dogbertcarroll wrote:My greatest pet peeve is when they follow the canon plotline like nothing has changed. If you change anything, then everything should change with minor events snowballing into huge whopping changes!
The only events that shouldn't change are the ones from outside the area, for instance, Herb will still show up searching for the kettle, as little that is done in Nerima will effect him enough to alter that.
I hate when Ranma doesn't get cursed and yet somehow the author justifies him still being engaged to Akane straight off the bat for no apparent reason.
Nabiki was searching for a cute boy at the time and was in favor of the idea, but somehow that gets skipped completely and if they do engage Nabiki to Ranma then they somehow get Kuno after him anyhow, for some asinine reason, so they can stick to the same old 'Kuno attacks Ranma to free his loves' plot.
Ellen Kuhfeld wrote:Meh. I see no reason to rehash things that've happened in Takahashi's version(s). I'd rather write from fanon anyway; it is more versatile. And it gives me a chance to play to my strengths rather than Takahashi-sama's.
I think Uldihaa is speaking more on authors needing to look at "How will my changes, and the variables and alterations created as a result (butterfly-effect), effect how the characters react in situation X, as opposed to how they would react when unaltered?" In other words, if you change the characters you have to change how they react and how others react to them, even if only a minor variance. Canon is like a calm pond, your change is a pebble that has been thrown in. How big a change effects how large the splash and ripples are, and how far they reach.
Gaming Ikari wrote:The biggest offender, of course, is Ranma Saotome winding up back at the Tendo Dojo at the beginning of any alternate story. It seems no matter what other changes happen or what sort of radically different life the poor boy's led up until that point, he'll show up on the Tendo's doorstep right in time to go to Furinkan and offend Kuno.
Vilkath wrote:The he just had a 'mask' type fics abuse this the most. Ranma, Naruto who ever starting up a fic late in canon but trying say this Ranma is dramaticaly AU, and has always been smart, aware etc but just pretending to be stupid is one the worst ways to go most the time.
Spokavriel wrote:Mike Koos has one really painful (to me) fic along these lines. Nodoka makes a wish and it creates an alternate reality where Ranma is born a girl. Even with that Genma still demands the training trip and somehow from the trip Ranma has been made into Akane and without any training trip the Tendo "Boys" are filling in Ranma shoes on almost every situation in Canon Ranma.
And only a few people in the world had the genders flipped. Though why anyone other than Ranma had it happen to them ... It's just a fic that I find easy to rant about and I've complained to the author more than too much over. You change a birth the whole thing should be AU but for some reason he tried to avoid letting it become that.
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