Glad to see some discussion going on about my latest chapter of Interface.
"They're not your real family, Akane."
Akane began to glow a slight tinge of red.
"HOW DARE YOU!" Akane fumed.
This really bothered me.
This was indeed a line that brought a little bit of flak from some of my
prereaders, but I steadfastly kept it. It brought up a point that -needed-
to be brought up, and it also sets the mood for something which happens
later.
But... this is the whole premise behind the Matrix. That everything about
the Matrix is fake. In XStylus' fic, Trinity is trying to get Akane to
realize her family is anything but that. You see a similar scene in "The
Matrix", when Morpheus is showing Neo the truth about the Matrix, after
he's
been freed from it.
One interesting thing that I noted was that we never knew Neo's family in
the movie, and since they were left out of the equation, the subject of
letting go of family never was addressed. I thought this was too damn
convenient for Neo, and I wasn't going to let Ranma and Akane off the hook
as easily. Just keep reading... you'll like what you read.
Neo [in the movie] emphatically tells Morpheus that what he's saying
is impossible, continually denying it, and finally demands to be taken out
of the construct. With Neo, it's the whole world. With Akane, it's her
family.
I didn't quite think of it that way... but, indeed that's a good way of
looking at it. With Ranma and Akane, they're used to REALLY strange things
happening, and the possibility of it all being fake is, strangely enough,
one of the LESSER oddities they've come up against, so I'd like to think
that they wouldn't have -too- much trouble letting go. Letting go of their
family, on the other hand, is a different story...
But don't think this story is simply about how Akane and Ranma deal with
their family troubles outside the Matrix. Oh no no no... :)
-Troy