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* ClarkKenting - It takes Emerald a long time to figure out Sailor Moon and Serenity are the same.
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* ClarkKenting - Due to the Senshi's disguise magic changing even their auras. It takes Emerald a long time to figure out Sailor Moon and Serenity are the same.
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* EnemyMine - One of Emerald's off lines mentioned a brief alliance he had with the Sailor Senshi against an intergalactic conqueror who controlled his entire army through brainwashing. It lasted less than an hour and was described as ending in disaster. He also has a brief and unintentional one with Sailor Mars during one of their last battles when they work to save a child who gets caught in the middle. It leads to a brief moment when they both realise just how meaningless their battles have become. [[spoiler: It's also implied that this event was what directly lead to Emerald plan to travel to the past and prevent Crystal Tokyo from ever being born]]
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* EnemyMine - One of Emerald's off lines mentioned a brief alliance he had with the Sailor Senshi against an intergalactic conqueror who controlled his entire army through brainwashing. It lasted less than an hour and was described as ending in disaster. He also has a brief and unintentional one with Sailor Mars during one of their last battles when they work to save a child who gets caught in the middle. It leads to a brief moment when they both realise just how meaningless their battles have become. [[spoiler: It's also implied that this event was what directly lead to Emerald Emeralds plan to travel to the past and prevent Crystal Tokyo from ever being born]]
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* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul - The Purification is described as something like this, not so much forcefully making everyone happy so much as severing every "negative emotion" and leaving only "positive emotions." Emerald himself scoffs at what he describes as the black and white view on emotions [[spoiler: and he also sees his inability to prevent this from coming to pass as [[MyGreatestFailure his greatest failure]]]]
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* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul - The Purification is described as something like this, not so much forcefully making everyone happy so much as severing every "negative emotion" and leaving only "positive emotions." Emerald himself scoffs at what he describes as the this black and white view on emotions [[spoiler: and he also sees his inability to prevent this from coming to pass as [[MyGreatestFailure his greatest failure]]]]
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* MyGreatestFailure - [[spoiler: Emeralds was his inability to prevent the Purification from coming to pass. This is due to him being [[TheImmune immue]] to Serenity's power, had he simply released and bathed the planet in his energies first, he could have prevented the Purification from having any effect. Although, on an intellectual level, he notes that he had neither the control, the knowledge, or the power to actually pull it off, the fact that he had the potential still caused him endless guilt. This eventually comes into play at the end when he does this whilst in the past.]]
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* MyGreatestFailure - [[spoiler: Emeralds was his inability to prevent the Purification from coming to pass. This is due to him being [[TheImmune immue]] immune]] to Serenity's power, had he simply released and bathed the planet in his energies first, he could have prevented the Purification from having any effect. Although, on an intellectual level, he notes that he had neither the control, the knowledge, or the power to actually pull it off, the fact that he had the potential still caused him endless guilt. This eventually comes into play at the end when he does this whilst in the past.]]
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* WorldOfCardboardSpeech - In the beginning of chapter 8 Emerald reflects on how [[GoodPowersBadPeople his abilities]] and sole rebel left on Earth pretty much means everyone considers him as the [[BigBad]] to Crystal Tokyo and how he still plans on fighting anyway.
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* WorldOfCardboardSpeech - In the beginning of chapter 8 Emerald reflects on how [[GoodPowersBadPeople his abilities]] and status as the sole remaining rebel left on Earth pretty much means everyone considers him as the [[BigBad]] [[BigBad Big Bad]] to Crystal Tokyo and how he still plans on fighting for his convictions anyway.
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** [[spoiler: In the end, he gives a more low key version to Pluto, summarising what he's been through in the centuries fighting against Crystal Tokyo, as he finishes casting his Anti-Purification.]]
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** [[spoiler: In the end, he gives a more low key version to Pluto, summarising what he's been through and what he's learned in the centuries fighting against Crystal Tokyo, as he finishes casting his Anti-Purification.]]
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* EnemyMine - One of Emerald's off lines mentioned a brief alliance he had with the Sailor Senshi against an intergalactic conqueror who controlled his entire army through brainwashing. It lasted less than an hour and was described as ending in disaster. He also has a brief and unintentional one with Sailor Mars during one of their last battles when they work to save a child who gets caught in the middle. It leads to a brief moment when they both realise just how meaningless their battles has become. [[spoiler: It's also implied that this event was what directly lead to Emerald plan to travel to the past and prevent Crystal Tokyo from ever being born]]
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* EnemyMine - One of Emerald's off lines mentioned a brief alliance he had with the Sailor Senshi against an intergalactic conqueror who controlled his entire army through brainwashing. It lasted less than an hour and was described as ending in disaster. He also has a brief and unintentional one with Sailor Mars during one of their last battles when they work to save a child who gets caught in the middle. It leads to a brief moment when they both realise just how meaningless their battles has have become. [[spoiler: It's also implied that this event was what directly lead to Emerald plan to travel to the past and prevent Crystal Tokyo from ever being born]]
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* EnemyMine - One of Emerald's off lines mentioned a brief alliance he had with the Sailor Senshi against an intergalactic conqueror who controlled his entire army through brainwashing. It lasted less than an hour and was described as ending in disaster. He also has a brief and unintentional one with Sailor Mars during one of their last battles when they work to save a child who gets caught in the middle. It leads to a brief [[NotSoDifferent]] moment when they both realise just how meaningless their battles has become. [[spoiler: It's also implied that this event was what directly lead to Emerald plan to travel to the past and prevent Crystal Tokyo from ever being born]]
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* EnemyMine - One of Emerald's off lines mentioned a brief alliance he had with the Sailor Senshi against an intergalactic conqueror who controlled his entire army through brainwashing. It lasted less than an hour and was described as ending in disaster. He also has a brief and unintentional one with Sailor Mars during one of their last battles when they work to save a child who gets caught in the middle. It leads to a brief [[NotSoDifferent]] moment when they both realise just how meaningless their battles has become. [[spoiler: It's also implied that this event was what directly lead to Emerald plan to travel to the past and prevent Crystal Tokyo from ever being born]]
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* GettingSmiliesPaintedonYourSoul - The Purification is described as something like this, not so much forcefully making everyone happy so much as severing every "negative emotion" and leaving only "positive emotions." Emerald himself scoffs at what he describes as the black and white view on emotions [[spoiler: and he also sees his inability to prevent this from coming to pass as [[MyGreatestFailure his greatest failure]]]]
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* GettingSmiliesPaintedonYourSoul GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul - The Purification is described as something like this, not so much forcefully making everyone happy so much as severing every "negative emotion" and leaving only "positive emotions." Emerald himself scoffs at what he describes as the black and white view on emotions [[spoiler: and he also sees his inability to prevent this from coming to pass as [[MyGreatestFailure his greatest failure]]]]
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* [[BadPowersGoodPeople Bad Powers, Morally Ambiguous People]] - Emerald notes that all of his powers are pretty much stereotypical villain powers
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* [[BadPowersGoodPeople Bad Powers, Morally Ambiguous People]] - Emerald notes that all of his powers are pretty much stereotypical villain powerspowers. [[AllTheOtherReindeer He mentions that he's been treated with suspicion by a number of people with more traditional "good" powers and that the survivors weren't surprised by, or were even expecting, him to fight against Crystal Tokyo]]
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* TheImmune - Emerald notes that his and Serenity's energies naturally repel each other. This effectively renders him immune to the Purification. [[He eventually casts an Anti-Purification when in the past after draining Pluto's energy that renders everyone on the planet this.]]
