Subject: Nihao and comment's about Love in september...
From: beaubienrd@mala.bc.ca
Date: 1/8/1996, 2:22 PM
To: fanfic@andrew.cais.com

Nihao everyone !!!!

Well I survived Christmas break and now I'm back in college(boo!!) and 
back on the ML(Yeah!!) . And it's been an intresting Christmas for me , 
as I have a couple of rough draft's for Fan-fic's and a few idea's 
for Fan-fic's darting through my head . For Francis , there is 
another Crisis Managment Team Nerima already written out on paper . 
For those that care I'm scripting the next few part's for be carefull 
what you wish for this weekend . And yes , I did write Love in september ....

If you haven't read it already , please skip this part because I may spoil it 
for you ... you have been warned....



Well what can I say about Love in september . The whole idea of sticking 
Akane and Shampoo togther started out as a joke to me after I read the 
Ranma 1/2 graphic novel's I bought . Than I started thinking about it , and 
it became more serious than I thought it would be . Finally after a few 
day's of thought , I sat down at my Dad's computer and typed up the story 
. It came out to be totally serious , which suprised even me . No this 
is not the first time the idea has been explored . I believe Ranma .05 
did a lemon epsiode where Akane and Shampoo have sex , but it's nowhere 
near what I did in Love in september . 

So what Am I looking for from this ML ....
Hmm good question ....Some C&C would be nice . Don't point out the 
english spelling mistakes , I will go and correct them myself(it is a beta) , 
although help with the Japanese and Chinese is apprciated . What I'm really 
looking for is just some general comment's , like maybe I should make this 
a lemon , or I should be shot for doing this (just kidding) . 

Anyway time for me to justify the storyline , espically the Shampoo part . 
It seem that there is a love/hate relationship with Shampoo , you either 
love her or hate her . Shampoo has to be one of the greatest engima's in Ranma 
1/2 . All of the other Takahashi character's are either likeable (Ukyou , Akane 
, Ryouga...) or you just hate their gut's (Happy , the Kuno's) . But Shampoo 
is different , she can either be likeable or an evil Chinese Bimbo (a la A 
once and Future Akane..) . This makes Shampoo a great character to use for 
Fanfic's because you can mold her to suit your piece of fiction , and not have 
to justify the personailty changes like you would if you turned Ranma completly 
Evil . In Aofa , Shampoo is evil and we know it , in my fic Cologne is the root 
of all evil and we know it . Both are extremly valid characterizations of 
Shampoo .....

Well That's enough of my spiel .... 

Comment's are alway's welcome at my home e-mail or on the ML...

Ja ne!!

Richard Beaubien
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Mizuno Ami-chan forever!!!