Giving Usagi the Bhepin Treatment
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:51 pm
Or, "How to Make The Senshi into Badasses".
A little story before I get down to business, my friends. I was browsing through TV Tropes the other day and on a whim decided to take a look at the trope page for Took a Level In Badass. To my surprise, I found that someone had apparently added a fanfiction section since the last time I'd been there, and in what was absolutely no surprise at all, the first entry mentioned under that section was Charles Bhepin's version of Shinji Ikari from Evangelion.
For those of you who are not familiar with Charles Bhepin, I'll grant a quick summary: Bhepin is currently one of the most intensely-followed authors on Fanfiction.net's anime section thanks to his work on Shinji and Warhammer 40K. The premise of this fic is that Shinji discovers a chest full of Warhammer 40,000 rulebooks and miniatures in his childhood, and the exposure to something as mind-bending as the Forty-First Millennium completely alters his outlook on life, which in turn changes his childhood much for the better and ends with him being a small-town hero by the time he leaves for Tokyo-3.
Once he actually gets there, his altered perspective (and the egos of his favorite miniatures, which talk to him in his head on a regular basis) result in Shinji turning into a hotblooded mecha pilot of the sort that would make Kamina, Guy Shishio, and Domon Kasshu proud, while also having (thanks to the Eldar Farseer's guidance) the planning abilities of Lelouche Lamperouge, all while skillfully avoiding God Mode Sue status and still being quite fallible. This combination flips Evangelion completely on its' head, turning it into a much more standard super robot show with an insanely awesome cast of characters and a plot that only gets more crazy the more chapters into it you get. It really needs to be seen to be believed.
On the Took A Level in Badass trope page, however, there is a single line of text posted below S&40K's entry, one which caught my attention and refuses to let go:
...Well, why the heck not?
This is my new project, fellow fanfic junkies: I'm going to find a way to turn Usagi and the Sailor Senshi into a group of Crazy Awesome badasses without compromising their characters or making them go ridiculously OOC, and I'd like your help in coming up with ideas on how to do that. I'm not certain whether or not this will ever turn into an actual fanfic, but at the very least the ideas we come up with here may serve as inspiration for anyone who puts serious effort into this concept.
Here are a few ideas I've come up with so far:
* Usagi fails to rescue Naru's mother before she's drained to death in episode 1 and resolves to take this demon hunting business seriously.
* Usagi reincarnates into a family of practicing mages or otherwise abnormal people (Ki users? Psychics? The Takamachi family?), and shares in that abnormality in some manner. Hunting demons isn't so strange to her.
* The magic system the Senshi use is more structured and very Nanoha-ish instead of the more typical magical girl spells we see in-series. Without really doing a whole lot, the Senshi seem more like professional mages than girls in silly uniforms.
Let's hear some more from the rest of you!
A little story before I get down to business, my friends. I was browsing through TV Tropes the other day and on a whim decided to take a look at the trope page for Took a Level In Badass. To my surprise, I found that someone had apparently added a fanfiction section since the last time I'd been there, and in what was absolutely no surprise at all, the first entry mentioned under that section was Charles Bhepin's version of Shinji Ikari from Evangelion.
For those of you who are not familiar with Charles Bhepin, I'll grant a quick summary: Bhepin is currently one of the most intensely-followed authors on Fanfiction.net's anime section thanks to his work on Shinji and Warhammer 40K. The premise of this fic is that Shinji discovers a chest full of Warhammer 40,000 rulebooks and miniatures in his childhood, and the exposure to something as mind-bending as the Forty-First Millennium completely alters his outlook on life, which in turn changes his childhood much for the better and ends with him being a small-town hero by the time he leaves for Tokyo-3.
Once he actually gets there, his altered perspective (and the egos of his favorite miniatures, which talk to him in his head on a regular basis) result in Shinji turning into a hotblooded mecha pilot of the sort that would make Kamina, Guy Shishio, and Domon Kasshu proud, while also having (thanks to the Eldar Farseer's guidance) the planning abilities of Lelouche Lamperouge, all while skillfully avoiding God Mode Sue status and still being quite fallible. This combination flips Evangelion completely on its' head, turning it into a much more standard super robot show with an insanely awesome cast of characters and a plot that only gets more crazy the more chapters into it you get. It really needs to be seen to be believed.
On the Took A Level in Badass trope page, however, there is a single line of text posted below S&40K's entry, one which caught my attention and refuses to let go:
"This troper very much wants to see what Bhephin could do with a Sailor Moon fanfic."
...Well, why the heck not?
This is my new project, fellow fanfic junkies: I'm going to find a way to turn Usagi and the Sailor Senshi into a group of Crazy Awesome badasses without compromising their characters or making them go ridiculously OOC, and I'd like your help in coming up with ideas on how to do that. I'm not certain whether or not this will ever turn into an actual fanfic, but at the very least the ideas we come up with here may serve as inspiration for anyone who puts serious effort into this concept.
Here are a few ideas I've come up with so far:
* Usagi fails to rescue Naru's mother before she's drained to death in episode 1 and resolves to take this demon hunting business seriously.
* Usagi reincarnates into a family of practicing mages or otherwise abnormal people (Ki users? Psychics? The Takamachi family?), and shares in that abnormality in some manner. Hunting demons isn't so strange to her.
* The magic system the Senshi use is more structured and very Nanoha-ish instead of the more typical magical girl spells we see in-series. Without really doing a whole lot, the Senshi seem more like professional mages than girls in silly uniforms.
Let's hear some more from the rest of you!