Ranma Saotome (MUOF)

## History

Ranma and Akane hit it off after she shoed Shampoo out of the room, deciding to spar as Soun was distracted by Nabiki yelling at him. Akane proved to be no match for Ranma and in frustration resorted to using the Wind Style. After Akane walked in on Ranma in the furo Shampoo attacked Ranma before he could explain what was going on. In his desperate attempts at dodging her attacks he didn’t notice Akane throwing a table at him knocking him into the koi pond. Akane and Shampoo called him out for not telling them about his curse, to which he argued that he wasn’t aware that they knew about Jusenkyo, and things quickly escalated from there. Luckily Soon Li arrived in time to calm everyone down and convinced Soun to hold the engagement off so that Akane, Shampoo and Ranma could have time to get to know each other.

Ranma learns he'll be attending Furinkan High School, so Akane and Shampoo ends up escorting Ranma there. When they arrived Shampoo dealt with the hoard while Akane tried to take a confused Ranma to class. However they were stopped by Kuno before they could enter the building, who wanted to know who Ranma was. Akane was able to send him off and the two joined the other students in watching the end of the fight. Akane was so focused on the fight that she didn’t realize that Ranma left to put a stop to it until it was too late.

The evitable happened and Ranma ends up fighting him as Shampoo watches. Ranma and Shampoo mostly ignored him as they argued with each other. When she realized it was about to rain she knocked Kuno out and dragged Ranma away. They didn’t make it inside in time and Ranma-chan ran off upon seeing Shampoo-neko.

This fight caused both of them to be late, so are forced to stand outside holding water buckets. Ranma apologized for butting in and promised not to do it again. Later after Kuno found out about the engagement and attacked Ranma Shampoo was changing him back when Akane accidentally threw Kuno at her causing her to drop the thermos. Furious she slugs Kuno knocking him face first into Ranma-chan's lap. Who immediately knocks him flying backward with a kick. Seeing Ranma-chan Kuno called Ranma-kun a coward and ended up getting jump kicked in the face. Ranma goes back to the dojo. Akane decides to go with him while Shampoo stays at school.

She ended up taking Ranma to the Nekohanten. Ranma told Akane about his time at the Amazon village after learning that Shampoo was from there. The story reminded her of how her family met Soon Li and Shampoo so she decided to tell him. After learning about everything that happened between the two Ranma thanked Akane for her help with Kuno earlier. Akane didn’t have time to finish the story before the lunch rush so when he went to Shampoo to apologize to her as well she told him the rest of the story. Much to his disappointment she also told him that there was no cure for Jusenkyo.

Ranma-chan received a challenge from Kuno which turned out to be a confession of love. Shampoo seeing how uncomfortable this made him decided to just show Kuno Ranma transform. However Kuno just ended up believing that Ranma-chan was pretending to be a man and the engagement was her way of keeping her secret safe. Furious Ranma attempted to just beat Kuno to get him to leave him alone. While Kuno’s years of fighting Akane and Shampoo made this tougher than anticipated Ranma ultimately proved the victor.

Ranma later thanked Shampoo for her help but stressed that he could handle it. While thinking about who he would be engaged to Ranma decided to go with shopping Akane. When Akane asked if he was closed to making a choice a flustered Ranma answered that he wasn’t planning on making on. This caused another fight resulting in Akane sending Ranma too Dr Tofu’s. Shampoo ended up fixing his legs when Akane carried her home.

When Ranma decided to watch the race between the two they goaded him into joining before Soon Li could warn him how strenuous it was. Ranma quickly realized that he made a big mistake upon seeing Akane and Shampoo use their mastery of the Storm Style to easily overcome any obstacle they came across.

Upon Ryoga’s arrival Ranma grew jealous of the budding relationship between him and Akane. However he was distracted by Kodachi’s growing attraction to him stating more then once that she gave him the creeps. Which was why he was very grateful when Shampoo defeated her. Ranma didn’t begin training in the Lightning Style until Perfume tracked him down as it was needed in order to overcome her speed advantage.

Having lost Shampoo at the local skating rink, Akane rushes to find Ranma for help. However, Akane finds her in the possession of Azusa Shiratori, who's now dubbed Shampoo "Charlotte", and refuses to hand her back. Akane refused Azusa’s challenge as well as stopped Ranma from accepted Mikado’s challenge when he gave Shampoo back.

