little hearts around her; and Ryouga, dark, brooding, >with horns coming 
out of his head and a forked tail coming out from...from >wherever tails 

err... but ISN'T Ryouga dark and brooding??

He always seemed that way to me...

	Ryouga is perpetually depressed, which is why the ShishiHokodan works so 
well for him.  I think the OOC factor comes from the fact that has a strong 
sense of honor.  IE portraying Ryouga as dark and brooding isn't OOC, portraying 
him as a willing to kill is (It's been done often.)  As I see it, Ryouga does 
want to kill Ranma, on one levil at liest (That was what he was thinking of when 
he learned the BakusaiTenketsu(SP), being able to kill Ranma with one blow.)  
However looking at an expanded listing of his character, it becomes clear that 
he has a strong sense of honor which keeps pushing him in the oposite direction 
(Which is why he protected Ranma when Happosei used that weakness point trick)