Seurat Moon, or A Sunday Afternoon in Crystal Tokyo by @alexheberling 11×17, digital drawing and painting
My piece for Comics vs. Art! It’s on exhibit for the rest of the month, so if you’re in the Columbus area, you can see it at Wild Goose Creative on Summit St.
It’s pretty much all headcanon, yeah. Here is the sum total of backstory we get about Crystal Tokyo, from Episode 83 (“The Shocking Future! Dimande’s Dark Ambition”).
That is IT.
And as you can see, that’s precious little to go on.
First, of course, there’s the assumption that everything Endymion says is true, and I think there’s a whole mess of wiggle room about that if you wanted. I stick mostly to assuming he’s generally telling the truth, with possibly some detail fudging and a whole lot of obscuring in there. (I don’t like the idea of the Senshi sleeping for a thousand years, for example, if only for the fact that that’s boring; there isn’t a whole lot to write about when everyone’s unconscious, and I want to maximize my Crystal Tokyo playground.) But then, I also headcanon that he has a very vested interest in the Senshi leaving with specific views about things. It’s a pretty deep rabbit hole is what I’m saying.
But generally, all we learn about the birth of Crystal Tokyo is that there was “a great calamity” and “the earth settled into a cold sleep”. That’s it, the end of the world in two deliciously vague sentences.
So it’s your choice what that means, if indeed it can be trusted to mean anything. For me, I obviously love the idea of an apocalyptic battle that the Senshi lose, and that’s the foundation for everything Crystal Tokyo for me.
(I’ve got a whole mess of posts about this kind of thing as I am deeply in love with Crystal Tokyo and cannot wait to write there. It’s nowhere near the scope, but some recommended additional reading here and here.)
After reading older liveblogs over the couple years I’ve been a follower, my headcanon developed as follows:
In the original timeline (where Chibs came from when she arrived in S), the Silence is the calamity that befell Earth. The end of S happened, M9 and Pharaoh 90 fucked up everything (maybe Saturn awakened and hit the killswitch, maybe not) and the world fell into stasis.
I am rather fond of the idea of Chibs being sent back specifically to befriend Hotaru and prevent the Silence, as it came up in some liveblog. So now the two timelines have diverged enough that Chibs going back to the future after SuperS is the last time she comes back to the 20th century, for the sake of neatness, anyway.
I haven’t quite figured out my headcanon on how Crystal Tokyo comes about in this new, Un-Silenced timeline, but I think the future that Usagi and friends create will be quite different to the one they saw (or the parts of it they were shown).