Ranma and Ryoga challenged each other to see which one could skate better, but since neither one knew how Shampoo and Akane ended up teaching them. Azusa ended up kidnapping Shampoo again and putting a collar on her forcing the two to challenge the Golden Pair for the key. Despite Ranma barely being able to skate better then Ryoga he was confident they could win. While training Ranma started to realize he liked Shampoo while comforting her during her nightmares.

The two struggled to gain the upper hand while Akane couldn’t use the Wind Style while on the ice she was able to prevent Mikado from kissing her. It wasn’t until the pair used the Good-bye Whirl that she was finally able to use the style though using it in the air proved just as dangerous as on ice forcing Ranma to save her. Ranma ended up being knocked out when Mikado threw Azusa at him so while Akane dealt with the two Ryoga entered the ring to help him recover. However since he used a bucket of water Ranma had Ryoga substitute for him while he went to look for hot water. He couldn’t find any so just ran back and substituted for Akane upon hearing that she had been knocked out.

The match was interrupted by Perfume attacking Mikado realizing what a sleaze he was. With both Ryoga and Akane out Ranma had Shampoo who had found hot water substitute in. However while she could skate she wasn’t that good. They were put into another Good-bye Whirl and Ranma took the blunt of it for Shampoo. Mikado used the opportunity to try to kiss Shampoo only to be stopped by Azusa who noticed that Shampoo-neko was gone from her cage. She then recognize Shampoo from the collar she was still wearing. While the Golden Pair were arguing about this Shampoo used the Thunderclap Shock Wave to destroy the ring. Ranma proved to be no longer afraid of Shampoo after rescuing her but was still effected by the Neko-ken. After months of putting it off Ranma ultimately chose Shampoo over Akane.

After mastering the Thunderclap Punch Ranma began training to learn the Thunderclap Shock Wave, but seeing how depressed Akane had become he decided to play matchmaker between her and Ryoga. With a little help from Nabiki he was able to convince Ryoga to ask her out. he even went so far as to go on a date with Kuno to prevent him from messing things up.

Ranma and Shampoo were enjoying having the house to themselves when they were interrupted by the arrival of Ukyo. Genma was drawn to the commotion of a confused Ranma being attacked by an angry Ukyo. They both dragged the truth out of him causing Ukyo to forgive Ranma due to a combination of finding out he didn’t know about the engagement and being told that she was cute.

She tried to reestablish their engagement but he informed her about his relationship with Shampoo upon realizing what she was doing. He wanted to comfort her but reluctantly left when she asked to be left alone.

Ranma and Shampoo were enjoying having the house to themselves when they were interrupted by the arrival of Ukyo much to her frustration. When Ukyo attacked a confused Ranma Shampoo was quick to step in only to be told to let him handle things. When Genma was drawn to the commotion only to run away upon realizing what was going on. Shampoo confronted Perfume when the two chased after him. Who apologized unaware of Ukyo’s animosity.

Shampoo grew animistic towards Ukyo after she forgave Ranma and tried to restart her relationship with Ranma unaware of their own relationship. Though she quickly calmed down and gave her the idea of setting Perfume up with Mousse when it became obvious that she had feeling for Ukyo. When Cologne came to Japan looking for Perfume Akane and Ranma were quick to comfort Shampoo when the reunion didn’t go well. Akane went so far as to confront Cologne herself while Ranma took Shampoo home.

Everyone was drugged by Kodachi who was helping the Bakeneko force Shampoo to become his bride. Akane and Ranma were revived by Ukyo and Mousse and the four made their way to the temple despite aving trouble at first Ranma was able to overcome his intense ailurophobia and force his way through the horde of cats to get to Shampoo, while the others fought off Kodachi and Azusa. Seeing this Kodachi paralyzed him.

Akane attempted to carry Ranma to Shampoo but wasn’t able to get them together in time. By the time the rest of the family got their they had to hold Akane back from killing Kodachi. Akane’s fury combined with the fact that Shampoo refused to let him near her finally got the Bakeneko to see that she wasn’t going to marry him. While he couldn’t free her from the curse he did allow Shampoo to leave the temple. That night Ranma slept restlessly on top of Shampoo's bed, Shampoo-cat curled up in his arms

Ranma was forced to take a backset after this while they discovered that Cologne had the other half of the Bracelet of Friendship since he was still an outsider he couldn’t challenge her for it and its magic prevented him from physically taking it. This left it up to Akane. His Jusenkyo curse also meant he couldn’t use the bracelet as no one was aware what would happen.

Ranma and Shampoo were busy dealing with Happosai so weren’t able to help Ukyo train for her battle against Cologne. Ranma started training to master the Art of Focus a little after Shampoo. During this time Shampoo was attacked by Bu Xien. He had a grudge against Shampoo after kidnapping her he challenged Ranma to a fight. if he lost he would let Shampoo go but if he won Ranma would drink the potion of Lost Love.

