I'm reasonably certain it was a standalone, but I never turn down a reason to go through Odd Ideas and its counterparts.
Here's another I just recalled this morning, and can't find in my collection any more. A strange Ranma/Ah! My Goddess cross: in the backstory, before it even begins, Marller succeeds in all-but-killing the Norns; and at the moment of her death, Mrs. Tendo is given the opportunity to let the remaining bits of their essence be implanted in her daughters to repair the damage to their souls that her death will/has caused. She agrees, and when Ranma arrives years later, he encounters a sassy party girl Kasumi who makes sure her family is well taken care of before she goes off to have fun, a serene and loving Nabiki (with hair to her ankles) who knows everything about everybody and uses it to improve their lives, and a tech-head inventor Akane who's an outcast at Furinkan. It was incomplete (of course), a few chapters long, and ended to best of my knowledge just after the first morning at school. It might have been part of the Bet Cycle; it certainly originated at about the same time -- late 1990s to 2000 or so.
Can anyone identify that one for me?
Here's another I just recalled this morning, and can't find in my collection any more. A strange Ranma/Ah! My Goddess cross: in the backstory, before it even begins, Marller succeeds in all-but-killing the Norns; and at the moment of her death, Mrs. Tendo is given the opportunity to let the remaining bits of their essence be implanted in her daughters to repair the damage to their souls that her death will/has caused. She agrees, and when Ranma arrives years later, he encounters a sassy party girl Kasumi who makes sure her family is well taken care of before she goes off to have fun, a serene and loving Nabiki (with hair to her ankles) who knows everything about everybody and uses it to improve their lives, and a tech-head inventor Akane who's an outcast at Furinkan. It was incomplete (of course), a few chapters long, and ended to best of my knowledge just after the first morning at school. It might have been part of the Bet Cycle; it certainly originated at about the same time -- late 1990s to 2000 or so.
Can anyone identify that one for me?
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....