tabyk@attbi.com wrote:

     P.S.: Might end up rewriting this one, since I think I fell
into the "give Akane a serious anger issue" trap...

I agree.  Why is Akane so angry?  Or perhaps I should be asking,
why is Akane so crazy?  Ordinarily you'd expect her to welcome the
arrival of another student as an opportunity to test her skills and
improve them.  What is so frustrating about the situation for her?  
Why is she even angrier than her counterpart in the main time line?  

This the mandatory alternate universe "Ranma proves he's better than
Akane, again" scene but what else does it say?  It doesn't say much
about Ranma except that he follows his mother's orders without hesitation
or compunction.  He's the Boy With No Personality.  It says that that
Akane is mental, of course.  It says that Soun and Akane are slobs
because they don't put her weightlifting equipment away after use.  
It says that Soun wants Akane to give up martial arts entirely, because
after slacking off on her training, he just sat there and let her be 
beaten into unconsciousness instead of doing what a sensei would normally
do when a student was about to be really hurt, and say "stop".  Since
Soun wasn't surprised by what happened and deliberately set up Akane
for a beating, I can only assume that he wants Akane's confidence to 
be destroyed so he can forget about her as a student.

So at this point it seems to me Akane has two choices.  She can 
forget about athletics and decide to become a girly-girl.  Or 
she can find a new sensei who is actually interested in teaching
her and try to narrow the gap between herself and Ranma.


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