#also... this is so Ranryo

[ask-ranma-and-ryoga]

Every once in a while, I go and reread Stranded and omg. Your mind. So talented.

I can’t wait to see what else is in store for these two, they live in my head rent free. I also love how you write Ranma’s and Ryoga’s love for Akane, I can’t wait until they realize they’re in love with each other, too. Thank you so much for feeding the fandom and I hope you know how much joy you create in the universe!

Happy to provide that delicious and nutritious ranryo content. I live to serve.

[glimmerclouddragon]

I find it interesting, as a multishipper, that if I dissect the RARA squad into smaller ships, my shipping opinions differs:

RARA squad: polyamorus. Everyone in this polycule loves each other just as much! Even if they show it in different ways. Adore it!

Rankane: Not a shipper but can see the reason why people love them so much. And they do have some cute moments.

Ryokari: otp since around 20 years( and still going strong!)

Ranryo: like Rankane, not a shipper but can see why people are drawn to the idea.

Kanekari: I am the captain of this ship!

Ryokane: Platonic friendship only

Rankari: Platonic friendship only(though it is fun to play with the idea of Girl!Ranma x Akari but that is just me playing around rather shipping them seriously).

Ranryokane: Just doesn't feel complete without Akari in there too.

So if I do draw with two of them that I don't ship/seeing platonic being very romantic, it is probably that I just drew half of the RARA squad.

Or that I did an art trade/art meme, with is also very plausible.

[petz5]

are there any ranma pairings you ship other than ranmaxakane? Why or why not?

if you mean in general, i like ukyo/konatsu, ryoga/akari (tho ryoga needs to get his act together), and nabiki/kuno too bc i think it'd be funny. also i do not care who kasumi ends up with, if anyone, but the egg catcher man ep made me go "she has two hands. if she wants two boyfriends then she deserves it for having to give up her childhood for her sisters"

if you mean specifically with ranma or akane.......... i like some ships but only one-sided. i like the idea of kodachi having a crush on akane and acting the way she does with ranma just to get her attention. i like ukyo having a soft spot for akane too and being like "okay ranma i get it now" after spending some time w her

ummmmm............ i'm not sure i ship literally anyone else w ranma lmao like i might have said one sided ranryo a year ago but i'm so over ranryo nowadays IM SORRY GAY BOYS FOR GIVING U NOTHING

[cartoonrival]

4, 6, 7, 8 GO APESHIT

4. what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?

popular sonic blog made a post baiting terfs to make a "free block list" even tho the person who runs the blog is cis. not the answer that this question is looking for but its the most notable one in my repertoire

6. which ship fans are the most annoying?

ranryo....... this is the yuri show. obviously im a yaoi enjoyer because im gay but like be serious........... their relationship is so much fucking better as stupid friends where ranma loves ryoga and ryoga wishes ranma would die but does also love him too. like in no world is ryoga gonna be able to have a relationship with ranma that comes even close to what rankane has....... i cannot help but think that some ranryoers just dont care for akane enough to even understand why ranma loves her and why shes such a good character and why she and ranma are such a good pair. like idec what ranryoers are specifically saying this ship just annoys me on principle. you know this

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

i actually have an immunity to this phenomenon. i refuse to let fandom stupidity win 💯

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU PEOPLE SAYING ABOUT NODOKAAAAAAAA. fuck nodoka omg shes never gonna love him she will kill her child dead if she knew. it all stinks of copium..... but literally why ToT likeeeee queerphobia is a core theme in r/2 and ur ignoring it to argue (argue!) that nodoka doesnt waaaant to kill ranma she just says shes gonna because of the contract... THAT CONTRACT SHOULD BE MEANINGLESS IN THE FACE OF A MOTHER NOT ACTUALLY WANTING TO KILL HER KID. if she didnt want to then she wouldnt. she doesnt want to because she doesnt want ranma to be girly..... if hes girly then she sees the seppuku as a necessary evil because she and genma failed as parents. nobody wants to KILL their KID, but too many are willing to resort to that if they think their kid has gone too wayward. nodoka is a KEY player in driving home the theme of acceptance and part of wahts SO significant about rankanes relationship, but ppl just ignore it so they can make everything hunky dory....... BORING! not to mention WRONG!

