Ranma ½ The 'Reverse' Search Thread - Ranma Ed.

PCHeintz72

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#1
It occurs to me there are those of us that occasionally have the story already, or at least part of it, and want to know where currently located and if there was more written.

This is different from a traditional search thread where normally one is either looking for a specific story and no link and incomplete or ill remembered information, or looking for stories meeting a vague category or such.

This is in effect what I'm calling an 'Reverse' search request, as I *already* have the stories below, but *do not* have the links or in a few cases the names of the authors (those are listed as by 'Unknown').

I thought I'd throw these out here and see if anyone can find the links. Consider it a challenge.

If a link cannot be provided and if the author is listed as 'Unknown' I would not mind at least knowing who the author was if you know of them and I do not.

RANMA 'A Thin Line of Red' by Palin - [Status=Single File] - [Last Dld=4/13/2004] - [Size=9kb] - [Chapters=1]
  • [Description] A extreme angst story. Ranma was secretly having a breakdown and mood swings, and would sometimes cut him/her self in the bathroom. Nabiki discovers, and teams up with Cologne to get Ranma away.
  • UPDATE: Author page found but not story.
RANMA 'Clouds Over Nerima' by TSA2007 - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=10/30/2007] - [Size=14kb] - [Chapters=2]
  • [Description] Ranma fell into spring of drowned phoenix, is semi-telepathic, and engaged to Nabiki.
RANMA 'Conflagration of Talents' by Silverdancer - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=6/26/2004] - [Size=55kb] - [Chapters=5]
  • [Description] Ranma has Voices/Talents in his head, directing his actions and training him. Engaged to Nabiki in this one.
  • UPDATE: Author page found but not story.
RANMA 'Despair's Desperate Decision' by Keja ChildofDarkness - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=8/4/2005] - [Size=24kb] - [Chapters=3]
  • [Description] Ranma leaves a farewell parting gift, a tape, detailing his thoughts and feelings to the NWC. Not bad, but felt off in their easy acceptance of it.
RANMA 'Drop Dead Gorgeous' by Ayumi H - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=10/2/2003] - [Size=63kb] - [Chapters=4]
  • [Description] Akane murdered just before Ranma's arrival, though all but Nabiki think she is merely taken. Akane haunts the Dojo and can talk to Ranma.
RANMA 'Flickering Shadow' by HRD654 - [Status=Single File] - [Last Dld=9/23/2003] - [Size=46kb] - [Chapters=1]
  • [Description] Ranma is engaged to Nabiki, and he has demons trapped in him that state will take over when he is 19. Genma is dead in this one.
RANMA 'Flying on Angels Wings' by Dreamlight - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=11/14/2003] - [Size=23kb] - [Chapters=3]
  • [Description] Short chapters. Ranma gets a guardian angel, and learns others have also been influenced by paranormal beings into making his life hell.
RANMA 'Half Baked Half Cake' by Hagaki Ozuno - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=1/25/2004] - [Size=166kb] - [Chapters=8]
  • [Description] Interesting story, but only so-so written. I enjoyed it though. Ranma and Ranko are split early on, with the cursed soul and person taking Ranko's body, but there is a problem, unless cured within a time limit, Ranko is doomed to die.
RANMA 'If That's The Way You Want It' by Sel - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=12/8/2002] - [Size=54kb] - [Chapters=2]
  • [Description] I've no clue where I got this one from, it is two downloaded Word documents though. Ranma/Akane argue, with Akane stating she wished he had been a girl. Ranma for revenge gets the idea of deliberately acting like a girl based on her statement. Even goes to Nodoka for 'Girl Lessons'.
RANMA 'Kaze No Mai' by Antonio Flores - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=6/29/2001] - [Size=68kb] - [Chapters=2]
  • [Description] An interesting Ranma/Nabiki piece but not a match. They agree to be friends, and he helps her to get dates.
RANMA 'Photographic Justice' by The Tenchi Knight - [Status=Single File] - [Last Dld=8/31/2003] - [Size=11kb] - [Chapters=1]
  • [Description] A revenge story of sorts. Ranma, having had his pictures taken one too many times, gets revenge by doing it to Nabiki and posting them. This was originally on some forum I came across in passing long ago that eventually went under.
  • UPDATE: Story found.
RANMA 'RANMA HALF RANKO HALF Ranko' by Sheng Long 2004 - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=4/22/2004] - [Size=11kb] - [Chapters=3]
  • [Description] Very short chapters. Basically, thanks to a bug in heaven, Ranma's curse is acting weird, now the personality shifts with the change.
