I have some new, non-GotE&M fanfics coming out this week… sorry, Silver Millennium fans! GotE&M is NOT on hiatus right now, I am working on the next chapter, but I had a few short stories that came into my mind that I wanted to tell. The first is “Hit and Miss,” a Len + Maya (Kamen Rider Dragon Knight) fanfic that I wrote for my sister. It was intended to be a multi-chapter piece, but I got annoyed with the direction the show was going. I may expand that story in the future, but for the time being, this story functions as a stand-alone short story.

The other new story is “After the End,” a post-Act 49 Nephrite + Ami one-shot. While I love writing Silver Millennium Neph/Ami, I was really in the mood to write a modern day fic. Hopefully fans of my first two Neph/Ami one-shots, “Getting to Know You” and “Double Date,” will enjoy this story.

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After the End” is a Neph/Ami short story set after the end of the series (but before the Special Act). I am planning on writing a number of other stories set in this continuity (the first one of these is “Reunion“, which is a Zoi/Mina fic), so I wanted to give some more details about the universe.

  1. Stories set in this continuity are written with the assumption that the Shitennou were reborn as humans just as the Senshi were in Act 49. I believe that this actually is the case in canon, although I know many people disagree with me. If you want to read a lengthy argument as to the whys and hows of this theory, you can do so here. Reading that rant might be a good background to reading the fic, although it’s totally not necessary.
  2. In this and other fanfics set in this continuity, the Shitennou’s human names are:

    Jadeite = Jun Kiiroi
    Nephrite = Naito Akai (his given name was borrowed with permission from my sister’s story “Darkness Emerging“)
    Zoisite = Zero Shiroi
    Kunzite = Ken Kuroi

    The way I thought of these names is kind of a funny story: when I started this fic, I was sitting there trying to think of what they should go by on Earth, and I thought, “Oh, I’ll give them corresponding colors for their last names” (Red, White, Black, and Yellow). So I looked up the colors and I was thinking, “Wow, I’m so original.” Well, I later realized that my “clever” name choices were actually the same names the Shitennou-police had in Act Zero. In my defense, I’ve only seen Act Zero once and it didn’t have subtitles on it, so I wasn’t really paying attention to their names (I also didn’t know back then that they were named after colors… the things you learn!). There’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.

    For their given names, I chose names that started with the same letter as their Shitennou names (“N” for Nephrite, “Z” for Zoisite, you get the picture). I didn’t use “Shin” for Kunzite because, since he has his memories now, I honestly can’t see him wanting to use that name (or acting the way Shin did, haha).

  3. For this and the other fanfics in this continuity, I have tried to do a lot of research so that it won’t seem like I’m so obnoxiously clueless about Japan. I felt like in some of my earlier PGSM fanfics, they were acting much too American. I really want to make something that is believable for the culture they’re in and would be as believable as a real episode of PGSM, but not being Japanese and never having been there, I can’t claim to be an expert. Hopefully I didn’t screw up too bad. Please forgive me if I did.

If you have any questions about anything you encountered in the fic, feel free to comment here and maybe I can answer them! XD

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