----- Original Message -----
From: Jay Kominek <jay.kominek@colorado.edu>
To: <ffml@fanfic.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 5:34 PM
Subject: [FFML] Re: Matrix 0.5 (Was: [Ranma/Matrix] New fanfic idea.)
I can't believe anyone has yet to call Ranma the Two, or the Half (though
the former sounds better).
Someone suggested that Nannichuan/Nyannichuan exist to justify/whatever people
whose Matrix-gender doesn't match their physicial gender.
What if, instead, it was used somehow to adjust/fix valuble (read massive ki
generators) people who suffered from some sort of mental problem? By binding
together two people who have some sort of mental condition, it allows them
to get one functioning person.
This is the most half-assed suggestion yet. Look, mental problems are not caused
by a lack of some sort in a personality. Combining two people into one identity
will NOT solve any problem they might have. Rather, it would probably GIVE them
a MPD(Multiple Personality Disorder). Now, if someone had a major personality
problem related to their mental gender not being the same as their physical
gender, then this would be reasonable. This is the main reason why sex-changes
are done today. People realize that they are not-mentally-the same gender as
their physical gender. I read a medical journal that talked about this,
something about it being visible on a CAT scan. Male and female brains are
different.
Ranma was one of these pairs of people. (Maybe the Neko-ken training broke
his brain) And so Morpheus and company extract Ranma, but instead of finding
two people in the sewer, they find two people who look and act like twins,
finishing each other sentences and stuff. If the female Ranma was just used
to correct for the male Ranma's mental problems, maybe she wouldn't have
the ki generation potential, instead just being a very good martial artist
who wouldn't master the male Ranma's special techniques. Would she switch
to some other interest? Would she even remain sane?
Hmm. I think I might just write something on this myself.
It seems to me like you're trying to force a new way to make a 'split' fic,
where Ranma's two forms split up. If you're going to do something like that,
at least find a more reasonable premise than this. There's nothing WRONG with
'split' fics per se, it's just your whole idea about using two people to make
one person just doesn't WORK.
Just a thought, though, if onna-side doesn't get the Ki manipulation, then
otoko-side wouldn't get the martial-arts skill. They're linked you know, so
I don't see how you would work it.
Oh, another thought. This procedure probably would give a MPD, but let's just
say someone goes and does it. Say one person is schitzophrenic and another
has a psychosis. One would be seeing things and the other would be terrified
of the delusions. :) This would result in a seriously messed-up individual.
Might be worth a write.
Thomas Hood
thood3@hotmail.com