Harold Ancell wrote:

At 03:45 PM 7/17/97 -0600, Jorge A. Pratt wrote:

H. Torrance Griffin wrote:

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To be fair here, keep in mind that this is pre-vol. 36 Ranma (since
Nodoka still doesn't know about him.) So, not only has he never heard of
Saffron, but the thought of terminating a life has probably hasn't even
crossed his mind.

Hasn't he had Happi at his mercy before this point?  And he's certainly
been in combat where others were trying to kill him, so it's probably
at least crossed his mind.

<shrug> The same way as it has crossed Ryouga's or Kunou's.
 

As for Hikaru... well, to begin with, the three girls thought of the
whole "rescue the Princess" deal as a real-life video game (and Fuu
often makes that comment,)

Well, what about Alcione?  Hikaru thought their fight in the first
episode was deadly earnest, and in later fights as she got used to
her magic had to have assumed it was potentially lethal force.

Well, in the first episode she didn't even know how powerful her magic
was --she had just figured out how to use the Blazing Arrow, after all.
Later, when Alcyone ambushed them at the town, she *had* to use fire
because the sorceress' ice spells were tearing the village apart.
 

so they probably didn't see the monsters as
living creatures, but rather like "enemies that give off experience when
defeated".

Definately not true when Hikaru fought that dog like creature, which I
believe would be before she got returned to Earth in this continuity.

The dog-like creature, which was one of Ascot's Summoned Monsters, was
perhaps the toughest enemy Hikaru ever fought: because she loved it.
Remember that she "rescued" it from the stone monster, and immediately
named it Hikari, just like her dog. But when Ascot commanded the
creature and it turned into its real shape, only Fuu and Umi saw it as a
monster; Hikaru believed that it was just "sick," which is why she
pleaded her friends to spare it. Heck, when she brought herself to
attack, she was heartbroken.
 

In Ranma 1/2, there
*are* many characters that could bring themselves to [murder] (Herb,
Saffron, and Tarou come to mind... and possibly Ryuu as well.)

I would have to add: probably Mousse (who is utterly ruthless, at least
early on), and definitely Ryouga (remember the whole Breaking Point story?)

Point taken. But they aren't exactly cold-blooded murderers (although
Mousse often veers in that direction.) If they think of killing an
opponent, it's during a battle, which is supposedly the way a warrior
has to die. The ones I mentioned are more likely to simply show up and
murder without even giving the other guy a chance to defend himself.

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