Ryoga's Ratted Out
Ryoga's Ratted Out!
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“Are you okay?” Akane Tendo asked sweetly, bending down and picking up the little black pig. “Oh, he’s scared.”
The little pig squealed, tears leaking from its eyes.
She pulled him close to her chest. “Poor baby.” She got up, keeping the pig close. “Come on, let’s go.”
The red haired girl that had been lying on the floor used her legs to propel herself up so she was facing Akane.
“Just hold it. We’re you going?” she asked with concern.
Akane just turned and glared at her. “We are going to bed.”
“But you can’t!” she shook her head. “That pig’s, uh… he’s, uh…”
“Well, go on” Akane said, giving an expecting look.
“He’s a… he’s not really a…” words were failing.
Akane chose to ignore her, looking down to the pig. “Don’t worry, baby. I won’t leave you with that nasty Ranma.” She smiled sweetly. “Be a good boy and stop crying, okay? ”She followed that up by kissing the pig on the snout, causing its eyes to go wide, sparkling as it blushed, hard.
“And I think that’s enough of that.”
The two girls blinked, confused by the addition of a third voice, before a squealing made them look to Akane’s arms to see someone standing there, a kettle in hand, pouring water on the pig.
Her hair was bright purple and white, a mess of curls.
She was wearing a plain white T-shirt under a dark blue overalls shirt-pants combo, with pictures of a baseball and screw next to each other, just over where it ended at her thighs on her left side, mismatched purple and white socks and big yellow boots, matching the propeller beanie atop her head.
Before either could try to understand who the girl was, why she was in the house or even how she got in, Akane cried out as the pig in her arms grew huge, revealing a naked…
“R-R-Ryoga?!” Akane stared, wide eyed at the butt naked boy on the floor.
His face was a mask of horror and embarrassment. He whirled around at the new girl, glaring. “What have you done?!”
“Prevented you from messing in something you shouldn’t, idiot,” she opened her eyes, revealing them to be purple spirals, giving him an unamused look.
“Wh-wha… what’s going on?!” Akane cried, looking from the girl, to the boy to Ranma.
“Ryoga here followed Ranma and Genma to Jusenkyo, resulting in him falling in the Spring of Drowned Pig,” the new girl said, matter of factly. “Frankly, it’s his own fault.”
“How dare you?” Ryoga shot up, glaring at the girl, pointing at Ranma. “It’s Ranma Saotome’s fault! I wouldn’t even have needed to follow him had he been a man and—”
He was cut off by the girl smashing her fist into his head, slamming him to the ground.
“You are so pathetic! Ranma explained quite clearly to you that he waited in the lot BEHIND YOUR OWN HOUSE for THREE DAYS STRAIGHT! You’re the idiot who somehow got lost despite how close it was to your own house! You lost that match by forfeit, Ryoga!”
“W-wait,” the two looked to Akane, who’s face had gone white. “P-P-chan was… Ryoga the whole time?”
The new girl and Ranma nodded.
There was a long pause, before Akane’s face went yelled and she yelled, punching Ryoga right in the face.
“I… I can explain, Akane,” he said, holding his right cheek, looking up to her pleadingly.
“You don’t get a chance after what you just pulled!” she growled, cracking her knuckles. “You’re a worse pervert than Ranma!”
“Hey!”
“Much as I would love to watch you give Ryoga the beating he so rightly deserves, Akane Tendo,” Akane blinked, noticing the new girl was now in front of her, glaring down at Ryoga, “I need to drill something into this idiot boy’s head.”
Without warning, the girl pulled a giant drill with “Information” written on it and slammed it into Ryoga’s head.
The boy yelled in pain, the other two stunned, frozen in horror what they were seeing.
But, when the drill was pulled away, Ryoga’s head was untouched and, somehow, he was still alive.
“Get it now, Rygoa Hibiki?!” the new girl said, tossing the drill away and pointing at him. “Ranma has nothing to do with your suffering. You are the one causing your own suffering and, frankly, I feel you deserve EVERY. SINGLE. SECOND of it!”
“Whoa. That’s a bit much, doncha think?” Ranma asked hesitantly. She was glad to see Ryoga getting what he deserved, but this seemed a bit much.
The girl glared at her, causing Ranma to freeze.
