Sure! That's great! But there's only problem--it's NOT IN THE STORY!
All we get is the standard 'Pluto's fucking with the timelines, she's
an evil bitch!' explanation. There's no attempt to characterize Pluto
at all. Pluto's conflict--the desire to fix the world population
level, apparently--is never addressed. She's not real in the story at
all, except maybe at the end of the chapter and even then not much
effort is put into giving her a personality.
(( She hasn't exactly had a lot of screen time to explain herself yet. Have
you considered that maybe that's yet to come? We're getting a strong
implication that next chapter should see the other Senshi summoned to the
Gate to meet Ranma, I think we should get some explanations - or at least
some arguments - then. Be patient. ))
Millennia? Where'd you get that? What's happened is this: You need a
key,
and the user privileges to get to or from the time gates - either
the minor
or major key. Pluto and Chibi-moon's user privileges have been
revoked,
pending a replacement for Pluto. Thus, Pluto is stuck until Ranma
can get
the minor and major key. I saw nothing regardin how long Pluto had
been
stuck, or perceived she was - only that she'd tried everything she
could
think of.
Um, it says straight out that she can't leave, since her access to the
Key is disabled. By millennea I meant 'forever', sorry if that wasn't
clear. From Pluto's perception, she has no way to escape. It's not
like she knows Ranma is coming to beat the crap out of her.
(( Yeah, but she hasn't been there that long yet. It's probably only been a
couple of days at this point. ))
Good point, which does need to be addressed. Again, plenty of
ways
to deal
with it but having Pluto trapped at the Gate doesn't make sense
in
the context
of her losing her powers. And I agree that her assumption that
only
a member
of Serenity's court could be the guardian doesn't make a great
deal
of sense.
This was probably Serenity's idea - "Gee, here we have a bunch of
seriously
powerful artifacts, all in need of guardians. If I choose the
guardian's
from among my court, I'll have more or less personal control of the
artefacts. Heck, I'll take the most powerful one for myself."
Besides, who
says it wasn't Serenity, or one of her ancestors, who created the
gates and
decided the rules? What if Ranma is the only viable candidate
because he's
the only currently female member of Genma's line - which turns out
to have
been major nobility in the Silver Millennium?
Um, Eiko said she'd have looked on another planet if she hadn't found
Ranma. I don't think any of the other planets would have any SM
nobles. I mean, you can argue that, but....
(( Well, depending on whose fanfic you read, there's Jurai, right, Mr
Biles? I can see it now, Tenchi in a fuku...))
As for Pluto's assumption, yes, she would WANT anybody with control
over the artifacts to be from the SM, but that doesn't mean she'd
think nobody else had the capability of using them.
(( As I've said before, Pluto is in fairly heavy denial. If he's going with
the version where Setsuna is the first-and-only-ever-so-far
Pluto/Guardian-of-the-Gates, then she may have good reason to think this. ))