... say the loveliest lines ...
The above picture, in its original form, appeared as the title page in Nakayoshi's March 1992 edition, and as a two page spread (pg 27-28) in Volume One of the Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Original Picture Collection. It clearly shows Serenity's inner senshi being held by Endymion's shitennou.
For some (like me) it's enough proof that the two parties were destined to be with one another, just as Serenity and Endymion are fated soul mates. For others, it's just a picture, and doesn't prove a thing; e.g. this raunchy picture of Minako holding Usagi isn't taken seriously because it's well-known that both girls are utterly boy-crazy. There are also hints as to the coupling of Kunzite and Venus, as well as Jadeite and Mars in various throw-away lines in the manga. But officially there are no concrete statements, other than a comment by Takeuchi-sensei, saying that she wanted to do a side-story featuring those four couples but didn't have the time.
Despite all the evidence being circumstantial, I still believe that those four couples were meant to be. It just doesn't seem fair that only Usagi gets the destined happily ever after, when the other girls are just as deserving. Potential love interests (e.g. Greg/Ryo) never quite measured up: they're mortals and thus liabilities in a battle, whereas the Shitennou can actually kick some arse. Okay, so the Shitennou were bad guys in the first season, but that's half the fun of writing these ships: the bad boy gets reformed by the good girl! Others argue that it's too convenient! All four senshi fall in love with all four shitennou?! But that's the crux of it! The synchronicity of the four couples makes it so alluring! It's fate and destiny playing the ultimate card.
It's a love-hate thing ...
adopted from Mint Julep
Okay, okay, I'm either preaching to the converted or you're never going to agree with me. Either way, I can live with that. What I can't live without is the wonderful fanfiction that this sub-genre has spawned; I have to admit, it's a guilty pleasure of mine. So, welcome to my personal library.
Senshi-Shitennou Library
Fragments of Memory by Thalia [R] [AU] [Mako/Neph] [Complete]
Star-crossed lovers. They live, they love and they die in the prime of their verdant youth, gloriously tragic, and the cycle continues. "I've got this great subconscious memory of places I've never been."
One-shot.Guilty Pleasures by Thalia & Lils [Ami/Zoi] [Light Smut] [Complete]
Zoi with accent (Irish/Welsh) + bodice-ripping + nerdslut t00biness.
Smut.Unrealised by Thalia [PG-13] [AU] [Ami/Zoi] [Complete]
Zephan had had the oddest sensation, from the first time he'd seen her, prissy-pretty and all dolled up, deceptively docile, that she'd spell trouble for him ... and really, wasn't that silly?
One-shot.Pas de Deux by Thalia [PG-13] [AU] [Mina/Kunz] [Complete]
Wilhelmina Newberry, ballet prodigy. To everyone else she's all arms and legs and white chiffony skirts with that blinding, dazzling white smile. To him, she's so much more.
One-shot.Freckles by Thalia [PG-13] [AU] [Mako/Neph] [Status = ?]
After many years, people change with situations. How does a fellow act around his orphaned childhood acquaintance after all this time?
one; two; three; four; five; six ...Pandora's Box by Thalia [PG-13] [AU] [Rei/Jade] [Complete]
He's not the one who took the light out of her eyes and replaced it with obsidian glass. He can't remember ever hurting her, losing her trust. It's not that simple, and it angers him that he doesn't know if this is personal -- just for him, or is she simply too broken to let him heal her?
One-shot.Accident by Thalia [PG-13] [AU] [Mina/Kunz] [Complete]
An accident, not of cars or ladders or spills.
One-shot.Turn the Tables by Thalia [PG-13] [AU] [Ami/Zoi] [Complete]
One boy whore wants a certain wallflower as a notch on his belt because she'd be the ultimate conquest... but one wallflower suddenly decides that she needs to be liberated, and things don't turn out at all as expected...
One-shot.In Hot Water by Thalia [PG-13] [AU] [Ami/Zoi] [Complete]
Tight dark denim jeans. Rope (of some sort). Innuendo.
One-shot.Coffee and Cigarettes by Thalia [PG-13] [AU] [Ami/Zoi] [Complete]
And then she's gone inside before he can stop her and he clenches his hands. He feels a surge of anger, except it's not directed at her. He's never been in love before. [...] But now, he waits for her to regain her courage and return once again calm and cold and impenetrable, and he feels a sense of bitter loathing to whoever it was that destroyed her inside, and he wonders if this was what love felt like...
One-shot.Camping by Thalia [PG-13] [AU] [All] [Complete]
Four short drabbles happening separately as each girl is out and away camping.
Wallflower; Reveille; The Ropes; Wilderness.
... more to come soon ...
Shitennou.com
Ficathons
Shitennou.com will be hosting an annual Ficathon. Until Rora and I figure out an easier way to do this, the details will be here for the time being. A salute must go to Smercy who began the tradition and ran the first and so far, only successful ficathon.
Ficathon 2004
[assigned couples/free choice]
[mako + neph]
[crystal tokyo w/o children]
Ficathon 2005
[didn't happen]
Ficathon 2006
[assigned couples/free choice]
Ficathon 2007
[non-couple interaction]
Ficathon 2008
[group fic: must have three or more main characters]
Ficathon 2009
[song/lyrics]
*PRIZE*
Ficathon 2010
[fairytale]
*PRIZE*
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