Differing Powers - OR - The Teaser I Should Never Have Written

A short Ranma 1/2 - Wheel Of Time exercise in futility

Facts, Stupid Satements and Questions With No Answers in Randland...

- Would Mat's luck protect him from her wrath?

Yes and his luck wouldn't protect him.  No power can protect you
from an  enraged anime female.

Depends on which universe.  In his universe, his ta'avereness and
luck would probably let him get away scot free.  In Ranma 1/2 land,
he's paste :)

Well, if you look at what happens to chance and co-incidence around Ranma
and see how he has effected those whom he meets then there is fair
evidence that _Ranma_ could be Ta'avern. So what happens when two Ta'avern
fight?

- Can Mat's fox medallion counter chi?

Sure, but then Ranma would just punch him.

Depends on what you do with the Chi and whether you consider it
equivalent to the One Power.

It is likely that a channeler could use the One Power to block chi using
Spirit, _if_ they could figure out just how...

- How many Warders could Ranma take on at once?

An army.  Only about 7-10 could encircle him at once and for all
their training, they still only have human speed and strength.
Considering the kind of damage he regularly shrugs off, glancing
blows aren't going  to cut it.

Yes, but if you attack a warder, the Aes Sedai can cut loose on you
too, and Ranma would have a hard time dealing with simply being
wrapped in air and beat up afterwards.

- What happens if you mix Ranma, cats, Aes Sedai, Asha'man,
cannon fod<AHEM> people and *no* Akane?  Dumai's Well revisited!

I bet the Neko-Ken could actually shred the One Power.

Naah.  It doesn't stop chi abilities, and if it doesn't stop that,
it's not likely to stop the one power.  Now, it MIGHT shred
Cuendillar, though :)
 

Just out of interest, where did you get the idea that the Cat-Fist can or
can't stop chi acilities? I'd be very interested in knowing this.

Anyway, when the Aes Sedi were trying to wrap Ranma with Air they are
using soldified air (or so it seems to me from the descriptions).
In the manga Ranma shreds Cologne's Shark-Fist which is
solidified water so...

- How many Aiel can Ranma take on at once?

See above answer for Warders.

This assumes Ranma doesn't get jumped.  Aiel aren't Ranma level, but
they are good.  If they hurt him enough early on...

I wish them luck hurting him, remember this is a person who gets punched
by a person (Ryoga) who can shatter concrete with his attacks. (And no,
this is not when he use the Breaking Point Techinque.)

- How does a macho *male* martial artist survive in the White Tower?

He offends a lot of Aes Sedei.  (What exactly could they do to
him if he absolutely refused to cooperate?)

Lots of horrible things.   

Such as a simple Water and Fire weave which doesn't let hot liquids touch
him...

- Would Ranma stand in place long enough to be balefired in the first
place?

No, of course not :)

Thinking he would just take it _severely_ underestimates his intelligence.
Also doesn't balefire burn the target's thread from the pattern and
couldn't Ranma be consider to be from outside the pattern?

- Who's the strongest (and most dangerous, for that matter)?  A
pissed-off Nyneave or a pissed-off Akane?

Akane.  Nyneave doesn't have mallets.

Physcially strongest, Akane But Nynaeve can do things to a person
that Akane couldn't do in a million years, like Balefire.  That makes
Akane's mallets look pathetic.

- I could make a very serious story out of all this junk...

- I could make a very silly story out of all this junk...

It has to be a silly story.  Everyone trys to do a Wheel of Time 
crossover seriously and they all abandon their fics.  Why?
Because you can't compete with Jordan when it comes to
seriousness. You've got to get silly.  Come on, there's so much in
WoT just begging to be made fun  of.

There were a few snippets of a WoT crossover with the Revenge's End crew
floating around for a short time.

Actually, I have a serious WOT crossover in progress. I'm just SLOW.
 

I'll be waiting for it...

Alternate questions:

Will ranma willingly allow his male half to be gentled (if he can 
channel)?  Will this affect his female half?

I doubt Ranma would allow that anymore than any other male channeler.
 

It would depend on if he knows what he's letting himself in for.

Will the Dark One send his minions out on a quest for Hostess Twinkie 
Cakes?

Will Ranma take inspiration from Rand, be a man, and marry them all!?

No :)

I just thought of something nasty. Imagine if all Ranma's four "fiancee's"
could channel, but he couldn't. Now imagine that they all try to bond him
as a Warder at the same time...
 

Could the Breaking Point shatter power-forged metal?

Yes :)

Everything has got it's breaking point.. ^_^

Another idea I just had which was spawned from this discussion about Ranma
channeling, imagine if onna-Ranma bonded Ryoga without knowing what she
was doing...

- Richard Drysdale (rdd2@st-andrews.ac.uk)