[Ranma/Multiple] CTCD - Chapter One

[Fallacies]

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Previously on C-T-C-D:

Ranma gouges out Akane's heart for trying to
kill him, and then attempts to slaughter a
little old man for a perceived insult.

Comments for improvement greatly appreciated.



***
Ikebukuro, Teito
05:43 PM
***


When the young man opened his eyes, the clouds streamed gold and
orange overhead. Before his vantage-point on the rooftop, the streets
spread to the dimming horizon in the bustle of the metropolitan
twilight. The sun was a red disk, slowly sinking in the sky.

"We're here," he said.

"Stave Fifty-Second, the King of Diamonds," whispered a voice
behind him.

From his shadow there stepped moonwards a small female child clad
in a black dress of Victorian make. The crimson tresses beneath her
morning cap were still despite the breeze, and the gaze of her
cerulean eyes distant.

"Where are we at present, Ranma?" she asked, scanning the skyline.

"Somewhere close to home, hopefully," replied her companion. "The
way the city looks, I'm guessing we're in Tokyo, maybe within a
decade of Heisei Seven."

The girl approached the edge of the rooftop and gazed down into the
array of streets far below.

"Dense Akashic ambience," she noted, turning to regard her
companion with a neutral expression.  "I'll need some time in stasis to
adjust."

"I understand," said Ranma, giving her a slight nod. "In the meantime,
I'll see if can't locate analogues of the people we used to know."

"I shall awaken in forty-eight hours," she said. "Earlier, if you should
happen upon a spare supply of energy."

"I'll think of something," said Ranma. "Rest well."

With a curtsy, the girl faded from view, leaving only a trace of ozone
and a handful of handful of black down in the space she had occupied.
Absently, Ranma snatched one of the feathers out of the air. Between
his fingers, it became a card -- the Ace of Hearts.

"Ah, yes," he said, a smile breaking his solemn expression. "The
Advent of the Birds."

The card burst into flames.

"I can stop it."


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[c]asting [t]he [c]rying [d]ream
a generic ranma 1/2 multicross
by fallacies

act_1ne : [muimina hyoudai / garland]
"things that happened on september 4th"
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***
Teito Budoukan
06:30 PM
***


They looked on with a certain intensity as the spotlights trailed Son
Goku across the vast floor of the Budoukan. Said personage was --
for the moment, at least -- the nucleus about which their monotonous
lives revolved, and their dialogue was thus accordingly shaped:

"You gotta stop acting like this," said one of them, a youngish man
with a staff hat and a goatee, seated behind a monstrosity of a camera
near the edge of the stadium. "I don't understand why you have a
problem with him."

The other -- a slightly older man wearing a pair of tinted, wire-
rimmed glasses -- exhaled a plume of smoke into the empty row in
front of him, leaning back in his own chair with his arms hanging
limp over the adjacent seat-backs.

"When a fight's reduced to a matter of pitting raw power against more
of the same," he said, "it's hard to claim with a straight face that
there's any martial arts still involved. Son Goku's Tenkaichi amounts
to a little more than a buncha muscle-bound Neanderthals engaging
in a pissing contest. It ain't respectable."

"It's not as if he actively encourages people to match his style focus
and preferences."

"Doesn't prevent the younger generation from cloning his techniques
move-for-move," said the older man. "The complaint the more
traditional schools have with institutions like the Tenkaichi is
precisely that there's no emphasis on skill or diversity of technique
anymore. Tournament fighting's become just another artless spectator
sport, to their view."

Goku waved to the audience at a round of applause, smiling
obliviously. In the front row, a fat man in a sweaty Hawaiian shirt
waved back, shouting something undecipherable over the roar of the
crowd.

"You're looking at it the wrong way," said the cameraman. "When
you get down to it, Goku's just an early exemplar of the modern style.
You talk as if he's trend-setter, but he really didn't introduce anything
that wasn't there before. If the conservative schools can't keep up
with the times, it's their own damn fault."

"By that logic, nobody ever started _anything_," said the older man
curtly, dunking his cigarette into a tea-filled Styrofoam cup in the
seat beside him. "And if nothing else, this trend of yours makes for
shitty fighting. The matches all look like reruns."

