Story Concepts

Story Ideas

I thought I would spend a little time brain storming ideas for stories. Just because I have them written down here doesn't mean that I will develop all of them myself. The reason I'm posting this on my blog is to see if I can get some feedback from people to see what reaction they have to these ideas. Hopefully my readers will see the ideas and give some suggestions on which ideas they feel are worth being developed and which are not.

I would also welcome suggestions for ideas on how to develop these concepts into stories. Feel free to suggest concepts you might have for totally different stories or for variations on the ideas that I have listed.

If one of these ideas inspires someone out there to write their own fic, that's great too. I would make one request in that regard. If you do write your own fic based on one of my ideas, please at least list me as an inspiration.



Ranma-Taro match up story idea

I sort of like the idea of unusual romantic match ups. A case in point is "Happi's Redemption." That was started as a story about how an old man could use water from Spring of Drowned Young girl to keep from dying of old age. I ended up turning it into a romantic match up between Ranma and Happosai turned girl.

In keeping with that I was thinking of a match up between Ranma and Pantyhose Taro. The premise that came to me was that Ranma would take pity on the monster boy and help get Happosai to change his name. However in the fight Happosai is killed and Ranma gets locked as a girl.

Taro feels guilty and tries to make it up to Ranma and they find they actually can like each other. From there love blossoms. This will need work to develop it into a story.

Ranma/Taro idea #2

Not sure if I can really imagine a plot that would work with this concept. How would the story develop if Ranma got the Chimera curse like Taro did. I did just think what it might be like if Ranma turned into a female version of the chimera that Taro turns into. Could there be a romance develop between monster boy and monster girl?

Ranma-chan with Gosunkugi Hikaru

I've read one lemon fic where Ranma in girl form has sex with Gosunkugi, and one where I'd have to read it over more carefully to be sure. (In that one nearly every cast member is having sex with nearly every other cast member.) I don't think I've read any fics where Hikaru ever has a serious relationship with Ranma.

I do recall that in the fic Lonely Souls the spirit of the vengeful doll gets put into a body cloned from Akane and that person starts to date the boy.

My thought was to try and come up with a story where Ranma actually finds that there is more to Hikaru than just voodoo, a crush on Akane and other general creepiness.

Ranma/Konatsu

I actually started writing an opening chapter on this one. The idea here is that Happosai had found a way to destroy Ranma's boy side. He does that and then tries to cast a spell to make girl Ranma his love slave. The talisman he uses won't allow itself to be used for mind control spells and Happi is killed.

Ranma gets disowned and goes to live with Ukyo. Ukyo discovers that she can't live with the idea of a lesbian relationship with Ranma and so opts just for friendship. Denied the practice of Anything Goes, Ranma starts to study ninjitsu with Konatsu. Romance develops (he can't wait forever for Ukyo.)

Ranma-Kodachi match up story idea

Just a vague concept at this point. I was thinking that something that might snap the Black Rose out of her delusions might be getting a Naniichuan curse. The thought I have here is that at the Wedding the cask of Naniichuan water is not drunk by Happosai, but instead gets splashed on Kodachi.

Now cursed to turn into a part time man, she is forced to re-evaluate many of the truths of her life. One of them is the obsession with her Ranma-Sama. She now comes to realize that the "absurd story" that he and the "red haired hussy" are the same person must be true. Love blossoms.

Idea for Ranma/Nodoka lemon

Nodoka has been getting worried since the failed wedding. Even though she had declared that Ranma was manly enough even with the curse, she has found out things that have brought his manliness into doubt. There is the fact that even with all of the fiancees he hasn't bedded even one of them. She wonders if he is starting to accept the curse to the point where he might be turning feminine.

Because of these thoughts, a new plan is needed. In order to turn Ranma to the Manly side she must find a way to see to it that he starts to indulge in his manly urges. He must bed one or more of his fiancees or some other woman. She needs to get Ranma having sex even if she has to seduce him herself.

Ranma/Nodoka Idea #2

I just like Ranma and Nodoka as a couple. One possibility I could think of is that Nodoka is just a total slut. Genma took Ranma on the training trip to get the boy away from his mother's nymphomaniac tendencies. When Nodoka finds out that her son is back in town, she drops by at the dojo. After doing the bit with Ranko, she finally tries to seduce the cute girl and during sex with her finds out that Ranko is really Ranma. Delighted to learn of this, she settles into a semi permanent relationship with the aquatranssexual.

Ranma/Nodoka Idea #3

Another idea goes at Ranma/Nodoka incest from the opposite direction. How about this: at the Wedding the cask of Naniichuan water lands on Nodoka and gives her the man curse. At first she is horrified, but she eventually decides that she likes being a man and will strive to become manly as she sees it. As part of Nodoka's becoming "manly" she divorces Genma and develops a plan to seduce Ranma in girl form, and male form as well as to have sex with as many of Ranma's suitors as she/he can. Basically she gets to practice what she preaches (at least in fanon.) I could see Ranma ending up pregnant from sex with her male-form mother.

Ranma/Nodoka Idea #4

I've got two ways for this concept to work. The basis is for Shampoo to bring some kind of drugged ramen for Ranma to eat. I could see it where the first woman that Ranma looks at after eating the ramen is his mother. He falls in love and sets out to seduce her. This could also work if Nodoka accidentally eats the drugged food and the first man she sees is Ranma. From that point she would then try to seduce her son. The concept would end with them permanently together. It could also be some kind of magic that does the same thing.

