Noy Telinú wrote:Well, I think that if you make Ranma lesbian instead of a straight girl, then MAYBE it'll be more believable for me.
It has to be SLOW though.
Like, first he starts missing out on ice cream, then he notices how much less he can't get away with (which wasn't much to begin with) then the pressure to be manly starts really, really getting to him, sees how much Akane, Nabiki, Ukyo, Shampoo, Kodachi excreta get to do what they want and get away with everything practically for abuse and whatnot, but, most of all, you could have him image what would happen if he was born a she... THAT could be REALLY played well if you do it right. However, adding "Starts to lose attraction to girls and starts liking guys" has bugged me ever since I started reading fanfiction. It seems to cheapen it for me because it's so acceptable for it to HAVE to be a guy and a girl.
It's what really pissed me off at many rankofics.
"Akane curses herself to be a guy so that he and Ranko could be a normal couple"
BLEAHHH!
Every. single. damn. TIME!
Besides, it's been freaking done to death.
"Ranma finds out he is really a she inside"
Then Ranma goes so darn girly that it makes Kasumi look like a tomboy.
Do it right people!
I won't do it because I just don't see Ranma wanting to be a girl.
Besides, many Mtf's are lesbians anyway.
I favor Ranma being/becoming a lesbian, myself. It irks me when any character's sexual preferences change simply because their body changes, particularly if there's any mention of hormones being involved. I think it's a cop out, regardless of what science someone throws in my face. I know that last part sounds stupid, but I'd like to think that humans have come further away from being rutting animals than that, and that we can exercise mind over matter to decide what we want in this matter. (If that wasn't the case, I wonder how I have no interest in sex and plan to stay a virgin even until the day I die. Maybe I'm just a defective model. ;/ )
For me, if I ever write a story where Ranma ends up with a guy, it's going to be because Ranma loves him enough to look beyond the physical. I'm all for the sappy love, alright? I want relationships to mean something, have some depth, beyond, "I'm this sex, they're the opposite sex, my hormones are screaming at me and OH MY GOD WHAT CHOICE DO I HAVE!?"
And that's how the dinosaurs went extinct.
...What?