Jusenkyo Stuff


to ranma@ml.usagi.org
from "Benzaiten" <benzaiten@excite.com>
subject Jusenkyo Stuff
date Sat, 31 Jul 1999 22:22:15 PDT
Someone who appeared only as "J S":

>I've been thinking about the Jusenkyo pools.  If only immersion 
>is needed to make a cursed pool, would the person getting cursed 
>get combined with the previous curse?  Like if you fall in the 
>pool of drowned girl, would you come out looking like girl 
>Ranma?  Or if you fell in the pool of drowned cat, could you 
>come out looking like a half-Shampoo, half-cat?  Same with all 
>the other pools.  And thinking about what you would look like if 
>you fell in Pantyhose Taro's pool gives me a headache. 

I doubt the curse on a pool can be changed merely by something 
else falling in. Think about it: the curse on a pool is specified 
when some person or creature (or more than one) drowns/is 
completely submerged in it. Interestingly enough, full submersion 
also seems to be what it takes for a person to be cursed (as 
evidenced by the fact that Mousse, for one, didn't change into a 
duck until he went under completely). So I don't think a new 
curse could be imprinted on a pool because the new candidate 
would transform into the form indicated by the old curse before 
then.


Steffie:

I love it when these types of questions come up. I spend a 
disturbing amount of time philosophizing about them. Here, then,
are my answers to the queries you have put forth. Bear in mind
that they are not necessarily official answers.

>Can you be double-cursed?

Sure. Look at Tarou. First minotaur-monster, then octopus, 
resulting in a minotaur-monster with tentacles. Apparently, a 
cursed person who jumps into Spring of Drowned (original form) 
will be cured, but falling into any other pool results in a 
hybrid curse.

>If you go into the twins pool, are there two of you or two of 
>the guys who drowned in it?

Two of you. The curse doesn't change anything about you that is 
not specified in the name of the pool. Ranma looks like a female 
version of himself, not like the girl who drowned in the spring.

>Also, how would you be reunited with your twin? (Get hot-
>splashed while holding hands or something, I guess.)

One would think so. That would be a tricky curse to deal with, 
actually.

>What is the temperature that water must be to be considered 
>"hot". What will room-temp or lukewarm water do?

"Hot" and "cold" are subjective terms, of course. Lukewarm 
definitely isn't hot enough, though (reference: Phoenix pill 
story arc). The hot water depicted in the manga and anime is 
usually visibly steaming, but that could just be to identify it 
to the viewers as hot. A popular theory is that it must feel hot 
to the character, which means that a mere 85 degrees Farenheit 
(30 Celsius) might suffice if the character had just spent the 
past three hours in a meat locker. My personal theory is that it 
must be noticeably hotter than blood temperature. (Similarly, it 
must be noticeably colder than blood temperature to effect the 
initial change. A span of a few degrees warmer and cooler than 
blood temperature, to my thinking, would not cause a change 
either way.)

>How much water is required to trigger a change?

Ryoga has been known to transform from no more water than is 
contained in a single hit from an ordinary water gun. I think 
that the amount can be fairly small as long as it splashes.

>Like the fic we just read (can't remember the title - one word, 
>started with an S...)

Simulacrum.

>And if Daryl Hannah drowned in, say... the Drowned Pig, would it 
>cease to be pig and become the Spring of Pretty, Vapid, Boring 
>Actress?

No, because she would have turned into a pig herself by then. 
(See the answer I gave J S.)


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