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Hey everybody. Zoki here with an odd idea, hoping she doesn't get in over her head again. But I think I can make this work if it's kept light and fun. We're all mature adults, right?

So the basic premise of this sandbox/psl/shenanigan-ing is that the world's in danger, again. And clearly the solution to any problem in this world is to throw brightly-colored heroes with giant mecha at it, regardless of their experience level in combat, weapon use, or piloting.

Basically, we're recruiting people of any age and species with any level of attitude. Some of these choices may or may not be the greatest, but we all have to learn to work together to survive.

Setting/Premise:
The story takes place in Angel Grove, California, in 2023. Veteran Power Ranger and tech mogul Billy Cranston is on a quest to revive his old friend and mentor Zordon, but there's one problem: his attempt to gather the grid's energy sucked in a group of wayward beings from other times and other worlds instead.

And then there's a second problem: his device created an opposite reaction on the side of evil, and energy on that side of the struggle is rising too. Lord Zedd has been reborn, and he's looking for recruits on his side of the coming war....

Applicable characters:
Any, as long as you think they're suitable for the setting! Canon PR characters from other times/universes or aged up to 2023, Sentai, any other canon, OCs, alternate universes...go wild.

Form for hero-aligned:

Form for villain-aligned:

Feel free to use this post as a pre-plotting CR meme of sorts! Get the ball rolling with ideas, whatever you want to do.

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Any questions, ask them here. If this thing gets big enough it'll go into a proper FAQ page.

Edited 2023-07-20 00:07 (UTC)

Just a few quick questions, my friend....

Characters per player/app cycle/cast caps? >.> Asking for reasons.

Power nerf?

CRAU okay?

And....

Are you gonna make me rewatch MMPR and wake up Trini?

(And yes, this journal. You said Billy and fighting with giant clanks. Who else would perk up if Trini is napping?)

-No caps. Just take into consideration what you can handle, but I'm aiming for a relaxed pace.

-No power nerfs, I just expect everyone to be mature and work together to make sure we can plot battles that are satisfying to all characters. Just don't blip out all the monsters before they can grow!

-CRAU's fine!

-And that's up to you. :D

Edited 2023-07-20 03:27 (UTC)

Name: Billy Cranston
Age: 45
Personality blurb: Once a wide-eyed and idealistic inventor, his life was changed when he became a Ranger. He's seen the universe, the good and the bad...and now he's caused all this ruckus, so he's determined to keep the newbies alive and safe.

Ranger? For 30 years and counting
Uniform Color: Back in blue
Motif/Zord design: Triceratops!

Other powers: N/A

Non-powered skills: Billy's skills as an inventor are known to Rangers throughout the universe. He owns a civilian tech communications empire, Cranston Technologies, and runs the Ranger business in the underground levels. He builds and repairs Zords, shields, weapons...whatever you need, he'll find a way.

Edited 2023-07-20 00:08 (UTC)

Name: Agatha Heterodyne
Age: Young adult, college age
Personality blurb: Mad science. And she misses her friend Billy.

Ranger? Currently, no but if he wants to make her one... (though if he doesn't given how she doesn’t follow Zorodn's rules of not escalating a fight, she'd understand. And help in her own Sparky way.)
Uniform Color: Green is totally her colour. If available/applicable
Motif/Zord design: A giant snail would be hilarious. Or Baba Yaga (Girl Genius variant). But seriously snails and trilobites are huge for her, but trilobites wouldn't make for good zwords.

Other powers: She's a Spark. I presume I'd have to spell it put for an app, but for an interest check, since you know her, hoping that is sufficient here. Plus, Bending.

Non-powered skills:
Again, Spark. In addition to that, she's had fighting training. And yes, also a good and generous friend. But... also Spark. Sorry, AG.

Name: Sho Minamimoto (Also known as Pi-face and The Grim Heaper)
Age: late tens? Early adult? Does one age after death?
Personality blurb: Power hungry, wants to rule at all costs. Also math and art.

Ranger? So zetta no.
Uniform Color: Black
Motif/Zord design: His motifs are trash and math. H calls the trash art. but rally, towers of trash.

