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Power Rangers: Dragon Fury

@CaptainManbeard

Bruce is at the fund raiser for extra credit, because he's gonna fail English otherwise.

Anyone got any recommendations for face claim for him, by the by? I usually use illustrations, so I'm a bit out of my depth trying to find a photograph.

Power Rangers: Dragon Fury

Bruce Bailey, Blue Ranger

Bruce Bailey, Blue Ranger

Full Name: Bruce Bailey
Age: 17
DOB: May 28th, 2007
POB: Summit Point, West Virginia, United States
Height: 6'7"
Weight: 220 lbs
Eyes: Blue

Special Talents & Skills

Capable mechanic
Skilled welder
Novice tinkerer
Marksmanship(rifle, specifically)
High tolerance for pain

Scanned Lifeforms

Blue Dragon


Peregrine Falcon


Rhino

Powers & Abilities

Blue Dragonfire Aura, feels cold to the touch as it absorbs ambient heat to store as power.
High Speed Flight. The fastest of the rangers, however he requires time and distance to get up to speed.
Thermal manipulation. Can move thermal energy around, though is not able to increase the amount of heat present. He can absorb heat as energy to power his flight.

Weapons & Gear

Blue Dragon Nanosuit
(about the size of a belt buckle when compressed, rapidly spreads out and covers the entire body when activated)


Blue Dragon Spear


Peregrine Wings


Dragon Zord Booster Mech
(mechanical exosuit that further enhances power output)

Biography

Despite his father’s best efforts, Bruce was born in the same town his parents were raised in. A small town in Appalachia without much going for it. His mother, Charlene, worked herself to the bone to put his father, Henry through college, and Henry was away at school when Bruce was born. As far as Henry was concerned, all of her efforts paid off, as he graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering, and found himself a decent job.

Henry’s work ethic was every bit as stringent as Charlene’s, and it soon became apparent that his job didn’t leave much energy for a wife and child. Charlene had been under the impression, as she slaved away years before, that the end result would be a happy family with good prospects. She got the family with good prospects right, but she was hardly happy, as she found being a stay at home mom stifling. When Henry got a job offer in Los Angeles, working in the design department of a major auto manufacturer, she simply didn’t go with him. Bruce was nine at this time.

Bruce had to become self sufficient at a young age, as his father barely even seemed to notice that Charlene wasn’t still around to take care of their child. He tried taking an interest in his father’s work, to try to get attention from him, and spent a lot of time on the internet learning about how cars function. By twelve, he had an impressive knowledge of vehicle maintenance and repair, as well as a love of cars that would last the rest of his life. And it worked, after a fashion. Henry had as little time as ever for his family, but when he was home, he started talking shop, and was happy to find that his son could follow along most of the time.

At seventeen, Bruce was an ace student of Angel Grove High’s auto shop(and took every other class with “shop” in the name, too), though often a below average student in subjects he was less interested in. His refusal to apply himself, along with his faint Appalachian accent, has led to him being seen by most of his classmates as a dullard. Even the ones in his best classes assume his skill with making and repairing things to be a fluke, or merely a savant-like affinity.

Power Rangers: Legend of the Seven Chimeras

Well, in either case, here's the start of it.

I'm really not sure how to go about finding pictures for the face claim, I'm more accustomed to using illustrations. Where do you usually look?

Bruce Bailey, Blue Ranger

Bruce Bailey, Blue Ranger

Full Name: Bruce Bailey
Age: 17
DOB: May 28th, 2007
POB: Summit Point, West Virginia, United States
Height: 6'7"
Weight: 220 lbs
Eyes: Blue

Special Talents & Skills

Capable mechanic
Novice tinkerer
Marksmanship(rifle, specifically)
High tolerance for pain

Scanned Lifeforms

Blue Dragon


Peregrine Falcon


Rhino

Powers & Abilities

Blue Dragonfire Aura, feels cold to the touch as it absorbs ambient heat to store as power.
High Speed Flight. The fastest of the rangers, however he requires time and distance to get up to speed.
Thermal manipulation. Can move thermal energy around, though is not able to increase the amount of heat present. He can absorb heat as energy to power his flight.

Weapons & Gear

Blue Dragon Nanosuit
(about the size of a belt buckle when compressed, rapidly spreads out and covers the entire body when activated)


Blue Dragon Spear


Peregrine Wings


Dragon Zord Booster Mech
(mechanical exosuit that further enhances power output)

Biography

Despite his father’s best efforts, Bruce was born in the same town his parents were raised in. A small town in Appalachia without much going for it. His mother, Charlene, worked herself to the bone to put his father, Henry through college, and Henry was away at school when Bruce was born. As far as Henry was concerned, all of her efforts paid off, as he graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering, and found himself a decent job.

