The Wanderer wrote:

Bert Miller wrote:

Quoting goodwin <flipper123@optushome.com.au>:

I always assumed that they were elsewhere doing the same as Jaedite
was doing in Japan.

Reasonable solution.

And manga canon - each of the four was assigned a continent, roughly,
dividing up responsibility for the world between them. I can dig out
which one had which place if it's really necessary.

Incidentally, Minako never actually went to England in the manga; she
visited China and, IIRC, Greece, but that's as far as it goes. The
Sailor-V-was-in-England backstory is pure anime invention.

I might ever want to marry, is you, Phoebe."

I thought that an odd choice for Mar's old name, given its lunar
associations. Especially with "Aphrodite" for Minako, why not
"Aries" (or a feminization thereof: "Ariana")?

Phoebe would be a feminine form of Phobos,

Except it's not. If "Phoebe" were a feminine form of anything, it
would be "Phoebus", as in Apollo, meaning that the feminine would be
Artemis. Seriously, I did a google "define:Phoebe" before I posted,
just to double check, and Phoebe can up with multiple references as a
goddess or titaness later identified with Artemis.

A reasonable argument. Let me put it to you backwards: what *would* be a
feminine form of "Phobos"?

"Phobia".  And no, that isn't a joke, although I'd bust a gut laughing 
if a previous incarnation of Sailor Mars was named "Phobia"


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