At 02:29 PM 25/09/97 -0500, Ranma Al'Thor wrote:

On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Mark Doherty wrote:

I'm Here to Help
by Mark Doherty(mdoherty@mailbox.uq.edu.au)

A very good story.  The man is scum, but you do a very good job of showing
his point of view and he has some justification for what he does.  

Likeable scum. ^_-

It's a great deal of fun to write from a bad guys side for once,
trying to give him enough justification for what he's doing so
that people don't just dismiss him as a one-dimensional bad guy
has been a bit of a balancing act.

I'm
surprised Pluto hasn't come after his time-travelling self, but then I
missed the first chapter of this, so there may be a reason for that I
don't know about.

The reasons haven't been given, but there was a Pluto scene in the
first chapter, to indicate that she knows he's there. It really
depends on how far I develop the story. I've split it up into
3 parts, and I can end the story at any of those three parts. In
each of the parts, I expand on the reasons for Pluto doing what
she's doing, so it depends on when I end it on how much justification
she'll get.

Like I noted, a quick zoom past the Sailor Moon Romance site will
get you the first chapter. The character's reasons for what he does
are strengthened if both chapters are combined. He's still not a very
nice guy though. :)

Also gives me some things to think about for my 'Black Moon Rising' story,
if I ever get around to writing it :)

Yes, the Dark Kingdom's background has been done to death, both
Crystal Tokyo and the Silver Millenium have had fairly extensive efforts
given to it, it's time the Black Moon clan had more background created by 
people.

After all, even if you take the view that the Black Moon clan is evil,
they've obviously been at least slightly corrupted by Wiseman. I could
accept that 90% of the clan left the Earth because they were 'evil'
and didn't want to be purified, but there would have had to have been
some who left because their family was(and not because of what they
thought of 'purifying'), and others who left because they couldn't accept
Serenity as a ruler(the path I went down), and so on. I like to view
the Nemesians as being relatively normal(as in, the normal mix of good and
nasty characteristics) at the start, until they were corrupted. Wishful 
thinking perhaps.

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