At 04:53 AM 5/15/1997 GMT, Gary Kleppe wrote:

On Wed, 14 May 1997 17:08:05 -0400, Lizsue <lizsue@MIT.EDU> wrote:

KODACHI: (Walks into the room.) "Hi Ranma!  I got you some flowers!" (Throws
        a bouquet of black roses at Ranma.) "Yay!  The evil Tendo girl 
        isn't here!"

This doesn't sound much like Kodachi to me. Too friendly and informal. I
think she would say something like, "Dearest Ranma-sama! I have brought
some flowers for you, my one and only true love! How fortunate that the
evil Tendo girl is not present!"

You know, trying to get Kodachi to sound verbose without sounding like Kuno 
is really hard.

As for the rest of this fic... I laughed at the ending when I realized
what they had in mind. I didn't find the middle part to be as funny ...
but maybe it's just me.

That was on purpose.  It's not supposed to be like "Veritas", but I wanted 
it to have a more sentimental mood.

You know how half the novels in the young adult (preteens) section of an 
average library are about "issues of growing up" like peer pressure, dealing 
with parents, etc.?  I was going for that kind of tone, especially after 
seeing all those "Kodachi went crazy because her boarding school classmates 
ostracized her" stories.