Subject: C&C - Converging Series III
From: gaffney@iconn.net
Date: 12/6/1996, 1:56 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

Well, once again I have to do public C&C, as there are several
authors for this thing.  I hate public C&C.  Oh, well.  Let's
see how many people I can offend.

Overall - this isn't so much C&C as general impressions.  This 
is coming along nicely.

Character Thoughts:

Ryo S. - the original tragic hero.  If this guy were any more 
unlucky, he'd be in Kimagure Orange Road.  The last scene was
especially cruel.

Miyabi - who I'm surprised they didn't name Akane, Jr.  Very 
nice, sorta the heart of this group.

Ishido:  Likeable, nice, shy, honest - how'd he end up here?
Maybe if Muhoshin stops kicking him in the head, we might actually
get some interesting things happening.

Childra:  *Really* nice development here, and I've decided to like 
her.  She's sorta likeable in spite of yourself - like Ryo M.
in TPOH/TWTA (note - not *this* Ryo M.  No.  Uh-uh.)

Ratiko - Terminally stupid, annoying.  At least you've made him
comic relief.  I'd have thought his reaction to Nabiki would be
more terminal.  The scene with Ukyou fending him off was very icky.
Bravo.

Ryo M. - Psycho.  Presumably he's off to our prologue...

Ranma, Akane - they better resolve something soon, or I'll be upset.

Ukyou - *sigh*...is this gonna turn into another Ukyou/Ryouga
story?  It's things like this that mean we Akari fans have an 
uphill battle...nice depression, too <wink>.  It's interesting to
see a poor Ukyou, as opposed to the successful one of so many other
fanfics...

Nabiki - *very* well written.  I think she'll find herself in over
her head soon, though...and she took the facts of Rat's future a
lot better than I thought she would...

Others - nice to see that even Childra gets irritated with Mikado.

Overall - next?  BTW, does this series have to end with everything
going status quo?  Or can these future characters have different 
destinies than their original fics?

--Sean Gaffney
--let's not even mention the lollipop thing...