Ranma Saotome
- Bare-Fisted Monk: Whilst Ranma can use weapons, his Saotome School Anything Goes style primarily emphasizes unarmed combat.
- In a Single Bound: Thanks to his Super-Strength, Ranma is capable of leaping ridiculous distances. In chapter eight, he shows off by leaping approximately seventy-to-eighty feet straight up whilst carrying one opponent before supplexing them into the ground.
- Strong and Skilled: What makes Ranma so deadly compared even to many of the monsters and planar denizens of Sigil is that he combines Super-Strength with a lifetime's training in the martial arts and a natural instinct for combat, allowing him to apply that strength with devastating effect. He even kills a rakka, a crazed cannibalistic Giant Woman, with one precisely aimed strike.
- Super-Strength: Ranma's strong enough he can lay out giantkin with a couple of good blows.
- Super-Toughness: Ranma's durable enough that he's incredibly hard to put down. In chapter eight, he takes a sucker punch from a verbeeg, a kind of fey ogrekin many times stronger than a regular human, and basically shrugs it off.
- The Worf Effect: Despite being Strong and Skilled, Ranma's still actually growing into his full power as a martial artist, so when he's confronted by the more massive, mystical or monstrous foes, even he can't always win in a straight-up brawl. A glabrezu nearly takes him down due to its resistance to unmagical attacks, whilst when confronted by a fully grown adult blight dragon, he doesn't even try to fight the giant flying reptile that is both a physical powerhouse and an archmage.
- Worf Had the Flu: That said, if he really needs to, expect him to find some way to compensate and come back to achieve an ultimate victory.
Nabiki Tendo
- Breath Weapon: As a half-blight dragon, Nabiki is capable of breathing entropic black flames.
- Draconic Humanoid: After the events of chapter 7, Nabiki becomes a half-dragon, gaining scaly hands and feet, horns, a serpentine tail, and vestigial wings.
- Fusion Dance: Chapter 7 sees her accidentally merge with the dragon Elizabeth Witherblook when a spell goes awry.
- Ordinary High-School Student: Nabiki is the only "normal one" in the initial quartet of party members, having no martial arts training or superhuman physical abilities.
- Ship Tease: Whilst her engagement to Ranma was originally part of a scheme to get back at Akane and teach her to value the engagement more seriously, Nabiki slowly starts to warm to the idea of maybe making it for real. She admits to herself she finds Ranma attractive in chapter five, and in chapter eight she outright flirts with him.
- Took a Level in Badass: Zigzagged after the Fusion Dance, whereupon Nabiki gains access to a Breath Weapon and can technically cast spells — or, rather, Elizabeth can cast spells through her.
Shampoo
Ukyo Kyonji
Elizabeth Witherbloom
A juvenile blight dragon from the world of Albion, heir to the Witherbloom family and desperate to escape the tyrannical control of her emotionally abusive mother. So desperate that she blackmailed Ranma and his adventuring party into letting her join them to escape to Sigil. A pity that it didn't quite work out as planned...
- Abusive Parents: Her mother was cold, oppressive and domineering. She wouldn't even let Elizabeth go to her own birthday party, and her true draconic name roughly translates as "Worm that was lucky to be born".
- Black Magician Girl: She's a decently powerful sorceress with a racial affinity for the schools of Evocation, which revolves around blowing things up, and Necromancy, which is the magic of killing things and reanimating the dead.
- Fusion Dance: A botched casting of a high-level spell intended to let her possess Nabiki for a time so she could be smuggled away from her abusive mother results in her merging with Nabiki instead.
- Interspecies Romance: There are subtle hints that she's attracted to Ranma Saotome, despite the fact he's a human and she's a dragon.
- Our Dragons Are Different: She's a "Blight Dragon", which is a homebrewed addition to the obscure Arcane Dragon family, which only appeared in Dragon Magazine.
- Shrinking Violet: Picture Fluttershy as a dragon and you've kind of got Elizabeth's personality in a nutshell.
- The Unpronounceable: "Elizabeth Witherbloom" is something she uses to interact with people because it's easier to say. Her real name, taken from an article on draconic name-building in Dragon Magazine, is "Daerevthot'thalunabal Durglothtor", which roughly translates as "Worm that was lucky to be born" Witherbloom.
