#Lothor

[escapism-from-the-real-world]

I had a power ranger RPM thought:

So, the bad guys in power rangers have been pretty good for the most part. Venjix from RPM is genuinely terrifying simply for the fact that he’s killed the majority of the planet, Zander from samurai is a really good bad for bad sake kind of bad guy and he’s a chronic migraine icon, and Jarrod/Dai Shi and Camile from Jungle Fury are my favorite bad guys ever and they are so much fun and all the villains in this show are giving off toxic family drama vibes and sometimes have more interesting plot lines than the heroes.

Lothor from Ninja Storm and Mesagog from Dino Thunder have been alright. They have interesting concepts that I feel like needed a little bit more oomph to be on par with everyone else I’ve seen/remember so far. Mesagog has an amazing character design tho.

ANYWAY, most of the villains have reasons for why they are failing to destroy the rangers despite their best efforts (Zander suffers from constant debilitating migraines that stop him from leading well, Lothor is purposefully losing for later plot reasons, Dai Shi is being held back by Jarrod, Mesagog is being held back by Trent’s dad) but I didn’t really see this kind of reasoning for RPM.

Which is weird because RPM is like, the best power rangers ever and has some really fun interactions/dynamics with villains and heroes, but didn’t have the same “we’re failing because there is X holding us back”

And then I remembered Venjix’s origin story.

He’s a computer program meant to infiltrate and disarm security programs, maybe even destroy them. He’s a computer program made by Dr. K, his direct enemy. Computer programs are only as smart as they are programmed to be.

Venjix can easily get into Corinth, that’s basically his whole programming, but can’t beat the “security team” (aka the rangers) because they are “programmed” beyond what he was designed to destroy.

He keeps losing because he is a computer program with set limitations already in place for him. All his biggest schemes and plans that had the greatest success were thought up by Tenaya in combination with his other generals.

It is a human mind that is progressing his advancements and even then it is held back by his preference for his machines.

Like, that’s really cool. And maybe that wasn’t what they were going for but it works and it’s wonderfully consistent with what we are give about how Venjix works.

I love this show so much.

[regaliasonata]

Lothor babysitting Baby Cameron:

[mysticusfreeze]

[incorrectpowerrangersquotes]

Look at the mountains over here. Look at how beautiful that is. But we're not here for beauty. We're here for darkness.

Lothor, Power Rangers Ninja Storm

[robotdragonfanatic]

You know what's funny?

Despite being "losers", Marah and Kapri destroyed Shimazu - a goofy general, but he was still a general.

Yeah you can argue he was beat up after the Power Rangers, but they still killed him.

No hesitation, no remorse and no struggle.

For once they were capable - so it makes sense Lothor got worried they actually were faking incompetence this whole time. Even though he was the one who came up with the plan in the first place.

[illustrationsbychristina]

Power Rangers Fan Candles - The Dojo

This is a fan project, not associated with Hasbro, Saban, or any storefront.

11. The Dojo - Power Rangers Ninja Storm

The storm outside matches the sparring inside.

[sinvomits]

Hey I'm a furry and look at this fascinating wholesome furry art have.

W H O L E S O M E 👁️🫦👁️

Green Alien Unicorn dog is Flummery &

Big Eldridge dragon boy is Lother their dating :3

[augment-techs]

How do you think Ninja Storm would’ve played out if it was Kanoi that passed instead of Miko, how would that alter the story?

Mainly with Cam etc having his mom as both the mentor and more samurai qualities around🤔

I should think that Cam would have been a great deal more relaxed and open to fun and curiosity that his father seemed to do his very best to dim and correct throughout his life all in the name of keeping him safe. I can assume that he did that for the sake of honor binding by promise to Miko, but with her being alive here and Kanoi being dead, there's no need to split hairs. Miko would continue the Ninja Academy, but with the personal choice to train Cam as a Samurai--the Watanabe name is hers, not Kanoi's, despite what others think. It is Cam's birthright and she would make sure he was aware of it.

I should believe that when Lothor came down on the Academy, both Wind and Thunder, Miko would not be turned into a guinea pig. It's not dignified and I have this weird feeling that the universe would give her more than that. Perhaps a cat, or dog, a Bombay or a Border Collie so she could defend herself or travel about to help the other Rangers as needs must.

