At 09:08 PM 12/16/97 -0600, you wrote:

okay, i'm starting a fanfic, and i need to know something:

what kind of personallity does Principal Kuno have?  i know he wears
Hawaiian shirts and has a palm tree on his head, but other than that...

As near as I can tell, he's somehow gotten obsessed with the Hawaiian
sterotype. He'd call a sixties beach movie his own personal version of
paradise. He appears to be wealthy enough to bend his personal reality
largely to his wishes and influential enough to get away with it.

>From his actions as regards his students, it can be inferred that no matter
how obsessed he is, his first priority is to perform his duty: student
discipline. It is, of course, skewed mightily.

how would the Principal address Tatewaki and vice-versa?

In the Viz translation, he refers to Tatewaki as "Tacchi" and Kuno the
Younger refers to him as "Daddy." I'm not sure if that last is supposed to
be in English or Japanese, given the confusion of the other students in that
panel. I do know that both Tatewaki and the Principal are under HEAVY
Western influences (Kuno's poetry is largely English in origin), so it might
be that the "Daddy" is an affectionate term borrowed from English.

how would Tatewaki address Kodachi and vice-versa?

"Sister dear" is pretty common, from what I gather, as is "Sister",
"Sibling" and "<insert formally affectionate adjective here> Sibling/Sister."

Kuno's an upperclassman, isn't he?  that means he's not in any classes
with Ranma & Co., right?

He's in the same classes as Nabiki, but everyone else is in the class one
year behind them. He's the equivelant of a high school junior in our
culture. I surmise that there's at least one class ahead of him, but that's
just a guess.

sorry if these questions make me sound dense, but i've just never studied
the Kuno clan before.  never thought i'd be writing a fanfic revolving
around them, either...  will wonders never cease.

The Kunos fascinates me. Part of the reason I'm writing a fic with a
Westerner in it is so Kuno can finally find someone who not only shares his
love of English poetry, but can read it to him in the language and dialect
it was written in. BTW, if you're going to be writing a Kuno fic, it might
interest you to know that the word "kunou", in my dictionary, means
"suffering, distress, affliction, anguish or agony." Keep that in mind when
you write. The Kunos are apparently meant to be tragic characters, and they
are. Every Kuno is sad in some way.

thanx in advance!

elsetime,
nem0

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