side of the stairs, is usually clear during lunch. Or we could go out to the athletic field or check the club rooms,”

>west corner of the roof
>athletic field
>Check the club rooms
>As a rep, don’t you have a key to the council room?
>Write in

>>41609142
>athletic field

>>41609142
Roof seems good. Harder for someone to drop in on us.

>>41609142
>west corner of the roof

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Writing

~I think the roof should leave us the least chance of being disturbed,~ you reason as he rises from his desk, returns his chair, and bids you to follow him into the hall.

The two of you make your way out of the classroom and toward the stairwell. Eyes both in the class and in the hall are drawn to the two of you. Between your massive change of hairstyle and the rumors that you are acting like a person again, you are a point of obvious curiosity. That you are walking in the halls with Yoshi Sakurada is another matter entirely.

What are you going to say, you wonder as you climb the stairs just behind him. You could use this opportunity to see if you can figure out what has his mother so concerned. Odd, there is a definite stiffness or nervousness to the way he’s moving. Something seems off about the boy, you’re sure of it.

Already open when you arrive, there are a few students on the rooftop benches and among a casual garden maintained by a few of the school clubs. Most of them pay you no mind as the two of you turn around the corner of the exterior of the stairwell and into the more secluded part of the rooftop.

He leans against the tall fencing around the edge, bouncing slightly on the chainlink. Given to the way you are used to seeing him conduct himself, it is almost comically out of character to watch him try to make himself comfortable. More to the point, he seems incredibly uncomfortable. To think you still have such an effect on him.

“So, what did you want to talk to me about?” he asks in a very detached manner after carefully considering his words.

Look at him, trying to play at being cool because you are actively taking the time to talk to him. Its an odd combination of embarrassing and endearing.

>>41610235
“Or, what could you possibly want to talk to me about,” he adds, quite clearly and slowly in deliberate diction.

>best of 3 dice+2d20. First roll is int test, second is insight. I’ll add modifiers

You aren’t sure if that’s coy or standoffish. He watches you expectantly as he lets the words hang there. You really don’t want this to go into adversarial territory. It would make some things easier, to be sure, but it would hurt. It would ultimately hurt both of you.

>Say something about things, what?
>Tell him he’s free to get whatever’s eating him up about the two of you off his chest.
>Maybe try to be funny, levity is good and you might break the ice better
>Be sad that he seems so mad with you, isn’t you being back what he wanted?
>Be MAD that he seems so mad with you, isn’t you being back what he wanted?
>Wait, what did he just say?16
>Write in

Rolled 5, 15 = 20 (2d20)

>>41610245
>Tell him he’s free to get whatever’s eating him up about the two of you off his chest.

So, while we wait, how is everyone tonight?

I feel fine. A bit tired, but that's because it's Kate where I am. Don't expect me to stick around I'm afraid.

Rolled 6, 3 = 9 (2d20)

>>41610245
>Wait, what did he just say?

>>41610510
Just got back from watering the plants, so a little sweaty.

>>41610609
*late where I am.
I'm using a mobile device. And also, I think I'll sleep now. Good night.

>>41610609
Well, have a good night all the same then, anon. >>41610752 Ah, especially good night then. I'm sure everyone else will try to keep everything from being on fire while you sleep.

>>41610725
The plants are no longer thirsty, no you are. Tend to your thirsts anon.

Rolled 3, 11 = 14 (2d20)

>>41610245

>>41610245
~Look, I'm sorry I've been a jerk to you, Yoshi. You have every right and more to be upset with me.

Leaving this up a touch longer before I call it.

>>41610979
...me

Rolled 13, 6 = 19 (2d20)

>>41610245
Try to keep it together. We are/were a terrible defender of love.
Apologize?

Alright lets take a look at what we've got here.

First vote for a thing, second vote for another thing, third vote for a self deprecating apology that puts Mikage at Yoshi's mercy, fourth vote is about apologizing and self deprecating internally how we sucked at a defender of love.

So looks like votes 3 and 4 are in a similar enough vein. Alright then. Writing.

So I got a question. Is the get-up we're getting when we go Sailor via the golden crystal decided on, something Artemis is keeping hidden, or something still up in the air?

>>41611667
I've been looking at Sailor Cosmos with dark cape and some grey.

>>41611736
Eh. That's still a lot of White and Silver for someone who's primarily a Black/Gold. And even if we drop the Black part Gold is still pretty heavily favored for Earth I think.

