From: Neil Reynolds <neil@panix.com>
To: Gary Kleppe <kleppe@mediaone.net>
CC: ffml@fanfic.com
Subject: [FFML] Re: [C&C] Accidental Goddess 4
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:17:13 -0500 (EST)

> Belldandy's comment about Genma
> needing to be taken "in hand" struck me as particularly gratuitous.
> She's saying this based on what? The one extra engagement to Ukyo (plus
> others that Nabiki here is sure happened, yet there's no evidence for in
> canon)?

Well, Genma did also interfere with the Gate Spell, sending Nodoka
and *Urd* to who knows where.

> I mean, this is BELLDANDY, for cryin' out loud; I don't think
> she ever took a dislike to *anyone* in AMG, let alone a dislike based
> only on hearsay. This, to me, is an indication that an author is letting
> his personal biases run away with a scene.

I don't see anything OOC for her expressing displeasure based on heresay. It
would be OOC if she punished Genma based on heresay, but saying that he "had
to be taken in hand" after hearing it is understandable. As long as she checks
with Yggdrasyl in order to verify before actually punishing him.

After rereading the section is question, my take is that Belldandy
isn't angry so much as disappointed and is not suggesting punishment
so much as requesting that someone should take him in hand to stop
him from doing any further harm. He is now the father of a neophyte
Goddess.




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