Reviews for A Shift In The Balance

Reviews For: A Shift In The Balance

lady nayanda 2006-06-30 ch 2,	abusePUH-LEASE WRITE MORE!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE* IT! ;D
TerraBull 2006-05-10 ch 2,	abuseHey, Continue writing this! ;) I want to read more!
lady nayanda 2006-05-08 ch 1,	abusei like "Balance" a lot so far. i LOVE SoR. not many people write about it. you're the only decent one i've seen so far write about it. in a couple days, i'll be allowed to upload stories (i just started an actually account) and i would be honored if you would look over it for me.
dogbertcarroll 2003-10-08 ch 2,	abuseThe bit with Ranma's sword came out of left field. You really should have gone in-depth on the making of blades and Ranma getting interested and then his attempts to make one and the resulting explosions until he got it right. grin Lyassa would have fit in with the fiancées just fine. Update!
dogbertcarroll 2003-10-08 ch 1,	abuseNever read the recluse novels. shrug Not a bad first chapter but I would like a more detailed description of his vanishing from Nermia.
Asrana 2002-07-25 ch 1, anon.	abuseThis for the uninformed WJP How uncomprehending of the books are you to not realize that neither Order, nor Chaos was meant to be a true antagonist or protagonist with the possible exception of Naclos? It was emphasized that both Order and Chaos can be used for good or evil, though it is a great deal harder to use Order for evil. Colors of Chaos also emphasized that while in most of the novels an order mage had been the hero/heroine (IE, Nylan and Aylryn until they went grey, Creslin and Magera, Dorrin, and Lerris until he went grey), chaos mages weren't all evil. Which, unless you look carefully, is seemingly implied throughout many of the books. Very few of the Guild members were ever Grey as most were raised in the Guild Creche and raised to chaos, infused with chaos, and know only chaos. As stated in Colors of Chaos, both Recluce and Fairhaven as societies abhor Grey Mages and the fact that they remained extremely rare is therefore reinforced. If you had actually read The Order War, you would know that the Guild was more completely CHAOS USERS than during Cerryl's time just before it fell to Justen's ordered-light-focus. Oh, and if the Guild was mostly grey when it fell, WHY WOULD A PURE GREY MAGE BE THE ONE TO DESTROY IT?! The ONLY society to embrace Grey mages was Naclos in southwestern Candar, and they were fairly reclusive. Happy Ending for the Order/Chaos problem?! THERE NEVER IS ONE! Each of the solutions had problems. Dorrin's in my opinion being the least problematic in a long term approach. But that one was screwed over by both Recluce AND the Guild later on. Working in Nabiki? You obviously don't know what was involved in Ranma getting to Candar. An order/chaos portal focuses immense amounts of both types of energy together until the conflict rips a hole in time space. These are basically matter/anti-matter reactions except they involve forces that do not normally ever reach those levels independently within a space that would cause a reaction. The chances of ANOTHER order/chaos portal existing near Nabiki is even more infinitely small than the chances were for the one that swallowed Ranma because of this.
WJP 2002-04-16 ch 2, anon.	abuseIT HAS THE FEEL OF THE RECLUCE NOVELS AND I LIKE THE MORE MATURE RANMA THAT IS EMERGING. ALSO I PERSONALLY FEEL THAT THE ORDER TYPES ARE THE REAL VILLIANS OF THE PEICE AND THAT FROM WHAT I HAVE READ OF THE SERICES THE CHOAS GUILD BEFORE IT WAS DESTROYED HAD BEEN ALMOST TOTALLY GREY AND THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE HAPPY ENDING FOR THE ORDER/CHAOS PROBLEM, SO RANMA AS A GREY MAGE IS GREAT, BUT IS IT POSSIBLE TO WORK NABIKI IN SOMEWHERE.
madcat08 2002-03-06 ch 1, anon.	abuseSurprise to see this cross but its good.
darkphoneix 2002-03-05 ch 2,	abuseGrumpy - Sorry, I really can't help it and don't plan on changing. I'm not a professional writer. I don't get paid for writing fics or anything and I only really do it because I enjoy writing. When I get an idea I write it until I lose interest or get another idea that I feel like working on. Most times I plan on going back and continuing a frozen fic, but I just don't get around to doing so. I sorta finished Can It Get Any Worse, I guess. The others are all really just in the beginning of what I had originally planned for them.
darkphoneix 2002-03-05 ch 1,	abuseI agree with you mostly, Jyalt. Most of the time I plan on continuing stories when I begin them, but I realized pretty quickly that this one wasn't going to work. Modessit is just plain damned good, and I couldn't really work out a way to get Ranma to even remotely fit into his world. I only really posted this one since I didn't want the time to have gone to a waste. Who knows, maybe it'll inspire someone who can pull it off.
jyalt 2002-03-05 ch 2, anon.	abuseNormally I enjoy your writings, since you have interesting perspectives to bring to the characters, giving them new life. This time however, you fell far flat. Le Mordesitt Jr.'s works are political/philosophical drama (using either sci-fi or fantasy as only a backdrop), and they do not mesh well with Ranma 1/2 at all. Period. This story attempts to insert Ranma as a major focus into not one of Mordesitt's books (each spanning 300+ pages) but somehow the whole 10+ volume world of Recluse. The project is too ambitiuos, fails miserably, and I didn't enjoy it at all. It reads more like a synopsis than a legitmate story, and leaves all the characters you write from Recluse as caricatures of themselves. Stick to your other works, like the Wheel of Time crossovers, and maybe finish a story. Please do not waste energy working on this, your writing style does not do the attempted story justice.
Jalex 2002-03-05 ch 2,	abuseGreat story. Great to see you writing again.
Johannes 2002-03-05 ch 2, anon.	abuseYou just keep getting better... g Very promising. I'm looking forward to the next part.
tdei 2002-03-05 ch 2,	abuseHIIIIII!! ^^ I didn't know you were on FFN, DP-san! ::hug!!: How are you? ^^ I'm not going to get to the Mamoru/Naga thing until I finish some other stuff, but I'll get there. Really. As like your other works, this fic is friggin' great. =D I look forwards to seeing more of this. ^^
grumpy 2002-03-05 ch 2, anon.	abuseNice beginning. Will it become the latest in the trail of dead stories in your wake? Sorry, as much as I like your stuff in general, the list of unfinished "one chapter epics" has long made me grown numb to your works. You must get some sick thrill at lobbing strong beginning to your stories only to abandon them without remorse.

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