All comments strictly my opinion, and offered in good spirit... but you
oughta remember that. :) No trimmage, this is too short.
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Douglas MacDougall wrote:
Found this on my hard drive, added an ending, and decided
to post it. Maybe it's not as crappy as I think. ^_^
{I'll let you know. :) }
This is a alternate universe continuation to the manga; it won't
make much sense if you're not familiar with the later volumes.
{Oookay....}
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"Unlikely" A Ranma 1/2 Fanfic
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Ranma 1/2 (c) Rumiko Takahashi / Shogakukan, Inc. Story and art by
Rumiko Takahashi. English adaptation by Gerard Jones and Toshifumi
Yoshida. RANMA 1/2 is a trademark of Viz Communications, Inc. This
story may be freely redistributed, but not altered or used for profit.
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Story by Douglas MacDougall http://www.dougmacd.net/fics/
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Hi, my name's Ryoma. Yeah. I know it's not a very feminine, but
not very feminine, {or} not a very feminine name,
that's what my parents named me. Well, dad mostly. I love him, but
Dad, mostly.
he's kind of a blockhead. (I think he got hit in the head one too many
times when he was younger.)
{Well, that could be just about any of them. :) }
My parents are both fighters, you know. Warriors. I guess they
weren't used to being creative, so when it came time to give me a name,
Dad had the bright idea to use the first syllable of his name, and the
last syllable of Mom's.
{Ryo--... hmm, Ryoga, probably. --ma... hmm. ! Oh, crap, you wouldn't.
Yes, you would. Well, Ryoga+Kiima's unlikely, all right... but you better
hope revengefics aren't real. :}
Did I mention my dad's kind of a blockhead?
{The term "quintessential" springs to mind here. :}
But I'm not here to talk about my name, but why I'm here. No, not
why I'm sitting in front of you! I mean, why am I here, on this Earth.
Earth?
Why was I born?
Dad says I shoudn't worry about existential stuff like that. "It'll
shouldn't
only get you depressed," he says. Like he should talk. He's got to be
one of the most introspective people I know. "There's nothing else to
do on the road BUT think," he likes to say.
{And walk. And get lost. And break down walls. And... :}
Not that he's on the road a lot these days. Mom sees to that.
Well, he gets on the road, but she has her ways of tracking him down and
bringing him back.
{KIIMA: "Koruma! Masara! I have a little job for you..."
KORUMA & MASARA: "Aw, not again!"
:}
I guess they make a weird couple. Mom always calls Dad a pig, and
Dad says the reason he fell for Mom because of her cursed form.
{editing tracks? suggest}
Dad says the reason he fell for Mom was her cursed form.
{or}
Dad says he fell for Mom because of her cursed form.
I'm not exactly sure when they started seeing each other. Mom won't
talk about it, and Dad just says it had something to do with a tragedy
at at Phoenix Mountain. Someone very close to Mom died; a person she
wanted to protect.
{KIIMA: "Ranma!!" *sob*
(I'm choosing to believe that this is an AMAW alternate-future. :) }
I'm a little unclear why Dad was there. He probably was trying to
go somewhere else, and he just bumped into her. Apparently she was a
wreck, blaming herself for what happened. She'd left her home and was
contemplating suicide.
{RYOGA: "Excuse me, is this the way to Vladivostok?"
KIIMA: (Here I am, wandering despondently in the wilderness after a
tragedy, and I run into a handsome martial artist. This seems strangely
familiar...)
:}
For maybe the first time in his life, Dad tried to snap someone else
out of THEIR depression. Obviously it worked. I mean, Mom's still
around; she gave birth to me. I think sometimes it helped that Mom was
almost always in her cursed form. Maybe it made it easier for her to
adjust, since in some way it wasn't really her.
{Ack. OK, so much for my little fantasy... she's in Akane-form. Ryoga,
you pig, that's SICK. >_< But eerily plausible. Hey, Doug, speaking of
which... :}
These days she does change back to her normal form every now and
them. Usually to help me train, or when she's trying to find Dad.
Oh, did I mention? When my dad is splashed with cold water, he
becomes a little black piglet; Mom's a girl. When they're splashed with
hot water, they turn back to their normal forms.
You know, it was quite a shock, the first time I saw Mom in a hot
bath....
{KIIMA: "Ryoma, dear, would you mind helping me preen my feathers?"
RYOMA: "..."
:}
Actually, that's about the time when I started to think about why
I'm here. 'Cause, according to the stories, there's no way I should
have inherited their curses.
{VINCE: "..."}
Well, Dad's anyway. From what I've learned about the Musk Dynasty,
Dad's, anyway.
I actually should have inherited the traits from Mom's uncursed body.
Luckily for me, though, I only get them in my cursed form.
{...the sheer magnitude of your effrontery is beginning to dawn on me,
MacDougall. :}
That's when I figured it out. Ever since it was created, Jusenkyo's
whole purpose was for me to be born.
Yeah, I know that sounds stupid, maybe a little grandiose, but what
{Hmm... Ryoga + Kiima = stupid & grandiose... naah. :) }
else can it be? Why else was I born with this curse? And why is it a
scrambled up combination of Dad's cursed and Mom's uncursed body?
{suggest} scrambled-up
You remember The Day of Peace? The day when wars and fighting all
over the world just happened to stop? It was the same day I mastered
how to move in my cursed form. I bet if you checked, and took the time
zone differences into account, it would be the exact same moment.
{Were the devils ice-skating at the time too? :) }
The magic of Jusenkyo has been waiting all this time to make sure I
was born. So that-- Oh geez, where did those rainclouds come from?!
Sorry, I gotta go. Weird things happen when--.
----
After a few moments frozen in shock, you slowly pour your sake onto
the ground. "That's it. I'm never touching this stuff again."
The man running the noodle cart barks a laugh. "YOU give up sake?"
"YOU, give
"Yeah, me" You fish into your wallet, and decide it's about time to
"Yeah, me."
pay off your tab.
He snorts. "That'll be the day."
And in the distance, the once enthusiatic girl who shrank into a
And, in {...} once-enthusiastic
little black piglet flies away on swanlike wings.
{Yup, that's what I thought. You prob'ly just caused enough facefaults in
unison to register on seismographs. :}
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Started 1999-07-05. Completed 2002-04-30.
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Too subtle? Has it already been before? Enquiring minds want to know.
No, just about right, I think. If 'twere to be done at all, 'twould best
be done quickly. :) I suspected it when my comments indicated I
suspected it, but I wasn't sure until just about the end. Worked for me,
in other words.
But keep an eye on the skies. >:)
Douglas MacDougall
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