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So I was jawin’ via email with Hiryo about Anything Goes Game Changer last month and he lamented that I haven’t done a Ranma/Kasumi pairing in a while. I used that pairing in Chaotic Space and its sequel Herd in Space, and Lion of Light, and sort of hinted at interest in that way in Effect of a Horse and Dragon and Wild Wolf had things gone differently, but haven’t used it anywhere else, and certainly not as a sole pairing. And since I wrote up an idea of a Shampoo/Ranma main pairing I figured I might as well try my hand at something similar. I then decided to share my ideas once more with all of you as a thank you for making February and January two of the best months I’ve seen since starting this page in terms of new patrons. Thank you very much for helping to make me able to do more of something I love.

Note: like the other fic ideas, I won’t be following up on these ideas for a long time. This started as basically an exercise to give homage to a character that desperately needed more depth and screen time in the original. I firmly believe that in this case, opposites would indeed attract, or perhaps a better way to put it would be would merge into a greater whole. 

Heaven’s Horse:

As Ranma and his father travel toward their destination, Ranma forces Genma to tell him why they aren’t, oh, searching for a freaking cure!!!! Enraged and furious that his father is prioritizing getting him hitched over searching for a cure, Ranma decides to leave him well before they reach Nerima. Running off, he decides to talk to a few priests and such at temples he remembers over the years about magic and curses. He talks to a few, and is warned about cures, while also informed there might be ways to control his curse out there. But then his father finds him, and tries to drag him back three days after he would have otherwise arrived at the Tendo Dojo

Needless to say Ranma is in no way going quietly and is still fighting his father as they enter Nerima, where they cause trouble for a few shop-goers. Ranma saves a young woman from being run over by a maddened panda that he knocks out with a sign the panda had ripped from the street. The young lady thanks him, then asks his name, and after getting over some surprise, invites him home to meet her family, introducing herself as Kasumi. The two of them talk and Ranma explains about the curse upfront, still seeing solving that issue as the primary problem in his life. Kasumi, startled but pleased he is being so honest, still insists on bringing him home, despite being rather freaked out about the curse. 

Once home, Ranma finds his father already there, and he and Soun having talked. Soun introduces his daughters and asks the traditional question, but Ranma refuses to make a choice, saying he doesn’t know anything about girls, and these girls in particular. “I mean seriously, I barely knew anything about my own curse’s bod, what the heck am I supposed to do with real girls?”

Soun and Genma try to insist, Ranma balks, argues, and then pressed further, points at Kasumi since she is the only one he’s exchanged more than a few words with. Kasumi, chagrined but willing to go along with things to a point, says they should get to know one another more. Soun, reluctant to go against her smile, agrees, leaving Genma with no leg to stand on. 

Akane and Nabiki react, both poorly in their own way, but Kasumi overrides them with a serene smile and a calm acceptance that reminds Ranma of the best Aikido masters he’s met. Akane walks off in a huff, but also some happiness, thinking this paves the way for her to get Tofu’s interest. Nabiki scowls, angry at having her interest in this guy amounting to nothing and utterly freaked about magic being real.

Ranma and Kasumi talk, and talk well into the night together, trying, in their own way to get to know one another while Ranma practices the art in the dojo, for privacy and to get some of his anger at his father out. Kasumi comes away utterly appalled by Ranma’s lack of education and forward planning, finding him grossly immature. Yet at the same time, she also realizes that possibly he might be a diamond in the rough. Missing so much school but still in the grade his age should be points to that, and while his manners are… poor to put it mildly, he seems friendly and even gentle.

At the same time, Kasumi also realizes that “Oh my, this boy is really fit”. Then Ranma takes his shirt off and that thought ratchets a bit higher. “Perhaps, with a bit of work, this might be fun.” Then Ranma forces her to stand up and join him in exercising.

For his part, Ranma is both freaked out at the experience of talking to a girl for this long and at how boring her life is. He also thinks her father is a dick for pushing her into the mother role to the family, which even he can spot. He thinks she needs to get the hell out of the house more, and is not happy with how submissive she seems to be, but he can also see how she walks and moves, how she shut her family down, and thinks maybe there is some martial arts here, some aikido he hasn’t seen before, and therefore, some interest. 

