Ranma/Claymore crossover idea

[Dumbledork]

Unfortunately there's a lack of Ranma/Claymore crossovers and so I thought about it for a while and came up with some ideas:

Basic plot is that Ranma falls into the spring of drowned half-demon woman (or something like that and how (s)he handles that new power, but there are two different paths I could take with the basic idea:

1st idea: The Ranmaverse is the same world as the Claymoreverse, but more than 1,000 years in the Future.

Sometime in the past a wandering, rogue Claymore came to Jusenkyo and was rather exhausted after a long journey. Seeing the inviting pools she decided to take a dip. After removing her suit of armor and other gear she gets attacked by a very strong youma, just as the guide of that time was about to warn her. The guide’s hiding and watching the battle from a safe distance, getting quite the surprise when he sees the woman’s features change. The battle is getting more brutal and the opponents critically wound each other during their last attack. The woman falls into the uncursed pool and drowns while the youma dissolves into nothing.

The guide reverently takes the woman’s belongings (armor, sword and diary) and writes the tale of the battle down for future generations. The gear gets stored away in case someone ever came to search for the woman, but no one ever comes.

Ranma and Genma have their fight over the springs, but this time Ranma falls into the pool of drowned half-demon woman. He’s the first person to ever fall into that particular pool. The guide knows the story of all of the pools of course, and knows that Ranma didn’t fall into one of the usual drowned girl/woman springs, which was made clear by the fact that the girl emerging didn’t look much like Ranma’s male form. Since the guide who witnessed the creation of that pool included a rather good drawing of the woman that fell into that pool, the guide immediately recognized Ranma as being a younger spitting image of the original victim. Attuned to the magic of Jusenkyo and having witnessed many martial arts battles over the years he managed to feel the demonic energy Ranma was oozing. Remembering the gear that was still stored somewhere, he went to retrieve it and offered it to Ranma, together with the diary. Ranma learns more about the Claymores and their duty. Since it’s a martial artist’s duty to protect those who can’t protect themselves he decides to take over the original victim’s duties as a demon hunter, while looking for a cure at the same time.

There are several possibilities for me to go from here:

a) the organization and the youma still exist today, but as they almost eradicated each other in the past they are operating in secret. They hear of Ranma’s deeds and since she’s not a registered Claymore they start an investigation into her past and try to either recruit her or destroy her.

b) Ranma travels the world and help wherever people need help with youma or other demon problems. This could lead to some crossovers, like Ranma helping the senshi, and the continuing on his way to help some other famous characters (could be crossed with any manga/anime about demons, like Hellsing, La Blue Girl, Devilman, Yu Yu Hakusho,…)

c) Ranma and Genma travel to Nerima and Ranma will have his usual problems, with added demon attacks and meeting of some crossover characters.


2nd idea: Ranma falls into the spring of drowned half-demon woman and is somehow sent to the world of Claymore. The most interesting time period for Ranma to land in would be after the massive and deadly battle between the Claymore and the awakened beings, maybe at the time when Claire and her friends return from their exile.

Ranma would land somewhere in the Claymoreverse (in female form), looking like a Claymore but not having any idea about her powers or her demonic genetic makeup. I had the idea of the neko-ken merging with Ranma’s new demonic DNA, creating a devastating force of nature should Ranma ever fall into the neko-ken. Ranma sees that the people are afraid of her and wants to know why. Slowly she learns more about the world and about Claymores. Trying to access the demonic energies she slowly masters them and finds out that she doesn’t need a sword since she’s able to manifest claws that are just as effective. She wanders around this unknown world, helping people wherever she can until she’s contacted, either by the Organization, Claire and her friends or maybe one of the Abyssals.

[Neko-]

Scenario 1:

A combination of 1a and 1b would be possible. Heck... You could add 1c into the mix as well if you felt like it.

I'm kind of wondering if a diary would be going too far... I mean, it's paper, and it's survived for a 1000 years... Paper is bound to be pretty fragile by then... Besides that: Ranma is more the trial-and-error kind of guy... Getting him into trouble with that power could potentially make for a more interesting fic.

Scenario 2:

If you're going to transport Ranma through a plot device into the Claymore world, I'd fore go using the pool to get him cursed... You could have a post-curse Ranma getting dropped into that universe as a result of Ryoga taking vengeance on her with the Nanban mirror or something, and have her drop into said universe. If you want her specifically female, locking ladle. Who's to say it's not around in the Claymore world if it is indeed a 1000 years ago? Which means the kettle is available too.

If you do want Ranma to actually go Claymore, it's quite possible to let her tally up a huge debt in the fight with one (or more) of the youma's she can't win, which is dealt with by a Claymore, resulting in a willing Ranma conscripting herself to be recruited into the organization, in order to gain the required skills.

If Ranma could potentially fight the youma to a stand still and not triumph over it as a 'mere' human, the organization could be potentially tempted to pay for her debt, get her indebted to them instead, and thus available for processing. Ranma on the other hand would be honor bound to honor the agreement made.

The universe of Claymore tells us that males tend to not respond all that well to the power increase, but then again, it could be a risk the organization could be willing to make in order to recruit Ranma.

[Kilich]

Here's a Ranma\Claymore cross that I liked, maybe it'll help you.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4047066/1/Krimzon_Blades



Ideas for the first scenario:

How the cursed spring was created:

A team of Claymores fought an Awakened being near Jusenkyo when one of them used too much power and decided to kill herself before she became a threat to her teammates.
When her team won, they found out that she managed to revert back with her last effort, but her wound was fatal.

They buried her in a nearby empty spring. But the spring wasn't completely empty and the Claymore survived for long enough to create a curse.


If you'll want to keep Ranma in his girl form:
Claymore's demonic energy replaced Ranma's ki and first time he used it, he almost became an Awakened being because males can't stop themselves. Luckily, Guide had some cold water and an explanation ready.

[Dumbledork]

Interesting ideas. I chose this way of death for the Claymore to give Ranma the possiblity to get the woman's gear.

[Neko-]

Well... Getting gear is provided within the Takahashi universe... While Ryoga turns nude when reverting back, and so does Shampoo if memory serves me right... I've never noticed that happening to Genma

But the gear could work... Or it was left at the bottom of the spring as the Claymore fell in, and the guide back then was scared to have anything to do with demonic stuff and just left it there...

You do need to wonder what 1000 years of submerged gear would result as. Unless the properties of the spring would keep the gear in good condition, with it being 'magical' water and all...

Leaving a diary requires the Claymore to keep one (not likely), and for it to remain dry and readable after all the mayhem, not to mention survive 1000 years of paper-decay. That's a lot of ifs... Hard to get that plausible. A diary of the guide could work... but it wouldn't likely contain something more then a notice about a Claymore drowning, never hinting at the specifics of the species, since they're pretty well-known at the time of writing. WHo is the guide to assume that will eventually change?

[Dumbledork]

I've been thinking about that too. No need for a diary since Claymores were pretty well known in that time and the guide shouldn't have any problems recognizing one.