Brendan wrote:

On Mon, 09 Mar 1998, Anthony Woo <ajwoo@ucdavis.edu> wrote:

Gary Kleppe wrote:

David Johnston <rgorman@telusplanet.net> wrote:

'Why does he seem so tired?' Again Akane jumped to the easiest
conclusion, and the wrong one as usual.  'Oh! I bet he spent all night
with that.....WOMAN!'
"RANMA NO BAKA!!"

My, it certainly does make it easier to pair up Ranma with someone else
when Akane is depicted as a total maniac.

It does indeed; it's a time-honored approach to a difficult problem.
Though if I were going to write such a story, I think I'd go for the
more believable approach of killing Akane off in the beginning.

Now the real challenge is... can anyone do it _without_ either killing off
Akane or characterizing her as an abusive maniac?I'm trying ^_^ read
(warning:  blatent plug ahead)  "Broken Dreams"  Part Two still writers
blocked.

        Indeed, how can Ranma and Akane get split up without resorting to
death or character distortion.  I assume Love potions and such are
considered extreme cheating of course.  And so would the more subtle
alternate history storyies.  Hmm.  The Burakimin concept has beendone in a
few ficts, I'm not convinced that it would be enough to make Akane break up
with Ranma, but it's a possibility.  Well conceivably if the honor or
continued survival of the Tendo and or Saotome families were at stake and
every attempt to find an alternative to marrage failed.  Didn't the Ranma
who married Ukyo in Converging series marry her to protect the Tendo's?
Still as to a way of having Ranma and Akane break up of their own free
will...  Maybe if Ranma became convinced that he was destined to live a
chaotic life full of suffering he might break up with her to try and
protect her, but then he'd go off alone to protect everyone.  Besides as
Ranma said in the episode where Happosei was dying, he beleives that people
make their own destiny, which combined with his stobornness would make him
fight whatever fate had in store for him for the rest of his life.  I
honestly can't think of any trick to break Ranma and Akane up.  Takahashi's
put them through too much for there to be any simple way to split them up.

Why is it so hard to believe that two people can fall out of love?  It
does happen.  People you think were made for each other suddenly decide
to call it quits.  There are a wide variety of reasons this happens.  It
just happens that Akane's anger is a favorite reason of many authors.  I
tend to go with just incompatibility.  Also, why can't a person fall in
love with another person?  Yes, there are people out there other than
Kuno that love more than one person at one time.  It's not unreasonable
to think of this happening to Ranma if there happens to be someone that
catches his eye.  If that happens, it the author's decision on what
happens.  I use these facts about human relationship to an extreme and
tend to vere towards the other girls in Ranma's life.

Gary Kleppe
http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics

AJ