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heavenly_pearlReally have got to start updating this thing more often. Don't know what my problem is. It's not that I don't have ideas for entries; it's just that when I get online, I tend to focus on reading Sims stories and I just...forget, I guess.
Anyway, what's new in the life of Yume? Well, nothing much, honestly. Things are still progressing well with To Be By Your Side, although I have gotten to my first little "bump", so to speak. It's nothing major; it's just that I'm now at the ceremony scene, and I'm not exactly sure how I want to write it. :( I'm tempted just to skip ahead and write some of the future scenes, but I'm trying really hard not to do that this time around, even if it's a one-shot and doesn't really matter since I can't post it until it's finished anyway. (I admit I did do a little screenwriting for a future scene, but I consider that planning ahead, not actually skipping ahead. :P) Oh, well. I need to finish up my![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
sm_monthly entries anyway. It doesn't look like I'll make my goal of five before the contest deadline -- unless I continue to have problems with TBBYS -- but I'm almost finished with the third one I was writing when I got hit over the head with the TBBYS plot bunny, so that's good enough. If I finish that one today, I'll probably post them all sometime this weekend.
In other fic news, guess who randomly got a plot bunny for a Zoisite/Mercury fic last night? Yeah, that would be me -- surprisingly. O.o I mean, as a general rule, I'm not a huge fan of sen/gen. I do love me some Kunzite/Venus, and I like Jadeite/Mars well enough, but I don't think Nephrite/Jupiter go together at all and I was always kind of...ambivalent about Zoisite/Mercury. But, you know, they could be a rather interesting couple if Zoisite wasn't simply portrayed as a male version of Mercury (like he is in most of the, admittedly few, fics I've read about the couple) and acted truer to his anime persona -- only, you know, on the good side, and straight (or bisexual, which I'll probably end up going with If I ever decide to actually write this thing). True, that would make it more difficult for them to get together, since I can't see Mercury being intially attracted to somebody with such a personality, but that's what would make it fun to write! Opposites attract, and all that jazz.
You know, I better stop talking about this, or I'm really going to want to write it. *laughs* I need to finish TBBYS, after all, and Melting Ice is still in the wings, waitng for me to finally get back to it.
To wrap up this entry, how about an except from To Be By Your Side?
Once they reached the palace, it was about time for Helios to leave for Elysion. King Endymion and Neo-Queen Serenity, echoing their daughter’s invitation, urged him to stay for the homecoming celebration, but Helios knew he had only a short amount of time left before his powers were depleted. After bidding goodbye to the king, queen, and other senshi, who were all heading to the press room where the press conference was to take place, Helios turned in the opposite direction, somewhat surprised when he heard another set of footsteps following him.
“Helios!”
“Maiden, what are you doing here?” he asked when he turned around and saw Serenity jogging to catch up with him. “Shouldn’t you be heading to the press conference with the others? You don’t want to be late.”
“I’m the crown princess of Crystal Tokyo and the leader of the Asteroid Senshi; they won’t start without me,” Serenity said with a dismissive wave of her hand. “I just wanted to thank you for coming to see my homecoming. It really meant a lot to me that you came.”
Helios smiled. “I wouldn’t have missed it for the world, my maiden. I’m so proud of all you have accomplished over the past five years. I’m sure you will be a wonderful Sailor Moon, just like your mother.”
“I hope so. Mama’s boots will be hard to fill.”
“If anybody can do it, I’m sure you can.”
A faint blush crossed Serenity‘s cheeks at the compliment. “Are you certain you can’t stay a little while longer, Helios?” she asked. “The feast is going to be fantastic. Jupiter says she oversaw everything, from the roasted duck to the choice of wine.”
“I wish I could, but my powers are waning rapidly. I really do need to return to Elysion as soon as possible.”