The girl folded her arms. “No. I was watching the show again over the last two days before bed and I realized how horrible and pathetic a person Ryoga is and all the problems he causes.”
Ranma and Akane glance at each other, confused.
“Show? What show?” the blue haired girl asked.
The new girl glanced at her. “My name is Screwball. I’m the Princess of Chaos. I can watch your world like a TV anytime I want. I do enjoy the chaos, it is in my nature, after all. However,” she looked to Ryoga, no mercy in her eyes, “having recently been rewatching, I noticed things regarding Ryoga Hibiki and it made me realize he is a disgrace to all men.”
Akane cocked her head. “How do you figure that?”
Screwball held up a figure, an orb appearing above it, showing images of the last couple days and the past Ranma had informed Akane about regarding Ryoga. “Ryoga blames Ranma for everything. After he assumed Ranma didn’t show up for the fight, instead of doing the logical thing and waiting to see if he’d return, Ryoga, with his shit direction, tried to follow and when he arrived at Jusenkyo, assumed Ranma would just be there and fight him. It was his own fault that he didn’t avoid falling into the Spring of Drowned Pig.”
“You’re wrong!” Ryoga stood up, causing Akane to cry out and cover her eyes.
Screwball growled, snapping her fingers and Ryoga was in his normal attire.
“And just how am I wrong, Ryoga?” Screwball asked, folding her arms, giving him a look that said she wouldn’t believe anything he said.
Ryoga clenched his fist. “I endured unbearable torments chasing after Ranma. China’s a big place, but it’s even bigger when you’re crossing it on foot!”
Screwball deadpanned. “So? Ranma and her dad did and you don’t see them complaining.”
Ryoga explained how he’d travelled mile and mile until he found Jusenkyo, only for what he’d assumed to be a random panda and red haired girl, though now he knew it had been Ranma and Mr. Saotome, to knock him off a cliff into the spring that cursed him, all the while trying to paint it as if he was a victim and it had all been Ranma’s fault.
“This is all your fault!” Ryoga glared at Ranma. “If you’d only shown up to take your beating like a man—”
BANG!
Ryoga dropped to the floor, having been punched in the head by Screwball.
“Even drilling it into that thick skull of yours didn’t do the job?” She bended down, grabbing him by the shirt. “Let me spell it out clearly for you, you moron! Ranma DID show up. YOU were the one who didn’t show. You didn’t have to follow him to China. You didn’t have to go to Jusenkyo. Ranma is not the one at fault here, Ryoga. It. Is all. You! You chose to follow him to China. You chose to go to Jusenkyo. If you hadn’t you wouldn’t be stuck with this curse. But you did. You are the one who ruined your life, not Ranma! You’ve made your bed, Ryoga Hikibi, now sleep in it! Take some damn responsibility for just once in your pathetic life!”
“How could you know all the suffering I’ve seen?!” Ryoga demanded of her. “It’s been hell, I tell you. Pure hell.”
Screwball just rolled her eyes, glaring. “A hell that, I repeat, YOU FORCED UPON YOURSELF!”
“Ya know, thinking about it, she does have a point,” Ranma said, looking up.
Ryoga then gave a warm smile, closing his eyes. “But even though I’m under this curse, a curse I’ll carry for the rest of my life, somehow she finds it in her heart to love me.”
Screwball leaned over to Akane, a bored expression on her face. “You’re the “she” he measn there, Akane.”
“Huh?” Akane looked from her to Ryoga, who was giving her a warm look and nodded.
There was a long pause, before Akane yelled, running forward and slammed Ryoga’s head into the ground.
“I don’t love you, Ryoga! I thought you were P-chan! I was loving him! To think, you’d sink so low as to pretend to be him just to get close to Ranma! I don’t know what you did with the real P-chan, but when I find out…”
Screwball blinked, locking eyes with Ranma, before the two sighed, facepalming.
Akane still didn’t understand there never was a P-chan. It was Ryoga the whole time.
“Well, it’s something I guess,” Ranma conceded.
Screwball nodded. “Yeah. Well, I guess that’s better than nothing. However, a word, Miss Tendo?”
Akane stopped pummelling Ryoga’s face to turn, glancing up at the other girl. “Yeah?”
