On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Caroline Ann Seawright wrote:

No, I'm saying IC or elseworld story ... And, as I've discussed with
Chris Willmore, there's no way that Ranma can be happy, with his
characteristics given in the manga, with anyone but Akane. To get Akane
out of the picture, she'd have to die. Then Ranma would be heart broken
and a shadow of his former self. It's impossible to write one, otherwise,
without using magic to make Ranma fall for someone else.

Even Zen's story was OOC ... It had Ranma and Akane having some giant
fight, then Ranma going off and asking Ukyou to marry him, and going
off with her ... (or was it going off with her, then asking her to
marry him?) ... Well, that's just not the way Ranma acts ... Zen has
Ranma saying that he's doing all of this to make Akane happy... But
Ranma doesn't think like that ... he'd keep going back, trying to get
her to change her mind, like in the Shinnosuke story line. He may run
off for a while, but he wouldn't ask someone else to marry him. And,
even if he does, it's just a rebound thing that wouldn't last long.
By the time he's thinking more clearly, he'll go back to Akane...
Ranma doesn't give up - especially with Akane... He'd go around,
chasing after her, to make her say that he loves him.

You make it sound that Ranma's world is about predestination.  Whatever he
does it will just revert back to the old situation.