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* TheImmune - Emerald notes that his and Serenity's energies naturally repel each other. This effectively renders him immune to the Purification. [[He [[spoiler: He eventually casts an Anti-Purification when in the past after draining Pluto's energy that renders everyone on the planet this.]]
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* WeWinBecauseYouDidn't - [[spoiler: Emeralds ultimate plan. He breaks through the timeline to attract Sailor Pluto's attention and drain her energy. Afterwards he casts his Anti-Purification spell whilst using Pluto's energy to prevent a paradox from occurring and effectively preventing the Crystal Tokyo he knew from existing.]]
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* WeWinBecauseYouDidn't WeWinBecauseYouDidnt - [[spoiler: Emeralds ultimate plan. He breaks through the timeline to attract Sailor Pluto's attention and drain her energy. Afterwards he casts his Anti-Purification spell whilst using Pluto's energy to prevent a paradox from occurring and effectively preventing the Crystal Tokyo he knew from existing.]]
*WorldOfCardboardSpeech - In the beginning of chapter 8 Emerald reflects on how [[GoodPowersBadPeople his abilities]] and sole rebel left on Earth pretty much means everyone considers him as the [[BigBad]] to Crystal Tokyo and how he still plans on fighting anyway.
--> What you will become is not about what you are, or who you are, or who are thought to be. My life, like anyone's life, has been a series of choices and consequences.
--> After the rebellion, it came down to this:
--> If I had done nothing, I would have lived - albeit in exile. If I fought the Senshi directly without allies, I would have died. And if I fought from the shadows, then one day it was possible that I might get my lucky shot and win. That, then, left me a clear choice - to do nothing, or to do what I can.
--> Destiny be damned. [[IAmWhatIAm I choose to do what I can]].
**[[spoiler: In the end, he gives a more low key version to Pluto, summarising what he's been through in the centuries fighting against Crystal Tokyo, as he finishes casting his Anti-Purification.]]
*WorldOfCardboardSpeech - In the beginning of chapter 8 Emerald reflects on how [[GoodPowersBadPeople his abilities]] and sole rebel left on Earth pretty much means everyone considers him as the [[BigBad]] to Crystal Tokyo and how he still plans on fighting anyway.
--> What you will become is not about what you are, or who you are, or who are thought to be. My life, like anyone's life, has been a series of choices and consequences.
--> After the rebellion, it came down to this:
--> If I had done nothing, I would have lived - albeit in exile. If I fought the Senshi directly without allies, I would have died. And if I fought from the shadows, then one day it was possible that I might get my lucky shot and win. That, then, left me a clear choice - to do nothing, or to do what I can.
--> Destiny be damned. [[IAmWhatIAm I choose to do what I can]].
**[[spoiler: In the end, he gives a more low key version to Pluto, summarising what he's been through in the centuries fighting against Crystal Tokyo, as he finishes casting his Anti-Purification.]]
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* {{Brainwashed}} - ''Everyone'' in Crystal Tokyo and the rest of the Earth, except Emerald and those exiled (according to Emerald, anyways). The result of Instrumentality, and ''the'' main reason Emerald wants to change the past.
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* {{Brainwashed}} - ''Everyone'' in Crystal Tokyo and the rest of the Earth, except Emerald and those exiled (according to Emerald, anyways).exiled. The result of Instrumentality, and ''the'' main reason Emerald wants to change the past.
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* CrapsaccharineWorld - Crystal Tokyo, according to Emerald.
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* CrapsaccharineWorld - Crystal Tokyo, Tokyo according to Emerald.
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* MurderIsTheBestSolution - Emerald's favored method for dealing with youma (when he's not simply ''eating them''), as opposed to Sailor Moon purifying them.
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* PlotArmor - Emerald gets stabbed in the chest at one part, and essentially walks it off.
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* ShowDontTell - Averted when it comes to Crystal Tokyo. We're told by Emerald that the place is a dystopia ruled by a tyrant, but we're shown very little proof of it.
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** IgnoredEpiphany - Of course, that didn't stop him from killing her, or planning to kill several others.
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* {{Determinator}} - Emerald. He's been fighting against Crystal Tokyo just by himself and with his small sentient crystal for centuries, always dragging himself up to try again whenever he fails. [[spoiler: This does take its toll however, and when he finds out that Serenity has RusurrectiveImmortality he decides to go for a PyrrhicVictory by stopping the Purification whilst he was in the past.]]
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* {{Determinator}} - Emerald. He's been fighting against Crystal Tokyo just by himself and with his small sentient crystal for centuries, always dragging himself up to try again whenever he fails. [[spoiler: This does take its toll however, and when he finds out that Serenity has RusurrectiveImmortality ResurrectiveImmortality he decides to go for a PyrrhicVictory by stopping the Purification whilst he was in the past.]]
* GoOutWithASmile - [[spoiler: Emerald ultimately dies this way, erased from casting his Anti-Purification due the paradox he created, content with finally achieving his goal.]]
* TheImmune - Emerald notes that his and Serenity's energies naturally repel each other. This effectively renders him immune to the Purification. [[He eventually casts an Anti-Purification when in the past after draining Pluto's energy that renders everyone on the planet this.]]
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* MyGreatestFailure - [[spoiler: Emeralds was his inability to prevent the Purification from coming to pass. This is due to his being [[theimmue]]]], had he simply released and bathed the planet in his energies first, he could have prevented the Purification from having any effect. Although he notes that, intellectually, he had neither the control, the knowledge, or the power to actually pull it off, the fact that he had the potential still caused him endless guilt]]
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* MyGreatestFailure - [[spoiler: Emeralds was his inability to prevent the Purification from coming to pass. This is due to his him being [[theimmue]]]], [[TheImmune immue]] to Serenity's power, had he simply released and bathed the planet in his energies first, he could have prevented the Purification from having any effect. Although Although, on an intellectual level, he notes that, intellectually, that he had neither the control, the knowledge, or the power to actually pull it off, the fact that he had the potential still caused him endless guilt]]guilt. This eventually comes into play at the end when he does this whilst in the past.]]
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong - The whole motivation of Emerald's life, as written in his journal entries.
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong - The whole motivation of Emerald's life, as written in his journal entries. [[spoiler: He succeeds.]]
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* WeWinBecauseYouDidn't - [[spoiler: Emeralds ultimate plan. He breaks through the timeline to attract Sailor Pluto's attention and drain her energy. Afterwards he casts his Anti-Purification spell whilst using Pluto's energy to prevent a paradox from occurring and effectively preventing the Crystal Tokyo he knew from existing.]]
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--> [[TeleportersAndTransporters I could teleport, yes,]] [[CastingAShadow but only from the shadows.]] [[EnergyAbsorption I could draw energy from the elements, yes,]] [[VampiricDraining But not as quickly as I could drain it from youma.]] [[Let'sFightLikeGentleman I could fight in the open, yes,]] [[InTheBack but never as effectively as when I struck from the shadows.]]
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--> [[TeleportersAndTransporters I could teleport, yes,]] [[CastingAShadow but only from the shadows.]] [[EnergyAbsorption I could draw energy from the elements, yes,]] [[VampiricDraining But not as quickly as I could drain it from youma.]] [[Let'sFightLikeGentleman [[LetsFightLikeGentleman I could fight in the open, yes,]] [[InTheBack but never as effectively as when I struck from the shadows.]]
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* {{Determinator}} - Emerald. He's been fighting against Crystal Tokyo by himself for years, always dragging himself up to try again whenever he fails. [[spoiler: This does take its toll however, and when he finds out that Serenity has RusurrectiveImmortality he decides to go for a PyrrhicVictory by stopping the Purification whilst he was in the past.]]