[herefortheships]

I'm sure 2012-2014 me would be so happy to see I've reached 900 followers on Tumblr! Obviously I'm really happy in the present too haha. But I used to be such a Tumblr girl back then even more than now. I am blogging a lot more these days than I have in a while, though, due to having fallen in love with the Betelgeuse and Lydia ship now.

For my new friends here, let me do an introduction 💜. I'm a girl in my 30s, you can call me Des in this blog. I like to write poetry, fantasy, scifi, and music, and in this blog you will find such ships as Destiel, Spuffy, Symbrock (also known as Veddie), Reylo, and now, my new dearly beloved and current obsession: Beetlebabes. 💚💜 Betelgeuse and Lydia have taken over my personality right now after watching Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. I am obsessed!

You may occasionally also see: Ranryo (these are Ranma and Ryoga from Ranma 1/2 anime/manga, I feel like it's a pretty old ship so maybe many don't know of it these days 😅). I also love Itakugi from JJK, and to lesser extent you will find, but I also love: Nalu, Zutara, Byler, Elisa x Goliath (from Gargoyles, one of my earliest ships!), Kenkao (another old ship from the anime/manga Rurouni Kenshin), Satosugu, Sasunaru, and Debster. Maybe I'm leaving out some of my ships, but these are the ones I remember at the top of my head that I have blogged about.

Yes, you will see that some of my ships are considered "dark" by some, and many of my ships are also monster x human ships (notably Spuffy, Symbrock, and now Beetlebabes to some extent); I do tend to like darker ships sometimes and I love the monster x human concept a lot. I love forbidden love stories even though I end up breaking my own little heart lol. But yes, if you know me, you know I am the shiest and kindest little 5' tall potato around.

Thank you so much for following me, and I am so happy you are here! I've always been a big shipper and that's never going to change. 😁

[kayhusky]

I have come to the conclusion me and our gc are never gonna fully match as our ocs in the boyfriends style on discord so I’m plaguing my followers with this monstrosity

top right and left belongs to @cinnamonmoth-t and top middle belongs to @ranryos

ALSO ACTUAL BOYFRIENDS FANS DNI

[supersuoer11]

Ranryo fanfic where Ryouga and Ranma finally talk things out and patch up their relationship. On the account of them being on good terms, Ryouga relearns who Ranma is; that despite all his hurtful teasing and inability to be sensitive, he is incredibly kind-hearted. Ryouga then commits himself to becoming the best friend Ranma had voiced out he needed as he was tired of all the fiancée drama and just wanted a genuine friend. But things never go according to plan, as Ryouga found himself falling in love with him. That was bad since it threatened their newfound friendship. Ranma made it very clear that he doesn’t want any new suitors. So Ryouga repressed his feelings and never spoke out about it. He also knew of Ranma and Akane’s improvements in their relationship. In the past, it had been easy to trick himself into thinking that Ranma and Akane totally didn’t have a spark, but circumstances have changed. He actually had to listen to Ranma ramble on about his and Akane’s problems and their progress if he wanted to be a good friend, and it wasn’t like he could just pretend Ranma wasn’t smitten by her. So.. it ends with Ryouga being a best man to a best friend in a fated wedding.

This whole ass summary turned into a mini fic halfway but yeah❤️

It’s nearly 3 am btw I apologise for how I wrote this

[beedok]

If you're still taking asks for the relationship thing, could you please so Ranma/Akane?

when I started shipping it if I did:

Weirdly, it was from watching Cheeky Angel after I’d gone through all of Ranma (anime + manga). The basically Rankane duo in that was rebellious and against social expectations, and done like that it appealed to me. (I don’t recommend Cheeky Angel though... kind of a mess and not good for gender stuff.)

my thoughts:

If they weren’t an arranged marriage set up I’d love them in an instant.

What makes me happy about them:

They’re both grumpy stubborn dweebs who don’t really know how to express their emotions. Yet, they’re also totally willing to risk their lives for the other.

