dripdrop, your fun ^-^ just saying, i like to be able to fight to make my point, sometimes its hard to find ppl, usually i'm only talkin to shuu cuz we would be the only ones talkin in some forums
anyways, ok so yes, 'deserve' a guy might be going a bit far, don't forget tho that her mother being shot is not an actuall part of the series since it was a movie.... ok yes, she has been waiting for shinichi for a long time, but i also think that someone shouldn't wait that long... at least not in this situation... (i don't mean the shrinking situation)... i mean, she doesn't seem to trust him enough, at least that's what i feel like... she's always worrying that maybe he HAS found another girl... nd i know that its a joke that she'll hit him (from those other parts of the quote section you did) but sometimes... i think that it's a bit too much, i mean i may joke around nd lightly punch playfully and they'll understand... but the way ran does it... it looks more like a threat than anything else to me...
ok, now it's time for Ai's part ^-^ (my fav part)
ok so, 'deserving' a guy isn't really the right word, but sometimes, even though i'm a writer, i suck at finding the right words! i'm human too (i think)! now Ai on the otherhand, her parents and sister dying ACTUALLY happened in the series, and she may not have been waiting for shinichi, but i think that IF she really does like him, she DOESNT try anything or show it because she ruined his life and wants to bring his life back to normal, even if that means giving him back to ran... she's willing to sacrifice herself for him...and ai trusts him A LOT. no matter how hard things get, she always trusts him to pull her out of it, i don't mean to make her sound dependent, she's not. but she knows she can trust him. (on the otherhand tho, doesn't look like conan trusts her he thought she would run away...) and ai... for the joking thing, she jokes a bit differently... i wonder if she's joking tho...she's said things like in one of the earler cases where she was talking about her age... she said something along the lines of 'I'm 18, just perfect for you' (that was one translation i've read, or 'I'm 18, just a year older than you' but i'm not sure which one i like, so i'll use the first one ^-^) just saying, i can go on forevermore about ai, but if you read other sections that i've commented in, i cover the broad expansion of things about Ai/Shiho....
so, i'm glad to welcome you to the forums and become your new Ran/Ai(Shiho) debate partner! ^-^
i like you, you get one point back ^-^