Ranma ½ [Ranma ½] Miscellaneous ideas.

[PCHeintz72]

Ugh, no, bad idea... Heck, I'd rather see Ranma try to *fight* Gilgamesh rather than be reincarnated as him.

While that sounds stupid, it may not be as bad as one might think. Gilgamesh never came across as an actual fighter per se to me in Type Moon... Yes, he had the weapons, the armor, the attitude, the bloodthirstiness, but did he actually have fighting skill on par with Ranma.

Weather post canon Ranma could fight a ex-heroic spirit is another bag of worms though that I'd rather not bother with... merely that I'd prefer that over Ranma reincarnating into him.

 

[nuclear death frog]

- Anyway, the seed: Ranma learns to generate lightning with his chi.

What's next, or what came before it? I haven't any idea.

The training for the Soul of Ice/Body of Ice, which lead into the HSH creation, got Ranma started,

The first attack he came up with on the road to lightning was the use of super-heated, high pressure bolts of chi that fired out of one finger. He found they could easily explode rocks and wood into fiery shrapnel, and realized this would be a killing technique if it advanced further.

 

[Master of Squirrel-Fu]

Why not just call them "the bunch of idiots" or "the bunch of perverts" or something like that, something that doesn't mix languages?

Alliteration!

 

[AoMythology]

Ugh, no, bad idea...   Heck, I'd rather see Ranma try to *fight* Gilgamesh rather than be reincarnated as him.

While that sounds stupid, it may not be as bad as one might think.  Gilgamesh never came across as an actual fighter per se to me in Type Moon...  Yes, he had the weapons, the armor, the attitude, the bloodthirstiness, but did he actually have fighting skill on par with Ranma.

Weather post canon Ranma could fight a ex-heroic spirit is another bag of worms though that I'd rather not bother with...  merely that I'd prefer that over Ranma reincarnating into him.

Note that I wasn't saying he should have the 'rain of NPs' attack or anything like that. In fact, I suspect he would only use non-combat Phantasms and treasures, and that with great reluctance. Can you really see Ranma choosing to fight that way?

Also, if it's not a humorous one-shot, others might have NPs of Heroic Spirits too, and with Ranma choosing not to use his, he would be at more of a disadvantage than otherwise.

So, his only advantage would be he's less susceptible to magical shenaningans. (Curse locking, Moxibustion weakness etc.)

 

[nuclear death frog]

Idea/Question, more the latter, what would Ranma have done if Akane had never reopened her eyes after the end of the fight with Saffron?

 

[The Ero-Sennin]

Idea/Question, more the latter, what would Ranma have done if Akane had never reopened her eyes after the end of the fight with Saffron?

I don't know, Ranma would be a miserable mope, cutting off ties with all the other fiancees, maybe running off to Juuban and falling in love with a Sailor Senshi who teaches him how to love again.

 

[AoMythology]

Idea/Question, more the latter, what would Ranma have done if Akane had never reopened her eyes after the end of the fight with Saffron?

Become a hermit? Or maybe an alcoholic? :mmm:

@Ero: Lel! :snigger:

 

[Deathwings]

Overwhelming berserker rage and a very, very dead Saffron followed by a disappearing act I think.

 

[nuclear death frog]

Idea/Question, more the latter, what would Ranma have done if Akane had never reopened her eyes after the end of the fight with Saffron?

I don't know, Ranma would be a miserable mope, cutting off ties with all the other fiancees, maybe running off to Juuban and falling in love with a Sailor Senshi who teaches him how to love again.

Wow, I had no idea the first 99%+ of canon was the backstory for the fanfic "Progeny". But now it's confirmed! Amazing!

Deathwings: Yeah, "disappearing act" was pretty much what I thought.

 

[PCHeintz72]

There are other stories that follow such a path with Akane being dead, not all of them involve Progeny, or even Sailor Senshi... For example, there is 'Ryoko Saotome' by Thrythlind (Which I actually quite liked).

 

[nuclear death frog]

Alright, here's a new idea/question.

How long would Akane's before-school ordeal (the idiots attacking her) have gone on if it wasn't stopped by Ranma showing up and canon starting?

 

[The Ero-Sennin]

Alright, here's a new idea/question.

How long would Akane's before-school ordeal (the idiots attacking her) have gone on if it wasn't stopped by Ranma showing up and canon starting?

Probably until she beat them enough for them to realize that even if they did beat her to avoid Kuno's punishment, she wouldn't want to date any of them. Which would lead at least a few of them to snap over being denied after all their troubles, and then attempting to rape her, which would lead her to murder them in self-defense.