They let the cheering of the crowds fill the lull in the conversation as
Goku jumped up on to the fighting platform. A bank of lights flashed
on, and found their way to the entrance opposite.

[And up against the reigning champion in the next match,] said the
announcer excitedly, [Yagami Raito, hailing from right here in Teito!]

A man in a black suit made his entrance, smirking as he locked gazes
with Goku.


***
Nerima, Teito
06:30 PM
***


*click*

[... chance he might surprise all of us here in audience today, but so
far we've found no record of him having participated in any martial ...]

"Huh," said Ranma. "Hafta look into that, I guess ..."

The faint blue light of the television flickered across the table, but
achieved little more than to bathe the room in a dim, inconsistent
glow. Son Goku's smiling, confident face reflected off the corner of a
glass shard piercing out of the side of a trash bag.

Ranma picked up a framed photograph from off a dusty counter,
careful not to cut his fingers on the shattered cover-glass. It was a
family portrait, he noted, of Soun and his three daughters on a day at
the beach. The date penned into the bottom margin was July, 1994.

"Twelve years old, probably," he said softly. "Going by the date in
the paper, she'd be eighteen this year."

With a snap of his fingers, a ghostly light-bulb appeared in the empty
socket overhead, illuminating the room. Ranma stepped around an
array of beer bottles at the foot of the table, and scanned the debris
strewn about for anything at all of use.

[... insurance against potential collateral damage,] said the television.
[The newly installed distortion fields around the platform are capable
of blocking military-grade weaponry and the majority of the ki
attacks normally ...]

Annoyed that the Budoukai was interrupting his train of thought,
Ranma sent the television a glare. The word "Mute" appeared in
neon-green text at the upper left corner of the screen.

"They can't have been gone for all that long, though," he continued,
looking down again at the floorboards next to the refrigerator.
"Somebody's still paying the electric bills."

There was a patch of dry blood on the wood.


***
Misaki Township
06:30 PM
***


In a mansion study, a sliver of moonlight cast upon the surface of a
worn oaken desk the silhouette of a young woman. Over the polished
checkered flooring just beyond the reach of the light there rolled a
basalt mist, curling and pooling against the minute irregularities of
the marble slabs.

"Report," said the woman. "And stop that."

The gas ascended from the floor, flowing into the form of a tall man
in a trench-coat. Half hidden in the shadow of his wide-brimmed hat,
his grin revealed inhumanly long canines.

"A series of low-level IPW broadcasts were detected in Ikebukuro at
roughly 1745," he said. "As the set of frequencies exhibited were
markedly different from any of the ones we have on record, we
decided to look into the matter. Recon established visual surveillance
at 1800, and observation is ongoing."

"Show me what you have," the woman ordered.

A flat surface of light lifted into the woman's frontal plane from
between two rows of tiles, rising to the veneer of the ceiling. About
the blankness, black text pixelated into existence, and a photograph
of a pigtailed young man appeared besides.

"A name to go with the face?" asked the woman.

"No matches so far, but we're in the process of searching citizen
registration. The compound the paranormal is investigating is owned
by one Tendou Soun, a martial artist of some minor renown, student
of the Chinese ki specialist Ba-Bao Zhai. Little information is
available regarding the details of Tendou's personal life, and his
current location is unknown."

"Have you established any leads on this ... ki specialist?"

The man's grin grew slightly feral.

"I traded blows with him seventy years back, and I haven't heard
from him since," he said. "Not all that shabby for a mortal, but a little
too reliant on explosives. A bit like yourself, Miss Akiha."

Akiha eyed the man, unamused.

"Don't you start," she said. "I haven't forgiven you yet for the mess
you caused last time."

There was a faint chuckle as Alucard's body dissipated.

"So much easier to get a rise out of you than I can her Ladyship," he
said, voice echoing against the walls as he vanished. "I'm off to
determine the threat of the target. Call me if there's a problem."

A full minute passed before Akiha felt it safe enough to allow herself
a sigh.

"I swear," she said, swiveling her chair to face the night sky. "The
man's habits have got to go."


