Incyanity · Crystal Memory

In the late 1990s, my friends and I discovered Sailor Moon. Shortly thereafter, our otaku senshi, the Crystalstars, were born. We started working on a fanfic. We drew a lot of art. There was even an original soundtrack! The project was pretty popular. My character's name was Sailor Starfury. Maybe some of you remember her from way back then?

Under unfortunate circumstances, I left the Crystalstars in 2001 (the project was dropped in 2003), and I took Starfury with me. Her next incarnation was in a short-lived attempt at my own fanfic called Between the Candle and the Star. Failing that, I tried to make BCS into an original story, and Starfury was reborn again, though in both versions of BCS she had little more than a cameo role. In 2005 I dropped BCS due to its many problems.

For all intents and purposes, after 2001, Starfury faded into the shadows. My experiences in the Sailor Moon fandom overall had left me feeling burnt and I was reluctant to get back into it (sometimes I even felt utter disdain for fandoms in general). Even so, Starfury always retained a fond place in my heart and I never forgot her. Recently, she partially reincarnated as the character Shiori from my original project, Seeking Abraxas, but the source character, the otaku senshi, always remained in a corner of my mind, waiting patiently for an opportunity to surface again.

Early in my "burnt out" phase, Crystal Memory was a shrine to Sailor Starfury, celebrating the good things that came from her creation. In late 2002 I took it down, feeling at the time I very much needed to leave anime and otaku behind. Fanfic especially was not something I wanted to pursue, owing to the eventual futility of the effort. Now, Crystal Memory is back, but its new purpose is to celebrate the existing character, rather than just past versions of her.

Today, I still feel strongly that fanfic (and fandoms in general) should only be dabbled in, used as a realm of practice, like a guilty pleasure. Being an editor and a writer has a lot to do with this belief. Anyone who has any inclination to be published should write serious fiction and put 99% of the creative forces that fandom often conjures into original pursuits. But the other 1%...

Well. I did say Starfury has been waiting patiently, didn't I?

She may look a bit different, and some of the supporting/background information has changed, but otherwise she's still the same senshi from way back when. And, for the first time in about five years, I've written a little bit of fanfic for her. I can't promise more than a little bit of fic here and there, as my original projects are my priority. But I hope everyone will like and enjoy this blast from the past. : )

Welcome back, Sailor Starfury! ♥

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