Girl's School by Miko2, a Ranma 1/2 fic that had been going strong for 7 years -- 2006 to 2013 -- but which appears to be dead now. Ranma's mother reveals that the infamous suicide pledge was not about being "manly", but about his education -- and that to give him a last chance to fulfill it, he has to go to St. Hebereke (where Nodoka is the Vice Principal) for the last year and a half of high school, and get outstanding grades. At the same time, he has to remain female so that he can learn to accept his female side...
Much better than I make it sound, and while it starts off light (but not zany), it undergoes a mood whiplash around chapter 25, and sets hooks that indicated the future plot was going to go in a radically unexpected direction. I really wanted to see where it was going to go next, but the author hasn't even checked into their ff.net account in two years.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Much better than I make it sound, and while it starts off light (but not zany), it undergoes a mood whiplash around chapter 25, and sets hooks that indicated the future plot was going to go in a radically unexpected direction. I really wanted to see where it was going to go next, but the author hasn't even checked into their ff.net account in two years.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.