Exit Genma Saotome, wandering wastrel. Enter Genma Saotome, stud for hire.
Okay, he wasn't much to look at - but he DID manage to get a few women of his acquaintance into a rare club. Pregnant by natural means.
Naturally this meant that seven year old Ranma didn't have a clue as to what was going on, except that his father kept going off with various women - and that a lot of people were a lot friendlier to him and his father than might otherwise be expected. It also meant that Ranma was going to have a lot of half-sisters with the occasional half-brother, but he didn't know that until he was twelve - and only understood it around the time he turned sixteen. Even then his understanding wasn't quite what it could or would be.
There were a lot of women who were put off by Genma Saotome's paunch, lack of hair, beady little eyes, infrequent bathing, or some other quality about him. Which led to Genma Saotome's second source of income and good will.
Engaging Ranma.
Why not? Polygamy was not only not unheard of, it was damn well a necessity until the numbers shifted back into equality. Though some countries were a little different, coming up with drugs that caused testosterone levels to shoot through the roof and then milking the males of their seed - to use in artificial insemination programs to make it all more efficient and to recover their numbers faster. A couple of countries took this even further by insuring that only females were born through this method - keeping those now in power with that power in their own control.
Genma didn't have a care in the world regarding this. As far as he was concerned this was a lucrative business, supply met demand, and his retirement was pretty much set. He engaged Ranma repeatedly, even going so far as to commit the agreement to paper as surely his son would turn into a particularly studly martial artist.
All little Ranma knew was that a lot of girls were very friendly to him, and a lot of mothers looked very pleased at whatever it was his father was doing.
Whatever it was, it meant he ate on a regular basis and the meals were more balanced. One mother even insisted on sending a supply of vitamin/mineral tablets along with them.
Not that the whole thing was peace and tranquility, twice (once when Ranma was eight, the other at age twelve) - groups had tried to kidnap both Saotome. The dark rumors were that boys being taken by such people were never seen again, that they were kept tied up and treated as pets - or worse. The very worst of the rumors went beyond anything that Ranma could understand, but had turned his father a sickly pale and slick with a cold sweat.
It was expected that once Ranma turned sixteen, he would be even more sought after.
Which was why, when Ranma had just turned fourteen:
(Posted Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:48)
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