What makes me sad about them:

The arranged marriage angle. Also, all the Akane bashers.

things done in fanfic that annoys me:

The Akane bashing... though that’s not usually in Rankane ships. Other angle is anything that has Ranma drop the curse for Akane. Girl is severely bi, and you know it. (And Ranma isn’t cis.)

things I look for in fanfic:

Gayness. And some exploration of gender themes. Also, I like AUs where they’re not in an arranged marriage set up, obviously.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:

Akane: Shampoo is the top choice. Shinosuke’s not half bad. I’m alright with Ukyo, but I want it to actually be written, not just a footnote while Ranryo is happening. Akari’s also good, but probably too ‘pair the spares’ for a Ranryo fic. I’m torn on monkey girl... is that just rebounding from Ranma?

Ranma: Ryoga, for sure. Nabiki or Shampoo, if they do something to redeem themselves. Herb is a fun match. I could totally be sold on Mousse. (And Hibari is very good for Ranma, I don’t care that she’s a crossover.)

My happily ever after for them:

The parents give them space, they run the dojo together, Ranma embraces the curse. Probably a kid or two. (Shampoo may or may not also be living with them...)

who is the big spoon/little spoon:

Depends what mode/mood Ranma is in.

what is their favorite non-sexual activity:

Working on martial arts together. They both live for it (Akane, quite possibly, more than Ranma).

[kaienmoved]

Pairing: Ranryo or Rankane?

This is a bit of a toughy... But I really do just have to go with Rankane because I’ve always loved their development from start to finish. They mean so much to me (sobbing emojis)

They were also like one of the first het pairings I’d shipped in a really long time bc Tumblr atmosphere got me into the mindset of straight ships being bad. Not anymore!

[battleangelaelita]

87+37 RanRyo

Ryoga has been nursing this wound in his heart ever since Ranma ran out from their duel. See, it hadn’t been serious...until then. It was just some spirited roughhousing, and a chance to spend more time with the only boy he could relate to at the all-boy middle school.

But when Ranma ran out of their duel, he left Ryoga alone. It left this great emptiness in him, and the more he thought about Ranma gallivanting off without him, the more it hurt, the angrier he became. So he tracked him down, all the way to the Cursed Springs of Jusenkyo, and then on to Furinkan High.

Fast forward to the present, Ranma seems happy to see him, and this just makes it hurt even more. Because all that time away hadn’t seemed to mean anything to him. Whatever second thoughts about settling the score vanish: they’re going to fight, and Ryoga is going to prove once and for all that he doesn’t need that soft boy in his life.

The fight goes like canon, right up until Ranma’s curse is revealed. Something sleeping inside Ryoga stirs. Ranma whines about it being a “curse” and how “inconvenient” it is to them, and for some reason Ryoga isn’t going to have it. He gets so angry he can’t stop from crying at the indignity of it. Ranma not only gets to stay human with their curse, they also turn into a beautiful woman.

The jealousy quickly turns into despair. They continue the fight, but Ryoga is preoccupied with these long repressed feelings, and Ranma wins. Ryoga curses Ranma for his luck, how they could have everything she ever wanted, including the one thing she’d never dare admit to anyone, not even herself.

This takes the wind right out of Ranma sails, and victory never felt so awful before. Ranma offers their hand and says there’s no way they could refuse to help a girl in trouble.

The next arc is two meatheaded Japanese teenagers figuring out this whole gender stuff. Akane starts bonding with Ryoga and helps her with presenting female, dealing with the skeptical students and faculty of Furinkan, and fighting off the usual motley of ridiculous martial arts challengers and the people Genma has betrothed Ranma to. Ukyo, Tsubasa and Konatsu show up quicker than in canon.

Throughout all this, Ryoga remains unaware of her growing romantic feelings for Ranma. The subtext is that Ryoga is panromantic but very much sapphic when it comes to sexual attraction, and only Nabiki can pick up on the subtext and try to hint it to Ranma. Ranma for their part is starting to forget that Ryoga was ever male presenting.The more time they spend with her, the more they are drawn to her voice. Ryoga’s been learning for Tsubasa about “how to be cute”, and while Tsubasa remains resolute that he is in fact just a guy who likes to be cute, Ryoga is starting to have her doubts.

