Greenery Day, Day 14 (1)

Okay, Ranma thought, Let's see if I can avoid getting my boob poked this time.

The tall man with the mustache leaned over, pointing a finger in her face. "You ... wouldn't be ...?"

Ranma bowed. "I'm the female Ranma Saotome."

The man backed up a step, face twisting in confusion and the beginning of despair. "Female?! But ... but ... Ranma is supposed to be Genma's son!" His voice rose to a wail at the end.

The short-haired girl stuck out her finger to poke anyway. Ranma sighed inwardly, This girl must be a lesbo or something. Outwardly she just smiled, grabbed the girl's hand before it could reach her, shook it firmly, and announced, "Pleased to meet ya!"

Then she looked up at the Tendo father, stating with a serious expression, "And technically, I am his son."

"Technically?" Nabiki demanded, trying to wring life back into her hand. This red-haired girl had one hell of a grip! "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

Ranma swept her smile across all of them. "You'll have to get pop to explain it, once you meet him. This was all his stupid idea."

The panda bear standing behind Ranma growled, lifting a paw threateningly.

Still smiling, Ranma announced, "Oops. Almost forgot." She pulled a rope seemingly from nowhere and, before Genma realized her intention, wrapped several loops around the bear, binding its arms tightly to its torso and even tying the legs together. "Can't let wild animals run around loose," she said cheerfully. Dragging her father out into the yard, she secured the other end of the rope to a tree. Cracking her knuckles vigorously, she told them, "Pop should be along eventually."

Shaking his head, tears gathering at the corner of his eyes, Soun whined, "I don't understand!"

Ranma patted him on the back. "That's okay. I'm sure it'll all be clear by morning."

Akane stepped forward, mildly confused but with a heart considerably lighter than it had been a short time ago. Instead of the feared fiance, here was a girl her own age whose speed suggested she might have some skill at martial arts. Giving a bright smile, she said, "Hi, I'm Akane. You want to be friends?"

Greenery Day, Day 13

As Ranma followed her pop down the road, she figured she'd take some time today to explore the Tendo house, to see if anything seemed like it might be responsible for the repeating day. Though she figured she'd take time for a little fun as well. That bit in the bathing room yesterday had been rather ... interesting. She smirked at the memory.

As she followed her pop through the gate, the bell sounded, warning of their approach. Running feet appeared as they reached the engawa, and she was swept up into a bear hug as soon as she introduced herself. Maybe tomorrow she'd try giving a fake name. She waited while the man figured out what was pressing into his chest, which he did after a moment, dropping her back to her feet.

Nabiki stepped up and poked her in the boob. "She ... is a girl!"

Ranma frowned, then grinned. Reaching out she wrapped her hand around as much of the other girl's firm tit as she could enclose and squeezed, hard. "Hey! So are you!"

Nabiki batted her hand away, wincing. "Of course I am! But someone told us that you were a boy!" She looked up accusingly at her father just as he fainted and collapsed to the floor.

Poll Results - Dominant Male

Which male character(s) from Ranma 1/2 would you most like to see in the role of a dominant?

Total votes: 114 selections from 47 people.

Character	Votes	Percent/114	Percent/47
Ranma (male)	13	11%	24%
Genma Saotome	10	9%	19%
Soun Tendo	11	10%	20%
Ryoga Hibiki	11	10%	20%
Mousse	6	5%	11%
Tatewaki Kuno	10	9%	19%
Principal Kuno	8	7%	15%
Tofu Ono	10	9%	19%
Happosai	10	9%	19%
Hikaru Gosunkugi	13	11%	24%
Konatsu	7	6%	13%
Pantyhose Taro	5	4%	9%

So Ranma and Gosunkugi are tied at the top, with Soun and Ryoga tied for next place. I admit to being surprised that Mousse came in so low, even below Konatsu.

Minor Poll Blip

If you looked at my blog earlier, for a brief time you might have seen the alleged results of the latest poll. That was my goof. My new polling widget doesn't automatically close the poll at a specified time. For some reason I thought tonight was the night I said I was going to close it, but it's tomorrow. So I closed it and posted the results. After I realized my mistake, I reopened the poll and removed the results.

Oh well.

I won't be posting anything else tonight. My evil wife brought home a recently published book from the library that I was planning to buy after it came out in paperback. And I'm anxious to get back to it.

If I were writing (or reading) a "Groundhog Day" style story without lemon bits, I think it might be interesting to force Nabiki to live through Ranma's and Akane's attempted wedding, over and over and over again. With it dissolving into disaster in as many different ways as possible, even when she herself actively conspires to keep all of the crazies ignorant. And she'd be informed by some kami just before the first repetition - or maybe after a couple of dozen - that she can't break out of the loop until she figures out some way for the wedding to be carried off successfully. I can just picture Nabiki going crazy as she tries to do something good for once in her life, and can't figure out a way to keep other people from screwing it up, again and again and again.