Since he had already been defeated by Bu Ranma went to Kodachi to ask for her help in counteracting Bu’s drugs and poisons. Providing her with his blood Kodachi was able to create an antitoxin. However he was forced to beg and even threaten her when she tried to seduce him. Though she still only agreed if she could go along, much to everyone else’s suspicions.

With out the use of his drugs the fight proved to be much more in Ranma’s favor though Bu still had a few tricks up his sleeve. He was able to gain the upper hand when he activated Ranma’s curse and attempted to physically overpower Ranma-chan. Bu was finally defeated when Ranma used his lightning to heat the water. not only restoring him to his true form, but revealing that Bu was in fact a women.

Kodachi revealed that the explosives he had placed around Shampoo were all fake. While surprised at Ranma’s curse she didn’t seemed to be bothered by it when Ranma thanked her for her help. Leaving him to just shake his head in confusion.

Despite his defeat Bu refused to give up his revenge or even tell Shampoo why he was angry at her stating that he only agreed to let her go. She and Ranma went back to training to master the Art of Focus.

Kodachi and Bu attempted to break Ranma and Shampoo up by keeping the two away from each other by doing things such as repeatedly activating Shampoo’s curse, stealing her cloths, and scheming to increase her workload at the resturant. While showing Ranma a more tender side to Kodachi. Ranma was fully aware of the plan and eventually called Kodachi out when she goaded Shampoo into attacking her.

While the mix 612 had long since worn off, that one minute had freed him of all his worries allowing him and Shampoo to become a lot closer. This caused him to start asking about his mother as he wanted her to be at his wedding forcing Genma to tell him about the seppuku contract so he would stop asking about her.

As Ranma learned the Art of Focus a little after Shampoo Soon Li decided to take everyone to the mountains so that he and Shampoo could master it while Akane and Ryoga learned the Art of Chaos. During this time the two discussed their wedding plans Ranma agreed to have an Amazon ceremony. Shampoo also finally told Ranma about the dreams she’d been having of the other world. Seeing how troubled she was by them he was quick to comfort her.

It turned out that Soon Li was using the training trip as an opportunity to surprise Ranma as Nodoka was waiting at the dojo when they returned. Naturally it started raining just as they arrived revealing his curse to her.

Genma and Ranma nervously faced Nodoka as she patting her unsheaved Katana. With Shampoo standing to the side, tense and unsure how to act. Things only got worse once she found out about the other engagements. Genma struggled to find a response but finally gave up and went into a begging posture, crying like a baby. While Ranma just dropped his head to the table, resigned to his fate.

This caused Shampoo to go to Ranma’s side and plead his case convincing Nodoka to let him off the hook though Genma was still on thin ice. A short time later while discussing dividing up the chores now that Kasumi was leaving Ranma made the mistake of stating that house work and waitressing was girl’s work and in response Soon Li made him take over all of Kasumi’s duties, and even made Ranma-chan dress in an apron and dress.

Though still nervous now that his mother was here he and Shampoo could get married. When discussing it with their parents it was decided that the wedding would be in two weeks. Ranma chose Ukyo to be his speaker and Ryoga to be his best man. While sparing Shampoo brought up the question of having kids to Ranma, shocking him as he had never thought about it. Using the same questions that Soon Li had once given to her and Akane she was able to convince him.

Kurumi who had overheard the conversation asked Shampoo what it was like to have a boyfriend. This caused her to call Ranma out on the fact that he never told her he loved her. While he did he was so nervous that he ended up screaming it at her. Kurumi politely left as Shampoo tackled Ranma to the dojo floor.

When Natsume and Kurumi challenged Shampoo and Akane for the dojo, Shampoo went to Ranma to tell him that they had to postpone the wedding so she could train. While upset Ranma understood.

However given how nasty Akane and Natsume’s first fight was he was worried. even more so when Soon Li came to him to get him to wear a bra as that was the only way Happosai would take training them seriously. He agreed, but she still needed to order him to do it as apart of his cleaning duties.

Realizing how serious this was scared Ranma made the mistake of challenging Kurumi himself. With Cologne’s training he proved to be no match for her. His defeat prompted Shampoo and Akane to camp out in the mountains to get the most time to train. Ranma and Ryoga were forced to track them down to remind them of Kasumi’s wedding.

