At 02:14 PM 9/6/96 +1000, you wrote:
Before, I start let me kinda explain my train of thought on the
wwhole picture issue. Nabiki didn't suddenly decide to take nudes of Akane
and sell them it was more af a gradual change. I do remember putting a line
that should've explained it. Anyway, my logic was that Kuno liked the
pictures he saw, and kept buying similar ones for a while, but slowly he
gets tired of the same pics. He wants a bit more. So she gets Akane in
'Normal' clothes. Kuno wants more, so she get shots of Akane in a bra...etc.
I never saw Nabiki dealing in photos after Volume one, so I just kind of
brought it to a semi-logical end. I set out to do a 'what if' fic. I think I
did it pretty well. I'll probably put this in the next episode. That was the
original plan anyway.
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.
Well, true, but read the above explanation. She's slowly gone to
this low to keep getting money from Kuno. It's a bit of a dulling conscience
thing. First time you do somthing wrong, you feel REALLY guilty, each
consecutive time you do it it becomes easier and easier. Either way the
pictures were not easier for Nabiki.
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.
Well, I don't say she did without qualms or hesitation. She
questions the morality of what she did quite a few times in the fic.
basically I think she felt that once she was rid fo them the problems would
be over. They werent and she didn't feel at all better.
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.
I hope I explained the stimuli earlier on, so that's why she sold
them. She felt really guilty afterwards. She had abandoned her morals. And
the realization of that was one of the reasons she ran away from home.
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).
I'm not trying to make her an emotionless bitch. (IMO that is what
she is percieved as normally.) Having the pictures up for all to see,
knocked her guilt up to another level, adding anger to the fray as well.
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