I was mainly asking because I suggested Sheilder from the Type-Moon verse (With a Black and Gold color swap, which seems perfect to me since she wears what is essentially an armored Sailor-fuku) some threads ago, can't remember which, and I don't think anyone really commented on it much.

I was kind of curious why no one commented so I just happen to catch this thread and thought I'd ask if it was because its already been decided or Artemis has a card up their sleeve.

And wow I rambled.

>>41611893
Rambling is okay.

And I am playing those cards, face down.

>>41611893
Do you have a picture of Sheilder’s outfit?

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>>41611963
Somewhere, give me a sec... and found it.

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>>41612024
And another

There was something familiar and deliberate about his choice of words, but whatever it was escapes you for the moment. What doesn’t escape your notice is that Sakurada-san is suspicious of you. You think, perhaps, between your last exchange at the hospital and your apology this morning he is so thrown that he cannot fathom this conversation happening.

How many times has imagined a conversation like this going? How different is this from what he dreamt about or tried to achieve when you shut down? When you stopped being the girl he knew?

You were supposed to be a defender of love and justice; here you feel as though a failure in both tasks. It weighs on you.

~Look,~ you begin softly and sadly, ~I’m sorry I’ve been a jerk to you, Yoshi. You have every right to be upset with me,~

This surprises him a moment, especially your casual use of his first name without an honorific. Given the gravity of the context, it is anything but casual. You are reaching, trying to be familiar and harken back to a time when the two of you were closer. To that end, it is earnest.

He rights his posture, taking his weight off the chain link fencing to a chorus of the relaxing of taught metal. His shock is clear, and it takes him a moment to compose his feelings.

“Maybe I am a bit upset,” he says evenly, “Though you shouldn’t be so hard on yourself, Mi...Chiba-san. Neither of us are really the people we were,”

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>>41612087
And the final one, while we wait on Arty.

Different angle shots of Shielder herself, and these three are pretty much the only ones I can find of her period.

But they give good views of her armor... although the Boob plate is a bit annoying, but its Nasu and she's a heroic Spirit, so whatever.

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>>41612110

He’s nervous You can read him clearly. There is certainly a part of him that is ecstatic that you’re talking to him like this, but perhaps worried to see you prostrating yourself? No, there is something he is very upset and cautious about. Does he expect you to be the confident girl you used to be? Are you even that girl anymore or are you something more pragmatic?

How do you feel about him? How does he feel about you?

>You, you can still call me Mikage
>After all this time, how do you feel about me?
>Consult Shintennou for tactical information
>Play spy for his mother, ask him if everything is alright with him
>This was a mistake, I’m not ready to talk to you like this
>Write in

>>41612157
>You, you can still call me Mikage

>>41612157
>You, you can still call me Mikage
>Consult Shintennou for tactical information

>>41612157
>You, you can still call me Mikage
>After all this time, how do you feel about me?

>>41612157
Not sure what do. First names are a big thing in Japan, so... Not sure at all.

Fuck it.

>You, you can still call me Mikage
>After all this time, how do you feel about me?

Also just realized final pic has what would be a panty-shot if it wasn't... armored? Really?

Oh, Nasu. Your trolling amuses me. Either way, I see it as a good base, but it needs some work obviously.

Also Artemis apparently has something behind the curtains already, so I'll just cross my fingers and hope its something good.

>>41612314
... I voted wrong didn't I?

Damn, I'm not usually here for a thread, so should I fix it or just leave it?

>>41612375
How did you vote wrong? Did you not include what you actually wanted to include for your vote?

>>41612396
Uhh, I was just looking at all the other votes and they had there, well, votes on the first line(s) beneath the Post tag linking to the update.

It seemed to me that there was a format thing going on with that that you wanted. If its fine though, then alright.

>>41612157
>You, you can still call me Mikage

Tallying

Oh dear we have two votes for just saying he can call you Mikage and two votes for that PLUS asking how he feels.

I think we need to queue up for a final destination.

When the FD goes live, you will reply to it with the number of your choice only. No comment, greentext, punctuation, or linebreak. Follow these guidelines or your vote is forfeit.

Only votes within 4 minutes of the FD going live will be counted.

FINAL DESTINATION

Rules already posted

1 Still call me Mikage
2 Still call me Mikage + feelings query?

>>41612993
2

>>41612993
1

>>41612993
2

>>41612993
2

TIME, WRITING!

/tg/ has been acting weird on me all day.