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* {{Determinator}} - Emerald. He's been fighting against Crystal Tokyo just by himself and with his small sentient crystal for years, centuries, always dragging himself up to try again whenever he fails. [[spoiler: This does take its toll however, and when he finds out that Serenity has RusurrectiveImmortality he decides to go for a PyrrhicVictory by stopping the Purification whilst he was in the past.]]
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* EnemyMine - One of Emerald's off lines mentioned a brief alliance he had with the Sailor Senshi against an intergalactic conqueror who controlled his entire army through brainwashing. It lasted less than an hour and was described as ending in disaster. He also has a brief and unintentional one with Sailor Mars
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* EnemyMine - One of Emerald's off lines mentioned a brief alliance he had with the Sailor Senshi against an intergalactic conqueror who controlled his entire army through brainwashing. It lasted less than an hour and was described as ending in disaster. He also has a brief and unintentional one with Sailor MarsMars during one of their last battles when they work to save a child who gets caught in the middle. It leads to a brief [[NotSoDifferent]] moment when they both realise just how meaningless their battles has become. [[spoiler: It's also implied that this event was what directly lead to Emerald plan to travel to the past and prevent Crystal Tokyo from ever being born]]
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* InTheNameOfTheMoon - Emerald thinks it's over the top and at one point interrupts Sailor Moon during one such speech.
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* InTheNameOfTheMoon - Emerald thinks it's over the top and at one point interrupts Sailor Moon during one such speech. It's noted by Pluto that this isn't the first time.
* KnightTemplar - All of the Crystal Tokyo-era Senshi, ''especially'' [[KillItWithFire Sailor Mars]].
* KnightTemplar - All of the Crystal Tokyo-era Senshi, ''especially'' [[KillItWithFire Sailor Mars]].
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* KnightTemplar - All of the Crystal Tokyo-era Senshi, ''especially'' [[KillItWithFire Sailor Mars]].
* MyGreatestFailure - [[spoiler: Emeralds was his inability to prevent the Purification from coming to pass. This is due to his being [[theimmue]]]], had he simply released and bathed the planet in his energies first, he could have prevented the Purification from having any effect. Although he notes that, intellectually, he had neither the control, the knowledge, or the power to actually pull it off, the fact that he had the potential still caused him endless guilt]]
* NeverHurtAnInnocent - Emerald was tempted to drain Naru of her energy after seeing how much she has but ultimately refuses due to this.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent - Emerald was tempted to drain Naru of her energy after seeing how much she has but ultimately refuses due to this.
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* UnreliableNarrator - Almost everything we learn about Crystal Tokyo being a BadFuture is told to us by Emerald, who, it must be noted, has a very deep-set grudge against Neo-Queen Serenity. The fact that barely any of the fic actually takes place in Crystal Tokyo means we don't have much choice but to take his word for it, or reject it.
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* UnreliableNarrator - Almost everything we learn about Crystal Tokyo being a BadFuture is told to us by Emerald, who, it must be noted, has a very deep-set grudge against Neo-Queen Serenity. The fact that barely any of the fic actually takes place in Crystal Tokyo means we don't have much choice but to take his word for it, or reject it. [[spoiler: Of course since part of this was implemented by Sailor Pluto, it shows that Emerald was at least partially right in his views.]]
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* AndIMustScream - What Emerald ends up being subjected to when he was frozen in the Great Ice. Specifically, while almost everyone else experienced it as a sort of "bad dream" with varying degrees of consciousness, he was fully aware the entire time for over 300 years before he managed to free himself, [[{{Irony}} (less than an hour before Serenity freed the rest of the world)]]. Naturally he comes out of it rather shaken and leading to his IdentityAmnesia. Beryls "Eternal Sleep" punishment is also along these lines, Emerald even directly compares it to being frozen in the Great Ice
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* AndIMustScream - What Emerald ends up being subjected to when he was frozen in the Great Ice. Specifically, while almost everyone else experienced it as a sort of "bad dream" with varying degrees of consciousness, he was fully aware the entire time for over 300 years before he managed to free himself, [[{{Irony}} (less than an hour before Serenity freed the rest of the world)]]. Naturally he comes out of it rather shaken and leading to his IdentityAmnesia. Beryls "Eternal Sleep" punishment is also along these lines, Emerald even directly compares it to being frozen in the Great IceIce.
* [[BadPowersGoodPeople Bad Powers, Morally Ambiguous People]] - Emerald notes that all of his powers are pretty much stereotypical villain powers
--> [[TeleportersAndTransporters I could teleport, yes,]] [[CastingAShadow but only from the shadows.]] [[EnergyAbsorption I could draw energy from the elements, yes,]] [[VampiricDraining But not as quickly as I could drain it from youma.]] [[Let'sFightLikeGentleman I could fight in the open, yes,]] [[InTheBack but never as effectively as when I struck from the shadows.]]
--> [[TeleportersAndTransporters I could teleport, yes,]] [[CastingAShadow but only from the shadows.]] [[EnergyAbsorption I could draw energy from the elements, yes,]] [[VampiricDraining But not as quickly as I could drain it from youma.]] [[Let'sFightLikeGentleman I could fight in the open, yes,]] [[InTheBack but never as effectively as when I struck from the shadows.]]
* {{Determinator}} - Emerald. He's been fighting against Crystal Tokyo by himself for years, always dragging himself up to try again whenever he fails. [[spoiler: This does take its toll however, and when he finds out that Serenity has RusurrectiveImmortality he decides to go for a PyrrhicVictory by stopping the Purification whilst he was in the past.]]
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* First-PersonSmartass - When Emerald isn't being introspective, his narration tends to be like this.
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* First-PersonSmartass FirstPersonSmartass - When Whenever Emerald isn't being introspective, his narration tends to be like this.
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* AndIMustScream - What Emerald ends up being subjected to when he was frozen in the Great Ice. Specifically, while almost everyone else experienced it as a sort of "bad dream" with varying degrees of consciousness, he was fully aware the entire time for over 300 years before he managed to free himself, [[{{Irony}} (less than an hour before Serenity freed the rest of the world)]]. Naturally he comes out of it rather shaken and leading to his Identity Amnesia.
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* AndIMustScream - What Emerald ends up being subjected to when he was frozen in the Great Ice. Specifically, while almost everyone else experienced it as a sort of "bad dream" with varying degrees of consciousness, he was fully aware the entire time for over 300 years before he managed to free himself, [[{{Irony}} (less than an hour before Serenity freed the rest of the world)]]. Naturally he comes out of it rather shaken and leading to his Identity Amnesia.IdentityAmnesia. Beryls "Eternal Sleep" punishment is also along these lines, Emerald even directly compares it to being frozen in the Great Ice
* TheAgeless - Emerald and the Sailor Senshi are this by Crystal Tokyo's time.
* TheAgeless - Emerald and the Sailor Senshi are this by Crystal Tokyo's time.
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* EnergyAbsorption - Emerald needs to do this to get stronger, mostly by draining youma to the point where they die and turn to dust.
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* EnemyMine - One of Emerald's off lines mentioned a brief alliance he had with the Sailor Senshi against an intergalactic conqueror who controlled his entire army through brainwashing. It lasted less than an hour and was described as ending in disaster. He also has a brief and unintentional one with Sailor Mars
* EnergyAbsorption - Emerald needs to do this to get stronger,mostly he can do so through a variety of ways and can even drain energy from the elements around him
** VampiricDraining - ...but in the end he does it most effectively by draining other living creatures, mostly youma to the point where they die and turn to dust.
* EnergyAbsorption - Emerald needs to do this to get stronger,
** VampiricDraining - ...but in the end he does it most effectively by draining other living creatures, mostly youma to the point where they die and turn to dust.
