by SpaceKnight of Chaos » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:15 pm
Just to comment, while the fathers would step up their efforts to try and force Ranma and Akane to wed each other, seeing as how Akane is pregnant, in risk of dishonor and they have "proof" that Akane and Ranma have secretly been sleeping with other, the teens in question would probably fight against the idea even more tooth and nail than they have ever done before.
I mean, Akane knows for a fact she and Ranma have never slept together, but if she's pregnant, then clearly she has had sex with a man, and Ranma would be the "most likely" candidate for raping her, in her mind. After all, she's accused him of having the potential and even the outright intent of such horrible things before in the manga canon. If she's discovered that he "did" do such a terrible thing, then her ever-weak, oft-abused trust for him would shatter completely - she wouldn't want anything to do with him, and if her beliefs were actually founded in reality, I honestly wouldn't blame her myself.
Speaking of Akane, given the current set up for this, a rather distasteful element you're going to need to do is figure out a way to stymie her from trying to sneak away and get an abortion. In America and places like that, it's seen as wrong and not something a "good girl" should do, but in Japan, it's actually much better preceived than regular birth control is. From a cultural viewpoint, the only one who would have a problem with her getting rid of it would be Soun and Genma, who are convinced it's Ranma's child and so are eager to use it to to force her to marry him at last. Kasumi and Nabiki would both encourage her to abort (Kasumi because, as said, it's more common to simply abort an unwanted embryo than it is to take birth control in the first place, Nabiki because she's greedy and selfish and knows a baby is expensive and annoying), and Ranma, well...
Ranma would be just as terrible in his treatment of Akane as Akane would be of him, if not worse. Ranma knows he didn't have sex with Akane at any point, would be offended (if not outright furious) by Akane accusing him of raping her, and would be just as convinced that Akane has been sleeping with someone (like Ryoga) behind his back. Ranma really doesn't have much trust in Akane's ability to stay chaste around other guys than she does when it comes to him and his other fiancees, as seen in the Ryugenzawa arc. It doesn't help that Akane has deliberately played with Ryoga's feelings at times to make Ranma jealous (the "date" Ukyo set them up on after she joined the cast, Waterproof Soap, Tunnel of Lost Love).
On the question of what would happen if they heard about Saffron, I have to ask; would anyone really care? The Phoenix People have always been very isolationist (they're stuck up bastards); as far as most people are concerned, they're nothing more than fairy tales and bedtime stories - not real. Most would probably express minor interest in hearing they were real after all and then just go about it, though I can see two potential other developments occuring, myself.
Firstly, we know the Phoenix People have kidnapped and implicitly manipulated others with Shikimori Eggs - we've seen a big storehouse full of loaded eggs in the manga story that precludes this idea of yours. Given how the Byankala villages seem to be made up of martial artists with hair-trigger tempers and big egos, it's hardly impossible that some of them would leap to the conclusion that the Phoenix People have caused disasters to their people in the past (who knows, maybe they did) and decide to seek revenge now that Saffron is out of the way.
Secondly, as I mentioned the Byankalas seem to be full of martial artists with big egos. Ranma just took down one of the local kami, so, that obviously makes him one really powerful martial artist. And what does a martial artist with an ego like to do? Prove he's the best, of course! Anyone who doesn't get caught up in the idea of attacking the Phoenix People would probably come storming to Nerima, eager to take on a kami-killer and test the true extent of their own skill.
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