Subject: RE: [FFML] cultural ??, was why Ranma, was Why not Shampoo?
From: Mark Doherty
Date: 5/4/1997, 11:39 AM
To: "'Fanfic@fanfic.com'" <Fanfic@fanfic.com>

At 08:01 PM 4/05/97 +1000, Caroline Seawright wrote:
[snip.]
Is there any honorable way to get out of a ridiculous situation like   
this?[The engagement mess.]

I don't know. But Nodoka doesn't even seem to really care about the
engagement with Ukyou, so the only way for Ranma to be honourable
would be to marry Akane. Nodoka would have to be the one to think of
getting out of the situation with Ukyou.

But I guess that when Ukyou helped destroy the Saotome house, that
she doesn't deserve to have an honourable withdrawal of the engagement.

Deserve? What, pray tell, has deserve got to do with it? Ukyou is owed
a debt of honour by the Saotomes, a debt brought about by the engagement,
and Genma's stealing of the dowry(the yatai). Whether she deserves it or
not, it is owed. It must be settled somehow, and the party that it falls
to settle it is the Saotomes, they are the ones who owe her.

And as to deserve, fine. Your opinion. Certainly not mine. The only thing
I don't think Ukyou deserves is the life that Fate dealt her. That is my
opinion.

[snip a bit more.]
Well, maybe Genma can marry Ukyou off to Souun. That should settle
something. :p

Yes. Well, whatever. I bet Akane would be absolutely thrilled to have Ukyou
as her step-mother... :p

Hey, cool! Then Ukyou wouldn't be allowed to be in love with Ranma
any more, as she'd be his mother-in-law!

That would just make the relationship a bit more spicy, a bit more...
forbidden... 


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