Thinking to see if that is the case, Ranma pulls her to her feet and makes go change before coming back to perform some katas. Kasumi protests, but Ranma outstubborns her. Seeing her in a training outfit makes Ranma blush, but teaching her the katas the same he was taught, getting behind her and moving with her though. Makes Ranma’s libido stand up and pant for the first time since puberty, and Kasumi feels it, her own body responding a bit, with an Oh my… 

Then they both think, maybe, maybe this is something that they could make work, despite their continuing issues… right up until they are interrupted by the family, with hilarious results.

What this fic will contain:

1. Nabiki and Akane being forced to fend for themselves: With Ranma pushing Kasumi out of her mold, the rest of the family will have to step up, learning that they really had made Kasumi shoulder too much

2. Kasumi teaches Ranma how to think things through: Canon Ranma was not one for deep thoughts, or anything outside the martial arts. She makes him expand his horizons a bit. This naturally leads to further issues of course.

3. Expanded from above: Ranma learning the gentle path, and Kasumi learning Anything Goes. Ranma will learn to calm down and use his enemies attacks against them in both martial arts matches and life, Kasumi will learn how to strike and act aggressively at times rather than just let things pass her by, unchanging. 

4. Several new rivals: Just because you’re adding things into Ranma doesn’t mean the essential Ranma is changed LOL, it just means he attracts a different sort of chaos. This will include cooking rivals for Kasumi – Shampoo, Ukyo, and others, a mad scientist student at school who is furious Ranma starts getting better grades than him, a policeman angry that Ranma is now becoming a vigilante and eager to put her in her place and more. And then there are the old rivals, and Ranma thinking of new ways to deal with them.

5. Romance: Ooh yeah, this too. The two of them will explore the romance aspect of their relationship, and that will include the physical side of things. Kasumi’s 19 and Ranma’s 16, come on, raise your hand if you could be in a relationship at that age and not want to have some physical-type fun? Especially when you’ve been forced to ignore your libido for so long, and just got affianced to someone who is, in your own terms, ‘damn sexy’. They also live together, which will cause a lot of issues right there LOL. Think the level of AGGC lime-ishness then merging into lemons soon after. 

6. Evil Tofu: An idea I’ve never seen before, Tofu will not only be a love rival, but will legitimately hate Ranma for swooping in like this and stealing his girl. Think Ryoga, only manipulative, willing to connive with others, and very certain that Kasumi loves him, regardless of any evidence to the contrary. He will also still have to deal with his reactions to being near Kasumi of course. 

7. Ranma’s searching for a cure: With Kasumi next to him – and rather freaked out by magic being real and his curse - Ranma will search throughout Asia for a cure to his curse, leading to a lot of new adventures along with a few old ones from canon just occurring in different locations, and with Kasumi along instead of Akane.

8. Eventual Nodoka: by the time Ranma will have been there for several months, Kasumi will have become interested enough in him and his past to see if she could find out who his mother was. With the help of Nabiki this will happen. At first antagonistic because of the curse, she will accept Ranma very slowly, being somewhat thrown off by the fact her son isn’t a male gigolo, but doesn’t accept his curse and “certainly seems manly enough for Kasumi if her screams last night were any indication”. Her idea of morality and manliness will run right into Kasumi and Ranma’s ideas of what a relationship should be causing friction. 

9. Early Ukyo: Kasumi and Ranma will have started to head problems off at the pass. Ukyo will be one of these, but will become a friend eventually, and may even become one of their staunchest allies, going around and helping them search for a cure, helping to give them a source of income, while also running into rivals of her own. Martial arts catering, Martial art’s mobile food carts, martial arts restaurateurs. 

10. Very slow acceptance of the curse: tying into the above, Kasumi has never seen magic before, and has never been attracted to other women before. She will help Ranma in his quest for a cure, going so far as to help him convince the parents he really shouldn’t be wasting time in school, volunteering instead to tutor him with Nabiki’s help. Eventually either they will find a cure or find out there is none, uncertain at this point. 

This idea is based off the old ‘what would happen if Ranma was a guy when he first showed up’. I’ve never actually seen that concept used to make a Kasumi/Ranma pairing (if you have, tell me where LOL), so I decided to extend it, having them meet before he gets there, that way allowing me to make a few changes to Ranma’s attitude. 

Despite that this introduction feels like it’s coming off as a bit too serious. So, here’s a more…Ranma style method to get the two together, though I like the name I came up with at least so that will remain the same.

