However...  This is Ranma 1/2.  You know, there's _gotta_ be a
pressure
point that locks Shimeru into their base gender.  A "cure", so to
speak.

If there is, then why has Dr. Tofu found it or used it for Ranma?

Because Ranma's condition isn't biological.  Pressure points don't 
affect magic, except in the way Cologne's did.  The Shimeru 
transformation, on the other hand, is a natural function of their 
bodies.

I am looking for a way to make "curing" a Shimeru theoretically 
possible, but more complicated than simply surgically removing the 

gland 

that produced the hormones that activate the change. Anybody have an 
idea?

	Well, first off to prevent the surgery option have the hormone be 
produced by the Pituitery or Penial glands, which aren't exactly 
removable, or by the genetals for alternate reasons not to remove them.
	Oh well, there's a few tricks, Naturally there's the medication 
approach.  Medicine would work by either being a chemicle which 

resembles 

the hormone enough to fool the gland producing it but without causing 

the 

change itself, or some other sort of drug which inhibited the 

production 

of the hormone.  Of course there would be the problem of dosage which 
could gradually need to increase, and if they stoped taking it the 

gland 

would tend to overproduce the hormone in question.  (Either causing 

them 

to change with dramatically less emotion required, or to just change 

and 

stay changed for a couple of days.)
	And as for magic overriding biology, that'd work too, and the 
complications and potential complications of magic should be obvious 
enough.

Interesting. I could also claim that a Shimeru's systems go haywire when 
the hormone is absent (sort of like menopause, but far more severe). 
Ranma will be secretly trying to find a way to "cure" Akane of her 
transforming, so I need some cure that can be used as a literary device. 
Any other ideas?

Phil

prohackr@hotmail.com


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