Shampoo (Kleppe)

:For other uses of Shampoo, see Shampoo
Shampoo, subtitled A Different Faith, is written by Gary Kleppe and was published online on September 28th, 1998.Post at FFML - Retrieved 03-Aug-2024
==Description==
==Plot==
Shampoo's mother Ke Lashi (Clash) awaits the decision to the Chinese Amazon Council.
Lashi thinks back and wonders if the death of her mother changed her, it being the point when she came to no longer believe Amazon medicine could save her mother from pneumonia. She then came to find being told something is a tradition was no longer a sufficient excuse for her to explain why things were done they way they were. She ponders her almost lethal initiation ritual to become an Amazon warrior and concludes that by the age of 17 that the culture around her doesn't have the answers she needs. She remembers her teacher suggesting to her Grandmother that she is bright enough to go to university, a suggestion Cologne immediately dismisses. A man, Shan Peine (Champagne), enters the village and after defeating Ke Lashi in combat becomes here husband.
Some time later she gives birth to Shan Pu (Shampoo) and vows to teach her daughter to see the shortcomings of Amazon culture. With the encroachment of the modern word Ke Lashi and her teacher are finally able to convince her Grandmother and council to allow her to travel outside the tribe's lands to study at university for five years and obtain knowledge of the modern world to bring back. In a twist Cologne does not allow for Ke Lashi to take her husband or her daughter with her. Having her eyes opened to the world around her, Ke Lashi finds herself clashing with her daughter on her return. Ke Lashi doesn't believe in magic and Shampoo does. They repair the small breach when Ke Lashi helps train Shampoo to become a better warrior, but it is ruined again when Ke Lashi forbids Shampoo from undertaking the initiation ritual to become an Amazon warrior. When the ritual goes ahead anyway, Ke Lashi interferes.
As a result, the Amazon Council decision is that she is exiled from the tribe. She later gets a job as a librarian. She often dreams of her daughter and wonders about her choices.
==Notes==
*An entry in the Preludes series.
*Is also considered a side story to Hearts and Minds, also by Kleppe.
*MSTed by Matt Posner: ARetrieved 03-Aug-2024, B, & C (27/Sep/97)
===Awards===
*TASS Mini Series Award for September 1998, 3rd place
==FFML Posting History==
*Story 28/Sep/98
==See Also==
==External Links==
*Shampoo at The Ranma Preludes - Retrieved 03-Aug-2024
==References==
Category:Preludes
Category:One Chapter Story
Category:1998