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Are you over 18? Twice over.
Do you have any other characters in game?: Hikaru Aozora and Claire Ryland.
Who invited you?: N/A.
Character Name: Nabiki Tendo
Canon: Ranma 1/2
Canon Point: Post-Episode 160 of the 1989 anime.
Age: 17 at series start. Maybe 18 at my canonpoint? They’re on Time Passes But No One Has Birthdays Cartoon Time.
History: The middle of the three Tendo sisters and unfortunately from the 80's (the new Netflix anime goes so far as to make Ranma 1/2 explicitly a period piece), Nabiki Tendo didn't get much of an allowance from the quasi-retired, chronically irresponsible Soun Tendo after the passing of her mother and so took her finances and the finances of the household into her own hands.
When she was 17, she was informed that the son of a family friend, Genma Saotome, would be coming to marry one of the Tendo sisters and so secure the Anything Goes Martial Arts dojo and the Tendo legacy. Then Ranma actually arrived, as Ranma-chan, who was physically female - as verified by Nabiki poking her in the boob, and to the consternation of all involved.
Nabiki's younger sister Akane tried to reach out to the girl, sparring with her, and they were on the cusp of becoming friends... until Akane walked in on Ranma's male form in the bath, and everything went to hell.
Nabiki was the one to suggest that Akanetake one for the team become betrothed to Ranma on the grounds that "you hate men, and he's half woman so he's perfect for you." Somehow this was quietly accepted by everyone in both families except Ranma and Akane.
Ranma Saotome, either through happenstance or because of dubious bargains made by his father Genma Saotome, quickly became a magnet for rivals and suitors that threatened the stability (and budget) of the Tendo home and dojo.
First there was Tatewaki Kuno, a dimwitted blowhard from an old noble house and frequent target of Nabiki’s scams, who had a crush on both Akane and Ranma’s female form and decided to make that their problem. Then there was Ryouga Hibiki, whose resentment of Ranma for his part in getting cursed to become a piglet when splashed with cold water led him to the dojo, and Akane adopting his piglet form as a pet. Then there was the murderous Chinese Amazon, Shampoo, who crashed through the walls to try to murder Ranma’s female form - then woo his male form and murder the hypotenuse in Akane. Then there was Kuno’s deranged sister with a crush on Ranma who cheats at rhythmic gymnastics by injuring the opposition, Kodachi Kuno… And the secretly female okonomiyaki cook Genma betrothed to Ranma for a quick meal, Ukyo Kuonji…
Look, there are a million weirdoes trying to kill and/or kiss Ranma, most of whom crash through the walls rather than use the door, and Nabiki is tired of calling the carpenters to patch the holes they leave.
Ever since then she has never ceased manipulating and scamming Ranma and almost anyone else outside the family for her personal gain. The rest is history. More than 160 goddamn episodes of it.
Is this character an AU? What type?: I am taking her from the end of episode 160 of the anime, after the revelation that Ranma's mother Saotome Nodoka had him trapped in a pact to commit suicide if he was less than a Man Among Men. While Nabiki here isn't exactly an AU, I'm using this event as a spur to her reevaluating Ranma's role in her and her sister Akane's life, allow her some introspection, and to kick off a dramatic arc in this game that she otherwise might not have if I was playing her strictly as the manga, in particular, portrays her: as an unrepentant and unredeemable grifter.
Personality: Nabiki is defined by her bottomless avarice. She never has enough money and is loathe to spend her own scant allowance, instead bilking anyone and everyone around her for a quick 1000 yen (though to be fair that’s 80’s yen, which could buy a week’s groceries for one or a good restaurant meal.) She once sold candid photos of Akane training along with some of Ranma-Chan walking around topless to Kuno, and was not above indulging his delusion that Ranma and Ranma-Chan were different people to maintain the grift.
About the only people who are off-limits to pump for cash are her sisters, Akane and Kasumi, who she is fiercely protective of (in the anime. In the manga, she’d even bilk Kasumi, the sweetheart who took over homemaking for the Tendos - which is a bit too ruthless for my pretendy funtimes!).
What does she spend that money on? Luxuries, mostly - she has a childish fondness for ice cream, has a remarkable 80’s fashion game, and is often seen lounging in her room reading the latest manga as she does her leg exercises. But she’ll also support the family - she springs for dinner for the family when Akane blows up the kitchen trying to make curry, and it’s implied that she quietly handles repairs to the home and dojo after Hurricane Ryouga blasts through it.