Kasumi/Ranma idea #2 Horse Finding Heaven:

Having just heard Nabiki attempt to sell off his time to Ukyo after Akane had in turn handed Ranma over to her like some kind of parcel, Ranma decides, “You know what, screw this, just because she’s taken over the Tendo agreement doesn’t mean she owns me.” He shouts a bit about that, and then hops away leaving Nabiki at the tender mercies of the others, though he does shout out that he expects Ukyo and Shampoo to act like proper martial artists and not hurt the weak one. 

He then goes off to sulk a bit, think about Nabiki, Akane and the Tendo agreement. “It’s not like they have anything really to offer anyway.” Worse, while Akane was a sort of friend, they didn’t seem to be getting any closer these days. “And then she went and accused me!”

Scowling and now thinking about the Tendo agreement in earnest he remembers something very important: he was given the choice, of which to choose but never got the opportunity to. “HEHEHEH…”

With that thought he goes home to speak to Kasumi, who he has rarely talked to before over a full year living there, but well, he’s tried to get along with Akane and Nabiki now, so why not? Its either that or argue they don’t have their own martial arts school at all. Kasumi, somewhat appalled at being talked to like this as if she was the third choice, takes him to task about that, but he retorts by saying it was his choice in the first place though he never made it, and she actually loses her temper, shouting back “well that makes two of us!!”

That makes Ranma sit up and take notice, never having heard Kasumi shout before.  He then tries to get her to admit that she didn’t like being pushed into the role of mother, succeeding eventually. Ranma asks her what she’d rather do, she clamps up, and before he can try to wheedle it out of her, the others come home, with Nabiki furious about how Ranma ditched her. 

The parents put their two cents in but Ranma replies with his own idea, and, faced with the fact that Ranma would cheerfully walk out the door, Kasumi is forced to accept that the two of them need to try this out. Akane is furious, Nabiki calculating etc. But Kasumi has some demands in turn: no insults, he needs to bring his grades up, Ranma growling, since this seems as if she is treating him as a kid, he comes up with two demands in turn: she learns the Art from him, and they actually try to be romantic. Thus starts a new chapter in the Tendo/Saotome arrangement. 

Things this fic would include:

1. Akane being Akane: jumping to conclusions, hating perverts, yet at the same time, wanting Ranma back and occasionally being cute and even supportive at times. I will be a bit kinder to her in this fic than I am to her even in AGGC but well, she’s not the most consistent individual. 

2. Reluctant Kasumi: At least at first. She has fit Ranma into a role of the little brother and will be reluctant to see him as anything more. Ranma will actually have to figure out how to get around that.

3. Hidden Depths Kasumi: Kasumi will actually start to enjoy martial arts, and will in turn show more of her personality, which will start to be a driving force of the fic. 

4. Romance: Ranma will, because of his own big fat mouth, have to research romance, how to do it, what not to do, etc. because Kasumi refuses to let them just muddle through. Further, Kasumi will respond to this, and will suddenly remember her actual age instead of her place in the family. There will be a lot of mishaps, mistakes, and issues between them of the romantic humor and interrupted date variety. This will slowwwwwly lead to limish type situations and then lemons much later on.

5. Scheming, quasi-manipulative Nabiki: because while I like her, let’s face it, in the original she really was quite a manipulative bitch sometimes. And she really won’t like Rana trying to take control of his life.

6. Soun Bashing: Kasumi will show she really doesn’t think very highly of her father, and why.

7. Tendo Martial arts: Kind of like I’ve mentioned in AGGC, only even more so. Kasumi will show and help train Ranma in the family arts. 

8. Tofu as a rival: He will, to be blunt, not be happy about Ranma and Kasumi being affianced, and will try to step up his game. He will also try to woo Kasumi and overcome his issue there, with hilarious results, and painful ones too. But he won’t be as blind to reality as in the above fic, nor as obsessed

9. Ryoga roasted – Kasumi will learn of his curse, and ooh boy will she not be happy about it.

10. Evil Amazons: Shampoo will be angry and furious at the idea of a warrior like Ranma choosing a woman like Kasumi. Cologne will also be furious, and the two of them will become two of the villains of this piece.

11. Escape from Nerima: In an effort to get Kasumi out of her shell and Ranma to get to know her, they will leave Nerima on short day trips. This will lead to short, momentary crossovers, and will also lead to Nodoka showing up early.

12. Genma being an ass: worried about how his son is starting to, *gasp*, actually solve problems with his head, he will try to make issues worse. This means a lot more families showing up looking for a piece of the Ranma pie.

13. Good Happosai: thinking with his stomach he won’t get in the way of the two lovebirds, and may even train Ranma more seriously in order to keep him out of the Amazon’s clutches. 

