In a message dated 06/10/2000 8:42:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
rcarson@rcarson.com writes:
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> > jerk! And with that Akane had stomped off.
>
> I really hope there was more to the fight then this... Otherwise I
don't
> see why Akane's so mad unless you're a believer of, "Psycho Bitch"
Akane...
> Which I'm not by the way.
Seriously. I don't recall her ever acting this way about any other
challenge he ever got.
In fact didn't she seem to usually be solidly in _support_ of Ranma in
his challenges? (I may be remembering wrong or confusing a fanfic convention
with canon though...)
> > This time promises that Ranma had made.
> > No matter that they were given by a thirteen year old boy, Saotome
Ranma
> > never broke his promises.
Well, maybe, but as we see in the Secret Sauce story, he'll do his
best to weasel out of them anyway he can. I'm also puzzled what promises
Ranma could have made. I mean, he says he didn't understand what could
happen, so he wouldn't have been likely to say, "Oh, by the way, if for
some reason you get pregnant and give birth to a child and then die a
few years later, I'll be glad to take care of the kid for you."
Very good point. I didn't really catch that myself...
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> end) but, limited knowledge aside, isn't that like... a LOT of money?! A
> ridiculously lot of money?
Not really. That's about five hundred bucks a month, with a thousand
bucks for initial shopping. Obviously the shrine business pays really well,
but it's not completely outrageous.
Probably shouldn't have put my limited knowledge aside... lol Cause I had
no idea. Thank you very much for correcting me. (I was thinking it was more
along the lines of 50,000 a month.)
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Think again. According to this he can't marry again for another
seventeen years. Makes Shinji sound like an obstacle, doesn't it? And what
do Amazons think about obstacles? And does Ranma really want to put off
marriage until he's in his mid-thirties?
Very true... Though I'm of the opinion the fiancees would use Shinji to
get closer to Ranma by befriending the little guy.
No, I doubt he would want to at THAT time but would a teenage Ranma even
think about that at all?
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give one of my kids to Ranma and Genma to raise. Was the Elder
Kawashima perhaps totally mad?
It sounds very likely. :)
> > nervousness and the slight windidness of him.
> > She hmphed "Must not have been much of a fight eh Ranma?"
> > The object of her scorn merely blinked.
>
> Why's Akane being so pissy? As in why are you writing her like that?
> If
> there's an in-story reason I'd really like to know what the hell it is.
Indeed. You'd think this was another "Bet" entry or something.
Heh... :)
> > picture of domestic tranquility and noticed an extra person. Then she
> > noticed the coloration of said person and she did a double take.
> > "Raaannnnnmmmaaaa..."
>
> This is... Unlike the rest of this story. In other words... The
little
> paragraph I snipped right here... It... It's horrible. I cannot, at all,
> no
> way, not in all the seven hells, see WHY Akane is being such a BITCH
> unless
> this is an alternate universe. Wouldn't it be MUCH, MUCH. MUCH more
likely
> that she think Shinji is Ranma's little brother? Besides being more
> believable you could get at least one or two good comedy bits out of it.
I have to admit, my first assumption would NOT be that Ranma had
fathered a child at the age of thirteen. Whereas both Akane and Ranma
were willing to believe Genma had fathered an illegitimate child in
the first Ukyo story.
Yes,... But Genma also dumped a six year old boy into a pit of starving
cats.
(That old saying about Good Intentions was practically made for Genma...)
> > Ranma growled low in his throat. "Nabiki, only because I really need
> > your
> > help will I pretend that you didn't say that. You are to never speak
> > Yoshiko's name ever again. Is. That. Clear?"
But why does Ranma need Nabiki's help? She's all too often depicted
(in fanfic, anyway) as some sort of omni-competent wheeler-and-dealer,
but she's not a lawyer, she's not an accountant, or anything of the sort.
If Ranma needs help, the obvious people to turn to are Tanimura et. al.
Unless this is another of the old and rather unbelievable "Nabiki has
something on everyone including high government officials" deals.
I didn't comment on this myself because that characterization of Nabiki
doesn't bother me so much... (I even like it sometimes...)
Reid Carson
rcarson@rcarson.com