Epsilon: Blade had great ambitions for this fanfic.

(pause)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... (five minutes later) ...HAHAHAHAHAAaaaaaa...oh yes, I remember when Blade had ambitions. Now we routinely grind them into the dirt whenever they're showing some signs of life. It keeps him well-behaved and docile.

Blade: (flat look) Are you quite through?

Epsilon: Making fun of you? Never! But go ahead, talk about your...heh heh...fanfic.

Blade: Right. Well, this is a simple fanfic based on a simple premise...

Epsilon: "I like Tarou, and wanted to write about him."

Blade: (glare) "So I'll write about an alternate universe version of Tarou that barely resembles him at all."

Epsilon: At least until you have the real Tarou show up and take over his mind and go on a vicious, vaguely explained psychotic rampage.

Blade: I'm...I'm not doing that anymore. I'm better now.

Epsilon: Yes, to do that, you'd have to actually finish the fanfic.

Blade: You...I...uh... (sob softly)

Epsilon: And thus, another ambition is properly crushed.


A Ranma 1/2 Alterniverse By Blade
(and now also Talen, at least in theory, should anything else ever be written for it!)