Ranma + Nodoka

Name: Ranma Saotome Sex: Female (transform into a guy with hot water and a girl with cold water) Age: 16 Height: 4 feet 9 inches Weight: 105 lbs. Family: Genma Saotome (father), Nodoka Saotome (mother) Nationality: Japanese Education: Drop-Out, limited Middle School and thus can do basic math, read and write, but that is it as Genma told Ranma that school was not important, and Ranma has to focus on his martial arts training. Personality: Ranma is actually a mixture of nice, clean-cut, frank, energetic, indecisive, stubborn, picky, stingy and sly, and has stated that she finds flawless characters rather boring. Under normal circumstances, he is fairly carefree and generally friendly to those around him. Sexuality: Although Ranma turns into an attractive woman, he has a very strong heterosexual male gender identity, such that even while female himself. Ranma's masculinity is so strong that they prefers to wear boxer shorts under their clothes even when they don feminine garments such as dresses. History: Ranma was born to Genma and Nodoka Saotome, and at age two, Genma took Ranma away on a long training journey far away from their childhood home, and spend most of their time traveling across all of Japan, Korea and China over the next fourteen years. The last training stop was Jusenkyo the Cursed Springs Training Site, which resulted in both Ranma and their father, Genma getting cursed to transform into another form. Ranma transforming into a beautiful redhead girl with cold water and their father transforming into a large panda with cold water. Genma decided to ensure nothing else goes wrong to for them both to return back to Japan. Returning back home, resulted in Ranma enduring the chaos that is known as Nerima, where Ranma learned that their father engaged them without informing them until the last second to one of the daughters' of their father's friend, which resulted in a series of events as more fiancées arrived thanks to their father's less than legal actions, and those fiancées brought unwanted rivals.

Name: Ranma Saotome Sex: Female (transform into a guy with hot water and a girl with cold water) Age: 33 (looks to be in her mid to her late twenties) Height: 4 feet 11 inches Weight: 115 lbs. Family: Genma Saotome (husband), Ranma Saotome (son) Nationality: Japanese Personality: Nodoka wants nothing more than to see her son, to whom she has not spoken since he was two years old. She is not the only one who has been affected by the ordeal, however. Ranma has tried on numerous occasions to talk to her as a man, but Genma repeatedly foiled his efforts. For Nodoka, her glimpses of Ranma as a male have been fleeting at best, usually because he was pursuing some other objective at the time, or attempting to escape her. Nodoka, while kind and slightly old fashioned, has a very strange set of principles. She seems to despise perverts, but is willing to allow and even encourage Ranma to perform perverted acts such as peeping on girls, play with women's underwear and even have him spy on Akane while she takes a bath. It is explained, however, that she sees this as the way her son can "prove" his manliness. Her actual view of a true epitome of masculinity seems to lie much closer to the savage, imposing, independent and semi-militaristic Ryu Kumon. Appearance: Nodoka is a gentle, attractive woman, who very closely resembles Ranma's female form, noticeable after Nabiki comments on how similar they look during Nodoka's first visit to the Tendos. Nodoka has shoulder-length hair (medium brown in the anime) that she wears up and typically dresses in a kimono. She always carries around a long bundle, the family katana covered by a wrapping. History: Before departing on their training journey, the only way Nodoka agreed to let Genma take Ranma from her was to promise that he would train Ranma to be "a man among men." If Genma were to fail in this regard, both he and Ranma would commit seppuku (Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment). Nodoka agreed to this and also that she would be the kaishakunin (beheading assistant) for her husband and son, hence the need to always carry the katana. She is then supposed to join them in death after their own lives are taken. Because of this promise, Genma and Ranma are terrified of showing their true forms to Nodoka and for her to find out about their curses, although Genma is more afraid than Ranma. To prevent her from finding out, they hide in their cursed forms, with Ranma taking the alias of "Ranko" and pretending to be Akane's cousin from the countryside, and Genma assuming the identity of "Mr. Panda" and pretending to be Ranko's pet. Nodoka saw Ranma from behind as a male while he was with Akane but threatened him as she thought that he was trying to molest her. However when he used the Tatami Flip technique on his mother to escape, she realized that it was her son and excused his behavior as signifying his manliness. It was arranged for the two to meet face to face with Genma kept from interfering, but Happosai slipped a sailor outfit onto Ranma, which Nodoka then saw him in from behind. She slipped a man's death robe onto him to prepare for his seppuku, but he escaped. (She was confused as to why Ranma fled, to which a sarcastic "isn't it obvious" was given) The family then decided that to prove his manhood Ranma would deliberately peep on Akane while she was bathing, which Akane agreed to, while Nodoka would watch. She at first thought that Ranma was after Akane's clothes when he slipped and crashed into the laundry hamper but then saw that he was actually disappointed that Akane was not naked as he had expected, but wearing a bikini. Reassured that Ranma was a man, mother and son would have been reunited then had not Happosai again interfered with his Happo Ring of Fire after being held back from peeping on Akane. Nodoka doused the bombs with a showerhead, causing Genma to slam Ranma through a wall with a sign. Although she then saw Ranko, the name "Ranma" from Mr. Panda's sign was on Ranko's forehead, leading Nodoka to start to suspect that they were the same person. Ironically, it was Genma who brought about the reunion between his wife and son through his attempts and machinations to steal the Saotome family treasure. However, she decides she won't force them to commit seppuku so long as Ranma stays interested in girls and continues to fight like a "man amongst men." After this, Genma and Ranma live for some time in her house, until it is destroyed (in an unshown scene) by Shampoo, Ukyo Kuonji and Kodachi Kuno, who are trying to take what they believe is an engagement ring. She and her family then move back in with the Tendos.