Under a Different Moon
Characters/Pairings: Ami, Usagi.
Warnings: AU
Summary: (Author’s summary) “Born to royalty, Princess Usagi will take over her mother’s kingdom some day. That is, if the Dark Kingdom does not conquer them all, bringing the entire world beneath their crushing might. The only hope of the Moon Kingdom is if the mysterious Sailor Moon can recruit her Senshi and take the battle to the invaders. Swashbuckling adventure as we see our heroines in a new light, leading their troops into bloody, desperate battle to save all they hold dear.”
Comments: First off, this fic takes some very large liberties with Usagi’s characterization. She acts like an airhead because if she acted as ruthless and as driven as she actually is, she knows that she’d be assassinated within a week by Metallia’s assassins. This is the very basis for an awful lot of the story, and my characterization-stickler side screams in agony at the thought.
On the other hand, the part of me that buys any book that looks like it might have Machiavellian maneuverings within loves it. And it’s an interesting idea that’s really a tad more different from the original Sailor Moon series than I prefer, but is nonetheless very well-written for what it is. (I almost wish he’d done it as an original fic, even though I’m enjoying seeing how he translates Sailor Moon stuff into the context of an actual war. But I’m still enjoying it.)
One chapter of a theoretically multi-chapter fic, incomplete.