Subject: RE: [spamage]Have these fics been done?
From: Edward Becerra
Date: 5/9/1997, 12:02 AM
To: Doug Murphy
CC: Ryan Anderson <andersor@nag.cs.colorado.edu>, Josh <Michael@fiber-net.com>, fanfic@fanfic.com



On Fri, 9 May 1997, Doug Murphy wrote:


----------------------Ranma 1/2 - That Thing He Does -----------

blah... music can't beat the heck out of anybody, so it wouldn't make as
intresting a story...
ryan

	`music can't beat the heck out of anybody' ??

	Don't tell that to Minmei! I'll run for my life rather than listen
to Lin Minmei sing! She's downright DANGEROUS! Hell, YES, music can beat
the crap of of someone. Just ask the Zentraedi.


That isn't what makes a story - for me at least -.  This was the one I thought 
had the most potential, oddly.  It offers the ability to include all of the 
characters, have it all make sense, and a great storyline could be built 
around the one simple concept of Ranma doing music instead of martial arts.  
I'd go for having Ranma and everyone keep their martial arts, but make their 
passion the music, or make the music on the side of the story.  One 
interesting thing I thought about was - later in the story - Have whatever 
their band ends up being called do a concert, and play a VERY depressing song, 
maybe one that has special meaning to Ryouga.  At the climax of the song have 
him fire a Shishi Hoakoden blast into the air.  THAT would be an awesome 
experience (in person) and just seems rather interesting to me.

Draxon-X@msn.com

	Again, who says that you can't turn music into a martial art?
There's real potential in that thought....

	Ed.