Don't trust the stars

I’m still struggling with translating Night’s backstory so have a short summary for now, until I can write down the whole thing.

Sailor Night’s home planet was a small blue planet named Mond-era, in the Triangulum galaxy. There was no star as bright as the Sun there, but Mond-era even surrounded by an everlasting darkness, was still a lively and peaceful planet, thanks to its ruler Queen Nyx, and her nocturnal crystal.

Queen Nyx one day adopted a child and named her her heir. The child was Erebos, a little girl with a blue crescent on her forehead, as she came from a noble line of mage. It was deemed as a good presage that the Queen choose someone from that old noble line; they were wrong. The timid princess Erebos grew loved by her adoptive mother, by her two guardians Sailor Epiphron and Sailor Aether who were there when the busy Queen couldn’t, sheltered from everything. Blessed by the nocturnal crystal, she lived a happy life for centuries.

When she was a young adult, she met an extraordinary woman: Prince Ionathen of Harpae, the closest planet to Mond-era and home planet of Sailor Aether. Ionathen was everything the quiet Erebos wasn’t; bold, loud, full of energy and empathy. The title of ‘Prince’ was the only thing she kept from an identity she rejected. Sure, she was born as the son of the King, making her the heir of Harpae but she wanted her people to acknowledge her as a woman instead on focusing on her body and title.

Erebos was strongly impressed, and the two women became friends and saw each other as often as possible. Soon enough, the friends became lovers. Erebos never thought she could be so happy.

This peaceful life, a bit more lively thanks to Ionathen, didn’t last. One day, Queen Nyx was found dead. Not of old age, not of sickness... she fell asleep and never woke up. Erebos barely had time to mourn her before she was crowned Queen of Mond-era and inherited the nocturnal crystal. A a pair of black wings appeared in Erebos’ back and in her hand, the crystal briefly changed into a sword. This was a first in Mond-era; the wings were expected, the crystal changing form in the hands of its new owner was part of the ritual, but into a weapon... Erebos didn’t know what form the crystal took in Nyx’s hands... she knew nothing. She didn’t know how to be a queen, she wasn’t sure she could use the crystal the way Queen Nyx did, to change the darkness into energy and bless the planet. The former Queen always told her she would be ready when her time to reign would come but... she wasn’t.

Sailor Epiphron and Sailor Aether guided her as much as they could, but it didn’t take long for people to notice the new Queen wasn’t as strong as her predecessor and could be used. A couple of nobles harboring the same blue crescent as Queen Erebos offered her their help as a council; they would take decisions and the Queen would simply agree or not. It seemed perfect in Erebos’ eyes to lift the weight on her shoulders a little, and she agreed. Mond-era’s politics changed drastically in a couple of months. The council added taxes, formed an army, things impossible under the reign of the peaceful Queen Nyx. But Queen Erebos should be a warrior leader, they argued, the nocturnal crystal changing into a sword was the proof that Mond-era’s slumber was over.

The first wars started. Mond-era’s army conquered a few surrounding planets in a blink and Erebos was soon reigning over an empire. She listened to the council more and more, relying on them blindly despite the warnings of Ionathen, Epiphron and Aether. She even found herself on the battlefield, proving she was worthy of the title of Warrior Queen.

One day, she asked Ionathen her hand. She would soon be called Empress and needed someone in the throne next to hers; it was only a matter of time before Harpae became a part of the empire, after all... but she wanted to do things peacefully this time. Ionathen asked her to give her some time. She waited and waited... but Ionathen never came back. And the people of Mond-era, who had been protesting the new politics for awhile, were more and more loud outside the walls of the castle.

Erebos became paranoid. She sent half of her army to invade Harpae, losing the truth of Sailor Aether who choose the side of her home planet. The other half of the army had to protect the castle from the people of Mond-era themselves. It was a revolt. Harpae managed to repel Mond-era’s army and a few soldiers, lead by Sailor Aether, marched on Mond-era with the intention of bringing down the Queen and the Council. The members of the council were all killed before they arrived, by soldiers of Mond-era siding with the people.