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* FateWorseThanDeath - Being conscious and aware for centuries frozen in ice, as Emerald was. Also Beryl's "Eternal Sleep" punishment.
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* FateWorseThanDeath First-PersonSmartass - Being conscious and aware for centuries frozen in ice, as When Emerald was. Also Beryl's "Eternal Sleep" punishment.isn't being introspective, his narration tends to be like this.
* MeaningfulRename - The original group of rebels (who, in this fic, would come to inspire the Black Moon Clan) named themselves after gems and stones to reflect the fact that they were fighting for the Earth, Emerald was actually ambivalent towards this since he saw little importance in names but did so anyway because everyone else urged him to.
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* MeaninglessMeaningfulWords - Emerald's journal entries are full of his fauxlosophical thoughts.
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* MeaninglessMeaningfulWords - Emerald's journal entries are full of his fauxlosophical thoughts. At least some of it is written down deliberately to taunt the Sailor Senshi.
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* AndIMustScream - What Emerald ends up being subjected to when he was frozen in the Great Ice. Specifically, while almost everyone else experienced it as a sort of "bad dream" with varying degrees of consciousness, he was fully aware the entire time for over 300 years before he managed to free himself, [[Irony (less than an hour before Serenity freed the rest of the world)]]. Naturally he comes out of it rather shaken and leading to his Identity Amnesia.
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* AndIMustScream - What Emerald ends up being subjected to when he was frozen in the Great Ice. Specifically, while almost everyone else experienced it as a sort of "bad dream" with varying degrees of consciousness, he was fully aware the entire time for over 300 years before he managed to free himself, [[Irony [[{{Irony}} (less than an hour before Serenity freed the rest of the world)]]. Naturally he comes out of it rather shaken and leading to his Identity Amnesia.
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* Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul - The Purification is described as something like this, not so much forcefully making everyone happy so much as severing every "negative emotion" and leaving only "positive emotions." Emerald himself scoffs at what he describes as the black and white view on emotions [[spoiler: and he also sees his inability to prevent this from coming to pass as [[My Greatest Failure his greatest failure]]]]
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* Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul GettingSmiliesPaintedonYourSoul - The Purification is described as something like this, not so much forcefully making everyone happy so much as severing every "negative emotion" and leaving only "positive emotions." Emerald himself scoffs at what he describes as the black and white view on emotions [[spoiler: and he also sees his inability to prevent this from coming to pass as [[My Greatest Failure [[MyGreatestFailure his greatest failure]]]]
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* [[And I Must Scream]] - What Emerald ends up being subjected to when he was frozen in the Great Ice. Specifically, while almost everyone else experienced it as a sort of "bad dream" with varying degrees of consciousness, he was fully aware the entire time for over 300 years before he managed to free himself, [[Irony (less than an hour before Serenity freed the rest of the world)]]. Naturally he comes out of it rather shaken and leading to his Identity Amnesia.
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* [[And I Must Scream]] AndIMustScream - What Emerald ends up being subjected to when he was frozen in the Great Ice. Specifically, while almost everyone else experienced it as a sort of "bad dream" with varying degrees of consciousness, he was fully aware the entire time for over 300 years before he managed to free himself, [[Irony (less than an hour before Serenity freed the rest of the world)]]. Naturally he comes out of it rather shaken and leading to his Identity Amnesia.
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* [[Cruel Mercy]] - How Emerald sees his planned punishment after being defeated in the first rebellion, mainly banishing him from the planet. More accurately, he's not so much angry at the punishment itself then the fact that everyone at his trial acted like this was being magnanimous of them.
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* [[Cruel Mercy]] CruelMercy - How Emerald sees his planned punishment after being defeated in the first rebellion, mainly banishing him from the planet. More accurately, he's not so much angry at the punishment itself then the fact that everyone at his trial acted like this was being magnanimous of them.
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* [[Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul]] - The Purification is described as something like this, not so much forcefully making everyone happy so much as severing every "negative emotion" and leaving only "positive emotions." Emerald himself scoffs at what he describes as the black and white view on emotions [[spoiler: and he also sees his inability to prevent this from coming to pass as [[My Greatest Failure his greatest failure]]]]
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* [[Getting Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul]] Soul - The Purification is described as something like this, not so much forcefully making everyone happy so much as severing every "negative emotion" and leaving only "positive emotions." Emerald himself scoffs at what he describes as the black and white view on emotions [[spoiler: and he also sees his inability to prevent this from coming to pass as [[My Greatest Failure his greatest failure]]]]
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* And I Must Scream - What Emerald ends up being subjected to when he was frozen in the Great Ice. Specifically, while almost everyone else experienced it as a sort of "bad dream" with varying degrees of consciousness, he was fully aware the entire time for over 300 years before he managed to free himself, [[Irony (less than an hour before Serenity freed the rest of the world)]]. Naturally he comes out of it rather shaken and leading to his Identity Amnesia.
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* And [[And I Must Scream Scream]] - What Emerald ends up being subjected to when he was frozen in the Great Ice. Specifically, while almost everyone else experienced it as a sort of "bad dream" with varying degrees of consciousness, he was fully aware the entire time for over 300 years before he managed to free himself, [[Irony (less than an hour before Serenity freed the rest of the world)]]. Naturally he comes out of it rather shaken and leading to his Identity Amnesia.
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* Cruel Mercy - How Emerald sees his planned punishment after being defeated in the first rebellion, mainly banishing him from the planet. More accurately, he's not so much angry at the punishment itself then the fact that everyone at his trial acted like this was being magnanimous of them.
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* Cruel Mercy [[Cruel Mercy]] - How Emerald sees his planned punishment after being defeated in the first rebellion, mainly banishing him from the planet. More accurately, he's not so much angry at the punishment itself then the fact that everyone at his trial acted like this was being magnanimous of them.
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* Getting [[Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul Soul]] - The Purification is described as something like this, not so much forcefully making everyone happy so much as severing every "negative emotion" and leaving only "positive emotions." Emerald himself scoffs at what he describes as the black and white view on emotions [[spoiler: and he also sees his inability to prevent this from coming to pass as [[My Greatest Failure his greatest failure]]]]
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* And I Must Scream - What Emerald ends up being subjected to when he was frozen in the Great Ice. Specifically, while almost everyone else experienced it as a sort of "bad dream" with varying degrees of consciousness, he was fully aware the entire time for over 300 years before he managed to free himself, [[Irony (less than an hour before Serenity freed the rest of the world)]]. Naturally he comes out of it rather shaken and leading to his Identity Amnesia.
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* Cruel Mercy - How Emerald sees his planned punishment after being defeated in the first rebellion, mainly banishing him from the planet. More accurately, he's not so much angry at the punishment itself then the fact that everyone at his trial acted like this was being magnanimous of them.
--> If being thrown off the planet that had born, raised, and supported you, if being thrown off the planet that you fought time and time again to save and protect, if being thrown off the planet that people died, DIED to help you protect, if being thrown off your home planet, the planet you love is MERCY, then by the GODS, never, EVER show any mercy to me AGAIN!
--> There's no mercy in planetary exile, none at all.
--> If being thrown off the planet that had born, raised, and supported you, if being thrown off the planet that you fought time and time again to save and protect, if being thrown off the planet that people died, DIED to help you protect, if being thrown off your home planet, the planet you love is MERCY, then by the GODS, never, EVER show any mercy to me AGAIN!
--> There's no mercy in planetary exile, none at all.
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* PlotArmor - Emerald gets stabbed in the chest at one part, and essentially walks it off.
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* CrapsaccharineWorld - Crystal Tokyo, according to Emerald.
