Here is the only Strawberry Panic! fanfic I ever even considered writing. It’s called Peashooters.
If you have read my Maria-sama ga Miteru story, The Pirates Are Coming,” this story may seem eerily similar to you. It’s not your imagination. Here’s the story behind the story:
Back in 2008 Strawberry Panic! translator, the late and very much missed, Anastasia Moreno, posted on her blog about some Strawberry Panic!-themed fighter jets drawn by fan soulassasin547. (All the links are now long dead, but when I began this story, they and Ana, were all alive.) There was one jet for each of the three Astrea schools, but there was a special “Lillian” squadron. I don’t know how, exactly, but I kind of offered to write a Strawberry Panic! x fighter pilot crossover story and then it hit me. Since Strawberry Panic! is a ill-disguised parody of Maria-sama ga Miteru, (among other series) why not make this story an ill-disguised parody of my Marimite pirate story? And so this story was born.
I say born, but stillborn is really more correct, as it sat in a file for 13 years, unfinished. I have no idea why it felt right today to shake it out and finish it. Like every other mashup in the universe, you need to know the in-jokes of Strawberry Panic! to make any sense of it at all.
I know even less about fighter jets than I do about pirate boats. I just want to make that clear. If you feel the need to correct me, please consider the return on investment. I have no intention of learning much about fighter jets – if you correct my absurd story you’re basically pissing into the wind. But hey, if it’s important to you, go for it. ^_^