Heh.
Dedicated to Zen indeed - I'm sure he'll love it.
Aside for that - poor, poor Ukyou. Guess she's just not destined
to get Ranma in any possible world. Some rather grim alternates, too -
necrophiliac-Ukyou? Ugh. Shampoo and Ukyou was an... interesting
scenario (though Ukyou seemed to be, ah, dripping all over the place -
and I kept expecting Shampoo to turn the cooking lesson into something
grimmer and suddenly start chopping Ukyou up or something...)
Some off the mini-stories seemed familiar, though. Like the
Akane-Ukyou one - didn't SKJAM do that in his Deep Reflections 'fic? But
I gather that was the point, what with the sequence of one-line
possibilities that seemed reminiscent of Ukyou-fics I couldn't quite place.
The ending was excellent - the part where's she's losing it in
the hall of mirrors and starts smashing everything up. The return home,
and the panty-buried experienced-Ukyou trying to stop her predecesor was
a nice touch.
The self-insertion element seemed totally unecessary, though. It
just, I dunno, didn't seem to match the feel of teh rest of the story.
Aside from that - well written, interesting story. I gather you
guys aren't exactly for an Ukyou-Ranma pairing...
Later!
-Mike