Sighing, Serenity buried her face in his shoulder and embraced him tightly, as if physically trying to bind him to her so that he couldn’t leave. “I hate this,” she said, her voice muffled and strained, as if she was trying her best not to cry. “I absolutely hate it. It always feels like we’re saying good-bye.”
“Maiden…”
“I know what you’re going to say,” Serenity said, “and I know you’re right. I know I promised you before I left that I would try to get over you, that I would find somebody else to love, somebody who could stay by my side always, but I couldn’t, Helios. I just couldn’t!”
Smiling, Helios wrapped his arms around Serenity and kissed the top of her head. “I’m glad, my maiden,” he said. A part of him had worried she had taken his words to heart, and his sacrifice would be for nothing. “You have no idea how happy I am to hear that.”
“You are?” Serenity looked up, wiping away a few wayward tears with her hand. “You aren’t mad?”
“Mad? Why would I be mad?”
“Ceres and Diana keep telling me that I should give up on you, that I’m just setting myself up for heartbreak and sorrow if I continue loving you like I do. It‘s the same thing you told me before I left for Fort Crystal to train.”
“Do you believe that’s true?” he asked, half-afraid to hear the answer.
To his relief, Serenity shook her head. “No, I don’t,” she declared. “I know it’s impossible for you to remain here with me in Crystal Tokyo, but I would rather have you only some of the time, than to never see you again. That would truly break my heart. I just wish…”
“What?”
“No, I won’t say it.” She smiled sadly and reached up to caress his cheek. “To put it into words would make me want it too much, and I know it’s an impossible dream.”
“There is no such thing as an impossible dream,” Helios said. “Even the impossible can become possible if the wish is strong enough.”
“Helios, I’m not a little kid anymore. I know the world doesn’t work like that, as much as I wish it did.”
“You certainly have grown up, haven’t you?” Helios brushed a strand of pink hair out of her eyes and sighed. “Maybe you are right, but never stop believing in that dream, my maiden. No matter how impossible it seems at the moment, I promise you that one day it will come true.”
For a moment, Serenity’s eyes lit up at his promise, but then she turned around, wrapping her arms around herself in a hug. “Please, don’t say things like that,” she begged, her voice once again strained. “Don’t set me up for disappointment. Ceres and Diana were right about one thing; I can’t keep thinking that we’ll get our happy ending as long as we love each other enough. I love you, Helios, and I’ll keep loving you until the day I die, but I cannot allow myself to hope for more than what we have now. I just have to learn to be satisfied with that.”
“Maiden…”
Helios hated hearing her sound so pessimistic, so different from the little girl he remembered, the one who believed all dreams were possible to achieve. He longed to take her in his arms and tell her that he had meant every word, that he was doing everything possible to make her unspoken dream a reality, but King Endymion had sworn him to secrecy, not wanting his daughter to get her hopes up until they had succeeded. Although things had been going well so far, what they were ultimately planning to do had never been done before, and the risks were unknown.
Reminded of that fact, Helios looked down at his hands, unsurprised to see them fading away. He was at his limit; he could not stay in the human realm for any longer. Glad that Serenity had turned away before she could see, Helios came up behind her and kissed the back of her head.
“Maiden, I must leave now,” he said, “but, please, no matter what, continue believing in your cherished dream. Good-bye.”
With those final words, Helios used the rest of his remaining power to teleport back to Elysion.
(Ugh, the RTE is being such a pain today! It wouldn't let me copy and paste this except, so I had to go digging around to find how to do a cut in HTML. I hope this isn't going to be a permanent thing, otherwise it's going to be a pain posting fics in my fic journal.)
EDIT: Hmm, looks like there's going to be another round ofsm_fanswap coming up. I can't decide if I want to participate or not. It was fun participating last time, but I really should be working on my other WIPs, and I'm not sure I'm sold on the whole "quotes" thing that was added. I liked the relative freedom of the last one. Then again, maybe I'll get lucky and my recipient will be a Zoisite/Mercury fan and I can write my story idea without feeling (too) guilty about ignoring my other stories... Heh, that's probably a long-shot anyway. Well, I have time to think it over, so think it over, I shall do.
