Subject: Re: [FFML][Fanfic][X-over]
From: "Ranma Al'Thor" <ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 3/10/1998, 11:15 AM
To: ffml@fanfic.com

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Anthony Woo wrote:

Gary Kleppe wrote:


It does indeed; it's a time-honored approach to a difficult problem.
Though if I were going to write such a story, I think I'd go for the
more believable approach of killing Akane off in the beginning.

Now the real challenge is... can anyone do it _without_ either killing off
Akane or characterizing her as an abusive maniac?I'm trying ^_^ read

Yes, but it would require substantial space and time.  I think the key to
it would be that Akane and Ranma's versions of the good life are going to
be very different, I think, and that is where you'd likely have to derive
your conflict from.  

Ranma has not been raised to be a settling down kinda guy, while Akane
wasn't raised to wander the world.  Does Akane really want a husband who
is going to vanish frequently, and does Ranma really want someone tying
him to one place?  While one could argue this either way, I see potential
for a breakup here.

Another possibility would be Ranma finally snapping a little from too much
pressure to get married early and simply running away and having a fling
of some kind, just to "prove" he has some control over his life.  

Neither of these possibilities require that Akane be a violent maniac OR
dead :)


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next day, she tried putting poison in the ogres' food, but everyone just
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