Well, however he feels, you need to make one part of your own feelings clear to both him and yourself. This is an important choice, and not one you make lightly. It defines a yearning for something familiar, something you cast aside because you thought you didn’t deserve it.

Didn’t deserve to have what he was willing to give you, to return what you felt.

~You, you can still call me Mikage,~ you offer and screw your eyes shut.

It hits him hard. You let your eyes slip open as he rights himself from the verbal impact. The implications of the level of familiarity you are offering back to him after so long isn’t what he expected, it seems. A flash of guilt travels across his face as he closes the distance between you by a single step as he composes himself.

Before he can respond, you hit him with a question. There you go, monopolizing this talk, leading the conversation. He obviously had something he wanted to say, but you’ve undercut him. It comes from the best of places, though.

~After all this time,~ you say quietly and take a step closer to him, ~how do you feel about me?~

Its his turn to screw his eyes shut for a moment, as though he is making the hardest decision in the world. As though he is questioning things and thinking deeply. Conflict plays across his face. It leaves you unsteady with worry, and you try your hardest to keep yourself together in the face of his response.

“Strongly, even now,” he whispers his admission, “but we’re both different people now, and the person I’ve become is largely informed by waiting for you,”

~It doesn’t seem like you’ve changed, Yoshi,~ you say and meet his eyes hopefully at his assertion that he feels strongly for you, ~it just seems like I hurt you by keeping you away,~

“You were hurting too,” he reasons and looks away, “What happened between you and Osaka-san that day was terrible, maybe more than I could even understand back then,”

>>41614041

~Yoshi?~

“I can’t know exactly how you dealt with that,” he says evenly, “but I do know how I did. Alright, if you want me to call you by your first name then I will, Mikage,”

Your name on his lips feels, comfortable. It feels like coming home.

“To want to return to that kind of familiarity between us,” he says carefully and hopefully before leaving his sentence hanging, “Then you and Sasha-san aren’t?”

>I don’t know what we are
>I don’t think he and I would work
>He and I might be something, but I needed to know about this first
>Write in

“Well, regardless, we need to be honest with each other about who we are. The way you apologized to me this morning was familiar, and it put a great many things into perspective,”

Wait, what?

“Though I don’t think you quite picked up on it; unless I’m entirely in the wrong,” he sighs, “So do you want to go first or should I?”

>I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about
>Uh, you go first. Yes, that seems sane.
>Does, does he know that I am/was ___________
>What the hell is this about, Yoshi. I’m bearing my heart to you! Isn’t this what you wanted?
>Write in

>>41614105
>I don’t know what we are
>I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about

>>41614105
>I don’t know what we are
>Uh, you go first. Yes, that seems sane.

>>41614105
>I don’t know what we are
>Uh, you go first. Yes, that seems sane

>>41614105
>I don’t know what we are
>Uh, you go first. Yes, that seems sane.

>>41614105
>I don’t know what we are
>Uh, you go first. Yes, that seems sane.

>>41614105
>I don’t know what we are
>eh?

ACTIVITY!?

Aright then, calling and tallying now at the 15 minute mark instead of the thirty.

>>41614386
Son of a bitch why did I not include that as an option. That shit is replacing the Uh part of the sentence that won.

Rolled 48 (1d100)

And now as we reach a moment of dramatic tension, I need to roll this encounter die.

Just because. 75 & up is the interruption that still moves this encounter forward.

>>41614041
>“You were hurting too,” he reasons and looks away, “What happened between you and Osaka-san that day was terrible, maybe more than I could even understand back then,”

Wait, how does HE know? Did I just miss something?

>>41614756
He knows something happened, just not what.

>>41614756
He, AND EVERYONE, know Mikage was getting choked out by a giantish monster made out of her best friend. He was in your graduating class from that middle school. He was among the bleachers.

He has no idea about what happened after or that you are Sailor Moon.

He does suspect you of being the Red Eyed Beast, who has magic monster demon powers. He suspects those powers are somehow related to almost dying by Kairi's monster form.

>>41614853
>He suspects those powers are somehow related to almost dying by Kairi's monster form.

He’s not entirely wrong, if you think about it.

~I don’t know what we are,~ you admit about the status of what you and Sasha are.

After what happened yesterday, even when he put on the friendly face and the happy demeanor you cannot help but imagine what you did left him reeling. And the thing he said when last you met lingers with you. That you repeatedly turn his world on its head, and not necessarily in a good way. Damn him for being so vague about it.

