[Episode 39326] [Episode 39326]There are two basic concepts of magik: Contagion and Similarity. The priciple of Similarity is the more things resemble each other the more they become the one thing; the map is the land, the model is the object and so forth. The principal of Contagion is that two things that have been connected remain connected even when apart. These principles have various applications, including the cult classic voodoo doll.
Spells R' Us costumes used the principle of Similarity to change the wearer's identity to match the costume. This was simple templating magik; Jusenkyo curses transformed in a similar manner. However, the Wizard often applied an advanced aspect of the principle of Contagion to take things a little further. Everything was connected and if you change a thing or a person in the right way and you changed the threads of relationships that bound it to others. It was a domino effect, cascading from the one changed.
As the costume changed Ranma into a streetwalker not only did she start to remember and accept that identity as her own, but that awareness also spread along the threads to everyone and everything she was connected to. Like ripples in a pond, her reality changed.
Oh, a time traveler would find that history had not actually changed, but everyone from that point remembered things happening another way and all physical evidence had changed to agree with their altered memories, so it may as well have changed.
Those new memories involved Ranma leaving, after the destruction of the Ultimate Weakness Moxibustion scroll, on a Quest for a cure or, failing that, a way to be the best without her strength.
After hearing of a martial artist questing for a mystic object to restore his full power, she'd tagged along. That encounter with Herb and his/her locking ladel had left her humilated and trapped in a weak girl body unable to fend off the hands of the three Musk males as Herb celebrated his restored manhood. An off hand comment had stuck in her mind; this was all she was good for.
Pride can do strange things and Ranma decided that if that was all she was good for, she was damn well going to be the best little whore in Japan. Or, at least, that was what she now remembered deciding and evidence pointed to her having trained herself at it with all of the gusto formerly reserved for learning martial arts. The magik further ensured that she liked her new life and would not try to go back to what she was.
Of course, that would not stop others from trying and Ranma sighed as she saw one of those others coming down the street.
It was ...
(Posted Sun, 13 Apr 2003 15:06)
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