The next day was perfect, sunny, with not even a hint of a cloud to be seen. The perfect day for Kasumi and Tofu to start their new life together. The perfect day to decide who would carry on the training hall once and for all.

Everyone relevant to the proceedings was there, Soun, Genma, Nodoka, Soon Li, Nabiki, Ranma, Ryoga, Cologne, Happosai, and of course the four girls who were to be the ones fighting. Ranma and Ryoga gave their respective love interests some final words of encourage, knowing full well what was to come was unavoidable at this point.

After a devastating battle Shampoo was the only one left standing. Ranma and Ryoga quickly rushed onto the field after Soon Li officially declared Akane and Shampoo the victors, while the others sighed their relief. When the family woke up to find Shampoo and Akane gone and Perfume fallen into some kind of deep hibernation. After determining that later was ok they set about searching for the former. Unfortunately a few hours later Genma, Soun, Nabiki, Kasumi, Ryoga, Natsumi, and Kurumi ended up passing out, and the only ones left awake were Soon Li, Ukyo, Tofu, Ranma, Nodoka and Mousse.

When Shampoo and Akane reappeared in their room along with the Original Ranma, after finding the Bracelets of Friendship in their room Mousse Bracelets theorized that he was from another dimension. As that was their best guest they let the three rest so that they could figure things out. Ranma waited by Shampoo’s side and was furious when his counterpart rushed into the room. His mom however came in before a confrontation could start and told him to go gather the others in the common room.

His counterpart explained how he tried to rescue the Original Akane and Shampoo only to ended transporting these ones to his universe and how he believed they in fact were the originals. Throughout his explanation Ranma and Mousse looked ready to rip the dimensionally displaced boy apart.

Nodoka was quick to calm things down before they could escalate Soon Li also put her two cents in. While she didn’t believe that Akane and Shampoo were from his world, she pointed out that he at least believed it before he could argue. That didn’t explain why he was there. Ranma explained the explosion of light he saw and Mousse theorized that the overuse of the bracelets caused them to malfunction. With nothing else to do Nadoka felt it was best to wait for the others to wait to see if they had been merged with their counterpart. Mousse agreed to go back to the restaurant to wait at Ukyo’s insistence, leaving Ranma with no one in support, so he too reluctantly withdrew, although the look of guaranteed trouble was still firmly in place on his face.

That trouble happened when Ranma returned to check on Shampoo only to find her hugging his counterpart. He tried to explain what was going on, but his tired tone and the fact he wasn’t really tried to stop her didn’t exactly calm his Ranma down. Shampoo was left confused as to what was going on as the two left to fight each other. His counterpart really wasn’t a match for Ranma once he got serious and Shampoo quickly put a stop to things and demanded that some explain what was going on.

The commotion had also drawn Soon Li’s attention who explained what was going on. The Original rushed off again when she informed him that the others were waking up. Ranma quickly remembered why he was angry at his counterpart and rushed over to Shampoo who gratefully embraced him. Ranma eased her fears by assuring her that not even inter-dimensional barriers could stop true love.

When Shampoo disappeared again Ranma tracked down his counterpart to demand where she was. His counterpart hadn’t seen Shampoo in hours and in no mood to deal with him told him to either attack him or leave him alone. As he watched his counterpart enter the house Ranma was unable to believe they were the same person. Ukyo informed him that she had saw Shampoo leave. While he still didn’t know where she was he at least knew she was safe, this him to calm down significantly so he decided to talk to his counterpart.

When he found him on the roof he asked him why he kidnapped Akane and Shampoo. when he told him it was for Akane Ranma admitted he probably would have done something similar if Shampoo suddenly said she wanted to stay in another dimension. Ranma explained his relationship with Akane and Shampoo giving his counterpart a unique perspective by telling him why he chose the later over the former. It also meant that he couldn’t lie either to himself or his Ranma and he knew for the most part exactly what his counterpart was thinking. As the conversation moved to his relationship with Ukyo his counterpart started to be transported back to his dimension.

The group quickly started to get worried about Shampoo even more so when they couldn’t find her after an hour of searching. Returning to the dojo they received a call from Ukyo telling them that Shampoo was in the original universe. After confirming that the bracelets were gone, Akane and Ranma went to were Ukyo said Soon Li would be to find them. while Ryoga stayed behind to tell everyone else what was going on.