Screwball gave an annoyed frown, holding up a finger. “Let me make one thing perfectly clear, Akane. Ranma is not a pervert. From day one he has done nothing to warrant such an idea. She came here and didn’t try to hide that she’s a guy. You merely never gave her a chance to explain and when you found out, you jumped to conclusions. Anything Ranma does, remember that he’s barely ever thinking about that stuff.”
“Where are you going with this?” Ranma couldn’t help feeling lost.
“Any time you see Ranma with another girl, or they act like there’s something special between them, do not blame it on Ranma. It isn’t his choice. They’re the ones choosing, without bothering to question him. He is your fiancé, and that is that. Even if he says he doesn’t agree to it, he does not and will not ever go against the morality he has to follow because of that. If ever a girl is warming up to him, you need to blame them, not him.”
“Uh… what?” Akane seemed very confused.
“Plus, every time he’s says you’re “So uncute” remember this is Ranma, you’re dealing with. He’s a guy. Guys in this time period are really reserved about truly expressing themselves. It’s his defence mechanism. And any time he’s giving you a hard time, it’s not out of malice. Nine times out of ten, it’s because he’s honestly worried about you. You just take it way too personally.”
Ranma tried not to laugh.
“And you, Saotome,” the red head went ridged as the spiralling eyes fell on her, “don’t think you’re not to blame either. You need to cut it down a bit. Akane is your future wife, so start acting like it.”
“W-wait a minute!” Ranma shook her head, pointing. “Didn’t you say you’ve been watching us? Then you know meddling is going to change things! Why would you risk what could happen?!”
“This world will work fine despite my meddling,” Screwball put her hands behind her head. “The events are going to pretty much play out the same, you’ll both just be a little more aware and not jump to so many conclusions. And, trust me, it is fun watching you and Ranma fight, Akane, but when you jump to conclusions as big as you do, without actually letting Ranma explain, it gets real old, real fast. I dunno which is honestly more annoying: Watching you two bicker about the easiest to explain things if you’d both just stop and talk for a second, or the misunderstandings in the love life of Keitaro Urashima and Naru Narusagawa.”
The two looked to each other. Who in the heck were Keitaro Urashima and Naru Narusagawa and what did they have to do with anything.
Screwball folded her arms, sighing. “Point is, I wanna watch you guys not bicker for the stupidest of reasons and get through your lives. Plus,” she glared at Ryoga, “I want him to suffer for his actions.”
She then give an uncomfortably happy smile.
“Toodles.”
She snapped her fingers and was gone.
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“Someone is certainly a bit salty.”
I give DD a deadpan glare as I reappear. “Don’t you talk. You’re a far worse meddler than I am.”
He shrugs. “Guilty as charged.”
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Yeah always felt the same. Do love the fan fics where the story line continues with different directions thou.
I mean one where at the end of the series Ryoga married a OC had a kid, and was going to have a second...till a drunk driver plowed into his vehicle while driving from the hospital.
He made thru with out a scratch but his wife and unborn baby....
Hmmm... I am thinking Screwball should bring one or two of those Jusenkyo's springs with her to Equestria. I am certain Svengallop won't mind being a little pig or a duck for a change.
Do Love Hina next!
Um, wouldn't it make more sense to put this and other related chapters as a set side-stories instead of mixing it into the main one?
Where're
Ryoga
Any relation to Dan Hibiki?
I remember that Robin of Anime America ranked "The Perceived Pervert" as number one on her worst anime cliches list. And personally? I agree wholeheartedly.
9865259
I dunno. To me, visiting that kind of cheap suffering on your characters screams that you're either a teenager or a sociopath.
It's really tricky to introduce character death or other elements darker than the established tone in a continuation of canon events, especially when it's visited on someone who "deserves it". (Because the setting has an intrinsic innocence to it so punishing characters beyond the scope of the setting's normal ebb and flow feels like either an overreaction, like giving prison time for throwing your used gum on the sidewalk, or animal abuse. There's no justice and the animal isn't going to learn anything from it... it's just going to get traumatized... when existing trauma may be the reason it's misbehaving in the first place.)
It just speaks of an intrinsic cruelty in the person who cheers it on.
