On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Richard David Beaubien wrote:

cameos into the main body of his works. I almost missed the Orange Road
cameos in this story, as Biles worked them into the story plot and didn't
just have them there for the sake of a cameo (although it was fun when I
found out who the characters Kurami and Manami where a paragraph later,
thinking hey it's Orange road..:). It also makes me want to reread this
monster to catch any more cameos...

There's a few others. :)
 

There are a couple of problems, one being that in certain instences Biles
expects a certain familiarity with some aspects of the Camelot/Aurthur
legends. Of course while many are familar with them, I myself have only a
small knowledge of the epic legend. Some expanding of the myths in

I wasn't sure how to do this without digressing too much.  Also, Chris 
Davies and I have plans to do some of the background stories as well.

certaina areas would of been nice. And perhaps the switiching of the roles
of Usagi and Rei bothered me a bit. While it worked great for the Mamoru

Why this was done:

1. Lancelot is the greatest knight in the world...Rei doesn't qualify, 
Usagi does.  Also, Lancelot is ALSO royalty.  He's the heir to an 
Occitanian Kingdom (in Southern France).  And he was raised by a lady of 
the lake, which let me work Luna in naturally into the background, though 
she doesn't figure much into this.

2.  Mamoru dated Rei first, then hooked up with Usagi, thus following the 
pattern of the Anime (dunno what happens in the manga, with those 
three).  Thus parallelling Guenevere/Arthur, then Guen/Lancelot.

3.  After casting Umino as the SEcond best knight in the world, how could 
we fail to make Usagi the best knight? :)

4.  Grandpa/Yuiichiro made for a good parallel with Sir Ector/Kay.

Anyway, a nice fic if you can sit down and read it (it is approaching
Lemoanade size, a fic I read once and enjoyed and probably will never read

Yep.  Not even close in size to Lemon Sherbet, though.


John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu      bailesu@komodo.hacks.arizona.edu  
http://www.hacks.arizona.edu/~bailesu/falcon.html 

     P-chan ran across the field and hopped into Akane's arms.  She
snuggled her little pet.  "I love you, P-chan, especially with a little
apple in your mouth and that special sauce Ukyou makes."  They cooked
P-chan over an open fire and made special okonomiyaki out of him.  And
all was good.

--Draft of Lemon Sherbet, Episode 12