At 09:58 PM 7/25/98 -0400, Matthew Campbell wrote:

Jeanne Hedge wrote:

Just what terrible thing did Usagi (aka Chibi-Usa) do to Sako to make Sako
have such a long-standing hate-and-total-disdain for her?

Well Usagi kind of mistreated Younger Mars, who had replaced Sakuya as
her guardian.  That kind of ticked Sakuya off.  I really think that
Sakuya over-reacted, but she's a nasty person and I don't like her
anyway, so....

Sakuya to me feels a little out of character in this whole "angry at Usagi"
bit.  Usagi did lots of bad things in the past, many of which Sakuya had to
clean up after and punish Usagi for.  Then something really horrible
happens, the sort of thing that leaves permanent mental scars on a little
girl (the kidnapping), Sakuya offs a couple of bad people (not youmas), and
makes Usagi promise not to tell!!!  She traps a little kid into a situation
that pits the child against her parents, leaves her no one to turn to to
deal with said problem, and the Sakuya "heroically" gets herself thrown
into jail, totally bereaving the kid of anyone to talk to.

Personally, I think we're dealing with a Sakuya that may have become a
little infected by evil, she's brushed to close to the edge and been
tainted.  This smells more of this Pluto / "keep the timestream pure"
nonsense, which is amazing, considering that Sakuya hates Pluto's guts.
Which was massively underplayed, really, Pluto deliberately off's Older
Jupiter's daughter (failing to act makes one as guilty as having caused it
in my book) and no one gets upset at her!  I think someone would get tired
of this sort of nonsense out of Pluto and off 'er.  Hmmm, something to send
Sakuya to jail for real for. ^ ^  One easy way to get rid of two of the
story's nasties.

A very well-written story.  My thanks to Douglas!  Everytime I see a new
chapter come in it moves to the top of the line and gets read pronto-tonto.

Waiting eagerly for the next part!

Charles Hurst, charlesh@teleport.com

p.s.  I know it's a incredibly good story when I find myself getting upset
at what happens in an imaginary story to purely fictional characters. ^ ^