Stuff like character death and darkness really need to either happen early enough that you can retcon all prior events to make sense in that light (newRanma [2] is an example of doing that in a serious but not dark story) or rely on a technique like in Bliss by Mike Loader and Lara Bartram where the story begins with the characters being amnesiac castaways and their canon identities aren't explicitly confirmed until far into the story when they're rescued.
9865365
...............Ummm i have no idea what the heck you said.
All i know it was a slice of life story with dram and tragedy and Ryoga having grown up to be a man, and widow and single father. His son was still alive.
9865287
Please dont...
maybe Fruits Basket next? Akito is all kinds of screwed up. Actually, most of the characters and their parents are usually screwed up in this show...
Endeavor and Bakugo from My Hero Academia could use a bit of a adjustment too actually. Actually, just Endeavor, Bakugo slowly gets his act together as Midoriya improves. Endeavor drove his arranged wife to insanity and is a child abuser essentially.
9865389
Ahh, that sounds better. I was assuming it was like the fics I used to run across periodically while I was reading a lot of Ranma ½ fanfiction where the author just seemed to delight in getting revenge on a character they didn't like.
Still a bit hard to not feel cheap when you're the one introducing permanent character death into an established setting though. Heck, even with Saffron being reborn, I think the only reason the finale of the Ranma manga doesn't feel odd is that it is the finale, so there's no need to choose between changing up the tone and driving home the point that nothing changed with further story arcs.
Very good, shame you couldn’t do Love Hina instead of Ranma; I’ve only ever seen a couple of episodes of the latter series and read all the Manga Volumes and watched the Anime of the former series; Love Hina that is.
they're all idiots, im shocked Screwie didn't confront the principal Kuno.. his kids are messed up but its their dad's fault their messed up to begin with. Also Screwie could legit cure Ranma's curse but i know she wont' cause.. its hella more fun this way. Plus Ranma's isn't complete without Ranko~
So a little self-insert fan fic of Ranma 1/2
I feel like chapters where she goes into other universes to fix things would be better off in their own story.
Can you like put these away from the main story, like in the side story or something please please
I enjoy these little side trips.
Wonder how Screwball and Shampoo would get along, would they be at each others throats or friends since shampoo does account for a fair amount of chaos
Man, Ryoga's cursed form fits him well ... though it'd fit Happosai better.
9865730
No! That thing doesn't need an adorable alter-ego!
Think about all the things he's done with only an animal suit...
No, best not to think about it.
*I cross my index fingers and hiss at the bad Ranma 1/2 fan-fic*
@Autum Breeze:
As someone who is intimately familiar with the series, and has written fan-fiction for it off and on for twenty years, I can attest that Ryoga’s even worse than you think, as illustrated by the manga story where he tries to have private time with both Akane and Akari at his house without them knowing that the other girl is there. And that’s despite Akari officially being his girlfriend.
9865553
Eh, the Kunos are idiots, but in the grand scheme of things, and compared to the other people after Ranma, they're harmless idiots.
They at least make for decent punching bags and comedic relief.
Damn. I actually forgot about Love Hina until now...and the memories come flooding back. Good times!
You know, Ryoga got off EASY, Screwy could have just as easilly turned him into a pretty pink pony, and giving him to a certain klepto skater! XD
I also have to wonder how screwy would have dealt wit the Kunos
9865730 point ... still, both of them are swine through and through.
9865365
Exactly. Which is why darker MLP fanfics usually have to build an entire world around themselves, rather than just tacking the story on top of existing canon. Or they use the initial shocking event to have a specific psychological effect that instantly communicates the story's tone for the rest of it.
The main thing is that it has to be done with great purpose, otherwise it just seems like very transparent shock bait.
9866364
This is an excellent distillation of what I was trying to put into words. Do you mind if I use this phrasing?
While it's on hold at the moment, I have a project to write a book on writing fiction that I'm accumulating notes for with the intent being to provide something more suited to improving the quantity and quality of available fanfiction and online-published original fiction. (While I do intend to offer it print-on-demand, I also intend to release the electronic edition under a free license to keep cost from being a barrier to fanfiction authors reading it.)
(At the moment, the main hold-up in starting to boil down the notes into a draft is finding time to write the free writing aid which I intend to use both to produce the book and to serve as a complement to it.)
