Subject: Re: [FFML][comment] Doors Best Left Unopened part 9
From: "Andrew M. Petalik" <wolf@sbm.org>
Date: 6/3/1998, 8:49 PM
To: "aka Rogue" <tjf150@psu.edu>
CC: <ffml@fanfic.com>

There is only one thing that I found disturbing. Mousse has a bit too much
back-bone in his encounter with Shampoo on the roof. The rest was good...
but that part... bothered me somehow. It didn't feel right.

I would expect him to be more... I don't know... stunned at her words than
anything else. His ability to direct anger at her for more than a few
seconds just isn't like Mousse. (IMHO) He was certainly stunned when trying
to digest it all while discussing it with Ukyou.

Well....  isn't this more in keeping with Mr. Mackinnon's take on Mousse?
He's maturing more.  Take the early anime/manga version, Mousse would never
have (IMO) broken off an engagement to Shampoo.  In v38 though, he did
mention something about not using the egg to make Shampoo love him.
Something about fake love?  Anyway, like I said, he's matured a bit more.

I agree with you on the fake love thing. In fact, anytime Mousse tried to
gain her affection, he NEVER resorted to that kind of trickery. But that
wasn't the point I was trying to make. Even in the OVAs that take place
later on in the series, Mousse is a simp, plain and simple.

Of course, I haven't seen how Mousse is after the Saffron affair... maybe
he's grown up some there. 

As for the demon invasion, he was more or less the least affected, his
development of a backbone seems a *bit* too abrupt.

With Kunou, I have no problem... in fact, he's having *trouble* not letting
himself slip back into madness (now that Nabiki's helping him, he may not
have the problem anymore. Being alone can lead to insanity, terrifying
dreams or not).

In the manga, Mousse shows the odd flash of resolve... which melts almost
at once when it comes to Shampoo. I find it hard to believe that he would
stand up to her so... *easily* all of a sudden.


Hopefully, this will steer him away from the inevitably self-destructive
path that blind devotion can lead you to.

Blind devotion can lead you to self-destruct?  Uh-oh...  <runs for the
phone>

Who you gonna call...

WoLF: Brain-busters?


Reiko is a mysterious new character who's agenda is unknown... although she
isn't above having fun. I enjoyed there scene where she made Ukyou jealous.
<evil grin>

C'mon guys!  Wake up and smell the coffee!  You like each other!  (this
should make Ukyou/Ryouga pairing fans happy...)

Uh... I hate to say this, but this *seems* to be leaning more towards a
Ukyou/Mousse pairing. Having Ryouga and Ukyou living under the same roof
will make such a development between Ukyou and Mousse that much more
interesting... especially if Ryouga, wishy-washy as he is when it comes to
girls, gets stuck between visions of Ukyou in that dancing dress and Reiko
flirting with him so outrageously.

Oh yes... that little triangle (square) could be lots of fun. I'm not
saying that Ryouga and Reiko will end up together... just that she'll keep
Ryouga very confused. He won't know *who* to court. ^_~


I suspect that the "inner circle" will eventually include her... although
the others will be VERY wary of her since they don't know anything about
her. Keeping her mysterious ought to be fun. As she said herself, she wants
no part of all this trouble.

Won't it have to?  She knows a LOT of magic.  (or so I am led to believe.)
If she reveals herself to Kuno as who she is, then hopefully, at the very
least, she'll reinforce the wards surrounding the compound.

She may be willing to reinforce the wards anyway. That doesn't give her a
free  pass into the inner circle though. Kunou is VERY protective of his
duty. For someone like Kunou, having such a job is very ego inflating. I
suspect that one of the reasons he doesn't want to share is for personal
gratification. On the other hand... he's trying to fight off personal
madness... so now that one person has joined his little disaster, it may be
easier to introduce another.


Haven't seen anything but the barest mention of Ranko since the end of
"Cast a long shadow." I wonder how he's doing?

I used to think his statement about "after this next story is finished, I'll
write something about Ranko" meant after the next part.  Needless to say, I
was devestated when I found out otherwise.  ^_^

Yeah... I got the same response. I didn't expect "after this next story is
finished" to take so long either. ^_~


See ya

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