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* ShowDontTell - Averted when it comes to Crystal Tokyo. We're told by Emerald that the place is a dystopia ruled by a tyrant, but we're shown very little proof of it.
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* MeaninglessMeaningfulWords - Emerald's journal entries are full of his fauxlosophical thoughts.
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* MurderIsTheBestSolution - Emerald's favored method for dealing with youma (when he's not simply ''eating them''), as opposed to Sailor Moon purifying them.
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* BewareTheSuperman: Emerald asked why the Senshi should rule the world just because they had powers instead of making it better in one of his diary entries.
* BigBad: Neo-Queen Serenity, and the (future) Senshi. To Emerald, Beryl and even ''Metallia'' are not worth the time.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Emerald never gets to fully enjoy his victory as he's erased from time moments later, but his younger self will not have to go through the pain he did.]]
* BewareTheSuperman: Emerald asked why the Senshi should rule the world just because they had powers instead of making it better in one of his diary entries.
* BigBad: Neo-Queen Serenity, and the (future) Senshi. To Emerald, Beryl and even ''Metallia'' are not worth the time.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Emerald never gets to fully enjoy his victory as he's erased from time moments later, but his younger self will not have to go through the pain he did.]]
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BadFuture - Whether Emerald is ''averting'' or ''creating'' one is up for the reader to decide.
*BewareTheSuperman: BewareTheSuperman - Emerald asked why the Senshi should rule the world just because they had powers instead of making it better in one of his diary entries.
*BigBad: BigBad - Neo-Queen Serenity, and the (future) Senshi. To Emerald, Beryl and even ''Metallia'' are not worth the time.
*BittersweetEnding: BittersweetEnding - [[spoiler:Emerald never gets to fully enjoy his victory as he's erased from time moments later, but his younger self will not have to go through the pain he did.]]
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* BlessedWithSuck: Emerald's view of immortality, after many years of suffering and fighting.
* {{Brainwashed}}: ''Everyone'' in Crystal Tokyo and the rest of the Earth, except Emerald and those exiled. The result of Instrumentality, and ''the'' main reason Emerald wants to change the past.
* ClarkKenting: It takes Emerald a long time to figure out Sailor Moon and Serenity are the same.
* DramaticIrony: The protagonist is unaware that Sailor Moon is Queen Serenity.
* EnergyAbsorption: Emerald needs to do this to get stronger, mostly by draining youma to the point where they die and turn to dust.
* ExactWords: [[spoiler: Sailor Pluto]] sees Crystal Tokyo [[spoiler: prevented from coming into being as it existed ''through no act of her own''. Meaning by arranging events so Emerald be forced to go through with his fallback anti-Purification plan, and being in the right place so he could defeat her and feed off her energy, Pluto could prevent the future she didn't want without breaking her oath to Queen Serenity.]]
* FashionVictimVillain: Emerald described the Senshi as "girls with interesting powers in silly suits. As opposed, of course, to women with horrifically intense powers... in silly suits." [[invoked]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Being conscious and aware for centuries frozen in ice, as Emerald was. Also Beryl's "Eternal Sleep" punishment.
* ForWantOfANail: It is heavily implied that in the original timeline, [[spoiler:Emerald would have become [[EldritchAbomination Wiseman]]. Pluto's "If you knew your original fate, you would have thanked me" line cinches it.]]
* FutureBadass:
* GambitRoulette: At the end, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Sailor Pluto was the true mastermind behind the plot to prevent Crystal Tokyo (or at least the "purified" version described) from coming into being. She spent "thousands of manipulations over thousands of years" working towards the goal "Only to realise only after [she] got it that it wasn't what [she] thought it was." After that she started secretly working towards getting Emerald to change things.]]
* HeroicBSOD: After Emerald finds out that [[spoiler:Sailor Moon is the Serenity he has been looking for all along.]]
* IdentityAmnesia: Emerald cannot remember his own name or much of his past. [[spoiler:His true name is revealed to be Yukio, by Pluto.]]
* {{Brainwashed}}: ''Everyone'' in Crystal Tokyo and the rest of the Earth, except Emerald and those exiled. The result of Instrumentality, and ''the'' main reason Emerald wants to change the past.
* ClarkKenting: It takes Emerald a long time to figure out Sailor Moon and Serenity are the same.
* DramaticIrony: The protagonist is unaware that Sailor Moon is Queen Serenity.
* EnergyAbsorption: Emerald needs to do this to get stronger, mostly by draining youma to the point where they die and turn to dust.
* ExactWords: [[spoiler: Sailor Pluto]] sees Crystal Tokyo [[spoiler: prevented from coming into being as it existed ''through no act of her own''. Meaning by arranging events so Emerald be forced to go through with his fallback anti-Purification plan, and being in the right place so he could defeat her and feed off her energy, Pluto could prevent the future she didn't want without breaking her oath to Queen Serenity.]]
* FashionVictimVillain: Emerald described the Senshi as "girls with interesting powers in silly suits. As opposed, of course, to women with horrifically intense powers... in silly suits." [[invoked]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Being conscious and aware for centuries frozen in ice, as Emerald was. Also Beryl's "Eternal Sleep" punishment.
* ForWantOfANail: It is heavily implied that in the original timeline, [[spoiler:Emerald would have become [[EldritchAbomination Wiseman]]. Pluto's "If you knew your original fate, you would have thanked me" line cinches it.]]
* FutureBadass:
* GambitRoulette: At the end, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Sailor Pluto was the true mastermind behind the plot to prevent Crystal Tokyo (or at least the "purified" version described) from coming into being. She spent "thousands of manipulations over thousands of years" working towards the goal "Only to realise only after [she] got it that it wasn't what [she] thought it was." After that she started secretly working towards getting Emerald to change things.]]
* HeroicBSOD: After Emerald finds out that [[spoiler:Sailor Moon is the Serenity he has been looking for all along.]]
* IdentityAmnesia: Emerald cannot remember his own name or much of his past. [[spoiler:His true name is revealed to be Yukio, by Pluto.]]
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* BlessedWithSuck: BlessedWithSuck - Emerald's view of immortality, after many years of suffering and fighting.
*{{Brainwashed}}: {{Brainwashed}} - ''Everyone'' in Crystal Tokyo and the rest of the Earth, except Emerald and those exiled.exiled (according to Emerald, anyways). The result of Instrumentality, and ''the'' main reason Emerald wants to change the past.
*ClarkKenting: ClarkKenting - It takes Emerald a long time to figure out Sailor Moon and Serenity are the same.
*DramaticIrony: DramaticIrony - The protagonist is unaware that Sailor Moon is Queen Serenity.
*EnergyAbsorption: EnergyAbsorption - Emerald needs to do this to get stronger, mostly by draining youma to the point where they die and turn to dust.
*ExactWords: ExactWords - [[spoiler: Sailor Pluto]] sees Crystal Tokyo [[spoiler: prevented from coming into being as it existed ''through no act of her own''. Meaning by arranging events so Emerald be forced to go through with his fallback anti-Purification plan, and being in the right place so he could defeat her and feed off her energy, Pluto could prevent the future she didn't want without breaking her oath to Queen Serenity.]]
*FashionVictimVillain: FashionVictimVillain - Emerald described the Senshi as "girls with interesting powers in silly suits. As opposed, of course, to women with horrifically intense powers... in silly suits." [[invoked]]
*FateWorseThanDeath: FateWorseThanDeath - Being conscious and aware for centuries frozen in ice, as Emerald was. Also Beryl's "Eternal Sleep" punishment.
*ForWantOfANail: ForWantOfANail - It is heavily implied that in the original timeline, [[spoiler:Emerald would have become [[EldritchAbomination Wiseman]]. Pluto's "If you knew your original fate, you would have thanked me" line cinches it.]]
