On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Eric McGinnis <jmc341@.airmail.net> wrote:

I will continue writting, but I hadn't gotten any post since friday, at
least until monday.  

	For the idea:   Ranma 1/2:  Through the eyes of a cat.

	Ranma finally fed up with his phobia, talks to Tofu and Cologn, 

asking

for a solution.  After a long discution Tofu and Cologn tell him they
have a way, but he may not like all the results.  To cure the phobia
they have to fuse the cat mind with his own.  From this, Ranma gains use
of neko-ken, but he has to learn to control it.  

Take it fropm here and do what you want with it.

	You know I thought up a variant on that concept a while ago.  I 
haven't done anything with it but here's the concept:  Someone who really 
hates Ranma learn about his Nekoken training, though not the results.  In 
an attempt to subject Ranma to the worst possible fate they kidnap Akane, 
and dangle her over a pit of cats with fish sausage tied to her.  When 
Ranma comes to rescue her they drop her in, and Ranma leapes in to rescue 
her.  In the aftermath Ranma's fear of cats starts to diminish, and he 
begins to have a reocoring dream of being a cat.  He can no longer use 
terror to triger his Nekoken state, but when he really needs that power, 
he discoveres he can shift by focusing his mind on his dream of being a 
cat.  Eventually he reaches the point where he can access the Nekoken 
without shifting his frame of mind at all.