Arthur
I have a few problems with birthright.
1) I don't think they would be rivals I think that this would push them
further apart. Ranma's pride
2) Ranma would REALLY ate his father. If Akane could be as good, or better,
as he is -being dojo trained- the training trip would be absolutely
worthless. Accept it ruined his life:
2a) he lost his mother for 10 years
2b) lost ten years of schooling (canon never shows Ranma hating school,
only mild protest)
2c) the trauma of cat fist would be magnified as being very unnecessary
2d) the extra fianc�es (He would only have Akane if he trained at home.)
2e) he would not have lost his precious manhood, being cursed, and many
other problems
I think this would then transfer to Akane. He suffered and was denied so
much for the art. For him to see Akane best him and she did not have any of
the hardships would make him resent her for getting off easy
3) I believe an important part to the story is that Akane is inferior in her
skills. If she is equal to Ranma that would make her superior to Shampoo or
Ukyo. This right there cause a problem. Ranma loves Akane NOT for her
skills, but for who she is. Shampoo and Ukyo are better in feminine skills
(cooking, sewing...) and in the martial arts. This allowed the reader of
the manga to see that he fell in love with her, not with what she can do.
4) What about Shampoo or Ukyo. They are no importance now. Akane can
beat them no problem, no fiance problem. If you now increase there skills
to be that or better than Akane that will cause more problems:
4a) See point two. Even though they had hardship, for him to see that his
training did not make him the best will strain all the relationships
4b) If Shampoo Sees that Akane can beat her (Kiss of Death for Akane) and
that Akane can beat Ranma. She will leave. She needs the best not one can
be defeated.
If you would like more let me know.
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I did enjoy some of your other fics you had posted to your site. I enjoyed
master. Try saving all doc files as html (like master) or text and change
the links over to point to the proper file. I have no problem with ie
opening a word doc in itself. the problem would be with other browsers
asking to save the file, they cannot view online.
Bryan.
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