I'm back. 

I didn't say that they weren't friends at all. I said that she wasn't
his BEST friend. Not in the way that this fic portrayed it. Evidence
being that there were many times when Ranma would have gone running for
a heart-to-heart talk with Ucchan if he had had that kind of
relationship with her.

  I STILL maintain that "best friend" is subjective. You may believe 
that friends can have 'heart-to-hearts,' but I NEVER do that to my best 
friend, and he doesn't do the same to me, either. 
  BTW, Ranma and Ukyo NEVER had a heart-to-heart. If anyone claims this 
happened in the manga, they're wrong. 

Well... as for the Ranma/Ukyou friendship, you have yet to prove to 

Zen's

satisfaction that Ukyou is any less a friend to Ranma than anyone 

else...

most notably the hammer happy harridan you're so enamoured of.  

Certainly

there's a stronger case for Ukyou being Ranma's friend than there is 

for

Ryouga being his friend... but no one ever seems to have a problem 

with

THAT interpretation.

  Strange, now that you mention it; nobody EVER contests that Ryoga is 
Ranma's friend.... 

If anybody's story suggests that Ranma had gone to have heart-to-heart
talks with Ryoga a bunch of times during the manga, I bloody well 

*will*

have a problem with it.

  Eeewww.... :)

I'm glad Zen enjoys my work, and I enjoy Zen's too... but I'd enjoy it
more if he could do a story where Ukyo got Ranma *in spite* of her
faults.

  I'm biting myself because Zen ain't ever read my work. ;) 

"That's my story and I'm sticking to it."--JMS, creator of Babylon 5. 
"If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die."--Kosh, Babylon 5.
"Understanding is a three-edged sword."--Kosh, Babylon 5. 
"Never show your hand until the end."--me, being profound. 

--Razorclaw X

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