RANMA 'Streetwise' by cookiekrumbles-kiizu - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=9/15/2004] - [Size=13kb] - [Chapters=2]
  • [Description] A short read, barely past the intro in fact. Ranma is not smart, but more wise to the ways of the world, thus as like the title.
  • UPDATE: Author page found but not story.
RANMA 'Stuck in a Girl's Life' by AA-Tenks - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=8/4/2005] - [Size=10kb] - [Chapters=2]
  • [Description] Ranma's boy side was killed by an assassin hired by Kuno, so now is stuck as a girl.
RANMA 'The Challenge' by Caelyn - [Status=Single File] - [Last Dld=7/13/2002] - [Size=18kb] - [Chapters=1]
  • [Description] This was a interesting story, but I've no clue if there was more. It paints a disturbing picture of why she is so serene. I had always wondered how the author was going to resolve the situation that was set up in the chapter.
R-MULTI 'Wild Sister' by Unknown - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=5/18/2002] - [Size=37kb] - [Chapters=2]
  • [Description] A Ranma/Slayers/Tenchi crossover. A bit crudely written and rushed plot. Lina is Ranma's sister and taken to the Slayers world at a young age to train since Genma refused to train her. She returns, and is detected by Washu.
R-NGE 'Six' by Chendo - [Status=Single File] - [Last Dld=2/11/2002] - [Size=146kb] - [Chapters=1]
  • [Description] A Ranma/NGE crossover. Ranma presumed dead, and a young boy trained by Cologne and others is selected to be a pilot. Pretty well written, but only the intro chapter up. It was only on FanFiction.NET for around 3 weeks before removal.
R-OMG 'A Second Chance' by Uzumaki901 - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=1/19/2004] - [Size=19kb] - [Chapters=3]
  • [Description] A Ranma/Mara story. short chapters, but interesting, one of the first Mara matches with Ranma I read. After a joint fight with them against another demon, Ranma dies to be reincarnated and Mara severely injured.
R-RK 'The Blades Of War' by c-chan - [Status=Single File] - [Last Dld=3/6/2004] - [Size=18kb] - [Chapters=1]
  • [Description] A Nabiki/Himura match, and a Ranma/Kenshin fusion of sorts.
R-SM 'A Knight to Remember' by Stuart - [Status=Single File] - [Last Dld=3/2/2003] - [Size=14kb] - [Chapters=1]
  • [Description] Ranma has nightmares, uses attacks like Saturn's in them, and dreams of a girl with short hair, even painted her. He is living on his own in a tiny apartment in this. Minako and Usagi transfer to Furinkan. IIRC, this was on MediaMiner.
R-SM 'It Does Not Stop' by ClassicDrogn - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=9/26/2003] - [Size=53kb] - [Chapters=2]
  • [Description] This author was far more famous for his Bubblegum Disaster Story. Ranma and another are pulled from their respective worlds into the aftermath of the attack on Beryls fortress in the arctic.
R-TM 'Disconnected Scene' by Chrono_Scholar - [Status=Single File] - [Last Dld=4/6/2007] - [Size=14kb] - [Chapters=1]
  • [Description] This was on anifics I think. Merely a single scene. Ranma had previously moved into the Masaki house and gotten the attention of Seto. Tired of Washu's antics, he tells her off, Tenchi through misunderstanding thinks Ranma is going to sleep with her though.
R-TM 'One More Star' by Ryder Miyako - [Status=Single File] - [Last Dld=10/26/2003] - [Size=18kb] - [Chapters=1]
  • [Description] Cat people slavers from Catrl-Catrl kidnap Ranma and Ryoga during their original bread feud and take them off planet. Ranma ends up being asked to join the galaxy police. This is not really a GXP crossover though, as it has no characters from that series.
R-TM 'Switch' by Ryo Angel - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=5/15/2002] - [Size=8kb] - [Chapters=2]
  • [Description] A mere teaser, but Ranma and Techi are Internet chat buddies in this. Through Washu, they decide to switch.
R-VALDEMAR 'Herald Ranma' by Devin Fujimoto - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=12/20/2004] - [Size=106kb] - [Chapters=2 prologue, 4 chapters, and notes]
  • [Description] An interesting work, and the only one I'm aware of in the Valdemare universe crossing with Ranma. This was on a authors home page, and later even Internet Archive had no more copies. It could have used a lot of editing, but a good story. I believe it was removed due to author not liking her works used in fan fiction.
R-XMEN 'Ronin' by Tsuriai-Teen - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=7/1/2006] - [Size=94kb] - [Chapters=3]
  • [Description] Another Ranma kicked out due to being a mutant. A bit high handed on the morals, and making Ranma look more virtuous, but if you can get past that, it was not a half bad read.
 

