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{{quote| ''In the cold rain he hid in shadow, watching droplets ripple across the pond. He scanned the horizon, but sheets of rain and dense jungle concealed his pursuer from him, and he from her...''}}

''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5513459 '''Identity]''''' is a ''[[Ranma ½]]'' [[fanfic]] by [[User:Muphrid]]. Just days [[Continuation|after the manga's ending]], matters in Nerima blow up spectacularly, and Ranma, nursing wounded pride, heads back to China to seek his cure. As always, fate doesn't seem to want Ranma to get rid of his girl side just yet, for walking Jusenkyo with him is a group of [[Ki Attacks|Ki Sorcerers]]--an ancient tribe who suppress their desires and emotions to keep their magic in check. The problem? The "Sieve" they use to keep their magic contained just failed...right on the day Ranma defeated Saffron, and tradition in the tribe holds that the person who sated the last Sieve should and must become the next.

* [[Alien Geometries]]: The "Maze" the Sorcerers project to isolate their village and, later, to enclose Jusenkyo. Once you enter, you can't leave. If you keep walking away, you just end up in the same place you started. Ranma even hops atop a tree to look out and see'ssees himself recursively like the reflection from two facing mirrors.

{{quote| '''Kohl''': You mean to tell me you didn't invade the Chambers of Magic's Coupling last night?<br />

{{quote| '''Wuya''': Everything in this room moves according to my will. [[Haruhi Suzumiya|Perhaps we should kill you and see how Saotome Ranma reacts?]]}}

** All of the bird [[Theme Naming]] is an indirect reference to similar naming in ''[[Noein]]''.

{{quote| '''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Stephen]] [[Stephen Hawking|Hawking]]''': I'd also like to play poker with Einstein and Newton on the Starship ''Enterprise'', but that too would be difficult, would it not?}}

{{quote| '''Sindoor''': The Sieve has failed. You know this. I knew it when I felt the [[Star Wars|great disturbance]] [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling|in the ripples]], the eddies of ki that flow through this place.<br />

{{quote| '''Ukyo''': You bitch! ([[Armor-Piercing Slap|Slap]]) ...don't you get it? He told me off for you! You sick little witch who never appreciated all he did! As much as I'd like to rip your tongue out for what you said to him, I can't! Even now, wherever he's going, he's doing it for you.}}

* [[Theme Naming]]: allAll the Sorcerers have two names--a name for the body they were born in, which is a Chinese word for a bird (''Wuya'' is crow, ''Bailu'' is egret). Their other name, the one for the bodies they're cursed in, is invariably a cosmetic or a substance used in cosmetics (Kohl, [[wikipedia:Sindoor|Sindoor]], Tilaka).