On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Martin Bennett wrote:
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, PhoneyNT wrote:
forget that! I loved it! This is one of your best to date!
You sick little man... ;} I was trying to shock people, but everyone says
they liked it! I'm going to go and sulk and try to think of something
more grose... <POUT>
Sorry, *I* didn't like it very much.
It's not the violence and rape, which is sickening enough, but that's the
*point* of a darkfic after all. It's the fact that Ryouga *won*.
Yes, he won in the end. When his son adopted that name (I don't believe
that Ranma and Akane would heva named him thus) and decided to deny
Ranma's code of honor by going after Ryouga to kill him, Ryouga won in
the end. He wanted to make Ranma and all around him miserable and by
god, he succeeded. Ryouga doesn't realize that his death is in reality
his triumph, but *I*, the reader, do.
Now, if his son had sought him out just to tell him coolly that his plan
*failed*, that despite the atrocities he committed, Ranma and Akane grew
to be a caring and happy pair with a son whom they brought up as their
own - now *that* would be a blow to Ryouga.
Anyway, as we are speaking of garlic crushers (You realize that Kun-chan
will now be after you, don't you?): I was using one, this weekend, and I
had to wonder how Kun-chan suggests to apply it. I mean, for it to work,
the piece of male anatomy would have to be already disconnected, which
makes the act more symbolic than painful - and that's the point, isn't it?
Sebastian