Title: The White Snow of Miracles Fell
Author: Omnicat
Rating: PG / K
Genre: General. Though I wished ‘Hope’ was a genre, because I don’t like to stick ‘Angst’ labels on stuff like this.
Spoilers: All 13 episodes of the Prétear anime.
Warnings: No more than the ones for Prétear itself.
Pairings: None featured. Hinted at Sasame x Takako.
Soundtrack: Disney’s The Lion King II; Simba’s Pride has this great song, ‘Not One of Us’. That song (and the AMV that came with it) was a great source of inspiration for this fic, especially Sasame’s feelings. It’s not necessary to know the song, but it could add to the feeling when you read.
Disclaimer: Neither Prétear nor The Lion King are my copyrighted property, and I do not make any profit by using them as my source of inspiration for this fic.
Summary: Evil has been defeated, but there’s no happily ever after yet. Hayate and Sasame were best friends. They thought they knew each other. But they aren’t so sure anymore... So they have a talk to right the last wrongs.
Author’s Note: The first piece of Prétear fanfiction I have ever written, but not by far the last. I hope you’ll enjoy!
( The White Snow of Miracles Fell )
PSAN: I hope you liked it. Please Read and Review!
Additional Notes
(1) “Leafe Sorceress Takako” – A purely fanon term. I was thinking; even though Takako as Prétear can no longer give Leafe, she can still manipulate it, according to Hayate. So what does this make her? It sounds like she’d actually be much like a Leafe Knight, to me. So I thought, why the Hell not, let’s give her a nice and shiny title. Admit it, it sounds cool, doesn’t it?
(2) “Hayate and Sasame were left alone together by the wind chimes on the Awayuki grounds, the place where they usually opened the portal between Leafenia and Earth.” – Credit for this idea goes to The Cleric 007. If I hadn’t read her/his/its story ‘Bonds Not Broken, Only Bent’, the location for their meeting would have been very dull, and not nearly as symbolic.
(3) “the likes of Judas and Brutus” – For those without my knowledge of Western history and myth; Judas and Brutus have been branded traitors by the passing of time. Judas is said to have sold out Jesus Christ to the Romans, and Brutus played a key role in the murder of Julius Caesar. They’re two of my favourite mythological and historical figures, actually.
(4) “Yuki, Mikio and Kawarō” – He means the three Knights that used up their Leafe to seal Fenrir, and faded away. I made the names up myself, though I realise that other fanfiction writers right here on ff . net have used (some of) the same ones; the fallen Knight of Ice - yuki, which means ‘snow’; the fallen Knight of Plants - mikio, which means ‘tree trunk man’; and the fallen Knight of Water - kawarō, in which kawa means ‘river’ and -rō is a common suffix in male Japanese names, meaning ‘son’. I have no idea if any of these names are actually considered appropriate in Japan.
(5) “since we found Takako and became true Knights.” – ‘True knights’ in the sense of ‘Knights with a Prétear’. Because it isn’t of much use to have the title of Knight if you don’t have a princess, now is it? Again, purely fanon interpretation.
(6) “I’m the oldest” – And yet another AN! Okay, this one is up for debate. The official Japanese Prétear site states that Kei, Hayate, Goh and Sasame are all presumed to be sixteen years old (this is the case in the manga, but I have my doubts about the anime). Following from their given birthdays, their age compared to each other would be as listed above, with Kei being the oldest, Sasame the youngest. (Yes, I’m the kind of person to take a Japanese site and an online dictionary and make them do conspicious things together...) However, the English site (the ‘AVD Official Site’ for Prétear) has their ages listed differenlty: Hayate is eighteen, Sasame seventeen, and Kei and Goh are both sixteen, while their birthdays are the same. I used the latter as my source of information, as you may have guessed, simply because that’s the one I could read properly. Besides, I’m not sure how clearly the Japanese one differentiates between the anime and the manga... they have pictures from the anime all over the place, but that site had Shin and Hajime both listed as being 7 years old; it may fit the manga, but it’s nonsense for the anime.
