The True Heir
A Ranma 1/2 story by -
Project Balrog Productions
Oh yeah, just in case you didn't know, there are a whole
bunch of people who own the rights to these characters and I
am not one of them.
Pointless filler material part 1 - backstory mini-segments 1 & 2
"Origin"
Age zero -
Birth
Happosai
[Happosai has just been shown the cursed springs of
Jusenkyo, when he and the guide notice a woman about to give
birth. Happosai assists with the delivery and bathes the
child, ignoring the guide's protests. Happosai names the
child Pantyhose Tarou. Unfortunately, the boy's mother dies
soon after giving birth...]
"I am sorry Mr. Customer, but you will just have to find the
boy a home on your own." The guide said regretfully, "I
simply cannot afford to raise a child by myself and it would
be very irresponsible of me to leave the cursed springs."
Happosai thinks the matter over carefully. On the one hand,
this could be the perfect opportunity to train an heir. On
the other hand, he really has no interest in being a parent
again at his age.
"Hmmm, I seem to recall Genma and Soun talking about some
pledge of theirs to unite the families..." He mutters to
himself. "And Soun's wife is pregnant..."
"That's it! Genma can adopt the boy! It's perfect, Genma's
a better trainer than Soun anyway so he can be trusted with
the boy's early lessons. And if Soun has a daughter they
can fulfill that silly pledge of theirs."
"Hmmm," Happosai mused to himself, "of course this means
I'll need to make sure Soun raises that daughter of his
properly..."
Age one week -
Adoption
"Saotome Tarou," Nodoka laughs as she lifts up her newly
adopted son. "It has a nice ring to it doesn't it dear?"
"But Nodoka, what of the boy's curse?" Genma poured cold
water on the infant to demonstrate.
"It's not that bad. And he's such a healthy little boy
too." Nodoka tickled the tiny minotaur and was rewarded with
what she thought was a giggle.
"If it really bothers you, you can always look for a cure."
She looked thoughtful, "We might want to move out of Tokyo,
it could be hard for you to train him here without drawing
too much attention."
"Yes dear."
Authors Notes:
I plan on tossing out short little things like this every
time I need to buy some time to catch up. Some, like this,
are backstory and have already been written. Others are
along the lines of "What the hell is Ranma up to anyway?" A
couple will probably focus on my annoying new character who
has yet to be introduced. And still others will be short
segments of plot from the annoying new parody (no relation
to the annoying new character mentioned earlier, although
there are several ANC's in the ANP) that occurs alongside
and partially within the main story. Assuming I don't
abandon the story mid-way through anyway.
And it looks like it's working anyway, I've actually started
writing the next chapter so I might be done early. Not that
I'd post it early anyway, but still.
And now for a response to a review.
I really shouldn't respond to this, as my response can't
help but spoil segments of the upcoming plot, but I can't
resist.
Spanner -
But I LIKE tired, overused themes. They wouldn't
be tired and overused if there wasn't something there.
Seriously though censored for plot reasons. And my
concern is making censored more censored to provide the
necessary censored and to do that I'm using censored as
a vehicle.
I'm glad that someone else noticed censored for plot
reasons. I was afraid that based on the reviews I've been
receiving that people actually liked censored. And
that, of course, would interfere with my plans to
censored.
And you're right of course about censored not necessarily
being censored. Still, on the whole I think that certain
censored like in particular censored do tend to be
noticeably more censored. Although that tendency is
certainly only relative. And even then, all of censored
have blindingly obvious censored.
And remember, "censored", actually I don't need the quotes
because I think that might not be attributed to anyone yet.
Maybe I just invented a truism!
My author avatar will never show up, unless censored for
pointless, long-winded, self-indulgent, and off-topic
borderline ranting.
Thanks for recommending those stories by the way. I'm
behind in "The Dragon and the Ghost", so I don't remember
seeing her there. I've run into the name "Waters Under
Earth" so often that I have trouble believing I haven't read
it, but I can't remember anything about it, so I'll have to
go check.
Really good review by the way, helpful too, thank you for
taking the time. I hope I didn't spoil the plot for you too
much with my response.