14. Ranma accepting his curse: Kasumi has never known him without it, and can’t separate the two in her mind. She doesn’t even have any issues with how he uses it, but suggests offhandedly that maybe it could be a good thing, teaching him what women like to be of use later…

BOTH of these fics would be pure Kasumi/Ranma. Kasumi is a traditional young lady, and would not be willing to share!!!



And because I know I’ve come up with more Ranma Concept Ideas, here are two for the HP fans among you that I have been thinking of on and off.

Heroic Wizard - HP/My Hero Academia crossover:

Thanks to health inspections at school the Dursleys are forced to take both Harry and Dudley to the dentist (no not The Granger’s lol, though I might reconsider that). While Dudders is getting his first ever cavity seen to, Harry walks out of the office  and down the street, looking around and just happy to get away, wondering once more why his bruises always seem to heal before anyone but the Dursleys see them. Morose about needing to head back, Harry doesn’t notice that he’s outside a bank until the front of it explodes. Seeing several people injured, he finds himself rushing forward before he can think about it, wanting to help, and has several accidental magic moments. Interfering with the villain assault he is nearly killed, only to be saved by All Might, who was in Britain for a hero exchange program. 

Seeing a young boy with the build of a ten year old trying to save adults, he steps in and afterwards talks to the boy, while dodging the Memory eraser teams, which arrived warned by Harry’s being there. Becoming horrified by his home life, All Might instantly decides to adopt the youth, taking Harry with him back to Japan, finding that Harry had no adoption papers or anything else to speak of, further horrifying him. In Japan, Harry convinces him to make up with his sidekick, Sir Nighteye. Together the two of them decide to raise Harry, seeing in him and his magic both the will and possibility for greatness. 

Things this fic would contain:

1. Full universe merging: Rather than taking just Harry over to a new world, I would instead attempt to merge the two universes in a believable manner. The Wizards will have tried to stop the growth of quirks at first, but the problem quickly became too big for them to handle, and they then, of course, try to retreat into their own worlds, but even there, quirks start to show up, and unlike most human governments, the ICW lacks the flexibility to truly deal with the quirks. Conversely, the muggles and heroes are aware of the WW because of these attempts, and will be on the lookout for their further attempts to mind-wipe and otherwise hide themselves. Many governments will not like the idea of areas of their country not, in fact, falling under their control, but various wizarding governments will start to move with the times, slowly merging overall but not coming out into the open, fearing religious backlash on the one hand and societal destruction on the other.  This will be shown in the first chapter, with All Might seeing both a few progressives among the locals, and a few diehard separatists too. 

2. Switching Schools: As the adopted son of one of the best heroes around, Harry will be given the choice at fifteen to shift from Hogwarts to UA when he hits fifteen.  He will decide to do so, having had enough of being treated as hero one moment, and pariah the next. Needless to say, this will result in a lot of conflicts, large and small. But with Sir Nighteye and All Might in his corner, Harry will take on all comers and chart his own course to become a hero. This means the setting will shift, and I would want to do so in about five chapters or so. 

3. Trained Harry: Harry will have been trained, both his mind and body, from a very young age and so that his body can handle the pressure of One for All. How OFA will interact with his magic though, that is something no one will foresee. 

4. Voldemort Tutoring Shigaraki: With spells like the AK and others at their control, Voldemort will 

5. be someone even All for One has to tread carefully around. When AFO is captured, Voldemort, who will have resurrected himself during Harry’s first year at UA (his fourth in Hogwarts terms) will take over the adding the league to his Death Eaters. 

6. Izuku as a side character: With Harry already being given training and taken in by All Might, he may go the support course role and become good friends with Harry. Uncertain. But he will certainly still be there, think somewhere between Neville and Ron.

7. Bakugo as a rival: or at least he’ll see himself as one. “But hey, at least you’re not as much of a waste of space as Malfoy”. 

8. Pairings: Here I would go with Harry/Tonks/Momo/Fleur/more? Uncertain.  Although I mean for the romance to be a more minor note than in many of my stories: think Chaotic Space level.

a. Momo and Harry would get along great, both being intelligent and driven individuals with similar powers, able to help one another along in their studies to expand their powers in many ways, though more on Momo’s side of things. They will become one another’s first romantic interests, with all that entails. 

b. Tonks in turn would be training to be a hero instead of an Auror, believing that way she will be able to help more people. She will first be asked by Dumbles to keep an eye on Harry, but eventually fall for him.

c. Fleur will be interested in Harry and vice-versa almost from first meeting, having had a lot of similar experiences, respecting one another like Harry and Momo, and Fleur will be very… open with her affections. He will in no way be a leetle boy. 

