Subject: RE: [FFML] Elseworld stuff.
From: Wombat Master D
Date: 8/9/1996, 6:46 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

        I admit Mousse would be alot tougher to do but I do like the Ryoga
idea.  I'd like to read that.  Heck, I'd like to write that but of course I
have no idea what the grand scheme of things look like.

	Ryouga was, as I recall, bounced around as a potential 
Elseworlds, but no one could come up with a decent story.  Let's face it, 
Ryouga would wish for one of two things, to get rid of his curse so that 
he could tell Akane he loves her, or that he could beat Ranma.  Most of 
us reached a conclusion that Ryouga would just end up taking Ranma's 
place in the scheme of things and it wouldn't be that interesting.  Well, 
SOMEONE had some WEIRD ideas, but we don't want Ryouga running 
around with a Green Lantern ring (given to him by Cologne) and a suit of 
power armor that makes him the Invincible Iron Pig, do we?  (It wasn't 
me!  These ideas ccame from someone else entirely.  Biles knows who I'm 
talking about.)

Actually, there might be a couple ways to do Mousse/Ryouga stories.

A) I think I had a suggestion for John a while ago:

Do an "Elseworlds" anthology full of "rejected" wishes. This means lots of
scenes that were "rejected" as being too ridiculous. :) One wish was that
Ryouga would beat Ranma. I even had a scene for John where the scene played out
like this:

Ranma vs Ryouga vs Azusa and Mikado. Ryouga beats Ranma all right... but gets
soaked in the process and reveals himself to Akane, who rejects him. Azusa,
however, looooooves it and takes him home forever. ^_^ (I don't have the scene
anymore, but maybe John does.) This, however, could actually be explored IF,
say, Akari read about it or was there, and decides to rescue Ryouga from 
Azusa. ^_^

(I also had a suggestion in the same vein for Mikado... something about having
all the women in this world... but he forgot that THAT particular wish also
includes Cologne, Roseanne, etc.)

B) Mousse's wish seems pretty obvious: That Shampoo loves him. So... get him
into a situation like "Fatal Attraction"... where HER love is too hazardous to
HIS health. (This also would've fallen under the "rejected" wishes part, but if
somebody wanted to do a really interesting analysis on really affectionate
amazons...)

-D.