***
Minato, Teito
06:36 PM
***


[ ... contestants appear to be talking. Let's cut over to the
microphones out on the platform.]

The walls of Kounan Mansions Room 302 were plain, whitewashed
plaster, but the flat's current inhabitant had gone at some length to
soften the harsh, nihilistic modernity intended by the architects. As
such, wooden boards had been installed over the grey tiling that
furnished the original floor, and a crown molding of similar material
adorned the perimeter of the ceiling. To fill the emptiness of the walls,
there were a number of feline posters taped up, as well as an audio
system for the occasional bit of J-Pop.

The occupant of the 1LK -- a Yamamura Sadako -- sat at present
holding a cell-phone to her ear amidst the pile of multicolored plush
dolls on her couch. Across the room from her, between a large Liddo-
kun doll and a Chiyo-Chichi plush, there was an old, slightly staticky
Genom television, at which she was gaping blankly.

[Look, kid,] said Goku. [I don't really plan on hurtin' you or nuthin',
but ... just in case, you wanna quit?]

"Are you even listening to me?" asked the voice on her cell-phone.
"At this rate we'll _never_ get the lines memorized."

"Yes~, Kaorin ..."

"Don't you 'Yes~, Kaorin' me, missy. If you're busy with something,
get it done and over with. I can't have you all distracted like this, you
know? Gotta get this down before next week, or Kimura-sensei's
gonna throw a fit."

Sadako focused her eyes on one of the names at the bottom of the
screen.

"Kaorin," she said. "Can you do me a favor?"

"Yeah?" asked Kaori.

"Turn on your television, and switch the channel to WHK," said
Sadako. "They're showing the Budoukai."

The phone fell silent.

[Thank you for your consideration, Mister Champion] said Yagami.
[I don't think I'll be visiting the loser's bracket tonight, though. Let's
proceed with the match as planned.]

"That isn't who I think it is, is it?" asked Kaori. "Yagami, from our
course with Kurosawa-sensei? That guy you've got a crush on?"

"I'm not imagining this, then," said Sadako, blushing a bit. She
hugged her Nekokoneko plush a little tighter. "Yagami-kun ..."


***
Teito Budoukan
06:37 PM
***


As they slowly circled each other on the platform, Goku concentrated
on feeling out the quirks of Yagami's ki pattern for evidence of power
suppression. It seemed that the boy's energies were at best far weaker
than the Kame-sennin's at his peak, and that was giving a charitable
estimate; there was nothing at all distinguishing about Yagami's aura,
besides perhaps a hint of fire.

'Why's the kid so confident, then?' thought Goku. 'He doesn't move
around like a martial artist, and his stance ...' Goku fought the urge to
roll his eyes. 'He's got his hands in his pockets, for heaven's sake!'

Deciding to end the match with a quick incapacitation, Goku instant-
transmissioned himself mid-stride to the area immediately behind
Yagami. His knife-hand passed through empty air where the boy's
neck had been less than a second prior.

"Your aim seems a bit off, Mister Champion," said Yagami, standing
at the other end of the platform.

Goku blinked, slightly stunned.

'Some sorta teleportation?' he thought. 'No, doesn't feel right. How'd
he know I was gonna strike him? I didn't telegraph my moves, so ...'
Goku narrowed his eyes. 'Can he read my mind?'

To test out the theory, Goku made a dash to elbow the boy in the
stomach. The attack missed again, but this time he caught sight of the
"technique." A few milliseconds before impact, the boy's body
suddenly blurred and faded away.

"After-images?" asked Goku aloud. "Is that how you fight?"

The boy smiled. "You overestimate me, Mister Champion," he said,
adjusting his tie a little. I'm not well-trained enough to pull off
anything that fancy."

Behind Goku, an identical voice asked: "I don't imagine you know
anything about hallucinogenic blood toxins, do you?"


***
Nerima, Teito
06:37 PM
***


The shadows across the inside of the doujou deepened and twisted.
Ranma narrowed his eyes and carefully backed himself toward a
claw-scarred wall, noting vaguely to avoid the large splinters of wood
littered about. An area of pitch black gathered at the far end of the
room, drawing darkness to its center like a vacuum nozzle put to dust.