Throughout all of this, she maintains a cynical if cheerful outlook, always cracking wise with a bit of dry humor at the absurdity surrounding Ranma and Akane. She sarcastically refers to Kuno with the affectionate diminutive honorific “-chan”, brilliantly localized as “Kuno, baby!”, and when she finds someone she has genuine affection for you bet she’ll call them “babe” too.
As mentioned, I'm using her realization that Ranma was trapped in a toxic relationship - one that is, for sure, both treated for laughs and appropriately horrifying - to make her realize the ways in which she's been mistreating Ranma are not fair to him, and start to cautiously move towards being a better person. Likewise, I've found in my TDM threads that she's got a bit of a complex about not being able to help out in the kind of bullshit combat situations that threaten to occur any time anyone brings their beef with Ranma into the room; if Akane, heir to the school of Anything Goes Martial Arts, can't stop them without Ranma's help, what hope does she have in a fight?
Powers and Abilities: Nabiki is great at handling money and managing household expenses - far better at it than Soun Tendo, at any rate - and an absolute master manipulator and con artist, squeezing every last drop of cash out of Kuno and Ranma at the slightest provocation. Her willpower was canonically enough to overcome a telepath's mind control. She's an athlete who exercises regularly and is in great shape, though none of this translates to any combat skill; she's worthless in a fight. She's also a talented singer, if her performance during the Christmas OVA was intended to be digetic.
I am extrapolating from this that she is okay at sewing - why send something to an expensive tailor for the work of a minute? - but not great at cooking, because why bother to learn when Kasumi is willing to, or Kuno will spring for pasta and ice cream to pump her for information about the Pig-Tailed Girl?
Inventory: Nothing but the clothes on her back and the cash and cards in her wallet.
Sample: From the latest TDM!
When presented with a choice, is the character more likely to stick with tried and true methods? Or make something new up on the fly? If it works, Nabiki is not inclined to fix it.
What is more important to your character, preserving the past or forging a future? She wants a future for herself, one where she isn't just fetching coffee for a man half as smart and a fraction as competent.
How does your character influence their own story? What about the stories of others? Nabiki was previously a foil, a spur for hilarity to ensue to other people. In game, she’ll do that, but may also be financing the teams doing the actual fighting, given the chance - or bilking the villains for every last red cent.
Are you alright with your character’s canon being used as a Recommended Reading?: Go nuts!
Player Contact(s): taliaellib on discord,
Are you over 18? Twice over.
Do you have any other characters in game?: Hikaru Aozora and Claire Ryland.
Who invited you?: N/A.
Character Name: Nabiki Tendo
Canon: Ranma 1/2
Canon Point: Post-Episode 160 of the 1989 anime.
Age: 17 at series start. Maybe 18 at my canonpoint? They’re on Time Passes But No One Has Birthdays Cartoon Time.
History: The middle of the three Tendo sisters and unfortunately from the 80's (the new Netflix anime goes so far as to make Ranma 1/2 explicitly a period piece), Nabiki Tendo didn't get much of an allowance from the quasi-retired, chronically irresponsible Soun Tendo after the passing of her mother and so took her finances and the finances of the household into her own hands.
When she was 17, she was informed that the son of a family friend, Genma Saotome, would be coming to marry one of the Tendo sisters and so secure the Anything Goes Martial Arts dojo and the Tendo legacy. Then Ranma actually arrived, as Ranma-chan, who was physically female - as verified by Nabiki poking her in the boob, and to the consternation of all involved.
Nabiki's younger sister Akane tried to reach out to the girl, sparring with her, and they were on the cusp of becoming friends... until Akane walked in on Ranma's male form in the bath, and everything went to hell.
Nabiki was the one to suggest that Akane
Ranma Saotome, either through happenstance or because of dubious bargains made by his father Genma Saotome, quickly became a magnet for rivals and suitors that threatened the stability (and budget) of the Tendo home and dojo.
First there was Tatewaki Kuno, a dimwitted blowhard from an old noble house and frequent target of Nabiki’s scams, who had a crush on both Akane and Ranma’s female form and decided to make that their problem. Then there was Ryouga Hibiki, whose resentment of Ranma for his part in getting cursed to become a piglet when splashed with cold water led him to the dojo, and Akane adopting his piglet form as a pet. Then there was the murderous Chinese Amazon, Shampoo, who crashed through the walls to try to murder Ranma’s female form - then woo his male form and murder the hypotenuse in Akane. Then there was Kuno’s deranged sister with a crush on Ranma who cheats at rhythmic gymnastics by injuring the opposition, Kodachi Kuno… And the secretly female okonomiyaki cook Genma betrothed to Ranma for a quick meal, Ukyo Kuonji…
Look, there are a million weirdoes trying to kill and/or kiss Ranma, most of whom crash through the walls rather than use the door, and Nabiki is tired of calling the carpenters to patch the holes they leave.
