crack_van | Against All Odds, by Dejana Talis (PG-13)

Fandom: Sailor Moon
Pairing: Mamoru Chiba/Usagi Tsukino, minor Inner Senshi/Shitennous
Length: ~ 216.000 words
Author on LJ:

dejana
Author Website: Homepage, FF.net
Why this must be read:
Okay I lied. I need to rec another SilMil story. This fic is simply too good to resist and is also a fandom classic for UsaMamo shippers. Personally I have a love hate relationship with it. It is an amazing story but the end gives me as a huge U/M shipper a really, really bitter aftertaste. But even with this 'problem' I need to rec this fic.

So let's talk about AAO which is a beautiful love story with an old and still new idea. A princess and a poor stable boy meet and fall in love and after that they live happily ever after. That would be the end in a fairytale.

The story shows us that a princess can't marry so easily a man out of the commonalty even if they love each. Together with this huge portion of realism the authr also gives us amazing and interesting backgrounds for all characters. We see more about Serenity and Endymion but we also learn more about the Queen, Luna and Artemis and naturally also the Inner Senshis. For me especially important is that these characters aren't perfect. We see how they make mistakes and how they regret them or how they will never see them as mistakes. They love, fight, hate and are normal people instead these perfect dolls some SM authors use.

So take your time and enjoy this wonderful story but prepare and decide yourself if you choose the happily ever after or if you will read the 'real' end which shows us that fairytales are only... fairytales. In reality happily ever afters don't exist and the authors shows this in a really bittersweet epilogue.

Against All Odds (FF.net, Homepage)
--> A twist of fate casts Endymion as a stable boy working for the Moon Castle, where he meets the Princess by chance. With Serenity engaged to another man, can the miracle romance triumph over the barriers of class and nobility?