Subject: Re: [FFML] [RANMA][FANFIC][Redemption - Prologe]
From: "Reed Sekiya" <rsekiya@hotmail.com>
Date: 7/20/1999, 7:05 PM
To: jasonl@hun.k12.nj.us, simkin4@hotmail.com
CC: ffml@fanfic.com

     Nice beginning.  It provided a basic plot, while at the same time 
leaving your options open on how to handle it.  Different reactions to the 
incident could be interesting.
     I also like how Kodachi appeared to be almost normal. She wasn't acting 
all that psychotic. She simply lost her will to live.  Her reasons for 
poisoning Ranma should eventually be dealt with however.  Maybe you could 
have her mother die from posioning.  That way she could have just been 
making sure he wouldn't leave the same way.


Caine

more comments below

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Redemption
by Soul Survivor
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Ah, a punner!  That's one notch up in my favor already.  I'd be careful of
the title, though.  I'm pretty sure that the title 'choices' has been
already used.  Not that it means anything legally, but if you had another
choice in mind, it might save later confusion.

First Fic Alert - Be Gentle!

Be gentle?  Hell, let me shake your hand!  There are so few Ranma and
Kodachi fics around that I want to mallet those people who always blabber
that there's nothing more to be done in Ranma fanfiction.  (I tried
myself once or twice, but I tend to be better at silly things)


     While I do see the potential for this fic to pair Ranma and Kodachi, it 
doesn't necessarily have to lead to it.  Ranma could just help Kodachi.  He 
doesn't have to fall in love with her.
     Of course, I'd love it if he actually did.  I yearn for fics that don't 
put Akane and Ranma together.

Anyway, use a spellecker, and give your fic the once-over before releasing
it next time.  Most of the stuff I mention is just correcting typos.

"..." Denotes Speach
-...- Denotes Thoughts

Why -...-?  Just write using ordinary conventions.

The evening breeze swept over Nerima, bringing relief from the days 
heat,
kicking up leaves and general debris in the streets.  It also cooled the
brow of a certain pigtailed martial artist relaxing on top of the 
Furinkan
Clock Tower avoiding the general chaos that surrounded her life.

No sign of average day/mallet/new challenger cliche opening.  Good.


     Thank goodness.  Otherwise, we'd have to hunt her done and string her 
up.  I really liked how she set the scene though.  She gave enough details 
for atmoshere, without going overboard.  I tend to just skim intros that 
decribe scenes in minute detail.

For the first time in days, Ranma-Chan felt at peace, no fiancee's 
chasing
him, no rivals attacking him, no parents pressuring him to marry 
anybody.

-chan should be lowercase.  It's a suffix.

..with no fiancee's...

Not even being in her cursed form disturbed her serenity at this point.

"Waaah!  It's a cursed girl!"
"Aw, quit it already, Usagi!"

Sorry, I've recently been reading the scripts to SM eps, and I had to make
the pun...

Without
concious thought she made her way back to where Kodachi continued her
monolouge.

Ranma's a zombie!  Or did you mean 'Without conciously thinking about
it...'?

"... dont know who I think Im fooling, mother" she sobbed "he will never
love me, no one will.  I dont know what to do anymore, no matter how I 
try,
he rejects me, over and over, I.... I cant take anymore, mother.  He is 
the
only bright spot in my life, he chases the monsters away.... Heh... then
again, mother, that is the problem, you see, to him I am a monster, I 
can
see it in his eyes, I can feel his fear, his revulsion when I stand 
before
him, there is nothing I can do to change that.

That's a pretty damn long sentence.  Now, if she's getting hysterical,
that's fine because most people who are upset don't think about grammer.
But you don't indicate this, or give it any support in her action.  The
following lines quoted text don't support it either.

He will always chase me
away, like the monster that I am," quiet revulsion fills her words

fills = filled

 "but then
again, I gave hime

hime = him.

him, drugged him, threatened those close to him.... Ive made myself into 
the
moster that he fights, mother, the foul creature that he defends his 
friends

I've, monster.

Now, here you also have a run-on sentence, but this time, the context,
mode of speech, and punctuation support the hysteria feeling.  So, don't
change this, but change the previous one.

herself to fall.  Attempting to restrain her physically would be far to

to = too

dangerous, there was less than a foot of space on the ledge, and no real

..as there was...

hand holds at all.  If she were away from the ledge, the chances of 
stopping
her would go up exponentially, if ranma where in male form, that would 
be
easy, simply stand at the center of the tower and call out to Kodachi, 
hell,
doing that he would need a crowbar to remove her

Capitalize 'ranma'.  Another long sentence that could be broken up.

.  For the first time that
night, Ranma-chan silently cursed the old washer woman that had soaked 
her

The way Ranma acts, I'd think that it would be the second time.  But
that's just a minor quibble...

on her way here -Talking to her as I am now would simply provoke an
attac....  Of course!!  I'ts just as ood, stand in the center, piss her 
off,

I'ts = It's.

ood = odd (unless you mean Object Oriented Design)

Perfect, the perfect position to stop her, the perfect phrase to get her 
to
fly off the handle, everything was perfect... except that Kodachi was 
not
cooperating.

Normally, I would point out the repetitiveness of the word, but it was
obviously intended here.  I suggest that you change the beginning to this,
though.

Perfect; the perfect position...

A semicolon is used to link two sentences that could be used
independently, but the writer wants linked.  I personally think that
most people who use them actually overuse them, but they come in handy at
times.

"You...  somehow it is fitting that you should be here." her voice was
devoid of any emotion, her eyes had no spark at all "Tell Ranma-sama 
that I
love him... and that I apologize for my behavior"  with that, she simply 
let
herself fall forward, off the roof.

Wait.  If she's falling forward, then Ranma shouldn't be able to tell that
her eyes have no spark (unless Kodachi's trying to jump off the wrong side
of the ledge.  And in Ranma, I wouldn't put it past anyone!).  She ought
to be falling backwards.


     Does Ranma actually see the her eyes?  It sounded like it was just 
described for our benefit.  Maybe she just turned her head to him, then 
turned it back when she jumped.  Forwards or backwards though, it makes a 
nice visual.

"Im sorry, Kodachi" she whispered, "I'm so sorry...."  Gathering the

Im = I'm



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