Prince Ionathen planned to warn Erebos and help her to flee; before she could, she was killed in her own palace, branded as a traitor who sided with the evil Queen of Night.

Erebos never knew of that. She never saw Sailor Epiphron defending her castle until she was face to face with Sailor Aether, the friend and ally she grew up with. She didn’t see how both guardians fought, shooting: “Your duty was to protect the Queen!” “She is not my Queen!”

Aether received a fatal blow and fell. Epiphron, losing her mind when she realized she had the blood of her friend on her hands, turned her weapon against herself and died here in front of the doors of the castle. Queen Erebos saw their corpses from the balcony where she and Queen Nyx made so many appearances before. Instead of a cheering mass waving back at her, all she saw was people fighting, soldiers falling, her own name a chant. Bring down the evil Queen, the cold Queen, the warrior Queen... Yes, she was all of that. If they wanted her to, then... she would become all of that.

She brandished the nocturnal crystal in front of her and summoned its power; not to bless the planet and its people like she usually did, she wanted power to destroy, to punish those who betrayed her, she wanted silence, she wanted... no, those peaceful days would never come back.

The power of the nocturnal crystal turned her pale skin a dark shade of blue like Queen Nyx’s was, and absorbed all the darkness in the sky of Mond-era as well as the one inside its owner’s heart. It became a wave of pure silver light who blinded everyone on Mond-era.

“Nocturnal Punishment!”

All the power of the crystal, a stone whose purpose was to bless, not to hurt, was used. The flood of energy killed every single person on Mond-era in front of Queen Erebos’ eyes, and when the last soul gave in, the nocturnal crystal broke into pieces. Erebos died as well, and the moment after, deprived of its source of energy, the planet Mond-era was destroyed.

But the nocturnal crystal, even in little pieces, still had a spark of power left. And that’s how it captured Erebos’ soul and sent her to rest inside a star for thousand of years. That’s the time it took for the nocturnal crystal to reform itself and bring back its owner to life on another planet. Now called Sailor Night, Erebos had to atone for the destruction she caused and the many lives lost because of her weakness. Sailor Night’s sole purpose is to fight. She fight for others, against others, her sword in hand, blindly following the mission the nocturnal crystal chooses for her in hope it would grant her eternal rest one day. Once, twice, she tried and killed herself only to be brought back right away. She isn’t allowed to rest yet.

Thanks to habit, Mariel had mastered how to read a book with one hand and grab onto the bar with the other without losing her balance. Concentrated on her reading, she didn’t hear the name of the station until someone bumped into her back; good thing she had her hair tied up this day of that person would have stepped on it quite strongly too. Sigh. This town...

Mariel turned around to mutter an irritated “it’s nothing”, and while her first reflex was to look down, she was almost surprised to find herself in front of someone her own height for once. But this wasn’t the most peculiar thing about this man; she had a feeling she couldn’t explain that he was... foreign. Not to this country but to this planet. Like her. And he wasn’t the first person giving off this aura around here. Just what was going on on this... The signal before the doors' closing made her check the name of the station and ‘damn it’, they made it outside just in time.

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Sailor Night is virtually powerless during the day. During her many incarnations, she never found herself on a planet like Earth, with a star as bright as the sun, changing the colour of the sky and making the stars disappear.She can summon her sword and fight if needed, but her powers won’t work.

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Silver Millenium era

During the Silver Millenium era, Sailor Night was not yet a senshi and still living her very first life as Princess Erebos of the planet Mond-era. Though Mond-era was in a distant galaxy far from the milky way, the triangulum galaxy, Erebos’s mother, Queen Nyx was an ally and a friend of Queen Serenity. Erebos and her sometimes traveled to the moon kingdom in diplomatic visits. When she became Queen, Erebos lost the time and the will to visit other planets - and her egoism slowly started the decay of her own kingdom. But that is another story.

Crystal Tokyo era