Phi Chisym
@WindsOfFate Nice start to your character! Though, for his normal human form, would you be able to find a live action image to use? Once we all have our char sheets done, I want to use the images to create our own opening theme video, and it would look cooler if all the character images were real people instead of some being LA and some being drawings. XD
The gay pride ranger.
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Most of that works, except the "left behind to help the Rangers" part, since there were no Rangers after they sacrificed themselves and Zordon locked Bandora's Nanosuit away. It wasn't until the earthquake in Antarctica I mentioned that Zordon's ship was dislodged from the ice. So, the world was without Power Rangers for quite some time prior to the current team.
I would advise against having Sacha be centuries old like Zordon, though - even if he is a fully trained sorcerer, he should probably still be fairly young so he can better relate to the teenage Rangers. "Fully trained" does not have to mean "experienced master," and he could still be legitimately seventeen and in high school like the others. For instance, there are teenagers who have blackbelts in Karate and are considered "fully trained" in a sense. A Jedi Knight can be considered "fully trained" even if they are still quite young.
Hmmmm. I'd like to propose an idea, and see what you think:
Sacha is seventeen and a senior like the others at Angel Grove High School, but he just moved to town recently. Granny Udonna, his caretaker and mentor, had been experiencing visions over the Summer, and she had a growing sense that Angel Grove would become a place of great importance in the near future. Part of her powerset included passively sending her own energy backwards through time, giving her past self fragmented glimpses of the future. These visions were never crystal-clear, with many details fleeting like a dream you had just awakened from.
But this vision was a lot stronger than usual, pulling her to Angel Grove. Thus, her and Sacha relocated there and he enrolled at the local high school. She instructed him to keep an eye out for anything unusual around town, and on the first day of school, Sacha can sense a strange energy coming from Tommy, which happens to be the Nanosuit capsules sitting in his backpack. Then Sascha secretly eavesdrops on Tommy telling the others about the suits, and reports back to Udonna. She then reveals to Sacha for the first time that she is in fact many centuries old, and that these Nanosuits must mean that Zordon has re-emerged, which means it's likely Bandora is back as well.
At this point, Udonna brings Sacha up to date on her time with Zordon fighting Bandora in the past, and she instructs him to do whatever he can to help the Rangers. He then approaches them at school the next day to offer his aid, they don't trust him at first, but once he mentions Udonna, Zordon vouches for him.
What do you think? I feel like that is a good fusion of our ideas that will make for a great team dynamic.
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Oh shit, sorry, I completely forgot you had asked that. I actually didn't know who Udonna was, so I had to do a quick search, lol. While I have watched all the openings and a few clips and episodes from the later series, I generally don't actively remember most of the names beyond the Zordon-era episodes. Mighty Morphin first came out in 1993 when I was like 11, and I watched everything PR-related religiously up until Tommy left during Turbo. Once Tommy, my favorite character, was gone, I didn't really care anymore and stopped watching. He was the only reason I kept watching Power Rangers into my teens, lol. I didn't touch anything PR-related again for many years, only getting hit with the nostalgia bug when I was in my early 30s (I'm 39 now).
So, anyway, about your magic question - I am okay with him having ties to Mana-sensitive bloodlines, but for the most part, special powers should not be public knowledge until the emergence of them as Power Rangers and the monsters Bandora sends out. I propose two suggestions - Sacha either does not know of his magical heritage until the Nanosuit unlocks it, prompting specialized solo training with Zordon until they find him a proper instructor, or he already has some magical ability but is sworn to keep the existence of his kind a secret.
As for your other question, since this version of a Zord is power armor that does not have the same molding properties of the Nanosuit, I'm not sure your Banshee Mode idea would qualify as one. That being said, I am still perfectly fine with you having the Banshee Mode as a power-up, perhaps an advanced version of the Siren's powerset that implements his unique magical talent. I suppose if you'd rather not have a mechanical Zord, we could say that the Black Ranger's mech got destroyed or is somehow inactive, so Sacha uses Banshee Mode to compensate.
As for the mechanisms behind Zord use, I envision them as sitting in escape pod-like chambers on the ship, ready to be deployed when needed. If you'll recall, I shared a link to Iron Man summoning the Hulkbuster armor a while back, and I envision the calling of Zords looking similar to that. Zordon could have the ship cloaked orbiting the Earth and just as the Hulkbuster pod fires off from the satellite, the Zord pods fire off from the ship.
Another option for you, Winds, would be to have Sacha not as a Ranger, but a fully trained sorcerer who comes to assist the team. Perhaps one of his ancestors knew Zordon and fought Bandora's army. That would give an explanation for his non-Ranger appearance and you can use Banshee Mode as a power-up all your own.
And yet another alternative is to say Sacha is quite skilled in Alchemy and Transmutation, and he uses that to further alter his Nanosuit and Black Ranger Zord. If using this third option, the Zord could be used as extra matter for a body-mass transmutation that fuses the Zord with his body to enable Banshee Mode. But since it is so fundamentally different from how the other Zords work, it might be better to go with one of the earlier options suggested.
Just some ideas to mull over. Sorry I left you hanging on that before, lol. While I don't know a lot about Udonna, feel free to use her in your backstory however you see fit.
I'll have the new thread up within a few days, in the meantime, feel free to post your characters here so we can all get an idea of each other's roles and such. We don't all necessarily have to use the same exact CS layout, but mine will be a fusion of what I posted above and the layout Forsythe used.
Everyone should also use this time while waiting for the main thread to hunt down any images you want to use for your characters. Base form, what their Nanosuit looks like, any upgrades, your Zord, any special attacks or moves that you want to include images or GIFs for, etc.
As mentioned before, the Zords are not giant mechas that can stomp out an entire city block in this RP, they are more akin to the Hulkbuster armor and act as enhancements to the Nanosuits. I showed a GIF of the Hulkbuster earlier, and the Gizmoduck transformation from DuckTales is also a good reference for a larger suit that pieces together over the Rangers:
As for the exact appearance of each Zord, feel free to use a design that matches your Nanosuit theme, but the Zords should each be no taller than like twelve or thirteen feet. I know in the shows the Zords usually join together, but since such a thing would be difficult to RP together and would take forever to finish a single combat action, we won't be doing that.
At the start of the RP, it's the first day of our senior year at Angel Grove High School. Do you want us to all know each other already and be friends, be loosely aware of one another, or complete strangers? Either way, my character - I haven't decided on his final name yet - will be on the look out for people he can trust with the other Nanosuits. If we want them all to already be friends, perhaps he has sent them all texts asking them to meet somewhere quiet during lunch, where he will reveal the secret to them or something. As for why he didn't say anything sooner, perhaps there were some delays in him returning home from Antarctica, and he only arrived back in Angel Grove the night before school started. We could even say he tried to get them to meet that night, but they were like "Dude, it's late, we'll see you at school tomorrow" or something.
What do you all think?
@WindsOfFate For the most part you are good I just want to remind you that magic in this world is a very hard skill to learn even among elves with him being so young it’s unlikely he would be able to perform anything more than a few simple spells. Nothing too crazy. Not sure how much you were planning on having him know.
As long as you understand that he is accepted
