At 12:33 AM 5/09/97 -0400, Eric Adams wrote:

Still I always liked Ukyou best so i may be biased on that.

Ever notice how it's often the ones who like her best who put her
through the worst time?

When I wrote Insignificant i did it for a variety of reasons, one of
them being cathartic, another because I like Ukyou and want to see her
be a whole person.  

I originally started 100% with one goal, and one goal only in mind. Having
Ranma and Ukyou as a couple. Come on, hands up, how many still think that's
an easy goal? The fic mutated. I'm not glad it did(I WANT a Ranma/Ukyou
story), but I accept that it did, and continue to write it where the
muse has taken me.

I'll admit it to one and all. I can't stand Ranma/Akane stories anymore. No, 
I mean I REALLY can't stand them. The last serious one I liked was Krista's 
snow woman one. That was a fair while ago. I can't even take Ryouga/Ukyou 
ones anymore. They feel so... wrong. Mousse/Ukyou I can handle, because it's
rarer. New characters and her are almost guarenteed to have me hitting the
delete button. I want a Ranma/Ukyou story. 

It is Ukyou capacity for self loathing, destruction and despair that draw
so many too her.  

Well, that and the really, really tight pants.

She doesn't deserve her fate. I'm sure if Caroline sees this, she'll gleefully
point out Ukyou's help in destroying the Saotome's house, and the wedding
bombing. Shrug. More power to Ukyou, I think. I don't want to see the
boring old wedding argument again, but I will say this: She. Deserved. Better.

(I must have been possessed by Blade for a minute there.) Tarou is great!
(Yep, definitely possessed by Blade.)

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