C. Wong wrote:
After being on the FFML, more than ever before had I seen cases in
which Cologne became the ultimate bad guy/ghoul in at least 70% of all the
fanfics on the list. Owning all 38 volumes of Manga myself, I had
An exaggeration. In many ,perhaps as many as half of them she plays no
significant role.
NEVER
seen Cologne being maliacious to ANYONE; nor had she ruined anybody's lives
(Genma, on the other hand . . .); nor had she ever used one of her
techniques as a bait to get Ranma to marry Shampoo (not even the Whirlwind
trick that Ranma desperately needed at the time); nor had she ever even
attempt to hurt Akane (even in the Shark-fist Chapter, she threw Ranma and
Akane both out the water so that Akane won't get caught up in the match);
nor had she ever been mean to Mousse (read ALL manga episodes).
So to all those writers using Cologne as a evil character without
stating that it is OFC, I would like to ask WHY do they do what they do with
Cologne.
Adrian Wong
That's easy. She's convenient. She is capable of any conceivable
feat if she feels like it, and she's an established character. In
the series, after the initial Cat's Tongue point story, her input
was actually pretty helpful (in fact she replaced Dr Tofu in his
role as resident sage). But assuming she goes nuts, or loses her
temper, or for some reason simply becomes desperate, she is clearly
the most potentially dangerous established character.
I wouldn't use her that way. If I wanted a real villain, I'd invent
one. But I can easily see why people do use her as a villain.
My personal fanfiction pet peeves for Ranma
Having Nabiki actually blackmailing people, or insisting on
payment from her own family for advice and other trivial assistances.
Akane's hammer. I've only seen it once in all the Ranma stuff
I have, so why do I have to see it in so much fanfiction? It just
isn't that funny written down anyway. There's a reason why anvil
gags are more common in visual than written humour.
Alternate historys that simply repeat the events of the first
few episodes unchanged except for different people plugged into
the roles, even when it's obvious that things would not have
turned out that way after the alterations.