Before I say anything, let's not start a character
debate in FFML, okay? If you want to noisily disagree
with me, do it privately.

Also, I hate the title, so if anyone has any
suggestions... This little fic was inspired(?) by

the

fact that in all these
"Ranma-Tells-Ukyo-He's-Going-To-Marry-Akane" scenes

I

read, Ukyo always offered Ranma a specific favor,

and

Ranma always declined (well, the IMBS Ranma didn't,

You evidently haven't read very many of those
stories, then. Hell, I
alone have written several of these, and never had
Ukyo offer Ranma her
body.

    It's either Ukyo accepting Ranma's choice sadly
or getting really pissed.

However, your characterizations are simply not
believable. Frankly, your
story makes me doubt whether you've read the Ranma
manga at all. For one
thing, Ukyo in the manga has never been one to
suffer in silence. From
her first appearance to the wedding finale, when
she's been displeased
with Ranma she's never failed to let him know it.
And your Ranma is even
more OOC. Canon Ranma is clueless about his feelings
toward others. He
needed thirty-eight volumes to get to the point
where he was kinda-sorta
aware of his feelings for one person. Seeing him

    He was aware of it, he just didn't want to admit
it, even to himself.

talk openly about them
in this is just not something I can believe. And
considering that he was
unable to kiss either Shampoo or Akane, when both
times he believed a
cure for his curse to be the reward, I can't see him
kissing Ukyo just
because he wanted to give her a consolation prize.

    I can. This fanfic is very serious, while Ranma 1/2
is a slapstick comedy. When you change the tone of
the story, a little character modification is
inevitable. Canon Ranma appears insensitive because
serious romance is NOT what RT was aiming for.

Notes: I don�t really know what I�m supposed to say
here, so you can skip this if you like.  This

fanfic

doesn�t really have a point, I�ll concede that. 
However, people have said the point is that Ranma�s
friendship with Ukyo is stronger than his love for
Akane.

If so, that's ridiculous. There's nothing in the
manga to indicate that
Ranma's friendship with Ukyo is any stronger than
his friendship for
Shampoo or Ryoga, let alone his feelings for Akane
which were
established many times.

    Again, I must disagree. Ranma is a type to care
even for his enemies and troublemakers. Look at volume
19; his friendship for Ukyo is very obviously deeper
than for Shamps or Ryoga. Of course, it can't be
stronger than Ranma's feelings for Akane.

What did he do before? Refuse to marry her because
she wanted him to?
Why should that obligate him?

     While it's not Ranma's fault, Ukyo IS hurt.
Shouldn't he help her out a little as a friend?

about a nice thing Ranma did for Ukyo.  That is,

until

I showed it to a friend, and she said �That Ranma

sure

is a jerk!  What a pervert!�  Okay, when I thought
about it, what was nice for Ukyo wasn�t necessarily

so

for Akane.  However, I started it siding with

Ranma,

and I still do.  I think what he did was right,

under

the circumstances.

I think it was not only wrong, but completely OOC
for him.

     This part of fic I didn't understand; did Ranma
left it at just kissing, or did he actually sleep with
her? The former is excusable, the latter is not.

     Geeze, why am I even defending R/U relationship
when I'm against it?
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