At 1:56 PM -0700 21/10/2001, Adrian Tymes wrote:

Glad to see I'm not the only one doing this...

Sorry, should probably have gotten a waiver from you first. :)

Angus MacSpon wrote:

 At 8:59 PM -0700 20/10/2001, allyn yonge wrote:
 >@@I kinda like if Ranma is actually Makoto's mother
 >and Akane is Ami's sister, but that's just me.

 Indeed ...?

You could have taken this a bit further, you know...
* Kasumi turns out to be adopted, and is actually Usagi's sister.
  (After having to give up their first child, Usagi's parents decided
  to wait a few years until they were ready before conceiving again.)
* Minako turns out to be a runaway, using money to fabricate her home.
  She left because she never got along very well with the Kunos.
* Both Haruka and Michiru slept around in their earlier days.  It
  turns out they had one partner in common...meaning that neither one
  knows who is really Hotaru's mother, and they're too embarassed to
  get genetic tests.
* And, of course: Setsuna is older than the universe itself, having
  lived through it a few times, sometimes in different forms.  Yes,
  Setsuna is Mamoru.  ^_-

Hey, I had to leave _some_ gaps for you to fill in.

 > "Umm, yeah.  That does sound a bit funny, now I come to think about it.

 Mind you, he did say there were leeks in it."  (At the back of the room,
 another of the girls, with long green-black hair, stiffened.)

Ah, her secret has leeked out, has it?  ^_^

They've gotta be good for _something_.

 > "No, that was Ryoga.  I stayed well out of Egypt -- too many cats

 around."

Or Ranma was just in cat-fist the whole time, and doesn't remember
posing for sculptures of Bast.

Just wait till the archaeologists discover the eroded-away pigtail on
the Sphinx.

 > "What was Ryoga doing in ancient Egypt?" asked Akane, startled.

 Ranma scratched her head.  "You know, that's a good question.  I'll have
 to ask him, next time I see him."

Modelling for Set, lord of the dead.  Why?  Well, eternally lost in
the desert kind of implies...

Later on, he got a job doing landscape modelling in Crete.  The Minoan
Labyrinth was his attempt at a garden path.

 > Ranma hesitated.  "Well, at one point I may have, umm, well, sort of

 created the Universe.  Only by mistake, though!" she added hastily.  "I
 didn't mean to do it!"

 Everybody stared at her.

 "I sneezed at the wrong moment.  It could happen to anyone!"

AH-CHOO!  Hmm...no universe yet.

Are you sure?  Look behind you.  Right there, hovering over your left
shoulder.

(This may mean that Ranma is the Great Green Arkleseizure, by the way.
Five points for anyone catching the reference...)

 > She cleared her throat.  "Anyway, about then, the time soup wore off,

 and I reappeared back where I'd started.  So I told the old guy thanks
 for the soup, and came on home."  Ranma glanced at Akane, whose eyes
 were starting to look glassy, and said hastily, "And right after that
 Happosai showed up for the first time, so I forgot to mention all this
 to you.  Er.  Sorry."

"Yeah, I just forgot to mention about a hundred years of my life for a
few hours, then I kinda forgot entirely until now..."

"It could happen to anyone!  Honest!"

Cheers,
Angus