Ever since then she has never ceased manipulating and scamming Ranma and almost anyone else outside the family for her personal gain. The rest is history. More than 160 goddamn episodes of it.
Is this character an AU? What type?: I am taking her from the end of episode 160 of the anime, after the revelation that Ranma's mother Saotome Nodoka had him trapped in a pact to commit suicide if he was less than a Man Among Men. While Nabiki here isn't exactly an AU, I'm using this event as a spur to her reevaluating Ranma's role in her and her sister Akane's life, allow her some introspection, and to kick off a dramatic arc in this game that she otherwise might not have if I was playing her strictly as the manga, in particular, portrays her: as an unrepentant and unredeemable grifter.
Personality: Nabiki is defined by her bottomless avarice. She never has enough money and is loathe to spend her own scant allowance, instead bilking anyone and everyone around her for a quick 1000 yen (though to be fair that’s 80’s yen, which could buy a week’s groceries for one or a good restaurant meal.) She once sold candid photos of Akane training along with some of Ranma-Chan walking around topless to Kuno, and was not above indulging his delusion that Ranma and Ranma-Chan were different people to maintain the grift.
About the only people who are off-limits to pump for cash are her sisters, Akane and Kasumi, who she is fiercely protective of (in the anime. In the manga, she’d even bilk Kasumi, the sweetheart who took over homemaking for the Tendos - which is a bit too ruthless for my pretendy funtimes!).
What does she spend that money on? Luxuries, mostly - she has a childish fondness for ice cream, has a remarkable 80’s fashion game, and is often seen lounging in her room reading the latest manga as she does her leg exercises. But she’ll also support the family - she springs for dinner for the family when Akane blows up the kitchen trying to make curry, and it’s implied that she quietly handles repairs to the home and dojo after Hurricane Ryouga blasts through it.
Throughout all of this, she maintains a cynical if cheerful outlook, always cracking wise with a bit of dry humor at the absurdity surrounding Ranma and Akane. She sarcastically refers to Kuno with the affectionate diminutive honorific “-chan”, brilliantly localized as “Kuno, baby!”, and when she finds someone she has genuine affection for you bet she’ll call them “babe” too.
As mentioned, I'm using her realization that Ranma was trapped in a toxic relationship - one that is, for sure, both treated for laughs and appropriately horrifying - to make her realize the ways in which she's been mistreating Ranma are not fair to him, and start to cautiously move towards being a better person. Likewise, I've found in my TDM threads that she's got a bit of a complex about not being able to help out in the kind of bullshit combat situations that threaten to occur any time anyone brings their beef with Ranma into the room; if Akane, heir to the school of Anything Goes Martial Arts, can't stop them without Ranma's help, what hope does she have in a fight?
Powers and Abilities: Nabiki is great at handling money and managing household expenses - far better at it than Soun Tendo, at any rate - and an absolute master manipulator and con artist, squeezing every last drop of cash out of Kuno and Ranma at the slightest provocation. Her willpower was canonically enough to overcome a telepath's mind control. She's an athlete who exercises regularly and is in great shape, though none of this translates to any combat skill; she's worthless in a fight. She's also a talented singer, if her performance during the Christmas OVA was intended to be digetic.
I am extrapolating from this that she is okay at sewing - why send something to an expensive tailor for the work of a minute? - but not great at cooking, because why bother to learn when Kasumi is willing to, or Kuno will spring for pasta and ice cream to pump her for information about the Pig-Tailed Girl?
Inventory: Nothing but the clothes on her back and the cash and cards in her wallet.
Sample: From the latest TDM!
When presented with a choice, is the character more likely to stick with tried and true methods? Or make something new up on the fly? If it works, Nabiki is not inclined to fix it.
What is more important to your character, preserving the past or forging a future? She wants a future for herself, one where she isn't just fetching coffee for a man half as smart and a fraction as competent.
How does your character influence their own story? What about the stories of others? Nabiki was previously a foil, a spur for hilarity to ensue to other people. In game, she’ll do that, but may also be financing the teams doing the actual fighting, given the chance - or bilking the villains for every last red cent.
Are you alright with your character’s canon being used as a Recommended Reading?: Go nuts!
