An utterly F****ed-up idea? Ranma-Quantum Leap fussion?

[Tuisto]

Okay, I KNOW that I have sooooo many unfinished fanfics that are languishing away simply because I have so little free time during my waking hours (if only I could quit that nasty sleep habbit!), but while I was refinishing a floor today, and while I was doing that, I let my mind wander and I had this odd little idea pop into my head, and well, and as odd ideas usually are... it was incideously spiralling away into the beginings of a story.

The idea? Simple Dr. Sam Becket (as played by Scott Bakula), leaping from life to life, setting right the wrongs... blah blah... finds himself facing a mirror image that was not his own... the image being that of a teenage red-headed Japanese girl... Oh boy... "Not ANOTHER woman..." he would think, then imagine the surprises of hot water...
Then the hologram of Al would pop-in and explain that Sam (posing as Ranma) needed to quickly get Ranma married... 6 times... to 4 women (Akane, Shampoo, Ukyo and Ranko... yes Ranko, because if you can't love yourself, who can you love? Probably could push a Nodoka angle there too) ... and 2 men (I'm thinking Ryoga and perversely Herb)... oh boy... oh boy... oh boy...

Much mad-cap humour would ensue, including the swiss-cheesed mind of Sam (as Ranma) being barely able to speak Japanese, to the utter bewilderment of the listed amours' that Sam(as Ranma) would be chasing, plus heaping doses of odd-ball martial-arts. Plus a side visit to Ranma in the waiting room (In the Land of Tomorrow!!!) in Sam-chans body, yes Sam-chan, seems that the curse like to time-travel too... Helllllooooo Nurse!

Now I'm not certain if/when/how I'd ever get around to write this... this... crime agaisnt fanfiction... that's why I'm throwing this out there while it's still fresh in the horrible dark place I call a mind... so that if any of you ever feel inspired (read: deranged) this idea could be usefull. Hey, you never know...

And while I have a captive audiance (the ropes aren't chaffing I hope...) I have a thought for a one-shot. An alteration of the Ranma curse from the get-go, I call it "Spring of drowned WTF!!!"
Now this fic would never actually elude to what kind of curse it turned Ranma into, but leave vague openings, leaving the reader to guess. After all, the imagination can make far worse things that even I could ever write...
The fic would be in brief scene format, small snipits of story jumping through notable points in Ranma cannon.
One scene I know for certain would be as Ranma would enter the Amazon village, in cursed form... then there would be suddenly angry villagers with tortches and pitchforks screaming "Kill it with fire!"
I don't have much more than that, other than an idea with a cowering Herb-chan pleading for Ranma to just take the damned unlokking kettle...

Like I said though, I'm not sure if I'd ever get around to write this..., but upon reflection... d-ay-um that's a messed-up idea... And now you've read it, thought about it, and can't UN-think it! Muwahahaha!!!!

Ideas? Comment?
Death threats?

[Spokavriel]

It might be better if you set it with later seasons of Quantum Leap and make this jump one that got deflected by that lady who was trying to make sure history didn't go happily ever after.

Say as a punishment/retaliation for all the times that Sam succeeded.

Ooh and make it so he pops into one of the times Ranma is locked to make it even more challenging and harder for his Friend from the future to figure out why the computer keeps telling him This Ranma is a Guy.

[mondu_the_fat]

Heh. A while back I suggested that Sam Beckett, with his intellect and maturity (compared to Ranma), would be able to solve Ranma's problems.

I guess on a lesser scale (ie not become Sue Beckett and solve every single one of Ranma's problems, particularly the fiancee-related ones) maybe Sam can leap into Ranma at a point where Ranma would be inacpable of solving it on his own (maybe a new threat).

Which version of Quantum leap are you going to follow? It sounds like the novel version of Quantum leap. TV version has Sam swapping both mind and body and the image in the mirror is just an aura. Ranma would keep his martial arts ability and curse in the present day, while Sam would not. In the novel version, Sam merely exhanges minds with the person, thus keeping the curse, while Ranma would be trapped in Sam's body. Some people do not consider the novel version canonical. Both have their pros and cons story-wise.

Sam can speak japanese fluently, even with his swiss-cheesed memory.

[TerraEpon]

There's at least one out there where Sam leaps into Ranma. It has a sequal too -- forget who he leaps into the other time (Akane I think), and not sure which one is the first story. No idea what it's called or anything, alas.


-Joshua

[Andy2kk]

Instead of Ryoga and Herb, could use the humour element and make it Ukyo (Sam thinking she's a guy, cause she's registered as one and that's all Al knows). I can't see Sam doing that to Ranma or anyone, marrying him to a guy that is when Sam would know Ranma is really a guy himself. Even though Sam has lept into a woman's body plenty of times, he's always been relectant, uncomfortable with the intimate stuff and pretty much had to force himself to go through with it... most of the time he lept out before he had to do anything. Unless you're going to make this a total piss-take joke fic, then it'd work, I guess.