My comments@@
Everything is In My Opinion ONLY. ^_*
--- Jason Liao <jliao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> wrote:
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Knight Writer wrote:
<SNIP>
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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?).
Fine. Ranma's still has his phemnominal cat-like
powers, and the fact
that he turns into a girl has already been revealed
to the school (and at
least the male body was seen to approve). I think
five was when Ryouga
learns the Breaking Point technique, granting him
super endurance to go
with his monster strength (he can inadvertantly
break phone poles!), but
I'm not sure exactly what happened where. Hell,
Kuno has his technique
that can shatter walls at long distances. No one's
tried to tar and
feather them.
@@Hmmm, good point. This tends to support my earlier
comment that there need to be more back-story.
HOWEVER ^_^
Martial arts are traditional and there is a cultural
"box" to fit martial arts and superhuman abilities
gained therefrom.
Ranma is good clean cut _Japanese_ boy, using
traditional Japanese spirit.
MUTANTS on the other hand . . .well you can't really
trust _them_, now can you.
Akane . . .she's a mutant <ewwwww> and you _know_ what
they are like.
Prejudice, bigotry, fear are NOT rational. Look at the
anti-witch hysteria in the middle ages. Or the D&D
hysteria now. Heck, some schools are banning "Harry
Potter" books due to their demonic influence. (I kid
you not. There are web sites warning parents of how
Harry Potter will seduce your children to evil and how
to save them from Harry and Hell.
URL for pro/con Harry::
http://www.mugglesforharrypotter.org/)
Basically, as I see it, if you REALLY want to make
this a Ranma fic, you
have two options. First, set this in volume 1, or
even earlier, and have
Ranma get caught changing with his curse. That way,
you just set the
mutant hysteria as a condition of this new Altverse
and you can skip the
cannon arguments. Secondly, set it much after
volume 38, where Ranma is
living on his own because he fled Nerima, and he's
forced to use his
special abilities in front of a mutant fearing
populace, who takes what
they've seen in the wrong way.
@@Both good ideas. Not, IMO, necessary for the story
as being written. They are interesting, and workable.
They take the story in a slightly different direction
however. Frankly, IMO, this story could be set at any
time in the series. It just needs enough development
or back-story to make it believable.
<SNIP>
But why are you using Ranma anyway, if you're going
to go so far as one of
the first options. I mean, find a good series that
is somewhat more
realistic and has a good potential plot to it,
@@Hmmm, now _that_ is very subjective.
Frankly I think Ranma works just fine. It's entirely
up to the author. I just want more detail, not a
radical change. I want to watch Akane change over
time, see the anti-mutant hysteria develop.
and
you're all set! You
might even get a catchy title.
Some character who's in the government is accused of
being a manipulative
mutant, influencing the elections (X-term).
Those Windows to Alternate Realities fics
(X-Windows).
@@ You're not a UNIX user, are you?
(X-windows is or was a "windows" emulator for
UNIX.
Nuku Nuku shows her powers while working at Akie's,
and people fear the
new waitress may be a mutant (X-Server).
One Pound Gospel (X-Box).
Yes, I know. Bad joke. ^_^
@@<groan>
Mama is a Forth Grader/ Mutant is a Forth Grader
Sailor Moon/ Sailor Mutant
Bubble Gum Crisis/ Bubble Gum Chromosome
Hana Yori Dango/ Hana Yori Bakemono
(Flowers before Monsters)
Kiki's Delivery Service/X-ki's Delivery Service
Wedding Peach/ Wedding Plasmid
Blue Seed/ Blue Seed
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And, if any is left, I buy food and clothes."-Erasmus
"A man is a small thing, and the night is large
and full of wonders." -Lord Dunsany
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