At 09:59 PM 9/6/96 -0500, you wrote:
Just a few thoughts concerning the rush to produce
the definitive 'Ranma is Pregnant' fanfic.
1. Has it ever really been established that when
Ranma turns into a girl he gets all the right equipment
to even *get* pregnant. I mean, is the transformation
more than skin deep? I know other writers have taken
the position that the female Ranma, at least, has all
the physical attributes of a regular female but has never
really approached what is going on inside her.
2. The basic biology of the female that produces
conditions permitting pregnancy would argue that either
Ranma turns female in a highly 'fertile' state (thereby
bypassing all normal physiological conditions of ovulation
ect.); or the male Ranma, somehow, continues the basic
monthly cycles of a female even when he isn't.
If neither is the case, then the female Ranma
wouldn't become 'fertile' (i.e. an egg in place to
fertilize) for some 21 days or so. This would kinda
slow down the story a bit.
Of course, you know all this becomes an esoteric
exercise if 'magic' is used for pregnancy. But then, doesn't
it always.
Sorry for the interruption. Do go back to writing now.
- Greg the Elder
(Going for another beer and trying to forget the whole thing.)
Look, forget that biology crap and just write that fanfic if any of you want
to. This is fantasy world, you can do anything. Like, who would see Arnold
be pregnant in real life?
Although that above, orginal statement gives me an idea for a fic......