9. Manipulative but generally Good Dumbledore: Albus is an old man who doesn’t do change very well, but will have to try to move with the times, all while still believing he alone knows how to defeat Riddle.  This leads to some conflict, but also some growth on his part, and eventually some new friendships once he is forced to realize that no, he doesn’t know best. 

10. Everybody hates Harry: Harry will find himself in the center of the villains growing schemes with several rivals both among fellow heroes and the villains. 


And here’s another idea to even things out. This one was built on an idea for a Ranma crossover I had years ago, but then built up further and shifted to HP because I am quite honestly appalled that I haven’t seen anyone else think up given the popularity of the original game and the utterly embarrassingly horrible book that was ‘based off the game’: I mean seriously, the books were so bad it was horrible. The lead up to the actual crossover needs work, and I am uncertain about the timing of it, but I do think that the idea as a whole is solid and I am very certain about what the fic would contain.

Bhaal Son Remodel: Harry Potter addition - Gamer/Baldur’s Gate/Harry Potter Crossover:

Harry has always used games as a way to retreat from the world. The summer of his second year is no different, actually its worse since the Dursleys only let him out when they want him to cook for them, locking him in his room when he can. Since his friends, even Hermione, aren’t replying to his mail for some reason, he becomes even more desperate to escape. When Dursley breaks a brand new computer, he steals it away from the bin one morning, and tries to repair it, even becoming so desperate as to use magic. This gets him a missive from the DMLE, causing him even more anxiety, which he funnels into his new project but he can’t quite get it to work. 

Desperate, he sneaks out one evening with the computer, thinking that maybe he could use magic in a magical area without being called on it, and tries to get to Diagon Alley, basically running away from the Dursleys for a few days. He finds a few books he can use to try and repair the game, searching for those books in Nocturne Alley. Eventually after two days searching, he finds a few books that seem able to help him, thanks to an older man who helps him find a few more books, including one that would enable him to power the computer, he goes to work on the computer, while also reading his books for school. However, his work is interrupted by Dumbledore, who, after several minutes of argument, returns him to the Dursleys over Harry’s protests.

One beating later, Harry hooks up his computer, anxious and desperate for a real escape. And when Harry hooks the computer up, it works!!! He was even able to start using the windows, and then started to play the last game Dudders had been playing, Baldur’s Gate. Duddley had thought it too hard even on the easiest level of difficulty, but that was Dudley, and Harry was used to hard, so went with that. The skull in the circle of the loading screen seems to go on for a long time though, and then it vanishes in a white light so bright Harry’s blinded. When he opened his eyes again, suddenly Harry finds himself not staring at a computer, but a vast skull and crossbones in front of him, hurtling towards and then through him. Then he hears a voice shouting, “Prepare your character!!!” to which Harry replies with “…Whut?” LOL.

What this fic would contain:

1. Gamer stats, interaction points: Like in Litrpgs or the Gamer fics, there will be quests, stats, level ups, all that jazz, though I will endeavor to not make it all pervading to the point it gets in the way of the fic. They will however include relationship points, romance options, friendship buffs, etc. There will also be stats from other games and ideas of giving gifts, and bonuses for completing armor sets and other such.

2. Gamer’s mind: in Gamer fics this is something that causes the character to be unable to panic.

3. Baldur’s Gate: Harry will be spawned, obviously, into the character of the first game. He will makes his way through the world, completing quests, meeting new characters, and then killing many of them LOL. Of course, the original plot will be expanded by my sometimes insane mind, and Harry will not be railroaded as easily as happened a whole lot in both BG 1 and 2.  I will also include a lot of the fan-made mods.

4. Full Character remake: Harry will be able to remake his body as he wants to. This will come with some issues:

I. Magic or brute force: Harry’s a teenage boy, and while yes, most boys want to play with magic, Harry has learned it’s not all that it’s cracked up to be. So he will want to dual wield and in so doing run roughshod over that whole ‘can’t wear heavy armor use heavy weapons bull-shite.

II. Young Adult body. The character in the game is eighteen or twenty one, jumping straight into that kind of body, even if he’s the one who creates that body, will cause issues for a twelve to thirteen year old. “Wait, what’s with the hair on my chest? And I have to shave my face now? With a knife?!

