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...
I only ask since this may have an effect on a story that's still on >

the drawing board.

I think the curses would join each other. Didn't Tarou pour Spring of
Drown Octopus on himself so that his cursed form would have tentacles?

(I

may be wrong, but this is what I have been told by a friend who is a
Pantyhose fan)

If that's anything to go by, I think Ranma's cursed form would be a
female cat, and his normal form would remain as is.

Of course, this is just my opinion. ^_^

James

Naw, it wouldn't merely be a female cat.  If Taro is anything
to go by, Ranma's cursed form would be a female cat-human hybrid.

The fact of the matter is, Ranma 1/2 is inconsistent in the way
the curses work.  Takahashi has stated that the cure to Ranma's
curse is the Nannichuan, which would suggest that one curse
replaces another.  Taro, on the other hand, is both a direct
contradiction of this, as well as being the only character who
has actually been dunked more than once in canon.  Which is
correct?  I believe there's at least one fanfic out there which
discusses this.

Well, someone once suggested that the only reason Pantyhose's added octopus
tentacles were available was because he had a combination curse to start
with (drowned yeti riding a goat while holding an eel and a crane).  But
Chris is right in that Takahashi's curses are inconsistent.  The main reason
is that she doesn't want to go into too many specifics so that she can use
them where it's...ah...comically convenient.

One of the stories explaining the curses is Twoflower's Elseworlds segment,
"Looking Down the Barrel of a Glomp."  You can find it on his webpage at
http://pixelscapes.com/stefan/ should you feel the need to read it.

Lawrence

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