On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, emry@mail.nova1.net wrote:

I came up with this Idea on the way home this evening.  I was 
thinking for some reason about the Tenchi muyo characters.  How much 
we do not know about Yosho, and his past.  All we know of the time 
befor he left Jurai, was that he was heir aparent to the jurain  
thrown.   There is also every indication that he had no actual 
dislike of Ryoko before her attack on Jurrai, and that he was actualy 
sad at having to emprison her.  Why else did he not kill her to begin 
with, at the only mement when jhe would ever likely have the chance.  
There are also indications from the anime that Ryoko was aquanted 
with the Juraian royakl family before the attack.

	The TV series and the OAV's are completely seperate timelines, 
in the OAV's Jurai first met Ryoko when she attacked Jurai.  In the TV 
series she had never attacked Jurai because she was a LOT less powerful 
and would have been trashed in seconds.(Plus Kagato wasn't controlling 
her mind.)
	Also In the TV series Aeka wasn't engaged to Yosho, indeed she 
simply knew him as a legendary member of the Jurai royal family who had 
vanished long ago.  Aditionally the TV series has apparently indicated 
that the Jurai folk aren't that much longer lived than regular human's.
	Oh and as for the question of Yosho's decision to imprision 
Ryoko instead of killing her, there's a few reason's I can think of.
1, He had decided he wanted to stay on earth and Puting Ryoko in a 
prison he could watch over gave him an excuse.
2, In the OAV's she had the power to regrow severed limbs, and in the 
fight she kept fighting even when impailed through the throat untill 
her three jewel energy source was stolen by the sword.  Yosho was badly 
hurt in the fight, and was probably more certain of his ability to 
imprision her than that he could overcome her healing capability and 
kill her.
3, The OAV's never mentioned weather or not he had ever killed anyone 
before, and even if he had, when he realised that Ryoko was only 
incapacitated by the sword he would have probably been hesitant to kill 
her in cold blood.
and 4,  It was never revealed how much the Jurai trees could sense and 
what they could tell their human's, but Funaho (Yosho's ship) could 
have sensed that Ryoko was being controlled by someone and told him, 
which would have increased his reluctance to kill a helpless woman.