Actually, it occurs to me that the concept works better if Ranma and Nodoka both eat the drugged ramen at the same time. That way I could see both of them eagerly hopping into bed together.

Ranma/Nodoka Idea #5

I'm not sure how well this would work but I'm willing to put the idea up to see how people respond to it. This would be the result of a mixup or miscommunication. Nodoka came over to visit the Tendo dojo and decided to stay the night. She went to the guest room that Ranma and Genma share and takes one of the futons. Genma and Soun are out drinking, so they are not a factor.

Then Ranma gets home and is really tired so he goes right to bed without bothering to look at who is in the other futon. In the night, Nodoka wakes up and can hear the sound of someone breathing. Believing that Genma was the one she heard, she moves over to that futon and starts kissing, etc. By the time she and Ranma realize who they are having sex with, it is too late to stop.

If I addressed the idea of where they go from there, it could be a series. Otherwise it would likely end up being a one shot. I would also welcome suggestions for how a Ranma/Nodoka pairing could get started and how it could continue.

Ranma/Nodoka idea #6

I read one fic where Ranma and Nodoka got together through a case of mistaken identity. In that Nodoka was horny and turned to a boy who was available. The boy was Ranma, but he gave a false name. That story ended with the two of them committing suicide.

I'd like to imagine something similar, but with a happier ending. I'll need to think more about this as to how to make it work.

Ranma/Nodoka idea #7

On the website ranmabooks.com one of the artist who is a regular contributor goes by the alias Dark One. There's a lot of general pictures of Ranma but there are also some that seem to be part of an actual story. I had wondered if there was an actual written story that went with it.

The concept gets going with a series of pictures of Nodoka having sex with large numbers of men and some animals. Then included with those there are letters she sent to Ranma and Genma while they were away on the training trip. The concept put forward was that Nodoka needed a way to support herself while the "boys" were gone and did so by being a prostitute.

At some time after Ranma and Genma get back from the trip (obviously after Ranma met Nodoka) they start having an affair and Ranma-chan becomes Nodoka's lesbian lover. There was one picture of male Ranma naked with his mother, so it wasn't all girl-on-girl action with them. Because of the influence of her mother, Ranma got locked as a girl went to work in the same business. One of the more recent pictures posted showed both Ranma and Nodoka pregnant and the captioning below made it clear that each carried the other's child.

My thought was that I could contact the artist and ask if there was a readable story in existence or if he was just working from some kind of outline. If he had just an outline I would suggest that he write the story as a fan fiction or possibly let me see the outline and I could try to turn it into a story.

Ranma/Nodoka idea #8

An idea for a variation on idea #7. This is in case Dark One writes the story himself or is unwilling to let me create a fic based on his pictures. I could write a fic that I would say was "inspired" by those pictures.

I would envision Ranma going to visit his mom sometime in the canon time frame after meeting her or possibly even after the failed wedding. This idea would have him finding the front door unlocked and him walking in to find his mom having hot sex with some unidentified man.

Ranma would leave the house but stay where he could see the door. Maybe he could sit on the roof. After he sees the strange man leave, he would go knock on the door and Nodoka would let him in.

While they are drinking tea, Ranma would tell Nodoka that he had seen her with the man and ask what was going on. She would confess what she had been working as a prostitute during the time of the training trip. She didn't do it any more, but still would get together with some of her old customers for old times sake. The reason she wasn't still a "professional girl" was because she had made a lot of money and had invested it wisely, so didn't need to work for money any longer.

I could see one or more chapters of flashbacks to some of the sexual encounters Nodoka had during her career. At the end of the flashbacks, Nodoka sees that Ranma has become aroused by the stories and decides that she will relieve his sexual tension. That would lead to a nice lemon scene of them together. Then another chapter would be them together both as women. I could even envision Nodoka using instant Naniichuan powder to become a man and do Ranma-chan.

That would lead to both "girls" getting pregnant by the other. I wouldn't put a marriage in there, at least as a formal arrangement. There could still be some kind emotional commitment of each to the other.

Ranma/Nodoka idea #9

This isn't so much an idea for me to write but an appeal to readers. In one of the author's notes to a story of mine posted on Media Miner I asked readers to point me to some good Ranma/Nodoka lemon fics. I got one response that gave me a link to a story where Nodoka made a living as a writer of porn during the training trip.

As I recall it, movies were made from some of Nodoka's stories. Ranma went along with his mom to a filming (taping?) of one of those and the two of them got so aroused that they ended up having sex with each other.

Sometime after I got that link in an email my computer got infected with a virus and the hard drive had to be re-formatted, erasing everything that I had. I had a lot of stuff backed up, but the email with the link to the story I described was not one of those things. If anyone who sees this has read the fic, could you email me with a new link? I would extend that to request links to any lemon stories that put Ranma and Nodoka together.

Ranma/Genma idea(s)

From the reviews I got on my story "Nodoka's Lessons" I know that Genma is not a very popular choice of sex partner for girl Ranma. One reviewer even said, "You've lost me. I will stop reading this."

On the other hand it should be noted that in many fan fics Genma is portrayed as an amoral S.O.B. If he thought that Ranma's curse would forever deny him access to Nodoka's bed, then I could see him turning to Ranma for his sexual needs, since Onna-Ranma looks like a young Nodoka.

I wrote a couple of chapters on a concept that I haven't given a title to yet. The concept is that, right after Jusenkyo, instead of going with the Guide to the Amazon village for supplies, Genma decides that they will forage for what they can find. Some of the berries they eat have aphrodisiac properties and it makes both Ranma and Genma extremely horny.

