In a message dated 3/6/99 3:25:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, ayonge@yahoo.com
writes:

<< ---UnderF4331@aol.com wrote:
 >
 > In a message dated 3/6/99 11:38:13 AM Eastern Standard Time,
 ayonge@yahoo.com
 > writes:
 > 
 > << ##I had to read this over several times to untangle it.
 >  My personal perference would be to simplify.>>
 > 
 > 	Same here.  Any idea how?
 
 ##You asked for it. ^_^
 First the original, then my contribution. 
 
 
 
 
 
 ---UnderF4331@aol.com wrote:
 >
 > In a message dated 3/6/99 11:38:13 AM Eastern Standard Time,
 ayonge@yahoo.com
 > writes:
 > 
 > << ##I had to read this over several times to untangle it.
 >  My personal perference would be to simplify.>>
 > 
 > 	Same here.  Any idea how?
 > 
 
       Not so long ago, in a faraway place called 
 Nerima, my Great-great-
  grandmother met with two men of the land whose children were soon to
 marry.
       Now, my mother was married to the son of one of these men, and
 they were
  trying to find a way for her husband to marry his true love.
      So they made an arrangement: one of my mother's children would
 marry one
  of their grandchildren.
 
 
 ##I'm going to JAPAN! Not Someplace cool like America, exciting like
 Thailand or dangerous like Africa. JA-boring-PAN. I'd rather watch
 rice grow. Just because mom and pop are on this nostalgia kick. Geez.
 At least when grannie Cu goes all weird she picks something exciting
 like the time she destroyed the Sung dynasty with the Roaring Lion
 Bullet or when she invented printing and gunpowder an' cool stuff like
 that.  I mean, yeah so mom got ditched by her ol' boyfriend so she got
 pop to promise one o' THEIR kids would marry one o' HIS kids. GROSS.
 That's like slavery. (Well, without all the chains an' whips an'
 stuff. ) >> 

     Well, Brush, like some of the other characters I invent in my writing,
came with a personality -- you know, you're happily typing away on your nice
fic and suddenly something at the back of your head says that you're writing
your nice new character OOC.
     Brush came with a nice personality.  She isn't modern like you have her
-- if she was like you have her, she would have gone bye-bye before getting on
the ship and there'd be no story.  She is more on the conservative side, not
liking what is going on but unwilling to do anything directly about it, like
running away or telling her parents what she really thinks of the arrangement.

<< > 	Mind if I bounce an idea off of you before (possibly) using it?  
 
 ##OUCH! ^_^ >>

	0):)  Sorry, didn't know it was sharp.
 
<< I was
 > thinking of making it so that the names we know the Chinese Amazons
 by, like
 > Shampoo or Mousse, are nicknames, and they have secondary names (not
 really
 > used) that are more...authentic.  (Though I personally have a liking
 for the
 > 'long ago, some old catalogs of hair products dropped down from the
 sky.  At
 > the time, it was taken as a sign from the gods' theory...)
 
 ##It depends on how silly/funny the rest of the story is going to be.
 Again my personal preference is not to do this sort of thing. Could be
 very funny. I'm just not brave or skilled enough to try it. I would
 LOVE to be able to play word games (esp. with names) the way native
 Japanese speakers do. Hope this helps. >>
     I don't think I'll play too much in the way of word games with the
Chinese names.  I think I'll probably reserve most of the humor to how they
ended up with nicknames like Shampoo, Mousse, and Brush...


		--Ryo Hoshi