On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Caroline Seawright wrote:

I doubt that just marrying Akane would give him a "normal" life in the 
Ranma-verse.  Also, in order for him to marry Akane, he'd have to admit 
that he loved her and that would also be a "loss" in a sense.

Why'd that be a loss? He does finally admit that he loves her, to himself.
He would probably have said it aloud, too, if she hadn't have come back
the way she did...

I dunno, but from the way Ranma acts is some of the OAVs, it's kinda 
obvious that's the way he thinks.  I didn't say it was correct, but that 
seems to be the way his mind works.

You mean that he thinks he'd lose? *shrug* I don't bother to go on the
OVAs, usually. The manga's fine for me... (I'll never be able to collect
all of the stuff on video, anyway...) I think if he admitted it to Akane
he probably just thinks she'd reject him, so he doesn't... He's just too
shy, the poor boy. ^_^

I meant that Ranma treats love as some sort of competition.  And since he 
hates to lose, he works his relationships in the same way.

You're right, Akane knows how Ranma feels about her, but Ranma had no 
clue how Akane feels about him, except that she's always jealous of him 
and hitting him with objects and callling him hentai.

Frank

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