Subject: Re: [ffml] Who gets Ranma?
From: Wade Tritschler
Date: 4/28/1997, 5:51 AM
To: "Ranma Al'Thor" <ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>
CC: fanfic@fanfic.com



On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Ranma Al'Thor wrote:



Ranma + Ukyo = not the best match in the world

Why:  Though many fanfic writers portray this match to be the second most
likely match up after the Ranma/Akane match, I don't really think that's
the case.  Ranma and Ukyo have been friends for a long time, but they
haven't seen, talked, written, or otherwise communicated for the last ten
years.  Do you know how much someone can _change_ in ten years!  In the
Manga and the Anime Ranma tries to pick up their relationship where they
left off, but they were just six years old then.  The way that they see
each other can't have changed that much, but they're now very different
people from who they were when they were six.  The last ten years has

Are they?  I get the impression neither of them has changed very much.
That being perhaps the real problem ^_-.  

They have changed, a great deal in my opinion.  The main problem I see
with the Ukyo Ranma relationship is that she's in love with that 6 year
old she met all those years ago.  She doesn't love Ranma as he is now, she
doesn't really know him.  She believes he loves her, romantically, yet he
doesn't.  She's got a sort of idealistic view that he definitely doesn't
deserve (granted her view doesn't make him out to be perfect but it
ignores alot of his present flaws, mostly because she hasn't seen them
yet).  I could on but this is the main flaw.

Wade