On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Richard Lawson wrote:

Yeah, but will you ever tell us why Ranma had to be Ukyo, and Ukyo had
to be Ranma?

I did.  I guess you missed that one :)

I certainly did.  :)  Could you re-explain it to me?

	The reason was very simple, but John did assume people would see 
it.  Look, Nerima is practically 90% cold water.  If  Ranma and Ukyou 
tried to be themselves, they'd get splashed or dunked in front of Nodoka 
sooner or later.  HOT water, on the other hand, is a lot harder to get 
splashed with (tho the Ranma crowd does manage to do this on occaision.)  
It was decided that it was a lot easier for them to stay in cursed form.  
Does that clear things up a little?

Jeff
(who is writing an Elseworlds for eith er this series or the 2nd 
Elseworlds called "Amazons" - free teaser ;)

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