At 10:31 AM 12/15/96 +0200, Sebastian Weinberg wrote:

This weekend I had *yet another* strange idea for a Ranma fic. 
The series is called "Ranma 1/2" as an allusion to the fact that
he is half girl and half boy.  I always thought that "Ranma X 2"
would have been more appropriate, since he has *two* forms now. 
Following that line of thought, I came up with this strange idea.

What if the title *was* appropriate?  What if there was a world
where everyone - every man, woman and child - had *two* forms that
are triggered by water of different temperatures?  And what if one
16-year old martial artist whose two forms happen to be male and
female falls onto a cursed pool in China that *locks hin in male
form*?  The poor guy.  No matter how cold the water is that he is
drenched with, he cannot change anymore - his female side is lost.
He is doomed to lead a pitiful half-existence, having to deal with
being male all the time.  And as if that wasn't enough, *now* his
father (whose second form is a panda) tells him that he is engaged
to a girl; the daughter of an old friend of his father.  A girl
who happens to *hate* boys...

Howzat sound?  Any suggestions as to what the second forms of all
the regular cast could be?

>From the Scriviner:
        Why mess with a winning curse? Have everyone on the planet be able
to shift genders, Genma included! That ought to make things interesting... :)