Reviving this thread with a story I was reminded of today: Elegy for a Golden Youth by Reid Carson, a 1998 Ranma fic. One of the first "Ranma is dead" fics, it's also one of the most successful, casting the events of the manga/anime as an almost mythic period that seems to evaporate from most people's memories after he dies and most of the cast disappears from Nerima after his funeral. The narrator and the changes in his life afterwards just add another level of unworldliness to it all.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....