At 11:23 PM 15/05/97 -0400, Lizsue wrote:
[snip. We're talking about whether Ranma's female body ages or not. I
mentioned her greater breast size later on in the series.]

On the other hand, your breast size doesn't only increase with puberty.  It 
seems like Ranma eats more in Nerima than he did on the road, and that 
(especially extra fat in his diet) would explain the change.  Starve him and 
he'll shrink back to normal before getting scrawny.

Fair point. But as someone else mentioned, the age mushrooms story also
had a good lead on the curse, when he got younger, so did his girl side,
so it doesn't look like the curse works that way.

But if it did... it leads to a fic idea.

If the Jusenkyo springs give forms that are, in all essence, immortal,
then surely, sooner or later, a group/coven of the cursed would spring up, 
and they would go out and recruit new members whenever they heard of them,
sort of like the Highlander series without the chopping off of the heads.

So one day, you find a couple of hundreds-years old teenagers ( :P )
turning up at the Tendo door, wanting to talk to Ranma(-chan), and
they wouldn't be taking 'go away' too nicely. (After all, Jusenkyo was
supposed to be partly a martial arts training ground, and martial artists
running around with the vitality of youth and the experience of Cologne/
Happosai aren't going to be pushovers.)

All sorts of fun could ensue, but not from me. I have more than enough
to write already.

Anyone wants the idea, it's theirs. 

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