“Well, regardless,” he says with some relief but then building apprehension in his voice, “we need to be honest with each other about who we are. The way you apologized to me this morning was familiar, and it put a great many things into perspective,”

Wait, what?

“Though I don’t think you quite picked up on it; unless I’m entirely in the wrong,” he sighs, “So do you want to go first or should I?”

~Eh?~ you stare at him like a deer in headlights in uncertainty to his surprise, ~You go first. Yes, that seems sane,~

He takes a deep breath and removes his glasses while taking out a cleaning cloth from his pocket. As he Wipes a smudge off of the lens, your heart stops as you worry about what he might need to be honest with you about, and what he might expect you to need to be honest of in return.

“I turned to music when I couldn’t reach you,” he admits, “I found an outlet for that anger and sadness. Rather,” his tone takes on a familiar and sombre inflection, “Its what no one would expect of me, and it gave me a chance to get away from myself...and you,”

The way he said it is familiar, the body language he adopts is calm and intimidatingly neutral. Not to scare you, to show you. Wait, those words are almost exactly what- no.

“I grabbed a few friends and I started a band,” he explains, “I could be anything I wanted if not for myself, so I played the part of a monster. A villain,”

No. No way.

>>41615357

“Mikage,” he takes a deep breath, “I’m the frontman of an indie metal group called the Unrepentant Damned. My stage name is The Damned,”

The back of your hand twitches at the memory of your backhanding him across the face. He looks at you expectantly through a forced front of dispassionate coolness; displaying the character he takes to the stage.

“Its my mask,” he notes, “Who I chose to become when I need to be someone other than myself. Never discarded, because its who I am,”

You aren’t certain if you should laugh, scream, or cry. Wait, is he telling you this because he’s sussed out that you’re- SON OF A BITCH.

>I’m sorry, I have no idea what you are talking about (lie, Lie, LIE!)
>It's your turn, fess up to being the Beast.
>What the hell, is it open season on my double identities day?
>Admit to another one of your plethora of secrets, just to be contrary. You have so many. Which?
>Levity, make a joke. A batman joke.
>Turn and leave the rooftop without a word
>Write in

>>41615383
>Admit to another one of your plethora of secrets, just to be contrary. You have so many. Which?
I've turned to BL manga to cope.

>>41615383
>It's your turn, fess up to being the Beast.
>>What the hell, is it open season on my double identities day?

>>41615383
>It's your turn, fess up to being the Beast.
>What the hell, is it open season on my double identities day?

>>41615383
>It's your turn, fess up to being the Beast.
>What the hell, is it open season on my double identities day?

>>41615383
>half-truth
We can fess up to going out as Miki.

We need to keep red eyes as a secret.

>>41615383
>It's your turn, fess up to being the Beast.

>>41615606
True, unless I have totally misread Mikage. Which the way most of the anons are voting makes my assessment either wrong or that they just don't care anymore about our secrets.

Tallying and writing.

Happy we seem to have a surge of activity. How is everyone tonight?

>>41615717
Doing alright. Missed the vote sadly.

>>41615717
Going to bed actually.

>>41615717
On my way home now. I shall bring more surge.

No use in hiding it here, especially since he seems to know already. It frustrates you that you’ve been quietly outed TWICE in one day.

~Alright,~ you take a deep breath and continue a touch mournfully, ~Sometimes when things get too much for me to bare, I become the Red Eyed Beast,~

He nods slowly and replaces his glasses on his face. A sombre air takes him as you vibrate with something else.

“So,” he says as he slips from the displayed character of his stage persona, “The Damned and The Beast, where does that leave us?”

~Well it leaves me pissed off,~ you huff and start muttering, ~What the hell, is it open season on my double identities day?~

“Double-” Yoshi begins to ask but you quickly cut him off.

~Oh no,~ you interrupt him and step back with a tired sigh before you smile, ~A girl needs to keep some secrets, Yoshi,~

“Okay,” he leaves it at that and smiles as well, “So where does that leave us?”

>Lets pick up where we left off, I could use help studying for math
>Where we should have gone back then, a date
>I don’t know yet
>As two people who need to get to know each other, when is your next show?
>Not as who we were, that’s for sure
>Write in

&

>Stay and talk a bit longer
>Lunch is half over, you need to go eat Dad’s Bento
>Write in

>>41616791
>Lets pick up where we left off, I could use help studying for math
>Stay and talk a bit longer

>>41616791
>As two people who need to get to know each other, when is your next show?