9865882
fair point. you know since Screwie is in the neighborhood she could totally visit Lum and Moroboshi. lol they live in another town nearby XD
Ryoga should probably be on a lithium/THC diet.....<oUo>
9866700
Sure! Go ahead.
Thank you so much for this chapter! Those glaring issues nearly killed the show for me since, as you said, it got real old real fast.
I had been really enjoying this story... Up until now. ...
I have just one thing to say to you. "YOU UTTER COMPLETE BITCH! HOW DARE YOU BLAME MY PRECIOUS RYO-CHAN LIKE THAT! IT'S NOT HIS FAULT! HE HAS A MAGICAL DIRECTION CURSE! HE COULDN'T GET THERE ANY SOONER! RANMA KNEW THIS. HE SHOULD HAVE WAITED! RANMA KNOCKED RYO-CHAN INTO THE SPRING! RANMA IS TO BLAME FOR HIS CURSE! IF I COULD, I WOULD REACH THROUGH THE SCREEN AND SLAM YOUR FACE INTO THE KEYBOARD A HUNDRED AND ONE TIMES! YOU EVIL BITCH!".
Also, I have to agree with Ranma and Akane.
Really, just who are they?
9871457
I... can't tell if you're joking or not
9871834
I am not.
Well yeah it's kinda obvious Ryouga is an Asshole, he really needed to get over losing bread.
9873515
No, you are for calling him one.
Because of his 'Lost Curse', that was the only sure meal he had. And then Ranma stole it from him. When Ryo-chan was starving. ... Stupid bastard Ranma. Ryo-chan had a perfect right to be mad at him. Ranma kept on making him starve there.
Ryo-chan is a great guy. Why does no one else realize how great Ryo-chan really is? Why don't they?
9873861
i'm going to be honest, i am trying to understand what you're getting at, but the evidence you give to prove Ryoga is in the right and Ranma the wrong, combined with what i've seen in the show really are not matching up.
Regarding Ryoga having a 'Lost Curse', as you put it, and Ranma knowing about it and thus it making him in the wrong:
1.
a) when was Ranma made aware of of Ryoga's personal curse?
b) was Ranma informed about the curse after or during season 1?
c) if either during season 1 or after, was it shown during a flashback or was the present Ranma made aware of it? Because if not in a flashback, then there's no way Ranma could've known about it when he and Ryoga were in school and Ryoga challenged Ranma.
2. How is it Ranma's fault that Ryoga's Direction curse, as you put it, made him late for their fight in the lot behind Ryoga's house? Lost Curse or not, there is no logical reason Ryoga wouldn't be able to find something directly behind his own house when he could just go out the backdoor and hop over the fence to get into the empty lot.
3. How is it Ranma's fault Ryoga followed him to jusenkyo and ended up cursed by the spring of drowned pig?
a) Ranma never told him they were heading in that direction, so there's no reason Ryoga would've known Ranma was heading to china in the first place.
b) Ryoga was the one who was too impatient to wait for Ranma to return to Japan to challenge him to a rematch
c) Ryoga never informed Ranma he'd be going after him, so how was Ranma supposed to know Ryoga would be at jusenkyo too?
d) With C in mind, Ranma was angry at her dad for the curse of being turned into a girl and was going after him, so how was she supposed to have known Ryoga was standing there when she was focused on beating up her dad as payback for cursing her?
4. Ryoga would know it was all his own fault if he'd just bothered to LISTEN to Ranma in his first episode instead of telling Ranma to stop talking as soon as Ranma started to explain.
5. I find it hard to not see Ryoga is not a good person when you consider the lengths he was willing to go to get even with Ranma.
a) when shampoo was trying to kill her, he went out of his way to keep Ranma stuck in girl form so that Shampoo would kill her. He was happy to let Ranma DIE, in essence, becoming an accomplice in MURDER!
b) in the OVA Oh Cursed Tunnel of Lost Lovers, he was so willing to break up Ranma and Akane that he was willing to let Akane's soul be trapped in the cave, forced to suffering in misery for all eternity and her only purpose thereafter being to split up other couples, just because it would mean Ranma would be no longer in a relationship with her.
With all this in mind, how is Ranma the bad guy and Ryoga the good guy?
9876831
Then you're not seeing it correctly.
