At 21:34 07/05/97 GMT, you wrote:

On Wed, 7 May 1997 15:52:49 -0400 (EDT), Luigi Mattera wrote:

On Wed, 7 May 1997, Gary Kleppe wrote:

 *Should I be the one to tell her?* Nabiki wondered.  *No telling how
she'll react _this_ time.* "Thank you, oneesan." 

Even Akane's sisters are afraid of her now? As far as I know she has
never been violent against either of them.

Not afraid of her. Just concerned(!) about her state of emotion after the
news.

Akane was cooking.  At three in the morning no less.  She was in a
frenzy, blitzing through the kitchen as she attempted to mix things
together.  She turned towards Genma-panda, a smile on her face.  "Good
morning," she stated rather cheerfully.  "I'm making something for
Ranma when he wakes up."

Okay, this is a prime example of what I meant by "stupid". While she
often does use him as a guniea pig for her cooking, if she has any
brains at all she would have to realize that now is not the time.

This is just Akane not thinking straight from the shock as well as
stress/strain, whatever. The reason why she is making breakfast is that she
is trying to make up to Ranma. Unfortunately, cooking is never her strong
point. She had always expected her cooking to be right one day despite all
the failures so why should she stop now?

 Akane's disposition switched in an instant.  "He'll wake up!  You'll
see.  If he doesn't then I'll bash his skull in!"

Do I need to comment here?

Again, it is because she's suffering from shock. Though I agree that 'bash
his skull in' is just not right. Makes her seemed that she's suffering from
madness.

This whole story struck me as an exercise in Akane bashing. Evidently
you don't like the character. That's fine; I myself don't like Sasuke.
Therefore I leave him out of my fanfics. That's the simple solution.

True, Akane is portrayed rather negatively here but hey, it's not that bad.
I much prefer this than 'Purple Haired Destiny' anyday. I think the author
is trying to portray how Akane would react under shock due to her 'violent'
behaviour. I agree that the beginning was not that well written; Akane's
anger against Ranma seemed to come out of the blue. There is nothing to
base the anger on, no reasonable explanation. But seriously Luigi, I would
like to see this fic continue. I like what I have read so far.

Gary Kleppe
kleppe@execpc.com, Home page http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe
My fanfics and the FFML map are on my comics/manga page,
      http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics

MT
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