Other powers: He can create creatures called Noise. Those who are dead/can see spirits can see and fight them. (And maybe Rangers in their suits could too?) They can delete dead people's souls, erasing them. It is harder to kill living people. But what they can do is affect emotions, making people miserable and pretty much causing any negative emotion he wants them to feel. (If I canon update him this gets stronger and changes.) While it is harder to kill the living, they still can... but for game we can say it knocks them out instead? He can not only command noise, but create them as well.

Also he can "Vibrate" moving seamlessly between the RG (real ground or realm of the living) and the UG (Underground) one of the realms of the dead. Unclear if he can ascend to the higher planes. In practice this makes him invisible and intangible on whatever plane he left, though he can see both. And he can travel that way.

He can create invisible barriers that can block areas. And he can remove them. He can give these powers to others. Works best in the UG.

He can send messages to any phone without knowing the number, and since he never relinquished Game Master power, as well as I know, can still in the UG put timers onto hands, and erase the dead.

He can summon his wings, and transform to his noise form.

And also his Diatu powers and familiar.

Non-powered skills: He doesn't need a confusion spell, he just has to talk. The way he speaks often confuses people into hesitation. (Rp thing, not a power power). He is also brilliant, though he focuses that on math and ambition. He is athletic and strong. He can fire a gun. He's a misunderstood artist.

(And happy side note for fun? He will be looking to usurp Zedd, and while he will pretend to be a minion.... the power rangers are a secondary target for him, he wants to rule. Over everything. And Zedd is the biggest obstacle he sees in the RG.)

Name: Harry Potter
Age: 17-18 (19 if he is going to be taken from Isle of Avalon)
Personality blurb: Angsty but kind and determined young man fresh from a wizarding civil war. Can be very temperamental, impulsive, and very snarky.

Ranger? Most definitely.
Uniform Color: Either Red or Blue
Motif/Zord design: The Motifs will be very much ground on magic with elemental themes and hints of animals and mythical creatures (something like on Ninja Storm or Mystic Force). If he goes with Red, there is bound to be Fire/Air and Phoenix/Lion while with Blue, he can go with Water/Ice/Snow and Shark/Dolphin/Merman/Selkie.

Other powers: Harry is a well accomplished wizard for his age by the end of the Battle of Hogwarts, knowing a variety of spells ranging from charms to transforming spells to curses and make potions in an above average level. Plus he does have a good grasp in non verbal and wandless magic too. He is also noted to be a skilled wand duelist and is very great in riding a broom.

If he is going to be from Isle of Avalon, he would have gotten kinetic magic (telekinesis, teleportation, speed manipulation, intangibility, telekinetic push & pull, flight) and elemental magic (fire, ice, lighting, water, wind, earth) by his side.

Non-powered skills: In addition, he is a talented Seeker in the Gryffindor Quidditch Team. A clever detective who can put clues together and he has great leadership and teaching skills throughout the Second Wizarding War.

Name: Astronema
Age: 26ish
Personality blurb: She's the grey from a very black and white canon (as of season 5). She will go out of her way to make people distrust her; if you trust her anyway, she's loyal as hell. If you don't, she will cheerfully betray you at a moment's notice. Even Astronema doesn't always know what she's about to do, no doubt in part from a life-time of layers and layers of brainwashing.

Ranger? Complicated! She was born to be the yellow ranger of KO-35, gets kidnapped and tinkered with (turning her power purple, the opposite of yellow), and later becomes the pink ranger in season 6. I sort of figure her usual black vinyl getup is the corrupted yellow morph. So she's definitely connected to the grid.
Uniform Color: If she did the ranger thing and morphed for realsies now it would be purple. And probably really fucked up from all the corruption.
Motif/Zord design: If we get giant robots can she just have her ship? It's massive, but it can conveniently hide in a pocket dimension, which in itself is thematic as hell for her. The only problem is going to be making her leave the damn thing. On the plus side, fully operational space ship that can carry a huge city worth of people if needed. It even has a massive hangar.

And hey, if she decides to team up with the good guys, maybe she can use it to zap some rangers into monster size for a fight lmao. Big robot down for the count? Just punch the thing, it's fine. If it's good enough for monsters, it's good enough for you lot.

