Is the Moon Kingdom's language written with phonetic characters? Is that why Usagi can't write any kanji?
I had thought about the last question in my entirely unwritten Sailor Moon/Doctor Who crossover fic, Stellar Companion. The core idea is that Minako would make a great companion for the Doctor (probably Eleven, perhaps replacing the super-boring Clara), as she's actually spent some time in Jolly Old in canon.
As to the origin of the sailor suit, it's actually a Silver Millennium design. The Doctor and Minako were going to go back in time to see Halley's comet, as predicted by Halley, but do an off-by-one error and end up appearing during the 1835 flyby instead. There they team up with a spy in Royal Navy and a local tailor, to fight against the malicious aliens who are hiding their spaceship behind the comet. The tailor sees Minako transform, and do the "sailor-suited beautiful soldier" bit. After they the time travelers leave, he gets inspired to make a suit like that for real sailors in the Navy. Which of course leads to school uniforms eventually being made to resemble the original Moon Kingdom designs.
Also, it looks like the square collar comes from 1830, not 1835, but eh, close enough for fiction.
Give yourself extra points if you realized that the four protagonists in my story would be a tinker, a tailor, a soldier, and a spy. The Doctor is more a tinker than a doctor IMO.
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I had thought about the last question in my entirely unwritten Sailor Moon/Doctor Who crossover fic, Stellar Companion. The core idea is that Minako would make a great companion for the Doctor (probably Eleven, perhaps replacing the super-boring Clara), as she's actually spent some time in Jolly Old in canon.
As to the origin of the sailor suit, it's actually a Silver Millennium design. The Doctor and Minako were going to go back in time to see Halley's comet, as predicted by Halley, but do an off-by-one error and end up appearing during the 1835 flyby instead. There they team up with a spy in Royal Navy and a local tailor, to fight against the malicious aliens who are hiding their spaceship behind the comet. The tailor sees Minako transform, and do the "sailor-suited beautiful soldier" bit. After they the time travelers leave, he gets inspired to make a suit like that for real sailors in the Navy. Which of course leads to school uniforms eventually being made to resemble the original Moon Kingdom designs.
Also, it looks like the square collar comes from 1830, not 1835, but eh, close enough for fiction.
Give yourself extra points if you realized that the four protagonists in my story would be a tinker, a tailor, a soldier, and a spy. The Doctor is more a tinker than a doctor IMO.
-- ∇×V