Subject: [FFML] [spamish] A small collection of ideas.
From: Brendan
Date: 8/8/1999, 12:28 AM
To: ffml@fanfic.com

	I make it a point to try to write down ideas I get, I really 
don't have time to do much more with them, but here's the newer stuff 
I've added to the idea list.  Feel free to use, mutilate, mock, or 
whatever you want with the ideas presented here.





4 Ranma learns about the Saotome family, and discovers that Genma is a 
martial artist because he had so little ability at the real traditional 
business of the family, theft in all it's forms.  The Yama-sen-ken and 
Umi-sen-ken are adaptations of scrolls, which the thieves of the family 
have been using to record their tricks of the trade for generations.  
And the two special styles are adapted from the only scrolls Genma had 
any affinity toward.  Ranma has the chance to look through the full set 
of scrolls, and with the Yama and Umi as inspiration he begins creating 
new techniques from other arts of theft.  Eg: Pickpocketing would 
suggest several really effective "Look there goes Elvis" type 
techniques, some speed enhancing techniques, and maybe a way of 
creating air vortexes to draw things to the practitioner.

5 A horrible revelation about Genma, he's really a demon lord.  In this 
story, twenty or thirty years ago a powerful demon lord lost big in a 
bid for power and ran to earth to hide.  Earth however wasn't exactly 
welcoming, and demon hunters managed to spot him before long.  So the 
demon lord, being a master of deception, created a near perfect human 
disguise.  Genma Saotome.  When the demon hunters tried to exorcise the 
demon's "victim", they actually sealed the demon inside his disguise 
shell just as he had planned.  Of course Genma Saotome was originally 
designed to be a honorable compassionate and selfless individual, but 
when your soul's actually a demon, there's only so much a constructed 
personality can do.  Anyway this becomes important when something 
manages to break the seal allowing the Demon lord his freedom.  Which 
would lead to a truly ferocious father son confrontation.

6 Altered cliche, instead of someone showing up and claiming to be 
Ranma's fiancee, the new character showing up is Ukyo's fiancee. This 
guy had been engaged to her after Genma took off with the Yatai, and 
thus has a weaker claim than Ranma, however Ukyo decides to try acting 
like she was interested in him in hopes of getting Ranma jealous over 
her.  Naturally she's furious when Ranma immediately started looking 
for a way to help the two of them get together.

7 Darkish, In a world where the Amazons are as aggressive and 
proprietary as depicted in some ficts, Ranma accidentally contacts the 
spirit of one of the hundreds of martial artists who were killed so 
that the amazons could gain exclusive control over a technique they 
learned from him.  Ranma helps this spirit craft a 'scroll of 
accusation' which if properly presented could call the amazons to trial 
for the acts of their ancestors.  Of course Ranma is neither vengeful 
nor overly judgmental so he would probably be hesitant to use it unless 
the amazons kidnapped him to the village and tried to force him to 
marry Shampoo.  And if the ghosts linked by the scroll could protect 
Ranma from the techniques that had been taken from them, it could 
conceivably make the entirety of Amazon Martial art worthless.

8 The counterpoints to Bitter End(Dark of course)  A: Shampoo.  Through 
whatever circumstances Ranma marries Shampoo, and they move to the 
Amazon village.  Shampoo's initially happy, however she soon discovers 
that Ranma isn't just an expert at martial arts, he's a master at 
infuriating the village elders.  He tries to be polite and respectful, 
but whenever he's asked to do anything he thinks is stupid, he tells 
the requester "This is dumb, what's the point?"  And he refuses to 
accept any of the "Tradition dictates you must do this!" arguments, 
which infuriates the elders.  Things get tenser as they start trying to 
pound acceptance of Amazon traditions into Ranma's head, but Ranma just 
sees it as a training opportunity.  Essentially the fict would trace 
the opinion of Amazon leadership as it went from "He's annoying, but 
putting up with him is a small price to pay for the strong blood," to 
"I don't care if his children will be gods!  Nothing is worth putting 
up with him!"
B: Ukyo.  Through whatever circumstances Ranma marries Ukyo.  Initially 
Ukyo thinks it's her dreams come true, the two of them managing a 
restaurant together, however Ranma spends almost all of his spare time 
practicing Martial arts, her attempts at getting Ranma involved in 
Okonomiyaki cooking are refused because he "Knows the techniques."  
Ultimately he either begins entering high standing martial arts 
tournaments (Street fighter anyone) or starts building a Dojo.  Ukyo 
realizes that Ranma loves martial arts more than her, and begins a 
planing a way to force him to give it up.  The fict being what it is, 
the plans would get more extreme until a mistake in one caused a great 
tragedy.

