I have to agree with CD. Right now we're seeing Ranma doing a bit of growing up, though, which will be very helpful if he ever does get his memory back.

I think the main reason for blanking it is that he can't keep his mouth shut. Where Nabiki has been able to (mostly) keep her origins secret, Ranma would never have been able to avoid giving it away, and the results - in the much more security-paranoid environment than even the default NGE setting - could be disastrous.

I'd like to see some Nerima scenage, simply for the opportunity to let the characters who've stayed there do some growing, too. If we only get back to them at the very end they're going to be the same sort of uber-stereotypical whackjobs we got in the first chapter.

-- 
"This is the price of freedom: Your last pint of blood, ounce of pain, drop of courage. Paid in advance."

----- Original Message -----
From: ClassicDrogn <kaiju_jutsu@worldconquer.org>
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:20 am
Subject: [FFML] Re: [Ranma][NGE][HPL][AMG][Fusion][Fanfic] Sic  Semper Morituri Chapter 26 - Lady or Tiger?  Both!

At 07:39 PM 1/13/2004 -0600, you wrote:

I've not read the previous 25 chapters, so I don't know how much good
these comments will do, but here goes nothing:

I reccomend you do indeed. It's really very good overall, though 
the 
run-ons are an endemic problem all through. One of the things that 
is not 
immediately obvious but important as to why all these American 
Navy types 
are hanging around is that it is set in 1945, instead of 2015, and 
there is 
no geofront or retractable city. Having so many women in important 
positions in 1945 and NOT having random male characters complain 
about that 
vigorously at any opportunity is a bit of a stretch, but I guess 
this 
alt-uni had a more relaxed view of women's rights all along, or 
something. 
Maybe the Magical Anime Force that allows breaking the square/cube 
law to 
let the evas exist warps everyone's minds? :?)

I'm hoping that a reason beyond 'I wanted to put him here' 
eventually turns 
up for adding Ranma to the mix, particularly for erasing his 
memories while 
doing so, as that seems to me do defeat the point. The prologue 
shows that 
they will eventually get back to 1990s Nerima, if not his meories 
of the 
place, and that the war against the mythos is probably underway 
there too, 
though it could be any nasty that set up the opening situation, we 
don't 
see it.

For that matter, I'd like a 'meanwhile back at the ranch' to see 
what the 
Wrecking Crew think now that Nabiki's vanished as well, and what 
was on the 
note Bell left in her place.

- CD, who spent the weekend reading SSM and didn't regret it 


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