Freemage . wrote:

Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 18:48:49 -0500
From: Jonathan Osborne <jco005@drake.edu>
Subject: [FFML][ff][Ranma 1/2][Lime]What Price Love chap. 3 pt. 1
To: FFML <ffml@fanfic.com>
Reply-to: Jonathan Osborne <jco005@drake.edu>

Hey all,
Here's Chapter 3: Secrets Revealed of What Price Love.  Read, enjoy,

send=

me C&C, preferably private, but if you feel it must be posted to the

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then by all means do so.  MSTs are OK too.  Flames will be forwarded to

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atan, then deleted.

Before I get into the fic, some questions were raised as to the

continuit=

y I'm working in.  Basically, it's mostly the anime, but some manga is

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xed in somewhere.  At this point, Nodoka doesn't know about the curse.

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ll the major fiancees are present, as is Konatsu.  There's no Akari.

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something seems out of place, don't flame me for it, it's most likely

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entional.

Also, if Ranma seems even more OOC than this fic calls for(smarter

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don't worry, all will be explained eventually. =20
Okay, I think I've ranted enough.  On with the fic.

A Ranma 1/2 Fanfic
What Price Love
Chapter 3: Secrets Revealed
By: Jon Osborne

You know, while for the most part, I've enjoyed reading this fic, there
is one thing that really bothers me about it.  Whether or not Akane
realizes it, she fell in love with Ranma's _personality_, not Ranma's
body.  While I am willing to accept the whole "Please be a woman full
time for me" premise, I don't think Akane realizes the long-term effects
of some of the other things she's having Ranma do--wearing a bra,
showing "feminine modesty", etc.  What Akane fell in love with was
_Ranma_, in a female body.  The person she fell in love with had a
number of decidedly unfeminine traits, and eliminating those traits
will, *must*, change the person herself.

Nope.  Ranma loves Akane.  Akane loves Ranma's (other) body.  She 
obviously doesn't care about anything except his physical form.  That 
gives Akane the upper hand, which explains why Ranma is making all the 
concessions.  

Of course in realistic terms, Akane is being terminally stupid.  She has 
a sterling opportunity to live closeted in perfect respectibility 
avoiding all the hassles of a lesbian marriage while reaping all the 
benefits.  Instead she is deliberately choosing the course of action 
that bring the maximum of social censure and family turmoil.  

But then, she's a version of a Ranma character, so stupidity is to be
expected.

Just my opinion, of course, but I think Ms. Tendou is in for a rude
awakening.

OTOH, please feel free to make the Panda suffer as much as possible.

Thanks for listening.

--Freemage

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