A boot clanked down against the floorboards somewhere out of sight,
and from the heart of the cobalt vortex there emerged a man in a suit
and trench coat. In a gloved hand, he clutched a wide-brimmed hat
against his mane of black hair, and there radiated from behind his
shades a crimson glow. Once in the open, he started toward Ranma
with slow, calculated paces, grinning.

"My name," he said, "is Alucard. I'm a representative of the Special
Immigrations Unit at Foundation AEGIS."

"You here lookin' for me?" asked Ranma.

"Paranormal Identification Code #S24M," said Alucard. "I'm here to
notify you that we're forcibly enacting your deportation."

"You've got the wrong guy," said Ranma. "My name is Saotome
Ranma. I've never heard of this Para-"

There was an immense noise that tore through the room. Ranma's
eyes widened at the wisps of smoke rising from the bullet-hole beside
his head.

"I don't care who you think you are, #S24M," said Alucard. The gun
didn't waver.

Ranma frowned, but chose to remain silent in deference to the barrel
of the man's weapon.

"Does the size of my piece make you feel insecure?" asked Alucard,
smirking. "Be a good little boy and just give up."

Ranma bristled at the remark, and replied: "You wouldn't be using
that big a gun if you didn't have a few insecurities yourself, asshole."

"Contradicting brat," said Alucard venomously, pulling the trigger.
"Bon appetit."


***
Teito Budoukan
06:40 PM
***


"Poison," gasped Goku, struggling to remain upright. "You poisoned
me with magic!?"

The platform was filled with identical duplicates of Yagami Raito,
smiling and watching on as Goku attempted to regain control of his
body.

"Though it was once so-called, I assure you that my administrations
are _not_ magic," they said in unison, dispersing as if they were
made of mist.

The Budoukan was empty. Goku's shaking form stood in a lone
spotlight at the center of the darkened expanse.

"This is a hallucination," said a voice that came from everywhere. "It
is a product of your own imagination -- a waking nightmare."

From the scores of seats beyond the floor, mannequins rose from
nothingness in standing ovation, wordlessly clapping their hollow
appendages in a parody of congratulations. A decapitated corpse in a
orange training gi lifted itself over the edge of the platform, trailing a
path of blood as it slowly clawed its way toward Goku.

"Kuririn," Goku whispered.

"I'm using a type of systemized ki manipulation, the effect of which
is usually referred to as Nen," said the voice calmly. "It was devised
so to empirically categorize the assorted applications of ki observed
in Oriental martial arts. There are only around five thousand
practitioners worldwide, so it's not exactly surprising you've never
come across it before."

More corpses materialized: the Kame-sennin, Yamcha, Tenshinhan,
Chao-zu, Vegita ... and Chichi, her empty eye sockets crawling with
maggots. Goku squeezed his eyes shut, but couldn't ignore the stench
of decomposition. The mannequins continued clapping. He collapsed
to his knees.

"This is impossible," he whispered. "No one can do this."

"Though it does require a little more concentration and effort than the
average ki-blast, my technique is fundamentally identical to your
trademark Kamehameha," said Chichi's voice. "A blast of free ions is
but the simplest tangible form a quantity of ki can be forced to take."

"When did you poison me?" asked Goku, clenching his teeth.

"I haven't the slightest clue, to be honest," said the voice. "At some
point, you must have tripped the trace amounts of macroed ki I left in
my footsteps as I walked. I formatted the energy to convert and
materialize into your bloodstream as poison molecules on contact
with your aura."

"Ki mines," spat Goku, opening his eyes to a blurred image of
Yagami's face.

"You're strong, but still ultimately bound by the limits of your own
physiology," said Yagami. "The era of Son Goku is ended."


***
Nerima, Teito
06:40 PM
***


The bullet compressed and ground to a halt against Ranma's forehead,
falling away at the close of its revolution to reveal no visible damage.
As the deformed slug clinked against the floor, the skin struck by the
gunshot peeled off in a rectangle and descended in uneven arcs to the
blood pooling at the boy's feet. At rest, the slip momentarily paled
from skin-tone to white before capillary action recolored it a dark
rose.

