TLaTU and Five Star Service

So I just discovered that the site updates some months back broke the color text formatting in parts of Five Star Service, causing the opening editor notes text colors to spill over into the main chapter sections. I've fixed what I can from work, but a careful check will have to wait until I'm home. For those who have encountered that issue already, apologies.

But that's not the only reason for this blog. For those who love Five Stars, know she has made an appearance in the latest chapters of The Lawyer and The Unicorn, appearing in the same role she held for a time in Five Star Service: business manager for Delta Requiem. Worse, she has magically taken human form along with Delta and appeared in the City of Angels, paying our Ace Attorney friends a visit! Be afraid, folks...

For those coming from the TLaTU side of things, I meant to say this in the author's notes on the latest chapter: if you're curious about her, the full story of Five Stars is contained in my very first story on fimfiction, Five Star Service, set in the Gentlemanverse of Demon Eyes Laharl. It's every bit as adult and varied in its clop as this one, except you won't get man-on-mare action until late in the game... some of which does involve a certain Ace Attorney!

The two stories exist in different verses, but there's no reason there can't be parallels and reference between them. In my mind, the Phoenixverse and Gentlemanverse were once the same continuity but diverged at some point in the past. In an nutshell, the Phoenixverse Equestria learned of Earth and humanity long before the Gentlemanverse one did, to the point they did some exploring and Celestia even planted a flag in our world several hundred years ago, founding a European ministate named Equios to covertly support Equestrian interests on Earth. What interests are those? You'll have to read the coming TLaTU chapter to find out!

Regardless, the two verses do have events and characters in common. The Firefly trilogy starting with Rise of Firefly is canon to both, for example, and Five Stars retains her backstory and preference for men in both. So for readers on either side who are interested, give the other story a try, and don't be scared off by the downvotes on TLaTU. Trust me, it's plenty good; too many people dislike it on the basis of the ship alone. It does help to have read Turnabout Storm for the latter or having some familiarity with the Ace Attorney series, however...