>Stay and talk a bit longer

>>41616791
>As two people who need to get to know each other, when is your next show?
We like that one song before him manager interrupted.
Crap, that's something else to consider broaching. Not trusting his manager.

>Stay and talk
We should have preplanned and brought lunch with.

>>41616791
>I don’t know yet.Not as who we were, that’s for sure.
>Lunch is half over, you need to go eat Dad’s Bento

>>41616791
>Where we should have gone back then, a date

>Stay and talk a bit longer

>>41616860
>>41616877
>>41616910
>>41616946
Are we not Tsukino by blood? Why ignore food?

>>41616976
We'll get to it! Really!

>>41616976
Sometimes Love>Food and we could always eat in class.

>>41616996
Okay I believe you. That doesn't fill me with confidence.

Do we love him though? The Sasha thing seems to have died down a lot.

>>41617115
I think we fancy him, not sure who we love at the moment. Yoshi is right about being different people now than we were (which probably helps the compatibility at this point).

However, I'm feeling Sasha x Kanari more atm.

>>41617243
but two scoooooops

Sorry, was detained. Lets count and write

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>>41611893
I wouldn't say our Sailor-type outfit would be Black/Gold. That would be less of a stealth outfit. Also, Cosmos had gold.
Thinking translucent black cape, like a trailing shadow. Bright moon grey, like the Moon in solid light, and gold highlights/accents.

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>>41617840
Actually, thinking about out Elysian princely outfit's white, and that we are going more Earth, white might be better than the bright grey, and use the grey as a highlight color and the gold and the accents color.

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>>41618012
Though black was a noteworthy component of our father's version.

A bell sounds from beyond the edge of the roof, a special bell signalling the halfway point to lunch period. Even though it chimes, and your dad’s special home made bento is waiting for you at your desk, you decide you’d like to linger here a bit longer.

~As two people who need to get to know each other, when is your next show?~ you ask over a distractingly loud twisting growl coming from your stomach, which you poignantly ignore.

“Well,” he glances down at the noise and then his eyes shoot back up before whispering conspiratorially, “We’re playing Friday and Saturday Night at a small place in Akihabra, but I’ll probably be in character all night,”

~That’s fine,~ you step forward and raise your hand to where you struck his face just two days prior, ~That’s the part of you I need to get to know, isn’t it? Mikage Chiba and Yoshi Sakurada have known each other for a long time. Shouldn’t we get to know who else we might be, sometimes?~

He blushes in embarrassment and turns his face askance at your touch. He’s still shy, and you still find that amusing. You mull over in your mind that he only has the faintest inkling of what he’s getting into.

Wait.

“Sounds like a plan, then,” he fakes a cough and glances back to the corner of the stairwell structure before speaking quietly, “and maybe then we can talk about how you do the things you do, when you’re like that,”

~Well, its like I said earlier,~ you laugh nervously, ~A girls gotta keep some secrets,~

>>41618153

Sharing in the laugh with you, it's pleasant and genuine while the two of you talk on the roof of the high school. It feels comfortable, as though nothing could go wrong. The two of you chat and talk, though you stray away from the subject of your darker selves. You just get caught up on each others lives.

His mother is dating again. You and your estranged sister buried the hatchet. Little things that aren’t quite so obvious. That you’ve been making a concerted effort to not fall back into your depression, to avoid needing to escape from yourself. That he joined the high school music club, but is usually too busy with his class Rep duties to attend.

Over the course of the conversation, as lunch enters its last quarter, you recall something important to all of this. A warning worth giving.

~Say, Yoshi,~ you pause and open up to this question, ~about your manager,~

Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 96
End

Interlude Vote
>Ogre Run
>Silk Road
>Satisfied theft

>>41618171
>Satisfied theft
Please not our bento!

>>41618171
>satisfied theft

Thanks for the thread Artemis

>>41618171
>~Say, Yoshi,~ you pause and open up to this question, ~about your manager,~
That'll be an odd subject to get across..

>>41618171
>>Ogre Run
Something causing Yoshi's friend to run?
>>Silk Road
The spiiddersssss..
>>Satisfied theft
Hm, dunno here.

Alright,
>Satisfied theft
it is then, since I can't guess it, I am intrigued.

>>41618171
Aye, and thanks for the thread. Sorry I wasn't as active as I would normally try for earlier.

>>41618171
>Silk Road

Thanks for running Arty!!

