Line #48 FanFic/SoldiersOfLove


1	[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5415695/1/Soldiers_of_Love Soldiers of Love]] is a ''Anime/SailorMoon''[=/=]''Sisterhood Of Nine''[=/=]''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' CrossOver FanFiction by troper Tropers/{{Vilui}}. The story opens a couple of years after ''Anime/SailorMoon''; the Senshi have gone their separate ways, and Ami is studying medicine in America. An e-mail from her invites the others to join her in New York, where she suspects their powers may be needed. Meanwhile, the Sisterhood are hired to investigate the disappearance of a tennis star. Their paths soon cross, and it gradually becomes clear that the world is in danger from a war-loving race of aliens who've come to Earth armed with all sorts of bizarre weaponry.
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4	!!''Soldiers of Love'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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6	* ActualPacifist: Usagi and Ami. The others show varying degrees of {{Technical Pacifis\|t}}m.
7	* AirVentPassageway: The Sailor Senshi and company crawl through one of these passing Sector Seven
8	* AliensSpeakingEnglish: ''And'' Japanese.
9	* AllPartOfTheShow / ConcertClimax: An unusual example, since the festival only took place ''because'' the heroes and [[spoiler:General Tor]] were there.
10	* ApologeticAttacker: [[spoiler:Ruby.]]
11	* AscendedExtra: Rui / Ruby. All the way from a single-episode appearance to main character.
12	** On the ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' side, there's Yukabacera, Vateilika and Kiron.
13	* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Ruby.]]
14	* BadassNormal: The Sisters.
15	** Naru becomes one later, which may count as a subversion of the "Naru is a Senshi" FandomSpecificPlot.
16	* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler:Asha.]]
17	* BigApplesauce: The D.C.M.F.P.R. Research Facility is in New York. (The original game didn't specify what city or even country.)
18	* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Makoto]] in the Proxima battle.
19	* BigDamnVillains: Three successive BigDamnHeroes moments weren't enough to defeat Kiron and his army. What next? Bring on [[spoiler:the Assassins]]!
20	* BilingualBonus: One StealthPun requires knowing what "Tor" means in German.
21	* CatchPhrase / CultureClash: Vateilika's "That must be a human concept."
22	* TheCavalry: During the battle with Proxima's drone, the Sailor Senshi are at a great disadvantage, when[[spoiler:, after opting to stay in Japan, Sailor Jupiter finally arrives]].
23	* {{Cosplay}}: Usagi as [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Mikuru Asahina]]. Ami as [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei Ayanami]]. Rei as [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Sakaki]]. Makoto as [[Manga/AsagiriNoMiko Shizuka Midou]]. Minako as Anime/SailorMoon. Mamoru as [[Anime/MoribitoGuardianOfTheSpirit Tanda]]. Ruby as [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura Tomoyo Daidouji]].
24	* DamselInDistress: Subverted. The heroes are trying to rescue Ruby from her prison, [[spoiler:not realising that she's already escaped and is running loose in the fortress, turning into an ActionGirl [[GirlsWithGuns with a Velocithor]].]]
25	* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:General Tor.]]
26	* {{Determinator}}: Kiron. Still fighting after having half his face burnt off, no less.
27	* DramaticNecklaceRemoval: Tor dismisses Krotera this way.
28	* DrivesLikeCrazy: The Tasen Shredder.
29	* [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding]]
30	* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: "I know you are not to blame for what you have to do." -[[spoiler:Ruby]]
31	** FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Ruby, as stated above. Fortunately for her, Vateilika, whom she befriended, was able to rescue her.]]
32	* FateWorseThanDeath: Deep Sector.
33	** Also, riding a Tasen Shredder, according to Ruby, [[spoiler:and she would know, having experienced both]].
34	* GenreBlindness: [[spoiler:Sharon.]]
35	* GenreShift: The first half alternates chapters between a whodunit and a ''Anime/SailorMoon'' fanfic incorporating ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' characters. The second half drops both in favour of an ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' fanfic incorporating ''Anime/SailorMoon'' characters.
36	* GirlsWithGuns: Except for Usagi, all the Senshi and Sisters eventually get weapons.
37	** SuperheroPackingHeat: The Senshi, again except for Usagi.
38	* GratuitousPrincess: Vateilika. She was not a princess in [[VideoGame/{{Iji}} the game]].
39	* GunshipRescue: "''Ciretako!''"
40	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Tieropay.]]
41	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Proxima takes the poison she had intended for General Tor.]]
42	* HumongousMecha: Tor's Eidolon. Lampshaded in that its appearance is what gets the cosplay festival started.
43	* IAmNotLeftHanded: Yukabacera.
44	* ICannotSelfTerminate: [[spoiler:Ansaksie. Chained up to ensure she couldn't commit suicide, as a FateWorseThanDeath.]]
