by Crescent Pulsar S » Sat Jun 07, 2014 5:29 pm
Lately, I've been distracted by three story ideas despite having priorities.
One is a story where Ranma has fae ancestry, encounters a faery while on a training trip with his father, and gets tricked into becoming a faery himself because his idea of being cured of his curse is different from the faery's. He can use glamour to appear human and male, but his curiosity and mischievous side inspire adventures, pranks, and the discovery of other fun and useful things about being a faery. It's just some light-hearted and humorous thing I've been musing about.
The next story is a serious romantic story between Ranma and Akane, which follows what course they take if the last piece of the moxibustion chart isn't found (or found so soon), who go on a journey together. I've considered a lot of directions for the story to take, but I haven't been able to decide on any one of them. A common theme among them is that they visit shrines, temples and such to see if anyone knows how to remove the moxibustion's effects. (I've considered crossovers with Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo, and Aa! Megami-sama!). Another common theme is Ranma finding a way to fight despite the moxibustion, or giving up on being strong and finding something else meaningful in his life. In all cases, Ranma and Akane grow closer together, though I haven't decided the exact nature of their relationship (if Akane is intimate to a male Ranma, a female Ranma, both, or if they simply become close friends).
The last story was something that grew from an idea where Ranma becomes friends with Yuka and Sayuri, which eventually turned into something along a similar vein to Kenko's Girl Days. After an encounter with Yuka and Sayuri, where one enlists Ranma's aid to get a discount at a patisserie (they had their stomach set on a particular treat, but getting it wouldn't have left them with enough money for what they had saved their allowance for), they can't help engaging in conversation because of Ranma's behavior (trying to portray himself as being manly, but willingly acting like a girl and/or flirting with guys for whatever reason). They don't get much out of Ranma, beyond "you wouldn't understand," until they notice that Ranma is afraid of something and work on that angle to get something out of him. For reasons that are too long for me to write about (being lazy, not wanting to spoil anything and wanting to get back to doing something else), which includes what I've mentioned so far, I'll just say that it leads Ranma to convince his mother that it would be manly for him if he stays a girl for a while so he can grow to accept it as much as being a guy.