From out of the wall, next to where Ranma's hand was, there
extended a curved spike of paper impaling Alucard through the
ribcage, entering the torso just off-center enough to puncture the
heart. Vascular fluids gushed profusely down the outer surface of the
suit, coating the silk with what appeared to be a layer of dark gloss.
Alucard's features were frozen in an expression of surprise.

"Fucking vampire," muttered Ranma under his breath. "Shouldn't
have tried backing me up against something that high in pulp."

He stumbled disoriented in the general direction of the door as if
concussed from the shot, but managed nevertheless to avoid most of
the fluid in his path. A gurgling noise from behind stopped him a few
steps from the exit, and unsurprised he turned to see the spray of
blood across the floor receding to Alucard's boots.

"You don't reek like most humans," said Alucard in a slightly
distorted voice. "At a glance, I'd taken you for an Invader. Seems I
was a bit too hasty."

Carried by the mess of blood around it, the dropped gun lifted into
Alucard's open hand, and with a slight motion of the wrist the
weapon was again cocked in Ranma's direction.

"The Invaders don't care enough about stealth to shield their presence
with ki-charged paper," said Alucard, "and as it's obvious you haven't
the ego to make a formal stand against me, I rather doubt you to be
amongst the Dead Apostles. Process of elimination says you're most
likely human. Who trained you in paper control? Pantywaist
Nakajima?"

"You talk too much," said Ranma.

"And you talk rather big for a coward who protects himself with
tissues," said Alucard. "If you had the slightest clue how to fight for
real, I wager you wouldn't be pulling parlor tricks like you just did."

Ranma cleaned out an ear with a pinky, expression betraying his
annoyance.

"If those were just parlor tricks, you wouldn't have been caught off-
guard like that," he replied. "Last I checked, you kinda died."

"I got better," said Alucard, firing again at Ranma's forehead.

The bullet hit its mark this time around, making a clean puncture
through the surface membrane with considerable force. Simultaneous
to the impact, however, the dome of the skull collapsed inward along
the trajectory of the air distortion, bursting open through the back of
the head in a cloud of shredded paper. A moment later, the body
unraveled into layers of white parchment.

Alucard stared. When the initial surprise passed, he sighed and
tapped his earpiece.

"Staff Delta to Central," he said. "Do you read?"

"Loud and clear, Delta," said the earpiece. "How'd the encounter go?"

"Decently," said Alucard. "Temporarily redesignate the subject to
human, subclass nen-user, possibly paper control. Did you get ahold
of an IPW signature?"

"Sorry, but there wasn't a repeat broadcast after the initial burst,"
replied the earpiece. "Threat classification?"

"C," said Alucard. "But just to be safe, put him under surveillance the
next time he pops up. I think he's a stave-jumper."


***
In the mountain depths,
Treading through the crimson leaves,
The wandering stag calls.
~
End Chapter One.
***


The Real Disclaimer:

This fanfic is utterly horrible. It lacks any
discernable direction or organization, and, as
is, appears to be randomly introducing
unrelated characters in string of badly-
-written, incoherent scenes flagged with
newbie-ish location/time markers.

The author is obviously an attention-seeking
hack with no skill or Voice. He shall humbly
accept any assistance that might render a ray
of hope to the future of this fic, and wishes
to thank all of those who have already
contributed.

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Crapfic Wisdom #9
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The longer the typical hero wallows in self-
pity at the abuse and injustice he supposedly
experiences, the less the gain of immense
powers at inversely proportional
accountability seems unjustified, no matter
how deus ex machina the means. This actually
amounts to the promise of divine retribution
against the hero's perceived abusers. Even if
he never gets a chance to carry out that
retribution, it's the fact that he can do it
that matters.