Anyway, what's new in the life of Yume? Well, nothing much, honestly. Things are still progressing well with To Be By Your Side, although I have gotten to my first little "bump", so to speak. It's nothing major; it's just that I'm now at the ceremony scene, and I'm not exactly sure how I want to write it. :( I'm tempted just to skip ahead and write some of the future scenes, but I'm trying really hard not to do that this time around, even if it's a one-shot and doesn't really matter since I can't post it until it's finished anyway. (I admit I did do a little screenwriting for a future scene, but I consider that planning ahead, not actually skipping ahead. :P) Oh, well. I need to finish up my
sm_monthly entries anyway. It doesn't look like I'll make my goal of five before the contest deadline -- unless I continue to have problems with TBBYS -- but I'm almost finished with the third one I was writing when I got hit over the head with the TBBYS plot bunny, so that's good enough. If I finish that one today, I'll probably post them all sometime this weekend.In other fic news, guess who randomly got a plot bunny for a Zoisite/Mercury fic last night? Yeah, that would be me -- surprisingly. O.o I mean, as a general rule, I'm not a huge fan of sen/gen. I do love me some Kunzite/Venus, and I like Jadeite/Mars well enough, but I don't think Nephrite/Jupiter go together at all and I was always kind of...ambivalent about Zoisite/Mercury. But, you know, they could be a rather interesting couple if Zoisite wasn't simply portrayed as a male version of Mercury (like he is in most of the, admittedly few, fics I've read about the couple) and acted truer to his anime persona -- only, you know, on the good side, and straight (or bisexual, which I'll probably end up going with If I ever decide to actually write this thing). True, that would make it more difficult for them to get together, since I can't see Mercury being intially attracted to somebody with such a personality, but that's what would make it fun to write! Opposites attract, and all that jazz.
You know, I better stop talking about this, or I'm really going to want to write it. *laughs* I need to finish TBBYS, after all, and Melting Ice is still in the wings, waitng for me to finally get back to it.
To wrap up this entry, how about an except from To Be By Your Side?
Once they reached the palace, it was about time for Helios to leave for Elysion. King Endymion and Neo-Queen Serenity, echoing their daughter’s invitation, urged him to stay for the homecoming celebration, but Helios knew he had only a short amount of time left before his powers were depleted. After bidding goodbye to the king, queen, and other senshi, who were all heading to the press room where the press conference was to take place, Helios turned in the opposite direction, somewhat surprised when he heard another set of footsteps following him.
“Helios!”
“Maiden, what are you doing here?” he asked when he turned around and saw Serenity jogging to catch up with him. “Shouldn’t you be heading to the press conference with the others? You don’t want to be late.”
“I’m the crown princess of Crystal Tokyo and the leader of the Asteroid Senshi; they won’t start without me,” Serenity said with a dismissive wave of her hand. “I just wanted to thank you for coming to see my homecoming. It really meant a lot to me that you came.”
Helios smiled. “I wouldn’t have missed it for the world, my maiden. I’m so proud of all you have accomplished over the past five years. I’m sure you will be a wonderful Sailor Moon, just like your mother.”
“I hope so. Mama’s boots will be hard to fill.”
“If anybody can do it, I’m sure you can.”
A faint blush crossed Serenity‘s cheeks at the compliment. “Are you certain you can’t stay a little while longer, Helios?” she asked. “The feast is going to be fantastic. Jupiter says she oversaw everything, from the roasted duck to the choice of wine.”
“I wish I could, but my powers are waning rapidly. I really do need to return to Elysion as soon as possible.”
Sighing, Serenity buried her face in his shoulder and embraced him tightly, as if physically trying to bind him to her so that he couldn’t leave. “I hate this,” she said, her voice muffled and strained, as if she was trying her best not to cry. “I absolutely hate it. It always feels like we’re saying good-bye.”
