On 2003-09-16 at 14:04 Bickham Jourdan wrote:

NOTE: Since /me feels that it's unnecessary to inflict three
separate mails onto the subscribers of FFML, I've cut'n pasted
from both of Jordans letters and Tymes letter into this one.

that.... no matter how he behaves.. Soun is the father and
head of the household.  Kasumi has no power to tell him
anything... a) because she's his daughter and b) even if
she is filling in the wife's household duties, the wife
still is not so in control.

We are still talking about Tendo "BWAAAAAH! My daughter is
scary! *sob* *sob* *sniffle* *sob*" Soun, aren't we? His daughters
probably has more power over him, then any wife ever could.
Especially now that the wife is pushing up the daisies and his
daughters ( and the Saotome-Tendo agreement ) is all he has left.

With one or possibly two exceptions, the only times I can recall
him acting as he actually has a spine and some slight measure of
authority, is when it comes to pushing the pact onto Ranma. He
never seems to try to force it down Akane's throat ( Or ever berate
either one of his daughters in any way, shape or form... ) after the
initial meeting with the Saotomes, at least not that I can recall.
Even when they ( Granted, only Akane and Nabiki seems to wind up in
this category... ) deserve a toungue-lashing or a solid spanking,
he never seems to confront them. He merely sobs and cries, gets drunk,
blames Ranma or plays Shogi/Go with Genma.

Though I must confess that I'm still haven't read further then
volume 25 of the manga and season five of the anime ( + a few stray
episodes from later seasons... ), so there's still quite a bit of
Ranma � for me left to observe and there may be instances later in
the anime/manga which might contradict me on this.

Heck, considering just how crappy my memory is, there might even be
instances that I've read/watched that contradicts me. *sheepish smile*

I would suggest rewriting this scene or dropping the part
about trying to box up Happosai and ship him away.

But that's what the two fools try just about every time Happi
is incapacitated. Though why they insist on sending him to Siberia
or one of the poles just boggles my mind. If they truly wanted
to rid themselves of him, why not send him to someplace he might
want to remain in? Florida. Key West. The French Riviera. Ibiza.
Malibu. Hawaii. They'd never see the old pervert ever again. :)

Soun may have instances of being
strong willed, but especially in fan canon, they are
rare.

When the Saotome-Tendo agreement isn't involved? *chuckles* Well,
I suppose he does that, once or twice. He did grow that gigantic
battle aura to fight Hentaizilla Happosai during that whole
mess with the panda-painting comming to life, which is one of the
few instances I can recall where Soun actually seems to have a spine.

Let's say this was a manga to be published...

Oh, no fear of that ever happening. My completely ridiculously
inept drawing style would make people hurl the moment they saw
it. :)

it may not end up this way, but at this point
the fic looks like a Ranma + Kasumi or "Kasumi the goddess
fixes everything" fic.

Ah, no fear of that happening either. While I do confess to
a certain weakness in occationally wanting to read fics where
everything turns out all right, I have absolutely zero ability
to actually write anything like that. :)

No, there is a reason why nobody in the household will stand up
to Kasumi, though it won't become ( too ) apparent until sometime
around chapter 13-14 ( unless I once again start adding more
unplanned stuff somewhere along the way... ) and that reason certainly
won't be any sort of universal problemsolver, rather a completely
new problem for the gang to tackle.

Well, not *completely* new actually, but I don't want to give away
too much at the moment. :)




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