9 Ryouga is lost in the mountains, ranting about how Ranma ruined his 
life and how he's going to kill him in retaliation, and he's overheard 
by some ancient evil person (Or something like that)  Looking over 
Ryouga and recognizing his strength, he offers him a scroll teaching a 
technique which should be able to kill Ranma, in exchange for a later 
favor of course.  Naturally Ryouga accepts and immediately starts 
trying to master the technique.  He in point of fact skips reading the 
part of the scroll that poetically describes what the technique does, 
and simply works through the training technique described.  After a few 
weeks, he meets Ranma, they get into a fight, and Ryouga tries to end 
the fight using his own unperfected version of the technique.  The 
blast seems less powerful than the ShishiHokodan, but Ranma collapses 
after taking one shot.  Ryouga's joyous, until he realizes that Ranma's 
in a coma from the technique.  Akane and other witnesses are not very 
thrilled.  It's eventually revealed that A: the technique Ryouga 
learned was designed to instantly kill anyone it hits. B, Ryouga messed 
up the execution so instead of killing Ranma, it essentially knocked 
his astral body out of his physical body and Ranma isn't going to wake 
up unless his astral body can find it's way back.  And C, because of 
the blast, Ranma's Astral body was thrown far enough away that he'll 
never make it back unless someone finds him and guides him back.  Of 
course Akane is the only one with enough of an affinity toward Ranma to 
find him.  Meanwhile on the astral planes, Ranma is wandering, trying 
to figure out what happened.  He quickly finds himself getting into 
trouble with the locals, and discovering that his techniques aren't up 
to handling that trouble, forcing him to invent some new techniques.
	And that of course ignores the fact that Ranma's body is still 
lying there, available for any possessing being who wants to use a 
Jusenkyo cursed body.

10 Ryouga learns that the members of his family are actually the 
victims of three curses: the curse of misdirection, which causes them 
to keep getting lost.  The curse of passion, which makes them all 
hyper-emotional; and the curse of strength, which makes them so strong 
that a simple hug could send whoever their interested in to the 
hospital.  The reason both of Ryouga's parents can't find their way is 
because the one alternative to curing the curse of strength, is to 
inflict the same curse on their partner, however the Hibiki curses can 
only be passed on all together.  Ryouga then finds him in a 
predicament.  In order to marry Akari, he has to either share the three 
family curses with her, risk killing her every time they act 
affectionately toward each other, or try to break the curses.  He finds 
what he believes is a way to break the curses, of course breaking the 
curse of strength would mean that he'd suddenly drop well behind Ranma 
in terms of fighting ability.
	Alternatively Ryouga could come across the family scroll 
explaining the method of sharing the family curses with someone 
marrying into the family, and mistaking it for a love spell, he uses it 
on Akane.  Now she can't find her way anywhere, her emotions are all 
pumped three times more intense than normal, and she's become super 
strong.  The last she's not to upset about, at least until she 
accidentally hurts her father or one of her sisters.  So now she needs 
Ranma's help to get rid of the curse, she could either find a way to 
reverse the scroll, or find the source of the Hibiki family curse and 
break that.

