One advantage to seeing a bunch of comments about something is that it
spurs others to check out what the hubub's about. Not that I've read the
other emails since I want to go into this thing unbiased. And since it
is MacSpon, who has given me plenty of C+C over the years...
Okay, okay, I haven't C&C'd you lately ... *mumble* ...
>"Magic girls?" said Ranma. "Oh, please."
Oh my, this isn't going to be good, is it?
There are some genres that just go together like bricks and custard.
>"Oh, please," Ranma repeated in digust. "The most hackneyed ones of the
>lot. Short skirts and magic wands and squealing."
And lots and lots of speeches.
Damn, I should have remembered that!
>"Meh." Ranma scowled. "When it comes to fighting, I'm the best there
>is. What would a bunch of girls know?"
An array of magic attacks that are especially attuned to destroying said
monsters?
Surely not.
>He couldn't help noticing, though, that they disposed of the monster
>pretty effectively.
Oh, I thought they were getting thrown around. That doesn't sound very
effective to me.
I originally wrote the fight section out a lot longer, giving all the
whys and wherefores, but it slowed things down too much and wasn't really
very interesting. Too much of a distraction from the thinly-disguised
rant disguised in humour. :)
>"My _league_?" he said, outraged. "Hey, I told you, I'm the best! I
>killed a _god_, you know."
At least he said he was a god. Although he was physically weak. And
could basically only fly, shoot out fire blasts, and regenerate.
Actually, now that I think about it, he didn't seem that divine, just
powerful.
My point, sir.
>"A god?"
He'd expected that to throw them. Instead, to his surprise, they went
into a huddle, talking quietly. He could only make out a word here
and there.
>"Beryl?" said one of them.
Hmm. Did they really classify Beryl as a god?
About as much as Saffron was ...
> --**--
"Back so soon?" inquired Nabiki archly.
"Yeah, come on, Ranma!" said Akane. "How did it go?"
"Meh." Ranma gave them a pained look. "I already told you: when it
comes to fighting, I'm the best there is. What would a bunch of girls
>know about martial arts?"
Well, the bit about martial arts is probably true. ^_^
Yup.
>Just doing a bit of axe-grinding here. There are an awful lot of R/SM
crossovers out there, and most of them, while loudly trumpeting their
impartiality, feature Ranma (with a few unlikely power-ups) humiliating
the Senshi with one or two easy moves and then ending up training them
in martial arts -- apparently because, canon notwithstanding, martial
arts are clearly the only way to true power. I thought it might be fun
>to swing the pendulum in the other direction, for a change.
% Hmm. I thought there were a number of fics that had Ranma develop
Sailor Mud powers and blast Youma with them. But then, my whole take on
that was done in 'Those Who Hunt Ninjas' a while ago. Nothing like
thinly veiled rants disguised in humor. :)
DB Sommer
Oh, sure. At least I admit it. :)
I was tempted to go on to a SM vs Dragonball Z parody ("He just stood
there, posing and grunting and threatening me, for like ten minutes ...
it was just so *easy* to hit him with a Moon Healing Escalation!") but
perhaps not. Anyway, I think that one sentence pretty much covers it. ^_^
Cheers,
Angus