From: Grayson Towler <grayson@rigroup.net>
To: "'FFML'" <ffml@fanfic.com>
Subject: [FFML] [Ranma] [Fanfic] Relentless - Chapter 7 (part two)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:01:19 -0700

..continued from part one

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                   end of chapter seven

Wow.  Absolutely beautiful.  I am... well, I'm stunned.

The themes behind the title are now coming into sharper focus, as each 
character deals with their problems and shortcomings with a 
relentlessness that matches that of the mysterious foe.  Nabiki, Akane 
the three travelers... even Tarou and, in his own, mildly distrubing 
fashion, Tendou Soun.

There are, however, a few characters who are more noteworthy by their 
relative absences.  Nodoka is the mild example of this.  More 
significantly, Genma and Kasumi's virtual non-appearances (the Panda 
serves, at most, as a bit of comic relief, while Kasumi is, I believe, 
limited to one scene and some off-stage cooking training.  I can't help 
but wonder how these two are reacting to this strange new world that 
they seem thrust into:  Nabiki not merely working, but acting with honor 
worthy of a martial artist.  Akane no longer looking for the quick 
route, the shortcuts of super-soba noodles and magic gis, but going the 
distance in her self-made Hell.  Soun acting decisively, even taking 
risks (the engagement, Happousai's wrath) in order to do what is right 
and needed.  And, of course, Ranma, the eye of the hurricane, absent and 
no longer there to pull the craziness from everyone else onto himself.

I hope we get to see these reactions, for I am sure the author will be 
able to craft them as well as he has the actions of the heroes.

Looking forward to Chapter 8.

--Freemage

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