Incidental Bits 2 - The Comebacks

[robkelk]

I refuse to believe that I am the first person to come up with this.

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"Susan!"

"I call myself 'Setsuna Meioh' now, grandfather."

Everyone looked at The Doctor. "You have a granddaughter?"

You're the first person I've seen publish this, but I very much doubt that, in an infinite Universe such as (for example) the one in which we live, you're the first person actually to come up with it. It's even funnier to me because I remember reading (or maybe hearing) somewhere that "Susan" almost was her dub name, and now I wonder if that's why they considered it.

Exactly. "Setsuna" to "Susan" is as easy to believe as "Ami" to "Amy", and they actually did that dub name change.

Of course we must use it.

I think we're going to have to use this.

According to the backstory Naoko Takeuchi gave her, Setsuna is majoring in theoretical physics... and plans to become a fashion designer. Wikipedia says "she sacrifices herself on pain of death, but is reinstated later in the series", and "It is not even clear whether she has a civilian history at all, as time travel and multiple deaths and reincarnations complicate any backstory."

If Sailor Pluto isn't a Time Lord (with attendant personality shifts when she regenerates), I don't know who is. And making her The Doctor's granddaughter is simply Conservation of Detail.