One thing that worries me
though is the dreaded 'Ukyo factor'. I do not want to write Ukyo into the
story, but I KNOW that all the crazy Ukyo fans out there will demand it...
so I'm trying to toss ideas on how to integrate her in, but most likely she
will not be in this story.
Maybe you can make her a boy?
Frankly, I don't see how you could leave Ukyou _out_ of the story. Ranma
vanishes one day, she's certainly going to look for him, don't you think?
So would Shampoo, for that matter. Kodachi might, as well. And Kunou's
going to go on a crusade after he learns that Akane and his osage-no-onna
have both disappeared. If you're dead-set on discluding one or all of them
from the story, one solution would be to simply kill them off.
Personally, I don't think that's necessary unless it's just your personal
preference. I can think of lots of ways to integrate Ukyou in the story,
for example, what Ken said, or you could have her get kidnapped by the
Agents to lure Ranma to them. Or she could be tricked into cooperating
with the agents, as Ryouga was. Or, if you want to hike down a weirder
trail, I dreamed this up:
Okay, Ranma's not Ranma, he's female Ranma. So male Ranma doesn't actually
exist, right? But here's my idea: what if he _does_, only male Ranma's
body is actually inhabited by _Ukyou_ in the real world instead of Ranma?
Remember the irony when Ukyou arrived, and Ranma (half-girl) had a fiance
who had been dressing like a boy for 10 years? What if that irony was sort
of predestined, because the curse and the crossdressing were a way of
fixing a problem that the computer created when it assigned them to the
wrong sexes?
I dunno, I just think it's a really cool idea and it could fit in pretty
nicely with what you've created. I can think of a _lot_ of really cool
emotional scenes that you could write about that scenario.
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"Feh. Knowing Ryouga he probably turns into a wombat or an
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-Ukyou, from Zen's _The Long and Winding Road_