[Fallacies]

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Concordance 01
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1LK -
a description attributed by real estate agents and developers to one of
the most frequently encountered types of low-cost, single-inhabitant
apartments available in Japan. The acronym stands for "one bedroom,
living room, and kitchen." (Reference: none)

AEUG -
the Anti-Extranatural Union Group, a private paramilitary force
rumored to have ties with both UN-AEGIS and Anaheim-Nergal. The
group first appeared during the Greater Indochina Conflict of the
1970's, and continues its activities to this day. (Reference: Zeta
Gundam)

Akashic Record -
the ambient ki field of Earth, long cultured by the psychic
impressions of humanity. Every idea that anyone has ever had is
documented somewhere within. (Reference: Fate - Stay / Night)

Anaheim-Nergal Ltd. -
a prominent American weapons firm, specializing in military
contracts. During World War II, the participation of Anaheim-Nergal
in the Manhattan Project allowed for the development of such
innovations as the Phase Transition Engine and the N^2 explosive.
Anaheim Mechanical was founded in 1865 by a man named Edward
Rockbell. (Reference: Gundam)

Artificial Distortion Field -
a spatial distortion created through boson manipulation. Used in
automated missile defense systems around the world. AD-Field for
short. (Reference: Nadesico)

Ba-Bao Zhai -
a pseudonym used by the notorious master of the Sun-Moon Sect, a
ki user said to have driven himself to the brink of insanity in the
process of mastering his ultimate technique. He wreaked havoc
across China until shortly before World War II, and vanished
thereafter without a trace. The name Ba-Bao Zhai means, "the old
man of the eight treasures." In Japan, he is referred to as Happousai.
His true name is unknown. (Reference: Ranma 1/2)

Don Genosai -
Invader Serial #S12IG; also known as "Sylvester Genosai." A close-
combat type paranormal. (Reference: VS Knights Lamune & 40 Fire)

Dragon Balls -
a group of mythological artifacts reputed to summon a wish-granting
dragon upon collection. In reality, the legend of the Dragon Balls is a
corruption of an old Chinese tale regarding the Dragon Pearl, a red
stone said to give immortality. (Reference: Dragon Ball)

Gatekeeper -
a channeler of the Akashic ki-field, capable of tapping into simple
recorded concepts and manifesting related effects in reality.
(Reference: Gatekeepers)

Gehirn Institute -
the international bioinformatics research organization that houses the
Human Genome Project, based in Geneva, Switzerland. (Reference:
Evangelion)

Hellsing Foundation -
a private paramilitary group serving the interests of the Anglican
Church, charged officially by the Crown of England and the Council
of the Round Table with certain specialized matters of national
security, usually relating to paranormal activity. The Foundation is
one of several currently active sub-agencies of MI17. (Reference:
Hellsing)

Hunters' Guild -
a licensing service that provides an annual examination for
individuals aspiring to find employment in the intelligence
community. Those who pass are issued an internationally recognized
ID, and granted unlimited access to a certain set of benefits; if
conditions are met, they are also given a chance to learn a form of
advanced ki manipulation known as "Nen," the knowledge of which
the Hunters' Guild monopolizes. The organization was founded under
the direction of Bismarck in the mid-to-late 1800's, but has since
become an international union. (Reference: Hunter X Hunter)

Invader -
a class of paranormal; specifically, a type of inanimate relic capable
of self-replication and revision, created by a unknown Gatekeeper.
(Reference: Gatekeepers)

IPW -
Ion Plasma Waves. Prior to the 1980's, the popular culture of Japan
referred to the broadcast of IPWs as "Kai-Denpa" (weird or strange
radio waves), describing it to possess miscellaneous paranormal
properties. (Reference: Gatekeepers)

Itabashi District -
a district in the capital city of Japan, Teito, which prior to the city
replanning in 1947 extended into the district now known as Nerima.
(Reference: none)

Ki -
the class of particles which exist within the higher-order continuum
known as the Ethereal Plane, the existence of which was theorized in
the early 1800's, but not verified until the development of the Phase
Transition Engine during the Manhattan Project. Ki structures bear a
representative relationship with entities within the tangible world,
such that the modification of ki patterns in the environment can bring
about environmental change. The condensation of ki within the
Ethereal Plane causes its conversion to common matter/energy. The
ki patterns attached to the living are referred to as souls. Otherwise
known as lebenskraft, or vital energy. (Reference: none)