11 Ranma learns to use the force!  Not really, he just discovers a 
scroll explaining a technique to increase speed and reaction time.  In 
reality, the technique enables the practitioner to see a few moments 
into the future, knowing what will happen before it does, which enables 
them to react incredibly fast.  As a side effect of learning this, 
however they would start to occasionally see snatches of the not so 
immediate future.  The scroll recommends that the practitioner go 
somewhere isolated where very little is going to happen until they 
start to get the hang of their foresight.  Which isn't going to be 
possible for Ranma.  So he now has to try coping with the troubles 
brought about as he keeps getting distracted by seeing moments of 
whatever future is most likely at that particular instant.

12 Ranma discovers that he's this destined being, the subject of many 
prophesies.  Naturally he's not very accepting of this, until he 
notices that everything the student of prophecy tells him is accurate. 
 Thing is the prophesies revolve around his confrontation with a group 
of fierce demonic beings, and he learns of the prophecy that he will 
face the master of them and die facing him.  Now on the one hand, 
despite his hesitancy, he's begun to develop a healthy respect for 
prophecy, and he doesn't want to die.  On the other hand, if he doesn't 
face the master, the world will be destroyed.  I admit it's a steal 
from the last show of the Buffy the Vampire slayer first season, but I 
think it'd be interesting to see Ranma dealing with the fact that he's 
about to do something that he admits is almost certain to kill him.  
Also how everyone would react to this.

13 Lemon: Ranma accepts a challenge by a practitioner of anything goes 
Marital arts, and doesn't quite realize what the challenge involves 
till he's at the point where he has to go through with the challenge or 
admit defeat.  Considering the subject and his experience, he looses 
big time.  His pride won't let him not demand a rematch, and now he 
needs some help to train.

14 Lemon: Happosei realizes that he's starting to get weaker, and the 
panties aren't sustaining himself enough.  So he prepares for a special 
rite he does periodically to restore his strength.  It involves some 
setup with Ranma and the rest, and on performance, the rite puts Happi 
in a deep trance, while his Lust and Lechery radiates from him to 
envelope Nerima.  Basically the aura will amplify the Lust of everyone, 
and absorb some of the energy of them acting on that lust.  And of 
course as Happi's heir and the unknowing focus of the rite, Ranma is 
getting an extra dose of Lust force.



Tenchi
1 Tenchi is kidnapped and Ryoko winds up having to face off against the 
Kidnappers and go all out for the first time since OAV 6.

2 Washu gets so fed up with the stupidity of an earth scientist that 
she publicly denounces him, and winds up becoming the target of an 
enormous media blitz.  She starts building increasingly stringent 
security measures, and discovers just how hard it can be to keep out 
Paparazzi and reporters.

3 small lemon idea, TV continuity.  Kiyone and Mihoshi are working to 
earn enough to pay all the bills etc, and Mihoshi creates problems 
again.  Kiyone gets mad and this time she brings up one of the job adds 
she and Mihoshi had seen in the morning paper, either a veiled offer 
for work in prostitution, or as an actor in a pornographic movie.  
Something along those lines anyway.  Later Kiyone calmed down, started 
looking for Mihoshi, and remembered what she had said.  Ultimate after 
some searching she discovers  that A, Mihoshi had indeed taken her 
seriously, and B, Mihoshi had finally found a job she enjoyed and was 
good at.


Lupin III:
1.  A plan of Lupin and Co. gets disrupted by a flamboyant French girl 
who's apparently an old friend and rival of Arsine as she call him.  In 
reality she's his sister, but they initially hold off on revealing it 
because of an old childhood rivalry, and they keep concealing the truth 
after Fujiko starts acting very jealous.

Anime Non anime xovers.