Eventually, Ranma resolves to find a way to give Ryoga the blessing of Nyannichuan. Unfortunately, as Shampoo tells them this is a terrible sacrilege to both her people and the rival Musk tribe.

Cologne gets wind of Ranma’s plan, and alerts her tribe. The Musk catch wind of this, and their King gives the rebellious and moody Prince Herb a mission: stop the outsiders from desecrating the springs with their sacrilege, and they will be able to atone for their shame of being locked as a girl, and be granted the release of the Pot of Preservation. If Herb should manage to capture the the rebellious Amazon Shampoo, they might not even be passed over as heir to the king’s second son.

The battle lines are drawn, and there is much adventure. While the Nerima Wrecking Crew manages to overcome the Amazons sent to capture them, Herb’s forces manage to suprise them. Using the Pail of Preservation, Shampoo, Ranma and Mousse are locked in their cursed forms. Ranma gets separated from Ryoga by the Amazon counterattack, and Herb attempts to capture Shampoo to secure their rights as heir-apparent. But Ryoga gallantly intervenes, and is able to ensure Shampoo escapes. Ryoga is captured by an angry and brooding Herb.

Back at camp, Ryoga’s disappearance has left Ranma distraught. Akane finally realizes that Ranma is in love with Ryoga, and it breaks her heart. She is able to finally confess her feelings for Ranma, but gives Ranma leave to break their engagement. They kiss for the first and last time. Shampoo arrives in camp and manages to tell what has happened with Ryoga.

Back in the Musk camp, Herb schemes to trade “the defective male” for a better captive. The chief ot the Amazon war party reluctantly agrees to the trade to secure their alliance, hoping that Shampoo will secure peace between their two tribes. Herb generously offers the use of the Pot of Liberation to all when the deal is presented to the Nerima Wrecking Crew, on condition that once the trade is made, they all just walk away. They offer one night to think it over.

As much as Ranma wants Ryoga back, they’d never trade a friend like that. Shampoo makes her peace with the fact that Ranma won’t ever love her the way she wants, and is content that their fear of cats seems to be manageable in her presence. Perhaps in the next life. They begin hatching a rescue plan.

Meanwhile, Herb is ever more vexed by their strange captive. They question Ryoga about why she’d do such a strange thing. And the more they talk, the more the once clear world becomes clouded with doubt. Herb thinks about when they’d been newly cursed with the Nyannichuan, they were surprised about how much it didn’t bother them. But then faced with the demotion that meant among the Musk, and their father planning to sell them off as someone else’s bride.

When the rescuers arrive, they find Herb preparing to release Ryoga. After a tense moment, Herb tells them the location of the Musk relics, though they muse that after this they’d be lucky if they were still a scullery maid in their father’s house, let alone a Prince(ss). Ranma offers for her to come stay at their place.

There’s a fight in the throne room as they steal the treasures. Herb faces their father, and defeats him in single combat, and the heroes make off with the Pail of Preservation and Pot of Liberation.

They make straight for Jusenkyo. There’s a touching moment as Ryoga prepares to jump into Nyannichaun, where Ranma finally declares their feelings for Ryoga. The two kiss. Konatsu goes in next, and the two take a splash from the pail of preservation. Tsubasa dithers before finally jumping in when no one is looking.

The gang heads back to Nerima. Soun is a bit miffed that Ranma has broken the engagement, but he seems to take in stride due to the annoyance of having yet another live in house-guest. Ranma and Ryoga start dating, as do Ukyo and Konatsu. Akane and Herb start to warm up to each other, though she starts facing a bit of competition from Nabiki who only needed to hear the word “prince” to go gaga at the thought of dating them.

[gillotto]

Ok. So. I can remember myself a few years back tryin' to look for some ranryo content and finding absolutly nothing whatsoever. My dash led me back to Ranma and I've been rewatching some of my fav episodes. Most of them being Rankane moments and Ranma not feeling bad while being a girl. Point is. I don't know what led me to your posts but man Im glad it happened 'cause I love your work. Your hedcanons. Your comics. Everything. I'm so glad to be alive and that I had found this blog. Thank you 💖

Oof, I feel you. While ranryo content wasn’t non-existent, what little was available was just…not enough, both in quantity and also in the way the two characters were portrayed.