Genma decides to take advantage of the sexy girl who is available and Ranma is naive enough about sex that he is willing to go along with whatever his/her father suggests. The next day after the effects of the berries wear off, I write Genma as being horrified and repentant for how he has "ruined" his son. On the other hand Ranma has decided that she likes sex as a girl and because of that, likes being a girl. She especially likes it with Genma and seeks to have more sex with him as often as possible.

The upshot of that is that when Ranma and Genma get to the Tendo Dojo, Genma is almost desperate not only for Ranma to get engaged to one of the girls, but for him to have sex with one or more of them (maybe all of them.) He is hoping that by having sex in his male form he will be broken loose from this obsession of having sex as a girl in general and doing it with Genma in particular.

Now that was as far as I had written it. I wasn't sure how to proceed with it from there. I was just thinking that Nodoka could find out and divorce Genma and (after changing her name) Ranma could try to marry Genma. Or I could also see Ranma turning into a total slut and having sex with Ryoga, Kuno, Hiroshi and Daisuke and maybe even Gosunkugi. I'd be willing to take suggestions for ways to take the concept.

I've read fics by other authors where Ranma has sex with Genma after arriving at the Tendo dojo. One of them is called "Father's Day II." In that one Ranma was getting horny, but felt that having sex with any of the fiancées was too dangerous. The only "safe" person he could see doing it with was Genma and so she becomes her father's lover. I think that is the only fic I've read where Ranma chose such a relationship without any use of magic, potions, trickery, etc.

I'm open to suggestions for further ideas for at least semi plausible ideas of how girl Ranma could end up Genma's lover. Magic and potions are Ok as are trickery or simply taking advantage of Ranma's naiveté in matters regarding sex.

Alternate Ranma/Genma idea

Just had a new thought on the Ranma as lover for Genma. Maybe could have Ranma get some other curse that would leave him a human male or maybe he gets no curse at all while Genma gets a curse to turn into the familiar busty red haired teen girl. He could change into some different girl. On the trip back to Japan, Genma decides that he likes the youth of the girl form, the slender frame and the fact that it has hair. He/she tries masturbating as a girl and likes how it makes her feel. That leads to her seducing or trying to seduce Ranma. It might even work with both having the same curse.

Gender Reversal

This one starts out when Panda Genma carries a girl Ranma into the Tendo home. The difference is that Soun Tendo was the parent who died. Kimiko Tendo is the still living parent and the children she has been raising are boys.

Kenjiro is the eldest at 19 and a medical student. He is sort of a male version of Kasumi with Dr. Tofu overtones. The middle boy (Name to be decided later) is a money grubber, information broker, blackmailer, entrepreneur. Kaneda is the youngest and is the martial artist. Bold, brash and in some ways like canon Ranma.

When they find out about the agreement for one of the Tendo boys to marry Genma's child, the result is massive confusion, aided by the fact that their first impression of Ranma is as a girl.

At some point in that I picture an earnest conversation between Kimiko and Genma. She agrees that the joining of the schools is important, but the options available for fulfilling that pledge are very few. Kimiko can't marry Genma because his wife is still alive. Ranma could marry Kimiko and she admits that she doesn't mind the thought of a strong young man in her bed.

The last option she could see would be for Genma's "daughter" to marry one of the Tendo sons. While she can understand why Ranma might be resistant to that idea, she could see how they might be able to push him into it by playing on his sense of honor.

At this point I'm not sure which of those options I really favor. I can see possibilities for Ranma marrying the older woman. But I can also see where it might be funny for Ranma to have to be a girl and get married to Kaneda.

I'm not sure how much of a difference this would introduce into this concept, but I could also imagine it if Soun is the surviving Tendo parent. I'd welcome any suggestions anyone might wish to offer on any kind of Girl Ranma getting matched up to a male Tendo offspring.

Tendo Incest idea.

On this one the idea is that back when Mrs. Tendo died, things started out as in canon. Then, at the age of 12, Kasumi decided that she couldn't deal with how her Mom's death had turned her father into a sniveling crybaby. She decided that what was needed was someone to take mom's place in father's bed.

Thus it was that Kasumi seduced her father and they began having regular sex, so that she was taking the role of not just a housewife, but a wife in fact. After four years, Nabiki gets in on the act and she and Kasumi are sharing the bedroom chores. At the time of Ranma's arrival Akane has been not been asked to take her turn in daddy's bed, but is aware that it will be coming. The whole "baby girl" thing will not hold forever.

One of the effects of this is that Akane still believes that boys are perverts, but she is starting to get desperate to get out of her participation in the family "tradition." If she were to get engaged to the son of her father's friend, then maybe she would be exempted from being called to father's bed. I figure she could look at is as a sort of "lesser of two evils" sort of thing.

Instead of condemning Ranma right from the first, she is a little more willing to put up with what she still sees as his perverted tendencies if it gets her out of having sex with her father. She will take on the engagement, saying that she wants to see if she actually likes him. Being engaged will get her out of having to take on bedroom chores with her father.

I sort of see it as Akane publicly proclaiming the engagement while privately telling Ranma that if he tries anything perverted with her, she will pulverize him. Through all of the canon crazy people she meets she will come to appreciate that Ranma is really a nice boy and not the pervert she first believed him to be and will come to want to be married to him.

