gaffney@iconn.net wrote:

Mike Loader's

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I dredged this out of my archives, and was very amused.  I started
to see which ones I could identify.  Help me out here...

 

RANMA: 
must avenge his own death.

2096, Taking Things for Granted

There's a "The Crow" 'fic on the RAAC in case you didn't know.

AKANE:

shaves her head.
is kept in a jar over the mantle.

I wanna see this one!

Oooh! Me too!

is missing and presumed dead or nuked.

God knows how many.

Well this isn't Akane, but I did drop fifty kilotons on Ranma and Ryoga
once.
(Everyone thought they were dead, including the readers.)

RYOUGA: 

Don't forget:  is eaten as a human by Akari

YEEESSSSSS!!!!! I loved that one!

UKYOU:

thinks about taking sleeping pills.

Stepping Stones

Good fic, even if puts her through the wringer.

takes sleeping pills.

Me!  Me!   Sour Times!!!

Bow your head, Sean. Thank you.
 

goes insane and tries to kill Akane or Ryoga.

Volume 38 ;-)

Bow your head, Rumiko. Thank you.
  

SHAMPOO:
jumps off a cliff.
jumps off a clock tower.

At least she doesn't have a few high powered rifles on top of that clock
tower. 
Shampoo as Charles Whitman clone, anyone?
  

dies of radiation poisoning.

Not me!

dies of food poisoning. (potato salad, normally.)

how ironic.

KODACHI:
kills someone.

A couple, but not really.  My Kasumi darkfic will have Kodachi
kill almost *everyone*!!!

darkfic or snuff-fic? I think the difference is that a snuff-fic is
fairly pointless except as a shocker exploitation kind of story.
Darkfics usually run a little deeper in my opinion. (The author is
usually trying to make a point.)
 

gets blown up. (actually, that isn't a tragedy. Strike that.)

Heh.

Noted.
 

NABIKI: 
is put on trial by Judge Wapner.

She'd just buy him off.
 

is identified via dental records.

Plug, plug...

<squeal of expectant delight>
  

KASUMI: 
burns the cookies she was making.

That would be pretty damn depressing. I think Suds-kun might even give
that one a 'Dead Ryoga'.

makes vague hints about child abuse.

Oh, god, I deleted that one

"Dropping Anchor" I believe. Read J. M. Linsner's original if you can
find it, or in the reprint found in "Angry Christ Comix."
 

carries a handgun for most of the story.

I picture Kasumi as snub nosed .357 S&W revolver kinda lady myself.
 

And of course, is killed and remade as a Zoanoid.

Yick.
  

And, of course, there should be an emotional turmoil checklist:

XXX is tortured

Agsmot! <meekly raises hand> Sorry Ukyo...

XXX's husband/fiancee/boyfriend is *almost* killed

Jeez! <again raises hand, looks nervously about>

Anyone else care to identify?

Been there, done that.
 

I know, this'll just give Jeff Rutsch ideas...

--Sean Gaffney
--deleting old messages...

spreading the disease...
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