Ok, I know it's been nearly a decade since you wrote this,and you probably won't even get this (do you even come on this site anymore?) but I have to say it. This is one of the best fanfics I've ever read. It's 4 in the morning and I had to stay up to finish reading it. I have a new found sympathy for Beryl and I feel like I get her now. It's not the official back story for her, but it should be. Kudos. If you have written anything else (fanfic or legit, published work) please let me know. I'd LOVE to read it.

I adore this. It's perfect, and logical, and emotional, and oh-so-close to my own vision of the past - with Beryl's role a surprisingly fitting twist. As Sailor Earth she would have had more power then she ever commanded as Queen Beryl.

*sigh*

Why do people choose such paths? With broach in one hand, and globe in the other, what prompts them to turn to hatred?

Oh, and I've never seen the picture you mentioned - good Beryl and bad. Don't suppose you have a link or a scan?

Bravo.

Metallia is all kinds of creepy in this.

This is excelent!

That was awesome. I've always wondered about the past during the silver mellinnuem. what happen and all sorts? I'm glad to see a really well written piece that painted the picture that correctly corresponds with what little we got in the anime. Thanks for that. Well done.

This story is exciting. Love it. I'll keep reading.

Wow! I really enjoyed reading this perspective. It was very original and creative while still true to the story. You did an excellent job; please write more!

eh eh... I realized I didn't post the review on this site also.

So... I rummaged through my old posts to you again, and... voilà.

this fic is too special not to review it, isn't it? ;)

'Well, I must confess that I realized belatedly Beryl's identity. No excuse for my IQ, but a good thing for your writing abilities ( ah, smart tricky Author). At first I didn't put two and two together untill the smoky demon (aka Metallia. At least I guessed right about her from first line): before that point, I had thoght about her just as not-to-be Sailor Earth. And I had mild (very mild) suspicions about Swallow being Beryl (you can laugh at me. Plus, she was so deep in matchmaker-mode and information-gathering that she was rather more likely to be Minako's terran counterpart, or Luna's).

I liked this story very much: setting and plot development succede in giving Beryl a story, a life. I think you're the only author who've tried seriously to depict her differently from the plain villain clichè, showing her as a strong brave woman, likely to fall like anybody else. No need to tell that this makes reading about her choices and related consequences a lot more painful and saddening. The path to hell is paved with good intentions, it's said (I'm translating from the Italian motto, so I know it sounds weird).

Somehow, her behaviour remainds me about Heathcliff's one in 'Wuthering Heights': his reasons are not evil or destructive per se, but they turn out to be so.Circumstances plays a big role in it. (This is not an absolution, of course. But it's good to remember that the line between free will and Fate, good and bad, is indeed thin. And you're the one shaping of your own destiny, as much as you're shaped and made by it. A lesson that Oedipus knows very well. If I'm right, one of your Beryl's sentences about making her own destiny sounds like a nearly exact quote from Sophocles' tragedy ).

I liked how you show her dealing with her emotions: she's in love, but she's not mushy material. She's not the embodiment of sweetness like Serenity, but she can be tender (the scene with Ivy was a good clue).

Kitsune, Swallow and Gaia are carved well: you know you'll rember them even long time after reading.

The other characters seem to pale in comparison (after all, your focus was elsewhere), but the tidbits you give are interesting: a younger, still lingering on the verge of childhood Endymion; Serenity, naive and wise at once ( I liked the short dialogue with Beryl before she dies. No more needs to be said: she knows, even forgives a little). And a bit of Mercury - writing down 'Pyramus and Tisbe': wonderful tale itself, ominous and fitting - and Zoi.

And Nehelenia waiting for her time to come...

Very well done'

very well done indeed, L-chan. Beryl has never been the same to me after reading your fic.

*hugs*

eli

Great story. Give Beryl a whole light to her personality. Very believable fic. Again great job. Look forward to reading your future works. Until then, take care, and god bless.

this is very good. All the characters are human-and flawed.

OMG! This story is so sad! hehehehehe...i feel so bad for beryl...*cries* i wonder how things would be if she chosen the locket serenity gave her..oh well ..*sniff sniff* i gues i would have to dream that one up :) ..I loved this story :) ..write more like this plz hehe

hi, i think this story is very good, i've always felt sorry for queen beryl, knowing she didn't really turn evil on purpose..(i think anyways)..well :) im still reading hehe..:)

...wow. This is the most amazing portrayal of the Silver Millenium I've ever read. I absolutely love your version of Beryl. I never thought I'd read something about her and actually get tears in my eyes. She's just such a tragic figure.

*whistles* Whoa. I like this. I like this a LOT. Very original and believable, and a wonderful way to incorporate all the hints in the manga into a complete story. Lovely! _

::wails:: YOU UNDERSTAND! I always saw Beryl (manga version) as a tragic figure... even as Queen of the Dark Kingdom, her last thoughts were of Endymion. I also loved the way she realized what she had done, at the end of your story. Nehelenia's cameo was well-done, also. Thank you for a beautiful story.