On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Jon Farber wrote:

Okay, I need a little bit of characterzation help.  Specifically, I need 
info on Hoisery-boy.  (Blade!  Oh, Blade!!)

I need to know what sets Pantyhose Taro off.  Better, I need to know 
what would set him off enough to break The Code*.  Would just mentioning 

Enough making fun of his name would probably do it.

his name, in a derogatory manner do it, or would you have to go deeper 
then that, and start ridiculing his art?  It would also be good to note 
that I need to get him mad enough to attack a female.  Nabiki 

I have no idea if Tarou has any inhibitions about attacking women.

well? <How much farther would Nabiki need to go before he attacks her?>)

Nabiki is not stupid enough to taunt Tarou like that.  Nabiki rarely
insults people, and she never lays it on so thick that they might attack
her.  It's just not in character for her.

Now, if she manipulated him into some incredibly dangerous task that
entirely redounded to her benefit, THEN I could see him possibly attacking
her.  I know Tarou has some old female enemy, and I don't think he has a
pronounced code against fighting women the way Ranma does.



 John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu       
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      It sought to scour him to ash, but he would not burn.  It tried to 
crush him, but he would not be broken.  It tried to blow him away, but he 
would not move.  He locked his mind around it and struck back with his 
anger, binding it with the power within himself.  He had gone beyond 
rage, into the calm at the heart of the hurricane of his anger.  By 
turning his anger outward, he mastered it, and now he did the same for 
the power.

                                   --from 'Power', the first third of my
unfinished story, 'Parallel Lives'.