This is a request by :iconkatttoma2: for some cartoon cuties being
bound and gagged in catsuits. We have Kodachi Kuno of Rumiko
Takahashi's Ranma 1/2 being kidnapped in a cat suit.
Kodachi Kuno is one of Ranma Saotome's suitors. She is the younger sister of Tatewaki Kuno and the daughter of Principal Kuno.
Known as "The Black Rose" in
the gymnastics community, Kodachi is presented as Tatewaki Kuno's
sister and a student at St. Hebereke's School for Girls (St. Bacchus
School for Girls in the manga). This is in contrast to her brother and
several members of the regular cast, who attend the co-ed Furinkan High
School. As a master of Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics and captain of
the school's team, she often preemptively attacks her opponents with
various weapons, including swords or a giant mallet to cripple them,
thus winning by default. She calls it "fighting in all fairness before
the match." Kodachi had seldom, if ever, lost a match before battling
Ranma as a result of this practice. When these failed, she has also
resorted to the use of more devious methods, once attempting to shake
her foe's hand with thumbtacks between her fingers. She is especially
fond of using paralysis gas and sleeping powders on people, even when
she has no apparent motivation to do so.
Kodachi becomes
enamored with male Ranma after the latter acts as her 'knight in shining
armour' by saving her from falling off the roof of the Tendo Dojo.
Unbeknownst to her, he did so after he accidentally hit her with a tea
kettle while chasing Ryoga Hibiki (who was in piglet form at the time).
Therefore, she is the only one of his suitors without some official or
semi-official claim to him. Despite this, she considers him her lover
and wants to make him her own through any means necessary. She and her
brother have 'opposite' perspectives regarding this matter, since he
despises Ranma's male form due to the latter's engagement to Akane and
for 'enslaving' the mysterious 'pigtailed girl.' Correspondingly,
Kodachi dislikes Ranma's female form, whom she believes to be a romantic
rival. Regardless of his dislike for Ranma Tatewaki has
enthusiastically given them his blessing to go steady since this would
free Akane for himself. He secretly imagines that they would have a
miserable life together.
Kodachi teams up with Shampoo and Ukyo Kuoni in certain storylines to gain an edge over Akane or other perceived rivals.
Unlike
his other suitors, Kodachi is not actually betrothed to Ranma. Since
there is no formal engagement involved in her relationship with Ranma,
he usually brushes her off more often than his three fiancées. She
resents this and responds with more poisons and other foul tricks.
Though she has stated that she's actually aware that Ranma doesn't love
her, she simply refuses to let that get in her way. She thinks he will
eventually give in if she continues to make an effort.
She is a
good cook who prepares elaborate meals that seem to be based in French
cuisine. In one story, students who consumed her cookies described them
as delicious—before they fainted because she had laced them with
sleeping powder. She uses her culinary expertise to her advantage by
placing poisons, toxins, serums, and other strange substances in her
victims' food to attain something she wants from them, especially when
Ranma is involved.
She apparently has a strong flair for the
dramatic. When entering and leaving a scene or leaping throughout the
city, she is regularly accompanied by a small stream of black rose
petals billowing about her, complemented by a shrill, maniacal cackle
that is one of her trademarks. But if she has to or otherwise feels like
it, Kodachi is more than capable of acting like a perfectly
well-mannered lady, and a first class host.
Like her brother, she
is unaware of Ranma's curse and views his same-gendered form (in this
case, the girl) as a rival for the affections of his opposite-gendered
form (in this case, the boy). In the anime at least, unlike Tatewaki,
this can be attributed to simple ignorance of Jusenkyo curses rather
than outright denial, as she has not seen Ranma change forms in this
continuity. However, in the manga, she has watched Ranma transform from
male to female and not recognized what just happened, immediately asking
"the pig-tailed girl" what she did with Ranma. This may imply that,
like her brother, she has come to hold the idea (due to lack of
explanations about Jusenkyo) that her "enemy Ranma" can somehow whisk
her "beloved Ranma" away by magic.
Kodachi seems to enjoy
spending time in the extensive gardens of the Kuno estate, particularly
near the large pond, where she keeps her giant pet crocodile, whom she
has lovingly named Mr. Turtle (or Mr. Green Turtle in the anime, occasionally referred to as "Mr. Scaly Green" in some episodes of the dub).
As
her brother has expressed, Kodachi's manga incarnation is shown as
quite twisted. She's been more than willing to ambush and beat up rival
schoolgirls, and use potentially lethal weaponry during her matches. She
also enthusiastically attempted to murder Nabiki or Hinako Ninomiva,
when Ranma was engaged to the former (though this never occurred in the
anime version of that same story), respectively
suspected
he was attracted to the latter, and was completely unconcerned about
killing an innocent bystander on the off chance that he'd be Asuka's
'boyfriend.' She's been relentlessly vengeful against her brother.
Simply for destroying one of her many Ranma posters, she paralysed him,
then tied him up and threw him into a basin containing her crocodile.
She's repeatedly attempted to use similar anaesthesia against male
Ranma, in order to force her attentions on him, and also assaulted a
crowd of romantic couples in this manner, with the stated reason being
simple entertainment and because she viewed them as "bugs". Nevertheless
she is not completely unreasonable as she was perfectly willing to
return Kuno's album of pictures of Ranma's female form if he simply
apologised to her for destroying the aformentioned picture.
However,
her anime counterpart isn't completely heartless. In "Genma Takes a
Walk" she provided Ranma and Genma with free room, board, and food when
they were kicked out of the Tendo house, and in "Dear Daddy...Love,
Kodachi," she was also shown to truly care for her brother and father.
The former used to be a stand-in at her school parent's meetings, and
she was eager to meet the latter when informed that he had returned from
his long trip abroad. Curiously, she never shares a scene with her
father in the Manga.
Of interesting note is that Kodachi
has been bitter rivals with another girl, Asuka Saginomiya, AKA the
White Lily, since they both were six years old, and violently assaulted
each other's claimed "boyfriends" until only one of them was conscious.
Since Kodachi 'won' the competition they agreed to compete again ten
years later. Asuka has a largely similar personality, being haughty,
eccentric, showy and ruthless, but seems somewhat less extroverted and
more refined, if a bit snobbish. She also enjoys using explosives to
defeat her foes. In their most recent battle, Akane allowed Ranma to
pose as Kodachi's beau, since she was insulted by Asuka's dismissive
attitude towards him. The match ended in a draw, as it was revealed that
Asuka's more handsome date was simply someone she struck down just
previously.
Kodachi is the only one of the fiancees that has
ever admitted that she knows Ranma doesn't love her and just likes
pretending that he does. This occurred during the Asuka storyline. Also,
compared to Shampoo and Ukyou, her arrival at Ranma's and Akane's
surprise and failed wedding was much less violent. The other two brought
exploding food, while Kodachi arrived in a wedding dress.