III. Misconceptions and body issues. Having the ability to remake his body, Harry will try to remake it into what he thinks a hero would look like. Of course, he’ll then have to get used to not being small, scrawny or able to fade into the background. “Maybe going for a Seven-foot tall barbarian mage build was a bit much?”

5. MAGIC: Harry suddenly finds himself in one of, if not the largest library, and makes use of it, and the fact that the tutorial section is going to stay open until he finishes all its quests. He will also work hard to keep his buff appearance.

6. Comedy: Outside the initial setup, I mean for this fic to be comedy and violence centered with a raunchy romance portion building up in the future. Harry won’t be able to go there right away, but it will happen eventually.

7. Out of his depth Dumbledore. Faced with the utterly bizarre mix of a runic soul trap, accidental magic, and technology, Dumbledore will be at his wits end trying to get his tool back, only to fail miserably.

8. Tonks as Imoen: That seems such a great fit! Harry’s disappearance will be discovered, and by the time he is basically forced out of the tutorial before he becomes to badarse, where he went will be discovered, albiet accidentally. Tonks, assistant to the great Moody, will be brought in because of her half-muggle background, and while trying to explain that yes, computers are amazing and no, there aren’t little people inside them, she will be captured by the same trap that claimed Harry, and then will be forced into the character that suits her best.

“So, we’re trapped in this game until we get to the end at least. I’m a thief and a mage at the same time, but I’m super-scrawny, and unlike you I can’t get around the whole stupid no armor shite. But hey, at least I get to keep my pink hair, and make snarky comments. OH, and my whole balance issue has been solved. So on the whole, can’t complain, but what is up with my baps being so small!?”

9. Moral ambiguity: Harry will deal with a lot of real, moral questions, and have to decide what to do about them. His alignments will not be set in stone, and popularity/reputation will not exist, at least at first, but some choice will impact how Harry is seen by those around him and within his party.

10. Romance: To expand the previously mentioned points, Harry will, with his Gamer ability, see relationships as something quantifiable (god if that were only true LOL) which could not only add to his own abilities, but the women in question. It won’t be there all the time, but when it is, he will jump on it, eventually creating a harem in more of a traditional sense than I normally mean the term.

I. Imoen will not be a romance option. Imoen and Harry will fall into a brother sister roll easy, which will be expanded when Tonks shows up. Tonks just can’t see Harry, no matter how muscley and handsome, as a guy she’d date, because she can remember the times she changed his diapers as a baby. Kind of kills any romantic feeling.

II. In the first half, Harry will build up his charisma/suave scores by having a few one night’s stands with barmaids and other ladies whose virtue, while not negotiable, certainly do not require more than a few days’ worth of effort. Tonks will in fact encourage this, thinking they could be saved any moment, and not wanting Harry to have any regrets. But eventually that will fade as the time in game gets to her.

III. In the first vanilla game, there were no romance options (I think, can’t remember playing the vanilla game sans mods) however fanmods added a few. One of them will be followed, even if it is going to crash and burn because Harry is Chaotic good and she’s… Viconia. The other, Daynahera (sorry about the spelling) has much the same problem. But both ladies make evil look so good, that Harry will try to convert them, and vice-versa. As for Viconia, she will return later, and will find her Bhaalspawn has grown even stronger, deadlier, and richer, as well as having determined that the farmer’s life is not for her. She will then try to make a place at his side, only to find she will have to change her tune to do it, finding eventually that perhaps it’s not so bad as all that.

IV. Jaheira. The feisty, snarky, judgmental lady will try to fall into a mentor roll, which Harry will off-times reject. One thing I will keep from the book is that her and Khalid’s relationship is very much on the rocks, but more because they are just too different rather than Khalid being abusive at times and having wondering eyes and her just taking it. Yes, the book went there, and yes, her character in the book was just…wrong. That’s the only way to say it. Eventually, after the events of BG2 start, she will come to see Harry as more than a friend and vice-versa, becoming the first woman to really win and be won by his heart.

V. Nalia. Nalia is the character used to replace Imoen when she is captured in one of those railroaded moments (which hint, hint, won’t happen in this fic) and is also someone who gives the warrior class a place to call home. She’s naïve, horribly sheltered, but amusing enough that Harry could keep her around. 

