[Yeah he never once considered that Trunks is named after clothing. Or that the rest of Trunks' family are all just underwear. Or that Piccolo was an instrument. Or that Saiyans are all just vegetables. Don't send him down that rabbit hole.]
[That's... an interesting curse, one that changes your physical appearance from a man to a woman or vice versa. He'll be happier not thinking about the deeper implications of that. There's a lot for his science to unpack there.]
How'd you end up with a curse like that? Did you upset an ancient wizard? Or did a wish you made go poorly? Or is it a bloodline trait?
My old man dragged me to a training grounds with all these springs. The oaf didn't bother learning more about it in advance outside of it sounding cool, so he didn't know it was cursed. If you fell into any of the springs, you become whatever drowned in the water whenever you're doused with cold water. Pop got panda, I got girl.
Took the words out of my mouth. [That's. Not what he meant probably, but she's going to move on, walking on-screen to the kitchen to start boiling water in a tea kettle.] I've learned how to deal with it though.
[Plop down on the counter. If she fits, she sits.]
Point is, you've only gotta worry about teaching one Ranma how to fly.
Right. [Gohan nods. The situation's kind of confusing, but there being only one Ranma does make things simpler, at least.] And I know this Ranma's already pretty experienced with martial arts!
So, first things first... [He really wasn't sure where to begin with teaching how to fly. Does he just... Take Ranma into the wilderness somewhere and abandon them there?]
Umm... You know about ki control, right? How much do you know?
[Goten's inherent ability to make anyone smile with anything he says must run in the family. Could also just be her skills being acknowledged. Both's a fair guess.
If abandoning him in nature was the easiest way to learn how to fly, then Ranma would've already learnt how to eons ago.]
Just the fundamentals. I know how to project it around me and make it cold, channel it into an attack, store things away with it... [Invert it to become borderline invisible and unperceivable goes unmentioned. The less people learn about a cheap trick like that, the better.] That sorta stuff. Pop's got a better hold on it than I do, so if you're asking if I can do the crazy techniques he and Mr. Tendo can do like make themselves giant, that's a bit too advanced for me.
[Cause clearly, ki works the same in every universe, right?]
[Gohan blinks rapidly and confusedly as Ranma lists off ki techniques. Such techniques are not completely unusual to Gohan, as he's seen all sorts of wild abilities even in his short life. But he'd expect things like that from someone more like Piccolo, not a human...]
Umm... Right...
[People truly are wondrous, aren't they?]
A-anyway! Flight's a pretty basic technique compared to all of that, so it sounds like you have a good grasp on the fundamentals already.
[Ranma opens her mouth, closing it as the kettle near by begins whistling and blowing steam from the spout. The grabs hold the handle, lifts, and pours the boiling water over herself like it's an everyday occurrence. In the span of a second, Ranma grew back to the average-heighted raven-haired boy Gohan had called his master.]
Uh-uh. Not after the first couple of times. Boiling water doesn't do much to me anymore besides feeling like I just took a hot bath.
[Really, anything to do with burning like fire doesn't affect him much. He wonders if it had anything to do with the Phoenix Pill he had to claw out of the old mummy's grasp. It's in the name, and helps regulated his body's sensitivity to heat back to basics. Wouldn't surprise him if it pretty much boosted his tolerance to fire and all things scorching.]
[That's some serious tolerance to be able to shrug off scalding hot water like that. Though whether it was a good thing to feel pain from something like that is up for debate. Wouldn't burns still happen even if you don't feel pain from it?]
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The names being the same weren't a dead giveaway to you?
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I thought it was just a coincidence. It's not uncommon for two people to have the same name? I know two people named Trunks back home!
[Never mind that they're technically the same person, but in Gohan's mind they aren't.]
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[Beat.]
Like the chest or swimwear?
[Not the weirdest naming convention she's heard tbh.]
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[Yeah he never once considered that Trunks is named after clothing. Or that the rest of Trunks' family are all just underwear. Or that Piccolo was an instrument. Or that Saiyans are all just vegetables. Don't send him down that rabbit hole.]
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Forget it. [She shakes her head.] Back on topic, yeah, Ranma and Ranma are one and the same. It's a curse I got back in my world.
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[That's... an interesting curse, one that changes your physical appearance from a man to a woman or vice versa. He'll be happier not thinking about the deeper implications of that. There's a lot for his science to unpack there.]
How'd you end up with a curse like that? Did you upset an ancient wizard? Or did a wish you made go poorly? Or is it a bloodline trait?
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[All reasonable guesses tbh tho.]
My old man dragged me to a training grounds with all these springs. The oaf didn't bother learning more about it in advance outside of it sounding cool, so he didn't know it was cursed. If you fell into any of the springs, you become whatever drowned in the water whenever you're doused with cold water. Pop got panda, I got girl.
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[There are a bunch of things he could say about it.]
...Kind of lame?
[seriously, what a weird curse to get. it's not even targeted to Ranma specifically!]
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[Plop down on the counter. If she fits, she sits.]
Point is, you've only gotta worry about teaching one Ranma how to fly.
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So, first things first... [He really wasn't sure where to begin with teaching how to fly. Does he just... Take Ranma into the wilderness somewhere and abandon them there?]
Umm... You know about ki control, right? How much do you know?
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[Goten's inherent ability to make anyone smile with anything he says must run in the family. Could also just be her skills being acknowledged. Both's a fair guess.
If abandoning him in nature was the easiest way to learn how to fly, then Ranma would've already learnt how to eons ago.]
Just the fundamentals. I know how to project it around me and make it cold, channel it into an attack, store things away with it... [Invert it to become borderline invisible and unperceivable goes unmentioned. The less people learn about a cheap trick like that, the better.] That sorta stuff. Pop's got a better hold on it than I do, so if you're asking if I can do the crazy techniques he and Mr. Tendo can do like make themselves giant, that's a bit too advanced for me.
[Cause clearly, ki works the same in every universe, right?]
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Umm... Right...
[People truly are wondrous, aren't they?]
A-anyway! Flight's a pretty basic technique compared to all of that, so it sounds like you have a good grasp on the fundamentals already.
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Mhm. That should be good enough, right?
[Ranma opens her mouth, closing it as the kettle near by begins whistling and blowing steam from the spout. The grabs hold the handle, lifts, and pours the boiling water over herself like it's an everyday occurrence. In the span of a second, Ranma grew back to the average-heighted raven-haired boy Gohan had called his master.]
Where do we begin?
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[Sorry, Ranma, he's easily distracted and he just watched you dump boiling hot water on yourself.]
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[Really, anything to do with burning like fire doesn't affect him much. He wonders if it had anything to do with the Phoenix Pill he had to claw out of the old mummy's grasp. It's in the name, and helps regulated his body's sensitivity to heat back to basics. Wouldn't surprise him if it pretty much boosted his tolerance to fire and all things scorching.]
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[That's some serious tolerance to be able to shrug off scalding hot water like that. Though whether it was a good thing to feel pain from something like that is up for debate. Wouldn't burns still happen even if you don't feel pain from it?]
You're seriously tough, Master Ranma.