A varient on the Ranma/Jumanji fusion posted.  The background is that 
Akane found the game, started playing it with Nabiki, and wound up 
getting sucked into the game, where she woke up in her bed.  The series 
actually takes place inside the game, with everyone being a part of it 
shaped by her memories.  However then someone on the outside finds and 
joins in the game, and manages to roll the dice to release her.  She 
isn't particularly happy about being released though, and starts 
playing the game in hopes of being able to be reunited with Ranma.  She 
does manage to release Ranma from the game with a roll, however he's 
now constrained by the rules of the game to be her enemy.  He is still 
in love with her though, so he keeps thinking up ways to bend the rules 
to protect her from the game including the attacks he can't prevent 
himself from making against her.  IE, assuming the game is really 
ancient.  "Sorry Akane, I can't let myself fall for any trick more than 
once.  Pointing out fallen coins, saying there's something behind me, 
asking my name, wait you haven't done that yet."
	"What is your name?"
	"Because of what we once shared, I'll tell you.  I am called 
Ranma and Ranko, Saotome and Tendo, to some I was Ossage no Onna, to 
the romans I was the knight of Eris, to the fae..."
	Akane snuck away while Ranma listed every name he had ever been 
called.


Farscape with Guyver(Or Tekaman):  Moiya encounters the successors of 
the Advent from Bio Booster Armor.  It turns out that after abandoning 
the development of the Human species as the basis of an advanced 
bio-weapon, they took the technology and applied it to converting 
captives of various races into servile warriors.  In the course of the 
encounter Criton gets captured and when they evaluate him for his 
conversion potential they come to realize that he's a representative of 
the ancient bio-weapon species their ancestors had created and 
abandoned so long ago.  Possibilities from here include: 1 Criton being 
converted into an advanced Zoanoid/Zoalord but being able to overcome 
the behavioral controls through evolution after the Advent left, or 
with Zahn's help.  2 Criton escaping captivity before he can be 
converted, and accidentally stumbling into the area where the Bio 
Booster Armor was stored.  3 Criton being converted into a 
Zoanoid/Zoalord, and then stumbling into the Bio Booster Armor storage.
	In any event the Advent's successors are fighting a loosing 
battle with various groups including the peacekeepers, and once they 
encounter Criton they decide that even if their ancestors were too 
afraid to utilize the human race, their willing to take the risk.  So 
their heading to earth, and Criton has to convince everyone to try to 
get there first to keep them from turning the human race into the 
weapon the Advent would use to conquer the universe.
	Alternatively the encounter could be with an alien species that 
utilized Tekaman technology on captives to create weapons, and they 
discovered that humans handled the process exceptionally well.


A sort of crossover between the Hercules/Xena continuum and 3x3 eyes.
The story is set in the Hercules/Xena setting, and begins with the 
Sanjiyan being natives of another world, where there had been a war 
that was literally destroying it.  These survivors were able to form a 
dimensional rift and escape to the Hercules/Xena earth shortly before 
the final destruction.  And of course, Xena and Gabriel happened to be 
right where the rift opened.  Anyway the Sanjiyan were a lot less 
arrogant, aggressive, etc. than in the Manga.  They just wanted to live 
in peace, but what are the odds the gods of that world would allow 
that.  The more malevolent deities started thinking up various games to 
play with the new arrivals, but then they discovered that when the 
Sanjiyan are pushed, they could push back.  Hard.  Despite efforts to 
bring about peace by both sides, more and more incident's occurred till 
one god managed to push the Sanjiyan too far, which led to a 
confrontation where the Sanjiyan became the first beings in history to 
cause a gods harmonic core to disintegrate.  Things went downhill from 
there, more unpleasant gods kicked the bucket.  Then Hephestius or 
another brainy god/goddess discovered that the gods killed weren't 
really being destroyed the way Hinds blood or any of the god killing 
artifacts worked; their essence was being fragmented, and the Sanjiyan 
as a whole were involuntarily absorbing it.  If they did it with to 
many more gods, it would make them go crazy.  This lead Hephestius to 
ally himself with the Sanjiyan and create the magic prison for 
Aries(from the Xena episode) as an alternative to killing him.  
Ultimately peace is attained, but now the gods scale down their 
interaction with the mortal world dramatically, and the Sanjiyan 
created their holy land and lived there while the divine essence 
fragments gradually turned them and their descendants into the psychos 
from the manga.

