However, in a more serious fic, authors often use a >thing called
character development. Sometimes, along the course of a >piece of fiction,
and almost always in anything very good, the characters >will act human in
that they, well, change. Sometimes it's very major ("True >Love", "Who's
life is it anyway"), sometimes its rather minor or >non-existant (fanfics
which don't deviate any from RT's manga). The difference >comes from
whether or not you want human-acting characters.

	Change is inevitable and no one is arguing against it.  What is being 
argued against is change without suffucient justification.  Neither I nor anyone 
else said that it was impossible for a fict to develope the characters in a way 
that Ranma and Akane marry people other than each other and aren's miserable 
about it.
	What we said is that if you're trying to make us accept that the Ranma 
and Akane from the origional could act like the ones in your story if you the 
story's events happened to them, you have to justify it.  And considering the 
love that Ranma and Akane have for each other, it would take an immense amount 
of justification to make the characters develope so that they break up and 
aren't both crushed by it.
	That's the key.  Justification.  What is really being said is that Ranma 
and Akane are in love and have gone through trials that would have scared 
Herculese to defend that love.  And while this can be changed in a fanfict, 
jusrifying the change is going to be INCREDIBLY difficult.  I have yet to see 
any fict that can be considered to really justify this sort of thing.