You all mention that SP lemon one a lot... the part that I saw was
just a sex fest with a whole lot of way too violent stuff thrown in
and everyone was totally OOC and it wasn't even slightly focused on
a story like, relationships or even anything like romance... It was
a fuck/violence fest, basically...
I, and I suspect the author and other fans of Split Personalities,
would appreciate it if you were to stop criticising it so strongly
without having read the preceeding 5 and 1/2 parts (around 60%). And
as the author freely admits, he was well past where he'd intended to
stop, and wasn't writting good stuff, due to fan demand.
I mean, if I were to jump into your epic around when Ryouga/U-chan and
Konatsu/Akari were (getting married, or whatever) without having read
the parts that paired them up (or knowing you'd paired the former
before you learned about Akari), I wouldn't necessarily have too high
an opinion of your story.
SP has a very nice relationship building Ranko/U-chan arc, plus (by
design) about the most un-romantic Ranma/Akane bedroom scene in lemon
history (and no, the rest of you don't have to take that up as a
challenge). It depends on what you're trying to write; the first and
good part of SP is mostly a psycology study (and the early lemon parts
even have alternatives).
It's got nothing to do with the pairings themselves... it's just the lack
of a story line full stop. Yeah, lets have someone half murdering Akane
while Ranma's in the same room, fucking Ukyou and Ranko... that was not
even anything near IC, nor was it fun to read... it just plain sucked.
Nothing even slightly like a romantic relationship there... not even any
details ... just fucking and violence. If it was anything like IC, Ranma,
if he was in that position would, no matter what, save Akane. But all that
happens is that he keeps fucking away, while Akane gets beaten to a pulp,
then doesn't even bother to go beat up Herb for revenge, nor even bother
to see if she's okay, or anything... what does he do? He goes off to do
something for Ukyou and Ranko. This was one of the most horribly OOC things
I have every read, and it was very sickening, even just for the girl bashing
in that scene.
But, as the author said, the story had degraded by then. But I have no
reason to want to read the other parts of the story due to being sickened
beyond belief by that part. I don't see that, even if you hate the parings
that I did, that anyone could be sickened...
Kun-chan...