The Knights Iscariot -
a knightly order founded to serve the less public interests of the
Vatican, established in 1326; also referred to as "the Morticians."
(Reference: Tsukihime)

Lebenskraft -
originally, the "vital energy" said in legend to power the spells of
sorcerers. During the Second Reich, a group of German researchers
associated the term with the mysterious force -- referred to in the
Orient as "chi" or "ki" -- observed to be manipulated by Asian martial
artists for a number of purposes. The organization of their findings
was the basis of the type of ki manipulation now known as "nen."
(Reference: none)

Liddo-kun -
a mascot character created by the WHK animation staff in 1982, the
hero of a children's television series by the same name. After a run of
one season, the series was taken off the air due to a lack of popularity.
Its timeslot was taken by the phenomenally popular Mahou Shoujo
Majikaru Domiko. (Reference: Love Hina)

Mansion -
a Japanese term, used to refer to apartment complexes. (Reference:
none)

Minato -
a district in the capital city of Japan, Teito, a small section of which is
the popular tourist location known as Azabu-Juuban. "Minato" means
"harbor," but the onyomi pronunciation of the kanji is "Kou." Various
sub-districts in the area use this latter pronunciation as a part of their
name. The location often mistakenly called "Minato-Minami" by
non-Tokyoites, for example, is actually known as "Kounan" to the
locals. (Reference: none)

MI17 -
the Agency of Commonwealth Paramilitary Affairs, a secretive
government agency serving the Crown of the United Kingdom. Not
much is known regarding its role in the intelligence community.
(Reference: James Bond)

MI18 -
the Agency of Specialized Cultural Affairs. MI18 is officially an
academic research body, heavily affiliated with the British Ministry
of Education. For reasons unknown, it appears on the roster of
military intelligence agencies. Chief amongst its active sub-agencies
is the Royal British Library's Division of Special Operations.
(Reference: Read or Die)

Misaki Township -
a suburb near the capital city of Japan, Teito; the current base of
AEGIS - Far Eastern Branch. Between 1998 and 1999, a series of
bizarre deaths occurred in the region, ending with the slaughter of
Tohno Shiki, a resident high school student. The perpetrator was
never caught. (Reference: Tsukihime)

Nanban -
a Japanese term referring to the Occident. Literally, "southern
barbarian." (Reference: Ranma 1/2)

Nekokoneko -
a mascot character designed by Azuma Kiyohiko for Mediaworks Inc.
and Genom, copyright 2000. It first appeared in volume two of
"Puchi-Sami Daioh Recycle" as the animal sidekick of Mahou
Shoujo Tomato Chiyo, Jyuusai, a rival of Pretty Sammy. (Reference:
Azumanga Daioh)

Nen -
a character in Chinese and Japanese meaning "will." The word was
adopted into the West in the mid-1800's, selected by a group of
German researchers as the name of a modern, systematic approach to
ki use, heavily founded in the empirical categorization of ki
applications. Knowledge regarding the practice of Nen is
monopolized by an organization known as the Hunters' Guild.
(Reference: Hunter X Hunter)

Otousan (also known as Chiyo-Chichi) -
a mysterious mascot character whose plush dolls started appearing in
Japan late in 1998. Shortly thereafter, rumors appeared on the web
alleging the doll to be the cause of numerous unexplained paranormal
incidents. Despite heavy discussion, nothing of the sort was ever
confirmed. The owner of the copyright to the character is known only
as NHK. No other details are available. (Reference: Azumanga Daioh)

Paranormal -
an entity that at least partially demonstrates the characteristics
attributed to living organisms, but fails comprehensive biological
qualification in conventional science. (Reference: Gatekeepers)

Ryokuchuuseki -
beryl. (Reference: Rozen Maiden)

Seikigaku -
the study of vital energies, a personal interest of Tokugawa Ieyoshi,
the twelfth shogun of the Tokugawa line. In 1830, he commissioned a
small group of researchers to perform a dedicated exploration of the
field. (Reference: Yu Yu Hakusho)

