"- Yucca" <yyucca@hotmail.com> wrote:

Actually, I -am- not much exposed to the anime. I've only seen about four 
parts of it. It's the manga I'm reading, but it's in Chinese, so I may not 

Okay, bad assumption on my part, then. My mistake.

get the exact way the characters talk. I don't know, in the Chinese 
translation, Kuno doesn't talk poetry and Shampoo can talk normally. Ukyyo 
(I hope that's the right spelling) doesn't add 'sugar' to her sentence. And 
the names are all in Chinese! So there! I think the influence I'm getting is 

It's not a matter of how the characters talk (which, after all, depends
on how the series is translated) but rather the way Akane was acting
that led me to (wrongly) believe that you were using the anime as your
source.

>from the FFML authors here. It's all (ok, most of it) from you guys out 

there! Waa hahahaha!

Then you're *really* in trouble. ^_^;;;

But I got to admit, I have been overusing Akane's cooking. Ya... and tends 
to dump in lots of extra stuffs. Come to think of it, Akane's cooking is 
bad, but not -that- horrible looking. Ranma had survived all the time even 
when he was force to eat all of them.

True. And let's not forget that the only time it had any lasting effect
was when Ranma had previously eaten a whole stack of photographs.

I'm wondering. What -if- my story has some connections to Akane's cooking 
(remember they brought the whole table of cooking along with them?), and her 
birthday (well, not that much on her birthday), and some of the extra, 
confusing actions before the stone start glowing? Could I leave it as it is?

"Could" isn't the issue. Of course you *could*... it's your story, after
all. But IMO you'd end up with a better story if you made some changes.

I mean, my propose of the commotion (before the stone started swallowing 
Ranma and Shampoo) is to confuse them and you readers from guessing the 
right word or action, which had somehow activate the stone.

I'd suggest the following:

1) Put in a scene at the beginning that establishes what the story's
really going to be about. You might show Cologne noticing that the
stone's missing, and panicking, before we cut over to Ranma and Akane.

2) Pare down the cooking stuff to keep it fairly brief.

3) For the cooking stuff you do include, be inventive and try to make
the scene different from the way it appears in other fics.

But all and all, I -am- overdoing Akane's cooking, and too winding... OK! 
Got to redo and change some things inside that story! Which means Chapter 
Two will be delay. Waa hahahha!

That's OK. Take your time and write the best fic you can. We'll wait. :)

Oh! Does anyone know about how old is Cologne?

The short answer is "No." :)

In an early appearance, she said "I haven't lived a hundred years for
nothing." (Viz translation.) This might mean that she's slightly over a
hundred years old, but on the other hand, she might have been speaking
loosely -- just as Happosai said that the birth of Pantyhose happened
"ten years ago," but Pantyhose is obviously older than ten.

So, my best guess is that Cologne is just over a hundred, but that could
be wrong.



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