FlinFlon

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#2
RANMA 'Kaze No Mai' by Antonio Flores - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=6/29/2001] - [Size=68kb] - [Chapters=2]
[Description] An interesting Ranma/Nabiki piece but not a match. They agree to be friends, and he helps her to get dates.
I got my copy of this fic from the Ranma and Nabiki Archive, which is now gone. After Google I found just this link:http://review.trihead.de/fanfic/?sitenav=fanfic&fanfic=190
But all it does is refer back to the Ranma and Nabiki Archive.

There is an e-mail link in the actual fic, but you would already have that.
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
#3
FlinFlon said:
RANMA 'Kaze No Mai' by Antonio Flores - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=6/29/2001] - [Size=68kb] - [Chapters=2]
[Description] An interesting Ranma/Nabiki piece but not a match. They agree to be friends, and he helps her to get dates.
I got my copy of this fic from the Ranma and Nabiki Archive, which is now gone. After Google I found just this link:http://review.trihead.de/fanfic/?sitenav=fanfic&fanfic=190
But all it does is refer back to the Ranma and Nabiki Archive.

There is an e-mail link in the actual fic, but you would already have that.
Correct, the goal is to get links to them, ideally find out they had been continued, as unlikely as that is.

That site links to a lot of stories, but has no archives of its own. Thus, they generally have the same issue we do... sites go down, and links stop going to stories.
 

Drawde

Well-Known Member
#4
Couldn't find a link for a couple of the ones I looked for, but I found a few of sites.

For Palin's "A Thin Red Line", I remember reading it years ago on FFN. Palin's page there is http://www.fanfiction.net/u/556245/ , but there's currently no stories in it.

As for Caelyn's "The Challenge", I found an old link to it under the author name of Incoherence. FFN again http://www.fanfiction.net/u/160619/ , but the account doesn't exist any more.

I found Silverdancer on FFN as well. I found a link to "Conflagration of Talents", but while Silverdancer has a page there http://www.fanfiction.net/u/449125/ , the link to the story say's it doesn't exist anymore.

Here's a site with "Photographic Justice" on it. I THINK it's the author's site, but not certain. http://phoenixascendant.atspace.com/

Apearently cookiekrumble (http://www.fanfiction.net/u/642620/) wrote "Streetwise", but the link I found to that particular story doesn't exist anymore.

Still got more to search for, but getting tired. Time for bed.
 

PCHeintz72

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#5
Drawde said:
Couldn't find a link for a couple of the ones I looked for, but I found a few of sites.

For Palin's "A Thin Red Line", I remember reading it years ago on FFN. Palin's page there is http://www.fanfiction.net/u/556245/ , but there's currently no stories in it.

As for Caelyn's "The Challenge", I found an old link to it under the author name of Incoherence. FFN again http://www.fanfiction.net/u/160619/ , but the account doesn't exist any more.

I found Silverdancer on FFN as well. I found a link to "Conflagration of Talents", but while Silverdancer has a page there http://www.fanfiction.net/u/449125/ , the link to the story say's it doesn't exist anymore.

Here's a site with "Photographic Justice" on it. I THINK it's the author's site, but not certain. http://phoenixascendant.atspace.com/

Apeearently cookiekrumble (http://www.fanfiction.net/u/642620/) wrote "Streetwise", but the link I found to that particular story doesn't exist anymore.

Still got more to search for, but getting tired. Time for bed.
Thanks...

A couple of the name differences could well be due to author changing thier names... I've run into that a number of times over the years. Can get annoying. Even some bigger names in story writing have done it. Sinom Bre aka DF Roeder comes immediately to mind.

I've confirmed that the Palin and Silverdancer you list are the one that wrote their respective stories based on indirect google evidence. Ditto for kiizu aka cookiekrumble and her (shrugs, livejournal shows it as a her) story.

