Sorry to get any body's hopes up who thought this might be more story! But nope it's something far far worse...
This is the final author's note of Daughter of the Stars, Son of the Moon. Thanks to everyone who read it and reviewed! I love all of you! And in special thanks I am going to list all those wonderful people who reviewed more than once. I'd list everyone but then...I usually addressed most people and you can just peruse the reviews as well. . and I'm lazy.
Two more more: Vi3t Babi, Feathers1, Lekvin, Lavenda, Mei Fa-chan iluvanime493, Kesperlis, Reina Queen, Lilli-lil, meinien, animefreak85, Kate, Sugahandspice, LiLdRaGoNgUrL28, anime-misao, coca24cola, eve, Lady shina, Kikome-chan, momimiya Akihara, Kura-chan SakuraliSweetheart, Cyrstaleyez, and probably a couple other I missed (which I'm sorry for!) If I mistyped anyone's name, please forgive me.
And as promised, I am going to list the people who reviewed the most!
5. Anime-misao
4. Reina Queen/ animefreak85
3. coca24cola
2. Kate
and my fav person ever
1. Vi3t Babi who reviewed 12 times, which is half the number of chapters.
So yay. In retaliation, or thanks ., I'm going to dedicate a chapter of Starlight and Hope to each one of these people. Thank you so much for your commentary they kept me going. And thanks to everyone who asked thought provoking questions.
Also, in reply to a comment someone made, I'm sorry if people thought the ending with Damian was cop out and that it seemed that her using two Cards to defeat him was anti-climactic. But I would like to gently remind that the two Cards in question are the most powerful that she possesses and to use them lightly was no easy picnic. So perhaps think of it differently, please?
Below is a list of weird things that you may or may not want to read through. But before that is a shameless plug for Starlight and Hope, the sequel to Daughter of the Stars, Son of the Moon. Enjoy! And thank you once again for reading my story, it means the world to me!
Starlight and Hope:
Beginning one month into Sakura's pregnancy, this story follows her through the next 8 months, which are indeed eventful. Not only is she formally getting married and has to deal with all of her friends and their schemes but she is beginning to realize just what it takes to be queen. With foreign dignitaries and her own courtiers to handle, she can barely take the time out to watch the love blossoming between her friends nor can she be quite certain that all is entirely well at home. A story filled with everything you can expect: love, humour, arguments, wit, sword fighting, politics, mockery and siblingly love. And a bit of everything else.
Genre: General (I would put it under humour but...well there are a few very serious elements to it and lots of martial arts is a must)
Also, of note before I run off, with one of the coming chapters I will include a link to a map of Tomoeda!
List of little things I added for a point or my own amusement and side commentary:
1. Nadeshiko falling on her face at the beginning T
2. he first Card Sakura uses is the Windy, just like in the Anime/Manga
3. General: Sakura has a natural grasp on magic, like in the Anime/Manga
4. "Don't shake people awake unless it's a life or death situation"- One of my firmest beliefs. I hate it when people shake me roughly awake.
5. Tomoyo knows everything first. Aside of like two things. But that's just Tomoyo.
6. Deciding which Cards were ruled by which Guardian was entertaining. Really, really entertaining. I was originally going to add parts about how different Cards were used in the battle that Clow helped in, but eventually it just didn't seem to fit. But I'll ad a few of those here: Sweet was used to help feed people, Loop was used to confuse the enemy and tire them, Sleep was used to help the army get a good sleep so they could be refreshed for battle etc.
7. The conversation about Li looking good topless and wet is almost identical to one me and my best friend had. I think it's a girl thing.
8. Eye colour is the main way I identified people in this story.
9. The system of inheriting is something I devised. Personally, I think it'd be nifty if we had a government like that. Not likely.
