CaptainManbeard

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Power Rangers of the Cosmic Crystal

Here's my idea for the Red Ranger and a Char Sheet for everyone to model their chars after:

Red Ranger: Kai Hexum

Kai Hexum

Age: 17
Birthday: August 1st
Height: 6’2”
Body Type: Athletic
Eyes: Green
Hair: Dark Brown
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Orientation: Heterosexual

Musical Themes

Voice & Personality

Kai is considerably intelligent and wise when he wants to be, but often suffers issues due to his sharp tongue and witty, sarcastic sense of humor. He gets suspended a lot due to fights in school. His mother would often say: “Again, Kai?! Jesus Christ, if it wasn’t for that fucking mouth of yours, you wouldn’t get bullied so much!” To which he would reply something in the vein of: “But where would the fun be in that? Deprive people of this angelic voice? Oof. Sounds dreadful!”

Although he derives an immense amount of joy out of triggering religious bigots, fanatics, racists, fascists, so-called “alpha” males, and anyone else bearing what he considers “fragile little manbaby egos,” he also holds a deep sense of justice and equality and wants to see positive change in the world. He views his rebellious and reckless behavior as challenging what he perceives as a corrupt system, and has served stints in juvenile detention throughout his adolescent years for engaging in peaceful protests against police brutality, racism, bigotry, religious indoctrination, etc. His arrests during these events almost always resulted from police officers becoming offended by his remarks, and one time his family successfully sued the LAPD after officers had severely beaten and tased Kai during a protest when he was sixteen.

Red Ranger Powers

Energy Projection

Biography

Work in progress...

Power Rangers of the Cosmic Crystal

Dibs on pink. :P

You weren’t around for my rebrand it’s Crimson Flame btw.

@Azure Bubbles

I figured it was you because your name still showed up under my profile visits and I saw you claim pink in a different PR RP XD

Power Rangers of the Cosmic Crystal

Figured I'd try my hand at GMing a Power Rangers RP again. Up to nine teenage characters are chosen by the Cosmic Crystal, an ancient opalescent sphere that houses incredible cosmic powers from the earliest eras of the universe.

The Cosmic Crystal was originally watched over by three goddess-like sisters: Xerxarya, Xalandia, and Xuatheona. But when Xalandia's wife was tragically killed by monsters from the Demon Realm, she wanted to rely on the Crystal's powers to resurrect her. Xerxarya and Xuatheona refused to let Xalandia use the Crystal for something so unnatural as reversing death. However, Xalandia did it anyway when they weren't looking, and brought her wife Sarithia back to life. But Sarithia was... different. Quicker to anger. Prone to darker thoughts. She gradually succumbed to demonic corruption and transformed into the Dark Queen Mephista.

Once Mephista gathered an army of monsters from the Demon Realm and tried to take the Cosmic Crystal for herself, the three sisters united to fight her. Unfortunately, both Xerxarya and Xuatheona died in the battle. Mephista nearly killed Xalandia as well, but hesitated when she was about to deliver the final attack. Xalandia used this opening to call upon the Cosmic Crystal to undo the resurrection, something she had desperately hoped to avoid, still believing she could redeem her wife. But after seeing her sisters killed, Xalandia realized that Sarithia had been completely consumed by the Mephista persona.

The Cosmic Crystal was unable to fully reverse the resurrection because Mephista's soul had become anchored to the Demon Realm. Thus, she ended up trapped there in a state of deep slumber between life and death. And with no way to communicate with their Dark Queen, Mephista's monster armies fled back to the Demon Realm. Xalandia learned her lesson and did not try to revive her sisters. She had a funeral for them, and then went on to explore the universe as the sole guardian of the Cosmic Crystal.

Ten thousand years later, old age is finally beginning to creep up on Xalandia. She has chosen Planet Earth for her retirement, and has been posing as a Madam Xalandia, a gypsy and fortune teller in Angel Grove, a suburb of Los Angeles. She wants to find new, younger guardians for the Cosmic Crystal, and that search is amplified when she begins to sense Mephista awakening once more...

Our characters would all be teenagers and students about to start their senior year at Angel Grove High School. The story would begin at the End of Summer Festival in Angel Grove's Forest Park, where they spot Madam Xalandia's gypsy caravan among other wagons and food carts. She has a sign up offering services as a fortune teller, and is using the Cosmic Crystal as a crystal ball to tell peoples' fortunes. But in reality, she is searching for her successors. Each time she performs fortune telling for someone, the Crystal is scanning their soul to see if they are worthy. And of course, our characters are proven worthy when they get their fortunes told.

