Subject: Re: [FFML] Justice, misfortunes, and other silly things.
From: arromdee@inetnow.net
Date: 3/18/1999, 2:56 PM
To: ffml@fanfic.com

Nick Leifker <nightelf@thekeep.org> wrote:
You know, after all of the Akane-bashing and Ukyou-bashing I've seen
going over the FFML in the last day or two, all in the name of 'fic
writing, I'm left with one question:

Do you really hate these creations of ink and pen so much?

I wouldn't call "Misfortune" a character-bashing fic.  If you have to say it
bashes something, it bashes an _idea_: that Akane's and Ranma's relationship
is natural and inevitable, rather than that it just seems that way (to both
the readers and the characters) because Akane and Ranma are constantly the
center of attention.

And I had planned it long before "Justice" came out (though it was Justice
that finally impelled me to write).