Circles in the Sands of Time
Circles in the Sands of Time is a story written by Rosei Aki. It ran in Issue 43 and can be found at s2b2.livejournal.com/250745.html and shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/circles-in-the-sands-of-time/
Summary
Shoichi didn't exactly ask to be catapulted into a shoujo manga by finding out he's one of the Celestial Guardians, but he's mostly getting the hang of it, transforming into Guardian Luna to fight the Infernal Multitude, and attempting to recover the mysterious Shards. At least until he starts to wonder about the elusive Kestrel, who seems to be working against both the Guardians and the Multitude...
Connections
Circles in the Sands of Time has no connections to other stories or universes. (Yet.)
Related Links
Also available on Archive of Our Own under the pseud Atalan.
Author's Notes
Sailor Moon was my first real fandom. Ever since, I've had a tendency to idly throw characters from whatever my current fandom is into the Sailor Moon setting to see what happens. It gets especially interesting when said characters are not girls, and/or have a somehwat more cynical view of destiny... the eventual end result was this homage/blatant rip-off featuring a magical girl team composed not only of girls, and a mystical ancient guardian who has way too much of an agenda of her own. Plus bonus asides on gender essentialism!
This story is a major candidate for expansion - I would kind of like to write the entire "co-ed Magical Girl" series, and explain the backstory. Because yes, I did work out the entire reincarnation backstory that is barely mentioned in this one piece.
