..:Miscellaneous:..
The titles given to the current Dark Senshi "team" are those belonging previously to Persephone's lost Court. It's just something she's done for herself, with no regard for how the individuals think of themselves. Most of the group doesn’t seem to mind (Aphrodite, for example). Only one takes this as a personal insult. The shackles they wear are a symbol of their servitude; the Dark Senshi, despite what Persephone thinks, are in reality working for Sammael.


Yes, things that have been capitalized are supposed to be.

..:About the Shackles:..
More than simply a symbol of bondage or slavery, the shackles, manacles and/or collars that the Dark Senshi wear symbolize their fealty to Sammael. Each of the Dark Senshi wears a neck collar, wrist or ankle shackles, or in some cases all three. Demeter sports a full set because she has been with Sammael longer than any of the others. What she thinks about them, nobody knows, and though they do discolor her skin she has so far voiced no complaint. Persephone also wears a full set, but hers are of polished silver instead of rusted metal. She's perversely proud of these; the silver color is caused by her emotional attachment to Sammael. Zeus merely has an extra-large and very thick collar. Aphrodite wears a collar and shackles at her ankles not from any special attachment to Sammael, but because she seems to enjoy the implied bondage. Hermes only has shackles on her wrists, and wears long sleeves on her fuku in an attempt to hide them. Ares has shackles on her wrists and ankles, which attach to her fingers and the heels of her shoes with small, rusted chains. What significance this has, nobody knows.


..:About Canyon’s Edge:..
Canyon's Edge: Canyon's Edge was created in 1998-1999 by Chris as a backdrop for a long-running roleplaying scenario in the Champions gaming system. It was at that time infested with supers of both the heroic and villainous varieties. The gaming group split up in 2000, the sessions petered out, and the city was largely forgotten... until 2007 or so. Bastion, having been bored to tears with tales of Canyon's Edge and the wacky hijinks that once took place there, took action. He put a lot of effort into the old town and fleshed it out quite a bit, turning it into an arid city, much like those adobe settlements of yore, nestled in the cradle of an actual canyon and devoid of super heroes and villains. Canyon’s Edge became a dimensional hub much like a community living on a trading route, and the World Gate SailorDís was defending was one of several interdimensional connections to the city. Canyon’s Edge became a means for the villainous Dark Senshi to enter into the world of Sailor Moon.

The Dark Cathedral:
Dark Traveller's base of operations and one of the most noticeable buildings in Canyon's Edge. Modelled after the main sanctuary of the old Church of Chaos on Ceres, the Cathedral is a huge, imposing structure built of black stone, accented with wrought iron, and generally Gothic in design.

..:The Chaos Church:..
A false religion initially set up by Caspar to further the encroachment of Chaos into the Sol system. Though it started as something of a sham, the followers were devout, and the Church grew closer and closer to the real thing over time. By the fall of the Silver Millennium, the majority of Ceresians were Chaos-worshippers, and almost all of the priests and priestesses of the Church could channel Chaos in some form or fashion.

..:About SailorDís:..
The royal marking on Dís' forehead is an inverted crescent moon. It has nothing to do with the right-side-up crescent SailorMoon has, though. It actually symbolizes the pact Charon made with Pluto, to protect it from the shadows... hence the image of the small moon eclipsed in Pluto's crescent.

Dís is pronounced "deese", and is one of the alternate names for Pluto. I knew there were already a ton of Charon Senshi out there, and while I might not have an original idea, I DID want to have some original elements to the story. This is one of them. What's funny is now, at least in this continuum, there are essentially three "Underworld" Senshi: Pluto, Dís, and Hades. In a way, this makes sense. All three of them have similar missions, and all three exist primarily out of the view of the regular world. It's just interesting how things fall into place sometimes.

..:Mythology:..
The names here tie in more closely with Egyptian mythology than with the traditional Roman mythology used in the SailorMoon series. Except in the case of the Dark Senshi, where B suggested that, since that group were essentially alternates of the existing Senshi, they should be named according to the Greek standard.

..:Character History:..
SailorDís originally appeared in 1996/1997. She was then known as SailorSeven, had pale skin and dark blue hair, and carried a staff topped with something resembling a big "3". The character was initially spawned by a round-robin fic that my then-long-distance beau and I were writing whilst I was away at college (featuring also Kamens Kindred and Rental, the Sailor Clique and Sailor Chibi-Goth). That eventually begat the infamous (well, to me, and B, who's had to read it, the poor sod) fanfic-which-will-never-see-the-light-of-day. Ah, the things a melodramatic young heart drives one to do... SailorSeven at first had seven pieces of herself scattered about, several of which I RPed in the old WBS chat rooms from time to time. The only one of them who survived the metamorphosis was Harutaki, a crossover from A!MS, which I had just discovered that year and was very much a fan (well, let's be honest - an OTAKU) of. On a side note, I had three characters based on the A!MS series, all demons, one of whom featured in another god-awful fic I wrote at the time.

In 1997/1998, I discovered KiSS dolls. Around that time, I also started attending anime conventions (AWA), got a subscription to (then)Mixx Magazine, and Big Eyes, Small Mouth was published. It was decided between us local anime nuts that we'd try a session or two of the Sailormoon expansion for BESM. It flopped, mainly because our GM couldn't cope with not having specific rules for character movement (he was a Champions veteran), but renewed my interest in my fan-senshi character. Several hours of playing with the create-a-sailor KiSS set, Paint Shop Pro 3.1, and a long session with Notepad later, I had a little profile page for her. SailorSeven officially became SailorDís then.

More background information and expansion of the character came when I played her in a Champions game, which despite some complaints of its being "too silly" (okay, so an evil Chef Boyardee clone working for the Negaverse was a little corny) was enjoyed by the vast majority of the players. In 1999, she became the Dís she is today. Hades was the result of my attempt to get my significant other involved. He never did have quite the taste for it that I did, but it was fun nonetheless.

Are Isis or Dís mary-sues? I say not. Well, not since about 1997. Harutaki is actually more like me in terms of personality. Then again, she originated in an experimental LARP from which I also got the Heart-Memory-Will concept. I know of at least one fan-senshi cliché I'm still guilty of - having Isis related to Setsuna/SailorPluto as a cousin, but I've always been a big Pluto fan and to this day the contrivance works for me.
Neither Isis nor Dís are perfect, beautiful, lovable characters. Both of them are pretty dysfunctional, actually. Heart is a little more like a normal kid, but she can be a complete brat (at least, I envision her that way). Memory by herself would be akin to having a catatonic person sitting in your house, whenever she's not moving around; she just sits and stares, completely zoned out. Harutaki is selfish, a wee bit vain, evil and holier-than-thou. She also smokes, which for some reason makes people pariahs somehow *shrug*. Mind you, Dís with all her pieces together would be a lot more reasonable and (relatively) sane than any of her separate parts are on their own, but she's still not personable, mainly because of her past. Usagi could probably try and reason with her and might make some progress, though... especially if she managed to win over Heart at some point.