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FutureBadass.
*GambitRoulette: GambitRoulette - At the end, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Sailor Pluto was the true mastermind behind the plot to prevent Crystal Tokyo (or at least the "purified" version described) from coming into being. She spent "thousands of manipulations over thousands of years" working towards the goal "Only to realise only after [she] got it that it wasn't what [she] thought it was." After that she started secretly working towards getting Emerald to change things.]]
*HeroicBSOD: HeroicBSOD- After Emerald finds out that [[spoiler:Sailor Moon is the Serenity he has been looking for all along.]]
*IdentityAmnesia: IdentityAmnesia - Emerald cannot remember his own name or much of his past. [[spoiler:His true name is revealed to be Yukio, by Pluto.]]
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* {{Instrumentality}}: What the "purification" did to the majority of mankind. The few that were strong enough to reject it or otherwise weren't affected are regarded as enemies by the Senshi.
* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Emerald thinks it's over the top and at one point interrupts Sailor Moon during one such speech.
* KnightTemplar: All of the Crystal Tokyo-era Senshi, ''especially'' [[KillItWithFire Sailor Mars]].
* OneHitKill: Emerald does this to one of Kunzite's youma, with Kunzite himself standing there. [[spoiler:And then to Kunzite himself later on, as well as many more Dark Kingdom fodder.]]
* PowerCrystal: Emerald's green crystal that he keeps around his neck by a leather chain, though he's quite powerful enough without it. It is also sentient.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Emerald is nearly a thousand years old, but appears to be no older than a young adult. Same with all the Crystal Tokyo Senshi, and the King and Queen.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The whole motivation of Emerald's life, as written in his journal entries.
* TimeTravel: From the 30th century, to the time the Senshi first reawakened in the late 20th century (Dark Kingdom Arc).
* UnrequitedLove: Emerald and Rei in the future, due to them being [[ArchEnemy Arch Enemies]] on opposing sides trying to kill each other. After journeying to the past, Emerald doesn't understand why he seems so willing at times to aid the younger Rei. [[spoiler:May be possibly subverted at the end with the "present" versions of themselves.]]
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: From chapter 1:
* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Emerald thinks it's over the top and at one point interrupts Sailor Moon during one such speech.
* KnightTemplar: All of the Crystal Tokyo-era Senshi, ''especially'' [[KillItWithFire Sailor Mars]].
* OneHitKill: Emerald does this to one of Kunzite's youma, with Kunzite himself standing there. [[spoiler:And then to Kunzite himself later on, as well as many more Dark Kingdom fodder.]]
* PowerCrystal: Emerald's green crystal that he keeps around his neck by a leather chain, though he's quite powerful enough without it. It is also sentient.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Emerald is nearly a thousand years old, but appears to be no older than a young adult. Same with all the Crystal Tokyo Senshi, and the King and Queen.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The whole motivation of Emerald's life, as written in his journal entries.
* TimeTravel: From the 30th century, to the time the Senshi first reawakened in the late 20th century (Dark Kingdom Arc).
* UnrequitedLove: Emerald and Rei in the future, due to them being [[ArchEnemy Arch Enemies]] on opposing sides trying to kill each other. After journeying to the past, Emerald doesn't understand why he seems so willing at times to aid the younger Rei. [[spoiler:May be possibly subverted at the end with the "present" versions of themselves.]]
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* {{Instrumentality}}: {{Instrumentality}} - What the "purification" supposedly did to the majority of mankind. The few that were strong enough to reject it or otherwise weren't affected are regarded as enemies by the Senshi.
Senshi, according to Emerald.
*InTheNameOfTheMoon: InTheNameOfTheMoon - Emerald thinks it's over the top and at one point interrupts Sailor Moon during one such speech.
*KnightTemplar: KnightTemplar - All of the Crystal Tokyo-era Senshi, ''especially'' [[KillItWithFire Sailor Mars]].
*OneHitKill: OneHitKill - Emerald does this to one of Kunzite's youma, with Kunzite himself standing there. [[spoiler:And then to Kunzite himself later on, as well as many more Dark Kingdom fodder.]]
*PowerCrystal: PowerCrystal - Emerald's green crystal that he keeps around his neck by a leather chain, though he's quite powerful enough without it. It is also sentient.
*ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - Emerald is nearly a thousand years old, but appears to be no older than a young adult. Same with all the Crystal Tokyo Senshi, and the King and Queen.
*SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong - The whole motivation of Emerald's life, as written in his journal entries.
** Or, alternatively, MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight, depending on your interpretation.
*TimeTravel: TimeTravel - From the 30th century, to the time the Senshi first reawakened in the late 20th century (Dark Kingdom Arc).
*UnrequitedLove: UnreliableNarrator - Almost everything we learn about Crystal Tokyo being a BadFuture is told to us by Emerald, who, it must be noted, has a very deep-set grudge against Neo-Queen Serenity. The fact that barely any of the fic actually takes place in Crystal Tokyo means we don't have much choice but to take his word for it, or reject it.
* UnrequitedLove - Emerald and Rei in the future, due to them being [[ArchEnemy Arch Enemies]] on opposing sides trying to kill each other. After journeying to the past, Emerald doesn't understand why he seems so willing at times to aid the younger Rei. [[spoiler:May be possibly subverted at the end with the "present" versions of themselves.]]
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** IgnoredEpiphany - Of course, that didn't stop him from killing her, or planning to kill several others.
*YouWillBeSpared: YouWillBeSpared - Emerald's offer to a horde of youma ready to invade the Earth through a portal... [[TooDumbToLive not that they listen despite knowing how strong he really is]].
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opinions go in reviews. Deconstruction is about realism. It\'s not about tearing things apart.
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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3337074/1/Im_Here_to_Help I'm Here to Help]]'' is a ''SailorMoon'' fanfic mostly written in 1998 (but finished in 2007) by Mark Doherty. What seems to be a typical "BigBad wants to [[TerminatorTwosome change history]]" plot upon first reading quickly becomes much, MUCH more. Notable for being one of the first and best written [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas Crystal Tokyo]] As {{Dystopia}} stories, which many have since tried to match.
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''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3337074/1/Im_Here_to_Help I'm Here to Help]]'' is a ''SailorMoon'' fanfic mostly written in 1998 (but finished in 2007) by Mark Doherty. What seems to be a typical "BigBad wants to [[TerminatorTwosome change history]]" plot upon first reading quickly becomes much, MUCH more. Notable for being one of the first and best written [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas Crystal Tokyo]] As {{Dystopia}} stories, which many have since tried to match.
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* DeconstructionFic
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* ForWantOfANail: It is heavily implied that in the original timeline, [[spoiler:Emerald would have became [[EldritchAbomination Wiseman]]. Pluto's "If you knew your original fate, you would have thanked me" line cinches it.]]
* FutureBadass: Come on, guess who.
* FutureBadass: Come on, guess who.
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* ForWantOfANail: It is heavily implied that in the original timeline, [[spoiler:Emerald would have became become [[EldritchAbomination Wiseman]]. Pluto's "If you knew your original fate, you would have thanked me" line cinches it.]]
*FutureBadass: Come on, guess who.FutureBadass:
*GambitRoulette: At the end, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Sailor Pluto was the true mastermind behind the plot to prevent Crystal Tokyo (or at least the "purified" version described) from coming into being. She spent "thousands of manipulations over thousands of years" working towards the goal "Only to realise only after [she] got it that it wasn't what [she] thought it was." After that she started secretly working towards getting Emerald to change things.]]