Unfortunately, Mephista can sense that new guardians have been chosen as well, and that jolts her awake to full consciousness. She is still trapped in the Demon Realm (for now), but begins sending monsters to Earth to defeat the new guardians and steal the Cosmic Crystal. And that's how our characters become the Power Rangers. When they Morph, they summon energy from the Crystal, and that energy surrounds them and condenses into their suits, kinda similar to how morphing works in Kiramager:

As for their individual powers and weapons, we can decide on that as a group. The floor is open for discussion XD. I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts and ideas. I will be playing the Red Ranger and leader of the team. The image I shared at the top of the post is an AI image showing nine Rangers together, but I am open to other ideas for their suits. If you are interested, please reply with some info about your proposed character, what color you'd like for them (can be others besides the nine, such as gold or silver), and what powers/abilities/gear/weapons you'd like for them.

Pixiewick: A Magical Community

If you're curious what I envision life to be like in Pixiewick, it's basically a fusion of magical fantasy and modern day, kind of like the Disney movie Onward, but magic being more prevalent in Pixiewick.

Pixiewick: A Magical Community

Oh, and I realize I forgot to further develop why Feyless can turn into demons from ambient magic. The ancient Feyless Humans who mated with Feyfolk did not initially turn into demons because ambient magic in the air was less prevalent back then. But as the hybrid bloodlines spread and the amount of magic users in the world grew, the ambient magic in the air became incredibly potent, eventually leading to Feyless Humans beginning to turn into demons. This is what caused Feyfolk and Feyborn to begin segregating their communities from the Feyless. And that's why they are required to wear glamour charms whenever they travel through Feyless communities. The glamour charms are like amulets or other items worn on a person that creates an illusion around them, allowing them to have various appearances. The glamour charms are also enchanted to dampen any ambient magic that the wearer might emit, thus minimizing the chance of affecting nearby Feyless.

Pixiewick: A Magical Community

I'm still interested.

I would be interested in being a pixie/fairy, an elf, a selkie, or pooka (a shapeshifting fae that tends to favor being a black-furred horse) for the race.

I'm not as sure what town in job I would interested in though. The new farmer in town is of course a classic and I could enjoy being a feyborn that's moved into town and is getting used to being able to not have to hide himself now. But it would also be fun to be the doctor/healer or a blacksmith. Or to fill in whatever position ends up being needed.

@Cyrania

Any one of those jobs would work fine, go ahead and pick whatever you'd like XD.

I do want to be a Fairy, but I don’t know what job they’d have in the town.

Something fabulous no doubt

@Crimson Flame

Like Cyrania said, a tailor would indeed be fabulous. Or a hair dresser. Or he could design and enchant glamour charms to allow people to look however they want. I'd imagine some younger people might use glamour charms even within Pixiewick just to show off different fashions and styles, or even cosplay. Maybe the RP picks up at the beginning of Summer and there is some kind of weekly festival that occurs on Saturday nights all Summer long and each Saturday is a different theme and everyone comes to your character to help design their costumes and/or glamour charms XD. Just one idea.

Or your character could run an establishment like the Honey Bee Inn from Final Fantasy 7 XD.

Sorry been a busy last few days and never found time to respond! Still interested though!

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So to widen the idea more, I took the idea of it being a subterranean realm that connects through and built on that. The who's and why's is where the plot could come in or just more fleshing out of the Feyfolk - it had been done on purpose by Feyfolk who take offense at the humans breaking into their realm and see their land as something the Feyfolk could take now. So the character was 'taken' out of the deepest parts of the Fey realm into the human world on purpose to cause hysteria on purpose.

I'm not sure how long ago the barrier/breaking into the Feyfolks realm would have happened but for races to have spawned I imagine it has been a long time? If so I can imagine it being an early case of Feyfolk taking offense at humans and being reasons for a stronger magical law enforcement between the Feyfolk and humans.

As for the staying with a Feyborn living outside of Pixiewick, the character was kept away until she was deemed able to hold a glamour long enough to travel the long distance required to get back to Pixiewick and it has just taken a very long time due to the slow aging. If it's a bit too much though let me know I can make something simpler I just like creating characters that have deeper backstory with plots in them to build off

@medalliah

The subterranean realm I mentioned is not a separate dimension or anything like that, it still exists in the physical world. My idea for it was that the miners were mining for more mithril and basically broke through a layer of rock and ended up in the underground realm. Until that happened, no one in Pixiewick knew there was an underground realm below the mines.

