On 9/5/97 12:51 AM, Mark Doherty at mdoherty@mailbox.uq.edu.au wrote:

I'll admit it to one and all. I can't stand Ranma/Akane stories 

anymore. No, 

I mean I REALLY can't stand them. The last serious one I liked was 

Krista's 

snow woman one. That was a fair while ago. I can't even take 

Ryouga/Ukyou 

ones anymore. They feel so... wrong. Mousse/Ukyou I can handle, 

because it's

rarer. New characters and her are almost guarenteed to have me hitting 

the

delete button. I want a Ranma/Ukyou story. 

<Sigh> Is it too much to say that I want a Ukyo/NO ONE story? (And plan 
to write one, one of these days.) 

Seriously, she seems like one of the few characters in Ranma 1/2 who 

not 

only doesn't have a 'true love' matchup planned by the author, but who 

is 

just as capable of surviving without one. (Heck, I've survived for 10+ 
years without one, why can't she? ^_^) I sometimes find it kind of 
irritating to see authors scrambling wildly to match her up with 

someone, 

*anyone*, just so that she has a partner. That's why I want to write a 
story where she *doesn't* end up with anyone, and is happy about it. :)

My constantly-under-revision fic seems to be headed this way, actually.  
I was bothered at first, because that was not my intention (very little 
in this fic has been, to tell the truth).  Then I realized that if this 
is the way it ends up, so be it.  I really think she's going to be 
content--even with the wheelchair....

--Freemage

Travis Butler
(The Professor, formerly of Myth and Magick!, Lawrence, KS;
tbutler@tfs.net, now from the Wandering Powerbook;
<http://www.tfs.net/personal/tbutler/>;
Mac page <http://www.tfs.net/business/tbutler/>)

...You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it 
means.

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