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*GambitRoulette: At the end, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Sailor Pluto was the true mastermind behind the plot to prevent Crystal Tokyo (or at least the "purified" version described) from coming into being. She spent "thousands of manipulations over thousands of years" working towards the goal "Only to realise only after [she] got it that it wasn't what [she] thought it was." After that she started secretly working towards getting Emerald to change things.]]
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* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Subverted, in that Emerald thinks it's over the top and at one point interrupts Sailor Moon during one such speech.
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* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Subverted, in that Emerald thinks it's over the top and at one point interrupts Sailor Moon during one such speech.
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* XanatosRoulette: At the end, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Sailor Pluto was the true mastermind behind the plot to prevent Crystal Tokyo (or at least the "purified" version described) from coming into being by "thousands of manipulations over thousands of years".]]
** Yes and no. [[spoiler:She spent "thousands of manipulations over thousands of years" to bring Crystal Tokyo into being, "Only to realise only after [she] got it that it wasn't what [she] thought it was." After that she started secretly working towards getting Emerald to change things.]]
** Yes and no. [[spoiler:She spent "thousands of manipulations over thousands of years" to bring Crystal Tokyo into being, "Only to realise only after [she] got it that it wasn't what [she] thought it was." After that she started secretly working towards getting Emerald to change things.]]
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* BigBad - Neo-Queen Serenity, and the (future) Senshi. To Emerald, Beryl and even ''Metallia'' are not worth the time.
* BittersweetEnding - [[spoiler:Emerald never gets to fully enjoy his victory as he's erased from time moments later, but his younger self will not have to go through the pain he did.]]
* BittersweetEnding - [[spoiler:Emerald never gets to fully enjoy his victory as he's erased from time moments later, but his younger self will not have to go through the pain he did.]]
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* BigBad - BigBad: Neo-Queen Serenity, and the (future) Senshi. To Emerald, Beryl and even ''Metallia'' are not worth the time.
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* BlessedWithSuck - Emerald's view of immortality, after many years of suffering and fighting.
* {{Brainwashed}} - ''Everyone'' in Crystal Tokyo and the rest of the Earth, except Emerald and those exiled. The result of Instrumentality, and ''the'' main reason Emerald wants to change the past.
* {{Brainwashed}} - ''Everyone'' in Crystal Tokyo and the rest of the Earth, except Emerald and those exiled. The result of Instrumentality, and ''the'' main reason Emerald wants to change the past.
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* BlessedWithSuck - BlessedWithSuck: Emerald's view of immortality, after many years of suffering and fighting.
*{{Brainwashed}} - {{Brainwashed}}: ''Everyone'' in Crystal Tokyo and the rest of the Earth, except Emerald and those exiled. The result of Instrumentality, and ''the'' main reason Emerald wants to change the past.
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* EnergyAbsorption - Emerald needs to do this to get stronger, mostly by draining youma to the point where they die and turn to dust.
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* EnergyAbsorption - EnergyAbsorption: Emerald needs to do this to get stronger, mostly by draining youma to the point where they die and turn to dust.dust.
* ExactWords: [[spoiler: Sailor Pluto]] sees Crystal Tokyo [[spoiler: prevented from coming into being as it existed ''through no act of her own''. Meaning by arranging events so Emerald be forced to go through with his fallback anti-Purification plan, and being in the right place so he could defeat her and feed off her energy, Pluto could prevent the future she didn't want without breaking her oath to Queen Serenity.]]
* ExactWords: [[spoiler: Sailor Pluto]] sees Crystal Tokyo [[spoiler: prevented from coming into being as it existed ''through no act of her own''. Meaning by arranging events so Emerald be forced to go through with his fallback anti-Purification plan, and being in the right place so he could defeat her and feed off her energy, Pluto could prevent the future she didn't want without breaking her oath to Queen Serenity.]]
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* FateWorseThanDeath - Being conscious and aware for centuries frozen in ice, as Emerald was. Also Beryl's "Eternal Sleep" punishment.
* ForWantOfANail - It is heavily implied that in the original timeline, [[spoiler:Emerald would have became [[EldritchAbomination Wiseman]]. Pluto's "If you knew your original fate, you would have thanked me" line cinches it.]]
* FutureBadass / HeroicSociopath - Come on, guess who.
* HeroicBSOD - After Emerald finds out that [[spoiler:Sailor Moon is the Serenity he has been looking for all along.]]
* IdentityAmnesia - Emerald cannot remember his own name or much of his past. [[spoiler:His true name is revealed to be Yukio, by Pluto.]]
* {{Instrumentality}} - What the "purification" did to the majority of mankind. The few that were strong enough to reject it or otherwise weren't affected are regarded as enemies by the Senshi.
* InTheNameOfTheMoon - Subverted, in that Emerald thinks it's over the top and at one point interrupts Sailor Moon during one such speech.
* KnightTemplar - All of the Crystal Tokyo-era Senshi, ''especially'' [[KillItWithFire Sailor Mars]].
* OneHitKill - Emerald does this to one of Kunzite's youma, with Kunzite himself standing there. [[spoiler:And then to Kunzite himself later on, as well as many more Dark Kingdom fodder.]]
* PowerCrystal - Emerald's green crystal that he keeps around his neck by a leather chain, though he's quite powerful enough without it. It is also sentient.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - Emerald is nearly a thousand years old, but appears to be no older than a young adult. Same with all the Crystal Tokyo Senshi, and the King and Queen.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong - The whole motivation of Emerald's life, as written in his journal entries.
* TimeTravel - From the 30th century, to the time the Senshi first reawakened in the late 20th century (Dark Kingdom Arc).
* UnrequitedLove - Emerald and Rei in the future, due to them being [[ArchEnemy Arch Enemies]] on opposing sides trying to kill each other. After journeying to the past, Emerald doesn't understand why he seems so willing at times to aid the younger Rei. [[spoiler:May be possibly subverted at the end with the "present" versions of themselves.]]
* ForWantOfANail - It is heavily implied that in the original timeline, [[spoiler:Emerald would have became [[EldritchAbomination Wiseman]]. Pluto's "If you knew your original fate, you would have thanked me" line cinches it.]]
* FutureBadass / HeroicSociopath - Come on, guess who.
* HeroicBSOD - After Emerald finds out that [[spoiler:Sailor Moon is the Serenity he has been looking for all along.]]
* IdentityAmnesia - Emerald cannot remember his own name or much of his past. [[spoiler:His true name is revealed to be Yukio, by Pluto.]]
* {{Instrumentality}} - What the "purification" did to the majority of mankind. The few that were strong enough to reject it or otherwise weren't affected are regarded as enemies by the Senshi.
* InTheNameOfTheMoon - Subverted, in that Emerald thinks it's over the top and at one point interrupts Sailor Moon during one such speech.
* KnightTemplar - All of the Crystal Tokyo-era Senshi, ''especially'' [[KillItWithFire Sailor Mars]].
* OneHitKill - Emerald does this to one of Kunzite's youma, with Kunzite himself standing there. [[spoiler:And then to Kunzite himself later on, as well as many more Dark Kingdom fodder.]]
* PowerCrystal - Emerald's green crystal that he keeps around his neck by a leather chain, though he's quite powerful enough without it. It is also sentient.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - Emerald is nearly a thousand years old, but appears to be no older than a young adult. Same with all the Crystal Tokyo Senshi, and the King and Queen.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong - The whole motivation of Emerald's life, as written in his journal entries.
* TimeTravel - From the 30th century, to the time the Senshi first reawakened in the late 20th century (Dark Kingdom Arc).
