At 10:54 -0500 09/01/97, H. Torrance Griffin wrote:

	Cool, but I _do_ have a minor nit with one of the 'What happened
to the others' snippets.

On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Louis-Philippe Giroux wrote:

    <Obligatory background info>

   Shampoo had been another matter: knowing full well that Shampoo
would not rest until Akane was dead, Ranma decided to go behind her
back and help Mousse train so he could defeat Shampoo by himself and
rightfully earn her hand in marriage.

	As a member of her tribe/village, I do not believe that Mousse is
subject to the 'Marry What Man Defeats You' law despite the large number
of fics which resolves the Mousse/Shampoo relationship in the above
manner.

   Arrgghh...  That's why I kept the "backgroud info" at a strict minimum;
I didn't want to have to write "Thy Inward Love" all over again.  Someone
was bound to have a snit with how I'd resolved the relationship conflict.
I needed a somewhat mature Akane for this story and the only way I knew how
to do that was for her to be married.

   Somrthing bugs me though.  If Mousse doesn't have a chance with the
win-by-combat rule, why has he been after Shampoo since early childhood?

   I thank you for your observation, but I don't know if I'll change it.


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