Subject: Re: [FFML] [FANFIC][SM] Tales of Younger Earth - Postscript
From: Douglas Helm
Date: 11/29/1998, 4:08 PM
To: ffml@fanfic.com
CC: wwolfshohl@logicon.com

Sailor Pluto stood watch over the timeline. Centuries of standing guard had
taught her how to suppress emotions. How to make difficult decisions for
long term gain. Yet now, frustration moved within her. It was one of the
rare times that the duties she had to preform chaffed. Small Lady would
understand if she saw, yet Pluto could not show her. 

The above sounds like Pluto's picking and choosing the course of history,
to make things come out the way she wants them to.

I won't comment further on Pluto's reasons.

Someone who follows canon more closely than I do, please comment -- isn't
Pluto's job to make sure the timeline *doesn't* change?  That someone
doesn't make one path happen over another that would occur 'naturally'?
Didn't Pluto "die" in one manga story when she went and changed the
timeline herself (the penalty to the guardian for changing the timeline is
death)?  

My understanding was that Pluto died because she stopped time. I could be
wrong, that was gained second hand. In any even we don't follow the Manga. 

Except, of course, that by exposing Small Lady to Misako, Pluto never gets
the Small Lady she knew at all. The Small Lady she knew never met Misako
until someone shoved her over into an alternate timeline. Pluto's putting
Small Lady back in her original timeline, essentially erasing Misako, would
have meant absolutely nothing to Small Lady back when she first arrived in
the alternate timeline. It certainly should not have had any effects on
Small Lady's long term happiness.

That isn't true, The orignal Chibi-Usa/Small Lady came back in Tales of
Younger Venus when Misako was introduced. You're working under the
impression that Misako's presence wasn't natural. While the Anime indicated
that Small Lady was likely the only child of Neo-Queen Serenity and King
Endymion there wasn't anything to prevent them from having another daughter
was there? So Pluto did have the original Small Lady that Pluto knew. 


Doug

"I write in broad tapestries, interweaving characters lives leaving
 the little details to the reader unless the detials are important."
	- Anne McCaffrey
	  From the book "Get off the Unicorn"

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	- Tsukino Misako in "Tales of Younger Venus" Part 6

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