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 Lady MystraTopic: Sense of Direction...Magical, Mental or other...
Is Ryouga's sense of direction caused by...Magic-Like a Family curse...A demon's curse, divine judgement, ** off a magic user Mental-A mental abnormality...tumor, or some other mental problem Other-Problems with the magnetic fields that surround the earth What do you think....? | #1 Jan 04th 2006, 10:41pm | |
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Ryo-Wolfthere is no scientific way of explaining it, let me put it that way. Ryoga's sense of direction is completely absurd and disobeys the common laws of physics and simple geography. He has a tendency to overshoot destinations by ridiculous margins. When He stopped the boar, he was 500 miles south of Nerima. When he is next seen, he is 500 miles NORTH of nerima. He traveled 1000 miles by foot in under a week. Ryoga has aimed for Hokkaido and hit Hong Kong before, which involves crossing the Sea of Japan. He even ended up in moscow while out buying groceries with the use of the Kinjakan. I don't care how bad your sense of direction is or how fast the Kinjakan goes, you can't end up in the capital of Russia when you started from the Bayankala mountain range in china without some supernatural means of getting around. Personally, I think his direction sense is a subconscious ki technique similar to the Instant Transmission of Dragonball Z that runs in his family. A blood line trait, for those of you who are Naruto fans. Without realizing it, Ryoga teleports around the planet. This constant use of ki throughout his life would also explain his plentiful ki reserves and the way he can set off so many Shishi Hokodans without succumbing to exhaustion. | #2 Jan 05th 2006, 12:06am . Edited Jan 05th 2006, 12:08am | |
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DavrosIt seems to get worse as time goes on too for some reason. He apparently managed to attend school up till the point he became obsessed with Ranma and that would have been bloody difficult if he'd been pulling those extreme overshots. Same for following Ranma to China and getting the training he must have had at some point. I think that would go with your idea of it being accidental teleportation. As he gets stronger the accidental teleports get further and further and his sense of direction gets worse and worse. Makes sense to me anyway. |
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Tim81182I agree, it's got to be some kind of teleportation. I really like how it's dealt with in Journey, and Ryoga turns out to be the great, great, great grandson of a God and the reason he gets lost is that he simply doesn't know how to control his teleportive abilities. |
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Ryo-WolfVasey's got a point. It does make sense if his direction sense progressively got worse. Can you imagine raising a child with a direction sense that bad? It would be a miracle that Ryoga reached adulthood if he'd crawl out of his crib and end up in the next district. The progressive increase of severity also fits in with my theory. Since as Ryoga uses the technique more and more, his ki reserves get bigger and bigger and he gets better at it. So not only would he be better at performing the teleportation, but he'd have more energy and could put more power behind it. The more power he puts behind it, the further he goes. No wonder we never see Ryoga's parents. They've been performing the technique for so long they must be able to head out for groceries and end up in london. | #5 Jan 06th 2006, 10:13pm . Edited Jan 06th 2006, 10:16pm | |
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Lady MystraI agree with your conclusions....It does make sense...But in the end if Ryouga or his family don't find a way to remove or control what is happening...They will die a lonely death...Ryouga more so...because with his Jusenkyo curse he can die even easier then if he was still just human...In the end Ryouga has it alot worse then most people would like to admit...Make's me think if he already know's his fate....| #6 Jan 07th 2006, 12:25am | |
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DavrosImagine if you infected Happosai with that problem. He'd end up on the moon! |
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Ryo-WolfI don't know. Ryoga's never ended up in the middle of the ocean or in a volcano or anything. I'm pretty sure he isn't able to teleport to a place that would immidiately kill him, such as outer space. Same would go for Happosai. Though I have to say, Happosai gaining Ryoga's direction sense would suck for women everywhere. No panty would be safe! | #8 Jan 07th 2006, 12:35pm | |
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Sean the MetamageWhoah, great explanation! It does explain how Ryoga could have gone to school when a boy. However, it does mean that his parents have a way to control this 'ability', as they must have taken car e of him when a baby, and they seem to return home more often than Ryoga. |
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DavrosHis parents might not use martial arts training to strengthen their chi though.| #10 Jan 19th 2006, 10:52am | |
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TaramoorRyoga's sense of direction. or lack thereof, seems to be based entirely on how funny it would be to the current story if he got lost. Example: In the rhythmic gymnastics storyline he's able to go from the dojo, to the furo inside the house, then BACK to the dojo without getting lost. However, in the Hot Springs Race... well... the whole thing is pretty nuts regarding Ryoga's sense of direction, but the shot of him and Ukyo at the starting line having tried to go opposite directions is one of my favorite sight gags in the series. | #11 Jan 20th 2006, 12:42pm | |
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JSBI feel his sense of direction is based on how important it is for him to be somewhere. For any challenge he shows up late. For anything that really doesn't concern him, the Ryuguenzea storyline(I think thats how you spell it, probably wrong) He wasn't really needed, but showed up anyway, if he wasn't there, things wouldn't have been much different. As for another Idea, he just shows up just to make Ranma's life worse at certain times. The Hot springs race he and Ukyo won one second before Ranma and Akane did. Those are about the only two reasons I could think of, but his sense of direction isn't really explainable. | #12 Jan 27th 2006, 12:55pm | |
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 petalsofpainHey is there more fics of that kind? I just liked Journey a bit to much not to ask...| #13 Feb 02nd 2006, 3:38pm | |
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Keri McVeanI agree with the teleportation theory, although that doesn't really answer the question... what causes it? I favor the family curse theory, because both his parents have the problem. It makes sense that marrying into a family could possibly make you subject to the family curse. But it could be some kind of mutant gene that both parents happen to have. Unlikely, but so is everything else in the Ranmaverse. I do think that the problem developed at adolescence, and progressing in stages. I think that at the time that Ranma and Ryoga went to school together it was just the bad sense of direction. As he got older and the powers/curse developed further, he began teleporting, so to speak. Not quite sure teleporting is the right word though, but I don't know what else I would call it.| #14 Feb 06th 2006, 5:38pm | |
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ShadowBakaSamaI think that several thing combine into this horrible sence of direction. For one I think Ryouga may be dyslexic or even non-iconographic, thus his difficulty with maps and street signs, throw in a short attention span and his obsessions with Ranma and Akane, shyness, stubbornness, lack of knowedge of geography, and apply the uncertanty theory of Shrodinger's Cat to a lost Hibiki, if no one can see him, then his position is indetermanant. Maybe "Where the Hell am I now!" is an incantation to random teleport spell to within hearing distance of another person. | #15 Mar 10th 2006, 1:33am | |
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PurpleMoon3I think he subconciously drill's tunnels (miniature wormholes maybe?) in reality when he get's upset, hence he was able to attend school till he met Ranma who speacializes in pressing people's buttons.| #16 Sep 08th 2006, 6:47am | |
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