#plural Ranma

[jaquik]

New Ranma 1/2 fanfic chapter: Ranma 3/2 Chapter 3

Here is the next chapter for my fic Ranma 3/2

Chapter 3: Blind Tag

Time for school, but which Ranma will be the one attending?

It was truly amazing just how much a mere 24 hours could introduce so many new and interesting surprises for a young and purely innocent girl. Nabiki couldn’t help but think about that as she biked along her usual route to school, the majority of her musings being one (or perhaps as many as four, she speculated) of those surprises from yesterday who was currently running on top of river-side fences and house gate walls, keeping up with her with seemingly no effort. Which, to be fair, really shouldn’t have surprised her at this point. She listened in on the various braggart heavy stories that the one named Kuroma regaled to Kasumi the previous night. And even if one were to discount the clear embellishments given, Akama’s performance that afternoon prior more than demonstrated the potential power of this apparently gestalt boy coming to school with her. Although, the more she thought of it, the more she couldn’t help but wonder if either of those qualifiers were completely accurate. Right, best to clear that up before they made it to their destination. She did have a reputation to maintain after all.

“So,” Nabiki casually called out, “now that I have the chance to talk with just the two of us, more or less, there’s a few things I’d like you to clarify for me.”

“Yeah, figures you’d still have a buncha questions,” the dark haired martial artist sighed as he or maybe she looked down at Nabiki while not missing a step. “Alright, what do ya want to know?”

“Well, first off…” Nabiki drawled out, deliberately pausing for just the exact amount of time to get her target’s interest piqued and vulnerability to its maximum before striking. “It would be good to know who it is I’m actually addressing.”

The Saotome youth seemed to think about this for a moment. “Well, when we’re like this, I guess it’d be easiest just to refer to us as Ranma, since that is who we are after all.”

Nabiki couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow at that response, noting that this Ranma appeared to be directing that last part more towards herself or himself rather than towards her. “Interesting, Saotome, but that doesn’t actually answer my question. Namely, which one of the three siblings am I talking to, that is if you really are any of them.”

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[transpandaart]

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"What did he mean by that...?"

Our "Hero" continues to be wildly oblivious to her visiting the animal hrt clinic for animal hrt. But she and her cofronting catgirl Shampoo headmate almost cross paths with @prettiestplatypus! A game of cat and mouse narrowly avoided? (Pharmacie originally appeared in @ayviedoesthings's art here)

[transpanda-1]

This will be the Ranma fandom in 2025

[askranma12]

Is there a truce between Ranmas or is it like the highlander where you need to chop each other's pigtails off to become the only one?

(Only one of these girls being non-canon...)

[princessfelicie]

Ranma 2 in 1 Chapter 17

Cover art by @doodlerbeeart!

Hey there! After two years of tribulations, I've finally managed to complete the next chapter in my transqueer Ranma 1/2 fanfic! I worked on it for so long -- I would love for you to check it out!

This fic features:

Plurality!

Very useless lesbians!

Like, at least two eggs. More depending on how you count

An autistic catgirl!

A himbo you will want to strangle like a novelty stress ball!

Therapy (attempted)!

Comedy!

Drama!

Slow burn!

Anything Goes Martial Arts Mental Gymnastics!

The very same kind of love polyhedrons you know from the original series, but this time, very very gay!

Aaand more!!!

No but to drop the advertiser voice for a minute, I have worked my ass off getting this completed despite the rest of my life falling apart around me and if this sounds up your alley, I would be eternally grateful if you read sixty thousand words of me torturing my blorbos through sixty simultaneous identity crises.

If this is your first time reading, you can hop onto chapter one by following this link:

And if you've been reading this mess already, you can check out the newest chapter by clicking right below:

[awakenedgirlspring]

Thinking of that one meme thats like "trans fem to trans fem communication",

But instead it is hyper specific " plural trans fem ranma fictive to plural trans fem ranma fictive communication"

[transpanda-1]

🪽What’s also is interesting is how Ranma’s plurality was very established by this point in the series. Obviously plurality has been widely misinterpreted for years, but The Cat WAS still there and pretty straightforward! This episode was made with that in the bg! It’s no wonder so much of fandom adapts some variation of her into their works!

Thinkin bout that time Ranma emotionally ruined me

[beedok]

If I had a dime for every time a genderbender anime had a protagonist named Ranma who was plural coded, I would have two dimes… which, well, y’know the saying.

