It is no different then stories where Ranma suddenly accepts his curse or Akane suddenly  
becoming almost as good as Ranma and Ryouga after a few week of training from Ranma.  
You got to remenber all fanfiction is technicly alt-reality since it is based on the author's  
views and opinions of the characters and not the creators(thou some are probaly really  
close). You shouldn't chew out an author just because he or she didn't write their story  
to suit YOUR views and opinions of the characters.

Sebastian

As Alexander Ballingall(Gallicus) says on his site-
"Please please, if you are currently writing a work of Ranma 1/2 fanfiction, don't let my  
views above influence your writing decisions. The only person who can judge in which  
direction or what tone your story should have is you. Yes feedback is important (I like  
to provide feedback as it makes authors feel appreciated) and should be made note of  
where appropriate. But feedback should never dictate a story."


----- Original Message -----
From: Rann Aridorn
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 9:45 PM
To: ffml@anifics.com
Subject: [FFML] Re: [Ranma][SM][Misc.] Reflection, Sidestory One: Heaven and Hell. Cha...


At 10:33 PM 11/15/2002 -0500, you wrote:

My problem with this synopsis is that I don't particularly buy it.
Why did Ranma kill Cologne?  Why did the Amazons start sending hit
squads?  Would they have survived all this time if they were that
stupid?

Reread it. I think that it's pretty clear. Shampoo killed Akane; Ranma then
killed Shampoo. Mousse attacked Ranma, Ranma severely injured Mousse. Cologne
then attempted to get revenge for her great-granddaughter and goaded Ranma,
hoping to make him sloppy with anger, so Ranma killed Cologne. Mousse
eventually returned to the villiage, crippled, and told them what had
happened (possibly a biased version). The villiage then sent hunting parties
after Ranma, trying to get revenge... and things escalated.

You forgot to mention the part where you comPLETELY departed from anything  
resembling the actual characterizations.
How many people die in the course of Ranma 1/2? Hm? How many? Off the top  
of my head, I'd say it's ZERO. Now, this isn't to say that it's thus not  
proper to do it in a fanfic... there's darkfics or seriousfics or whatever.
But Shampoo just suddenly up and whacking Akane? Um, no. Sorry. If Shampoo  
seriously wanted to kill Akane, she would have been dead at some point  
during the manga. In fact, Shampoo had AMPLE opportunities to kill Akane.  
In their very first argument, Shampoo had Akane alone, and struck with  
speed that could easily have been used to deal a deathblow, but instead  
merely erased Akane's memories of Ranma. Hell, Akane wasn't even HURT, she  
woke up feeling refreshed!
Also, Ranma's never fought for the kill at any point. He's been seriously  
pissed off a lot of times, and he would probably seriously go off the deep  
end if Akane died... but practicing eye-for-an-eye fatalities, and then  
taking it one step further to seriously injure and slay others? Bull.  
Completely incorrect, not buying it, sounds like just more crap that  
involves Shampoo being the "evil, stupid bimbo" that a lot of fanon wants  
her to be to portray her as an evil villain completely out of proportion  
with any threat she posed at any point in canon.
This sounds like it's not worth the hard drive space it's hosted on. Sorry.

-Rann


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