This reply of mine is getting spammy, but...

MD>I'll admit it to one and all. I can't stand Ranma/Akane stories 

anymore. No,

MD>I mean I REALLY can't stand them. The last serious one I liked was 

Krista's 

MD>snow woman one. That was a fair while ago. I can't even take 

Ryouga/Ukyou 

MD>ones anymore. They feel so... wrong. Mousse/Ukyou I can handle, 

because it's

It's just an overdose. Stay away from them for a while and
everything will be fine. ^_^

MD>rarer. New characters and her are almost guarenteed to have me 

hitting the

MD>delete button. I want a Ranma/Ukyou story. 

I was working on one, sprouted from one of the ideas Keener came
up with at CORML. It's about Ukyou finally becoming fed-up with
Ranma never noticing her, and she starts doing some, uh, outrageous
things. Unfortunately, I'm still trying to figure out how to do the
continuity. Should I follow normal Ranma continuity? Or should I
make it a continuity "branch" that takes all Ranma lore from a
certain point and then take it to another direction entirely?

I'd say a branch story seems much more likely--After-the-wedding stories 
ending with a Ranma/Ukyou pairing would have to be *very* well-written 
to avoid being forced.

MD>>It is Ukyou capacity for self loathing, destruction and despair 

that draw

MD>>so many too her.  

MD>Well, that and the really, really tight pants.

I like the cute little bow she always uses. ^_^

Huh.  For me it's always been that leather spatula holster....

MD>She doesn't deserve her fate. I'm sure if Caroline sees this, she'll 

gleeful

MD>point out Ukyou's help in destroying the Saotome's house, and the 

wedding

MD>bombing. Shrug. More power to Ukyou, I think. I don't want to see 

the

MD>boring old wedding argument again, but I will say this: She. 

Deserved. Better

Definitely. Ukyou deserves more than any of the other girls
in Ranma, IMO. As for Kun-chan... heh, she's probably a
little too tied-up arguing with Blade on CORML to bring up 
old arguments. ^_^

OK, I'm gonna put this one out there:  Maybe she deserves better than 
Ranma, too.  Maybe she's better off on her own--Hell, she made it 
through the first stages of adolesence without a male--Maybe she's 
strong enough to stand without anyone else to prop her up....

MD>(I must have been possessed by Blade for a minute there.) Tarou is 

great!

MD>(Yep, definitely possessed by Blade.)

Hah, I am evidence to show that Blade isn't the only die-hard 
Ukyou fan! I am 100% Ukyou without his influence, and there's
a lot of other people out there like me! We shall bear the 
Spatula Goddess on our shoulders if need be!

All Hail!

--Freemage

PS:  Comparing the above comments to my upcoming fic, ``Illuminations'', 
should not be taken of evidence of a multiple-personality-disorder....

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