In message <199510220526.BAA18179@freenet2.carleton.ca>, Andrew Stodden writes:

Alright all you creative people. I need something for Akane to yell when
she does her technique from wliia. I have a few ideas, but am looking for
more, and I'm looking for the Japanese translations if somebody want to do
them. Posted below is a summary of the technique. 

[snip]

Anyway, just start tossing out ideas. If you need any clarification, just
ask publicly on fanfic@andrew.cais.com so I can reply for everybodies benefit.

Hmm... initially upon reading them they sounded good, but after reading RR's
comments, I'm going to have to agree in part.  If you think about it these ki
powers put Akane easily on the par of a minor demi-god and not a really good
human fighter.  That's not to say you can't use them, but you'd have to adjust
for it, like by a rather severe retraining of Akane's temper.  Consider:

Ranma:  Kawaiiku-ne!
Akane:  [does the glowing blue thing]  BAKA!
<Sounds of interdimensional mallet heated to the point where the air around it
turns to plasma and sets everything nearby on fire>
<Follow up with sounds of emergency medical teams moving in>
EMT-1:  This one's a goner, hole burned all the way through his chest. 
EMT-2:  Yup, look at that man.  Level 3 burns on the entire rest of his body.
EMT-1:  At least he wasn't in pain long.
EMT-2:  Wonder what he did to deserve that?
EMT-1:  Probably call some girl un-cute.

Repeat at Furikan High as Kuno attempts to expound his love.

With a little application of thought Akane's power is even more powerful than at
first glance.  The ability to lock an object in place.  Locking the human heart
into place can result in a messy death I suspect.   Another thought:  Kuno
charges with the intention of a full-body hug.  Akane doesn't stop to think and
locks a sharpened number 2 pencil in the air pointed at Kuno and steps back a
few feet. Ouch.

You've got a good working base, but you need to tone it down some to prevent
Akane from going over the edge.  Ranma and company make her mad easily and often
enough that she'd likely do one or more of them serious physical harm.  You've
basically made her defensively invincible (just stop all attacks) and
offensively supercharged (both the wave attack and the heating side-effects).
As it stands right now she'd be walking on eggs all the time to avoid destroying
her surroundings and injuring her friends.

Possible suggestions would be limiting the power that she can expend on it
(stopping an attack would be like running up several flights of stairs,  doing a
wave punch about the same, doing a high powered version like running a marathon)
or making the ki require some sort of focusing object/routine that would prevent
it from being used unintentionally  (that would also put her combat back down to
a more resonable level as someone could knock away her focus or attack her
before she could use it.)

Hmm... this puts images in my head.  Damn you :)

	-DaR
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Dan Root - dar@andrew.cmu.edu