This could be done as lemon with sex scenes of the older girls getting it on with Soun. On the other hand it could be done straight where the sex takes place off stage and is only referred to, but not described.

On the lemon version of the story I could picture a scene where the two older sisters lead Akane to Soun's bed as a way to "celebrate" Akane's engagement to Ranma. Of course you could just look at it as Soun's attempt to have sex with his youngest daughter before she officially became another man's wife.

Ranma/Cologne

I don't know if I've read any examples of this one before. This is in keeping with Nyaniichuan being Spring of Drowned Young Girl. I have written a story of Happosai using water from that spring to rejuvenate himself. I know I have read fics where Cologne used the water to change from a dried up old crone into a hot looking teenaged girl. I could also imagine the age changing mushrooms being used to accomplish the same thing. The advantage to the mushrooms would be no changing back to the old crone with hot water.

The idea here is that Cologne would get rejuvenated in this fashion and decide that she was better suited to being Ranma's wife than Shampoo. There could be some silliness as she pursues her intended "Airen" but it would eventually settle down where she actually does marry him and they settle down in Tokyo. She resigns from being an elder and they run the restaurant and raise babies.

I remember reading part of another fic where they used the magic age changing mushrooms to make Cologne a young girl. There is a certain appeal to that because there wouldn't be any changing back to an old crone with hot water. Of course Cologne would likely have the ability to lock a Jusenkyo curse, so that wouldn't necessarily be a problem.

Ranma/Tenchi

I'm not sure why, but I like stories where Ranma is stuck as a girl. I don't know if I could improve on "Tenchi and Ranma - Together Forever" but I'd like to think about possibly coming up with my own. Beyond the bare idea of them getting together, I'm not sure how I would want to approach this one.

I've read some cute stories where Ranma falls into a spring of drowned cabbit or gets changed into one by some other means. I can't say I have any ideas on how to do this myself, but would welcome suggestions.

I've read a story where Ranma ends up getting married to Ryoko. I've also read one where Ryoko was his mother. I may have read one or more where he fell into the Spring of Drowned Demon Woman and got her as a cursed form. Does anyone have a suggestion for something new or different Ranma/Ryoko match up or fusion?

Ranma/Naruto

I will need to see more of the Naruto anime before I could have a good concept on this. I would like to see Ranma going to the Naruto world and getting ninja training. I could see him either with the curse active or locked and maybe hooking up with one of the ninja boys. I could have him stay in ninja land for the rest of his life or possibly have him come back to Nerima.

I don't remember seeing this done before, but I wonder if Naruto could come to the Ranma-verse. I could see Ranma befriending the boy who was displaced from his own world. Maybe they could just be friends, buddies or maybe something could develop between Naruto and girl Ranma. Two possible diverging paths here would have Ranma going back to Konoha with Naruto when the portal re-opens or Naruto staying in Tokyo with Ranma.

Ranma/DBZ

I don't remember the title, but I read a fic where Ranma went to the DBZ world. He was stuck as a girl and ended up married to Goku, instead of Chi-Chi. She then became the mother of Gohan and Goten. I could see some potential for something myself, but then I could see some other alternatives. What if girl Ranma ended up as the wife of Vegeta instead of Bulma? She could end up being the mother of Trunks and Bra.

I've already written several chapters of a story where Ranma and Akane are both Saiyans who were sent to our Earth in a space ship. I sort of ripped off the Superman origin story for that. Naturally both Ranma and Akane are adopted for this. In that fic there are no appearances of the DBZ cast but characters in the story have read and make references to both the anime and manga.

While I can find it fun to read stories of the DBZ world and Ranmaverse fused there are some problems inherent to such fusions. In the DBZ universe there is technology that doesn't exist in the Ranmaverse. There are races of people in the DBZ world (Dog people, bear people, talking pterodactyls and others) that don't exist in the Ranma world. Basically the world of Ranma is our Earth, but with some magic and other craziness added. The DBZ world is called "earth" but would have to be the Earth of another dimension or a different time (say distant past or future.)

Fics where DBZ characters live in the same world as Ranma usually either have some kind of elaborate explanation of how the worlds are combined or simply sidestep the issue. They just say something like "Vegeta flew to Tokyo" and don't bother to mention that in the DBZ universe, there is no Tokyo.

I think more plausible stories involve characters from one story universe crossing over into the other. The mechanism of the crossing isn't important. It could be some high tech device that Bulma is building or the result of Happosai summoning a demon or doing something else to "punish" Ranma.

One idea that I've seen that I might try my hand with is Ranma going to the DBZ world and getting training with the Z fighters. Then when he goes back to his own world, he's so strong that he's out of everyone's league. I've read stories like that.

A variation on that would be for Ranma to go to the DBZ world and not just training, but falling in love with and marrying one of the DBZ cast. I could imagine Ranma hooking up with Pan from DB GT. Another possible match up would be Ranma with Bra.

Oh, that brought up a scene in my mind. Ranma was banished from his own world due to some spell or other cast by Happosai. I could have it that this wasn't the result that the old freak had wanted, but he had misread the scroll. Then sometime later, Ranma reappears. It could be a day later or months or even years, but in the time he has been gone it has been several years for Ranma. When he returns he brings with him his wife (I'm sort of favoring Bra for this role) and two or three children. Maybe while in the DB universe, Ranma has been turned into a Saiyan by a wish with the Eternal Dragon. I could even see Bra using a Wish to get the ability to change sexes. That way Ranma could be the mother of at least one of their children.

