Okay, I've got one. Crossposted it to SV, too. We'll see what actually comes of it - I don't really want to abandon my screenplay thingy, but I'm just kinda burned out, want to toy around with something else, and I'm making my way through Ah My Goddess! and thought hey, what if?
So I was digging through my old Google Docs folder and found a reference to an Anime Addventure sub-sub-storyline where Ranma and the gals all become telepathically linked. It was quite adorable - whoever wrote it had each character's thoughts in different colors and had them argue with each other's deepest internal monologues. Anyway, Belldandy, of all people, managed to tamp down the curse or whatever it was so they could communicate with more discretion. It turned out Ranma knew the AMG! norns because Urd was his divine patron, he her 'hero', destined to go on epic quests to do her bidding. Of course, Urd had decided all of his fiancés were ruining love for him, and so those assignments ended up being various dates with other girls she was trying to hook him up with. Thread ended there because Anime Addventure, but I guess I found the idea so charming I copied the text down on a doc and mulled over writing a fic about Urd and Ranma doing, you know, stuff.
So now I've got an actual setup:
It's 1996. End of the manga was a few months ago. Keichii and Belldandy are married - Keichii is now a minor patron saint of the Japanese automotive industry or something funny like that. They're really, really cute. Skuld has moved on, grown up a little. Oh, and Urd is incredibly depressed and basically drinking herself into a stupor day after day.
What's her beef? Well, her little sister is happy as can be, just as she 'planned', so that's all well and good, but what is she supposed to do now? She's depressed, lonely, bemoaning her circumstances as the lovechild of Hot Satan Mom and Big Daddy God. But, Skuld reminds her, she has a contract she never picked up!
Turns out sometime in 1988 Genma helped Urd out with some minor task she had to do while he was travelling with little Ranma, and in return she agreed to become the boy's patron once he turned 17. Patronage is basically that 'hero' system, where a deity finds things that needs doing and endows their hero with the tools to do it. Jason and the Argonauts, Heracles, etc.
Well, it's some interminable time before the disastrous wedding, Ranma is watching Dragon Ball on his birthday - Akane remembered it was his birthday, tried to bake a cake, but his own dad forgot about it because Genma - and out of the TV pops Urd, who promptly declares she's running his life now. Hijinks ensue - Urd tries to resolve the whole marriage situation, fails miserably, tries to cure the curse, also fails miserably, and ultimately settles for periodically popping up and setting him up with other 90's-era anime teens. I don't know why, but I keep thinking Ami Mizuno as one possible date? There was this one other Anime Addventure where he and Nuku-Nuku knew each other somehow? That was amusing enough.
It would not involve Ranma actually having a relationship with Urd, of course. But they'd learn to tolerate each other and help each other well enough. It'd be cute in that sort of Wholesome Harem Comedy Fanfiction way.
Thoughts?
So I was digging through my old Google Docs folder and found a reference to an Anime Addventure sub-sub-storyline where Ranma and the gals all become telepathically linked. It was quite adorable - whoever wrote it had each character's thoughts in different colors and had them argue with each other's deepest internal monologues. Anyway, Belldandy, of all people, managed to tamp down the curse or whatever it was so they could communicate with more discretion. It turned out Ranma knew the AMG! norns because Urd was his divine patron, he her 'hero', destined to go on epic quests to do her bidding. Of course, Urd had decided all of his fiancés were ruining love for him, and so those assignments ended up being various dates with other girls she was trying to hook him up with. Thread ended there because Anime Addventure, but I guess I found the idea so charming I copied the text down on a doc and mulled over writing a fic about Urd and Ranma doing, you know, stuff.
So now I've got an actual setup:
It's 1996. End of the manga was a few months ago. Keichii and Belldandy are married - Keichii is now a minor patron saint of the Japanese automotive industry or something funny like that. They're really, really cute. Skuld has moved on, grown up a little. Oh, and Urd is incredibly depressed and basically drinking herself into a stupor day after day.
What's her beef? Well, her little sister is happy as can be, just as she 'planned', so that's all well and good, but what is she supposed to do now? She's depressed, lonely, bemoaning her circumstances as the lovechild of Hot Satan Mom and Big Daddy God. But, Skuld reminds her, she has a contract she never picked up!
Turns out sometime in 1988 Genma helped Urd out with some minor task she had to do while he was travelling with little Ranma, and in return she agreed to become the boy's patron once he turned 17. Patronage is basically that 'hero' system, where a deity finds things that needs doing and endows their hero with the tools to do it. Jason and the Argonauts, Heracles, etc.
Well, it's some interminable time before the disastrous wedding, Ranma is watching Dragon Ball on his birthday - Akane remembered it was his birthday, tried to bake a cake, but his own dad forgot about it because Genma - and out of the TV pops Urd, who promptly declares she's running his life now. Hijinks ensue - Urd tries to resolve the whole marriage situation, fails miserably, tries to cure the curse, also fails miserably, and ultimately settles for periodically popping up and setting him up with other 90's-era anime teens. I don't know why, but I keep thinking Ami Mizuno as one possible date? There was this one other Anime Addventure where he and Nuku-Nuku knew each other somehow? That was amusing enough.
It would not involve Ranma actually having a relationship with Urd, of course. But they'd learn to tolerate each other and help each other well enough. It'd be cute in that sort of Wholesome Harem Comedy Fanfiction way.
Thoughts?