A nice set of vignettes.  However, I'm a little puzzled by your
 rendering of the days of the week.

Yeah, I puzzled about that for a while too, and I've been second guessing myself on my choice of translations for a while.
  

 A literal translation of the Japanese names of the days of the week,
 starting with Monday, would be Moon-day, Fire-day, Water-day, Wood-day,
 Gold-day, Earth-day, Sun-day.

That was the inspiration for the 'fic, actually.  I was reading up about days of the week in a textbook that teaches Japanese, and I noticed the elemental associations.

 You do have the appropriate senshi for
 the days -- though the outers, inevitably, don't quite fit.

*shrugs* Couldn't be helped.

 However, you substitute the origins of the *English* names of the
 days.  This, I don't quite follow.  The Germanic and Roman gods used
 don't really fit the Japanese significance all that well -- Woden for
 Ami, for example, seems a real stretch.
 
 But perhaps I'm missing something obvious?

I suppose some of it stems from not trusting my audience to immediately make the association between the Senshi and the days of the week.  (Not a good reason, I know.)

But then when I started looking up the origins for the days of the week in English, I thought it added a nice additional layer of symbolism to the story.

Woden/Odin for Ami is rather iffy, I'll admit - she really only pings the "wisdom/knowledge" aspects, but her story also has undertones of impending tragedy (although one isn't sure how much of the future Usagi changed, but it seems a given that Crystal Tokyo is bound to fall).

Saturday was what clinched the decision to use the English terms for me, I think.  Hotaru has a double association with it - in her last name Tomoe, and in that she's Sailor Saturn.

Sunday was mostly just "well, that's the only day of the week left, who haven't I written about?" but I think in the back of my mind I might have been influenced by the Chinese term for it - one of the terms for Sunday literally translates as "Star Phase Sky".

-"Dot"
http://dotchan.com/

I'm my own mind-altering substance. 8)

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