Fade in on a young man in an empty computer lab.  He has blue-violet
hair, slightly pointed ears, is wearing a Tenchi Muyo! t-shirt,
appears to be about 6'3", and has horizontally slit pupils surrounded
by purple irises with tiny glowing gold flakes in them.  He also
appears to be running around panicking.

Alex: Oh no, Nononononononononono NO I can't believe it commenting on
fics is addicting.  I seem to be doing it more and more often,
NOnonononononononono *THUD*

He suddenly stops as his head collides with one of the support columns
that hold up the labs ceiling.  He looks around and notices the
camera...

Alex: Uhmm... (Just great when did that come on?) *Nervous smile*
Heheheh.  Well any way I just read the first nine parts of Autumn and
Spring, and I absolutely had to send out my thoughts on this fic.  By
the way its great.  So anyway heres my thoughts as I was reading this
series.  Unfortunately I had to print it out so I can't include the
relevant portions of the fic, but I'm fairly sure that it will be
obvious which parts I'm referring to (I hope!).

1. Ranma only being confident on being able to beat people half his
age?  That shouldn't bother him with Happousai and Cologne for
examples.  

2. Have you watched the OAV Like Water for Ranma?  In it Ranma shows
that he can already cook and pretty well too.

3. Why not use the Chisuitton to freeze Ukyo in her cursed form? 
Especially if it seems like she will die from changing back.  Surely
Herb could be convinced to splash her.

4. Why wouldn't they have records of Cologne? she was in the Nanban
mirror episode.

5. Don't see what the problem is with Cologne knowing how to invis,
Happousai can do it to spy on girls locker rooms why can't Cologne
learn this technique?  of course why she should be invised while
riding on shampoo is a totally different thing can't think of a good
reason for that.

6. Shades of Lovecraft! Cologne is a Cthuluesque monster!

7. But then why did Mousse know her and Happousai remember her from
his childhood?  For that matter how did she interact with Ranma and
Ryoga to fight with and train them?

8. Oh mass mind control... wouldn't Happousai have some clue this was
being used on him after all Cologne isn't pretending to be a young
girl so his weakness shouldn't be affected.

9.Oooh someone has been really working over-time with the Xi Fang Gang
Xiao Shiatsu (sp?) technique at Joketsuzoku

10. Hmm.. maybe the Cologne creature created spring of drowned Ukyo
and doused itself in it, and the whole reason it was helping Shampoo
was it had fallen in love with Ranma, maybe he woke it up while
rampaging after his father and it fell in love with him ala Ryoko and
Tenchi.

11. Maybe the real reason they forgot all about Shampoo was that the
creature wanted them too forget about her and it manipulated their
minds towards that end.

12.  Actually in the original Japanese version Ranma uses quite a bit
of strong language.

13. What with the way his life works out you would think his kids
would take him more seriously.

14. He had experience with Happousai (yipes could it be another
creature?) and Mr. Ego thinks 85 could be too old to fight effectivbely?

15. Oh well that explains why they didn't take him seriously.

16. Is he talking to himself, is it the demon conversing with him in
disguise, or is it just a meddling author?  Ranma really isn't that
insiteful.

Alex: Well that's all I have too say, other than I can't wait for the
next part to come out.  

[Alex is a character from a story I'm in the process of writing, and
from an Earthdawn Campaign I'm running, he is nothing like me. ^_^  ]


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*Time it seems doesn't flow for some it's fast for others 
slow.  In what to one race is no time at all, another race
can rise and fall.-Starflight*
*All is not as it may seem.  Life is little, but a dream.-?*

-Dracklor@rocketmail.com


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