Kun-chan Wrote:

I actually want Ranma and Akane together because they're in love. If
they don't get together, it's obvious from the manga that they will both
be miserable ... And if they're not, then the characters are OOC. And,
basically, I only like OOC in it's place - in an elseworld story, where
it is clearly marked to be in another universe/world/time frame/etc.

Phooey.  People fall out of love too!  And if Akane treats the people she
loves the way she treats Ranma, you are welcome to her.

And all the people who put Ranma with someone else are just tearing apart
a relationship without reguard for anything - home wreckers, almost.
So I think if they don't like to work within that already set relationship,
they don't care about love or relationships all that much, and when they
put Ranma together with <insert name of their favourite Ranma girl here>,
they're acting out their fantasies by replacing Ranma with themselves
(or how they would be if they could do martial arts and had some of
Ranma's characteristics) and getting the Ranma girl of their dreams.
So I don't think it's got anything to do with the characters, and it's
more like otaku wish-fulfilment.

Nice to see such an open and exploratory attitude!  Maybe some authors just
think that there is more than one way to skin a cat (Gomen, Shamps) - It is
a writer's *job* to take things apart and put them back together again.  If
you accept that there is only one way to do things, then there is no point
to writing any of it.  <<shrug>>  That would make it a waste of time, so
Zen, for one, does not believe it.

To assume that authors that so not share your view care nothing about love
or relationships, seems rather unfair.  If Zen did not care about the
characters, he would not write fan fiction.  <<shrug>>  Zen is not so ready
to be told by others what he should believe, feel or do.

Zen likes Hitomi Ichinohei's .sig...
"The beginnings of wisdom is the ability to always ask questions."

So, Zen asks "What if..." - a LOT

Indeed, Zen is currently asking "What if Ranma and Akane DID get married?"

*shrug*

But then, if the guys that write like that are Akane fans ..... ^^;;;

Zen *is* an Akane fan - he just loves Ukyou more.

And I don't know about the girls who write like that, if they do ...
probably just want to make their favourite female Ranma character
happy, and don't care about the real Ranma relationships ...

Well, that's just what I think. :p

<<shrug>>  Zen disagrees.  Zen thinks that female writers are just like
male writers.  They ask questions.

Real Ranma Relationships?  *piku*
It's a Toon.  A wonderful toon.  An inspiring toon.  A real work of art.
But a Toon, nonetheless.

Zen the Heretic-