I've checked, the story called 'The Challenge' you refer to is *not* the one I've read. There is no aunt, or even Ryoga in the one by Caelyn. Aparently, from what I could figure when coming across a description for it, both are in the one you refer to. The one I've read has Kasumi paranoid of doing anything outside the house that is not a normal routine like the market. She was literally worried sick at how things would go and hos she would handle a invitation to eat at Ukyo's, because it was something she had not done before.

For the Phoenix site, I'm not certain myself if that is a home page. as near as can tell, there are three different names in the sampling of stories I've read, and some are script, and some not. I just made a new direct link to the story instead.
 

Ike

Well-Known Member
#6
If PCHeintz can't find links to a story... no one can.

This thread will only end in sorrow : (.
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
#7
Ike said:
If PCHeintz can't find links to a story... no one can.

This thread will only end in sorrow : (.
Actually... taken as a overall whole... I have poor luck in issuing searches of any kind, which is why I issue them so rarely.

Sure, I occasionally get a hit or two, like Photographic Justice above. But generally either the stories do not exist at all or rare if it is a search on type, or no one can get valid links because I've already exhausted the possibilities and too much time has passed.

In the case of this time around, it is just I was both bored and wanted a break from thinking on crap in IR with my new job, and saw I had a bunch of stories set aside in my lists with no links. As I stated above, this is not really a normal type of search, since I do not need the story per se, but would like valid links to see if some may have been continued and I ws not aware.

I issued similar searches on this forum the other day in the Ah My Goddess, Love Hina, NGE, and Tenchi sections here as well. No responses on any of them as of last check.

In truth, I do not expect much. Drawde already responded back with more than was expected.

I just thought maybe people might enjoy the challenge.

I have more for Ranma stories than I issued here, but a lot of the remaining ones just made no sense to bother with. Either they were bad stories, or I knew why I had no link (ex. Kuonji Zeos (2 stories), gatoman666, and Ranko Katchum, who were each accused of plagerism and deleted their stuff and fled the fandoms).

EDIT: currently, with the above changes, for non-lemon fanfiction, I have some 92 stories with no links, of which 42 are Ranma/Ranma crossover related.
 

Tonyloco

Well-Known Member
#8
FlinFlon said:
RANMA 'Kaze No Mai' by Antonio Flores - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=6/29/2001] - [Size=68kb] - [Chapters=2]
[Description] An interesting Ranma/Nabiki piece but not a match. They agree to be friends, and he helps her to get dates.
I got my copy of this fic from the Ranma and Nabiki Archive, which is now gone. After Google I found just this link:http://review.trihead.de/fanfic/?sitenav=fanfic&fanfic=190
But all it does is refer back to the Ranma and Nabiki Archive.

There is an e-mail link in the actual fic, but you would already have that.
Wow.... people still care about that story ??

I feel kinda bad, I stoped writing that story after a hardware failure, wiped the next chapter along with most of my data in that old harddrive.

I should start writing again, but to be honest having to deal with Kestral, Jim bader, and some others during, one pokegirls story we kinda coauthored long time ago soured the whole fanfic writing for me.

I must still have my notes, and the overall plot for that story somewhere.

Tony

:huh:
 

PCHeintz72

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#9
Tonyloco said:
Wow....á people still care about that story ??
Heh... you would be surprised what my long term memory refuses to let me forget.

Heck, I still remember there is a guy I graduated with in High School who owes me $6... Sure, it has been 18 years (graduated in 1991), and have not seen him in 15, but it is not like I forget something like that.

I feel kinda bad, I stoped writing that story after a hardware failure, wiped the next chapter along with most of my data in that old harddrive.

I should start writing again, but to be honest having to deal with Kestral, Jim bader, and some others during, one pokegirls story we kinda coauthored long time ago soured the whole fanfic writing for me.

I must still have my notes, and the overall plot for that story somewhere.

Tony
Bummer...

So... not willing to even up it to a FanFiction.NET account? Perhaps with the notes?

Oh well...
 

FlinFlon

Well-Known Member
#10
Tonyloco said:
FlinFlon said:
RANMA 'Kaze No Mai' by Antonio Flores - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=6/29/2001] - [Size=68kb] - [Chapters=2]
[Description] An interesting Ranma/Nabiki piece but not a match. They agree to be friends, and he helps her to get dates.
I got my copy of this fic from the Ranma and Nabiki Archive, which is now gone. After Google I found just this link:http://review.trihead.de/fanfic/?sitenav=fanfic&fanfic=190
But all it does is refer back to the Ranma and Nabiki Archive.

