Good grief.
Sep. 30th, 2017 05:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
insaneladybugWell, this time a bidding war happened. Last I knew, the Mercury figure had reached $89 plus shipping. WTH ... how do people get so carried away like that? It's especially outlandish in this case, because you can buy the genuine article for anywhere from $30-$40 on eBay and Amazon! The older releases' prices seem to be coming down in general. Right now I'm debating getting one at the lower end of that price spectrum, but I'm not sure since I was worried about spending too much money right now. I wish I'd tried to get that first one. I'd like to do the shopping spree before making a decision, but the listing for this $29.99 one will end before that. Bleh. Amazon does have her for $32 right now, only some reviews I read said that some people end up with bootleg figures when ordering from Amazon. Not encouraging.... Maybe that's just if it's third-party sellers, though. Hmm.
And I did look at the Sailor Moon fic last night. I found that some characters I seem to handle pretty well, like Nephrite and Naru. Kunzite and Ami came out pretty well too. At least, I hope Kunzite did. I'm pretty confident about Ami. And I think Usagi also. Maybe Makoto. But I seemed to have a difficult time with the others. I'd probably do better sticking with a niche like Nephrite/Naru instead of an ensemble fic, but I'm not sure how to do this storyline without it being ensemble. Not that I'll ever get it finished. And now I'm wanting to rewrite the Zoisite parts and have the character as female, since that's what I like best. Only when the story's been up all this time and people have Favorited it and such, they would probably really get riled by the change.
I'd forgotten my idea of Naru having lived a past life during the Silver Millennium time. I had it as her being from a Japanese village and she somehow met Nephrite and they became close, but then he got worried about Endymion and Serenity's relationship and started seeing Beryl about it and that caused a rift between him and Naru. Gah. I hadn't shown it yet, but I remember figuring she followed him up to the Moon Kingdom after he got brainwashed and the final battle happened and she was killed along with everyone else and sent to Earth for a second chance.
I think I did that both because I simply liked the concept and maybe I thought it added more credence to the pairing for them to have known each other before? (Or maybe more because I wanted to make it clear that Nephrite/Jupiter had never happened in my verse, LOL.) In canon, it definitely starts out as an ugly pairing and would continue to be so if not for Naru's feelings starting to change Nephrite. I think at first she was more in love with the idea of being in love, but by the end it was obvious that there was more to it. They would still have a lot to work through, of course, but I think they could do it.
I also recall that I was planning to have Zoisite go undercover as a teacher at the high school, LOL. Although the reason why he/she was going to do that was sad. S/he was revived with more Silver Millennium memories than Dark Kingdom ones and was devastated after regaining the memories of arranging Nephrite's murder and was running away. S/he wanted to go someplace where s/he hoped to make sense out of his/her life.
Kunzite was difficult to get a handle on, I remember. Especially since he was so dead-set on loyalty to the Dark Kingdom that he never blamed Beryl for killing Zoisite and refused to let Sailor Moon remove the brainwashing (according to the fic; it's been so long since I saw the episode that I don't remember that confrontation dialogue). I figured the only way to get him to ease up was for the brainwashing to be broken. I believe that was done with Zoisite's music; I might have to keep that concept after all, because it was so key. I had it that Kunzite didn't die, but teleported by accident to a mad scientist after being wounded. She kept him alive until after the events of StarS, when Neo-Queen Serenity revived Zoisite and Nephrite and Zoisite revived Kunzite from the coma with his/her music. Jadeite was never dead either. After the Eternal Sleep crystal broke, he revived.
On the TMNT front, I think I'm almost done with this nice slice-of-life. Still not sure what fic will be next. I wrote a blurb earlier and may follow it up later today. Not sure if they'll be put in a fic or not. I also spent time fiddling around with a character quiz and took it for Barney. I'd previously taken it for Baxter. Some of the answers were the same or similar for both. I posted the Baxter one on dA. Maybe I'll post the Barney one there too. I don't know, though, due to the similar answers on some questions.
And I did look at the Sailor Moon fic last night. I found that some characters I seem to handle pretty well, like Nephrite and Naru. Kunzite and Ami came out pretty well too. At least, I hope Kunzite did. I'm pretty confident about Ami. And I think Usagi also. Maybe Makoto. But I seemed to have a difficult time with the others. I'd probably do better sticking with a niche like Nephrite/Naru instead of an ensemble fic, but I'm not sure how to do this storyline without it being ensemble. Not that I'll ever get it finished. And now I'm wanting to rewrite the Zoisite parts and have the character as female, since that's what I like best. Only when the story's been up all this time and people have Favorited it and such, they would probably really get riled by the change.
I'd forgotten my idea of Naru having lived a past life during the Silver Millennium time. I had it as her being from a Japanese village and she somehow met Nephrite and they became close, but then he got worried about Endymion and Serenity's relationship and started seeing Beryl about it and that caused a rift between him and Naru. Gah. I hadn't shown it yet, but I remember figuring she followed him up to the Moon Kingdom after he got brainwashed and the final battle happened and she was killed along with everyone else and sent to Earth for a second chance.
I think I did that both because I simply liked the concept and maybe I thought it added more credence to the pairing for them to have known each other before? (Or maybe more because I wanted to make it clear that Nephrite/Jupiter had never happened in my verse, LOL.) In canon, it definitely starts out as an ugly pairing and would continue to be so if not for Naru's feelings starting to change Nephrite. I think at first she was more in love with the idea of being in love, but by the end it was obvious that there was more to it. They would still have a lot to work through, of course, but I think they could do it.
I also recall that I was planning to have Zoisite go undercover as a teacher at the high school, LOL. Although the reason why he/she was going to do that was sad. S/he was revived with more Silver Millennium memories than Dark Kingdom ones and was devastated after regaining the memories of arranging Nephrite's murder and was running away. S/he wanted to go someplace where s/he hoped to make sense out of his/her life.
Kunzite was difficult to get a handle on, I remember. Especially since he was so dead-set on loyalty to the Dark Kingdom that he never blamed Beryl for killing Zoisite and refused to let Sailor Moon remove the brainwashing (according to the fic; it's been so long since I saw the episode that I don't remember that confrontation dialogue). I figured the only way to get him to ease up was for the brainwashing to be broken. I believe that was done with Zoisite's music; I might have to keep that concept after all, because it was so key. I had it that Kunzite didn't die, but teleported by accident to a mad scientist after being wounded. She kept him alive until after the events of StarS, when Neo-Queen Serenity revived Zoisite and Nephrite and Zoisite revived Kunzite from the coma with his/her music. Jadeite was never dead either. After the Eternal Sleep crystal broke, he revived.
On the TMNT front, I think I'm almost done with this nice slice-of-life. Still not sure what fic will be next. I wrote a blurb earlier and may follow it up later today. Not sure if they'll be put in a fic or not. I also spent time fiddling around with a character quiz and took it for Barney. I'd previously taken it for Baxter. Some of the answers were the same or similar for both. I posted the Baxter one on dA. Maybe I'll post the Barney one there too. I don't know, though, due to the similar answers on some questions.
