From: "Django Wexler" <dwexler@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: <FFML@anifics.com>
Subject: [FFML] Re: [Fanfic][Ranma] "A Typical Ranma Fic"
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:48:52 -0500

	Not that I'm knocking deviation from canon, but after a certain
point it becomes pointless -- you're not writing fanfic, you're writing
original fiction in which you refuse to define your own characters and
instead use parodies on someone elses.

An interesting (although roughly 4th generational from the original topic) 
point: Assume that at some point it gets so bad that they reach, say, 8th 
generation fanfics, where the best the characters from the Manga/Anime get 
are cameos, and all the characters are the ones introduced in the 3rd-7th 
generation fics. Can it still be considered to be a Ranma (or whatever) fic? 
Has anyone ever written a fic using only characters created by other fic 
authors?

ConMan

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