OK, Ranma walks into Joketsuzoku, proposes to the most eligible young
maiden in the village and meets the challenge required by the village
custom, in front of the entire village.

At this point village law applies and she is forbidden to reject him.
(Not that she'd want to ;-)  They are at that moment married.

He then leaves the village and spends the next year trying to ignore her.

If anybody has a suit to raise here, it's Shamp.

Actually I'm not the first one to suggest that Ranma "do" Akane, Ukyou
and Shamp, not even the first to suggest he marry all three. (Though I
haven't seen Joketsuzoku marriage custom used as a mechanism for this
before. (It beats moving to Utah ;-))

I've been looking for someway for these three to combine into one and do
him. (Ala K1BS)  After all, what aspect of Woman do these three lack
when combined?  (Mapping here is: Ukyou == Athena, Shamp == Hera,
Akane == Aphrodite.  Right?)

	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@slip.net          http://www.io.com/~hcobb