Greenery Day, Day 12

"Come on, boy, wake up! Today's the day when you meet my old friend, Tendo-kun!"

Sighing as he sat up, Ranma reflected that he was becoming extraordinarily tired of hearing that same announcement every morning. How many days had it been so far?

The young man paused to total the passing days in his head. There was the first day he had met the Tendos. Then the three days he had tried to return to China. On the third day, admitting that he couldn't even get out of Japan, let alone to Jusenkyo, if he ended up back in this park every morning he had attempted to stay awake all night. It hadn't done any good, however. Like blinking his eyes, one moment he had been far to the west of Tokyo, the next he had been sitting up in this damned park again.

After that, Ranma had decided he would need to learn what was keeping him here and making the same day repeat over and over again. So for the next three mornings he had escaped from his pop, then returned to this park to scour every square centimeter of its grounds. To no avail. He had found nothing the least bit suspicious, let alone magical. Then he'd spent two days widening the search, but had given up even more quickly, realizing he had no idea what he was looking for and could hardly search all of Tokyo.

For two more days he had wandered aimlessly, but the teenage boy was getting tired of pointlessly doing nothing each day. Even the pleasure of knocking his pop unconscious each morning was beginning to pall. If nothing else, it was clearly time to find some other way to spend his days.

Ranma paused and added. Eleven days. That made this the twelfth repetition. He gave a much heavier sigh as he finished stowing his sleeping bag. He definitely needed something to break the monotony. Hell, he might as well let his pop drag him back to the Tendos. At least it would be different.

Ranma blinked at the thought, then shrugged. Why the hell not? It couldn't be any more boring than peering under rocks and behind bushes in a park. In fact ... Ranma froze as a new thought occurred to him. His pop had brought him here to meet the Tendo family, right? And he was the only person experiencing this day over and over again, right? Well, so far as he knew, anyway. Maybe there was something he had to do to put an end to it. And if so, well, wasn't it as likely as anything else that it had something to do with the Tendos, since they were why he'd been brought here?

Preparing to vote

No interesting posts today, I fear. Aside from bring work home from the office, I need to look over the local races before voting tomorrow. I've already made up my mind about the larger races, of course, but I haven't really paid any attention to the smaller, local things yet, so it's time to do so.

Greenery Day, Day 2

Awareness of a new day slowly filtered in. Ranma Saotome, teenage martial artist, awoke slowly as was his custom. Eyes still closed to fend off the moment of arising as long as possible, he found himself remembering the previous day with considerable annoyance. Damn his pop anyway! Just who did his old man think he was, figuring he had the right to tell him who to marry? And then making him swear on his honor not to run off on his own?

Then there was that tomboy, Akane Tendo, they were trying to tell him to marry. As if! What kind of girl whacks a guy over the head with a table, just for pointing out the obvious fact that his cursed form had a bigger chest? And damn it! She had gotten just as good a look at him as he got at her, when she walked in on him in the bathing room. He hadn't said anything more than the truth!

Ranma paused at that, the mental image recalled when the girl had walked in on him, wearing nothing more than her skin and carrying a small towel. He ran his tongue over suddenly dry lips, aware of morning wood that he couldn't explain away as the usual reason. Well, okay, he'd admit to himself that this Akane was pretty damned cute, not that he would ever admit it to her. But that sure as hell wasn't any reason to make him agree to marry her!

"Come on, boy, wake up! Today's the day when you meet my old friend, Tendo-kun!"

Ranma's eyes snapped open involuntarily at that. What the hell was his pop talking about? He'd met the Tendos yesterday.

His eyes widened. They were surrounded by trees, the same park where they'd slept night before last. He was in his sleeping bag, and his pack was on the ground beside him. What the hell was going on? He'd gone to sleep last night on a futon in the Tendos spare room. How'd he get out here?

Micropoll

I'm trying out a different poll tool. We'll see how well this one works.

Poll removed

The latest poll is completely screwed up, so I've removed it. I'll find some replacement tool to use instead before putting it back up.

New poll

I'm giving the poll widget another chance, this time with the opposite side of the question — which males would one enjoy acting as dominants? Unlike the month I gave for the last poll, I'm going to cut the deadline to two weeks for this one.

If Google screws it up again, I'll look for some different tool for including the polls on my site.

Poll Results - Willing Submissive

Below are the final poll results for the question “Which female character(s) from Ranma 1/2 would you most like to see in the roll of a willing submissive?”

Total votes: 164

Character	Votes	Percent
Female Ranma	96	58%
Akane Tendo	59	35%
Ukyo Kuonji	29	17%
Shampoo	42	25%
Kodachi Kuno	34	20%
Kasumi Tendo	74	45%
Nabiki Tendo	70	42%
Nodoka Saotome	43	26%
Hinako Ninomiya	35	21%
Akari Unryu	28	17%

For those who were wondering, I don't have any particular use in mind for these poll results. I just thought it would be interesting to see what people thought. The same will probably also be true of any future polls I run.