45	* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: [[spoiler:In Deep Sector, the aliens there dare Vateilika to prove her honesty in her desire to free them by killing Ruby.]] [[spoiler:She actually goes through with it, but [[UnexplainedRecovery Ruby is somehow revived thanks to Naru…pleading to the long-dead Nephrite to give back the energy he once took from Ruby.]]]]
46	* InterspeciesRomance: A [[Manga/InuYasha Miroku]] cosplayer asks Vateilika to have his children. She points out [[HalfHumanHybrid why this wouldn't work]].
47	* ItsAllJunk: [[spoiler:Vateilika [[DramaticNecklaceRemoval destroys her locket]] before entering Deep Sector.]]
48	* TheLoad: Naru worries about being this. [[spoiler:She turns out to be a more of a BadassNormal.]]
49	* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Averted. From ''Anime/SailorMoon'', only the Inner Senshi are used. From the Sisterhood, only four of the nine girls.
50	* LuredIntoATrap: Yukabacera [[spoiler:leads his human allies to one of these for Proxima in order to save Vateilika…only for Proxima to invoke YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness.]]
51	* TheManBehindTheMan: Inverted: turns out to be [[spoiler:Proxima]], who had appeared to be just a subordinate.
52	* MissingMainCharacter: Despite numerous characters from ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' appearing, including Dan (who might be an "cameo" of Daniel Remar), the titular Nanogun-toting cyborg herself makes ''no'' appearance whatsoever in this fic, confirmed on chapter 55.
53	* MoodWhiplash / OutOfGenreExperience: The cosplay festival.
54	* MoralEventHorizon: Iosa kills [[spoiler:Naotgerai]] simply to get out of feeling obliged to keep a promise she made to him. She planned this in advance when she made the promise.
55	* MoreHeroThanThou: [[spoiler:A lesbian couple who find themselves fighting on opposite sides. Their culture values honor above all else, so one of them ''must'' kill the other, but they can't agree on which. HilarityEnsues.]]
56	** And soon afterwards, [[spoiler:Mamoru and Ami are prepared to carry out a death sentence on themselves as the only way of stopping Tieropay's army dying in a futile attempt to save them.]]
57	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Iosa inadvertently helps Makoto reach the others in time to save them.]]
58	* NoNameGiven: The lesbian couple.
59	* NoOneCouldSurviveThat / NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Ruby after the Phantom Hammer strikes.]]
60	* OneSteveLimit: Rui Saionji is renamed Ruby. An in-story reason is given, but the external reason is that her name is too similar to Rei.
61	* OriginalCharacter: The ''Sisterhood of Nine'' characters are most probably these, as while they're credited to Jonathan Parkin, there are no references to him or their work ''anywhere else in the internet''.
62	* PunchClockVillain: Taeho.
63	* PutOnABus / RefusalOfTheCall: Makoto.
64	* RebelliousPrincess: The younger Vateilika, seen in flashback.
65	* RedemptionEqualsDeath / TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Sharon.]]
66	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething / TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Vateilika.
67	* ShoutOut: Quite a few references to things from ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' that aren't part of the story, such as Mia's ribbons, "The Human Anomaly" (Which [[spoiler:Ruby]] calls herself amidst her allies), and the Banana Gun. ''Iji'' creator Dan Remar even makes a cameo appearance as a video game designer neutral in the affairs of the Tetron, taking ideas from the facility's architecture. [[VideoGame/{{Iji}} We probably know what game he's making]].
68	** Liz and Rebecca visit Central Perk, of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' fame.
69	** Liz knows her Literature/SherlockHolmes and Creator/GKChesterton.
70	** Tor's final speech contains allusions to ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'' and ''Literature/TheLittlePrince''.
71	* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: The story is ''all about'' what happens when you cross works from opposite extremes of the scale.
72	* SuddenlySuitableSuitor: Vateilika can't marry Yukabacera [[spoiler:until she kills Iosa, making her a god in her people's eyes and therefore able to do as she likes.]]
73	* TenMinuteRetirement: [[spoiler:Ami, after she and Makoto accidentally kill a Berserker.]]
74	* TranslationConvention: Invoked by the author regarding the aliens using ''our'' time units, [[http://remar.se/daniel/ijiguide_trivia.php when they already have their own]].
75	* UnaccustomedAsIAmToPublicSpeaking: General Tor.
76	* UnwittingPawn: Poor, poor Naotgerai.
77	* WelcomeBackTraitor: [[spoiler:Yukabacera.]]
78	* WorthyOpponent: Kiron.
79	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Proxima towards Yukabacera. [[spoiler:He survives.]]
80	* YouKilledMyFather: Subverted. [[spoiler:Vateilika knows Ansaksie killed her mother, but declines to take revenge.]]

Context FanFic / SoldiersOfLove