shioran toushin said:
well, in Canon Usagi became just and expy for Sailor Moon and then 'Princess Serenity', she accepted that the identity of Serenity was more important than 'Usagi' because most of if not all of the issues from the series were caused or solved thanks to their 'previous incarnations' AKA being the Princess of the Moon Kingdom and Wielder of the SIlver Crystal and Future Ruler of a semi-desolate World and then the thing with cosmos-chaos.
in canon here was a time that Usagi saw herself as Serenity first, Usagi as a 'cover identity'.
IMHO in this Fic she just sees herself as Usagi First and everything else as a past life that is the past (useful, but not life defining personality or identity as in canon).
I'm not following you too well with this --- I think you are using 'Expy' wrong. An Expy is a "a character from one series who is unambiguously and deliberately based on a character in another, older series". For example, Usagi is an expy of Minako from Codename Sailor V - though this turned out to be a very rare example of an expy meeting the original character when Sailor Venus showed up. In terms of fandom, an expy is a character who resembles the original canon character in basic characteristics (name, appearance, etc.) but has wildly different personality traits - so much so that it might as well be a different, original character.
Usagi cannot be an expy of herself, no matter what her perceptions of her identity may be. That's kinda like saying that if Peter Parker gave up his civilian identity because being Spider-Man full time was more important, then Peter becomes an expy of Spider-Man; it doesn't work that way, Peter is still himself. Or, for a more real world example; a person (Stephanie) enters a Disassociative Fugue state, she moves across state, forgets her previous identity, and takes on a new identity; this person - let's say Jane - does not become an expy of Stephanie. Jane *is* Stephanie. Typically, memories are recovered after a while, as Jane starts to remember more of her past she may experience confusion over her identity - but ultimately, whether she chooses to go home and 'be Stephanie' or remain in her new city and 'be Jane' doesn't change the fact that she's still the same person.
Usagi's situation is a little more complex - reincarnation, cosmic horror enemies, and all - but she's still Usagi throughout the entire series, regardless of what name she chooses to go by. And she does choose - she chose *not* to 'be Princess Serenity' and not to revive the Moon Kingdom at the end of the first Arc. That she experienced some confusion over her identity when her memories as Serenity came back doesn't change that she was still Usagi. That she recognizes that Sailor Moon is needed, is important to the safety of her friends/family/world doesn't make her less Usagi. If you recall, Sailor Moon didn't exist and wasn't supposed to exist before Usagi transformed for the first time - in fact, Chibi-Usa is said to be the real Sailor Moon (since Usagi was Sailor Cosmos all along). That she eventually comes to accept the future she's shown doesn't change the fact that she, Usagi, made a choice - she could have rejected it, just like she rejected the Moon Kingdom.
Also, to address your statement of everything coming from/resolved by previous incarnations -- it doesn't matter who the previous incarnations were; Princess Serenity's problems were also inherited - each of her enemies in that life were there because Chaos had wanted her Star Seed since forever ago. Same thing with Usagi's enemies - Death Phantom, Pharaoh 90, Sailor Galaxia - all sent by Chaos because he wanted her Star Seed. Whether she's a princess, middle-class school girl, or magical soldier; Chaos does not care. Usagi's problem is Chaos and has been ever since her Star Seed/Sailor Crystal was born from the Cauldron and it will continue to be a problem for the rest of her existence, no matter how many times she reincarnates or who those reincarnations are.
The difference between this fic and canon is that her problems (cosmic horror enemies, etc.) haven't shown up yet. Currently, Usagi has the luxury of living a life-style that she wants, rather than the life-style the world needs. Once her enemies start turning up, I expect that will change - they aren't going to thoughtfully off themselves or give up their ambitions after all.