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Ideas for an Ukyo match up

Postby LadyRelena » Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:20 am

I'm sure that everyone knows that I'm doing two different fic's; one a RxS and the other an RxOC. Well, even though neither of the fics have Ukyo as the main character, she is still going to be very prominent in both and I defiantly want her to be happy with someone. Also, by someone I don't mean Ryouga or konatsu. RxU is done way to often and UxK is too easy since it's almost cannon.

For one of the fics (Not sure witch one) She's going to end up with Shinnosuke. Now I just need a different guy for the second fic. As long as it's a guy from the actual manga or anime sires. I don't care if their miner characters or major ones.

I was thinking maybe UkyoxRyuu? I got the idea from this site http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/4134/ryuu.html (Even though I don't agree with most of the reasons this fan gives for them being a good couple.)

If you guys have any good ideas please tell me why and how you think Ukyo and whoever would work out. If they're miner manga or anime characters please tell me what episode name/number/season/manga volume number/chapter their from. I read the manga a long time and I have never seen all of the anime episodes, so, I would need to know that kind of information.

I would really appreciate the help. :)
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Postby SpaceKnight of Chaos » Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:42 am

No real reasons, but if you want to try and hitch her up with some unusual canon characters... in volume 33 of the manga, a childhood rival of hers, a practitioner of Martial Arts Takoyaki named Hayato Myojin features. On a similar vein, another rival Martial Arts Cooking practicioner (Crepe King Joe, of Martial Arts Crepes) shows up in Season 5's episode 13; "Revenge! Raging Okonomiyaki!". Season 4, episode 10; "A Formidable New Disciple Appears!" plays host to Genji Heita, perhaps one of the most well-balanced and just plain nice males to show up in either canon.

Like I said, I've no real reasons, but if you take a look at the places where they show up (you might be able to find the episodes on youtube, and Hayaton shows up in volume 33 chapter 10 of the online scanlation) you might find they interest you.

I'd also like to point out that Konatsu is not really canon; the guy gets two stories and a cameo, and he's got a crush on Ukyo- she doesn't care about him at all.
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Postby Atlan » Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:52 am

There is her pet annoyance, Tsubassa. A 'perfectly normal boy who likes to dress up' in his own words.

In practice, he wears girls clothes and likes to pop out of mail boxes, statues, and other random objects.

You might even be the first to pair him with Ukyo.
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Taro

Postby Acey » Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:25 pm

There is the option to try to pair her up with Taro, who appears often enough in the manga to almost be labelled a semi-recurring character.

The reasoning behind choosing him is that during the various times he's been in Nerima circumstances have led to him just about rubbing every major character the wrong way, with the notable exception of Ukyo who amazingly enough, has never met him.

Despite having a superiority complex and something of a petty, vengeful nature (the latter a characteristic of half the Ranma cast), Taro is shown in his saving random female strangers that he does have an altruistic side. Plus, we see when Ranma tries to fool her into leaving the Tendo house during the Secret Sauce storyline, that Ukyo while not exactly content with, is tolerant of guy's behaving like jerkasses.

Ukyo tends to abhor incompetence. Think of her anger and impatience at Ryoga's poor direction [Vol. 9, Vol. 27] or Ranma, Konatsu and Akane's efforts to run her shop [Vol. 36]. Taro's one of the most competent characters in the manga. She's aware of Jusenkyo curses, and while a winged minotaur is not the same a girl or a panda, she's displayed no fear or revulsion to any of the cursed characters she's encountered.

Also, they're birds of a feather in that the pair are quite selfish and can let their own desires make them behave in some truly appalling ways [Ukyo, Vol. 25 & Taro, Vol. 18].

And to top it off, in fanfic Ukyo's usually coupled with aqua-transsexual Ranma, or with either of the very convincing crossdressers Tsubasa or Konatsu. Taro's easily the most effeminate looking guy after that trio, so it makes total sense!

