----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Belcourt <sukyandaru@digitalweb.net>
To: FFML <ffml@fanfic.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [FFML][A BIT SPAMMISH]A thought about Ranma's Curse

I dunno, maybe I shouldn't be writing about something like this, it's
probably irrelevant and maybe a pointless post, but I thought, to hell
with it, I'll post it anyway! :)

     'kay.  ^-^

We all know that Ranma's girl form is a lot younger looking(by several
years) than his guy form.

    *piku piku*  We do?  I'll admit Ranma's girl form is considerably
shorter (I think Akane tops her by about an inch...) but I don't think

that

makes her younger.

A lot of people don't deal with this in their
fanfiction, but what if the cursed form grows and develops at the same
rate as a normal person?

     Appearantly they do... as suggested by Tarou, who was first cursed as

a

baby.  As he grew older, so did his cursed form.

I know there have been some fics out there
that deal with growth of the curse, but most do it by some other magic
acting on the curse to provide height, age, strength, etcetera. I'm
talking, what if Ranma's cursed form is oh, 12, and in about four

    12?  Um... how many twelve year olds do you know who are... how do I

put

this delicately... um... that 'bouncy'? 6^-^

A point... maybe 12 is a bit too young, but onna-Ranma 16? I detect traces
of baby fat on her face. Now, I know that each person develops at their own
rate, but Ranma just LOOKS young... I dunno, maybe I'm an old fogey(at 22).
I
could be biased.

years it will be the equivalent of 16. So, if he created a spring
of drowned Ranma, like they did for Akane, he could come back in his
old age, jump in the nannichuan, jump in the Ranmanichuan, then(if he
wanted) jump in the nyannichuan again. This would youthen him! Whee!

    Now THIS has a point... and a question.  If a person is in their

cursed

form, and then gets cursed again (Say onna-ranma fell in the spring of
drowned cat), would his uncursed form be his girl form, and the neko-form
his new cursed form...? (assuming Ranma survived the trauma of becoming a
cat... okay, so maybe it was a bad example... 6^-^).  I only ask since

this

may have an effect on a story that's still on the drawing board.

Actually my concept is a second dunk makes the curse permanant. First you
gotta
make the curse permanant before you can apply another curse. So Ranma, who's
already cursed with the Nyanniichuan, jumps in again to be a girl
permanantly,
then jumps in the Ranmaniichuan twice to be restored to his young form. Then
if he wanted, he could jump in the Nyanniichuan again. Though your idea is
pretty cool, too. Just imagine the possibilities :)

    -Sukyandaru

    "You were supposed to die!  It was written!"
    "What can I say, I flunked the written."
        Buffy & The Master, BtVS: Prophecy Girl

So did I :)

Thomas Hood
thood3@hotmail.com