"After the Storm" (Ranma 1/2, Akane/Ranma/Ryoga)

[terajk]

Before/after working on my white_lotus assignment for the day, I write wee Ranma 1/2 fics, apparently. This started out as a fill for my kink_bingo wildcard ("vanilla kink"), but got too long.

Title: After the Storm
Fandom: Ranma 1/2
Rating: G, no content notes
Ships: Akane/genderqueer!Ranma/Ryoga
Word count: 160+ 
Summary: "It's for, like, a second and then nothin.'"
Note: For melannen 

“No room. Move over, jerk.”

Ranma says “atashi” as a girl now, and sometimes as a guy. And right now, with her head on his shoulder and her arm across his chest, she’s not telling the truth. Not only is she so much smaller, but there’s a whole third of bed on her side. Ryoga elbows her in the ribs.

Akane comes in from the bath, smelling of strawberries.

When he’d told her he was P-chan--as in, confessed he had something to show her and then had Ranma shove him into the lake--she'd screamed and cried and kicked him into the trees. But Ranma said her anger was “like one of your punches. It’s for, like, a second, and then nothin.’” (Ryoga made a mental note to break his arm later.)

He can’t look at her in her yellow pajamas, so pretends to be asleep.

“Are you ready for beddy-bye, Ryoga-chan?” she whispers, and kisses him on the nose.

Comments

[sholio]

Awww, this is super-cute! :) I'm really impressed at how much of the general weirdness/queerness between the characters you've managed to pack into so few words. I think my favorite bit is that Akane still relates to Ryoga as P-chan in bed, and how easily that could have been done in an infantilizing way (in the bad way, I mean *g*), but doesn't come across like that at all.

[terajk]

Thank you so much! I'm very fond of genderqueer!Ranma. Sie still has hir "Boy" onepiece--several of them, in fact--because he likes to go swimming even when he doesn't feel like a girl. Or she'll wear them even when she does, especially the pink ones with Hello Kitty and the "Boy" written in sparkles.

I think my favorite bit is that Akane still relates to Ryoga as P-chan in bed, and how easily that could have been done in an infantilizing way (in the bad way, I mean *g*), but doesn't come across like that at all.

Oh, good. I'm glad you thought so. I was worried, especially with the "beddy-bye" bit, but I was thinking of it like an inside joke or a secret between them that Ranma wasn't a part of.

[untonuggan]

Nice! Very sweet. I really like the interactions that happen between Ranma and Ryoga that are so full of action (mentally) even though they're just sitting on the bed.

More!

[terajk]

Thank you!

More!

Of course! Akari has to get in here :D

[eggcrack]

This is so sweet! <3

[terajk]

Thank you! <3