One thing that kinda bugged me was him kissing Kodachi.  It always

seemed

that to Ranma, kissing was sort of representative of a higher level of
relationship with <insert fiancee name here>, and I have a hard time

seeing

him using that as a casual tactic.  Of course, that could just be me,

and he

_is_ attempting a complete behavioral change.

If Shampoo gets involved, I'd expect her to assume that it's a

curse/potion

of some sort (after all, that's what she always uses, someone else may

as

well), and may very well drag Cologne into the situation to come up

with a

cure (of course, death tends to cure a lot of illnesses).  In any case,

she

has enough tendancies to clobber his other real fiancees that she'd

likely

go ballistic and send anyone he touched to the hospital.

For Akane, this of course confirms all her worst fears.  Ranma would

have to

have some airtight explanation, and a -lot- of time to explain it to

her, if

you don't want her to be permanently scarred by it all.

As for Ukyo... she would have been at the mock trial, and I think it
wouldn't take her long to put 2 and 2 together.  While I can't really

say

how she'd react, for some reason I feel that she'd be the one most

likely to

play along and help Ranma pull this off.

Okay, question 1 is:  Would Ranma really be able to do this, especially
kissing Kodachi?  I don't have a real problem with it, but I suppose
it's a consideration.  Question 2 is:  How does he explain everything
afterwards?

A couple ideas popped into my head, after the comment that Shampoo would
think it's a potion or something.  The ideas are:  A)  Suppose Ranma
really does take a potion of lechery, or something similar, after
deciding that he's just not up to carrying out his plan on his own.  B)
Depending on where he gets the potion, it might be fun if Ranma thinks
he's taken a real potion, but it's really just colored water.  C)  Ranma
could create the fake colored-water potion himself in an attempt to
create a fallback story should his whole plan backfire.  Of course, you
have to assume that Ranma can think that far ahead.

I'm not sure if I like any of those ideas more than the original story
of he just does these things... probably the original idea is still
best.  But I thought I'd throw them out since they occured to me.  ^_^

On the other hand, Ranma could think of the potion explanation AFTER his
plan backfires on him, and try to create a convincing backstory (utterly
failing in the process, of course).  ^_^

Miko