* UnrequitedLove - Emerald and Rei in the future, due to them being [[ArchEnemy Arch Enemies]] on opposing sides trying to kill each other. After journeying to the past, Emerald doesn't understand why he seems so willing at times to aid the younger Rei. [[spoiler:May be possibly subverted at the end with the "present" versions of themselves.]]
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* FateWorseThanDeath - FateWorseThanDeath: Being conscious and aware for centuries frozen in ice, as Emerald was. Also Beryl's "Eternal Sleep" punishment.
*ForWantOfANail - ForWantOfANail: It is heavily implied that in the original timeline, [[spoiler:Emerald would have became [[EldritchAbomination Wiseman]]. Pluto's "If you knew your original fate, you would have thanked me" line cinches it.]]
*FutureBadass / HeroicSociopath - FutureBadass: Come on, guess who.
*HeroicBSOD - HeroicBSOD: After Emerald finds out that [[spoiler:Sailor Moon is the Serenity he has been looking for all along.]]
*IdentityAmnesia - IdentityAmnesia: Emerald cannot remember his own name or much of his past. [[spoiler:His true name is revealed to be Yukio, by Pluto.]]
** [[spoiler: Jadeite, after being freed from his Eternal Sleep]], remembers everything about his past [[spoiler: before his brainwashing by Beryl]], leading to a moment of sheer, screaming horror as these memories overwhelm him. [[spoiler: Emerald thinks he's simply gone crazy and so snaps his neck.]]
*{{Instrumentality}} - {{Instrumentality}}: What the "purification" did to the majority of mankind. The few that were strong enough to reject it or otherwise weren't affected are regarded as enemies by the Senshi.
*InTheNameOfTheMoon - InTheNameOfTheMoon: Subverted, in that Emerald thinks it's over the top and at one point interrupts Sailor Moon during one such speech.
*KnightTemplar - KnightTemplar: All of the Crystal Tokyo-era Senshi, ''especially'' [[KillItWithFire Sailor Mars]].
*OneHitKill - OneHitKill: Emerald does this to one of Kunzite's youma, with Kunzite himself standing there. [[spoiler:And then to Kunzite himself later on, as well as many more Dark Kingdom fodder.]]
*PowerCrystal - PowerCrystal: Emerald's green crystal that he keeps around his neck by a leather chain, though he's quite powerful enough without it. It is also sentient.
*ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Emerald is nearly a thousand years old, but appears to be no older than a young adult. Same with all the Crystal Tokyo Senshi, and the King and Queen.
*SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong - SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The whole motivation of Emerald's life, as written in his journal entries.
*TimeTravel - TimeTravel: From the 30th century, to the time the Senshi first reawakened in the late 20th century (Dark Kingdom Arc).
*UnrequitedLove - UnrequitedLove: Emerald and Rei in the future, due to them being [[ArchEnemy Arch Enemies]] on opposing sides trying to kill each other. After journeying to the past, Emerald doesn't understand why he seems so willing at times to aid the younger Rei. [[spoiler:May be possibly subverted at the end with the "present" versions of themselves.]]
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* XanatosRoulette - At the end, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Sailor Pluto was the true mastermind behind the plot to prevent Crystal Tokyo (or at least the "purified" version described) from coming into being by "thousands of manipulations over thousands of years".]]
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* XanatosRoulette - XanatosRoulette: At the end, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Sailor Pluto was the true mastermind behind the plot to prevent Crystal Tokyo (or at least the "purified" version described) from coming into being by "thousands of manipulations over thousands of years".]]
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* YouWillBeSpared - Emerald's offer to a horde of youma ready to invade the Earth through a portal... [[TooDumbToLive not that they listen despite knowing how strong he really is]].
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* YouWillBeSpared - YouWillBeSpared: Emerald's offer to a horde of youma ready to invade the Earth through a portal... [[TooDumbToLive not that they listen despite knowing how strong he really is]].
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* FashionVictimVillain: Emerald described the Senshi as "girls with interesting powers in silly suits. As opposed, of course, to women with horrifically intense powers... in silly suits." [[invoked]]
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* BittersweetEnding - [[spoiler:Emerald never gets to fully enjoy his victory as he's erased from time moments later, but his younger self will not have to go through the pain he did.]]
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - Nearly everything Emerald does, including sneaking into the ''Dark Kingdom'' and [[spoiler:his overall victory and joy at the end, even as he [[HeroicSacrifice lay dying in the snow]].]]
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - Nearly everything Emerald does, including sneaking into the ''Dark Kingdom'' and [[spoiler:his overall victory and joy at the end, even as he [[HeroicSacrifice lay dying in the snow]].]]
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* FixerSue - Emerald, of course, although he fixes the timeline, instead of relationships.
** [[spoiler:Technically, he ''does'' do that as well, given that his other self and Rei may have an actual chance to be together in the new timeline.]]
** [[spoiler:Technically, he ''does'' do that as well, given that his other self and Rei may have an actual chance to be together in the new timeline.]]
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* DramaticIrony: The protagonist is unaware that Sailor Moon is Queen Serenity.
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* CharacterDerailment - Of the future Senshi, and the claimed {{utopia}} future of Crystal Tokyo. No, changing their outlook and philosophy to the direct opposite of their canonical (in both anime and manga canon) acceptance of the world as it is, with all of its flaws and sorrows is not an AlternateCharacterInterpretation, it's adding them to the company of RonTheDeathEater.
** It could also be argued that all of Emerald's plots ''did'' happen during the canon Dark Kingdom Arc, but off-screen and in slightly different ways than portrayed in the story, and that the Crystal Tokyo seen at the beginning and throughout the story was in effect a failed prototype that needed to be destroyed (note how there's no mention of Chibi-Usa ''anywhere'', even in the 30th century, which gives credence that it may in fact be an alternate timeline). [[spoiler:This would mean that the canon Sailor Moon timeline that we've seen is a result of Emerald's and (especially) Setsuna's manipulations, and that 'free choice' was something Usagi and the others learned and held dear this time around. Yukio (Emerald) appears again only four years after the Dark Kingdom (as said by Rei), which sets the epilogue post-Galaxia and explains why he wasn't seen in the series. Crystal Tokyo still exists in the future, but in a different (and better) form. There are many problems and inconsistencies with this theory, but it's probably the best way to explain the behavior of the Senshi besides resorting to KnightTemplar and RonTheDeathEater.]]
** It could also be argued that all of Emerald's plots ''did'' happen during the canon Dark Kingdom Arc, but off-screen and in slightly different ways than portrayed in the story, and that the Crystal Tokyo seen at the beginning and throughout the story was in effect a failed prototype that needed to be destroyed (note how there's no mention of Chibi-Usa ''anywhere'', even in the 30th century, which gives credence that it may in fact be an alternate timeline). [[spoiler:This would mean that the canon Sailor Moon timeline that we've seen is a result of Emerald's and (especially) Setsuna's manipulations, and that 'free choice' was something Usagi and the others learned and held dear this time around. Yukio (Emerald) appears again only four years after the Dark Kingdom (as said by Rei), which sets the epilogue post-Galaxia and explains why he wasn't seen in the series. Crystal Tokyo still exists in the future, but in a different (and better) form. There are many problems and inconsistencies with this theory, but it's probably the best way to explain the behavior of the Senshi besides resorting to KnightTemplar and RonTheDeathEater.]]
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*BewareTheSuperman: Emerald asked why the Senshi should rule the world just because they had powers instead of making it better in one of his diary entries.
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* FashionVictimVillain: Emerald described the Senshi as "school girls in silly suits who grew up and became frighteningly powerful women in silly suits".
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*FashionVictimVillain: Emerald described the Senshi as "school girls in silly suits who grew up and became frighteningly powerful women in silly suits".
