At 03:19 10/3/2003 -0600, David Johnston wrote:

By whom?  She can barely claim to be the best martial artist at
Furinkan High.  She is not better than her father and she knows it.

Actually, Dave, Akane suffers from a logical disconnect. Her father
doesn't teach any more, and she herself (apparently) defeats all
comers. She refuses to believe that her wins over Kuno are a result
of his pulling his punches (she can't stand the implied insult, so
refuses to admit the possibility). That makes her the best in Nerima,
at least in her own mind.

  "DADDY!  I CAN'T MARRY THIS-- THIS PERVERT!"

But here's the big one.  Akane refers to Ranma as a pervert because
she gets the idea in her head that he's a naked intruder in her house.
If she never sees him naked in the bath then she isn't going to call
him a pervert.  She'll call him, I don't know, a freak, a mutant,
a hermaphrodite, or something.  Ranma's right, her response is crazy
because it doesn't match the changed circumstances.  It's like she's
got a script from the main timeline and is following it while everyone
else has the updates.

Dave, I have to agree with Granberry here. Akane, even in the manga,
seems to have this obsession that "Boy = pervert". Or, to be a little
more to the point, any boy with what WE would consider a normal healthy
interest in the opposite sex = pervert. The only males she seems to be
able to deal with are people like her father, and Dr. Tofu. And the
occasional boy who is either totally intimidated by her (Ryouga), or
who does NOT have what would be considered a healthy sexual interest.
Akane prefers "Guilty until proven innocent", it seems.

Really, she often seems to be blind to the fact that men only COME
from boys, appearing to prefer to believe that men like Dr. Tofu simply
sprang into being fully formed as men.

I've often thought of doing a fic around a scene where Akane is
brutally disillusioned by accident, overhearing the doctor discussing
his own youthful cases of peeping on girls, going for panty shots,
and other hentai behavior. Or even her father reminiscing about the
good old days of skirt chasing. I can really see her going into a
state of shock, thinking "Oh my god, they're ALL PERVERTS!! AHHHHH!"
Hehehe.

Ed Becerra

         "Dreamers may die, but the Dream is eternal..."



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