> Likewise, pulling Kachiko entirely out of her time, before she

had

 > Kasumi (let alone Akane) would cause a paradox with Akane being
 > granted a wish; that she used to pull her mother forwards in

time.

 > But if Kachiko Tendou was pulled entirely and utterly forwrds

in time,

 > how could she marry Soun and have three children (the youngest

one

 > being Akane)?  And if Akane didn't exist, how could Akane make

a wish

 > that her mother was alive at the present time?

 True, but she's here now, so the wish worked regardless of what

consequences

 in theory might have come about. Now it there's some other side

effects

from

 the wish other than Kachi's presense, that remains to be seen.

    Wellll...I don't have the original available, but best as I can

recall,

Akane's wish was "I wish Mother had never been in a car accident so

that she

could be with us today."  Depending on just how much power and
discretion/imagination the genie had, I'd say that the "so that..."

clause

would have forced it to somehow make some kind of arrangement to

prevent a

temporal paradox.  Of course, the "today" part leaves a loophole --

the

simplest solution I can think of would be for Kachi to end up going

back and

marrying Soun and having her daughters *without* having been in a

car

accident.  Of course, I doubt Kachi would be amenable.

My error concerning the wish's wording has already been raised.

Of course, maybe the wish will end up returning her to her original
location in space-time just a second or two after she was pulled
forward in time.  Of course, Kachiko's memories of what is to come
(the past to the Ranma 1/2 crew) would have be locked away.

I mean, if you told - and *showed* - me that I'd have to give up all
my dreams to get married to someone that I don't like (at least the
future version of them) and have kids at a young age.  All so the
precious timeline would be safe when I then die while I'm still pretty
young.

I'd probably ask what was in it for me.  And they'd better make it
good.

    I'd say, though, that *something* has to happen to fix the

apparent

paradox, and that it's already in the works, due to the wording of

the wish.

Our Heroes have a temporal time bomb (Pluto ex machina? <grin>)

counting down

on them and they don't even know it.  Should be interesting to see

what

happens next.

The possibility of paradox is part of the reason I went with the
"magical clone with memories" senario.  Particularly since her friend
Sakura told "Akane" (really Kachiko) that she didn't know of any trips
that Kachiko made when she was 17.

Also, at least in the cannon, Ranma 1/2 seems to follow the idea that
you can't *really* change the past.  The Namban Mirror comes to mind,
for example.

    One thing I wonder, though:  can the "Nerima Effect" screw up

the Genie's

powers the way it kees screwing up Ranma&co's lives?

When do things *ever* go to plan when Nerima (particularly the Tendo
and Saotome family members) and its "visitors" are concerned?

Then again, this *is* a fanfiction story, so the author gets to decide
what to do.  :-)

So I guess we'll have to watch and see.
The Apprentice



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