(Note that that last point should not be taken seriously Image)

There are plenty of reasons why they'd incompatible too, such as Taro being several magnitudes more a jerk than Ranma could ever hope to be, the fact that he doesn't appear to respect the sanctity of life a whole lot and that one pooly timed splash of water indoors and he'd destroy her shop.

Taro's quite fond of self-pity [Vol. 23], something that she has little tolerance for.

Also, Taro appears to live in China, only flying to Japan when he has an agenda. He may not want to be tied down there. Then again, without her own interest/claim on Ranma, there may not be too much keeping Ukyo in Nerima.

Several differnces and problems exist in the ship, true, but those would be for the writer to overcome.

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Postby LadyRelena » Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:20 pm

I thought about Hayato Myojin and reread the manga chapters with him, but then I remembered those octopus lips that he has. No offense, but I don't think Ukyo would be to attracted to that.

Next was Crepe King Joe; he was pretty good looking, and maybe if he stopped being such an ass, He and Ukyo could possibly get together. However, I'm curious about his age. Ukyo is 16 but Crepe King looked between 19 and 21. It's not to bad but that quit a bit older then the norm.

Finally we have Genji Heita, who I must say I like a lot. Although I think he may be my new favorite character I find him actually more compatible with Akane rather then Ukyo. Maybe he and Akari would work good together also.

Tsubassa to me is almost like Konatsu except super annoying and irritating. On another note. I have seen some UkyoxTsubassa fics but their usually written poorly.

I actually like the idea of Taro a lot and I think that his luck for saving strange and beautiful women could be used as an advantage.

So here is the list so far

1) Ryuu
2) Crepe King Joe
3) Taro

Those seem to be pretty good and I'll definitely go check them out. If anyone else has any other characters that they can think of, please tell me. Also, just so I don't have to go looking everywhere – could someone tell me which volume and chapter Ryuu comes in?
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Postby Acey » Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:45 pm

LadyRelena wrote:Also, just so I don't have to go looking everywhere – could someone tell me which volume and chapter Ryuu comes in?


Volume Twenty-Eight, Relena. Good luck with the fic!
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Postby SpaceKnight of Chaos » Sun Aug 24, 2008 8:47 pm

Octopus lips? Oh, you're talking about the mask that Hayato insists on wearing, as a point of honor, thoughout most of the chapters in which he shows up. I think roughly three pages from the end of the first chapter he shows up in, you get to see what he actually looks like. Ranma describes him as pretty much normal, off the top of my head.

As for where Ryu shows up... not a clue. I think it's during the 30's volumes- I think he's the last story involving Nodoka before the one in which she finally meets Ranma face to face.
Water, water, everywhere, and all was cursed and black!
Drowned ones cast bad spell and out come pig, girl, duck, panda!
Swirl, swirl, slithery pond, and join with magic spring!
Swirl, swirl, dirty pond, and rid the cursed sting!
Here my prayer, I beg you please!
Now turn these curses BACK!

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Postby LadyRelena » Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:11 pm

Thanks for the info Moon Queen :wink:

To SpaceKnight of Chaos: I'm not talking about the mask. I mean he really has Octopus lips. :o

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Postby SpaceKnight of Chaos » Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:54 pm

I didn't notice that. So, out of curiosity, you mentioned that you think Genji/Akane would make a good match up? Do you intend to use that, either as part of your two planned fics, or as the basis for a third?
Water, water, everywhere, and all was cursed and black!
Drowned ones cast bad spell and out come pig, girl, duck, panda!
Swirl, swirl, slithery pond, and join with magic spring!
Swirl, swirl, dirty pond, and rid the cursed sting!
Here my prayer, I beg you please!
Now turn these curses BACK!

http://www.issendai.com/rpgs/japanese-boys-names.shtml
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Postby LadyRelena » Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:38 pm

SpaceKnight of Chaos wrote:I didn't notice that. So, out of curiosity, you mentioned that you think Genji/Akane would make a good match up? Do you intend to use that, either as part of your two planned fics, or as the basis for a third?


