In a message dated 7/10/00 5:24:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
sofaspud@sofaspud.org writes:
C&C on someone's C&C of somebody *else's* C&C...boy, is this recursive or
what?
Kiima glanced at Ranma. "It is true that Ranma did no
> > lasting harm to any of your guards, and I believe him that his
> > motives for intruding were free of malice."
>
> This would work better if there had been some sort of scene between these
two
> earlier. As is, I think Kima's niceness toward Ranma comes out of
nowhere.
*nods* Yup. He may be handsome, but he just whupped all of her
underlings and nearly beat her, as well. And duty seems to be her primary
motivation for nearly everything, so I don't think that his looks and charm
would have THAT much of an effect without some sort of interaction between
the fight and now.
On the other hand, Kiima is an experienced professional. And if, in her
professional opinion, Ranma's actions were congruent with his claims of being
non-hostile and acting in self-defense, I suspect her innate honesty would
compel her to give him the benefit of the doubt -- to a point. After all, in
a many-v-one fight, it's far easier to just start killing opponents rather
than taking them down non-lethally. So she has fairly strong evidence that
Ranma prefers to accept the increased risk of adhering to non-lethal force
(against opponents quite ready and willing to use lethal force against him)
rather than use potentially lethal force.
It *might* work better if, rather than "I believe him..." she said
something like "He has given no sign of hostile intent..." That would be
more precise and objective, while still retaining most of the original thrust
(IMHO).
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