Mirror Life

Review

This is another of the stories that was posted some years ago (2002), and has not been undated since.

The story is about a method that Cologne uses to split off Ranma's curse so Ranma ends up uncursed and there is a female form of him, Ranko, who has a reverse curse.

The three chapters are very good, especially the way that Ranko is able to become friends with people rather than antagonizing them as would be expected. There is a lot of potential here, but apparently potential that won't be met since the story has never been updated, which is a major shame as this is one of the better unfinished stories.

Synopsis

Chapter 1

Ranma in female form is out shopping and enjoying it when she runs into Cologne. Ranma reveals that he is beginning to enjoy his girl side, at least the freedom it gives him from the problems he has in his boy form.

He's really upset at everything that is going on and is obviously nearing the end of his rope. Cologne offers him a possible solution and a possible cure.

The cure , though, involves having his female side become a physical reality in addition to his male side.

Chapter 2

The family is having a meeting when Cologne shows up. She admits that her attempt to cure Ranma did not work as planned. She was going to make a mirror clone of male Ranma that Shampoo could manipulate and marry. What actually happened was that the female form of Ranma was what came out of the mirror.

Nodoka offers to adopt Ranko as her daughter, but Ranko says she doesn't want Genma as a father. Ranko maintains Ranma's curse, but in opposite form (she changes into a boy in cold water.)

Ranma's behavior is changing. He manages to talk Kuno into not attacking when he gets to school, he calls Akane his fiancee and is even nice to her. Ranko, meanwhile, makes friends with Shampoo and Mousse (with some difficulty, of course.)

Chapter 3

Ranko and Mousse had a sparring match, the result being that Mousee is a mass of bruises and Shampoo and Cologne are quite impressed with Ranko's abilities.

Ranma appears and Shampoo is about to glomp him but Ranko talks her out of it. She even gets Akane and Shampoo to stop calling each other names.

At home Ranma and Akane tell Ranko she is going to school the next day and will end up running into Kuno.

Ranko and Nabiki talk about figuring out a way to come up with all the necessary papers and identity materials that will stand close scrutiny.


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