Caroline Ann Seawright wrote:

Well, it's wrong for the reasons that Kodachi showed she was better than
Shampoo and Ukyou and didn't try to kill Akane ... And it would go
totally against the manga ... Ukyou deserves what she got in the story
for what she did at the wedding ... Shampoo should be tortured more...
And since Ranma dies of a broken heart, like he would have in the manga
if he hadn't of saved Akane, Ukyou would be left to comfort a dead body.
This way she's got to suffer KNOWING she killed both Akane AND Ranma
by helping Shampoo.

	If Kodachi didn't try to kill/injure/harm Akane was because she was worried
about the well-done Ranma that had been hit by the exploding food. Who knows
what she might've been up to in truth. And _that_ wouldn't go totally against
the manga, since we've seen Kodachi try to kill the other fianc���es, even
chibi-Hinako in vol. 25.
	Of course, when it comes to the fanfic, you're right: Ukyou got what she
deserved.
	Geeze, you _really_, and I mean _REALLY_, dislike Shampoo, don't you, Kun-chan
^_^ ? I wonder what sort of battle I'll have the --ahem-- Kunoichi in my fanfic
wage against the lavender Amazon... <grin>

Ukyou isn't the goody two-shoes you think she is, and she doesn't
deserve to get Ranma after trying to kill Akane in the manga ... And
I don't think Ranma would want her any more after the manga ending,
anyway.

	Well, I don't know about that. I mean, the scene where Ukyou tosses exploding
okonomiyaki is from _original manga_, hence it was but a comical attack (we all
know that bombs in Rumik-verse do nothing but char people a little bit.)
	Besides, I still don't really think Shampoo and Ukyou wanted to get Akane with
exploding food --Akane was supposed to have been left in her room when Ranma
dashed out to get the Nannichuan water, right? I figure they were simply trying
to (desperately) stop the wedding altogether, not kill Akane.

The TerBril
(who plans to lose his lurker status soon...)