It’s why I started pumping out content for that pairing, because I wanted to provide the sort of content that I always wished to find in fanworks that I never could; Ryoga appreciating Ranma for his male side along with the female.

I’m so happy my content is making you happy, and that there are other fans of this ship out there who know the content is lacking and outdated and deserves to be As Gay As Possible. 🌈

[petz5]

7 and 11 for the ask game?

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

- its less him and more the most popular ship(s) w him but RYOGA...... RANRYO IS NOTHING TO ME I WENT FROM "its not for me but i can understand" TO "its not for me but i can understand BUT I ALSO FIND IT DEEPLY DEEPLY ANNOYING AND COMPLETELY DISMISSIVE OF THE ACTUAL CANONICAL STORY WE SPENT 38 VOLUMES WITH JUST TO SAY RANMA LEAVES AKANE FOR A MAN"

i also dont like ryoga/ukyo at all sorry 😔 i briefly liked it when i was in 7th grade but that was only bc i didnt know konatsu existed and i felt like everyone Had to be paired up in nice neat heterosexual relationships yknow

11. number of fandom-related words you've filtered

10 but only 3 of them are ranma related and 2 are tags used only by specific blogs probably so u can block em if u arent interested without actually blocking op. i highly recommend doing this if u spam the tag regularly with just like incorrect quotes or liveblog posts 😭 i dont wanna actually block ppl i dont have any issue with but i also want to be able to see fanart without it being drowned in 1 persons screenshots......

[petz5]

Hii! 7 and 8 for ranma if you can :)

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

HMMMM. I can’t think of a character i necessarily started hating that i only disliked before, but if you don’t mind me substituting a ship i will say i don’t like ranryo 😭 its not ryoga’s fault and when i read/watch the series i can see where people see chemistry between them!! but too many people are atrocious to akane to get her out of the way of their yaoi ship that i went from not minding it to actively disliking it IM RLLY SORRY. I KNOW I HAVE MUTUALS WHO LOVE THIS SHIP. be nice to akane and don’t make her abusive and don’t brush her importance to the plot aside in ur fanfic and…….i still wont read it bc im a lesbian ranma truther but i WILL respect u… again i can see why ppl like them together but i prefer them as friends (or ryoga having a one sided crush on ranma he’s actively doing his best to deflect to akane)

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

THIS ONE DRIVES ME A LITTLE NUTS BC IVE SEEN IT SO OFTEN PPL CLAIM ITS FACT WHEN ITS NOT: Soun didn’t train Akane properly (or stopped training her altogether)

Genma’s training is batshit and we KNOW this. Akane not being quite as superhuman as ranma does NOT mean she was poorly trained, it means ranma is VERY ABNORMAL and had to learn to be a martial arts genius to survive bc, as i’ve said in the past, genma made ranma fight him even just for the right to EAT. We still see soun training akane from time to time throughout the series, and we can assume the only reason we stop seeing it as often is because she shifts from training with her dad to training with ranma. Despite what that one ova said about her “only working out nowadays to keep her figure” that’s really not true. Yes she gets overshadowed as more characters are introduced and it sucks that as well as she kept up with ranma in the first season, it was more or less over once he learned the chestnuts roasting on an open fire move, but she could still wipe the floor with a hundred boys no problem

also we canonically know as long as she keeps at it she’ll eventually surpass ranma

