Clothes Make The...
Clothes Make The... is a Ranma ½ continuation fic, written by Nicholas "Nightelf" Leifker, Katrina Halbred, and Ichinohei Hitomi. The story is complete at 12 chapters plus one very-short sidestory.
Ranma decides to cross one last barrier he'd set in his mind, and when almost everybody else was out of the house, transforms to his female form and tries on women's underwear. However, the "almost" happens to be Kasumi, and after getting him to Please Put Some Clothes On — women's clothes — the two of them have a long discussion about self-identification. The next morning, when Ranma is thrown into the koi pond, he doesn't come up and complain; instead, Akane has to rescue him. No, her. In an eerie echo of the "Am I Pretty?" episode, Ranma has apparently suffered another bout of personality-changing head trauma, only this time it's turned her into a Tomboy lesbian convinced she has a curse that turns her into a boy -- or so she and Kasumi want everyone to think.
In this persona Ranma attends school as a girl, and thus begins Ranma's exploration of gender identity and self-identity. Some take it well, some take it poorly, and only Kasumi knows the truth: that is it Ranma's deliberate choice to do this. And Ranma isn't the only one to explore her self-image: other people in the household end up learning things about themselves as well.
Read it at FanFiction.net.
- Crowning Moment of Awesome: Nabiki uses the Chinese Amazons' laws against them.
- Crowning Moment of Funny: Ranma, in female form, gives Kuno the "let's just be friends" talk.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Male!Akane and Female!Ranma.
- Transgender:
- Ranma is diagnosed by Dr. Tofu as having gender dysphoria.
- Nabiki knows some people who would really like to get some Jusenkyo water.
- Nabiki and Akane both get doused with water from the Pool of Drowned Man by the end of the story.
- Traumatic Toggle: Suggested more than once as a way to get the "real" Ranma back. Kasumi puts paid to that idea with common-sense medical information, warning the fathers that they are more likely to kill Ranma than "cure" her if they try it.
- Wedding Day: The climactic final scene of the story, when Ranma, in a Fairytale Wedding Dress, makes her way down the aisle to where Male!Akane is waiting for her.
- Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: Nabiki arranges a date for Akane and Ranma in a lesbian bar/restaurant.
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