Miss Top Senshi Round 2 - Castle on a Cloud

My next entry for , civilian!

NOTE: This entry will contain some small spoilers for BSSM: Shadows! Just so you guys know. This might also be slightly confusing if you don't know the basic backstory of my Zodiac, but if you guys get confused I'll be more then happy to add it to the notes.

I also apologize for the over-use of ellipsis...but this is Virgo whose talking and she has a lot of long pauses in her speech

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Who is in your family?

I...I'm really...not sure who my family was. I don't remember them...I don't know who my mother and father were, or if I had any siblings...they all died a very, very long time ago. I-I guess...I guess the closest thing I have is the other Zodiac...if you can call them "family" I suppose...the closest thing that I have to a real "family" is Aquarius, b-but...then again...she's everyone's mom already. So I'm not really a special case, really.

Since you aren't a Soldier all the time, what do you like to do?

I really, really love to read. Just opening a book...it opens up a whole new world, taking me away from...f-from this one. I lose myself in stories...takes me away from the harshness of my life and duty, lets me...l-lets me be someone...else. I enjoy fantasy the most, a world full of mystical creatures, adventure, princesses...i-it just appeals to me, I guess.

It's always so...so hot on Mercury, being so close to the sun, that whenever I left I was always fascinated by anything that grew. I love flowers...they're so pretty, and they don't see you as something you're not, o-or judge you...they don't care who or what you are...and to see green is always welcoming from the scorching heat...I guess that's why I like gardening so much...

What is your occupation?

What?? H-how could you ask that...? I-I'm a Sailor Senshi, a Zodiac Senshi...that's all I am, all I'll...I'll ever be...

Thinking about the future, where do you see yourself in ten years?

I have no future...my future is always the same as the present, the past...I'm always unchanged. Always stuck in this young girl's body...always sworn to a duty to protect Sailor Mercury...nothing will change. It...i-it never does...

Why did you enter MTS?

T-to be honest, I don't even know myself. The others...the Zodiac, I mean...they pushed me to do this. I-I don't want to, I hate the attention...but they say it will "help" me, get me to open up, to come out of my shell. I-I don't think that's true, though...

On a typical day, what do you do?

It...it really depends on what is going on...m-most of the time, I work with Aquarius and Sagittarius, investigating these weird enemies that popped up...Shadow Wraiths, I think is what they're called...looking up the enemy, trying to figure this out...all while we keep tabs on our Princesses. W-when we're not doing that...I read or go for walks, garden...nothing really that interesting. I-it's really all the same as it was during the Silver Millennium, only we're all on Earth now.

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Man it's so weird writing in Virgo's voice But she's very introverted and tends to stutter, so I guess it works out I also hope this gives you a bit of an insight to her personality beyond what I typed up for her intro.

As for the artwork, I really wanted to have her reading, since it's her main past time, but I couldn't think of a background...so I decided to make it into a dream-like setting. This is why things are blurry, even Virgo, and why there's softer shading then I normally do (except the hair...I can't seem to stop doing hair lines ), and the clouds covering the castle. This is actually what *I* do when I read, is I always imagine everything in my head, and Virgo always gets lost in a book.

The scribbles on her book are not actual Japanese, but faked so don't try to read it and yes, I realize the text is going up and down, but that's how *actual* Japanese books read!

This isn't my best work artistic-wise, and I don't like it as much as her entry, but I still like it. The pose is simple yet cute, and I think I did her profile shot pretty well (I hate/suck at doing them), though her head still looks too big I always seem to draw them too big...I didn't draw the castle, but found it on google and fiddled with it to look painted and dream-like. I did add the swirling clouds, though!

Of course, the title and image (well, slightly ) is based on this: [link]

Pose referece by

Sailor Virgo (c) Me

Sailor Moon (c) Naoko Takeuchi