From: $Vampyr 666$
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Cursed Gift
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* * are sounds<<
### are flashbacks<<
// // are authors
\\ \\ are authors facing backwards
$ $ are authors who think their readers are retarded or otherwise impaired
<< are insulting symbol keys that are entirely unnecessary and are only
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|| Once again, Ranma's day was a disaster. Some things never change, ||
|| and so his fiancees all went down on him, all at the same time while ||
|| we are at it, and Ranma was hard pressed to escape being changed ||
|| into a doormat in the following fight between the girls.||
|| || are cliched opening paragraphs cannibalised from seven million other
Ranma fanfics.
+ His respite was short since where Shampoo go, Mousse will follow. +
+ But without his glasses, the blind Amazon was easy to lost... but it +
+ was counting without Kuno and his never ending samourai lunacy.+
+ + are cookie-cutter paragraphs stolen from seven million other Ranma
fanfics.
+ All in all, a normal day for Ranma. And even if all this was more +
+ annoying than anything else, the true menace of these daily events +
+ was on the emotional level. +
+ <When will they understand? They are so pathetic... and I'm so tired +
+ of all this crap. I don't know how much I can take this circus +
+ that's my life.>+
Ranma was sitting cross-legged on the dojo's roof, meditating to
relax after his day. He wore this trademark black sweater and his
Errr..since when is a black sweater "trademark" for Ranma? In over 100
episodes of the manga and about 20 of 38 volumes read, I don't recall EVER
seeing Ranma wearing a black sweater.
tank top, his red chinese shirt laying on the tiles near him, so
that he felt the cool wind refresh his wind as it did to his body.
He felt the cool wind...refresh his wind. Right.
So the wind is playing the part of Kasumi's three-bean casserole?
+ For the last few months, Ranma had felt something change deep +
+ inside. Sure, his gift of improvisation allowed him to get a pretty +
+ high level in martial arts at his young age, but genius only +
+ couldn't help to beat foes like Herb or Saffron.+
+ A Dragon prince and a Phoenix god. No "normal" human could possibly +
+ beat beings like them with unnatural abilities.+
+ To learn the 'Hiryu Shoten Ha' without knowing the last move was a +
+ thing, but to revise a technique that powerful in the middle of a +
+ fight and master it on the first try? His fight with Herb was the +
+ first time when it began to 'click' in Ranma's mind and he then +
+ slowly started to open his eyes to the truth.+
<How can I still pretend to be a martial arts expert when my own
body can develop the most powerful techniques if I badly need them?>
the pigtailed boy lamented, while having a few small fireballs
dancing over his hands palms up.
Ummm...this paragraph doesn't even make ONE FUCKING BIT OF SENSE. If he can
develop the most powerful techniques when he needs them, then he IS a
martial arts expert. That's kinda the whole--oh, nevermind. If you need it
explained to you...
<Even the powers of a phoenix gods are at my disposal, and I'm not
even mentioning the physical perks... this gift even copied the
wings!! Am I only even human?> he wondered, his face distorted by
his anger while he 'sprouted' wings from his back, appearing
seemingly by magic, fitting on the large holes on the sides of his
tank top without damaging the clothe.
...
He studied one more time the magnificent feathers, they were so
white and so pure... more angel like than Saffron's bird-like wings.
...
*snip remainder of prologue*
Darn, could finally manage to write something after more than 9 month
staying >idle... I'm working in my ranma/buffy xover again and I'll get
chapter 1 out soon... >I hope... Reincarnation : antipodes next chapter is
nicely advanced too and I'll >get back on Gaia's awakening soon too...
planned 2 side stories that will start 2 >new sagas that will xover one with
the other sometimes...
hope to post something else pretty soon... got too much fanfics going on
at the >same times... will try to get on gaia mostly and get the first story
completed >soon, since I got pretty good C&C on this story ;)
With all due respect...
Based on what I just read, your idea of writing a fanfic is akin to using a
Xerox machine to photocopy a photocopy of a photocopy of a mimeograph of a
photocopy.
You've never even read Ranma 1/2 or seen the anime, I'd wager, at least not
more than a handful of episodes or the movies. You just read fanfic--and
copy it. Relentlessly.
Nobody wants to read a bad copy of a hundred fanfics that are bad copies of
a thousand fanfics that are bad copies of a halfway decent fanfic that's a
poor copy of a good fanfic.
I respectfully submit that, at this time, you should stick to posting on
FF.net--there may be a few people there who haven't read your fanfic before
in some other form.
The Eternal Lost Lurker
www.lurkerdrome.com
"Accio brain!"
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