At 21:56 -0700 05/27/2004, Joe Fenton wrote:
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Volitility is right.
It strikes me that he is trying to make some villians. Ranma has been set up
as a hero, so she needs some villians to oppose her. Given how Akane acts
about perverts, there's only two ways she'll respond to the incident: she'll
become catatonic, or snap the guy's neck the moment her hands are free.
In any case, neither Akane nor Nabiki deserved the treatment they got.
This will put a rift between them and the good-guys. No "apology" of
ANY sort will be sufficient to appease the dishonor done over virtually
nothing. When they find out Ranma is still alive, they WILL blame her for
what happened. They will become sworn enemies dedicated to seeing her
humiliated worse than what happened to them.
It'll start with Nabiki and Akane hunting down and killing every officer
remotely related to the "arrest". Then they'll discover Ranma is alive and
assume she was responsible. Instant opposition.
I really don't think that it will go there. At least not to that
extent. It's my opinion that the officers were more than allowably
vindictive in this instance, and took a hastily declared blood feud
as permission to "get revenge" on behalf of the Yamada's/the Emperor,
regardless of their specific instructions. They will regret that.
Both Akane and Nabiki will be severely affected by the trauma they
endured, no doubt, but I think that neither Ranma or his Grandmother
would allow them to go without finding healing. They will be
different after that, anyone would be. How they respond to Ranma and
others will depend on how they place blame. Ranma will blame himself
for not being there, then look for the root cause as his Grandmother
gets involved. Nodoka's reaction to this will be key. One wrong
move and she may just lose Ranma. She declared the feud, and is
ultimately responsible by that act.
We'll find out as soon as Mark gets the next chapters written and
pre-read so we can be allowed to see them. [BROAD HINT there, Mark :)]
Robert.