[Episode 28701] [Episode 28701]Once Nabiki had considered the possibility of marrying Ranma with any seriousness, it was a slippery slope with no recovery. These things happened around Ranma. Nabiki was still Nabiki, and lust didn't enter into the process much deeper than encouraging serious consideration of Ranma as a marriage partner for the first time.
It was a bit of a revelation. So many things had been stacked against Ranma in the first few days of their introduction. While he was quite handsome, impressively muscled, and the best martial artist she'd ever seen, he also was an uncouth barbarian, cursed to turn into a girl, and her father's harebrained idea of an arranged spouse to perpetuate the school and support him in indolence.
She had pawned him off on her sister, and thus discounted, proceeded to fleece him at every corner for fun and profit. More enemies, fiancées, and adventures than one would believe had proceeded to crawl out of the woodwork for a chance at him. Ranma had survived them all.
During that time, she'd studied him so that she could wring a profit out of any of the strange occurrences that chaotically orbited him. Each event had conveniently painted an increasingly full picture of his character for the observant Nabiki.
And when Nabiki looked back on it all, she could see how she was virtually as stubborn at clinging to her first impressions of Ranma as her sister Akane.
And the more she thought about it, the more Nabiki wanted to be a major part in Ranma's life. When Ranma settled down and got married, surely the chaos that followed him could only taper off.
Ranma was a diamond in the rough. It's not easy to look past the unappealing surface, but a modest amount of cutting and polishing and you have quite a treasure. Where it really counted, Ranma was the most honorable, loyal gentleman that Nabiki knew. And in his own way, he was just as sharp as Nabiki was.
Sure he'd require some real polish to bring out the shine, but she could teach, and he was an astonishingly fast learner when properly motivated. She knew how to motivate him to see things her way. If she expended just a little more effort than usual, Ranma wouldn't even end up resenting it.
And no better time than the present.
Nabiki at least, was able to transcend the 'club him and drag him home' cave-girl mentality of almost all those who were now her rivals. Like Ukyo, Nabiki would move the battle away from violent struggle, where Ranma had an excellent chance at defending himself. Nabiki would get Ranma onto a playing field where he had no defenses. Ukyo was unsuccessfully trying to gently woo Ranma, but Nabiki knew how to close a deal aggressively. And she had every expectation of taking home the prize. Decisive action was required.
(Posted Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:38)
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