At 11:56 PM 7/15/97 -0600, you wrote:

Deunan@aol.com wrote:

WHY in every single fic where Ranma's girl side becomes a person that when
the female half stands around the male half assumes they are boy&girl

friend

or that they are engaged.

Uhm.. "every single fic"? Excuse me, but that is a bit inaccurate. The
following are the "Ranko fics" that I can remember off-hand (if I'm
forgetting anyone's fanfic please feel free to correct me.) I'm
including those that have Ranma's male and female sides as different
personalities.

Split Personalities
Careful Destiny
Nullifier 122
Hemispheres
Twilight Existence
Curse of Darkness
Onna: Red Side
Song of the Phoenix <-- Shameless plug ;P

Two Sides of a Coin by Benares.  

Among all of these, only Split Personalities blatantly pairs up Ranma
and Ranko, however it's done only for the lemon scenes. Careful Destiny
has Ranko herself thinking about her brother that way, and Nullifier
*forces* them to lust for each other. None of the others even *hint* of
doing something similar, though.

In Two Sides, even though it's not finished, shows that they are not
interested.  Heck, I have the rest of the story in outline form, and they
don't fall in love or anything.

Let's look at the thought process:

They act the same

Two Sides:  Yep

Share the same facial features

snip

etc. etc.

Wow, they must be romantically involved.

Wrong.   Wouldn't a normal person assume that THEY ARE RELATED maybe even
TWINS?

Hemispheres: Ranma was back to normal before any strange gossip started.

Two Sides:  Nope.  I don't want to spoil the unfinished second half, but
"Ranko" tells Ryouga that the incense caused her split. And we know about
Kuno.

As you can see, even in the fanfics where Ranma and Ranko *are* paired
up (sexually or romantically)  no one "thinks" that they are emotionally
related. In fact, I can't think of *any* fanfic where people see them
that way. However, the only places where a otoko-Ranma/onna-Ranma
relatinship has been suggested are: Kodachi's appearance in the MANGA
(where SHE believed Ranma-chan was out to conquer "Ranma-sama"), and the
MANGA volume #35, in which the mirror-copy actively pursues Ranma.

If you can produce any evidence of other fanfics in which such a
relationship is hinted by *other* characters, please do so.

And to reply to your other question: to why nobody figures out why Ranma
and Ranma-chan are named the same way:

Split Personalities: different names right from the start. Ranma-Ranko.

As soon Nadoka comes over, she's Ranko.  Even before that, she's Ranko to
avoid confusion.







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