Ranma is very much in the wrong.
When he had to lead Ryo-chan to school. He knew very well about his Lost Curse. He also knew poor Ryo-chan was starving.
He knew about it from when they went to school together.
I didn't say that Ryo-chan getting lost was Ranma's fault. What I'm saying is Ranma knew about the Lost Curse. It's Ranma's fault for not waiting.
It's not Ranma's fault Ryo-chan followed him. But it is his fault for knocking Ryo-chan off that cliff. Ranma himself later admitted it. He said he was wrong, and made that promise not to tell anyone about Ryo-chan's curse.
He didn't. He asked around, and then tried to get to where people said Ranma was.
Rematch? They never had the first one. Ranma ran away.
When did I ever say Ranma was supposed to know that?
As a Martial Artist, Ranma is supposed to be aware of his surroundings at all times. Also, with his power, he is supposed to be careful not to hurt bystanders. Instead of doing this, Ranma was running willy-nilly all over the place. Not caring what, or who, he might harm. He noticed he knocked someone off the cliff, but didn't bother to check on them. The only thing he cared about was beating up Genma. I bet you would be singing a different tune if Ranma had knocked you off the cliff, and then went on his way without even bothering to check if you were alright.
Ryo-chan wasn't in the mood to listen to anymore of Ranma's bullshit excuses. And, I wouldn't have been either. And besides, Ranma talked nonsense.
*Hmmmppphhh* *Explains to you* Ryo-chan was perfectly justified in seeking revenge.
Ryo-chan didn't believe Shampoo would actually go that far. Threatening to kill someone is common for their crowd of Martial Artists. They never go through with it though,
That's not what happened at all there.
I didn't say Ranma was a 'bad guy'. Just that it was mostly his fault. You can be a 'good guy', and still be an asshole like Ranma.
9876900
Ranma DID wait. For THREE DAYS STRAIGHT. It's not his fault Ryoga couldn't find the lot literally behind his hosue and why should he have had to put his training on hold after waiting three days.
I'd agree if not for the fact it Ryoga was there FOUR DAYS late, so it isn't running away. as far as ranma was concerned, it was Ryoga who had run away. and, i've done my research and i've found no trace anywhere about Ryoga having an actually Lost Curse on him. When and where is it mentioned?
Funny, i seem to remember Ryoga also not caring about student bystanders when he was fighting Ranma in his first episode, only difference of course being when Ranma wasn't aware, they were in a remote area in china, so it makes sense she didn't consider Ryoga would be there. Meanwhile, Ryoga, fully aware of the countless student bystanders, used all his dangerous attacks, causing massive damage to the school grounds and even nearly injured Akane on several occasions in the next episode, and, in the end, resulted in her hair being cut because Ranma was trying to protect her but Ryoga ignored her and the many countless student bystanders.
And how was it not what happened at all in the OVA? The characters literally say as they're trying to get to the exit that the spirits trying to stop them are the souls of the couples who the cave split up.
Unless the dialogue is different in the Japanese version compared to the dub, that implies any couple who break get caught by those spirits will be trapped there too.
Look, i'm sorry, but i am NEVER going to understand why you say Ranma is the one at fault. I'm done with this.
unless you're going to provide proof, please do not keep this going. We are all entitiled to our own feelings about Ryoga and shouldn't be trying to force others to change theirs.
good day
When pig boy came in it was ducking funny how stupid he was and where his intelligent lay at the bottom of the totem pole. But he got old fast with it and how he was messing up Ranman life. But Akane attitude was getting old way to fast. Nuff said. You said it all that needed to be.
I like Ryoga but yeah he causes all of his suffering and blanes it on Ranma. I always assumed it was his coping mechanism for his depression though. That doesnt make it right but still.
Any liking or sympathy I had for Ryoga died when he used his cursed form like he did to get into Akane's bed. I wish that more often he almost got eaten by someone before changing back.
I love this fic. It can throw in, "Fix it" moments that feel natural, and are perfectly in line with Skrewball's character. It's great.
I completely agree with you, Ryoga is a moron and deserves to be knocked down a few dozen pegs. Also, this is one of my top 5 favorite stories on this site.
Talk about being struck by a thought!
11491957
You almost made me spit out my drink, why is it that funny!