On Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:58:55 +0000 Krista Perry said:
: Okay, I have no idea what Dr. Tofu's given name is, so I'm
: borrowing "Ono" -- the name that Richard Lawson used in his "Thy
: Inward Love" epic (which, if you haven't read all 10 parts as
: well as the side stories... Shame on you! Shame! You have no
: idea what great stuff you're missing!). I'm borrowing it first
: of all because it seems to fit Dr. Tofu, and second because I'm
: too lazy to come up with my own name for him. Sorry Richard!
: Hope that blatant plug will help you forgive me for my own lack
: of ingenuity. ^_^
The name is not of Richards invention, but from actual Ranma
continuity. I'm not sure whether it comes from the Manga or the
Anime, but it's at least one of them.
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: Yuki-onna: Hearts of Ice
: Part 4
: by Krista Perry
: --------------------------------------------------
: Kintaro blinked. "You don't say?" He looked piercingly at
: Ranma. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say from his reactions
: that he's been exposed to Cat-fu training."
:
: Genma cleared his throat uncomfortably. "Well, uh, he has.
: I trained him in Cat-fu when he was ten years old."
Hyuck hyuck hyuck. You know, *everytime* a doctor says "If I
didn't know better, I'd say..." in a story, it's *exactly* the way
they just guessed.
: Ranma stared at the outstretched hand blankly for a moment.
: Then his face softened into a wry half smile, and he clasped
: Ryoga's hand firmly. "Truce."
:
: "Now don't get any funny ideas that we're friends or
: nothing. I'm doing this for Akane, not you, got it?"
Sure, the same way that Ranma does definitely not love Akane - he
just *happens* to save her everytime, for some reasons. :)
: Her eyes filled with tears, and she sank to the floor,
: hoping that her initial shocked reaction would blend with her
: performance. "Oh, Mousse!" she said, her voice shaking. "Tell
: me, what happen to Ranma?"
:
: Mousse was taken aback, and he seemed almost relieved.
: "You... you mean, you really don't know?"
:
: "Please, Mousse! Tell Shampoo what happen!" She let a few
: of the tears slide down her cheeks. It was easier than she
: thought it would be, pretending this apprehensive anguish. But
: that could be due to actual sick feeling she had inside. <Ayia,>
: she thought, the tears coming stronger and more sincerely, <This
: lie feels so dirty. I wish I didn't have to do this, Ranma. But
: there was no other way.>
:
: Shampoo's tears were having the desired effect on Mousse.
: His angry countenance shattered into concern, and he sank down to
: his knees beside her. "D-don't cry, Shampoo," he said, reaching
: out a tentative, comforting hand. "I'll tell you. I'll tell you
: everything!" And he did, starting with Ranma's visit to the
: Neko-hanten, and ending with what he had overheard at Kintaro-
: sensei's clinic.
I just hope that Ranma is too stubborn to fall for this cheap
trick. That would be *one* occasion where his stubborn refusal to
listen, when his mind is made up, would be an advantage. But
somehow I know that it is going to be even more complicated than
that. :)
: Shampoo shuddered. A real shudder this time. And told the
: lie.
I really like the way you portray Shampoo. Too many people let
themselves be led by their hatred for Shampoo and write her OOC,
just to make her more loathsome (I do not like her any better, but
that's no reason to make her *worse*). If anything, she was
always straight forward and honest about her intentions. Everbody
could clearly see, what she wanted - she never pretends that her
actions have any other goal than the obvious.
On the other hand, she is not completely above lying or fraud, as
the Dojo Destroyer episode shows: She lies about having kissed
Ranma, to taunt Akane, and does not reveal the fact that the
"cure" that she uses to lure Ranma on the date is in fact useless.
Still, her *intentions* were never hidden, even then.
: For those of you who are as proficient in your knowledge of
: Japanese as I am (Let's see... I know "baka," "hentai,"
: "kawaiikune..." You get the picture.),
Um, except that it's spelled "kawaikunee". It's a slurred
mispronounciation of "kawaikunai", a negative form of "kawaii",
that I'm told is derived from a contraction of "kawaiku" ("kawaii"
with the second "i" replaced with "ku", as is customary in
negation of i-adjectives) and "nai" (meaning "has not/is not").
Sebastian