>Favourite Characters.


Oh, are we talking about fave characters now?  Oookay....

Mine are Ranma and Akane!  Don't really care much for the others, but if
you'd have me pick another besides R&A, my choice would be Nabiki.

Okay, sure, she's a catty bitch sometimes.  Make that most of the time.
But her remarks are *so* cute!  And she's always so cooool.... ^_^

>I like all the characters with the possible exception of Happosai,
>who irritates me a bit too much.


As I said, I dont' really care much for the other characters.  It
actually depends on the situation.  Like, sometimes Kunou cracks me up
with his obstinateness, but sometimes he's just plain annoying.  Same
with the others.  The characters I really dislike are Happosai, Genma,
Shampoo(sometimes), Ukyou (sometimes), and Ryouga (sometimes).

Before anything else, no offense.  It's a personal bias.  Period.

>WUE. Still got to read that. All these 'W' fics I have still to
>get to. Takes a LONG time to get through the 'T's. Right now up
>to 'The Production of Joy'. Next big fic 'The Shadow Chronicles'


Ooohh!!!  You gotta read that one, for sure!  That's one cool fic!  The
best, IMHO, is the first part, Casts a Long Shadow...

>So, how do people think that Ranma would react if something made it
>impossible for him to practice martial arts any more. Or maybe just
>that something ate his ki, so he became no more powerful than a
>normal person. I know that this was started in the HSH arc, but he
>got cured. I'm interested in the long term consequences. What would
>the others do?


Ranma would definitely be devastated.  Mostly because his entire life
revolved around the Art, and without it, he doesn't have anything else
to base his life upon, 'cause he just simply doesn't know anything else.

I don't know how Shampoo would feel, but I doubt she'd still be
obligated to marry him.  For what, when he's no longer this strong,
brave warrior husband-material?

Akane?  Akane would definitely sympathize with Ranma and try to help him
through it, for sure.  Just like in the HSH story, when she was ready to
go off to training with him.  Because she *knows* that Ranma feels
useless without the Art, she *realizes* how important it is to him, and
above all, she *cares* enough about him to follow his lead, for him to
do whatever makes him happy, and she'll stay with him, whatever he
decides to do.

I've always believed the phrase "Love is being happy knowing that he is
happy," and that is exactly what Akane does most of the time... when she
isn't too angry about Ranma when he pulls one of his stupid stunts, that
is... ^_^

That's why I like Akane so much...

>Well, it didn't appear to phaze Ukyou at all, since you don't need to
be able
>to pulverize cement with your bare hands to help run a restaurant.

I probably shouldn't comment anything but... that's one of the main
things that...um... "turned me off" Ucchan.  I used to like her, really.
She's cute and bouncy and cheerful.  But when I saw that episode and saw
how she reacted to Ranma's dilemma, it changed my opinion big-time.  *I*
think that she believes with such a certainty that Ranma would be happy
enough to be with her, running an okonomiyaki restaurant.  Hey, Ranma
has his own dreams, one that doesn't include any japanese pizzas (that's
what an okonomiyaki is, isn't it?)  But somehow, she doesn't seem to
realize that... seems kinda....ah.... selfish.... to me...

<Ukyou fans begin to sharpen their knives>

*sweatdrop*  Okay, maybe not selfish.  Maybe the thought just never
occured to her?  Peace, man... Again, everything IMHO only.  No flames,
please.

Oh, well.  Enough rambling.

Stiffanie Flores