----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastian Palm" <winchester@telia.com>
To: "FFML" <ffml@anifics.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 2:48 PM
Subject: [FFML] Re: (Ignore Previous) [Ranma 1/2]For Honor and Love [Alt |
Draftyx2 | Re-Write]

No, the previous version is a citrus interruptus - the major difference is
that Ranma does not alienate Akane within the first five seconds, and the
published part ends with Akane breathily asking Ranma to make her a woman...

Didn't the one you're thinking of show up here fairly recently? I lost my
archive a few weeks ago, so I can't check. Anyway, I think I like _this_
take better than the other.

No.  The one I'm thinking of is some years old.  And it's very, very similar
to the premise used in this story.

Totally unrelated question: In the Ranma alterverse department, has anyone
really experimented with various and sundry characters' relative ages?

---> Ryoga, the lost boy, following a mildly irritated Ranma around and
calling him 'sempai' (Extra points if he's totally starstruck :-))...

Nope.

---> Ranma being 18 rather than 16 when he shows at the dojo, and absolutely
detesting the brattish Akane...

Older, yes.  There are a number that probably fit this.

---> "Ranma" being several years younger (Arun, and Carrot, IIRC, have both
done this)

Yes.  Others have, as well.

---> The Kuno siblings having their ages reversed

No.  Why would it matter?  It's only the difference of a year.

If not, you should look into it, because the

similarities are rather large.  I checked yahoo and google (string '"for

honor

and love" ranma') and found only your page(which doesn't show a previous
version).  I also checked Rakhal's and the TASS archive.  If the story I'm
thinking of has the same name, then for some reason it's in none of those
places.  I do hope it was you who wrote it, considering the extreme
resemblance.

I _think_ that thing is listed on the Index, but finding _any_ specific
non-crossover shortfic there is a major chore if you don't know the title...
(And "Ranma challenge Akane" is one of those impossible search strings...)

'nuff rambling. Got a fic to read...

I know it's on one of those, since I read it before.  Or it might have been on
the ffml mini-archive(Is that still down?  Haven't checked in months.), which
I went through completely a year or two ago.  I was thinking that if he had
written the other fic, it would share the same name.  If this is not the
second version of that, though...Genma dying and Ranma spending years with the
Amazons before going to the Tendous with the idea that he was supposed to
challenge the dojo, well, that's a pretty specific idea to be copied by
chance.  So I'm wondering.  I know other people have read the other fic, as
well, so I think this needs to be addressed.


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