The Critic wrote:
It's an interesting concept for a story. If I were to continue it
(which, I'm afraid,
I'm not - I have my hands full with "Relentless" and real life, so I'm
just going
to muse a bit about directions the story could run and leave it at
that), I don't
think I'd let it run so smoothly as you'd projected (i.e., Nabiki
solves most of the
problems in the storyline relatively quickly).
Well, if Lawson were to do it, things would work out because he likes
Nabiki. In reality, of course, Nabiki would simply get stomped on:
Ranma: Would die before he'd recognize her authority over him. He would
fight her like a boy possessed; Nabiki would have to escalate things
dramatically just to win a temporary victory.
Assuming that her bad temper hadn't totally destroyed her people
manipulating skills, that's not real likely. Ranma is easily controlled
by girls up to the sticking point.
Kunou: She may be able to get him to see the truth about the
'pig-tailed girl', but nothing short of Akane directly telling him that
she doesn't love him would have the least effect.
Agreed.
Kodachi: Nabiki would very likely wind up in a lot of pain, if not
dead. She simply can't hope to fight Kodachi in any meaningful way.
I sincerely doubt that. Nabiki's defenders would be perfectly adequate.
Shampoo: This amazon would kill her in an instant if she felt Nabiki
posed a serious threat to her mission.
You mean the way she killed Akane?
Ukyou: Least likely to physically harm Nabiki, she is far to stubborn,
canny, and strong-willed to let anyone influence her goal of marrying
Ran-chan.
With the proposed plotline, he'd be married before Ukyo even showed her
cute face.
Ryouga: The fact Nabiki is a girl would probably be enough to save her
from serious injury. Probably. She would be in a position to cause him
an unbearable loss of face, so all bets are off on her chances of
survival.
Ryouga's a wimp when it comes to that sort of thing.
The point of all this is that if Nabiki tap-danced with giants, she
would likely be stepped on.
Hey Gutb! New pseudonym? I think this one's better.