Changing, redefining and re-interpreting characters is a large part of
what writing FanFic's is all about. The problem with doing so in a
"regular" setting is that you have to make your interpretation fit in with
the world somehow... There are a number of techniques for doing this,
almost as many techniques as there are writers really.
In your story:
Nabiki goes off to a pre-prepared photgraphic hide to take photo's of
Onna-Ranma in the bath. (OOC charge #1 - I can't see Nabiki bothering to
set up such a location - it's work, and she does perfectly well without
it). Another possible OOC charge here is that Nabiki normally goes
for... hmm... "daring" or "tastefully(?) erotic" pictures of Onna-Ranma,
not outright nudes.
Nabiki finds AKane in bath and takes pictures of her instead. Given that
Nabiki has built this place and gone there, I have no problems with her
taking these pictures. I think it is OOC for a "normal" Nabiki, but your
Nabiki has already deviated from the normal enough to take the pictures -
however that she takes themn without hesitation or qualms is... disturbing.
Nabiki rushes off to sell the pictures of Akane to Kunou. Here is where
your Nabiki (IMHO) really steps OOC without any good reason or background
set-up. It would have worked better (again, IMHO) if Nabiki had hung
onto the pictures for awhile and then sold them in response to some
stimuli - a percieved need for cash or as a way of getting back at Akane
after some fight. Having her simply rush off to sell them because she
has them is... questionable. Whatshisname is quite right later on to
say that Nabiki has abandonded her morals.
In what follows Nabiki reacts and behaves in a perfectly believeable
fashion for a "normal" NAbiki, however the emotions shown strike me as
jarringly out-of-place in the Nabiki that so blithely spied on her
sister and then rushed off to sell nude photo's of her to Kunou. This
inconsistency in Nabiki's behaviour is the biggest flaw in the story
since it is never adequately reconciled. Nabiki should either be far
more reluctant to sell the photo's *OR* far less upset at them being put
on public display (If her reaction was "This is going to cause me
problems" instead of "Poor Akane" her personality would be more
coherent).
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