What would follow after that would be the obligatory chapter of resolving engagements with all of the fiancee brigade and then we could have flashbacks of how things went for Ranma in the DB world. He could even become a major player in these events because he has read all of the manga or seen all of the anime (or both.) There could also be chapters where Ranma faces down Happosai, Taro, Ryoga, Herb and the rest and totally outclasses them as a Saiyan.

I could even see that one having Ranma sent away before the fight with Saffron so that when the fight does come, the Phoenix King is taken down easily. The whole snob factor that Saffron and the Phoenix have for "Landlings" would sort of fall in the toilet when they were confronted by foes who can fly without wings.

Ranma as an X-man

In my story "Ranma's Full Potential" I have him with a mutation that allows him to develop more strength by getting denser musculature instead of bigger. That lets him get super human strength and more-than-human toughness. In the story mentioned that was just a small part of his overall powers. I could see where Ranma could come to be recruited by the X-men based on just this power along with his gender changing. Among the X-men the sex changing is looked on as another power rather than a curse. Maybe I can work the willpower trigger into that one as well.

It might be fun to see what other sort of mutant powers people could suggest. I've read at least one fic where Ranma was Wolverine's son with the same, or at least similar powers. I've also seen at least one story where Ranma had some really small power with no use in a fight but got into the X-men because of his martial arts skills.

Ranma's Full Potential

I actually feel a little odd listing this here with the story ideas. I've written more than 400 pages of Times Roman 12 point font text. However the writing on that story is very spotty, and I think I might benefit from some feedback from readers. The story is a mega crossover that includes Ranma, Tenchi Muyo, X-Men, Ah! My Goddess, Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter and Kim Possible. The plot is open enough that other crossovers could get added.

The prologue starts with Ranma in the dojo, trying to work out a new technique but being interrupted by a bunch of people. Then I make use of a fanon cliche by having Belldandy show up to grant Ranma a wish. She gets to the dojo just as Ranma says he wishes for a real chance to reach his full potential without interference from the crazy people in his life.

The wish is granted but it turns out that Ranma has a lot more potential than even he realized. Genma used pressure points to suppress Ranma's intelligence and make him focus only on martial arts. In truth he is a super genius. He also has an inactive X-gene for the mutant powers of telepathy, telekinesis and levitation (Like Jean Gray.)

I also put in that his mother and grandparents on his Mom's side are squibs, but he is of a wizarding family. Because of the Wish he gets all of his intelligence back, his mutant powers are activated and he will gain the full power of magic.

Because of Genma's pressure point treatment it was judged that the years of the training trip were "stolen" from Ranma and he is reverted to a 5 year old kid but with full memories and martial arts skills. (Magic mushrooms won't return him to a teenager. He has to grow up again.) He still changes sexes. However Belldandy convinced him that he needs to stay a girl to counteract all of the macho BS that Genma taught him.

So Ranma is a 5 year old girl when she arrives in the US at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. She will learn how to use her powers while there. Occasionally she will stow away on the X-jet to visit other parts of the world. On one such trip she is in London and happens upon the TARDIS of Dr. Who.

Ranma's grandparents live out in the country near to the town of Okayama and they have the next house up the road from the Masaki Shrine. When going to visit the closest neighbors, Ranma meets Washu and gets the means to make her own subspace laboratory.

Ranma starts to manifest magic powers earlier than age 11 and starts to study with the help of a tutor. For practical application of Defense Against the Dark Arts, she goes to Sunnydale, CA and fights vampires and demons alongside Buffy Summers.

She will enroll in an American academy of witchcraft and wizardry. I have decided to place that school at the fictional town of Arkham, MA. That was a location created by HP Lovecraft and is also the home of the Miskatonic University. Later she will be sent to Hogwarts through a student exchange program in her 6th year. I was going to put that in Harry Potter's 5th year. By this time Ranma has already finished all of the work needed and has actually graduated from Miskatonic's magic studies so Dumbledore hires her as a teacher.

My problem with this story is that I have hit writer's block at times and so would jump to another part of the story to work on it. So I have Ranma starting at Xavier's school then jump forward to her meeting with the Doctor then jump to meeting Washu at Tenchi's. Then another adventure with the Doctor and getting a ton of equipment for her lab. Then she learns magic. As an Animagus she can change into a housecat, a Siberian tiger and a dragon. I decided to use a dragon from Ann McCaffrey's Pern.

I wrote of Ranma's arrival at the American magic school, but have to write about of the actual schooling. I wrote of the arrival at Hogwarts but haven't finished that.

Futanari

I already started one fic called "Futanari Ranma." I wrote more than 20 chapters but the reactions of the readers have not been the most favorable. It seems that the 3rd chapter is the one that is getting the most negative reaction. Well, I suppose I could just post the rest on my blog and see how it does there.

I actually posted the first two chapters of "Futanari Ranma" on Media Miner. (I'm really should think about a better title. "Curses Combined" is one that comes to mind. I'd welcome suggestions.) One of the reviews on that said that this was a different approach, but that the concept of "Ranma as a hermaphrodite" wasn't new. Can anyone out there email me with links to any fics where Ranma became a hermaphrodite? I don't remember reading any that I haven't written myself.

[Note added later: Since writing the previous paragraph I have read a lemon fic where Ranma became a futanari as her "normal" form and a regular girl as a cursed form. I'd still like to see other fics that include Ranma being a hermaphrodite.]

