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.

He is?  Then why did Nabiki screw up multiple times in Volume 17 while 
pretending to be his fiancee?

And why did he fight her there, scaring her shitless on at least two 
occasions?

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.

She has defenders?  Ranma won't want to defend her except at point of 
death, and Akane is incapable of it even if she -did- want to.

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?  

Neither Ranma nor Pantyhose Tarou is likely to save Nabiki, the way they 
saved Akane from Shampoo.

Incidentally, Shampoo DID try to kill Nabiki the moment she got in 
Shampoo's way, in Volume 17, but that time she got Ranma to save her.

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.

Ryouga has beaten the snot out of girls and hurled huge boulders at 
little kids.  What makes you think Nabiki can't push him too far?

                                                  Blade


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