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The long-awaited Sailor Merkkur of the Eclipse Senshi.Also my entry for *JoJiaMystie 's Senshi Pose contest [link]
Senshi Name: Sailor Merkkur セーラーマッカー
Civilian Name: Camellia Flowers
Hobbies: Shopping, flirting, (secretly) studying
Gem: Sapphire Heart
Element: Compassion
Style: long and short range staff fighting
Weapon: Segmented spear. Can be used as both a spear and a segmented staff. She can segment and reconnect the spear at will, as well as change the shape, like here, it's in the shape of a heart.
Merkkur's redesign was an interesting one. Her appearance hasn't changed too much. I gave her a more accents, like the X's (like X's and O's, get it? ha!), new shoes (yes, those are high top sneakers), the tiered back bow (yeah, stole that from my flower senshi), and two-tone hair (which is a reoccuring theme between the original and new designs) that's uneven in the front. I rather like uneven hair. Goes with my obsession with assymetry.
There is one more thing.
Merkkur is a boy.
Yeup. Even in this form.
Merkkur was born a boy but never felt like one (after all, his past self was a woman). When he moved to Generik, he began crossdressing and calling himself Camellia (his real name is Cameron). Everyone refers to him as she, too. It's his greatest secret.
I ran across some notes recently from the 2003 Eclipse remake and while I didn't include Merkkur or Jupitercouri or Neptunusia (the last one I don't get), I had scribbled in the margins: "Cross dressing Senshi." In fact, I had several references to a cross dressing character but never fleshed it out. Takeuchi has several cross dressers, mostly male, so I want one too. He's very pretty, isn't he?
Original design:
Pose: [link]
Solar Eclipse, the world, and its characters (for the most part) belong to me
Sailor Moon belongs to Takeuchi Naoko et al.
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Comments: 10
MariaTenebre [2013-09-10 06:03:47 +0000 UTC]
I really like Sailor Merkkur. She has a really cool story plyus I love her element is compassion. Plus I think it is cool that you have a transsexual heroine. I am a transwoman myself so this is all the more cool to me. Tell me does she change gender bodily when she transforms like the Starlights?
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Leaf-nin In reply to MariaTenebre [2013-09-10 17:32:01 +0000 UTC]
I thought it would be an interesting character concept. I have a lot of transexual friends myself, and I still struggle with gender identity. It was an odd sort of transition, from being a woman in a past life to being a boy now, but Merkkur's so upbeat it doesn't really bother her.
She does not change gender when transforming, no. She is, and always will be, a boy who simply identifies herself as a girl, and is always referred to as she, because that's what she prefers. Her friends accept her for who she is, and that's all that really matters to her.
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KaliannShevlin [2012-05-23 12:45:43 +0000 UTC]
what a interesting concept. I think its a great idea
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Leaf-nin In reply to KaliannShevlin [2012-05-23 17:20:00 +0000 UTC]
Thanks! I'm glad you think so
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Leaf-nin In reply to Crystalomic [2012-05-22 23:28:36 +0000 UTC]
SURPRISE!
I thought it'd be an interesting character concept
And thanks for the hon.
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Crystalomic In reply to Leaf-nin [2012-05-23 00:13:17 +0000 UTC]
Very surprisng, and interesting. Can't wait to do he-him xD
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