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[Bob Schroeck]

Nathan wrote:
>   Well, the main thing I can think of saying about the chapter(s)...
> other than my overall enjoyment of them... is actually more about
>  the concordance section.  Seeing the sheer amount of research
>  you've ended up doing for these is always impressive, especially
>  with how you attempt to tie in real-world details so much (even
>  if some details are only really noticeable when they're mentioned
>  in the concordance itself).

Thank you!  The research is half the fun for me -- finding useful
things that I can incorporate into the story is a delight and makes
the story that much more fun to write.  There's also a certain
amount of challenge there -- for instance, I spent a long time
trying to zero in on exactly where the Tsukino home is lcoated; I
don't like having to settle for a five-or-six-block radius around
Amishiro Park and I'm still trying to get a more accurate fix on
it.  I also really enjoy trying to make real-world sense of things
that have been made up out of wholecloth.

> One thing that really popped out at me, though, was your
> interpretation/portrayal of Luna's personality, ...
>  But with the consideration about how short her internal timeline
>  would have gone from the fall of the kingdom, to being put in
>  stasis (which did its own damage), and then waking up to find
>  Usagi and what that would have done to her mentally...  Seeing
>  it with the idea of her trying to convince herself that she can
>  do the task she'd been given gives it a whole different tone
>  which I found interesting.

Again, thanks.  I spent a lot of time before and during the writing
of the first chapter thinking on how I was going to handle Luna.
I'd seen all those fics with the psychotically-paranoid Lunas that
you mentioned in the portion of your comment I snipped, and I'll
admit that some of my earliest notes followed their lead.  But that
never sat right with me.  Part of the problem, as I noted in the
concordance, is the implied retcon of the nature of the mooncats
(plus I've heard it argued that Sailor Moon started as a *parody*
and only later got steered into playing magical girls straight,
which would also go a long way toward explaining things like
Luna's bitchy, immature behavior in episode 4).  There's just so
much about Luna that's inconsistent because of her earliest
portrayals, and I set myself the task of finding a consistent
explanation that still left her a character the reader wanted to
care about.

I'm going to take your comments as meaning I succeeded reasonably
well.  <grin>

> I'm looking forward, of course, to seeing how Doug's interference
>  will change things up from the canon story, especially since he
>  arrived so early in the plot, but other than just waiting for it
>  to be written there's not much to do/say about it.

I'll give you a little hint.  The title of Chapter 3 is "We're
Getting the Band Back Together!"

> That being such, I'm off to reread this and the Harry Potter step.
>   Good night, all.

Thanks, and enjoy.

-- Bob

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Bob Schroeck         http://www.accessdenied-rms.net        rms at eclipse.net
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Then the horns kicked in...
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