On Thu, 8 May 1997, Martin wrote:
 

Not afraid of her. Just concerned(!) about her state of emotion after the
news.

  Exactly.  Should I explicitly say that?

This is just Akane not thinking straight from the shock as well as
stress/strain, whatever. The reason why she is making breakfast is that she
is trying to make up to Ranma. Unfortunately, cooking is never her strong
point. She had always expected her cooking to be right one day despite all
the failures so why should she stop now?

  <Grin>  Glad someone figured that out.

Again, it is because she's suffering from shock. Though I agree that 'bash
his skull in' is just not right. Makes her seemed that she's suffering from
madness.

  Fine, I'll tone the line down.

True, Akane is portrayed rather negatively here but hey, it's not that bad.
I much prefer this than 'Purple Haired Destiny' anyday. I think the author
is trying to portray how Akane would react under shock due to her 'violent'
behaviour. I agree that the beginning was not that well written; Akane's
anger against Ranma seemed to come out of the blue. There is nothing to
base the anger on, no reasonable explanation.

  There was a two month timeframe in between the first chapter and the
rest of the story.  You can see the difference in the writing.  I've
decided to redo the first half of the first chapter.. and make several
other modifications.  This gives memore time to figure out how things are
going to happen. ;-)

But seriously Luigi, I would like to see this fic continue. I like
what I have read so far. 

  I would not have posted it without the intention of finishing the story.
I am certainly not going to let a few flames halt my progress.