Incidental Bits Thread #3

[robkelk]

The things one learns from Wikipedia. Now, do we use it in Drunkard's Walk S: Heart of Steel, My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character, Isekai by Moonlight, none of those, two of those, or all three of those stories?

From Pausanias we hear that Selene was supposed to have had fifty daughters, by her lover Endymion, often assumed to represent the fifty lunar months of the Olympiad.

And we all know that applying Japanese pronunication rules to "Selene" gives us "Serenity".


So... if Pausanias is trustworthy (and archaeological evidence indicates that he is), Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymion have had one daughter every two decades or so, with Chibiusa being the youngest.

Huh. Fifty kids seems to be a theme in Greek myth. Nereus and Doris had fifty daughters, too, the Nereids...

And Doug won't around long enough for it to matter (and I suspect it would throw off one of the epilogues), so why not save it for something Robu can use to tease Bunny-chan? (Or Rob teasing Usagi?)

"Mama told me that she called me Small Lady because she ran out of names after her first four dozen daughters, but big sister Yuikida told me back in Crystal Tokyo that mama wanted to name at least one of her girls after herself. I guess Usagi Small Lady is better than Usagi Junior."

"You have a sister named Euycyda?" Caster asked in surprise. "And four dozen more sisters?"

"Of course she does!" Diana replied. "Haven't you read Pausanias?"