On Mon, 16 Oct 1995, Harvey Torrance Griffin wrote:

	_OUCH!_  Most brutal.

I hope you meant that in a postive way. :)

	I take you will explain the reason why everything concerning our 
favored goddesses are going to hell?

	Yes (see below).  


From: "Charles C. Liu" <charles@thirdwave.net>

       Geez this is a really depressing future! How come Keiichi is so
abusive to Bell? Why did Urd and Skuld turn bad? 

	Depressing? Thank you.  I was in a bad mood when I came up with 
the idea;  I thought how much anquish and torture I could put my favourite 
characters in (hey, that's drama, don't you know).  However, I have 
relented and the rest of the story will lighten up a little, I hope. 
Unless, of course, I fall into a bad mood again. :)
	Keiichi is abusive because he is very unsatisfied with his work. 
This increases stress which weakens any relationship/ marriage.  He is 
not mad at her, it's more likely that he feels powerless to control his 
life at work so he attempts to control it at home (psychologically, a 
term I can't recall at the moment).
	Skuld and Urd haven't gone bad, actually. They've got problems 
to deal with.  Urd has been cut-off from the Yggdrassil (how often does 
that happen?) and she's been drinking lots of sake to have any power at 
all, or else she drains her own life-force (hence her premature aging).  
She is the only one aware of Yggdrassil breaking down and of the growth of 
entropy.  Skuld is emotionally confused. She wrongly believes that 
Kenji, her first real love, would not want to get involved with someone 
who is not 'pure' (ie. a virgin), especially one whose purity has been 
removed by force (no naughty tentacles, I swear. This is meant to be 
treated tastefully. You won't get any 'gorey details').  I've thrown a 
few other things into their pots, but I'll leave them at that.
	Also:
The wedding isn't as remembered.
The child is not what he seems to be.
Belldandy intends to leave K1 (the contract null now that he no longre 
needs her).
The only bad guy is FTIC.

	Thanks for your comments.  I hope this letter is confusing! :)
	-- Omega
	


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