VI. Saerileth. For those of you who don’t know, Saerileth is a fanmod character, a young (16) year old paladin from another plane sent to search out the Bhallspawn to basically make certain he stays on the path of the straight and narrow he has decided to walk, completely disrupting his ‘god father’s’ plans. She is a beauty, and I loved both the instant love version of her romance, and the slow burn version. Very fun, and I think she could bring a great foil for the world-weary Jaheria and the ends justify the means Viconia while not being as naïve as Nalia and very much a hardcore frontline combatant. She and Tonks would also get along very well.

11. Minsc and Boo: I love them, I love Minsc, I almost never played either game without him, and I think he and Harry would get along great, and he and Imoen… oh yeah, Tonks would be all over him. imonks (Imoen/Tonks)/Minsc romance.  All the way.

12. Edwina: Male in the first game and a pseudo-enemy, eventually he might come back as a companion for a time, then as a female, which Harry, and literally everyone else who met him in the original game section, will have fun with. And Harry will be on the lookout to make the change permanent, thinking it very poetic justice. Plus for some reason Edwina’s nearly as stacked as Viconia. 

13. Eventual Hermione as Aerie: The attempts to free Harry, and oh, Tonks too, will continue, with time in the real world being a bare fraction of the time in-game. Yet with all the wizards stumped, even the man who created the trap in the first place, who Moody will have found, no one can figure out how to get them out. Hermione, eventually fed up and now sick and tired of having only Ron around, will attempt to get them out on her own, only to be trapped in the game along with them. “What do you mean I’m stuck in that whiny twig’s body!!?” Eventually though, she will expand and grow well beyond the original Aerie’s trope, and possibly into hero own Romance with Harry now that he’s gone from thin and all too young-looking to studly. 

14. Expanded side quests: In BG2 you are given a series of quests that give you what is called a base of operations, a hall or center which give you quests for your character’s class. This will eventually lead to Harry becoming a lord of the land.

15. Banter: loved a lot of the banter in the games, even a lot of BG2’s non-modded banter was fantastic. Now throw in Harry with his sometimes snarky, sometimes aggressively violent view of the world, and Tonks and her sense of fun. Even Jaheira and Viconia will smile when the two of them and Minsc (“and Boo too”) get going.

16. Expanded squad: Since there’s no need to limit the size of the team we can play with all the characters at once. 

17. Bhaal power soul sliver meets Voldemort soul sliver: As anyone who has played Baldur’s Gate 2, all the Bhallspawn had within them slivers of the original god of murder. I am uncertain if these two slivers of darkest evil would cancel one another out (with Voldy having a home field advantage letting him match raw power with leverage), eventually join forces to try to take Harry over, or fight him for dominance and need to be beaten back occasionally. Regardless, it would be a plot point.

18. Violence: Duh.

19. No Throne of Bhaal Expansion: With Harry a lord of the land he won’t see any need to hare off to chase other Bhallspawn, instead waiting for them to come to him, building up his troops and Amn’s as well. 


ANYWAY, hope you all liked these interesting thought exercises.  I may do something with the two HP ideas and the other HP concepts I've come up with in the past, thinking about creating a HP patreon story, but we'll see how it goes there.



