On 9/5/97 12:51 AM, Mark Doherty at mdoherty@mailbox.uq.edu.au wrote:

At 12:33 AM 5/09/97 -0400, Eric Adams wrote:

Ever notice how it's often the ones who like her best who put her
through the worst time?

When I wrote Insignificant i did it for a variety of reasons, one of
them being cathartic, another because I like Ukyou and want to see her
be a whole person.  

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I'll admit it to one and all. I can't stand Ranma/Akane stories anymore. No, 
I mean I REALLY can't stand them. The last serious one I liked was Krista's 
snow woman one. That was a fair while ago. I can't even take Ryouga/Ukyou 
ones anymore. They feel so... wrong. Mousse/Ukyou I can handle, because it's
rarer. New characters and her are almost guarenteed to have me hitting the
delete button. I want a Ranma/Ukyou story. 

<Sigh> Is it too much to say that I want a Ukyo/NO ONE story? (And plan 
to write one, one of these days.) 

Seriously, she seems like one of the few characters in Ranma 1/2 who not 
only doesn't have a 'true love' matchup planned by the author, but who is 
just as capable of surviving without one. (Heck, I've survived for 10+ 
years without one, why can't she? ^_^) I sometimes find it kind of 
irritating to see authors scrambling wildly to match her up with someone, 
*anyone*, just so that she has a partner. That's why I want to write a 
story where she *doesn't* end up with anyone, and is happy about it. :)



Travis Butler
(The Professor, formerly of Myth and Magick!, Lawrence, KS;
 tbutler@tfs.net, now from the Wandering Powerbook;
 <http://www.tfs.net/personal/tbutler/>;
 Mac page <http://www.tfs.net/business/tbutler/>)

...You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it 
means.