History Fanfic / VoyagesOfTheWildSeaHorse

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:Shampoo, a powerful ActionGirl in her own right, eats a Zoan Devil Fruit in Chapter 6, giving her {{Animorphism}} and related superpowers based on her Fruit's specific creature -- the rabbit.]]

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Besides the attack by Willy's pirate crew and Ranma's fight against Gasparde, none of the other fights between the crews in the race are shown besides brief glimpses that imply that several of them were indeed epic.

* LoveDodecahedron: In classic Manga/RanmaOneHalf tradition, although the actual network is tweaked here. Ranma is pursued by Kodachi, Ukyo, and Shampoo, without overtly reciprocating to any of them, although he has confessed to finding them physically appealing. At the same time, those three girls suspect Nabiki may also have designs on Ranma, although Nabiki herself is adamant that she does ''not'', especially because she doesn't want to provoke their jealous ire -- ironically, Ranma does admit that he thinks Nabiki is attractive at one point, which greatly shocks her because she always presumed he either had no attraction to girls at all or that she just wouldn't stand out compared to his usual harem. Which of course leads to Nabiki starting to develop her own low-key attraction to Ranma. Eventually, all four girls agree to a truce where they're all free to pursue Ranma without interference.
** It's lampshaded that the absence of Mousse or Akane actually helps the group's dynamic a lot, as their jealousy-fueled antics would amplify the tension, essentially causing everybody present to act ''worse''.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: Ranma, Ryoga, Shampoo, Ukyo, and Kodachi are definitely ''not'' the strongest fighters in the Manga/OnePiece world, but do sit fairly comfortably around the Paradise tier of combatants. As they began their adventures in the East Blue, this means they quite easily CurbStomp the initial opponents they face... which starts to make them too confident.
** Miriam lampshades this when Ranma is baffled as to why his female form has a higher bounty than his male form despite the Marines having been aware of the latter for longer, pointing out the East Blue's reputation as the weakest of the Blues.

* SurferDude: The White Foam Pirates are a whole crew of them, and the first pirates Ranmna and company encounter upon entering the Grand Line. Save for [[CasanovaWannabe sleazy pickup "artist"]] the Reefster, they are all very laid back and friendly with the Kamikazes, happily competing with them during the Grand Octopree and the Dead End Race and sharing in their antagonism against the World Government.

* CannibalismSuperpower: This story goes with the common {{fanon}} amongst fans of ''Manga/OnePiece'' that a person or creature can inherit a Devil Fruit's power by [[EatenAlive consuming its current host entirely]]. [[spoiler:The BigBad of Chapter 31, Nosferatu, was a bacteria that gained the powers of the Human-Human, Model Type: Child Zoan by infecting and consuming its former host. Nabiki almost inherits the fruit in turn when she [[EatTheEnemy devours Nosferatu]], but because she lacks the "special body" that allows her to withstand the strain of two Devil Fruits, the backlash nearly kills her. She only survives by vomiting up her entire blood reserve, purging it from her system and allowing the fruit to reincarnate.]]

* EatTheEnemy: [[spoiler:Nabiki dispatches the child-bacteria Nosferatu in Chapter 31 by swallowing it whole and digesting it alive.]]

** Nabiki is the first to do it when she devours an enormous serving of desserts out of wounded pride, thus proving herself to be NotSoDifferent to the martial artists she travels with.

* HumanityEnsues: [[spoiler:The BigBad of Chapter 31 is a bacteria that [[CannibalismSuperpower absorbed a Human-Human Zoan by infecting and assimilating its former owner]]. Sadly, this gave the resultant creature, called "Nosferatu", human-level intelligence, but no greater drives than those of its original bacteria self: to feed and grow by infecting others.]]

** [[spoiler: The mouths on Nosferatu's palms are inspired by those possessed by Morbius in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries''.]]

* TooManyMouths: [[spoiler:When Nosferatu attacks Nabiki, not only do does its mouth gain MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily, its ''eyes'' turns into smaller, equally toothy mouths, and its palms and fingers develop multiple small, lamprey-like sucking maws.]]

** In Chapter 28, Lilith cheerfully says of Thunderhead Bay that [[Film/ANewHope You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."]]

*** Ranma insults Vito by declaring that [[WebAnimation/DragonBallZAbridged he looks like an extra from the kind of porno where even the cameraman gets tested afterwards]].

** Some of the dialogue spoken by the infected is taken from the Hybrids in ''VideoGame/SystemShock2''.
** The Kamikazes encounter a whip-wielding doctor named "Simon van Richten", confirmed by WordOfGod to be a blending of Simon Belmont from ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'' and Dr. Rudolph van Richten from ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}''.
** Dr. van Richten uses bottles clearly modeled after the Holy Water from ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'', though the blue flames they emit have a paralytic effect on the infected, similar to the ones in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4Remake''.
** [[WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss Mrs. Mayberry]] is a past teacher of Kodachi.
** The RatMen in the ancient ruined ship are called [[TabletopGame/Warhammer the Skryre]].
** The ancient ship is called the Demeter, an homage to the doomed ship that brought Dracula to England in Bram Stoker's novel.
** During the epilogue, the mayor of Wisborg describes the Kamikaze Pirates as "the morning sun that has vanquished the horrible night", a slightly tweaked homage to ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsRevenge''.

* TooManyMouths: When Nosferatu attacks Nabiki, not only do extra jaws appear in its mouth, additional mouths appear on its palms and replace its eyes.

