When did Senshi Pluto show up in the Silver Millenium? Has there always
been a Senshi Pluto to guard time, or did the office first show up then? Has
Setsuna always been Senshi Pluto?

	What do you think?

	Honestly, this is one of the greater mysteries of Sailor Moon. Pluto.
Where did she come from, when, why, and how?  I consider her the ultimate
in freedom for development, which is why she appears in every one of my
fanfics.

SPOILERS!! for the Sailor moon manga, especially the end of R (Volume 7).














Thinking of Pluto's history, especially in the manga timeline, gives me
a headache.  OK, at the end of the Sailor Moon R manga, she dies, right?
Then Serenity reincarnates her in the 20th Century as Setsuna Meiou.
When Setsuna reawakens to her powers at the end of Manga 8, she seems
to have her memories of Crystal Tokyo.  That's fine, she is Pluto, see
all, be all, etc.

So, she then lives and dies with the other senshi through the rest of 
the manga, and presumably is there when CT is created.  Who's guarding
the time gate at this point?  The answer is presumable the Pluto who
died in SMR.  Therefore there are two Plutos existing at the same time.
Either that, or the Pluto who dies at the end of SMR *is* Setsuna, and
therefore when Serenity sends her back to the 20th Century, she creates
a sort of Pluto time loop, with Pluto going from 20th to 30th centuries
and back.

This also begs the question of who's taking Pluto's place in CT after
her death?  I decided that, even though Pluto had been reincarnated in
the 20th century, there still needed to be a Pluto in CT, so I reincarnated
her again.  This ended up giving me even more headaches...

The obvious solution, of course, is to use the anime timeline, where
she doesn't die at the end of R.  But since the end of R in the manga
is one of the most beautiful scenes ever, I refused. :-)

Gotta go lie down, my brain is spinning...

--Sean Gaffney
--dealing with time travel *again* in his current fic...