For months and months after writing my "Chun-Li + Cammy" rant, I heard from absolutely none of the fanboys I had been complaining about earlier. While I knew that I would never be completely free of them, for the most part I thought I'd been victorious in my long, hard struggle to get them leave me the hell alone. That is, until about a month ago.
All of a sudden, the fanboys have been showing up en masse, insisting that Chun-Li and Ryu were meant to be together and that Capcom will confirm this eventually. My original arguement stands. I don't really have anything new to add it, but for one tiny thing I shall address later. So instead, I'm writing this open letter and I hope that it won't confuse TOO many fanboys, since this WILL require reading skills of someone on the fourth-grade level, unlike the majority of the Chun-Li & Ryu fanfics I've seen.
Leave me alone. I'm not interested in what you have to say. You can write a thousand "OMG CHUN-LI & RYU R MENT 2 B 2TOGHTER LOL!!1!!" messages, but if you're hoping that one of them will magically change my mind, be ready for a life full of disappointment. All you are doing is damning your own cause by confirming the stereotypes I've come to associate with you and your fellow Ryu fanboys.
What do you hope to accomplish when you e-mail me your generic statements of support for Chun-Li & Ryu? Do you hope that yours will be the one to magically change my mind and let Chun-Li & Ryu art and fics onto my site? "Chun-Li & Ryu 4VR!" "Oh, wow, I've never thought about it like that!" I hope even you fanboys aren't THAT stupid.
So, perhaps you simply wish to express your discontent for my opinions. In that case, I suggest you all watch the movie Ghosts of Mississippi. There's a nice little line in it about how wasteful it is to hate, because the people you hate either don't know you hate them, or they don't care. While hate is a strong word and I'm sure many of you don't actually HATE me, the fact remains that I DON'T CARE.
Some of you have tried to prove that Chun-Li would be a good couple because there are Japanese doujinshis that show them as a couple. You don't seem to realize that these doujinshis are independant publications and in no way are endorsed by Capcom. In fact, for every doujinshi with her and Ryu as a couple, there are at least a dozen of her with Cammy, instead...
Capcom will not come to your side. Assuming they even MAKE another true Street Fighter game, I can guarantee you that there will be no mention of Chun-Li and Ryu as a couple. Why? Because if they were gonna do it, they'd have done it already! They've certainly had plenty of chances since those two have been in dozens of games together. They even published an entire book explaining the plot details of the Street Fighter plot, and still no mention of a Chun-Li/Ryu romance.
And now for that new bit of evidence I referred to earlier. There's a new Street Fighter comic in the works. It's being published by UDON, a team of manga-inspired artists who've done work for other major publishers and titles. These guys are hardcore SF fans from Japan, and they take the official plotline very seriously. At the Origins Gaming Convention in Columbus, Ohio, a good friend of mine named Paul Soth met one of the guys from UDON and talked a little about the comic. During the conversation, knowing my disdain for the Chun-Li/Ryu romance, Paul asked him if there would be anything of the sort in this new comic.
"Oh no, we're sticking with the orginal storyline. I mean, all the guys are from Japan, and we're avoiding the Maubu storyline."
"So that who romance thing was never offical?"
"Oh no. Not at all."
I've heard secondhand accounts over the years of Capcom denying it, but this is a firsthand, 100% official account. The Chun-Li/Ryu romance is a pure fabrication in the alleged minds of the fanboys.
Let me make one point perfectly clear: I would sooner close Kikouken.com down permanently than upload this Chun-Li & Ryu crap to my webspace. You have ZERO chance of convincing me that Chun-Li & Ryu were meant to be together. Now, piss off!
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