[petz5]

no one asked but real quick here r my opinions on ranma pairings that come to mind!! obv i’m not trying to say u Cant feel differently abt them, these r just my own thoughts

ranma/akane - if uve followed me for even half a day u already know this is my absolute fave one. yes it’s canon no that doesn’t make it boring, they understand each other on a level the other characters don’t even come close to

ranma/shampoo - die in a fire they r SO bad for each other (shampoo is significantly worse but ranma’s also not great to her)

ranma/ukyo - don’t love it but i suppose she’d be the next best choice after akane (at least as a pairing that could realistically happen in canon bc there’s no way something like ranryo would ever happen). i love ukyo but not with ranma, she doesn’t listen to his wants and honestly i think he’d hold her back, and i also don’t think she ever really was in love w him and just kinda felt obligated bc “oh shit if I cant kill him and I don’t marry him then I’ve wasted my life.” LOVE these two as besties tho

ranma/kodachi - literally dont feel like I need to say anything here, ive never seen anyone ship them

ranma/ryoga - not my cup of tea but I can see why ppl like it. genuinely it’s mostly bc i cant see ranma liking men lmao i mean he flirts w them for free food and whatever but he always gets grossed out when they try to respond. i personally see ranma as a lesbian

ranma/ryoga/akane - same as above except i understand it less. mmmmaybe if akane and ryoga both loved ranma but not each other?? ryoga and ranma had some actual chemistry, but akane and ryoga……… eeehh. speaking of!

akane/ryoga - don’t ship at all. ryoga is kinder to her than ranma if you’re judging on the surface, but he doesn’t fundamentally understand her the way ranma does and doubts her ability a lot more. (to the point ranma has to physically stop him in one episode to tell him “this is akane’s fight, she’s got this and will be mad if you meddle”) also the whole p-chan thing is creepy. i enjoy ryoga as character but i don’t think he fits w her at all

akane/shampoo - don’t like it. i mean i’ve read fics where shampoo admits to liking akane (or even just respecting her as a fellow female martial artist) but also like… that exists outside of canon shampoo to me lol. canon shampoo doesn’t care about other people, and she in particular is homophobic towards akane to her face

akane/ukyo - i like it to an extent! if it were in canon i wouldn’t want it to go beyond like akane blushing when ukyo saves her and maybe offhandedly saying something like “she’s so cool” and ukyo, after spending some time w akane, admitting to herself that she can understand why ranma likes her. i think it’s cute to think abt

akane/kodachi - i love this but only one-sidedly. in canon i’d want kodachi to be Like That with ranma purely to rile up akane bc she wants her attention. i mean literally already in canon kodachi seems to not know what to do once she actually gets ranma other than dangle him over her alligator and wait for akane to save his ass. it’d be a funny twist for her to be doing all this just bc she wants to see akane and doesn’t think to just talk to her like a normal person

shampoo/mousse - don’t like at all

shampoo/ukyo - no real thoughts but I don’t love it. maybe similar to how I feel abt ranryo but while my feelings for that as neutral/positive this is neutral/negative

ukyo/ryoga - i can see why ppl like it and I believe I did too back in 2011 or so when i first watched it, but i feel like most ppl who ship this have only watched the anime (valid! but their manga partners are both great characters imo). I didn’t rlly see it at all upon rewatch and reading the manga put the final nail in the coffin. they’d be fun as friends tho! i like that they have a silly friendship similar to akane and mousse’s friendship where they’re more Worsties than anything but will hang out with and help each other if they need to

ukyo/tsubasa - no. i have very mixed feelings abt tsubasa as is, but ukyo has no interest in him and sees him as an annoyance so i wouldn’t want her to be w someone she doesn’t like (side note: used he/him for tsubasa bc he’s very open abt being a crossdresser. i know that crossdresser is used as a transphobic insult in the series, but… eehhh… tsubasa isn’t really like ranma and konatsu who are both pretty blatantly not cis. he declares himself as a guy all the time, which yeah ranma does too, but ranma’s whole character development is how that breaks down for him)

ukyo/konatsu - yes, i think they’re sweet and konatsu is very supportive of ukyo’s goals. i think this pairing would need more development before i’d really want it declared Officially Canon. i mean it is, but obv ukyo still has some feelings to work out similarly to ryoga and his canon gf, and i think she’d need to more clearly let go of ranma before this could truly blossom in canon. i love konatsu and i love ukyo and i think they’d be good girlfriends after a little work

ryoga/akari - love it, it’s sweet and i LOVE akari. like I said i think ryoga needs to work thru some shit/let go of akane to truly appreciate akari, and it’s annoying he’s still attached to her when he has a gf but i understand it’s difficult to just Stop liking someone you’ve liked for prob a solid year or so just bc u got asked out by someone else

these are all the ones I can think of rn but ur more than welcome to ask if u want my thots on any other ones lol

