Date:	Mon, 04 May 1998 22:12:18 -0600
From:	David Johnston <rgorman@telusplanet.net>
To:	"Freemage ." <freemage@hotmail.com>
CC:	ffml@fanfic.com
Subject: Re: [FFML][ff][Ranma 1/2][Lime]What Price Love chap. 3 pt. 1

Freemage . wrote:

A Ranma 1/2 Fanfic
What Price Love
Chapter 3: Secrets Revealed
By: Jon Osborne

You know, while for the most part, I've enjoyed reading this fic, 

there

is one thing that really bothers me about it.  Whether or not Akane
realizes it, she fell in love with Ranma's _personality_, not Ranma's
body.  While I am willing to accept the whole "Please be a woman full
time for me" premise, I don't think Akane realizes the long-term 

effects

of some of the other things she's having Ranma do--wearing a bra,
showing "feminine modesty", etc.  What Akane fell in love with was
_Ranma_, in a female body.  The person she fell in love with had a
number of decidedly unfeminine traits, and eliminating those traits
will, *must*, change the person herself.

Nope.  Ranma loves Akane.  Akane loves Ranma's (other) body.  She 
obviously doesn't care about anything except his physical form.  That 
gives Akane the upper hand, which explains why Ranma is making all the 
concessions.  

Of course in realistic terms, Akane is being terminally stupid.  She 

has 

a sterling opportunity to live closeted in perfect respectibility 
avoiding all the hassles of a lesbian marriage while reaping all the 
benefits.  Instead she is deliberately choosing the course of action 
that bring the maximum of social censure and family turmoil.  

But then, she's a version of a Ranma character, so stupidity is to be
expected.

Hmmm...In that case, there is a fall coming up, but it's going to be 
very bad.  If she truly cares about nothing but Ranma's body, then, by 
that reasoning, anyone who could make a Spring of Drowned Onna-Ranma 
(along the lines of the Spring of Drowned Akane) would be able to 
satisfy her.  Not good.  Eventually, even Ranma is going to get tired of 
being treated/viewed as nothing but a hunk of meat.

And that's when it's going to hit the fan.

I don't know what your take on the "Does Onna-Ranma age?" debate is, but 
it doesn't really matter.  Watch:

1)O-R is immortal:  As Akane ages, Ranma is going to become less 
interested in sex, as Akane will simply be less attractive.  At the same 
time, though, as the sex in their relationship fades, there will be 
nothing to replace it (from Akane's POV), because she has no interest in 
Ranma the Person.

2)O-R ages normally:  This one is even worse.  While option one might 
hold off the inevitable for a few years (as Ranma continues to make love 
to the aging Akane despite the fading interest, out of "his" love for 
her), this case will result in a break-up by forty, max, as O-R slowly 
grows further away from Akane's ideal.

Homosexual relationships share this factor in common with heterosexual 
ones:  If it's based only on sex (at least for one partner), then the 
whole thing will collapse with age.

I see no long-term hope for these two, "as is".  Akane's more than 
stupid here, she's _shallow_.

--Freemage

Just my opinion, of course, but I think Ms. Tendou is in for a rude
awakening.

OTOH, please feel free to make the Panda suffer as much as possible.

Thanks for listening.

--Freemage

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