Hmmm... you know, I never thought about that before. I was pretty much just going to have Akane fade out as Ranma's love interest; it didn't acre to me that I should pare her up. I also wouldn't know how I would have Genji return to the sires since he 'did' steal the underwear of every woman in Nerima. Poor guy. However, now that you mentioned it, I just might do a Genji/Akane parring for one of my fics: perhaps for my R/S fic. If you have any ideas for how Genji might return and how their relationship could build up, please let me know.
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Postby SpaceKnight of Chaos » Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:49 pm

It's been a while since I watched the episode, but let me think... Genji only stole all that lingerie because Happosai wouldn't declare him a successful student until he did so. We're not shown how Genji left, but it's presumable that he, having considered his training finished under Happosai, decided to go and train elsewhere.

With this in mind, Genji could wander back into Nerima either on his way to challenge/study some new dojo elsewhere, or he could even have heard about how strong Ranma is and decided to come and fight him to see how he stacks up against things. While he has no actual romantic interest in Akane in canon, he does consider her a friend and even something of a confidant, as it was her who gave him the courage to try and complete his "training" under Happosai. If he comes into town, he might decide to catch up with her- and if she's feeling low (for example, because she and Ranma are breaking apart) and he proves through his actions that he wasn't tainted irrevercobly by Happosai, she may well latch onto him for comfort/support.
Water, water, everywhere, and all was cursed and black!
Drowned ones cast bad spell and out come pig, girl, duck, panda!
Swirl, swirl, slithery pond, and join with magic spring!
Swirl, swirl, dirty pond, and rid the cursed sting!
Here my prayer, I beg you please!
Now turn these curses BACK!

http://www.issendai.com/rpgs/japanese-boys-names.shtml
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Postby LadyRelena » Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:22 am

I really can't thank you enough SpaceKnight of Chaos. You always have such good, cannon possible ideas. Anyway, I'm defiantly going to take this one to heart.

Thanks again :D
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Postby SpaceKnight of Chaos » Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:35 am

*Bows humbly*
It is I who should be thanking you. There are far, far, far too many Ranma/Akane writers out there, and almost twice as many Shampoo/Mousse-ists and anti-Shampoo/Chinese Amazon-ists to boot. Every writer who decides to start letting the Chinese Amazon have some real love from the guy she seeks is a precious jewel to be cherished, that's my opinion- there's far too few of us. Why, I found what I hoped was a new Ranma/Shampoo fanfic at FFN- turned out to be another damn Ranma/Akane Ryoga/Ukyo writer.
Water, water, everywhere, and all was cursed and black!
Drowned ones cast bad spell and out come pig, girl, duck, panda!
Swirl, swirl, slithery pond, and join with magic spring!
Swirl, swirl, dirty pond, and rid the cursed sting!
Here my prayer, I beg you please!
Now turn these curses BACK!

http://www.issendai.com/rpgs/japanese-boys-names.shtml
http://www.issendai.com/rpgs/japanese-girls-names.shtml
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Postby LiliandraNadiar » Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:40 am

Aside from giving Ukyo her Ranchan, one of my fond (if unusual) pairs is Ukyo/Nabiki.

Yes I know, little to no anime interaction (never read the manga, but probably not much more there if at all) and even less signs of attraction/affection/like. But ever since I came across it in chapter 12 of Clothes Make The... I've liked the idea.

Of course I generally like Nabiki period but... :P
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Postby SpaceKnight of Chaos » Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:33 pm

Actually, LadyRelena, could I ask you why you feel Genji/Akane makes a good pairing? I'm also interested in your reasons for why you like Ranma/Shampoo & Ranma/Kurumi, if that's not too invasive.
Water, water, everywhere, and all was cursed and black!
Drowned ones cast bad spell and out come pig, girl, duck, panda!
Swirl, swirl, slithery pond, and join with magic spring!
Swirl, swirl, dirty pond, and rid the cursed sting!
Here my prayer, I beg you please!
Now turn these curses BACK!

http://www.issendai.com/rpgs/japanese-boys-names.shtml
http://www.issendai.com/rpgs/japanese-girls-names.shtml
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