Sigh... my story is a little mroe realistically weighted... rape
gangs big enough to hurt Manga or Anime Ranma don't exist.

YEs, but given that one of the major plots involves Akane getting Ki
powered, so realistic weighting doesn't make much sense...I'd say
probably it ought to be a single rapist, but who does happen to be a
skilled fighter...Ranma's more likely to underestimate a single
person...

Mmmm, I'm focusing more on a realistic edge in the sense that there 
are no giant mallets, no goofyness on the part of Tofu, less comedic 
value to everything that ahppens. BUT Ranma and co are still master 
martial artists, and kirlian focusing is a realistic possibility. 
(Besides, to remove it would strip Ranma of much of his power, just 
because I removed the wacky stuff doesn't mean everything went.)

But ultimately, the story is about what happens after, not what
happened here.  So I promise not to grouse more about it. (For real,
this time.)

Bleah... I don't pay for my bandwith usage! What do I care?

Akane: <His bandanna? I never noticed that before.>

What?  I find it implausible she never noticed his bandana
before...

She never noticed the fact that he is a pig before... :/

But why now?

Shock... she is completely floored by what happened to Ranma, and is 
dealing with it differently than most people would.

[The two exchange a few more blows, blocking and shifting for
position.]

Akane: <I know! It looks exactly like the bandanna worn by
P-CHAN!>

I also find it implausible she hasn't noticed this before...Keep
in mind she has seen Ryouga get wet without turning into
P-chan...

What? When? My Ranma 1/2 knowledge can be sketchy sometimes.

The magical soap story.  It let you get wet without changing, and
thus Akane has seen him get wet without changing...one reason she's
never figured it out :)

Talk about a wrench in the works!  Er.. 'I hereby declare that my story 
takes place in a universe where that soap story never happened... '
there.. that should fix that!

:)

[The scene cuts as Akane and Ranma-chan disappear from the
kitchen. scene: STILL: The front hall, where Ukyou is taking
off her shoes while Kasumi waits. Ukyou is dressed in a pair
of slacks and a blue shirt, her hair 

Dressed to look male or female?

Doesn't matter...

It's an attitude thing...also, how Ranma sees Ukyou here will help
imprint Ukyou in Ranma's mind, since she doesn't remember Ukyou. 
And it shows how Ukyou is trying to project herself to Ranma.

Er... Probably more male oriented, but I don't think she has her 
breasts bound or anything like that... I think whatever her habitual 
dress is would be what she is wearing. 

You see to have had some trouble with . appearing at odd times
and some cases where commas exist that should be
periods...Probably a text corruption problem I'd guess...

It's abug in word 7 I hadn't noticed... I'll fix it with a kludge
when I post more... and when I send it to the remailer.

This is why I write with Pico :)

I hate pico for dos/pc so I use word... It's better than alot of 
things...

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Andrew Stodden <eos@ghost.cc.cmu.edu>
"But mostly, you learn to close your eyes and tell youself,
'This just isn't happening.'"
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