Olympus Pretty Cure is a Pretty Cure fanseries by cure_shabon, who recently admitted she isn't quite as proud of her first fanseries as she used to be. This particular fanseries features a theme of astronomy and astrology, including, but not limited to, the Western Zodiac and Classical Mythology.
Somewhere in space, the rulers of a realm known as Olympia, Lord Cepheus and Lady Cassiopeia, welcome the birth of their first child, Small Lady Andromeda, destined to rule the galaxy herself when she's old enough. Though their happiness is short-lived when a spirit of revenge by the name of Nemesis takes away, not just the baby, but also the twelve Horoscorbs that keep Olympia from falling apart, using her dark magic to turn the guardians of four of them into her minions. During the conflict, however, Cassiopeia managed to retrieve some of the Horoscorbs, sending these to Earth for safekeeping. Still, knowing that Nemesis and her servants would find a way to get the remaining Horoscorbs, their respective guardians head to Earth in order to find the legendary Pretty Cures, young Earth women with the ability to become powerful cosmic warriors.
Pretty Cure
- Akira Shimizu (Cure Neptune): An artistic and kindhearted, yet sensitive and short-tempered, second-year junior high school student. As Cure Neptune, she is powered by the Amethyst Horoscorb, represents Pisces, and controls the element of water.
- Miwa Kaneda (Cure Venus): An athletic and excitable, yet careless and innocent, first-year junior high school student. As Cure Venus, she is powered by the Chrysolite Horoscorb, represents Libra, and controls the element of air.
Allies
- Triton: Akira's sea turtle Mentor Mascot partner.
- Pothos: Miwa's dove Mentor Mascot partner.
- Lord Cepheus and Lady Cassiopeia: The story's two Big Goods.
- Small Lady Andromeda: Cepheus and Cassiopeia's newborn daughter, who was taken away by Nemesis at the start of the story.
- Calliope
Villains
- Nemesis: The story's Big Bad, a spirit of revenge that thinks no one should have too much good.
- The Royal Stars
- East Star Aldebaran
- North Star Regulus
- West Star Antares
- South Star Fomalhaut
Character sheet forthcoming!
This fanfic contains examples of:
- Alternate Continuity
- Amazing Technicolor Population: The humanoid inhabitants of Olympia, including its rulers.
- Amicable Exes: Shinya towards Akira. Akira herself... Not so much.
- Bag of Holding: Fomalhaut's vase.
- By the Power of Grayskull!: "Pretty Cure Zodiaction!"
- Catchphrase: Akira's "Don't give this up so easily!" Romaji and Miwa's "Super Splendid!" Romaji
- The former also manages to have a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner variation. note
- Disappeared Dad: Akira's Air Force father Ikki went MIA during a mission.
- Elemental Powers
- Blow You Away: Miwa/Cure Venus and Fomalhaut. The former plays the Wind Is Green trope straight, the latter subverts it.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Aldebaran
- Making a Splash: Akira/Cure Neptune and Antares. Both subvert the Water Is Blue trope.
- Playing with Fire: Regulus, who subverts the Fire Is Red trope.
- Each Horoscorb has an associated element in four groups of three.
- An Ice Person: The Beryl Horoscorb.
- Blow You Away: The Chrysolite Horoscorb.
- Dishing Out Dirt: The Ruby Horoscorb.
- Extra-ore-dinary: The Onyx Horoscorb.
- Gravity Master: The Garnet Horoscorb.
- Green Thumb: The Carnelian Horoscorb.
- Make Me Wanna Shout: The Alexandrite Horoscorb.
- Making a Splash: The Amethyst Horoscorb.
- Petal Power: The Sapphire Horoscorb.
- Playing with Fire: The Bloodstone Horoscorb.
- Shock and Awe: The Topaz Horoscorb.
- Weather Manipulation: The Emerald Horoscorb.
- Greek Chorus: Calliope, who, at the end of every episode, writes about the episode's events on her Muse Diary.
- Idol Singer: Nobuko Emoto, the manager of the takeaway restaurant from which Akira usually gets her lunch, used to be one, but retired after becoming pregnant with her daughter Chihaya.
- Meaningful Name: But of course.
- Shimizu Akira's name is a corruption of the word for her Horoscorb's gem motif Amethyst, shimizuakira kanji .
- Kaneda Miwa's surname has the kanji 金 meaning , the first one in her motif planet Venus' Japanese name, Kinsei kanji . Her first name's meaning, "beautiful harmony", may allude to her zodiac motif Libra's meaning, peace.
- The Royal Stars' human surnames have their cardinal directions' kanji in them, except for Regulus who has it in the given name.
- Aldebaran's human given name means "bull's tail" note .
- Regulus's human surname means "lion's temple/shrine/hall" note and his human given name means "Big Dipper".
- Antares' human given name means "scorpion's self" note .
- Fomalhaut's human surname means "up the bottle/jug/jar made of glass/ceramic" note which alludes to her Bag of Holding and her human given name means "fish scale".
- Hirai Shinya note .
- News Queen Emily's surname Tamashiro kanji means "sphere castle".
- If read backwards "Emoto" reads Otome, the Japanese name for the Virgo constellation.
- The first kanji in Hatoko Kaburagi's surname 鏑 means "dysprosium".
- Principal Seibara's surname 星原 means "meadow of the stars".
- City of Adventure Tennenseki kanji means "gemstone".
- Seibara Middle School's name kanji means "blue rose".
- Tsuyunotama Elementary School kanji means "ball/orb/jewel of dew".
- Uime Public Middle School kanji means "the first bud/sprout".
- Akira's name manages to double as a Punny Name (see below).
- Mineral MacGuffin: The Horoscorbs.
- Monster of the Week: The Katainaas.
- Punny Name: Please see the Meaningful Name example above.
- Akira manages to have a punny catchphrase as well.
- School Newspaper News Hound: Emiri— pardon, "News Queen Emily".
- Shout-Out: Nobuko retired from her past music career due to a pregnancy.
- Sixth Ranger: Two more Cures, Cure Jupiter and Cure Mercury, will join the team mid-season.
- Theme Naming
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Pretty much everyone from Olympia, and Nemesis. The Cures' alter ego names could fall under this as well.
- Stellar Name: The Royal Stars, named after the royal stars of Persia.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Subverted. Both girls are equally girly when it comes to fashion sense, and Miwa, the duo's brawn, is a Genki Girl cheerleader.
- Transformation Trinket: The Zodiac Sundial.
- Western Zodiac: The Horoscorbs' motifs:
- Aries: Bloodstone Horoscorb.
- Taurus: Sapphire Horoscorb.
- Gemini: Alexandrite Horoscorb.
- Cancer: Emerald Horoscorb.
- Leo: Onyx Horoscorb.
- Virgo: Carnelian Horoscorb.
- Libra: Chrysolite Horoscorb.
- Scorpio: Beryl Horoscorb.
- Sagittarius: Topaz Horoscorb.
- Capricorn: Ruby Horoscorb.
- Aquarius: Garnet Horoscorb.
- Pisces: Amethyst Horoscorb.
- Yes Girl: Hatoko to Emiri/"Emily".
