On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Scott Johnson wrote:
On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, The Major wrote:
Kodachi is probably the closest match to Kinuko of the "old" fiancees, but
Kodachi was always... "erattic", whereas Kinuko seems far more
focussed. Hmmm... and Kodachi will be knocking around in the Careful
Destiny world, she just hasn't run into Ranma yet - when is the next
Martial Arts Rythmic Gymnastics tournament scheduled? :-)
Actually, this could be interesting - after all, of all the girls chasing
him in the normal Ranmaverse, Kodachi is the only one who the current
situation doesn't automatically exclude. (He was forcibly disengaged to
Akane, he was never engaged to Ukyou, and he never even got on the same
continent as Shampoo.) However, Ranma wished for a more or less normal
life, and if Kodachi as she is in the Ranmaverse ends up chasing him, his
life won't be anywhere near normal. Would the wish take that into
account and make this universe's Kodachi different in some way? Or would
it consider just having not had him go to the Rythmic Gymnastics
tournament sufficient?
Ranma's wish was that "I was never cursed". In this story he did not ask
for a normal life (I think you are mixing fanfic.s here). His life ended
up being more normal here simply because he was never subjected to the
Martial Arts Stupidity of Genma.
Kodachi should be much the same as she is in the original since Ranma
meet her very late in her... "development". The differences between this
Kodachi and the "Original" should be on about the same level as the
changes in Kunou-sempai. Fairly minor as far as can be seen so far.
I'm somewhat intrigued by the idea of a somewhat
more well-adjusted Kodachi - not too much more so, or you'll lose a lot
of her unique flavor, but perhaps in this universe, she managed to come
to terms better with her mother's death (I tend to operate under the
assumption that Mrs. Kuno died long ago, and that was what sent the three
surviving Kunos into the states we know them today), and she's now not
nearly as obsessive about love.
There could be some changes, Kodachi might well be a friend of Akane's,
made while she was suffering Kunou's torments. But so far the author has
not given us any reason to expect great changes in Kodachi.
And there is no reason (at the moment) to expect Kodachi to start after
Ranma again, remember how Kodachi met him for the first time?.... then
again she did just decide that Ranma was a hunk while trying to knock
Akane out of the contest... maybe Kodachi will just "fall" for Ranma if
they meet. Ask the author.
And since Kinuko is sort of going to
be filling the Kodachi/Shampoo 'Unscrupulous Chaser' role, a revised
Kodachi might make an interesting contrast. Or perhaps she's already
attached - she found a 'true love' earlier, for instance. (I've always
wondered, to tell the truth, if there was any significance to her 'I
almost gave up dating boys' comment. Did it just mean she was going to
give up dating in general, or... I'm probably reading too much into it,
really. Still, she and Azuka the White Lily might make an interesting
pair if they weren't rivals.)
As I recall her statement in her introductory episode it was more: "I've
spent so much time winning, I haven't had time for a real boyfriend"
[Insert initial collision with Ranma] "What a hunk! He'll do!"
The exact wording escapes me, but the above should be fairly close.
And I always thought Kodachi got really interested in Ranma after she
realised that she'd have to fight Akane for him. It is clear that
Kodachi hates losing, at anything. :-)
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