10. I messed up on Naoko's name and switched the first and the last. But I got to make a joke out of it at least.
11. I never really go into detail about the geography of Tomoeda. Suffice to say it is a VERY large country, like Russia large. But it is an island to itself like Australia is. It was once a bunch of different countries but now it is all one. The East most side, where Li's home is, has a lot of mountains the farther east you go. There is some desert area to the north and it is very wet and kid of hilly to the far West, where Eriol comes from. The south is composed of plains and forests, mostly flat. The capitol city is almost right smack in the middle of Tomoeda. It's also got a lot of trees. As is evidenced by the fact that Sakura always has somewhere to slip behind when changing.
12. I hate Eriol's last name.
13. The only person that Li gets along with right off the bat is Tomoyo. But I think it'd be hard NOT to get along with her.
14. I had a lot of fun writing Sakura. In the Manga/Anime she always came off as really smart and observant to me so I wrote her like that. A lot of people think she's ditzy, I just think she's got next to nothing in the self-awareness category.
15. There is a major film maker in Japan named Takashi Yamazaki. I wonder if he is who CLAMP based him on.
16. Yamazaki might be my fav. character.
17. I would PAY to see Syaoran say "I'm too handsome for words".
18. I had fun looking for names for horses. And extraneous characters. All Chinese names will be defined below.
19. When Yelan kisses Sakura's cheek it is a sign that she accepts her as marriage material. Liked her right from the start!
20. All the Li husbands are like fourth cousins with several removes. NO incest. Just wanted to keep the Li name.
21. Meiling is a fun character.
22. It is incomprehensibly hard to come up with so many names and try to remember who was who without writing it down elsewhere. I scrolled up a lot.
23. I had massive amounts of fun writing chapter eleven. Period.
24. People like Tomoyo and Sakura, who are always cheerful and calm tend to be the scariest when they get angry.
25. Yelan is another great character. I tried to keep her as close to the first movie incarnation as I could. As well as adding humour that I always think goes along with imperious women.
26. Lies are a part of leading people. I don't know why people think otherwise.
27. I want a magic Key that opens anything.
28. The history behind Damian was really hard to come up with. In reality I like just nameless evil people who don't have reason behind what they do.
29. Don't require much thought. I love the term 'compromising'. The fact that people find certain situations socially unacceptable and thus due course to marriage is funny.
30. "And for a moment, as he looked at the face of extreme embarrassment on the innocent seventeen-year-old girl's face, Li would have traded his soul to know the contents of that dream" Another scene I had fun writing.
31. I hated writing the scene where Sakura found out about her dad. It's really hard to convey such deep sorrow from someone. It's especially hard to take a reasonable guess at what something like that would do to someone like Sakura.
32. I always thought Sakura would look really good with long hair and that Syaoran would have lot's of fun with it. Had a lot of fun writing about his incredulity at her cutting it.
33. I love going into the titles and line of inheritance that was made up in this story. Some of it is based on the actual line of inheritance of what a kingdom would have and some of it is based on how I think it should be.
34. The dreams vary each time. Just like hers are never quite the reflection of truth in the anime, I didn't think they should be exact here. Prophetic dreams are rarely so exact, especially when a situation may be evolving during the dreaming period.
35. Had to add the whole "me too" which they used in the 2nd movie. So cute!
.... And it goes on. I just couldn't keep reading and commenting after awhile.
List of name translations for 'minor' characters:
Elders:
Long- Dragon
Quen Yuan- I actually don't know what this means since apparently I've been misspelling it this entire time. Figures. But Yuan means round!
Xing Zhi- Healing Star
Sheng- Victory!
Chen Rong- Great Glory
Husbands of the Sisters:
Shen- spiritual deep thinking
Liang- good fine
Jin Le- Great Joy
Suitors:
Lok- Joy (ironically)
Zhi Ye- Healing Light
Xi Wang- Hope
Now weren't those names horribly cheesy?
Oh and Damian? That's a play on words too.
Damian with an 'a' means tamer, divine, fate.
Damien with an 'e' means sweet and harmless.
I thought that was amusing.
Now shoo! Go read my other stories!
18th of June, 2004. Property of Hikari-sensei!