[trishyeves]

So, after finally pushing past the stumbling block that was keeping me from reading any trans girl Ranma fics, I read a bunch of them

Holy crap there's so many good ones, y'all

"Finding Oneself" by JaquiK

Summary: Post-manga ending, Ranma takes Akane out for a girl's day out. It gets gay and plural

Thoughts: We got some classic Ranma Misunderstanding Tango going on in this one, but it's a lot of fun, and honestly Plural!Ranma fits pretty well

"A Simple Promise" by NobleHeroine

Summary: AU in which a lonely Ranma tries to make up for that disasterous first day at the Tendo's by approaching Akane in the night, asking to be friends. Ranma quickly latches onto the idea that Akane would be willing to be friends if he was a girl full time, and tackles the situation with the usual competitive spirit

Thoughts: This one is in-progress, check it out! Unlike a few others AU's I tried, this one doesn't try to play by play scenes we already know, focusing instead on how this promise changes things. Really excited for more of this one

"One to Treasure" by NobleHeroine (didn't realize until literally just now they were the same author)

Summary: Akane is in a time loop of the first episode, and she has gotten the art of cracking Ranma's egg and romancing her down pat. Only one issue... it seems like this loop, Ranma has foreknowledge of her own?

Thoughts: A one-shot, and a damn good one. This is such a fun twist on a time loop story, and if you enjoy Ranma/Akane in a very lesbian way, this fic is like a delicious dessert.

"Trying Something a Little Different" by NobleHeroine (Wait seriously? This is not a gag I genuinely am flummoxed)

Summary: Sequel to a one-shot, this starts with Ranma only being out to Akane, staying in the gender closet with everyone else. It becomes clear why, with the way her parents treat her just for being in her red-haired form more often

Thoughts: Another one that is currently updating, don't want to spoil it but this fic also has another character having her egg cracked and hot damn I love it. This fic focuses a lot on the way Ranma's parents have fucked her up and actively continue to make her overcoming the mindset she's been stuck in for so long so difficult for Ranma

There was another fic I was quite enjoying, but the most recent few chapters went in a direction I wasn't loving

Reading all of this has given me an idea for a trans girl Ranma one-shot of my own, but with all the fics on my plate already, who knows when it will come out

[transpanda-1]

🌑Thank you so much to @welldrawnfish for drawing this delightfully silly picture of myself and 🎀Ribbon, where she's serving as my "Angie".

(🎀So I can cofront easily with dummy Donna! And now I'm the dummy!? Unfair! (○｀ 3′○)o )

[beedokart]

So... slight update.

Turns out the joke about my highly variable certainty about potential plurality being a symptom was true.

Freddy part of my brain still doesn't fully accept things.

Very silly redraw of the Ace Attorney bit with Larry, but it's how I seem to be on a short list of trans folks who can hang out with @transpanda-1 and @welldrawnfish and remain a singlet.😆

[askranma12]

So there's definitely talk of Ranma being plural - anywhere I can go to see the members of Ranma's system, or is that too personal to share?

Plural Pride Day seemed a good day to answer this.

We’ve got Ranma, cat-fist/Yoiko (thank the @ayellowbirds crew for associating them in my mind), Am I Pretty’s Ranko, Yin(g) clone going by Inko, and then Lina Inverse is there due to tradition.

(Yin(g)/Inko and Ranma canonically have some romantic tension going on. That hasn’t quite gone away.)

[transpandaoctournament]

Transpanda OC FINALS

THIS IS IT, THE FINALS, THERE WAS A LOT OF TIES BUT WE'LL SEE WHO... SOMETHING WITH THIS. WE'LL TALLY THE VOTES AND GO FROM THERE, YIPPEE!

The rules of the tournament

Brief introduction to "Thank You For Existing"

CHARACTER BIOS BELOW

Yuni Yoshinaga

“My name is Yuni Yoshinaga, and I don’t really exist.”

Born a timid, sweet, and quiet boy, Yuni was quickly mistreated for his rare heart-shaped pupils. To avoid abuse, he donned the personality mask of “The Demon Delinquent”. Years later, a major accident occurred. Yuni was medically mistaken for Mizuki Fujisaki, a well-liked girl with the same eye condition. Feeling finally free, Yuni dubbed “his” true self as “The Girly Force” to those aware while stepping into the role. Yet Yuni couldn’t shake off the “Demon Delinquent” personality mask. Why? He doesn’t actually exist…right? Yuni is the main character of TYFE.

Primary Inspiration: Masashi Rando from Pretty Face (And Chihiro Fujisaki from DR)

Plural or Plural Adjacent?: Plural

Art of Yuni Yoshinaga by: Sunnyside_Cakes

Pan Kokoro

“I’m Non-Canon and I’m proud!”