They arrived in the original universe to find Soon Li, Shampoo, Cologne, and Ranma-chan fighting Tae-il. Since Ranma-kun had no idea what was going on Shampoo explained it to his as Soon Li convinced her brother to allow Shampoo and Akane to heal them. At this point he calmed enough to explain while he understood Soon Li's motives, he had doubts that Akane and Shampoo were up to the task as something was hunting all of them, which he dubbed the executioners. He was, however, convinced to allow Soon Li to impart the 2nd part of the unification technique to Akane, intending to test the pair in combat in their new unified form.

As she did Soon Li transferred the knowledge of the technique to Akane. Both Ranmas, without thinking, moved to help, only to be stopped by Shampoo who knew what was going on. Though Ranma-chan was quickly by her side when she collapsed from mental exhaustion. As Akane collected herself Soon Li explained what they unification was. Needless to say Ranma-chan, Cologne, and Ranma-kun were horrified at the thought of Akane and Ranma fusing together.

They calmed down somewhat when told it wasn’t permanent. Ranma-chan however still wasn’t convinced as there were too many unknown factors. This is in contrast to Ranma-kun who knew there was nothing else they could do. Akane and Shampoo’s spirits fused together to form Shamne leaving their bodies for the others to watch over as she fought Tae-il.

The two Ranmas watched wide-eyed as clouds of debris rose ever distant in the battle. Naturally they weren’t happy at just sit on the sidelines, but Soon Li was content to watch as she was worried about Tae-il’s warnings about them being hunted. It wasn’t until the energies that keep the planet stable began to leave that they were able to convince her to help as they no longer had time to wait.

Since Tae-il was still blocking magic they couldn’t use the bracelets to leave. Soon Li could place a anti-magic field on one of them so that they could grab a hold of him. this would both stop his interference and give Shamne the opening she needed. Ranma-chan and Ranma-kun started arguing on which one of them would do it. That is until Soon Li told them that the effect would be permanent. Ranma-chan would be trapped in her cursed form as similar to Tae-il the field would disrupt the magic of Jusenkyo.
While not happy Ranma-chan allowed Ranma-kun to receive it.

Ranma-kun waited impatiently as Soon Li made her preparations. However just as she was ready Ranma-chan pushed him out of the way. While he rolled with the unexpected hit, she had picked her moment perfectly, and received the anti-magic field instead. With no time to explain and both shocked and still not having full comprehension of what she did she just had Cologne send her skyward. With Ranma-chan’s help Shamne was able to defeat Tae-il.

When they got to the ground Shamne grabed the bracelets activated them then defused and returned to Akane and Shampoo. the group then dashed through the portal and into the world beyond. Finding themselves once again in the void between worlds, they were led to MUOF’s universe as the portal to that world was glowing. Ranma-kun stuck close to Shampoo while Ranma-chan lagged behind with Akane to make sure she was okay.

Cologne ended up refusing to go, as she did not want to fuse with her counterpart. Ranma-chan had also come to the same decision so when Akane caught up she, Shampoo and Ranma-kun tried to convince her otherwise, but given that there was no proof that it would change the other Cologne in any way.

After Cologne bid them farewell, the three returned to their own world without incident, apparently mere moments after their departure. Their arrival marked another moment, as the bracelets of friendship's color faded and they quickly crumbled to dust. After several explanations the day ended as like any other, and for most it would be largely forgotten in the chaos that normally runs through Nerima.

Unfortunately, Shampoo and Ranma decided to postpone their wedding for time, at least until the matters of Cologne and the four world spirits could somehow be dealt with. In the meantime, they trained and now knowing one brother's name, set about doing as Tae-il had bidden them, finding him before these hunters could.

## Personality

Ranma is shown to be very blunt and impulsive something that has caused him problems on more then one occasion. This is because while a lot more intelligent then he may initially seem Ranma is used to being under pressure in a fight and finding options. Though he didn’t set about fixing it until it got him having to take over Kasumi’s duties. To in actuality it was more coming to terms with the fact that Akane and Shampoo were better then him that brought his ego down to size. He started viewing everything as a constant battle. Not for real, but just for the sake of the way he tackles problems. Given the way he fights this does not always lead to good ideas.

## Physical Ability

In terms of physical abilities Ranma started off relatively the same when compared to Akane and Shampoo, able to dodge there attacks with relative ease. However this changes when the two get serious Akane blasted Ranma into the wall when she started utilizing the Storm Style and he had quite a bit of trouble fending off an angry Shampoo. Ranma is shown to be quite the martial artist. He has an extremely rare aptitude for it. What took Shampoo years to master he did in a little over a month. His technique improved significantly after mastering the Art of Focus allowing him some major improvement. He could now let off a whole series of thunderclap punches instead of just one. Though he still required prep time as well as the significant drain it causes.