Um...this the the same bunch of students that watches a guy who turns into
a girl with water, chi blasts, and such styles of combat as Tea Ceremony
and Potty Trainer weapons?
Yes and no. These are the same people, but they haven't seen all
that yet. In that small spiel I put at the beinning of the fic, I ointed out
that this was set between the end of voume 5 and the beginning of volume six.
I don't believe it. This is just as bad as that fanfic once that had
Cologne firmly disbelieve that Ranma could have been affected by magic,
because "Magic doesn't exist."
Ouch. Man that hurt...
Concerning Akane's reluctance to use her powers, why? I mean, she's tried
the super soba before, meaning that she was quite willing to gain
"freakish" powers that would help her in combat.
My point is that this all happens BEFORE the soba noodles, the doll
bit, and all that happy stuff. So far, there's Jusenkyou, the amaguriken,
and the Joketsuzoku. The weirdness of Ranma hasn't really settled in on
Nerima, so mutant powers would still be considered freakish.
Besides, this is not canon (what fanfic is?).
The problem here is that the Ranmaverse has the unusual as the norm, so
the very setting is against this fic's conception. You could change this
through time in the story, of course, but it would take far longer than
just these two chapters.
Anyway, I don't think that this is a viable idea, unless you're willing to
spend quite a long time describing how people slowly changed their
attitudes (through an external source, I'd imagine). But then, that would
probably be setting up the fic to take on a direction that's different
than what you're intending with this.
Well, if that's your view then that's fine. Hey, you can't please
everyone, right? ^_^ Thanks for writing anyway.
Knight Writer