There is an e-mail link in the actual fic, but you would already have that.
Wow.... people still care about that story ??

I feel kinda bad, I stoped writing that story after a hardware failure, wiped the next chapter along with most of my data in that old harddrive.

I should start writing again, but to be honest having to deal with Kestral, Jim bader, and some others during, one pokegirls story we kinda coauthored long time ago soured the whole fanfic writing for me.

I must still have my notes, and the overall plot for that story somewhere.

Tony

:huh:
I liked the premise and was interested in where the story might go. My impression was that Ranma and Nabiki would each work on other relationships while their friendship grew and ripened to the point when they would realise that their best chance for love was each other. :)

But that was just me. So I'll always be ready to read whatever you want to post. Story, notes, or just the spoilers. Just so you know.


And while we're on the Wish List; :angel: if Bob Lobster will just return to "Hell Hath No Fury". :snigger:
 

PCHeintz72

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#11
FlinFlon said:
And while we're on the Wish List; :angel: if Bob Lobster will just return to "Hell Hath No Fury". :snigger:
I agree with most of your thoguhts on the story. But as for Wish lists, I'm afraid this is the wrong place, but I could think of dozens I would have liked to see continue by various authors.
 

Tonyloco

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#12
Well, I found the old script and some notes, i'll post them in the preview or ideas forum later.

I need to retype all of the story here, and it looks really bad for me, be aware that most of it its over 11 years old.

And I'm not a 16 years old kid anymore...

I can't believe my english was that bad back then. (Not that its that great nowdays)

I'll post it, and probably revise all of it later.

Tony
 

PCHeintz72

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#13
Tonyloco said:
Well, I found the old script and some notes, i'll post them in the preview or ideas forum later.

I need to retype all of the story here, and it looks really bad for me, be aware that most of it its over 11 years old.

And I'm not a 16 years old kid anymore...

I can't believe my english was that bad back then. (Not that its that great nowdays)

I'll post it, and probably revise all of it later.

Tony
Ehhh... no need to retype it, If you PM me an email, I can send you the story copy I have, then you can repaste or edit.

Of course, that is no help for the notes.
 

Tonyloco

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#14
FlinFlon said:
Tonyloco said:
FlinFlon said:
RANMA 'Kaze No Mai' by Antonio Flores - [Status=Not Complete] - [Last Dld=6/29/2001] - [Size=68kb] - [Chapters=2]
[Description] An interesting Ranma/Nabiki piece but not a match. They agree to be friends, and he helps her to get dates.
I got my copy of this fic from the Ranma and Nabiki Archive, which is now gone. After Google I found just this link:http://review.trihead.de/fanfic/?sitenav=fanfic&fanfic=190
But all it does is refer back to the Ranma and Nabiki Archive.

There is an e-mail link in the actual fic, but you would already have that.
Wow.... people still care about that story ??

I feel kinda bad, I stoped writing that story after a hardware failure, wiped the next chapter along with most of my data in that old harddrive.

I should start writing again, but to be honest having to deal with Kestral, Jim bader, and some others during, one pokegirls story we kinda coauthored long time ago soured the whole fanfic writing for me.

I must still have my notes, and the overall plot for that story somewhere.

Tony

:huh:
I liked the premise and was interested in where the story might go. My impression was that Ranma and Nabiki would each work on other relationships while their friendship grew and ripened to the point when they would realise that their best chance for love was each other. :)

But that was just me. So I'll always be ready to read whatever you want to post. Story, notes, or just the spoilers. Just so you know.


And while we're on the Wish List; :angel: if Bob Lobster will just return to "Hell Hath No Fury". :snigger:
Actually, you're right in a way, while back then the Ranma/Nabiki pairing was hot stuff, I wanted to make something a little different, of course some of my great ideas back then would be considered cliche's now.

The original idea was to have them teach other what the other lacks or at least give some insight in terms of love, friendship and even life.

I wanted to take it slowly, the friendship was in a way going to become an achor, for the story itself, and while there was going to be some romance, the idea itself was to have them become so comfortable with each other and so at ease that they would kinda become friends with benefits, rather than a couple.

They would be so scared to lose the friendship, that they would rather not take the step to become a couple, for fear of being engaged among other things.

And while I wanted to have them having sex later in the plot, it was supposed to be waay later in the story, and by then Ranma wasn't a virgin anymore, in fact part of the plot for that was that while nabiki was the one doing the seduction, Ranma was the one leading and teaching her about sex since he was by then experienced enough.

its was a crazy plot.

