Spoilers coming.  Hit 'n' now.













	God *DAMN*, Zen.



	I haven't had a fanfic affect me like this since Lawson's
'Transitions'.  If the Fanfic mailing list wasn't clogged right now, I'm
betting you would get just as much comments.  This is *Good* stuff here.
 I'm in Awe.


	And I can see it.  What's funny, or sustains an unsustainable situation
in the anime/manga... is really rather sad, in real life.  You really
rather fooled me with the prequel, by the way.  At first, I thought it
was Akane... but then it was too obvious.  So then I thought it was
Ukyou... until I saw how Ranma was changing.  Right there, up until the
end, I was certain it was *Ranma* who was in the hospital.  But then it
turned out I was right the first time.  Being subtle by being obvious,
hm?
	I'm aware, already, from other sources, about how husband abuse is
taboo.  People don't believe in it, *refuse* to believe in it.  But I'm
quite sure it could happen.  Hell, you've demonstrated that it *could*
happen... through a sense of honesty and honor.  If Ranma wasn't so
honorable... so damn honest, he could have left, he could have escaped,
before.
	I sometimes have trouble with anger.  I'm mostly able to control it...
and I haven't broken anything in years.  I don't feel mad at Akane,
either.  She's her own victim of this, as much as Ranma and Ukyou are.
	The best fiction, is one that changes you as you read it.  And I'm just
not the same John Fiala that I was this morning.

	And there's nothing better I can say about this.  Good work.

-john
"What do you think Ferris will do [when he grows up]?"
"He'll be a fry cook on Venus."     -Ferris Bueller's Day Off
jcfiala@cssltd.com