Henry’s work ethic was every bit as stringent as Charlene’s, and it soon became apparent that his job didn’t leave much energy for a wife and child. Charlene had been under the impression, as she slaved away years before, that the end result would be a happy family with good prospects. She got the family with good prospects right, but she was hardly happy, as she found being a stay at home mom stifling. When Henry got a job offer in Los Angeles, working in the design department of a major auto manufacturer, she simply didn’t go with him. Bruce was nine at this time.

Bruce had to become self sufficient at a young age, as his father barely even seemed to notice that Charlene wasn’t still around to take care of their child. He tried taking an interest in his father’s work, to try to get attention from him, and spent a lot of time on the internet learning about how cars function. By twelve, he had an impressive knowledge of vehicle maintenance and repair, as well as a love of cars that would last the rest of his life. And it worked, after a fashion. Henry had as little time as ever for his family, but when he was home, he started talking shop, and was happy to find that his son could follow along most of the time.

At seventeen, Bruce was an ace student of Angel Grove High’s auto shop(and took every other class with “shop” in the name, too), though often a below average student in subjects he was less interested in. His refusal to apply himself, along with his faint Appalachian accent, has led to him being seen by most of his classmates as a dullard. Even the ones in his best classes assume his skill with making and repairing things to be a fluke, or merely a savant-like affinity.

Power Rangers: Legend of the Seven Chimeras

@CaptainManbeard

Should I still post my character her before moving to the other thread?

Star Wars: Shattered Galaxy Roleplay

I'm afraid I'm going to officially bow out before I officially apply.

Power Rangers: Legend of the Seven Chimeras

I wasn't sure if I should wait for an official CS, or just follow Forsythe's lead.

Power Rangers: Legend of the Seven Chimeras

Yeah, that's kind of where I'm going. He's certainly intelligent, but guileless, ineloquent, and generally unwilling to apply himself to subjects that don't interest him.

A possible slice of life side plot: the rangers have arranged an after school club of some kind as an excuse to gather without drawing suspicion, but Blue is in danger of losing his extracurricular privileges at school because of his English grade.

Joining the rangers would definitely give him a drive he was lacking, but it also ends up taking a lot of time and energy, leaving less for school work.

Power Rangers: Legend of the Seven Chimeras

@CaptainManbeard my man, I love the story lines you're laying out. I take it we're meant to have a hand in writing the story, since you referred to your players as co-writers instead?

Anyway, lemme lay down my character idea, in general terms: southern himbo gearhead. Big, sweet, and seems dumb in some ways, but he gets machines on an intuitive level.

Maybe he starts to learn how the alien ship works, and helps repair it(guided by our Zordon).

If there's an arc where we lose the nano-suits, maybe he builds a simpler, mechanical version to get by, using his knowledge of alien tech and human mechanical engineering.

Let me know what would be going too far.

Power Rangers: Legend of the Seven Chimeras

I am interested. I'm not very familiar with power rangers at all, but being set in an original version helps, since you described the backstory so well.

I was thinking blue ranger. I'm not sure about the third animal, but I thought peregrine falcon. I thought it would be cool if they had a lance as a weapon, and flew at enemies at high speed.

But I do see that there's a lot of birds going round, so maybe I'll rethink it.

Star Wars: Shattered Galaxy Roleplay

So, I'm interested, and I have an idea for a dark side cult, if you'll let me know if this will fit in.

The Family. Hierarchy is superficially quite simple, with only two tiers. Sibling, and Child.

Siblings, titled predictably as "Brother [name]" or "Sister [name]," are nominally equal. None is permitted to hold dominion over the others, but don't be fooled into thinking this makes them a democracy. Each does as they please, with the single rule being that they may not harm each other. Despite constant internal strife, they are (generally) unreasonably loyal to one another, and will band together without a thought against any outside threat. The number of siblings is limited by the Family's collection of lightsabers. You must have one to gain the title, but no one in the Family actually knows how to build them.

Children are a combination of apprentice and slave. They are taught the traditions and skills of the Family, and often pitted against each other to sharpen those skills. In a bizarre twist, while Siblings are forbidden to harm their Brothers and Sisters, Children are encouraged to try to kill their elders to claim one of the Family's prized lightsabers. This is both the Children's only means of advancement, and the Siblings' primary weapon against each other. You may not harm your Brother, but you can train his successor, and orchestrate his death.

Their philosophy is fairly typical, if quite unsophisticated dark side rhetoric. They use strong emotions to bend the Force to their will, with a particular reverence for pain as a source of power. It is quite common for their garb to include deliberately painful eleme to, such as spikes, needles or even piercings that affix to the garment. As the Force has quieted, they have resorted to stranger and more drastic versions of this practice.