On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Adrian Wong wrote:

	First off, in my story, Mousse's disillusionment with Shampoo (that with
her accidentally pushing him into Jusenkyou) is what has fueled him to
train himself into becoming a talented lady's man.  It is a way for him to
"get back" at Shampoo (Hai!  You don't know what you're missing out on,
girl!)  In my story, Mousse had already been trained to serve women since a
young age, thus knows what women likes and dislikes.  That's why he GAVE
himself a backbone when it comes to dealing with women, cause he knows that
they look down upon groveling men (as in the REAL Mousse).  Skjam had said
something about Mousse being "so perfect that he becomes annoying".  Well,
I think I had already CLEARLY shown that Mousse isn't perfect (he's shown
to be more crafty than the real Mousse in the manga, for he has a strong
need to defend himself due to his childhood).  He is still a nice guy, and
very good at tempting women.  But other than that, I intend for him to be
two-dimensional and human.   

Um, what I meant was the fact that the curse corrects his eyesight 
(apparently even in normal form) and he seems to have lost all the mental 
shortsightness as well.  The original Mousse is funny (and more 
interesting) in good part because of his foolishness in certqain 
matters.  Essentially, *where's the down side*? > 

	As for the bit about Cologne being OOC, I would beg him and everyone else
with similiar opinions to actually

No, no I never said Cologne was OOC (per se).  I just wonder why it was 
necessary to negate her one big disadvantage (old age), since it takes 
away much of her charm as well.
	The real question, I guess is why are these changes necessary to 
the story?  What would be wrong with a near-sighted and prone to 
miscalculation Mousse chasing Ranko?  Why does Cologne need to look like 
a movie starlet?  After all, you kept most of Shampoo's faults, why do 
Mousse and Cologne rate?

SKJAM!