On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Edward Becerra wrote:
Seriously, this sounds like a good story for one of us to try.
Ukyou DESERVES a good man.
Ukyou DESERVES Ranma, but she's due to be dissappointed. Ukyou is everything
a cute sexchanging martial artist with a big ego, and a slightly larger
appetite could want in a fiancee. They're the only ones in the whole series
who would rather talk than grapple (you try to find a word that covers both
kiss, and kill).
The tragedy is that Ranma loves Akane, possibly the worst choice for Ranma
(barring the Kuno siblings).
I'd love to see a well written Elseworld or Whatif where Genma doesn't
abandon Ukyou at the age of 5. Genma, being unably to teach a young girl how
to be demure, modest, and shy, raises Ukyou as a boy/tomboy. They grow up
together as brother and sister. Find familial love, but don't want to get
married, but Genma is forcing them to because of his honor, and promise to
Ukyou's father. Then start adding fiancees and suitors until everyone is
dizzy.
At this point the curses become somewhat superfluous. You can have them swap
genders, or maybe other attributes. I'd love to see Genma get the girl curse.
Kuno after Genma, and Cologne letting Genma know in no uncertain terms that if
he weren't married, he'd be Cologne's partner. "Akane, Ukyou, pigtailed girl,
okappa girl, I would date you all!"
Neil Reynolds
I'm cursed with more ideas than writing skill.