Ranma had fallen in one of the more normal ones. Only a single creature, a rather in shape and shapely catgirl, had imprinted itself on that pool. Even the ones that looked like normal creatures were templated with extraordinary versions of the naturally occurring ones. For instance the Genma had fallen into the spring of the giant, magnetic panda. A fact he would later come to realize the implications of.
The pool a disabled Ryoga fell into was one of the less normal pools. The story of its creation is complicated. The template more so.
Irony and teaching the recipients of Jusenkyo's touch life lessons are two of its main driving forces. For Genma, it was a form that would signify his innate laziness and yet force him to remain constantly active. For Ranma the lesson was one of girls not always being weak and turning him into something he feared even more than the dreaded thought of turning into a girl.
For Ryoga it was more complicated. Ryoga was often guilty of tunnel vision and charging blindly in with the perspective this gave him. Guilty of jumping to conclusions. Guilty of blaming others for things that are his own fault. Guilty drawing attention to himself.
All this helped explain why when he came out he wasn't human. Instead Ryoga was now a five foot tall, cyclopesian rabbit, with a rhino's head, and a fire breathing snake for a tail. The position of the eye made it near impossible to see straight ahead unless he took the time to carefully look around. The snake head would cause him problems, problems he'd have a difficult time knowing were his own fault and would blame others for, unless he trusted in the explanations of others. No one has any idea why he's purple.
(Posted Fri, 16 May 2003 06:42)
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