Ill translate some of my stuff later.

Tony :rip1:
 

PCHeintz72

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#15
Tonyloco said:
Actually, you're right in a way, while back then the Ranma/Nabiki pairing was hot stuff, I wanted to make something a little different, of course some of my great ideas back then would be considered cliche's now.

The original idea was to have them teach other what the other lacks or at least give some insight in terms of love, friendship and even life.

I wanted to take it slowly, the friendship was in a way going to become an achor, for the story itself, and while there was going to be some romance, the idea itself was to have them become so comfortable with each other and so at ease that they would kinda become friends with benefits, rather than a couple.

They would be so scared to lose the friendship, that they would rather not take the step to become a couple, for fear of being engaged among other things.

And while I wanted to have them having sex later in the plot, it was supposed to be waay later in the story, and by then Ranma wasn't a virgin anymore, in fact part of the plot for that was that while nabiki was the one doing the seduction, Ranma was the one leading and teaching her about sex since he was by then experienced enough.

its was a crazy plot.

Ill translate some of my stuff later.

Tony :rip1:
That does not sound too cliche to me... Sure... I've read a couple on a somewhat similar premise, but not that exact same one. But most of them actually skip the idea straight to the romance/sex part.
 

FlinFlon

Well-Known Member
#16
PCHeintz72 said:
Tonyloco said:
Actually, you're right in a way, while back then the Ranma/Nabiki pairing was hot stuff, I wanted to make something a little different, of course some of my great ideas back then would be considered cliche's now.

The original idea was to have them teach other what the other lacks or at least give some insight in terms of love, friendship and even life.

I wanted to take it slowly, the friendship was in a way going to become an achor, for the story itself, and while there was going to be some romance, the idea itself was to have them become so comfortable with each other and so at ease that they would kinda become friends with benefits, rather than a couple.

They would be so scared to lose the friendship, that they would rather not take the step to become a couple, for fear of being engaged among other things.

And while I wanted to have them having? sex later in the plot, it was supposed to be waay later in the story, and by then Ranma wasn't a virgin anymore, in fact part of the plot for that was that while nabiki was the one doing the seduction, Ranma was the one leading and teaching her about sex since he was by then experienced enough.

its was a crazy plot.

Ill translate some of my stuff later.

Tony :rip1:
That does not sound too cliche to me... Sure... I've read a couple on a somewhat similar premise, but not that exact same one. But most of them actually skip the idea straight to the romance/sex part.
Tonyloco, thanks for telling us what you were thinking of for "Kaze no Mai". Though I dislike using the word, there is some closure in knowing what might have been.

I'll agree with PCHeintz72 that its not as cliche as you fear. Moreover the best part about "Kaze no Mai" was its pacing.

It foreshadowed a unique slow waltz to its Ranma/Nabiki destination rather than the headlong dash that usually happens. And I think what we were looking forward to was watching the dance.

As for the friends with benefits instead of outright shipping... The more I consider it the more I like it. After all they're still in high school. They have outside factors to consider (ie: honour obligations and violent rivals). And both will need lots of practice at this relationship thing. :sisi:

So that would set up the second dance: keeping everyone from either marrying them off or driving a wedge between them. So perhaps a secret affair while learning how much of an affair it actually is and are willing to develope. Ranma and Nabiki, the college years. :snigger:


Yeah. The first arc would be them learning to date. Ranma with Akane, Ukyo, Shampoo, etc.; Nabiki with others. While leaning on each other and building their friendship without really realizing it. Ends when they gotten to the 'with benefits' parts and realizing their vunerable position.

The second arc would be them continuing to explore other options, but now weighed against what they have with each other. While trying to keep the parents from finding out and marrying them off, or the NWC finding out how far they've gone and just hurting them.

Then a third arc...



To get back to point, :rolleyes: which is that: its the journey we wanted to read in your story Tony.
 

PCHeintz72

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Hmmm... Well... I had hoped to generate more discussion in this thread than this, even if Drawd did help a bit, and the bit with TonyLoco was a surprise.

I had hoped to generate at least a little more discussion on this and the other 'Reverse' Search Threads I made here on this forum. Of both this forum and the Be Your True Mind Forum only the NGE one here generated any other traffic besides this one, and that was just to say how hopeless it was.

If nothing else, then I thought perhaps others making their own entries in the thread for their own stories.

Oh well.
 
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