*gak* Well, after reading Mr. Lawson's "Goddess of My Harmful Deeds", I have 
been depressed down to a normal sanity level <shudder>. I came up with this 
idea. You know how when Ranma gets a wish, he always says "I wish I were never 
cursed."? Well, what if he learned from one of these mistakes and wished for 
something to benefit someone else? That wish would be, "I wish Akane's mother 
never died". Now before you Ucchan and Shampoo fans start cheering about how 
Mrs. Tendo is going to kill the engagement, she's not going to. I thought 
about this for a while. Mom always told me that anger comes from guilt or 
depression. Akane, now without the source of her sadness, has a lot less 
anger. Goodbye, mallet-san. Goodbye, "I hate boys!". Goodbye, "Ranma no baka!" 
Goodbye, quick and harsh judgement. Nabiki would be a lot less evil, and 
Kasumi would have something resembling free will. Oh yeah, and Soun wouldn't 
be such a spineless bastard. 
Damn. It'll be hours before I come up with anything funny again.

I posted a shortfic back in September in which Akane wished for her 
mother to be revived, or to never have died, or something like that.  
I plan to eventually continue and expand it, showing the consequences 
of the wish.  So, everybody feel free to use this idea, but at some 
point in the future I intend to write an extended fic about it.  


Thomas Schmidt
Tschmidt@trader.com