Subject: Re: Cursed
From: Richard Lawson
Date: 1/11/1997, 6:50 PM
To: Gary Kleppe
CC: Fanfic Mailing List <fanfic@fanfic.com>
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sterman@sprynet.com

Gary Kleppe wrote:

On Sat, 11 Jan 1997 13:14:35 -0600, Richard Lawson
<sterman@sprynet.com> wrote:

I wanted to drag this out some more.  As it is, Ranma's final conversion
happens in less than a day.  I just can't come up with an idea for a
larger story to fit this into.  If you have any ideas, let me know.

Two words: Upperclassman Kuno. (The singular exception to "everyone at
school knows about me anyway." )

Hmm, *this* has possibilities.  I, too, was involved with an email
discussion with one of my pre-readers, who suggested that the new Ranma
would consider Kuno to be an ideal husband.  <shudder>

I was just involved with an E-mail discussion with someone over the
episode of Nettouhen that this story ultimately comes from. We both
thought it unfortunate that Kuno didn't show up in that episode. Think
he would be the kind of guy Ranma's cursed personality would be
attracted to?

Oh, yeah, I'd say that would be a given.  :)

And if you want to go for a little comedy on the side, Kuno can be
interacting with Ranma during the time when his personality is
wavering. That would result in the Pig-tailed Girl being sweet to
Tatewaki one moment and kicking him around the next.

:D

I liked the story. I was especially glad that you didn't have
everything working out fine in the end. That would have been the
standard thing to do, but the unhappy ending works much better for
this story IMHO.

I think so, too.  Otherwise it loses its poignancy.

The beginning was a bit familiar, though... ^_^

^_^  I was trying to make a subtle point, that Ranma was *this* close to
eternal happiness (i.e. the TIL universe) when the darker aspect of the
curse began to kick in.

Gary (asking the question: if Genma took the mind of a panda, would
anyone be able to tell the difference?)

:D  Benjamin Franz made the same observation.

Thanks for the comments.

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