Do you ever have a really good idea for a particular plot device for a fanfiction, but later forget it? I know I forget, you ever forget? I know it's awful!
Worse yet, is thinking up plot devices that you know you can't really incorporate into a story without it being... awkward. But maybe by sharing the ideas can in some way be fitted to a story somewhere.
This all occurred to me the other evening, as I was watching the Ranma1/2 episodes with the Chardin's and "Battle Dining". In particular the iron corset caught my attention. Now when thinking of the various means of keeping Ranma in 'girl-mode', most authors stick to the tried and true of the locking ladle or some other magic. But no, my sick mind had to think of something more twisted, and so as I was watching Ranma wear an iron corset and get splashed with hot water, I had the idea of the Iron Chastity Belt! Most of you probably had at least an understanding of the things if you've never seen one. Just imagine Ranma-chan locked up in a steel chastity belt made tight on her petite feminine body... there's NO WAY Ranma would risk a change back to male while wearing such a device. At least panties could stretch or break, as Ranma can already attest to, but a steel chastity device would have no such respite to it, that's the whole point to it!
So, Iron Chastity Belt = A+ way of keeping Ranma in girl mode without magic.
The downside though to this idea is that I can't think of anyway to use this plot device without the story ending up being a fetish/yuri lemon type story. Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with such stories, it's just that I can't write them.
So there!
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