On Sun, 22 Oct 1995, Andrew Stodden wrote:

	I disagree, it seems that during the course of the story she is 

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head together.

	I thought the original point of the story was to deal with what 
happened to Ranma.  Making Akane super-powered (and face it, these are 
super powers here, not chi powers) takes away some of the story's 
"realism."

It is, but his 'world' focuses around him. What happens to him  affects
those around him.

	Andrew, stop ppulling straws.  Take into consideration that maybe 
some of these comments might not all be baka like mine.

	Consider: If Akane has the potential to become a demigod, then 
there is _no way_ Ranma-chan could be raped by five street toughs 
(transitivity property in action: Ranma-kun beats Ranma-chan beats Akane 
beats entire male population of Furinkan high at once should beat five 
punks).  The Nerima of this fanfic started off as a more "realistic" 
world, with the characters not being avatars of fighting.  Thus 
Ranma-chan _could_ lose, and we had an interesting drama going on.

	realistic?