Subject: Re: Careful Destiny
From: "Charles K. Hurst" <charlesh@teleport.com>
Date: 8/6/1996, 1:30 AM
To: "Scribe's Sanctum" <fanfic@fanfic.com>

On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Mr. the Rutsch wrote:

if you think of Ranma as a serious Martial Artist, bound to honor custom
and tradition of a masculine warrior ideal...which doesn't include incest.
Of course, he mainly whines and argues, so maybe not ^_^.

Exactly, he's just a sixteen year old kid who's had a really strange
childhood.  And since when does the tradition of a masculine warrior ideal
not include incest?  I don't think you can really draw that connection. :)
That's to say, I don't think the two are connected, and I'm not saying
such an ideal does include incest.

I have a bigger problem with Ranko.  I don't think she would consider
Ranma a new person.  Even if she was 100% sure he wasn't crazy or lying,
she would consider him her brother.  People don't think of others in terms
of abstract concepts, such as containing a specific set of experiences and

She does at first, and it takes a while for the idea to sink in.  It is
the total change in personality that intrigues her and makes her realize
something is drastically different.

memories; they think of other people in everyday terms, such as what they
look like.  In addition, the whole idea of a brother from an alternate
reality is too absurd for a person to grasp and deal with rationally.

Oh?  If faced with some sort of weird similar situation, as a proper
fantasy/scifi/anime fanboy I would be in heaven.  Would you not be able to
grasp and deal with rationally if you dialed the wrong number and ended
up with Belldandy?

And every argument about Ranma not recognizing the incest taboo works as
an argument that Ranko would.  She has had a brother for way way long

Right, but this isn't her brother.  He's someone totally different who
just happens to look like her brother.  But if she wasn't attracted to
Ranma, then I really don't think he would ever get interested in her.  My
memory of the fanfic is that he really only gets interested because its
sort of a mutual attraction.

time, after all, and knows that you shouldn't.  To me, the pairing makes
about as much sense as Nabiki-Kasumi or something.

Oo, I still think the Nabiki-Kasumi bathing scene should have been left as
written, but I'm a minor hentai, so. <shrug> ^ ^

Charles K. Hurst - ImageNation Corp. Wage Slave/Employee - RPI graduate-MechE
Chocolate and Anime Forever!  1 year, 2 months a fan and counting.
MI = eps. 96  MB = eps. 76 - 0/0 episodes each to utter boredom or Fushigi!
FY = eps. 24  Escaflowne = eps. 13 - ?/? to my next bout of depression. ^ ^