You might as well subsitute all the character's names with new original
names and no one would notice. ^_______^;

Explore the character's motivations for doing what they do - e.g. why
Shampoo did what she did, etc, ad infinitum.

    Again, that's going to be covered in the main story, and is actually
going to be an important plot point. I *CAN'T* clarify or explore it here
without ruining something later.

...

So... what was the point of all this, exactly?

Georg Simmel, in his "Philosophy of Money", advances many
non-philosophy-of-money points, among them this:

'Truth' in a work of art, the quality that makes the work 'good', boils down
to the work as a whole keeping the promises that any one part has offered
us.

This does bring a lot of subjectivity into things, as far as individual
interpretations of promises go. But...

This story follows the events of "Ranma 1/2". "Ranma 1/2" was originally a
screwball martial arts slapstick romantic action comedy. (With a heart.
Probably.) It is not unreasonable to originally expect a story featuring the
cast of Ranma 1/2 to be, in some respects, a screwball martial arts
slapstick romantic action comedy _story_. With a heart, maybe.

You summarize parts of Ranma 1/2, and then have Shampoo kill Akane for no
elaborated reason.

Can you see how some people might feel their expectations have been cheated?

If you can't make this story fit Ranma 1/2, or through description and
suchlike bend Ranma 1/2 to fit this story, but you're planning to do so
later, why even do this now?

I don't understand, myself.

--GF



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