On Thu, 7 May 1998, Richard D. Lawson wrote:

From: Ranma Al'Thor
Date: Thursday, May 07, 1998 12:17 PM

So if we use the manga as a reference, his trips to other universes are
triggered reflexively by sheer panic.  That's certainly the situation he
finds himself him in my story.

It still feels like a non-sequitur to me, but I guess the manga author 

Ayukawa was sitting opposite, reading a book.  She didn't seem to be

doing

a good job of it; she hadn't turned the page in ten minutes.

Where did she get a new book if society has broken down to the point where
she had to organize an armed raid to get food?

It's not a new book.  She's re-reading an old book.  You can catch passages
of it in her thoughts.

Let me rephrase this.  Where did she get a book she hasn't already read
when society is in chaos?  Or did she make off with a huge pile and is
slowly reading them?

 > >> One time he had been able

to communicate with Ayukawa from outside the school building when she'd
been held captive inside.

His pyschic abilities change in another universe?  Any particular reason?

<shrug>  Ask the manga artist.  He decided that in this universe, Kyosuke
could read minds.

Iya.
 

In case you haven't guessed it, much of the KOR manga is poorly written.
I've ranted on this before, but so many of the stories are nothing more than
poor sitcom scripts, where every unlikely thing happens to enable the thin
plot to continue stumbling along.  No *reason* is given for Kyosuke having
different abilities, or why he still had ESP and his "sisters" didn't.  One
could invent a theory about different physical laws in the alternate
universe that would affect how his Power works.

Iya.  Did anyone besides Kyousuke have psychic powers in the parallel
universe?
 

Oh, and I liked the story with parallel-Madoka.  Part of my reason for
writing this is because I was upset on how she was treated - Kyosuke rescued
her, she admits that she likes him, and he teleports back to his home
universe without replying.  That *had* to be a huge slap-in-the-face for
parallel-Madoka.

Iya.  Much as I don't like Madoka, that is pretty obnoxious.
 

Asleep, Madoka could resist him as she never could while

That's odd.  I'd think it would be more the other way.

Hey, it's a rationalization!  :)   I'm trying to think of a better one.

Make it a side-effect of the sister tampering.  The tampering might become
MORE effective when she's asleep as she's less able to resist what the
Kasuga sister did, and these now reinforced shields fight off Kazuya.
After all, Kurumi should have anticipated Kazuya trying to get into her
head once they're alone.

OR...

Her trust of Kyosuke makes her psychic defenses weaker when she can
actually see 'Kyosuke', but when she's asleep, she can't tell who it is,
and has full defense.

OR...

to come up with a reason why everyone would have stronger defenses when
unconscious:  the brain is basically running on hardwired autopilot when
you are asleep.  You're not 'thinking', you're just dumping old memories
and cleaning out the garbage.  Trying to deter the brain from this course
is more difficult than dealing with the more flexible waking mind.

OR...

Kyosuke rarely uses telepathic style ESP.  Perhaps his body is not ideally
suited to it, and it is actually weakening Kazuya's abilities while he is
in Kyosuke's body, so that hypnotizing a waking Madoka is easy, but trying
to get into a sleeping one just won't work out right.

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