As for the Feyfolk/Human mating, that happened in ancient times. We're talking many thousands of years ago. So elves, dwarves, gnomes, fairies, tieflings, minotaurs, etc. all have Human and Feyfolk ancestors. The bloodlines of these various magical races have been growing for millennia.

To clarify further, in ancient times, all humans were Feyless (meaning no Fey blood or Fey powers). Then Feyfolk (magical beings that can assume humanoid form with reproductive organs) began mating with Feyless Humans, resulting in children that were the first Feyborn (Humans with magical powers, traits, and physical features as a result of their hybrid blood). This happened repeatedly over many centuries, which caused the hybrid bloodlines to spawn off into multiple new humanoid races, such as elves, dwarves, gnomes, fairies, tieflings, minotaurs, etc.

As for the idea of Feyfolk taking offense to humans, that really isn't compatible with the setting, given that it was Feyfolk who mated with Feyless Humans and spawned off all the Feyborn.

I realize now that I should have worded my explanation better about the underground realm. There is no magical barrier that separates the underground realm, the barrier mentioned is like a huge invisible energy shield over the entire Valley to conceal it from Feyless observers. The underground realm exists in the same physical world as Pixiewick and the Valley, it is just deeper underground than the mines. Like the Underdark from D&D or the Deep Roads from Dragon Age. The miners were in the mines trying to dig for more mithril and they broke through a layer of rock into the underground realm. Perhaps using "realm" is the wrong word, - a network of spacious caves and tunnels deeper than the mines. The existence of these caves is a recent discovery for the people of Pixiewick, the idea was that it was still a developing situation and that would give an option for characters to be there to investigate this new discover or protect people and animals from monsters coming out of the underground caves.

So, the Feyless, Feyborn, and Feyfolk all exist in the same physical world, with some areas around the world concealed to keep out Feyless. Mithril Valley is one of those areas.

Hopefully that clears stuff up XD. Now, having said that, what are your ideas for making your character better fit the setting?

Pixiewick: A Magical Community

Did people lose interest? XD.

Pixiewick: A Magical Community

Ok understood! Idea I had was of a magical being that had been taken beyond the barrier when very very very young to be auctioned off and eventually fell into the hands of someone from Feyborn before they caused a mass turning through exposure. Being raised by the Feyborn before returning back to Pixiewick when old enough (and when the Feyborn was too old to look after them anymore) to live with a friend and eventually to be returned back to any remaining family members they might have after all this time. Creates some plot and also some stories of humans/Feyless interactions that haven't gone as well.

@medalliah

Feyborn is a term I came up with to refer to anyone from magical bloodlines. The bloodlines originated from Feyfolk mating with humans in ancient times. I figured the term Feyfolk could refer to a wide variety of ancient magical beings who could shapeshift into humanoid forms capable of breeding with humans. So Feyborn just refers to anyone from a bloodline that originated from a human/Feyfolk union. All residents of Pixiewick would classify as Feyborn because otherwise they would be Feyless and affected by the concealment barrier.

So to simplify, all sentient beings with human-level intelligence that would appear in the RP will be either Feyfolk (powerful magical beings older than the human race), Feyborn (Mortals born from Human/Feyfolk bloodlines, spawned off magical races such as elves, dwarves, fairies, etc), or Feyless (humans with no Feyfolk ancestry in their bloodline).

As for your character idea, I think I misread it at first when I started typing my reply and then went back and reread and just want to make sure I understand: So, your character is originally from Pixiewick, but was taken outside the concealment barrier into Feyless communities to be auctioned off, and then they caused Feyless to turn into demons, and they were raised to adulthood among the Feyless before returning to Pixiewick as an adult?

If I understand correctly, who did you have in mind to be the person who came into Pixiewick and kidnapped your character? I imagine the magical law enforcement apparatus in Pixiewick would have made a big deal about kids going missing, so whoever it was would have to be magically gifted enough to get into Pixiewick, kidnap your character, and get back out without being tracked or caught. What did you have in mind?

Pixiewick: A Magical Community

To give you an idea what I had in mind for the underground area, here's a look at the Underdark in Baldur's Gate 3.