[petz5]

💕 for ranma 1/2? :0

💕 tell us about one of your favorite characters and why you like them!

u know i gotta go with akane here. a lot of people don't like her and i can understand that a bit, but i feel like a lot of the accusations made toward her r thin covers for misogyny i'll b real. yes she clobbers ranma, but this IS a slapstick comedy- the only major character that doesn't ever clobber or get clobbered is probably kasumi. there's also the argument that she never hears ranma out before jumping to her own conclusions, and that's totally fair, but also u can see after he points that out to her in the hot springs urn episode, she rlly does take it to heart and is a lot better about it for the rest of the series. there's many times where everyone else thinks badly of him and she's the only one who thinks theres more to the story

akane was revolutionary, and in a lot of ways still is. she is loud and strong and has a fiery temper, she can't cook, can't sew, can't draw, can't really do most traditionally feminine things (while ranma can), she isn't graceful, and she gets probably the least amount of fanservice in the series of all the girls aside from ukyo. the anime especially leaves her in ranma's dust, but she's a very talented martial artist and is rarely the damsel in distress. hell, i think in the manga it's ranma that needs rescuing more often than her. i personally headcanon that she got into martial arts and had soun train her after her mom died as a way to get her dad to do something, and found she really enjoyed it

ranma's other suitors, especially shampoo, are meant to be her foils and be everything ranma claims he prefers in girls, and harkening back to me saying this isn't a harem anime, it is so important in the series that akane is consistently the one he chooses. like obviously ship whatever u want, i like ranryo and all that, but for the actual canon it had to be akane he ended up with. akane isn't soft and sweet and affectionate in the same way shampoo, ukyo, and kodachi are, but she doesn't need to be. she's akane, and ranma loves her for her, just as she loves him for him

[beedok]

How about Herb/Ranma for the ask meme?

when I started shipping it if I did:

There was a time travel Ranryo fic where one of their kids was sent back in time, and I tried to think of the most bizarre couple to be implied by a time travelling kid would be. Figured Ranma/Herb was near the top of that, and had the humour that it could be siblings who ‘technically’ had a different mother and different father (Ranma and Herb having switched roles). Then I (accidentally) sold myself on it being an actual ship.

my thoughts:

They’re both dorks with no understanding of how gender works. But both insist they’re the more manly one.

What makes me happy about them:

They can explore society, and be straight two ways, gay, or lesbian to the confusion of everyone around them with ease.

What makes me sad about them:

Lack of content? Or the risk of someone writing them is some sort of boringly hetero-trans erasing way.

things done in fanfic that annoys me:

I think the only fics I’ve seen with Ranma/Herb implied all got abandoned halfway?

things I look for in fanfic:

It being finished would be nice. It being queer would be nicer.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:

I’ve mentioned Ranma before, but for Herb: if Herb’s romance isn’t with Ranma than it would probably be someone in China who’s an OC of some sort. Like... maybe there’s a chance for Shampoo? Or, I guess, Ryoga? (Easy for him to stumble onto Herb’s doorstep.)

My happily ever after for them:

Either they escape the Musk and get to live peacefully enough in Tokyo, doing martial arts and such together, having an even number of kids (for the sake of ‘fairness’ on childbaring) or they somehow break the Musk’s gender warped nonsense and drag it into the modern era. Possibly with Joketsuzoku/Nujeizu/‘Amazon’ help.

who is the big spoon/little spoon:

Male Heb -> Male Ranma -> Female Herb -> Female Ranma, because heights. Usually. Sometimes Ranma’s feeling stubborn.

what is their favorite activity:

Much like for Ranma and Akane, they’re both martial arts nuts, so sparring together, and letting off steam, is probably pretty high up there. Ranma introducing Herb to fun feminine things is probably also up there.

From this ask: https://beedok.tumblr.com/post/617137641980411904/question-meme-001-send-me-a-ship-and-i-will