** In Chapter 31, after eating [[spoiler:Nosferatu]], Nabiki belches a cloud of green vapors which turn into an ashy residue.

* CannibalismSuperpower: [[spoiler:Nabiki]]'s Devil Fruit theoretically allows her to steal other Devil Fruits by consuming the user completely. However, doing so nearly kills [[spoiler:Nabiki]] as her body can't handle the strain of two Devil Fruits, surviving only due to purging her body of the second Fruit.

* EscalatingBrawl: In Chapter 28, a fight between a fishmonger and another stallkeeper explodes into a brawl of three dozen people beating each other with rotten fish.

** The RatMen in the Sky Ship are called [TabletopGame/Warhammer[ the Skryre]].

* RatMen: The Skyre are a Mink tribe which separated from the rest of their race long ago to live on the White-White Sea. They're a shy people, so rather than trading with the sky-islanders they prefer to sneak onto their islands and search through their refuse for anything they need.

* BizarreBelching: In Chapter 16, after eating a toxic mushroom called an Erlin's Jest, Miriam belches a cloud of foul-smelling black mist that withers any plants it touches. Then she undergoes a MushroomSamba. Likewise, in Chapter 24, she belches up a cloud of rainbow colored mist after she eats Porche's hypnotic gas-loaded baton.

* ASimplePlan: The heist in Chapter 18 is simple in principle: Sneak into the party disguised as nobles, identify any loot, then steal whatever they can and run once the planted bombs explode and distract the local guards. Unfortunately, they didn't know Chaser Hibiki, one of the few Marines who could identify Ranma, was assigned to the Commodore they planned to rob. Combined with said Commodore nearly killing Ranma, the Kamikazes barely escape.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: The giant Ahab is missing an eye, with some ''nasty'' scars indicating how, and he [[spoiler:is willing to kill the giants who were willing to ''listen'' to his deranged goals in an insane plan to drum up morale to rescue Dorry and Broggy]].

* AdaptationExpansion: In canon, Buggy managed to escape from the Marines after his capture in Loguetown and sailed the Grand Line but the details aren't revealed. Ranma and his crew actually witness how he managed his escape: Luffy accidentally radicalized some of the Loguetown populace, who decided to attack the Marines escorting Buggy to the prison ship. He and his crew used the confusion to break free and escape.
* AdaptationalBadass: In his canonical appearance in ''Anime/OnePieceTheMovie'', Eldrago is basically Buggy the Clown 2.0; a NormalFishInATinyPond who terrorizes the East Blue because of his Devil Fruit power, which he can only use in its most basic form by screaming [[KamehameHadoken Energy Blasts]], and is no threat for our heroes. In this fic, he's notably stronger and [[AdaptationalIntelligence smarter]], making his presence in the Grand Line actually believable. He's honed his Devil Fruit skills to the point he's unlocked a second trick; [[RecoilBoost flying on his own screams]] in the manner of Sean "Banshee" Cassidy from Marvel's ''ComicBook/XMen''. His intelligence shines through in that outfits his hired mercenaries with transponder snails so he can stay in contact with them, successfully ambushes Ranma's crew before they can make landfall on Warship Island, and is even able to recognize and identify the sea mirage that makes the Lost Island effectively invisible, a feat that only Nami achieved in the anime canon. [[spoiler:In his final battle with Ranma, Ranma observes that Eldrago is easily around Ryoga's level of toughness, and Ranma is ultimately forced to use the Hiryu Shoten Ha to defeat him.]]

* AdaptationExpansion: In canon, Buggy managed to escape from the Marines after his capture in Loguetown and sailed the Grand Line but the details aren't revealed. Ranma and his crew actually witness how he managed his escape. Luffy accidentally radicalized some of the Loguetown populace who decided to attack the Marines escorting Buggy to the prison ship. He and his crew used the confusion to break free and escape.

* BlackTieInfiltration: In Chapter 18, the Kamikazes infiltrate a party a Baron is throwing to celebrate both his birthday and his promotion to a Commodore in the Navy by simply pretending to be nobles from the "Black Rose Kingdom" and their entourage. Since there are easily thousands of islands in the Grand Line alone, many unaffiliated with the World Government, they manage to get into the party without incident.

* NoodleIncident: Miriam and Harumi's date in Thunderhead Bay somehow resulted in a massive fire. They don't explain exactly what happened, only mentioning a few bits of the encounter like an inexplicable flock of angry geese and tossing a pyromaniac clown into a booze cellar.

** In Chapter 28, Unhygienix from ''Franchise/{{Asterix}}'' is a fishmonger in Thunderhead Bay who insists on sourcing all his fish from an island two weeks away rather than from local fishers. He's more or less paid to keep his stall open because the fights over his rotten fish are great entertainment.

* BizarreBelching: In Chapter 16, after eating a toxic mushroom called an Erlin's Jest, Miriam belches a cloud of foul-smelling black mist that withers any plants it touches. Then she undergoes a MushroomSamba.

* SkinshipGrope: After Nabiki [[spoiler:eats her Devil Fruit]], the girls strip down for a communal bath. Shampoo notices that Nabiki's breasts have seemingly increased in size and starts feeling them to confirm this.

* ThanksForTheMammary: In Chapter 14, Ranma wakes up to discover that Shampoo has taken advantage of their respective transformations and has literally buried her face into Ranma's cleavage to use them as cushions. When Ranma first tries to wake her up, Shampoo instead tries to bury herself in Ranma's cleavage, forcing the GenderBender to fish her out.