A thought just occurred to me. It is a story that would start at the same point as Futanari Ranma, but would diverge there. I was thinking that maybe I could do a crossover with Boku No Futatsu No Tsubasa (My Two Wings.) In that story the main character is a futanari named Makoto Kashiwagi.

The idea is for Ranma to get splashed with the man water at the wedding, giving him a mixed man/woman curse. That would make his cursed form a Futanari. The difference here would start with Akane finding out, but she doesn't have the futanari fetish. She tells everyone in the family and Ranma is kicked out and disowned. He goes to the community where Mako-chan is located and meets her.

He feels himself attracted to the beautiful girl. When they get intimate Ranma learns of Makoto's little "extra." The futa feels that Ranma will reject her and that is when Ranma shows her his cursed side. They end up getting married. (Obviously a lot more work needed on that one.)

Futanari Idea #2

In "Futanari Ranma" I have Cologne mention that there are two futanari warriors in her tribe. I could think one variation on the concept would be that Ranma would become a futa at the wedding and then get thrown out. He would go to the Nekohanten and Cologne would offer him membership in the tribe. He might hook up with Shampoo.

Futanari Idea #3

Another variation on this concept starts from the same beginning, with Ranma kicked out. In this one he would end up in the village of Futar. Since I haven't posted that much of "Futanari Ranma" I should mention that Futar is another village in the same mountains as the Amazons, Musk and Phoenix. In their village they have their own cursed spring (only one) that turns people into hermaphrodites.

Futanari Idea #4

Similar idea. Same beginning. In this one Ranma is kicked out but Nabiki, who has the fetish feels guilty for the part she played in the insanity of the wedding. She does a web search and finds the futanari medical businesses in the building with the medical clinic and lawyer office. One possibility I think of would have Nabiki getting a futa curse and moving away with Ranma. Maybe she could take a job at the futa law firm. Not sure of that one.

Futanari Idea #5

I was just thinking that all of the ideas I've listed start from the wedding and Ranma getting a mixed curse after being splashed with the Naniichuan that Soun hid. However, I just got done reading a fic where Makoto Kashiwagi had nearly drowned in a spring and then Ranma came along and got dunked in her spring, making his cursed form a futanari. There was only a first chapter for that with nothing further.

I could do my own variation on that. I was thinking that they go to Jusenkyo and Genma does get turned into a panda, but Ranma doesn't get the girl curse. Maybe instead of falling into the spring he lands on the dirt next to it. Instead of them going to Joketsuzoku village, they go instead to the village of Futar (see explanation in Futanari Idea #3.) There, during a fight, Ranma gets thrown into the futa spring.

That would change the whole dynamic if he had a futanari curse from the beginning. Would Genma still even want to try "joining the schools" when Ranma is a sexual freak.

Futanari Idea #6

This idea is not a lemon. What sex there is in the story happens offstage. It is referred to but not described.

"Futanari World" is the name of this concept. The idea was sparked by a comment I had Cologne make in "Futanari Ranma." That was a speculation to the effect that if the people of the Village of Futar could find a way to transform everyone in the world to futanari, they would do so.

The story starts out with Ranma lying on the roof of the Tendo home, thinking about his life and what he is going to do about the fiancee mess. When he stands up to look around, he sees a strange distortion in the air that looks like heat waves above a range top. This distortion is in a wall that stretches from horizon to horizon and moves very fast. When this "Transformation Wave" passes over, Ranma and everyone in the world has been changed into a Futanari.

The rest of the story is about people deal with the change. In the first version I wrote, I kept this strictly in the Ranma universe. I pictured futa-Ranma getting into a match up with futa-Mousse and Akane getting together with her friend Sayuri. I had Hiroshi and Daisuke becoming lovers.

I also had an idea for a multi-crossover version of the same story. In the first chapter I have the same stuff happening to the Ranma crew, but I also added the crazies from Tenchi Muyo and Sailor Moon. I also included a cameo of the Shimeru family from Futaba Kun Change. I was sort of working on an idea of how to work Harry Potter in there, just so long as they don't figure out a way to magically reverse the transformation.

In the crossover version I have Ranma matched up to Kino Makoto (Sailor Jupiter) with Kasumi becoming the lover of Sailor Pluto. I was planning for Akane to become the lover of Ryoko from Tenchi and Nabiki getting matched up to Princess Ayeka. I thought Washu would be a good match for Sailor Mercury. I'd welcome suggestions for other match ups.

To turn either version into a finished story, I would appreciate people giving suggestions on how world governments would react to having all of their citizens transformed in the manner described. I would also hope people could suggest ways in which others would react. For example how the leadership of major religions would respond as well as extremist groups.

I don't plan to actually have my characters participate in the events in other parts of the world, but I could bring those things in when the characters watch the news on TV.

Early Curse

I read a fic called "Growing Up the Half Way." In that one instead of making Ukyo get registered as a boy and such, her dad calls the cops on Genma. Forced to flee the country, they go to China when Ranma is 6 years old and he picks up the curse at that age. Basically he grows up changing sexes.

I don't know if I can improve on that story, but I'd like to see some more fics working on the idea. Obviously, if Ranma was changing sexes ever since he was six, it would be normal to him. He probably wouldn't even realize at the start that others can't change like he can.

"Playing with Water" chapter idea

In the lemon fic "Playing with Water" Nabiki managed to get some Naniichuan water with thoughts of how much money she could make off it. Naturally an accident occurred and she got a man curse. She managed to salvage a small amount of the water, which she put aside. Then she got some Nyaniichuan to try and cure herself. The girl water and the remnant of the man water splash on Kasumi, resulting in a Kasumi whose cursed form is still mostly her, but with a really enormous male organ.

