Most stories that pair her with someone else without killing Miroku have her breaking things off with Miroku over his womanizing. This only works if his womanizing turns out to be real on an important level. i DO think this i can be done, but it turns him into more of a cad than i like, personally. still. can be done, as you say with little twists of the character that you'd have to accept.

yes, the time factor is critical. In Gisei (and Entangled), that was the ONLY way I could pull off sess/rin. gotta give rin time to grow up away from sess so their relationship could be believable to me.

forthrightly may look you up, who knows. LJ can become truly addicting once people find you here... which other forums/blogs do you find yourself spending a lot of time on? i'm lazy and pretty much only follow LJ and DA friends.