Talk:Kazuo Saitou

Fall Timeline scratch notes

Pre-Corruption

• The moon kingdom specifically can basically be considered to have been an entire planet that's washington

dc-like, so the whole planet was very politics and everyone's on the hustle.

• Serenity and Endymion's entanglement likely lasted a while, an expanse of time that allows for the inner Senshi and the Shitennou have gotten to know each other
• Mako and Neph were flirting
• Ami and Zoi appeared to be dating (in disguise, so that it wasn't clear interaction: Zoisite had a studious blue-haired girlfriend of some noble lineage!), but were actually just friends
• A weird thing happened with the Sun one day
• ... this was Metallia
• ... who corrupted Beryl...

Shitennou Corruption

• Beryl fed Kunzite dark energy, ostensibly to help him by upping his power levels; this caused his paranoia levels to increase unreasonably, making it easier to pull him to her side, and thus giving her a little extra leverage with the other three
• Beryl out-clevered Zoisite and managed to convince him that things were sus about the Moon Kingdom and that *Endymion* was at risk of being corrupted, all the while it was Zoisite/the Shitennou being corrupted
• Beryl brought up actual power imbalance between the Moon and Earth to get the dark magic hooks into Neph (since he's such an overthinker)
• Jadeite's spiral into evil via being intensely envious of Usagi/wanting Mamoru/falling into beryl inspired paranoia

Leadup to the Fall

• Neph tried to sway Mako; she declined
• The Shitennou argue with Endymion. A LOT.
• Beryl raises suborned/mindcontrolled army. Metallia burns over the rest of the Earth for power.
• Beryl/Metallia had Youma popping up system-wide...which means that all the habitats around the outer planets would have had attacks everywhere...thus tying up Uranus and Neptune and explaining for the rest why they weren't there.
• Beryl has suborned/mindcontrolled army swarm the Moon. (How is an excellent question.)
• Someplace in here Endy also gets to the Moon.

The Fall

• Mercury works on trying to stop the influx of troops
• Endymion finds Princess Serenity
• Beryl kills Endymion in the attempt to kill Princess Serenity
• Princess Serenity dies by her own hand
• Kunzite, Nephrite, and Zoisite are broken out of mind control by seeing this
• Jupiter and Nephrite were already fighting - they deal each other mortal wounds at the same moment as Serenity and Endymion's deaths... and in sight of them. Nephrite dies pretty close to immediately. Jupiter lives long enough to go berserk on Beryl's Earth troops. And on Kunzite.
• Zoisite switches sides to try to help Mercury stop the influx of troops. Both of them are overwhelmed and killed by Beryl's soldiers.
• Jadeite finds Endymion and Serenity's bodies and dies in horror about it
• Queen Serenity uses the Silver Crystal.
• ... hi, Saturn.

Bits under discussion

• Ami Mizuno hms. "In toying with how Mercury died, I wonder if we could aim it like... she was trying to destroy/cut off whatever method of transport the army used to get to the Moon to stop more from coming in and got murdered while attempting to, or the only way to cut it off was to destroy it and get killed in the process. If we don't want to go with anyone simply murdering her straight up (though I would be okay with that too) XD
• Usagi Tsukino says, "i also like the idea of mercury getting taken out doing something to try and prevent the invasion, especially if no one wants to claim responsibility for the kill"

• rainbow/moonlight bridge?
• teleporting?
• teleport with a rainbow halo effect?
• earth and moon likely do not have permanent crossings?

• Kunzite presumably died at some point after Endymion and Serenity did; if anyone would like to be responsible, please ping. Jupiter has volunteered as backup if nobody else puts in a claim