The two sisters have sex with each other and after Akane catches them, she is brought in on the "fun and games." Eventually Ranma gets in on the action but in the finished chapters only in male form.

The way the author wrote the fic, Kasumi mainly acts like the same quiet, shy girl you see in canon. But when in sexual situations with Ranma or her sisters, she becomes aggressively horny and demanding.

I am hoping to contact the author of that story to suggest that there is another chapter that practically begs to be written. If the original author doesn't want to write it, then I would try my own hand at it. That chapter would be where Kasumi decides that she just has to use her male organ to have sex with Ranma's girl form. The sisters devise a plan. When girl Ranma is confronted with a Kasumi who wants to put a huge male organ into her, she at first says no. Akane then says, "I've taken that all the way inside me. Are you saying that the great Ranma Saotome can't do something that I can? Are you afraid?"

The whole thing would end up with Ranma taking Kasumi from the front and Nabiki's male form from the rear while Akane watches. Or maybe Akane could participate in some way.

Futaba Kun Change (non Ranma)

For those unfamiliar with this manga series, it is about the life of another type of sex-changer by the name of Futaba Shimeru. The major difference here is that for members of the Shimeru family, changing sexes is a normal part of their lives and seen as a part of growing up, similar to puberty.

For the Shimeru's the trigger for the change in sexes is emotion or excitement. At some point in their teenage years those who were born one sex will spontaneously change to the opposite sex when excited or aroused. There are some sites that have the manga available to read. You can find one of them by doing a Google search on the title.

Futaba has a sister who changes into his brother at times. Futana is a player who likes to go after girls. Since the members of the Shimeru family always try to marry members of their own family to prevent news of their oddity from becoming public knowledge, the idea of incest is not foreign to them. Early in the manga, right after Futaba changed into a girl for the first time she woke up in girl form. She had been using her hands to explore the different body, but after a moment realized that there were more hands groping her than just her own. Futana was in bed with her groping her girl form.

Futana then turned male and proclaimed that Futaba is just his type. The next frame of the manga showed Futaba leaving the house in male form. He's in a hurry and you can see Futana in girl form with a huge lump on her head where Futaba hit her/him.

My idea for a story would be a divergence from that point. I ask myself what might happen if Futaba decides she likes the attentions her sister/brother is giving her and decides to let it go farther. The question is if Futana is just teasing or if she would really want to take it further. I could see a torrid love affair developing out of this.

I had another idea. In the manga Misaki, Futaba's girlfriend needed a blood transfusion. Futaba gives blood and Misaki turns into a sex changer. It was later explained that she was a distant relative of the Shimeru clan and the blood transfusion activated her gender changing. After a while she went back to normal.

My thought was this: What if Misaki didn't go back to being all female all the time? What if she kept changing? Instead of going through some of the crap Futaba did later, they would know right away they were meant for each other and they develop a stronger relationship because of it.

I haven't read too many fanfics based on this manga. Of those I have read, they are often crossovers with Ranma 1/2. Since both are about sex changing central characters, I suppose that is understandable. I'd welcome suggestions for basic story starter ideas for fics based on this manga.



Ranma as a cat girl

Most fics that I've read where this happens to Ranma tend to be Gold Digger crossovers. I happen to like such crossovers, but tight finances prevent me from obtaining the original comics to read enough to create my own crossovers with that series. However, I could see a fic where Ranma accidentally falls into a cat spring or a tiger spring after first falling into the girl spring. The actual order doesn't make that big a difference.

How would the fiancees react to Ranma as a cat girl. I would see her cat girl form as being petite as the normal girl form. However if he gets a tiger girl form, it would be a big girl. I'd like to have it that this combined curse cures the Nekoken.

Ranma as a Dragon Girl

This is a similar idea to Ranma as a cat girl. The difference would be that Ranma would mix Drowned Dragon with curse of Drowned Girl. In this one I would imagine heavy involvement with Herb and the Musk. The prince/ss would want to get Dragon girl Ranma to be his bride, and naturally Ranma wouldn't be terribly fond of that idea. Since Herb is sort of the keeper of the Chiisuiton, it would seem a natural thing for Ranma to get locked as part of the story. He might get the Open Water kettle in the course of the story or might not.

Other Girl/Creature hybrids

I guess I'll need to look up a list of "official" springs. I don't know that there have been official curses worked out for all of the springs or even if there is an actual official number (other than "over a hundred.") People are always inventing springs to get Ranma or other members of the cast to change into all sorts of interesting things.

There are already a number of "Ranma falls into spring of drowned Saiyan or girl Saiyan." I'm not sure I want to try and revisit any of those concepts myself. If any of my readers can suggest a fresh slant or twist on the idea, I'd like to hear it.

Genma with Girl Curse

I list this as separate from the Ranma/Genma idea. I seem to remember a fic that had something like this, but I don't remember the title. The idea would be something like Genma gets the curse to turn into the busty red haired teen girl. I could either have Ranma with no curse or it could be amusing for them to both have the same curse and look like twins.

One take I have on this was that Genma had renounced all of his former beliefs on girls as to them being weak, silly, etc. I could imagine that he decides he likes the form and turns into a total slut, seducing every man she can get her hands on. The first night at the Tendo home she goes to bed with Soun. If I have Genma and Ranma looking alike there could be some amusing scenes where a guy who'd had sex with Genma's girl form tries to get intimate with Ranma and gets clobbered instead.