Woo, catchup time!

>>41618171
>Silk Road

Oh what a tangled web they weave.

Because I forgot to say it last night, thanks for the thread, /tg/

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>>41621432
No problem at all.

Also, QM group hug everyone!

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>>41621432
>>41621512

The shippening has begun.

This is a course of events we've chosen...

now, do we do this sincerely and keep a bit of distance at the show before and during or do we go Yoko Ono on his band?

>>41617840
>>41618012
>>41618032
Kind of. I mean when I brought up the Black/Gold Sheilder base outfit I was going off of a few things.

First being we gave up our position as Heir to the Throne of the Moon, so why would our costume be based off of their colors or designs anymore?

I mean you could always go with the argument of us being the first daughter of the moon, but we're also the first daughter of the earth and we're very much heavily leaning on earth for our powers and... spiritual alignment I guess? I mean we identify more as the heir of Earth than the heir of the Moon at this point.

Second being that our call-sign, both as a name and as the mark on our forehead, is Eclipse. Black and Gold.

Third being, you know, "Golden" Crystal.

Forth, and final, being that Earth... they wear armor and military uniforms, not Sailor-Fuku (I know they haven't had a female user yet, but my point still stands), but at the same time we were Sailor moon at one point and are, I think, the Golden Crystal's first female user.

So I figured we'd be a Black/Gold armored sailor-fuku when we finally transformed, and hey would you look at those Shielder pics.

Although Black seems to be getting kicked out since we found out it was pretty much raw Chaos, so I guess we'll see.

>>41622265
>First being we gave up our position as Heir to the Throne of the Moon, so why would our costume be based off of their colors or designs anymore?

And by this I meant why would we have a straight up sailor-fuku, not something that would be loosely based off of it like i'm advocating for towards the end of my post.

>>41622349
Because if we go down that path we are accepting a Moon title again. Eclipsed Moon.
As well as using a transformation based on Silver Millennium technology/magic.

Now, if there was a way for an "always on" type connection like we have to our personal starseed, that might change things up more.

>>41622419
the second point makes sense, and the Sheilder pic is wearing something like a Sailor Fuku so I'll consider that over and done with.

But the first point doesn't. Why would using the Golden Crystal to transform, the one that's the Starseed of the Earth, in any way affect our position, or lack thereof as it is now, as Heir of the Moon?

Our transformation device may be Moon Kingdom tech base, but the Core of our powers is all Earth.

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>>41622613
Personally accepting the title. Nothing to do with position per se.
Ultimately, this is Mikage's personal journey, if she adopts the title of Sailor Eclipsed Moon, she going to do it up proper.

Also, fuku is standard equipment for Senshi no matter how far from the Moon you come.

>>41618184
The petty villainy of possessed school students BEGINS

Wait, are we about to do THIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLVXTNJqcpY
To the Beast?

We've been doing plenty of fighting evil by moon light.
Its refreshing to see we're taking strides toward winning love by daylight.

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>>41622919
Well, to be fair, Tin Nyanko isn't a true Senshi. She and most of Shadow Galactica were people who killed their world's sailors and sided with a corrupted Galaxia.

No, lets take a look at actual out of system Senshi.

The Star Lights and their princess are an example. We can assume that since they had sailor crystals, they were the embodiment of other planets, moons, or celestial bodies in their solar system. Their princess was in her princess mode outfit, but lets assume before everything was ended by Galaxia, she also wore the black pleather alongside them.

We can assume that Senshi within the same solar system share a common outfit with certain variation.

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Armored Senshi are a thing.

>>41625016
When they turn evil maybe.

>>41624292
The restored half is the Sailor Mau outfit.

As for the Starlights, they have obvious concerns about appearance and have put in the work needed to modify from the default settings, as we've seen with the original senshi in this setting as well.

>>41625016
Firgure she's compensating for not being a real senshi anymore, donning extra protection.
Or changed the look to seem more intimidating. Same protection either way.
Or, in a thought that didn't occur to me before writing the rest, she crafted additional armor to supercede the scout armor, much like she crafted the armbands and other items. Crap, Galaxia had gone down the crafting path we're looking at.

>>41625445
I wonder if Galaxia has gotten around to restoring planet Mau yet on her planetary apology for being an omnicidal monster possessed by darkness tour in quest yet?

>>41625445
Exactly what makes you think it's the Sailor Mau outfit? Pretty sure that was never covered in either manga or anime.