Subject: Re: [FFML] [On topic, really] Re: [FFML] Re : Corrigan's C&C on , Namida...
From: Ben Kosse
Date: 10/24/1996, 12:00 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

John, you can ignore this one. :)

	"Love is that condition where the happiness and well-being of
another person is essential to your own." 
	What more can you say?
   Not much.
   To relate this to the subject at hand before the maintainer gets too 
upset at us: this is more what I had in mind as to how we could expect 
Ranma to act towards Akane if he truly loves her (and he does). Could 
Ranma's not only being advanced upon by Ukyo but apparently responding do 
anything but break poor Akane's heart in two? i doubt it. So, he won't do 
it. Period.
Gee, then how can he bear to rain down insults on the woman he loves?  
Could it be that Ranma lacks maturity and doesn't always live up to the 
love he feels?  Similarly, how does one reconcile this with Akane beating 
Ranma up on a regular basis?  That's not how MOST people show love. 
     Actually, before this degenerates into a complete flamefest, I'd like
to say that I'm working on a story which deals with this (off topic: Zen,
did you get the current work?). Hopefully, you can all wait until it is
released before turning up the napalm and donning asbestos suits. Please. :)

The whole point of the scene is that Ranma is not thinking about what 
he's doing.  If Ukyou simply popped out of Ranma's closet one day and 
lept into his arms, he'd fend her off.  In this situation, Ranma is 
hardly thinking about what he's doing...he's just wrestling playfully 
with a friend (I've done that with female friends with nothing even 
vaguely resembling Romantic Intent on either side).  As soon as he is 
actually brought to THINk about it, he stops.  
     Actually, I thought that the scene was very well done. I, too, have
wrestled around with various female friends (one in perticular comes to
mind, where I'm quite glad her boyfriend wasn't there, for it looked...
um.. interesting. Actually, it was Aikido practice). While Ukyo is trying
to do something with Ranma, he is just goofing off. The reason Ukyo gets
so much closer than Shampoo is that she doesn't just glomp onto him.

Frankly, I think you have a ridiculously high standard, especially given a 
situation where Ranma and Akane have not openly expressed their emotions 
towards each other (This being set before the last manga story).  
     I think the first author (whom you disagree with here) was reading too
much into the way Ranma was acting, while you don't give Ranma enough credit.
I'll refrain from saying more, since my story will probably deal with it
better than a frank discussion (and I don't want to ruin the work for you
by saying what happened).
--
Ben Kosse bmk7411@cs.rit.edu
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