Ranma gets raped

I don't object to reading such stories, I've seen some that were well written and thought provoking. The portrayal of how someone who sees himself as male would handle it can be really good fiction. On the other hand, I'm not sure if I'm a good enough writer to create such a story myself. I'm still going to list it here on the chance that someone might want to suggest an idea that I would see within my abilities to develop.

As for candidates on who the rapist would be, well there's a few possibilities. I've read some where Ryoga is the rapist. Considering how shy Ryoga is in the presence of a naked woman I have a hard time picturing myself writing such an encounter. I could see Kuno as a rapist. As unstable as he is I could even imagine that he might already have raped some other girls and his father had the cases swept under the rug.

I could imagine Happosai but with some difficulty. It could be some faceless man on the street. I would leave that option open for the present.

Ranma as a Sailor Senshi

I've already written two stories where Ranma became Sailor Terra. Those were Sailor Goddess, posted on Media Miner.org and "Paternity of a Princess" posted on the same site. (By the way, I was thinking that the title may be something of a spoiler and was hoping that someone could suggest an alternate title that would work better. The first fic I ever wrote was "A Big Help" and that had Ranma being a really powerful Senshi. In that story I named her Sailor Galaxy (Not Galaxia).

I'm not sure if I want to return to cover more of the same kind of ground. I could have Ranma become Sailor Sun or the Senshi of some other celestial body. I've read some excellent fics where Ranma became one of the canon senshi. I've also read some that weren't so good.

I'd like to see a really good fic where Ranma is Sailor Moon. That might require him to get the curse sooner to match up to the ages of other girls. On the other hand I rather like the idea of slightly more mature girls going into the roles of the Senshi instead. The idea of a martial arts trained Moon is appealing to me. I've been watching the anime recently and for a large part of the series, Moon is pathetic when she's not using her powers. She screams and dodges and generally looks like a klutz. She's often having to be saved by Tuxedo Mask.

I can summon up a mental image of Ranma as a red haired Sailor Moon who can seriously kick ass. She wouldn't need to be rescued and would have a low opinion of Tux. One of the things that a Ranma version of Sailor Moon would do would be to start training the other Senshi in martial arts moves as soon as she meets them.

Nice Genma idea

I just had this idea that I might use as a creative challenge for myself. What if Genma was nice? I've read some stories based on the idea of how would Ranma have turned out if he had a different father. Well this isn't that sort of concept. My thought was that Genma would be his normal self say up to the time of Jusenkyo and then change to become a kind and caring person.

In my stories "Nodoka's Lessons" and the sequel "Sailor Goddess" I did something of the sort. However, for that I had Genma changed into a woman, and then made pregnant by Soun Tendo. It was revealed that Happosai was a demon who created Anything Goes for the purpose of furthering perversion. So basically he had his school of martial arts stripped from him. But she found that Soun had fallen in love with her and she fell in love with him. She changed to the point that she wanted to be locked as a woman because she feared that changing into a man would make her turn back into that horrible person she had been in the past.

I figure there would be basically two ways for Genma to change from the canon selfish SOB into a nice person. One might be to get a different curse. I could just have him fall into the Spring of Drowned Virtuous Man, but that seems too easy. Having him change into a woman is a somewhat promising thought, but others have done that. I could try and put my own twist on that idea.

I'd welcome suggestions on what sort of other curses might make Genma turn nice. I would shudder to think of Genma with Taro's curse or to turn into some powerful creature like a dragon. I would think of Genma with such a curse as an example of what some characters in a movie would call "Power falling into the wrong hands." Maybe turning into a rat would make him more humble.

The other way I see Genma changing his ways would be through some kind of personal trauma. The one that occurs to me would be if he had some kind of scheme that blew up in his face. It could be a scheme to get Ranma hitched to Akane or something else, but I envision that it goes totally FUBAR and results in someone getting killed, like an innocent child. Riddled with guilt, Genma resolves to turn over a new leaf and start acting like a responsible adult.

I'd welcome suggestions for other sorts of personal trauma that might make Genma decide to become a better person. Another possibility that occurs to me would be if he somehow became responsible for Nodoka getting killed. Then he might try to be a good person to honor her memory.

It might also be interesting for Genma to get cursed to turn into a powerful creature and when trying out his power he accidentally kills someone. Something like that might be enough to make him swear to use his power for good instead of evil. That sort of combines both ideas.

Nyaniichuan Rejuvenation

I already mentioned the story I started where Happosai used water from the Spring of Drowned Young Girl to become a young girl and cheat death. That was just one of the ideas that used the same concept of an old man using the spring to become a young woman.

One alternate version I thought of was Indiana Jones as the old man. As an adventurer and world traveler, he would have heard of the springs and might be willing to give up his masculinity to stay alive. I could only see that happening if his wife Marion was dead and he was estranged from his son, Mutt (Henry Jones III.)

The third version I thought of was to create an original character who was a Knight Templar. When he is in his mid 20's he helps an alien who gives him a charge of a special energy that allows him to stay at the same age for centuries. Sometime in the mid 20th century that charge wears off and he begins aging again. During his long life he had to move from whatever place he settled when he started to look too old for the time he had lived in one place.

After the knight aged enough, he decided that he still had things he wanted to do and to extend his life, he sought out Ranma to help him get to Jusenkyo and the Spring of Drowned Young Girl.