On Sun, 01 Mar 1998 02:50:52 -0500, you wrote:

Matthew Lewis wrote:

                        When Ranma was Two
                                or
                A Funny Thing Happened at Jusenkyo

In China:

        A sombre valley filled with pools.

        A bamboo pole stands stoically in each pool.

        A panda knocks a teenaged boy/man into one of the pools.

>From the pool, a confused shout. "What the hell happened to my clothes?"

"Who are you?"  asked the other (clothed) resident of the pool.

"Oh, sirs. You fall in spring of drowned twin. Very tragic story of
twins who fall into pool many year ago and drown. Now, whoever fall into
pool take form of twins," said the Guide.

        The Ranma on the left (Blue shirt) looked at the other Ranma (Red
shirt), who looked at the panda, then nodded to Blue shirt. "If we could
have a kettle of hot water?" lefty said.

        Kasumi nodded, and went to prepare the water.

        Red shirt began, "Well, it happened when we were in China. The
ole' man wanted ta go to the legendary training grounds of Jusenkyo...."

Someone please, please do something with this!  "The classic Silver Age 
story of Ranma-Red and Ranma-Blue, brought to you today!"  (Just as long 
as they don't turn into electricity.  DC comic readers know what I'm 
talking about.)

As far as I'm aware, double male Ranmas is virgin territory for fanfic. 
Who says all the good ideas have been used?  This could be a truely 
great fic.  Sometimes being two people and sometimes being one arguably 
has _much_ greater potential than a simple gender change.

Come on, somebody pick this up.  (please-please)

I considered writin' a fanfic similar to this, two Ranma's that is. I wanted to
have it where the reader would realize that there is one true Ranma and an
_exact_ clone. And of course, I'll end up killin' one of the Ranmas (the real
one), and the reader is left wondering if it mattered one which Ranma died. It's
meant to make you really think, (Like Harry Kim from Voyager being a fake
because the real Kim died in that episode where two Voaygers existed at the same
time and one of 'em had to self destruct to save the other) Same premise,
different different reason. But then I realized, and someone pointed it out,
that the comics already did that idea with Spiderman where you had to wonder if
it really mattered if Ranma was a clone, even though he's an _exact_ replica.



-OneShot
Jeffrey Keith Wong: jeffwong@li.net
http://www.rit.edu/~jkw7063/fanfic/index.htm
http://www.li.net/~jeffwong/index.htm
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