Subject: [FFML] Re: [Spamfic] Ranma Makes a Decision
From: Gary Kleppe
Date: 1/10/2001, 2:53 PM
To: "Miller, Bert" <bert.miller@unisys.com>
CC: ffml@fanfic.com

"Miller, Bert" wrote:



Heh!  For a short, quick spamfic, this is very good.



Thanks. I've done C&C at work before, but this is the first time I've actually

written a fic on company time. Let's hope no one from management is subbed to

this list. :)



All his life, that stupid panda had been making all his

choices for him, planning his entire life without ever

asking or even caring how *he* felt. Now Ranma would marry

her, and they'd open up an okonomiyaki shop and have three

children, and....



Ukyou, in the handy capsule version.  Well-phrased.



Gotta give credit to Doug here. This was mostly inspired by part of his C&C last

night on another fic.



Oh, what a happy life they would have together, once they

moved back to the Amazon village and she taught

him his proper role as a male.



OTOH, this seems to me to reflect more fanfic convention on

the horrors of marriage to Shampoo rather than Takahashi

canon.  For one thing, there is little to no indication in

the manga that either Shampoo or Cologne actually _wants_

to move back home.  (Granted, for a quick fic I wouldn't

have re-thought everything through from scratch either.)



True, this is kinda fanfic cliche, but as you say, it's just a short. My goal

with these bits was to show each fiancee in a kind of "say one thing, do

something different" mode. I'll think about whether I can come up with something

more appropriate for Shamps.



senses and now saw things clearly, and without even the need

for drug therapy.



...after all, Ranma SO adores her laughter...



Hey, doesn't everybody? I try to practice Kodachi-laughing whenever I'm on a

roller coaster or something like that.



He could go marry the dog next door, for all she cared.



Heh.  Advertising your own work?



Just wait... I'm gonna write the only Ranma/Bess lemon that's actually

plausible.



Akane strikes me as slightly OOC here; although inarticulate

in these circumstances, she usually seems to me to be aware

of her own feelings.  Takahashi would draw her as highly

anticipatory and very nervous, for instance.



I'll have to think about this one. Akane does have problems accepting her own

feelings, though you're right that it's not nearly as bad as it typically is in

fanfics.



...and poor Ranma can't even stick with THIS decision,

        supposedly "final"...



AKANE: Hear that, Ranma? You can't even stick with peanut butter.



RANMA: Hey, maybe I could if I didn't wash my hands for a while....



Many thanks for the comments!





Gary





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