From:        Mike W. Loader, mloader@scs.unr.edu

  Funny how these things work.
  I originally wrote this in script format, as part of the second episode
of the Nameless Sequel. About 5 seconds after I was done, I realized that it
wouldn't work; the tone was _not_ suitable for a piece that's a slapstick
comedy.
  So I changed it to story format, and made it a short. Read, enjoy, C&C.
                - Mike Loader. 

Hmmm. Well, it's probably just as well this isn't going into Nameless 
Sequel; I have a *very* hard time reconciling this portrait with the one 
in Nameless Original. If Nabiki were carrying around this kind of 
bitterness and resentment in Nameless Original, I would have expected it 
to come out when she was in her 'enhanced' state... and I don't remember 
even a hint of it. Not even in the scene where she ki-blasts Shampoo and 
Kodachi, and that's where I'd expect it to come out.

Aside from that... a very disturbing portrait. I'm not sure if it was 
meant to be. <wry look> Something seemed... off, somehow, in a way I 
couldn't pin down. A little too gritty, perhaps, in its take on the 
world; heroin seems completely out of place in the Ranmaverse.


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