Comments

Hiryo

Heaven’s Horse: (First, I thought about an Ah! My Goddess! crossover there! XD ) Lol, in a way how about Ranma comes to Nerima looking for the cure of ‘male spring’. XD I definitely haven’t seen that as a reason why Ranma went to Nerima, instead of ‘same old always for fiancées. You could have then Genma took the ‘map’ from Ranma, run away and Kasumi nearly run over at the shopping district etc.…? I like the concept already, I wonder how you will flesh this out and really am interesting in this, too few RanmaXKasumi fanfics out there!!! 1. I already look forward towards the chaos there is to come and how the regular house tasks will be monumental challenges for the regular family! 2. & 3. Yeah, always keep Ranma on his toes with questions that aren’t questions but already ways to path the true way of solving things. ^^ 4. Oh, you meant ‘Kasumi becoming a vigilant’??? Maybe something about Soun’s council and other duties, even more so maybe not so overlooking things anymore due Happosai being here? 5. I really really REALLY like this point! Am craving some Ranma lemons! 6. Now that makes me curious about the ‘Skeleton Dance’ Dr. Tofu Ono does. Was he snapped out by this and does it now deliberate and this is just the farce or is it regular dance with evil intent towards Ranma? Alone the manipulative Dr. Tofu and using the rumor mill, Nabiki has to work against, and other such things. I wonder about that aspect with what evil schemes he will come up with. 7. Damn, I wonder about Toma and Togenkyo Island, which had the top chance to cure Ranma. How will Ranma and Kasumi deal with this?! Or, leave that out maybe for the 2nd Kasumi fanfic idea of yours. 8. Nodoka will test the relationship of theirs to the core and how much they grew to love each other. 9. You will have to make sure that Ukyo gets fast ‘friend zoned’ ‘again’. XD 10. Could be that in this fanfic Kasumi is more traditional and thus has more problems accepting Ranma’s curse in the relationship. Maybe even handling Ranma different as girl and about being adamant about Ranma dressing as one in girl-form until Ranma back and forth transforming and even hot water casing him and turning into a man with girls’ clothing etc. will need to happen for her to accept Ranma’s clothing. Kasumi/Ranma idea #2: Ah! Alone the beginning of Ranma using his ‘I have to choose’ choice is wonderful alone in itself. ^^ Even better with Kasumi’s answer, is gold too!!! Kasumi with demands, is a good change in tune there. 1. Yeah, give Akane the ‘red sign aka bull’ and she flips out. However, with Ranma not in the way of Dr. Tofu and no pressure on her that is even more a reason why Akane doesn’t go raging-repressed-hormones on Ranma. 2. In this is actually a real good reason for me to read this, since I have to see how your version of courting Kasumi from null is. 3. Yep, the best way for Kasumi to get to know Ranma better, even more so for this Ranma to have a good reason to get to know her better and her quirks. I wonder as well if this will be shared cooking session (more so then ‘Heavenly Horse’) or Nodoka? 4. No red carpet of courtship for Ranma, I like that for a change. 5. Or alternately, get Kasumi away from helping her out, she has to do some things more herself. Oh lol, can already imagine that Ranma has due Nabiki already to stay female due water/no change of clothes etc. Or ‘helping out’ with pictures & co. 6. There was I think an episode or was that a fic, where Kasumi was thought of as his wife (replacement for Mrs. Tendo), I’m not sure but could be added as well to have more Soun bashing?! After all, when Ranma was stuck as girl, it was suggested he takes over the engagement! *URGS* 7. That will be interesting what kind of arts this will be, is it naginata like the one Soun had used in full samurai armor. Some weapons and ‘earth style’? 8. Hmm, maybe add some other suitor for Kasumi too and be it some shop owner, who gives them discounts etc.? 9. That’s sooo true I wonder though, is Ryoga now into Kasumi in this one or for Akane. Would be interesting that in one of this ideas you take Ryoga is after Kasumi and in the other after Akane. 10. Ooooh, them as villains is hard core!!!! That will be techniques, pressure points, herbs, magical trinkets and more. O.O oh boy! 11. Hmm those crossovers as well Nodoka will be a point of help against the Amazons. They will need these after all against Cologne. And Nabiki could even help them out for protection for Kasumi. Gah! What a clusterfuck!!! 12. Damn that is more than a clusterfuck!!! 13. Yeah, Happy always helped out Ranma vs the Amazons if he could. 14. That is a good one and with Kasumi already like this will be interesting and in some ways needed when against Tofu/Cologne/Nabiki! Ranma as a guy introduced and paired with Kasumi: (was transformed in the beginning) Jedi Kasumi - <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11159778/1/Jedi-Kasumi" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11159778/1/Jedi-Kasumi</a> Forelske seg I gud - Nexus - <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/720847/1/Nexus" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.fanfiction.net/s/720847/1/Nexus</a> (kinda due the wish effect in the last chapter) Kasumi's Wish - <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091026234053/http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Dojo/2881/Kasumi.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20091026234053/http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Dojo/2881/Kasumi.htm</a> Ranma 1/2 AS (By Serguei Rocha / rochakun / The Alternate Destinies) - <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11061986/1/Ranma-12-AS" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11061986/1/Ranma-12-AS</a> Will you be my Fiance? - <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/125543/1/Will-You-Be-My-Fiance" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.fanfiction.net/s/125543/1/Will-You-Be-My-Fiance</a> Included besides the Forelske seg I gud, 'Slightly Detoured' and 'Slightly Detoured: The Kasumi edition' fanfics in the zip for you to your email, since those are my fav RanmaXKasumi fanfic.

Braeden1002

I do not have much to say about the points raised from the different stories but out of the ideas that you mentioned, I would be interested in reading Heaven's Horse and Harry Potter/Baldur's Gate.