A Ranma 1/2 story by -
Project Balrog Productions
Oh yeah, just in case you didn't know, there are a whole
bunch of people who own the rights to these characters and I
am not one of them.
Pointless filler material part 1 - backstory mini-segments 1 & 2
"Origin"
Age zero -
Birth
Happosai
[Happosai has just been shown the cursed springs of
Jusenkyo, when he and the guide notice a woman about to give
birth. Happosai assists with the delivery and bathes the
child, ignoring the guide's protests. Happosai names the
child Pantyhose Tarou. Unfortunately, the boy's mother dies
soon after giving birth...]
"I am sorry Mr. Customer, but you will just have to find the
boy a home on your own." The guide said regretfully, "I
simply cannot afford to raise a child by myself and it would
be very irresponsible of me to leave the cursed springs."
Happosai thinks the matter over carefully. On the one hand,
this could be the perfect opportunity to train an heir. On
the other hand, he really has no interest in being a parent
again at his age.
"Hmmm, I seem to recall Genma and Soun talking about some
pledge of theirs to unite the families..." He mutters to
himself. "And Soun's wife is pregnant..."
"That's it! Genma can adopt the boy! It's perfect, Genma's
a better trainer than Soun anyway so he can be trusted with
the boy's early lessons. And if Soun has a daughter they
can fulfill that silly pledge of theirs."
"Hmmm," Happosai mused to himself, "of course this means
I'll need to make sure Soun raises that daughter of his
properly..."
Age one week -
Adoption
"Saotome Tarou," Nodoka laughs as she lifts up her newly
adopted son. "It has a nice ring to it doesn't it dear?"
"But Nodoka, what of the boy's curse?" Genma poured cold
water on the infant to demonstrate.
"It's not that bad. And he's such a healthy little boy
too." Nodoka tickled the tiny minotaur and was rewarded with
what she thought was a giggle.
"If it really bothers you, you can always look for a cure."
She looked thoughtful, "We might want to move out of Tokyo,
it could be hard for you to train him here without drawing
too much attention."
"Yes dear."
Authors Notes:
I plan on tossing out short little things like this every
time I need to buy some time to catch up. Some, like this,
are backstory and have already been written. Others are
along the lines of "What the hell is Ranma up to anyway?" A
couple will probably focus on my annoying new character who
has yet to be introduced. And still others will be short
segments of plot from the annoying new parody (no relation
to the annoying new character mentioned earlier, although
there are several ANC's in the ANP) that occurs alongside
and partially within the main story. Assuming I don't
abandon the story mid-way through anyway.
And it looks like it's working anyway, I've actually started
writing the next chapter so I might be done early. Not that
I'd post it early anyway, but still.
And now for a response to a review.
I really shouldn't respond to this, as my response can't
help but spoil segments of the upcoming plot, but I can't
resist.
Spanner -
But I LIKE tired, overused themes. They wouldn't
be tired and overused if there wasn't something there.
Seriously though censored for plot reasons. And my
concern is making censored more censored to provide the
necessary censored and to do that I'm using censored as
a vehicle.
I'm glad that someone else noticed censored for plot
reasons. I was afraid that based on the reviews I've been
receiving that people actually liked censored. And
that, of course, would interfere with my plans to
censored.
And you're right of course about censored not necessarily
being censored. Still, on the whole I think that certain
censored like in particular censored do tend to be
noticeably more censored. Although that tendency is
certainly only relative. And even then, all of censored
have blindingly obvious censored.
And remember, "censored", actually I don't need the quotes
because I think that might not be attributed to anyone yet.
Maybe I just invented a truism!
My author avatar will never show up, unless censored for
pointless, long-winded, self-indulgent, and off-topic
borderline ranting.
Thanks for recommending those stories by the way. I'm
behind in "The Dragon and the Ghost", so I don't remember
seeing her there. I've run into the name "Waters Under
Earth" so often that I have trouble believing I haven't read
it, but I can't remember anything about it, so I'll have to
go check.
Really good review by the way, helpful too, thank you for
taking the time. I hope I didn't spoil the plot for you too
much with my response.