Anime WOD xovers


2 The Super Martial arts from the series are actually a sort of hedge 
magic; a way that sleepers can tap the potential of their avatar and 
perform a limited form of static magic.  However one day Ranma Awakens, 
and suddenly he's got troubles.  Now his skill with Martial arts would 
easily translate into the founding understanding of Forces Life and 
Time, however he doesn't know enough to reproduce his techniques 
dynamically and can no longer work them statically(A failed attempt to 
perform the Tenshin Amaguriken triggered a paradox flaw causing him to 
leave afterimages as he moved.  He was able to win the fight with it, 
but it wasn't exactly reproducible.)  Fortunately his avatar appears to 
him in the form of his female reflection and persuades him to go on a 
journey to master his new ability and this first seeking ends 
successfully at an Akashik Brotherhood chantry.

Sailor Moon WOD(Sort of)  Instead of a direct crossover, contemplate a 
Mage scenario-involving Marauders who's quiet is based on the Sailor 
Moon animated series.  Eg: A cyborg for Interion X becomes 
disillusioned with the Technocracy vision of the world, remembers the 
show Sailor Moon that she watched when she was younger and wishes the 
world were like that.  Then her avatar appears in the form of a cat 
with a crescent moon, and tells her it could be while offering her a 
magic pen.  So is born Sailor Autochthonia.

Pokemon WOD:MtA:  Not a story plot, but a scenario concept.  The origin 
of Pokemon began when a Void Engineer ship got into a big fight with 
the Zigg'raugglurr, and wound up crash landing on the Pokemon world 
several thousand years before the fight started.  In the crash the 
stores of Tass ruptured and spilled into the environment.  This world 
had much less free quintessence floating around so the influx was 
significant, and it had a profound effect on the native life.  Many of 
the species were affected by the Tass, beginning the evolutionary road 
which created earth's Thumavores.  However the limited supply of Tass 
coupled with the world's quintessence poor nature caused the 
pre-thumavore species to evolve into Pokemon instead.  Pokemon were 
similar to Thumavores in many ways, however the limited tass supplies 
had produced species who used quintessence incredibly efficiently.
	Now as far as the human element goes, even in this quintessence 
poor world there were people with exceptionally strong avatars.  Some 
of these people discovered how to link with Pokemon, forming a 
symbiotic bond with them.  The humans of course gained the advantage of 
having a Pokemon ally, the Pokemon found that their connection to Prime 
was enhanced by the link, which enabled them to gain strength at an 
much greater rate.  Initially there were very few people with the 
capacity to form the link with Pokemon, and for them forming the link 
was difficult and time consuming.  Until scientists invented the 
Pokeball, they didn't understand the link, but the ball acts like a 
catalyst, enabling people who's avatars are weaker than the old masters 
to quickly and easily link with Pokemon.


Ok this isn't really anime but the simplest WOD-Wheel of Time crossover 
would involve a group led by Orburon Stargazers traveling to the world 
of the WoT realizing it was actually the Wyrm's prison.  Which creates 
a intriguing situation.  How will the folk who believe in the light and 
the creator react to the knowledge that their world was actually 
created by the insane spirit of absolute order imprisoning the spirit 
of balance and entropy.  For that matter, how would the Forsaken and 
Darkfriends react when they realize that the Dark One's plans for 
freedom would smash the world into dust in the process.  And will the 
WOD folk be able to talk the dragon into supporting a plan to enable 
the Wyrm to escape his prison without destroying it in the process.  
That of course ignores the questions of what a skilled Time adept would 
be able to do in the world where something like the One Power Balefire 
exists as a static phenomenon.