Silent Moon ~Chinmoku no Tsuki~ -
a controversial horror film produced in 1985, fictionalizing a series of
true events that occurred near the Hino Jinja, a Shinto shrine in
Azabu-Juuban. In the film, a group of young girls discover
themselves to be the reincarnations of a court of demonic nobles from
beyond the "Tsukiyo no Mon," a gateway that opens into the
afterworld once every two thousand years. Though the plot implied
lesbian relationships, the film was a cult classic, and widely regarded
to be the best Japanese horror movie ever created. (Reference: Silent
Hill)

Stave -
a regional notation used in interdimensional theory. The term was
adopted from an obscure Nordic myth regarding the relative locations
of Midgard and Valhalla in a primitive imagining of the multiverse,
then referred to as the "Sea of Chaos." (Reference: Slayers)

Teito -
the imperial capital of Japan, renamed from Oo-Edo in 1864.
(Reference: none)

Tenkaichi Budoukai -
an international mixed martial arts tournament held roughly every
three years at the Budoukan in Teito, Japan. As of the year 2000, the
tournament has been held 28 times. The reigning champion is a
Chinese national by the name of Sun Wu Kong. In Japan, he is
known as "Son Goku." (Reference: Dragon Ball)

Tokyo -
a renaming proposed for the city of Teito in 1864, rejected for
administrative reasons. (Reference: none)

UNAF -
the United North American Federation; the governmental body that
controls the entirety of the North American continent, founded in the
aftermath of the German-Japanese occupation of the United States of
American during World War II. (Reference: Gundam)

UN-AEGIS -
the United Nations Advanced Extranatural Global Intercept System, a
foundation created to address incidents of extranatural incursion and
various forms of antagonistic paranormal activity. (Reference:
Gatekeepers)

UN-SEELE -
the United Nations Strategic Elite Extranatural Limitation
Engagement, a security council charged with the execution of
military countermeasures in the event of a major extranatural
incursion. The current chairman is a German by the name of Kiel
Lorenz. (Reference: Evangelion)

Wombat -
any of several stocky burrowing Australian marsupials of the family
Vombatidae, somewhat resembling a small bear and feeding mainly
on grass, leaves, and roots. (Reference: none)

ZAFT -
the Zodiac American Freedom Troop, a terrorist organization with
the intent to overthrow the United North American Federation.
(Reference: Gundam Seed)

Zero Hour -
the hypothetical extinction event of humanity. (Reference: none)


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Cast List & Series of Origination
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(by order of mention)

[Die_GEBURT_Der_TRAGODIE]

Saotome Ranma /// Ranma 1/2
"Sylvester" (Genosai) /// Le Cirque de
Karakuri (???)
Tendou Akane /// Ranma 1/2

[act_1ne]

Girl /// (???)
Son Goku /// Dragonball
Tenkaichi Sr. Staff /// Original Character
Tenkaichi Cameraman /// Original Character
Fat Man /// Original Character
Tenkaichi Announcer /// Dragonball
"Yagami Raito" /// Death Note (???)
Tendou Soun /// Ranma 1/2
Tendou Kasumi /// Ranma 1/2
Tendou Nabiki /// Ranma 1/2
Tohno Akiha /// Shingetsutan Tsukihime
Alucard /// Hellsing
Happosai /// Ranma 1/2
Yamamura Sadako /// The Ring
Liddo-kun /// Love Hina
Chiyo-Chichi /// Azumanga Daioh
Kaori /// Azumanga Daioh
Kimura-sensei /// Azumanga Daioh
Kurosawa Minamo (Nyamo) /// Azumanga Daioh
Nekokoneko /// Azumanga Daioh
Kuririn /// Dragonball
Kame-sennin /// Dragonball
Yamcha /// Dragonball
Tenshinhan /// Dragonball
Chao-zu /// Dragonball
Vegita /// Dragonball
Chichi /// Dragonball
Donny Nakajima /// Read or Die
AEGIS Communications /// Original Character

[Concordance 01]

"Edward Rockbell" /// (???)
Tokugawa Ieyoshi /// Real Person
Wombat /// Fanon

[Dexie Oblivion]

Alucard made a Monty Python reference. @_@

I'm...stunned...

Nice start though. ^^  Keep it going.