This is What Dreams Are Made of
By BlackFeatherz29
Prologue
Okay, so this is my first Gundam Seed Destiny story and my first attempt (ahem) at the classic AU high school plot. Some of you may be saying, "What is this crazy person thinking, putting Meer as the main character and Athrun as her pairing? She's a b-!" For your information, she was not, and never meant to be one. And she's dead, for god's sake, and didn't anyone ever teach you to respect the dead? To me, Meer Campbell is the girl that is to be pitied the most (next to Stellar Loussier, who is going to be another main character in this story) in the GSD series. And she only tried to get closer to Athrun because she thought this was how the real Lacus always behaved. And I am changing many, many aspects of most of the characters' personalities here, so no complaining.
Disclaimer: Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny does not belong to me. It belongs to whoever owns it, which I'm too lazy to look up. The only things that belong to me are this storyline, the modifications I've made to the personalities of already exist characters, and Sally Rizel.
For the most part, Sally Rizel was what you'd call a normal seven-year-old Coordinator girl. She liked small cute animals, dolls, pink princesses, and Lacus Clyne. Of course, the star herself was the pinkest of the pink princesses (hence the nickname, Pink Princess), even carrying around the cutest pink machine, Haro.
Lacus Clyne was a rising teen pop star on the PLANTs, the daughter of the Councilman Clyne and active in welfare and politics as well as fashion shoots and music videos. Where most pop stars sang about inappropriate subjects, got quickly swallowed up by the enormous batch of new hopefuls that streamed in each year and degraded by disgusting rumors about all-night drunk binges and anorexia, Lacus Clyne did not. She was naturally petite and stunning in warm gray-blue eyes and bubblegum pink hair, and it wasn't her fault that the rumor mills in the press didn't have anything bad to tell about her.
That is where she draws her biggest crowds: small and pre-teen girls and their parents. At her concerts, it's a bit strange to think that parents would be streaming in as well as their children. Lacus's music was inspiring and showcased world peace. She was beautiful. She had a fairy-tale-prince fiancé, Athrun Zala. The kids loved her. The parents loved her. And that was how on this lovely Sunday morning, Sally Rizel found herself running through the streets of suburban ORB, a half-eaten ice-cream cone clutched unnoticed in her hand.
Any little girl would recognize that vivid pink hair anywhere. And because of pure chance, this little girl had seen that head of hair in the crowd and run off in hot pursuit. Anyone who's imagined meeting your idol would know this feeling, this electric excitement. So it's no wonder that when Sally did manage to catch up to Lacus-sama entering a grocery store, she was so preoccupied that she didn't notice that it wasn't Lacus.
The bright pink hair was there, but a few shades darker. The warm gray-blue eyes were there, but were brilliant blue instead. And this Lacus wore a black T-shirt with jeans and high-tops instead of the fairy-talke dresses that she normally wore. None of this mattered to the excited girl except the fact that this girl looked so much like Lacus-sama that she couldn't be anyone else.
So unknowing, she asked her for her autograph, and it wasn't until 'Lacus' kneeled down to her level and actually told her that she wasn't Lacus that Sally realized her mistake. Whereas the girl quickly blushed as bright as the other girl's hair and had been ready to bolt into an alley to hide herself in her humiliation, but the Lacus-look-alike stopped her.
"You could get lost in these crowds and end up somewhere you don't want to be," was what the girl, Meer Campbell said as she led Sally by the hand back to her worried mother. There, she was mistaken for Lacus Clyne yet again by Mrs. Rizel, who upon realizing her mistake quite a bit faster than her daughter had, apologized profusely, but Meer just waved the apology away. "It happens all the time," she told them before walking back to the store to buy her groceries.
So… how was it? It was short, but hey, it's a prologue. This semi-sarcastic narrator person (me) will be almost non-existent in the fic itself, which will be told alternatively between Meer and the other characters in the story. And yes, Meer will be in high school in the next chapter and she will meet the gang really soon. I will try very hard to keep the ideas present in this fic original, but I don't guarantee it. Many experiences are taken from my own life because I just started at a new high school. See you next chapter, which will be up shortly.