Many people asked me about where the Musk Dynasty would be in this
alternate universe. Good question. Since in this universe the Jusenkyo
pools absorb and transmit entire personas, it would seem to me that any
given pool would only work once until someone else drowned in it. If
Herb and co. exist at all in this continuity, their story will be quite
different. The same for Saffron and friends. Kima could not have made an
Akane-niquan as in the original series, since this would have killed
Akane and put her consciousness into Kima. (Of course there is some
possibility of something along these lines happening AFTER the events of
this story, given how it ended...) So dealing with Herb, Saffron, etc.
was beyond the scope of this story. It might be material for a sequel to
this, though I probably won't write one.

You know... since, in this story, the curse/spirit can be transferred,
there's always the possibility that, at Jusenkyo(wherever it may be
now), there is now a Spring of Drowned Mousse(Amazon Boy), Akane, etc,
etc. As in, as the spirits of the spring invaded the body, the body's
original spirits slowly transferred over to the Jusenkyo springs, replacing
the other curse. 

I think that could make for an interesting tale. Set it... oh, I don't
know, two or three years in the future, just when Ranma's over Akane.
Then have someone (or some animal, what does it matter what they originally
were?) walk in with Akane's spirit.

Just an idle idea...

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Mark Doherty  -  mdoherty@mailbox.uq.edu.au
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"Kawaii must die."