On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, The Major wrote:

Kodachi is probably the closest match to Kinuko of the "old" fiancees, but 
Kodachi  was always... "erattic", whereas Kinuko seems far more 
focussed.  Hmmm... and Kodachi will be knocking around in the Careful 
Destiny world, she just hasn't run into Ranma yet - when is the next 
Martial Arts Rythmic Gymnastics tournament scheduled? :-)

Actually, this could be interesting - after all, of all the girls chasing 
him in the normal Ranmaverse, Kodachi is the only one who the current 
situation doesn't automatically exclude.  (He was forcibly disengaged to 
Akane, he was never engaged to Ukyou, and he never even got on the same 
continent as Shampoo.)  However, Ranma wished for a more or less normal 
life, and if Kodachi as she is in the Ranmaverse ends up chasing him, his 
life won't be anywhere near normal.  Would the wish take that into 
account and make this universe's Kodachi different in some way?  Or would 
it consider just having not had him go to the Rythmic Gymnastics 
tournament sufficient?  I'm somewhat intrigued by the idea of a somewhat 
more well-adjusted Kodachi - not too much more so, or you'll lose a lot 
of her unique flavor, but perhaps in this universe, she managed to come 
to terms better with her mother's death (I tend to operate under the 
assumption that Mrs. Kuno died long ago, and that was what sent the three 
surviving Kunos into the states we know them today), and she's now not 
nearly as obsessive about love.  And since Kinuko is sort of going to 
be filling the Kodachi/Shampoo 'Unscrupulous Chaser' role, a revised 
Kodachi might make an interesting contrast.  Or perhaps she's already 
attached - she found a 'true love' earlier, for instance.  (I've always 
wondered, to tell the truth, if there was any significance to her 'I 
almost gave up dating boys' comment.  Did it just mean she was going to 
give up dating in general, or...  I'm probably reading too much into it, 
really.  Still, she and Azuka the White Lily might make an interesting 
pair if they weren't rivals.)

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