For other uses of The Bet , see The Bet The Bet was a fan fiction scenario devised by Gregg Sharp and later adopted by other authors.
The Bet [ ]
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Back in mid- to late-1998, Gregg "MetroAnime" Sharpe released a multitude of mini-fics to the FFML and elsewhere, and put to us the question of which of them should be continued into their own series, which should be dropped, etc. The eventual Winner of the Bet, Featherbrite's Tale is widely known and has a great following. [ 1] ”
The first few stories were devised prior to the scenario (Wishcraft: The Ring of Toltiir Neutral Ground 3 ½'s Company Dragon's Destiny The Art Neutral Ground establishing the concept of two deities placing a bet on the possible outcome of Ranma Saotome 's life after a minor change. The name "The Bet" was then tagged to the stories Neutral Ground and Dragon's Destiny on June 30th, 1998 .[ 2] Featherbrite's Tale [ 3]
Featherbrite's Tale (82)Grand Tour (57)Ranma Muyo (56)A Different Art (48)Civil War (32)Purple-Haired Mountain Majesty (32)Crippled (24)Timeline [ ] The Bet Fanfics [ ]
Date
Title
Contestant
Setting-the-Scene-fic
30/Apr/98
Wishcraft: The Ring of Toltiir (non Bet entry)
The Original Bet-fic
30/May/98
Neutral Ground Rumiko Takahashi
The Winning Bet
03/Oct/98
Featherbrite's Tale Titania
Sharp's Other Entries [ ] "Aftermath" - Sharp's Post-Bet Bet-fics [ ]
Date
Title
Contestant
19/Oct/98
Man Among Men The Four Horsemen
23/Oct/98
Ragnarok Ares ' unofficial entry
29/Oct/98
Devil ½ Hel
27/Nov/98
Spring of Drowned Hero Loki
05/Dec/98
Angel ½ Hel
09/Dec/98
A Very Scary Bet Grey's entry fixed by Toltiir
12/Jan/99
Fourth Option Hel
16/Jan/99
Apprentice Option Hel
23/Jan/99
Highwaymen (Unknown)[ 4]
14/Feb/99
Four Wishes Gone Wrong TBC
22/Feb/99
Fist of Orion Mixed bets
14/Mar/99
Musk Ranma Ahriman
02/Apr/99
Nekokenesis TBC
14/Apr/99
Genma Ascendant Uatu , the Watcher of Worlds (actually Toltiir's entry)
07/Jun/99
Ranma ⅓: Source of Pride Isis and Bast 's entry
28/Jun/99
The Gemini Effect Shadow6865
20/Jul/99
Force of Impact Edema
21/Jul/99
Spring Forward! Fall Back? Edema
21/Aug/99
Rune with a View (Unknown)
25/Aug/99
Lovestruck Abbot and Costello
22/Sep/99
When You Wish Upon a Sword Grey's professional entry
Sharp's Other Bet-fics [ ]
Date
Title
Contestant
Non-Ranma ½ Bet-fics
17/Aug/98
Ah, Megumi-sama aka Megumi's Big Day [ 6] Bast
17/Aug/98
Setting Moon: Tsuki Ga Shimizu [ 7] Lord Talon
22/Aug/98
Rei of Hope [ 8] (Unknown)
03/Oct/98
Children of an Alien God [ 5] (see Children of Jurai )
Addenda
19/Jun/98
The Art NOT (none )
17/Sep/98
Paradigm Lost [ 9] Lian'Ascot
25/Sep/98
X-Scape Nerima [ 10] Tezuka , God of manga
21/Nov/98
"The Bets that Didn't Make it Fic "
(entries by Varros, Astrild , Skuld and other unknown entities)
Fics Adapted from Sharp's Bet-fics [ ] Other Uses of the Original 1998 Scenario [ ] Second Bet [ ] A "Second Bet" was begun by Zac Wendler in 2001 . Entries were divided into 'fusions' and 'crossovers' .
Date
Author
Title
Notes
Scene-setting fics
25/Apr/01
Zac Wendler
A Second Bet (non Bet entry)
16/May/01
Zac Wendler
The Opening Bet (fusion - 'fusions' first place winner)
The Winning Bet
Foxgrad
The Sorcerer (fusion - overall winner)
Entries [ ]
Date
Author
Title
Notes
23/Jun/01
Luke Green
Teenage Mutant Martial Artists (crossover)
30/Jun/01
Merc-for-Hire
Ranma and Hobbes (fusion)
30/Aug/01
Deep Quote
Silent Water (fusion)
10/Sep/01
Alex D. White
Ai No Senshi Wild Honey (crossover)
08/Oct/01
Zac Wendler
Roshi's Story (crossover - 'crossovers' third place winner)
07/Dec/01
Tannim Murphy
Lone Dragon (crossover - 'crossovers' first place winner)
17/Dec/01
William F. Rose
Into Dreams (crossover)
27/Mar/02
Rei Inverse
Infertia's Son (crossover)
25/Jul/02
Dave Menard
Totems (crossover)
04/Oct/02
Dave Menard
Aoi Ikazuchi - The Legend of Blue Thunder (crossover)
04/Oct/02
Dave Menard
Mavericks (crossover)
22/Nov/02
QuickSilver Knight
eXtreme Measures (crossover - 'crossovers' second place winner)
Nathan Huss
Aberrant Martial Arts (fusion)
TBC
Ayeka Muyou! (fusion - 'fusions' second place winner)
TBC
Convoy to Nerima (fusion)
Black Dragon
Freaking Out (fusion - 'fusions' third place winner)
TBC
The Lost Bet (crossover)
Foxgrad
My Two Dads (crossover)
Foxgrad
Ranma Palantir (crossover)
Foxgrad
A Starlite in Nerima (fusion)
TBC
TransRanma (crossover)
Ranko's Bet [ ] "Ranko's Bet" was run in 2005 on the Temple of Ranma's Sailor Senshi Seifuku forum.
Entries [ ]
Date
Author
Title
19/Jul/05
WarGiver
Forbidden
06/Aug/05
Thomas Greenslade
Dreams Left Unopened
16/Aug/05
The DCG
Sailor Jurai
21/Feb/06
migele
Senshi, Onsen People and Ranma
22/Feb/06
Peter Gallagher
Power of the Senshi
TBC
Ranko, Master of the Clow
TBC
River Bonds
TBC
The Silent Master
TBC
Wait for Sleep
See Also [ ] External Links [ ] References [ ]
↑ The Bet at the Internet Archive record of The Ranma ½ Superhighway - Retrieved 20-Sep-2019↑ Post at FFML - Retrieved 09-Nov-2023↑ Post at FFML - Retrieved 09-Nov-2023↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Listed as an entry in The Bet but does not feature Toltiir or the 'well' set-up.
↑ 5.0 5.1 Began life as two separate Bet-fics, Ranma Muyo and the non-Ranma ½ Children of an Alien God .
↑ Retrieved 23-Jul-2024
↑ Features a brief cameo from Kasumi Tendo in 'potential future scenes'. Retrieved 23-Jul-2024
↑ Retrieved 25-Jul-2024
↑ This was a proposed mega-crossover that would have featured Ranma ½
↑ A potential Ranma ½
↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Retrieved 04-May-2022
↑ Features "The Bet" scenario and mentions the Ranma ½ cast, but is otherwise not a work of Ranma ½ fan fiction . Retrieved 03-Aug-2024