Charles K. Hurst wrote:

If I am wrong, I apologize in advance, but I did not see a [darkfic] or
any other warning (beyond the title, in retrospect) about the nature of

Neither did I. Maybe I was in some sort of coma.

Personally, when I really get into a story, "me" stops existing and is
replaced by the universe of the story.  The net affect is that I deeply
experience every bad and good thing that happens to the characters that I
begin to love or care about.  The fact that I am a powerless spectator
makes it worse.  So a sad outcome leaves me feeling many things, rage,
hatred, a desire to smash things, a deep apathy for life, to name a few.

Absolutely. How many people does this horrible disease claim? If the
story
turns out fine, it leaves me all warm and fuzzy inside. Otherwise, I'm
left 
pretty depressed.

SHISHIHOUKOUDAN! ^_^

I feel better now, though.
 

I'm not saying don't write these stories!  Just please be a little more
careful in labelling them.  It was incredibly well written, but I spent 2
hours waiting for things to start going right, and it never happened.  I

I was kind of waiting for that myself, then came that ending. Whoa. Yup.
Akane got Ranma alright.

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	-Jeremy Walker