The problem with a Ranma-Urd pairing is that his first
love is martial arts, and Urd won't stand for being
second place or even tied for first in her man's life.
 Also, she doesn't seem to be attracted to tough guys.

Well, remember the opening premise of the fic is that she's been
watching him for a decade or so. Odviously there's some
connection there and the challange of the writing will be to make
it concrete enough to be a driving force without it being
hackneyed. Romance between Urd and a ten year old Ranma?
Possible, but unlikely. Perhaps she was grooming him to be a
future boyfriend? Or perhaps it started filially and progressed?
I'm not that dead set on it being romance mind you; Ranma and Urd
would compliment each other well as close friends or relatives,
and I think there are enough rough edges on the both for them to
be able to deal. 

 Look at the men Urd has been attracted to:

1.  Troubadour, a plum tree spirit who couldn't even
fly but who was murderously jealous of anything male
that got near her.

2.  Keiichi - 'nuff said.

3.  Shohei, a scrawny, glasses-wearing geek boy who
didn't hesitate to (illegally) buy Urd a bottle of
good sake when she asked him to, and who was happy to
let her play his brand new video game before he got a
chance to play it.

Well, I don't particularily think they preclude a Ranma Urd
pairing. Perhaps Urd, injured by past love or whatever, goes
after men she can easily dominate for reassurance? As I recall,
she wasn't too bitterly upset about loosing them, especially K1.
I haven't read the Shohei arc so I can't speak of that. Is she
after the security because of fear of pain, but once she has it
realises she doesn't want it? The possibilities are there.
 

Even if Ranma were to develop some of these traits,
remember that Urd never forgave Troubadour for running
off to pursue his license rather than staying with
her.  The fact that he was officially required to do
so didn't matter to Urd.  He put something else ahead
of her and she never forgave him for it.

I could probably be presuaded into believing that's an excuse.
Urd just might be devious enough to hatch a plan that gets rid of
Troubadour and make it work out like that. More likely, the plan
could have originally been something completely different and
backfired into that.

That's the
biggest obstacle to their relationship, IMO, even more
so than Ranma being mortal.  Ranma would have to put
Urd at the center of his life with "the art" as a
distant second, and I don't see him doing that.

Eh. Urd's a devious woman. Her luck is almost as bad as Ranma's.
I might be willing to suspend a lot of disbelief in this on.
 

Not that it couldn't be done, but as stated above it
would have to be done very carefully in order not to
come across as completely contrived.

Absolute agreement.
 

Brian

Miashara

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