A Man Among Women: Compromising Situations

a Ranma 1/2 fanfiction by Vince Seifert (seifertv@csus.edu)

Ranma 1/2 characters and situations are copyright 1987, 2002
by Takahashi Rumiko.  Publishing rights (Japan) by Shogakukan
Inc.  Publishing rights (North America) by Viz Inc.  This work
is not intended to infringe those rights.

This story is for Anand Rao, in hopes that it only answers some
of his questions.  ;)

Aw, thanks, Vince!  I haven't received a gift this nice since Christmas!

>From my point of view, this story was about Kasumi.  I'm sure that comes as 
quite a shock. :)

At any rate, Vince, I remember way back when AMAW was first released and I 
harassed you about one particular plot point, namely, why would Kasumi agree 
to the situation in which you placed her.  I didn't realize it at the time, 
but *not* hitting us over the head with an answer worked better than 
anything else could have.

Compromising Situations worked perfectly.

You, or rather, the other characters, presented so many possible motivations 
as to why Kasumi would agree to marry Ranma.

To Shampoo, it's about his looks and body.  To Nabiki, it's about property, 
money, and power. To Ranma, it was perhaps something his mother instigated.  
All of these things could be true.  Kasumi, herself alludes to certain 
things.

As written in the manga, Kasumi is a fairly one dimensional character.  She 
is trained to be the prototypical old school japanese housewife, and nothing 
else.  Marrying Ranma would allow her to succeed at what she was trained to 
do.  Up until then, she was a housewife who wasn't married and didn't have a 
house.  Her family was no help to her, ever, and then this opportunity 
arose.  She grabbed it, quick as possible.

Excellent story, Vince.  You're painting a great picture for us, and I can't 
wait to see more.

-Anand

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