Subject: re:Re: a fic idea.[ffml] Questions suggestions and another idea
From: databank@mindspring.com (Zen)
Date: 6/13/1997, 7:12 PM
To: Anthony Woo <ajwoo@ucdavis.edu>, Richard Robinson <rik@cfanet.com>
CC: fanfic@fanfic.com

At 14:23 6/13/97, Anthony Woo wrote:
On 6 xxx -1, Richard Robinson wrote:

4. if a cursed person drowned in a Jhusenkyo pool would the
person who fell in get the original body or the curse of
the drowned person  or a two stage curse. E.G. Ranma
drowns. Ryoga falls in does he become Ranma or Ranma-chan
or Ranma and if hit with cold water again then Ranma-chan.

No.  Someone who falls into a Jusenkyo pool changes shape as if he/she
were born in that body.  For example:  When Ranma fell into Nyannichuan
his new body was the body he would have if he was born a girl.  This is
less obvious with animal than it is with people.  The evidence from this
comes from the Herb seris where Herb falls into the Nyannichuan and his
new body is _totally_ different from Ranma's (besides being female of
course).  I think if someone cursed were to drown in a Jusenkyo pool the
curse would bestow what ever body they were in at the time to the next
victim.  (if Ryoga were to fall into the Spring of Drowned Ranma he would
be cursed with turning into a female when splashed with cold water (I'm
assuming Ranma drowned in cold water).  The question whether the Jusenkyo
pools can counteract each other hasn't been answered yet (ie could the
Nannichuan really cure Ranma?).

The Herb story also suggests that the pools ARE specific... the monkey that
Herb tossed into the damned spring came out looking exactly like Ranma's
female side.  You can make a pretty good case for it either way, really.

After all, it'd be hard to say that P-chan is what Ryouga would look like
if he had been born a pig.

The bottom line is that there is NO consistent data upon which one can base
any firm predictions about Jyusenkyou curses... Tarou "proves" that the
curses are additive - in that exposure to the waters of another pool gave
him BOTH curses...

If Zen were in Ranma's shoes, and Zen knew about Tarou what Ranma knows,
Zen sure as hell would never go *near* Jyusenkyou again.


Hope that helps.

thanx for listening to me rant and rave

AJ

Zen no Itan-sha