The history of Earth is not as you know it. Once, long ago, two moons decorated the night skies of Earth, and the children of those moons built great kingdoms on the surface of the planet. The children of the white moon, Luna, were called humans and built great cities and works of art in the lands they called their own, while the children of the black moon, Nemesis, were called demons and lived vicariously, following no rules they did not choose to. Contrary to what one might expect, neither race was truly good nor evil; the demons of Nemesis were a wild and rambunctious lot prone to mischief but they were no more evil than their human cousins. The two races coexisted peacefully for many generations, basking in the light of the stars and their twin moons.
Tragically, however, this peace was not to last. One fateful day, a minor noble of Luna came into possession of a mysterious silver crystal and gained tremendous magical powers. The crystal was a fragment of an entity known as Cosmos, a malevolent being of absolute order, and through the crystal Cosmos enslaved the noble and directed her actions like a puppet. Calling herself Serenity, the unwitting servant of Cosmos used the crystal’s power to conquer Luna overnight, before turning her attention to Nemesis and the demons of Earth.
The crystal’s power allowed Serenity to cast a spell over her fellow humans and she influenced the people of Earth to wage war against their demonic cousins while Serenity’s own armies did battle with the forces of Nemesis and her demonic counterpart, the ancient sage Wiseman. In a climactic battle to decide the fate of the two races, Wiseman did battle with Serenity, wielding his own Dark Crystal against Serenity’s Silver Imperium Crystal.
The battle ravaged both Luna and Nemesis leaving them lifeless shells of their former glory, while the humans of Earth devastated the dark kingdoms and drove their demonic cousins to the brink of extinction. When his own daughter and his mightiest warriors fell before Serenity’s legions, Wiseman ended the battle the only way he could. With the last of his strength, Wiseman linked the Dark Crystal to the heart of Nemesis, boosting his power enough to seal away Serenity and her followers and save the souls of his people, casting them forward into the future through the cycle of reincarnation. However the ravaged moon could not take this last act of abuse and broke apart. Pieces of Nemesis rained down on Earth and plunged the world into an ice age that nearly brought the human race to an end.
And so ended the age of the twin moons.
Thousands of years later, a young girl named Tsukino Usagi has a meeting with fate when she encounters a young two-tailed fox kit being harassed by a group of school children and chases them off. The fox is in fact Maleg, a young kitsune who served Wiseman as an attendant in the olden days, and when Usagi returns home from school that night, she finds Maleg waiting for her in her bedroom.
What follows is the stuff of dreams and nightmares as Maleg awakens Usagi’s second soul, the dormant spirit of a succubus slain in defense of Nemesis, and allows her to transform into that warrior to do battle with the forces of evil… if she wants to. Which she probably will, because her best friend is under attack by said forces of evil as they speak.
The rest, as they say, is history.
So what is this, exactly? This is what happens when I spend too much time on Gelbooru; I find pictures of (WARNING! THIS LINK IS NOT WORK-SAFE!) Usagi dressed up as a succubus and my imagination goes haywire. But more to the point, this is what happens when you flipflop the way order and chaos are treated in Sailor Moon and take the “Dark Silver Millennium” cliché to its logical conclusion while maintaining the heroics of Usagi and the other characters.
The “canon Senshi” (Ami, Rei, etc) are the reincarnations of powerful demon warriors from the Earth kingdoms while Usagi is the reincarnation of Wiseman’s daughter. Taking Beryl’s place, as if it weren’t obvious, are Serenity and the forces of the moon kingdom (which may include a cast of original characters as the Sailor Senshi), who seek to conquer Earth and subjugate the population. The battle this time isn’t between Lawful Good and Chaotic Evil, but between Chaotic Good and Lawful Evil.
Thoughts/opinions/flames, anyone?