Subject: Re:[FFML] the eyes have it!
From: Spiffy (Dustin Goeller)
Date: 8/23/1997, 9:14 PM
To: "Zen" <databank@mindspring.com>, "Kimberly Brocklebank-Newnham" <mydryskin@hotmail.com>, "The Mother of All Fanfic Mailing Lists" <fanfic@fanfic.com>

Some people, like Zen, have much more on their minds than just simple 
e-mail. Just take a look at the following message: 

At 15:20 8/23/97, Kimberly Brocklebank-Newnham wrote:
I thought Ranma has gray eyes as a male and blue eyes as a female.

question:

If someone else falls into the same spring as Ranma, will that person
look the same when splashed with water?

Well, you see, there's two schools of thought on that....

One says "yes"

The other says "no"

Ironically, both of them use the 'Herb' story arc in the manga to prove
their points.

Herb fell in the spring, and looked like a female Herb - so NO.

Herb threw a monkey in the spring, the monkey looked like onna Ranma, so YES.

<<shrug>>

Has anybody considered that their might be TWO of these springs? One that 
Ranma and the monkey fell into, and one that Herb fell into? This would 
explain everything. And I'm sure more than one female has fallen and 
'drowned' at Jusenkyo, besides Akane of course. :)

Bottom line is that Takahashi-sensei was not very consistent with the
nature of the Jyusenkyou curses, so you can write it either way.  Most
assume that the cursed person would NOT look like Ranma's cursed form, but
that does not mean that you can't write it the other way.  Several others
have. ^_^

You know, I really think someone should go and set a bunch of standards 
on this type of thing. The reason why Takahashi [I guess] was so 
inconsistent was to avoid confusion. Also, if Herb did look like Ranma, 
that would have changed the plot completely. But, what do I know?

Another thing? Why does most everybody use the Anime versions of these 
type of things? No one ever seems to use the manga. Hardly ever do I find 
a fic where the female Ranma doesn't have red hair. Do more people watch 
the anime than the manga, or what? I frankly do not understand. But there 
is a lot about fanfic authors I don't understand. :)


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