“Maiden…”
“I know what you’re going to say,” Serenity said, “and I know you’re right. I know I promised you before I left that I would try to get over you, that I would find somebody else to love, somebody who could stay by my side always, but I couldn’t, Helios. I just couldn’t!”
Smiling, Helios wrapped his arms around Serenity and kissed the top of her head. “I’m glad, my maiden,” he said. A part of him had worried she had taken his words to heart, and his sacrifice would be for nothing. “You have no idea how happy I am to hear that.”
“You are?” Serenity looked up, wiping away a few wayward tears with her hand. “You aren’t mad?”
“Mad? Why would I be mad?”
“Ceres and Diana keep telling me that I should give up on you, that I’m just setting myself up for heartbreak and sorrow if I continue loving you like I do. It‘s the same thing you told me before I left for Fort Crystal to train.”
“Do you believe that’s true?” he asked, half-afraid to hear the answer.
To his relief, Serenity shook her head. “No, I don’t,” she declared. “I know it’s impossible for you to remain here with me in Crystal Tokyo, but I would rather have you only some of the time, than to never see you again. That would truly break my heart. I just wish…”
“What?”
“No, I won’t say it.” She smiled sadly and reached up to caress his cheek. “To put it into words would make me want it too much, and I know it’s an impossible dream.”
“There is no such thing as an impossible dream,” Helios said. “Even the impossible can become possible if the wish is strong enough.”
“Helios, I’m not a little kid anymore. I know the world doesn’t work like that, as much as I wish it did.”
“You certainly have grown up, haven’t you?” Helios brushed a strand of pink hair out of her eyes and sighed. “Maybe you are right, but never stop believing in that dream, my maiden. No matter how impossible it seems at the moment, I promise you that one day it will come true.”
For a moment, Serenity’s eyes lit up at his promise, but then she turned around, wrapping her arms around herself in a hug. “Please, don’t say things like that,” she begged, her voice once again strained. “Don’t set me up for disappointment. Ceres and Diana were right about one thing; I can’t keep thinking that we’ll get our happy ending as long as we love each other enough. I love you, Helios, and I’ll keep loving you until the day I die, but I cannot allow myself to hope for more than what we have now. I just have to learn to be satisfied with that.”
“Maiden…”
Helios hated hearing her sound so pessimistic, so different from the little girl he remembered, the one who believed all dreams were possible to achieve. He longed to take her in his arms and tell her that he had meant every word, that he was doing everything possible to make her unspoken dream a reality, but King Endymion had sworn him to secrecy, not wanting his daughter to get her hopes up until they had succeeded. Although things had been going well so far, what they were ultimately planning to do had never been done before, and the risks were unknown.
Reminded of that fact, Helios looked down at his hands, unsurprised to see them fading away. He was at his limit; he could not stay in the human realm for any longer. Glad that Serenity had turned away before she could see, Helios came up behind her and kissed the back of her head.
“Maiden, I must leave now,” he said, “but, please, no matter what, continue believing in your cherished dream. Good-bye.”
With those final words, Helios used the rest of his remaining power to teleport back to Elysion.
(Ugh, the RTE is being such a pain today! It wouldn't let me copy and paste this except, so I had to go digging around to find how to do a cut in HTML. I hope this isn't going to be a permanent thing, otherwise it's going to be a pain posting fics in my fic journal.)
EDIT: Hmm, looks like there's going to be another round of
sm_fanswap coming up. I can't decide if I want to participate or not. It was fun participating last time, but I really should be working on my other WIPs, and I'm not sure I'm sold on the whole "quotes" thing that was added. I liked the relative freedom of the last one. Then again, maybe I'll get lucky and my recipient will be a Zoisite/Mercury fan and I can write my story idea without feeling (too) guilty about ignoring my other stories... Heh, that's probably a long-shot anyway. Well, I have time to think it over, so think it over, I shall do.