Jusenkyo Stuff
to | ranma@ml.usagi.org
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from | "Benzaiten" <benzaiten@excite.com>
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subject | Jusenkyo Stuff
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date | Sat, 31 Jul 1999 22:22:15 PDT
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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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