Kokoro is your typical filler character; Never appeared in a single chapter of her source, and only a single episode of the show adaptation. The problem therein lies that the peppy girl exists inside the main character’s mind, Pan Yu. Brought to the front just a couple of weeks before the series’s canonical ending, Yu’s wedding, Kokoro is determined to find the space where she fits in best! Can she assert her existence with so many people insisting she’s just a delusional Yu, including Yu’s fiance Bow Botella? Whatever the case is, she’s surprisingly comfortable in both forms she has. Pan Kokoro is the main character of TYFE part 4: Filler Turf.

Primary Inspiration: “The Girl” from the anime of Ranma ½

Plural or Plural Adjacent?: Plural

Art by @starredfishing, commission them!

Maya St. Fleur

“I’m Maya St. Fleur, and I’m gonna blow your mind!”

An ex-demolition woman turned psychic therapist (and a zombie descendant), Maya is employed by a recap therapy organization. Despite this, she’s actually never faced her past grief of losing several close people, choosing to forget instead. Trouble strikes when she needs to attend her own recap therapy, due to an actual total memory loss accident caused by Yuni. With slightly different circumstances, will Maya finally build on her past events? Or simply continue to demolish what shaped her...? Maya is the main character of TYFE Part 1: That’s Life.

Primary Inspiration: Razputin Aquato from Psychonauts.

Plural or Plural Adjacent?: Adjacent

Art of Maya St. Fleur by: Sunnyside_Cakes

Jilly Bean

“I do not feel emotions. I hope that this does not cause you distress of any kind.”

Appearing quite emotionless at first glance, Jilly Bean is actually a severely self destructive individual focused on others first. Much of this stems from her assuming she fakes all of her emotions, when in reality she’s an undiagnosed system with one low emotion alter. She has a tendency of intervening with stories she feels demonizes someone unfairly. This need to be someone else’s anchor has led her into much trouble; the lemon coloring on her body is actually scar tissue for example. With the loss of one reformed villain turned friend, Shirley A. Gonna, Jilly’s low emotion alter gets front stuck, worsening her mindset. She is a recurring character in TYFE.

Primary Inspiration: Monkey D. Luffy from One Piece

Plural or Plural Adjacent?: Plural (Unaware)

Art of Jilly Bean by: ragingwoodcock

[transpanda-1]

Mhm, mhm, as @sammyaran said, the "plural" ranma scene is taking place mostly in the fic space atm, though it could change with recent... uh, developments.

Us personally have been described as a "plural egg specific hammer" from how consistently we detangle systems with our stories apparently, ahaha ;^^

If you're ever interested in checking the space out, take a look! It's pretty heavily trans positive too, so it'll hopefully but cool either way.

Here's (what we think?) are the fics being referenced from those tags:

Fun fact! Along with the trans community, Ranma 1/2 is also making a resurgence lately with an entirely different one: systems! (I.E. Plural, the umbrella term to describe multiple consciousnesses/people existing in one body) On top of the body changing curse Ranma has, fans recently have noticed that Ranma has a number of dissociative states in the series (Mostly the cat fist/neko-ken/"Raneko" and the "Girl" from the episode 'Am I Pretty?', and others like 'Ying Ranma').

So Ranma 1/2 has sorta become this one-two punch in attracting both trans people and plural people to it, haha!

Huh, neat!

[awakenedgirlspring]

Working on "1/2 a detective" and I was musing how I feel about souls and plurality and how I wanted to depict that. And if it would be better to portray headmates as having seperate souls that are essentially seperate spirtual bodies after death or if they still shared one spirutual form. And then it came to us via hearing Genkais voice going, "You fool, if multiple people can share a singular physical form and still be indviduals what makes you think that can't be true for their spirtual form as well."

And i guess since we're writing about

[melia-an2fa]

Related to last reblog but I also wish people would stop doing a similar thing with Xenoblade. It's great to interpret a work as having queer readings, but it's downright misleading to try and sell it to potential new fans by telling them "it IS this" and not "I interpret it as this." You're basically setting people up for disappointment if you're going around saying that a Nintendo game has cool and epic polyamory rep, for example.

And in the case of Xenoblade it's not just queer readings where this is a problem, I'd say it's even bigger of a problem with people interpreting characters as plural and then going on to recommend Xenoblade to people on a basis of "plurality representation," because you are, once again, just setting people up to be disappointed.

In fact I think the plural thing is even more 1:1 to the Ranma ½ discussion because people are interpreting magical fantasy tropes as real-life plurality—much as people are interpreting the fantasy trope of magically turning into a girl as genderfluidity—and then trying to sell people on the game with it. Which just. Isn't fair.