Other powers: As a native human of KO-35, Astronema has telekinesis. She is also a sorceress, using her corrupted yellow ranger 'channels' and a lifetime of training and molding by the forces of evil. She can teleport at-will, shoot purple lightning, summon/dismiss things (and minions/monsters in her roster), change her appearance (hair color, clothing, etc, not into whole other people), basically whatever's convenient at the time. We've even seen her brainwash people (well, turtles) temporarily.

Non-powered skills: We see her adept with staff, boomerang, sword, and general kicking of a lot of ass while wearing really tall heels. Ecliptor was a pretty terrifying warrior and taught her ruthlessly. She also appears to have superhuman strength, able to snap free of restraints and carry her older brother later in the comics even as 'Karone'. She's also a schemer, and used her brains as much as anything to conquer the universe, mostly by manipulating her enemies into doing some of the work for her.

Edited 2023-07-20 20:59 (UTC)

Name: N/A
Age: N/A
Personality blurb: Y'know that grabby McGuffin that's not as good of an idea to keep around as it seems? Either a hero (or another villain!) picked it up without asking, or it just shows up in someone's backyard and is impossible to send away through normal levels of effort. (suggestions for specific banishment criteria are appreciated. |D)

Ranger? N
~~Uniform~~Theme Color: Grey or black!
Motif/Zord design: N/A.

Other powers: Very clingy. And even when it seems physically improbable for it to stay in one piece, it does.

Non-powered skills: Full disclosure, my pitch is 'play an AI un-companion, or a book. Something that doesn't look like it's a character, but it absolutely thinks and has opinions.' Contrary to my usual schtick, however, it is not a friendly, either summoning bad luck or is selectively painful to be around.

Edited 2023-07-20 21:13 (UTC)

Name: Casper LeBlanc, Jr.
Age: 18
Personality blurb: Fearful, cautious to the point of paranoia (he has Trauma) but ultimately very sweet. He's also a demigod, though I'm going to play it as if a lot of his powers are nerfed down a little just to make things fair and reasonable. He's also coming in with his raven, Bob.

Ranger? Y
Uniform Color: Blue! Or maybe Black? He has a Motif, and Red is too main character for someone with this much anxiety.
Motif/Zord design: Oh it's gotta be a raven. Motif too strong.

Other powers: He's probably going to lean on his own powers which are largely ice-related. He's got death-related powers too but I don't think those will come up much. Also he can fly.

Non-powered skills: Excellent research skills (though about two decades out of date), good head on his shoulders, previous combat experience... he's full of anxiety bees but he's a good bean.

Name: Elizabeth
Age: Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. Presents in late teens
Personality blurb: Elizabeth was the attendant of the hero of death in the Velvet Room. She was made to guide him through his ordeal to understand death and to keep despair from destroying all of humanity. When he died to create the great seal, she first tried a Great Old One's horrible magic of resetting the universe, several times, each time the end being ultimately the same, so she went off to find out why humanity spends so much time obsessing with its own oblivion. As such, she is overly cheery, easily bored, loves to fight, and will try to slap the sad out of people.

Ranger? Y
Uniform Color: Purple, gold, or Purple AND Gold!
Motif/Zord design: Horrifying demons, Death, the end of humanity

Other powers: She can summon Persona, though is currently only contracted with Thanatos. Thanatos however is a terrifying monster. Also, she understands how magic works and is channeled, and the games that gods and demons play, just because of her role in the universal game does not use magic other than that granted by Persona. That being said, if the rules about rangers not using persona, she understands rules are important in games, and this Ranger game may be an interesting way to understand despair. Also, you don't want in her mind, mind reading would be a bad move.

Non-powered skills: She can speak the lost languages of Lost Carcosa, the Necronomicon, or any other dark magic tome without going insane. She can identify anything in a food by scent. She can meld persona. She's a trained nurse, just not certified. She also hits like a tank and is trained in book fu.

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Billy Cranston (MMPR TV-verse, 2023)

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Astronema, Power Rangers in Space

Volunteer for villain of the week! (not actually the account I'd use, this is just for pitching it)

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