See? I can be needlessly dark, too.

 

[nuclear death frog]

An idea as entertaining as that sounds, cries out to be written by the one who put it forth. So get going, and enjoy your work.

 

[goldenarms]

Q&A: How many stories run on the premise of Xi Fa Xiang Gao causing more permanent memory loss?

 

[Lawra]

Q&A: How many stories run on the premise of Xi Fa Xiang Gao causing more permanent memory loss?

Not many that run very far. Usually it's a one shot or used as a way to bludgeon Akane into a permanent fanon angry/violent girl position.

 

[nuclear death frog]

Q&A: How many stories run on the premise of Xi Fa Xiang Gao causing more permanent memory loss?

I don't recall ever seeing any, but that doesn't mean they aren't out there.

 

[nuclear death frog]

I don't have a plot for it, but what do people think of the following title for an idea?

Fists on the Precipice

 

[FinalMax]

I don't have a plot for it, but what do people think of the following title for an idea?

Fists on the Precipice

Sounds like a HSDK/Ranma cross where Kenichi or Ranma is put in a position of seriously considering the villain's side for some reason.  Or just a montage of knuckle pushups on the edge of a cliff.

 

[Lord Raa]

Surely it's for a PWP lemon about fisting.

 

[nuclear death frog]

I don't have a plot for it, but what do people think of the following title for an idea?

Fists on the Precipice

Sounds like a HSDK/Ranma cross where Kenichi or Ranma is put in a position of seriously considering the villain's side for some reason.  Or just a montage of knuckle pushups on the edge of a cliff.

That actually sounds like a pretty decent idea.

 

[DIT_grue]

Q&A: How many stories run on the premise of Xi Fa Xiang Gao causing more permanent memory loss?

I don't recall ever seeing any, but that doesn't mean they aren't out there.

Lerris wrote Kitten's Hope, for instance. Not great literature, but the premise is that Akane's memory wasn't properly released and that did damage that is now difficult to undo. I seem to remember that there was some other plot threads more or less lying there (typical for the time period, unfortunately) and I don't recall whether it did a decent job of ending the story.

 

[gemmaethanwhitaker]

Q&A: How many stories run on the premise of Xi Fa Xiang Gao causing more permanent memory loss?

Not many that run very far. Usually it's a one shot or used as a way to bludgeon Akane into a permanent fanon angry/violent girl position.

Unfortunately that makes some sense, after Shampoo shows up Ranma and Akane's relationship hits some rocky seas, so it doing something to her to cause that would make sense. Of course they way they break it probably doesn't help

 

[gemmaethanwhitaker]

OK, this ones been kicking around my head for a while: By the 'logic' that Ranma operates on there should have been a cooking and/or other wifely skills contest between Ukyo and Akane, maybe Shampoo as well, over who gets to marry Ranma, I've got my suspicions as to why it didn't happen, but they don't matter. Most likely times are sometime shortly after Ukyo arrives, possibly promoted by their classmates, or after Nodoka finds out about Ranma.

And on a matter related to the 'logic' present in Ranma: Akane has encountered something Cthuluian, it would explain her many strange conculsions.

 

[Lord Raa]

There are in the anime. Season 4, episode 6 (Viz order) "Here Comes Ranma's Mom!" and season 3, episode 23 (Viz order) "Ukyo's Skirt! The Great Girly Girl Gambit" are two examples.

 

[nuclear death frog]

OK, this ones been kicking around my head for a while: By the 'logic' that Ranma operates on there should have been a cooking and/or other wifely skills contest between Ukyo and Akane, maybe Shampoo as well, over who gets to marry Ranma, I've got my suspicions as to why it didn't happen, but they don't matter. Most likely times are sometime shortly after Ukyo arrives, possibly promoted by their classmates, or after Nodoka finds out about Ranma.

And on a matter related to the 'logic' present in Ranma: Akane has encountered something Cthuluian, it would explain her many strange conculsions.

Your assertion that the Ranmaverse has logic is a failure. It does not. It has plot fiat. Takahashi's fiat, as the writer/creator. Your opinions on the subject matter fuck-all, as the series has been over for twenty years and counting; however they also would have mattered fuck-all when it was being written.

Your idea/assertion that Ukyou ever had a chance with Ranma is a falsehood. Your opinions on the subject will never change that inescapable reality. Nor will any amount of complaining to the cosmos, as you clearly seem determined to do. I suppose this is the wall you've chosen to smash your head against.