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Although the central idea of the story is not one that ''Ranma ½''{{'}}s creator Rumiko Takahashi might ever have chosen to explore, Haynie takes it and runs with it directly into exactly the same kind of comedic and chaotic territory that typifies the best manga chapters.
Haynie wrote <s>eighteen</s> seventeen and a half chapters of ''[[Girl Days]]'' between April 1999 and November 2002. He also wrote a short fic set in an [[Alternate Universe]] of the ''Girl Days'' verse, ''[http://ffmlsearch.inklesspen.com/message/show/1186904443.M979406P12296Q84972.euterpe A Girl Days Spamfic]'',{{Dead link}}
''Girl Days'' can be found [https://www.fanfiction.net/s/345691/1/Girl-Days here].
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* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Ranma wears one over her fighting gear (see ''Hell-Bent for Leather'', below) to hide it until it's time for a proper reveal.
* [[Baka]]: One of the wizards of Pillow Creek has been taking Japanese lessons, and shouts "Fred no Baka!" when they punish Fred Yerfburger for trying to take over the world (with, it is implied, a [[Hyperspace Mallet]]).
* [[Barely-There Swimwear]]: Ranma's preferred sunbathing bikini, which the narrator describes as looking like something worn by the women in [[Frank Frazetta]] paintings. Nabiki's bikini is nearly as small.
* [[Battle Aura]]: Just about anyone who gets angry manifests one. ''Especially'' Ranma during her period. Or if someone has [[Berserk Button|Cheese Whiz]] near her. [[From Bad to Worse|Or both.]]
* [[Beach Episode]]: Chapter 6.
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* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Subverted — as a result of his Girl Days training, ''both'' Ranma and Akane get a better handle on communicating with each other, and their usual level of angry exchanges drops markedly. In fact, the overall tension level between Ranma and all the fiancées drops until they routinely hang out together in one big gang.
* [[Berserk Button]]: It requires her to be on her period to respond to it, but Ranma doesn't take well to being called a pervert. And because of the bizarre influence of [[Those Two Guys|her friends Hiroshi and Daisuke]] on her sexual education, Ranma has permanently associated Cheese Whiz with perversion and will react as strongly — if not ''more'' so — if it's even ''mentioned'' in her presence, let alone actually present.
* [[The Bet]]: During a visit to an Italian restaurant, Kuno bets that Ranma cannot eat all the food that she has ordered (several diners' worth), and volunteers to pick up the tab for Ranma's entire party if he loses -- which he does.
* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: Ranma wins a bet with Nabiki in chapter 15.
* [[Bi the Way]]: Hilda the Chinese Viking.
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{{quote|"... You think we should follow her to see if there's something wrong?"
"No, I think we should follow her because I want to get a closer look at how her tush moves under that chainmail. Rowr."}}
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Almost literally in the case of one particular ancestor of the Kunos, Itsuno Kuno, who wore a rabbit strapped to his head at the Battle of Sekigahara Plain, but
* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: One of Ranma's hobbies throughout this fic.
* [[The Cameo]]: Fred Yamada, who comes from a different ''Ranma'' fic entirely. See the Shout-Out listing on the [[Girl Days/Trivia|trivia page]].
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* [[Oblivious to Love]]: In chapter 8, Akane quickly reasons that Ryoga accidentally asked Ranma on a date thinking for some reason she was someone else — but can't quite figure out ''who'' Ryoga might have meant to ask instead.
* [[Obsessed with Food|Obsessed with Herring]]: Sven the Chinese Viking.
* [[Oh Crap]]:
** See also ''Right Behind Me'', below.
* [[One Steve Limit|One Fred Limit]]: Averted with Fred Yerfberger, rogue wizard, and Fred Yamada, maker of the best American-style burgers in Nerima.
* [[Original Character]]/[[God Mode Sue]]: Kenchuro Tojo from chapter 14 is a deliberate parody of this kind of character, which was very common in ''Ranma'' fic at the height of its popularity — Haynie explicitly says so in an author's note appended to the end of the chapter.
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"Ranma get paid selling stick-boy. Then Ranma get paid again, take stick-boy back."}}
* [[Playboy Bunny]]: Nabiki's outfit for the costume party that starts in chapter 11. Chosen because no one would expect her to wear something like that, because it would attract the eyes of the businessmen she hoped to network with at the party, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|because it was cheap]].
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Throughout chapter 15, Ranma insists a fight is in the offing and prepares for it, even though everyone else tells her she's wrong. She wasn't.
* [[The Prophecy]]: Seized by a sense of foreboding, Cologne attempts in chapter 11 to scry the future using [[Crystal Ball|the Crystal of Leng-Khao]]. Its immediate response is [[Sophisticated As Hell|"YOU'RE SCREWED."]] Her attempts at clarification merely result in emphasis on how screwed they are. When Mousse asks ''why'' they're screwed, the Crystal provides entire ''paragraphs'' of detailed information on who, what, why, and how.
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* [[Sobriquet]]: In chapter 14, Ranma refers to Tatewaki Kuno (who dubbed himself "the Blue Thunder" early on in canon) as "the Chartreuse Flatulence of Furinkan High", which is mutated by Shampoo into "the Green Fart". Within 48 hours it had become a game in which Kuno was addressed with multiple absurd sobriquets in the form "the (color) + (object)". (Ranma's favorite is "the Tartan Electric Massage Unit With Sunlamp Attached".) It reaches the point that even Kuno got confused as to what his preferred sobriquet was, and demanded he be addressed as "the Green Fart".
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: In her fury at being denuded and groped by Happosai, Kodachi simply gives up on her elegant speech pattern when trying to express herself.
* [[Stalking Mission]]/[[Date Peepers]]: The fiancées each independently take it upon themselves to follow and watch over Ranma and Ryoga's date in chapter 7. Naturally, [[Hilarity Ensues]]. Ultimately subverted by Akane, who feels vaguely ill at ease over the entire idea and bails on it almost immediately, only to have Ranma and Ryoga end up in the park where she's been thinking things over; panicking, she hides and watches them, and then defends them from a misunderstanding by Shampoo and Ukyo.▼
▲** And then there's Cologne's very simple "Oh, shit" when she feels Fred Yerfburger cast his spell.
▲* [[Stalking Mission]]: The fiancées each independently take it upon themselves to follow and watch over Ranma and Ryoga's date in chapter 7. Naturally, [[Hilarity Ensues]]. Ultimately subverted by Akane, who feels vaguely ill at ease over the entire idea and bails on it almost immediately, only to have Ranma and Ryoga end up in the park where she's been thinking things over; panicking, she hides and watches them, and then defends them from a misunderstanding by Shampoo and Ukyo.
* [[Standing in the Hall]]: Ranma and all three fiancées end up doing this on Shampoo's first day attending Furinkan, when she gets into an argument with a teacher over the lack of female emperors in Japan's history.
* [[Statuesque Stunner]]: Hilda is six-foot-three, ''before'' the helmet.
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