mondu_the_fat wrote:Aren't elementals gigantic? I haven't read any of the novels, but I've played the RPG and tabletop for years and I know that in order to fit into elemental armor you'd have to be 2 meters tall and half as as wide on the shoulder (we once nitpicked the battletech cartoon, where the protagonists "stole" elemental armor, a ridiculous concept). Anyone large enough to wear elemental armor would stick out like a sore thumb in Nerima, and nobody would ever mistake the original Ranma with one that can fit in it.
While Miri's already handled this one...
Elemental suits are just battle armour.
All battle armour, Inner Sphere or Clan, is custom-fitted to the wearer, just like the high-grade medieval armour (knight stuff).
Bluntly put, I wouldn't be surprised to see an Aerospace Pilot Phenotype (utter shrimps, for those who don't know) that failed to test out in their own branch and retested for Elemental, in the Ghost Bear Touman at least (they get a second shot into the warrior caste, dontcha know?
That's how Bjorn Jorgennson (Ghost Bear Khan) was born a MechWarrior and pilots an aerospace fighter).
Although, on this idea, Miri: Which Wolves are they? It's after the Refusal War, so are they Phelan's Wolves or Vlad's?
Here's my own entry to the mess.
Ranma crossed over with the world of The Secret Texts trilogy. No especial plot outline or anything, but I just think it'd be interesting...
Points of interesting note:
A: If he landed in Ibera, he'd be under
constant threat of death just for being Scarred (touched and altered by magic). His transformation would get him killed. His strength might get him killed. His blatant ki tricks would
really get him killed.
B: His physical prowess means little in the long run, considering that the shaping battles of that world were fought with magic - obscenely powerful magic, the kind that says 'I'm going to sacrifice a city's worth of souls, use that power to level another city, let the rebound fry
another, and even if you beat me I'm going to preserve my soul and come back in a few centuries'. Ranma versus a Dragon (sorceror exhibit type A): his soul would get utterly eradicated and then that power would be used to have fun with. Ranma versus a Wolf (sorceror exhibit type B): his own energy gets drawn from him, used to fuel an attack that half-kills him, and then he gets subjected to the rebound wave to finish the job. Even a
Falcon (sorceror exhibit type C), with their oaths against doing harm, could come up with some kind of interesting little trick to defeat him, such as a binding spell.
C: Even physically, I'd suspect a Karnee (another type of skinshifter Scarred, they turn into obscenely strong beasts) in Shift could at least inflict ludicrous injuries in a fight with him,
and recover as if the fight never happened within a matter of days.
So basically, he's in a world predisposed to his death, that outguns him at every turn, and forced to rely on the skills he's used least - cunning and treachery. And the one that he's used before... learning
There is no problem that cannot be solved through the proper application of immense levels of firepower.
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Would you believe this is one of the more tame bits of dirt I've got for him?
