Jeff wrote (and thanks for the vote of confidence)

(Bad Karma snipped ^_^...)

Here's another 'shock-fic''.
        It was a sunny day in El-Hazard, and everyone was happy until Mr.
Fujisawa killed Makoto in a bloody way for no reason whatsoever. Tsk.

A little unfair...the story did work to immerse the reader in the
innocence of the Ranma 1/2 universe, and then suddenly pull the plug.

        I explained all this in a previous post.....but here is a condensed
version of it again.

        Lulls the reader into a false sense of 'cute' and 'cuddly' and
emotion-richness and all that junk, then the last paragraph was the shocker
- the plug pulled, in your words.

        Willmore had my shockfic confused for a darkfic....

Beedah.

Beedah?  Beedah!  Beeeedaaah? Bee bee beee beeedah?  Beedah
beedahbeedabeedahh!  DAAAHH!  ^_^  Sorry, your Beedah just intrigues me..

Personal preferences.  I'm not going to hold "Akane Loves P-Chan" up as
the ultimate fanfic.  At the same time, I think there's a definite power
and disturbingness to be derived from *not* precisely spelling out why a
character isn't acting like you'd most easily imagine.  Answered questions
aren't nearly as disturbing, or as interesting, as unanswered questions. 

        I said that I wouldn't give a reason why Akane did it, and I
wouldn't now, in a previous post.

And there's a distinction to be made between being OOC and not
over-rationalizing a character's actions.  IMHO, many of the "better"
darkfics feel it necessary to take every bit of darkness to the story and
explain it away, which purely IMHO, makes it somewhat monotonous and
formulaically dark, indistinguishable from all the other lomanfics out
there.  I think "Akane Loves P-Chan" would work best as it is...as an
absurd short.  

        "Akane loves P-chan" is not a darkfic, IMO.  It's a shockfic.

My apologies if this seems like a flame; it isn't meant to be.  Using
'Dark=condoned OOC' is an all-too-frequent occurrence, and 'Akane Loves
P-Chan' is just the straw that broke the camel's back.

"Different strokes for different folks," or something like that.

        "Carnage works best."
                        - me