White Devil of the Moon: Difference between revisions

The war with the Dark Kingdom is going badly, and the Sailor Senshi naturally have a problem. Usagi never became [[Sailor Moon]], nor is she the Moon Princess, so the leadership of the Senshi falls to Minako, as Sailor Venus. All of Sailor Mars' attempts to divine the location of the Moon Princess have, so far, failed. But just as they are about to give up hope, Mars finally locates the Moon Princess; her name is Takamachi Nanoha, age 16. She's back on planet for her brother's wedding.

 

 

Even worse, Queen Beryl has noticed that her most hated rival, the Moon Princess, has returned from wherever she was hiding, and she's not about to let things go, no sir.

 

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* [[Alliteration]]: Chapter 12, "Strike, Scapegoat, Sacrifice"

* [[Alternate Universe]]: Nanoha got injured at 16, not 12 like in canon. This is an author-induced change invoked partially to reduce the squick factor in the [[May-December Romance|Nanoha/Mamoru]] pairing and partially to assist with the problem of two middle-school students living on their own and not attending school (High school being optional in Japan).

* [[Anger Born of Worry]]: Fate scolds Nanoha for overexerting herself again, telling her how much she's worried about her.

* [[Anvil on Head]]: Mercury fires a Shabon Spray Freezing into a cloud, creating the largest hailstone in history, {{spoiler|which lands on top of Zoicite.}}

* [[Back from the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Alicia}}

* [[Bad Boss]]: When anything goes wrong with her plans, Beryl will torture someone for being at best incompetent and at worst a potential traitor.

* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: Precia, who is dying from her radiation poisoning.

* [[Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress]]: Miyuki's bridesmaid's gown, after the fight breaks out. The actual bride's dress did not end up like that (or at least not as severely), as Shinobu wasn't participating in the fight.

* [[Bouquet Toss]]: Minako would have caught it, if she hadn't immediately rushed to Nanoha's side after her collapse.

* [[Boxed Crook]]: The Sailor Senshi, having assaulted Fate and Arf in their attempts to reach out to Nanoha, get the same treatment as some of Nanoha's [[Heel Face Turn|former]] [[Defeat Means Friendship|enemies]] did, avoiding formal punishment by means of community service.

* [[Deadly Dodging]]: A key part of Miyuki's strategy when attempting to take out Beryl.

* [[Disco Dan]]: Despite all reason, Luna continues to act as if the Moon Kingdom is still in existence, just severely diminished. This leads to problems when she refuses to explain herself to Fate during the early chapters due to her, now nonexistent, position as one of Queen Serenity's advisers.

* [[Due to the Dead]]: Rei holds a funeral for all of the dead bodies in the Moon Palace.

* [[Everyone Can See It|Everyone Could See It]]: {{spoiler|Apparently pretty much all of Nanoha and Fate's friends had a betting pool going on when they'd hook up for several years.}}

* [[Finger-Twitching Revival]]: {{spoiler|Alicia, revealing that stolen life energy can be used to revive her.}}

* [[Flanderization]]: Luna's character has been stripped down to almost nothing. See the entry for [[Disco Dan]]; that's more or less ''her entire purpose'' in the story.

* [[Game-Breaking Injury]]: One of the factors about Nanoha that makes Fate keep rebuffing Luna. After Nanoha kills Jadeite, she faints. Shamal then orders Nanoha not to use ''any'' magic for the foreseeable future.

* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: When Nanoha goes all worrywart about Princess Serenity's memories affecting her psyche, {{spoiler|Fate decides to [[First Kiss|make her]] [[Relationship Upgrade|feelings known.]]}}

* [[Heel Realization]]: {{spoiler|Precia, in her dying moments, realizes that she should have treated Fate as a daughter and used her remaining time to set things right}}

{{quote|Forgive me, Linith. You were right. You were right...}}

* [[Ill Girl]]: Nanoha, still recovering from her wounds.

* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|Precia, after she crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]] in Fate's eyes by hurting Alicia.}}

* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: Jupiter's reaction to having the war end {{spoiler|because the princess is a lesbian and not interested in Endymion}} in an omake. The rest of the Senshi agree with her.

* [[Japanese Honorifics]]: Initially not present, but show up in later chapters.

* [[Jaw Drop]]: The Senshi, when they find out that Nanoha is gay in the fic proper.

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Luna never bothers to explain to Fate ''why'' she needs to talk to Nanoha. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] when Artemis later explains that was how he and Luna used to do things back during the Moon Kingdom; they're used to having the authority to get things done without being questioned.

** If you go over the opening chapters and look at what each party is saying to the other from only one perspective at a time, it's more understandable as to ''why'' said poor communication turned out so disastrously. As Fate said, "It doesn't matter what is true, but what the person ''believes'' to be true."

* [[Power Creep, Power Seep]]: Naturally, there has to be a bit of power level balancing to be done with this sort of crossover, given the two different magics at work. Gets sort of ridiculous in chapter 6, however, where Jupiter is said to have knocked out two TSAB [[Mooks]] with her ''bare hands''.

** Possibly justified – Jupiter is the only one of the Inners with any kind of formal martial arts training, and the average TSAB mook is a [[Squishy Wizard]] due to the TSAB putting more focus on magical combat than hand-to-hand. When Makoto trains with Zafira, who ''is'' extremely skilled, she gets her ass kicked several times before she manages to win even a single spar.

* [[Social Services Does Not Exist]]: Averted. A officer tells {{spoiler|Precia}} that {{spoiler|Alicia}} is running afoul of the truancy laws.

** Later on, {{spoiler|Ami/Mercury}} wonders what will happen to her if the authorities find out about her situation while {{spoiler|her mother is still in a coma}}

* [[Switching POV]]: The narration switches between focusing on the Nanoha cast and the Sailor Moon cast, which determines which characters are referred to by name or how situations are described. For example, Fate finds "the cat" to be a nuisance who can potentially interrupt Nanoha's recovery, while Luna thinks that "the Dark Senshi" has brainwashed the princess and is threatening the fate of the world. After the two sides start working together, this effect lessens, though.

* [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]]: The Senshi, without Usagi, do not get along as well as in canon.

 

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