I think above all else, she would make sure not to be TOO cryptic with the Rangers in their learning and their training and would be all storms and lightning finding out that Lothor was using her nieces in such a demeaning way--debasing themselves to act stupid and ridiculous to build up to some master plan. Miko would not stand for it, and Cam would be brought to make sure to give them food and clothing and check in on them.

I think by the end of all things, MIKO WOULD HAVE KICKED LOTHOR'S ASS. And heard Tori out on her trip to the land of Oz and gone to visit and get to know Lothor as a proper gentleman.

[cupcakes-are-ours]

lothor: i said no more killing my men without permission. and what did you do? killed someone!

vexacus: i am not going to stand here and listen to you accusing me of things i clearly did

[alaynasansa]

Sansa Week 2024 : day three - friends & foes

[regaliasonata]

✨Lord Kiya, Leader of Jakanja✨

Purple fabric made by his sister Kairi and since she’s dead he honors her when fusing it with his suit

@skyland2703 @ninjastormz @augment-techs

[incorrectpowerrangersquotes]

I can’t be bothered to hit you. Here is my fist, kindly run into it as fast as you can.

Lothor to Zurgane, Power Rangers Ninja Storm

[wpmorse]

"Ser Lothor, the Reward"

Sansa pg 839

[luckyshinyhunter]

⛈️😈I love how these shows have the most messiest, chaotic yet entertaining episodes that's better than the modern soap operas!⛈️😈

[stromuprisahat]

Second law of Queen Alysanne

Queen Alysanne also wished to listen to the women of the North. When Lord Burley explained that there were no women on the Wall, she persisted…until finally, with great reluctance, he had her escorted to a village south of the Wall that the black brothers called Mole’s Town. She would find women there, his lordship said, though most of them would be harlots. The men of the Night’s Watch took no wives, he explained, but they remained men all the same, and some felt certain needs. Queen Alysanne said she did not care, and so it came to pass that she held her women’s court amongst the whores and strumpets of Mole’s Town…and there heard certain tales that would change the Seven Kingdoms forever.

...

When Septon Barth, Grand Maester Benifer, and the others had assembled, Alysanne told them of her visit to the Wall, and the day that she had spent with the whores and fallen women of Mole’s Town.

“There was a girl there,” the queen said, “no older than I am as I sit before you now. A pretty girl, but not, I think, as pretty as she was. Her father was a blacksmith, and when she was a maid of fourteen years, he gave her hand in marriage to his apprentice. She was fond of the boy, and he of her, so the two of them were duly wed…but scarcely had they said their vows than their lord came down upon the wedding with his men-at-arms to claim his right to her first night. He carried her off to his tower and enjoyed her, and the next morning his men returned her to her husband.

“But her maidenhead was gone, together with whatever love the apprentice boy had borne her. He could not raise his hand against the lord for peril of his life, so instead he raised it against his wife. When it became plain that she was carrying the lord’s child, he beat it out of her. From that day on, he never called her anything but ‘whore,’ until finally the girl decided that if she must be called a whore she would live as one, and made her way to Mole’s Town. There she dwells until this day, a sad child, ruined…but all the while, in other villages, other maids are being wed, and other lords are claiming their first night.

“Hers was the worst story, but not the only one. At White Harbor, at Mole’s Town, at Barrowton, other women spoke of their first nights as well. I never knew, my lords. Oh, I knew of the tradition. Even on Dragonstone, there are stories of men of mine own house, Targaryens, who have made free with the wives of fisherfolk and serving men, and sired children on them…”

“Dragonseeds, they call them,” Jaehaerys said with obvious reluctance. “It is not a thing to boast of, but it has happened, mayhaps more often than we would care to admit. Such children are cherished, though. Orys Baratheon himself was a dragonseed, a bastard brother to our grandsire. Whether he was conceived of a first night I cannot say, but Lord Aerion was his father, that was well-known. Gifts were given…”

“Gifts?” the queen said in a voice sharp with derision. “I see no honor in any of this. I knew such things happened hundreds of years ago, I confess it, but I never dreamed that the custom endured so strongly to this day. Mayhaps I did not want to know. I closed my eyes, but that poor girl in Mole’s Town opened them. The right of the first night! Your Grace, my lords, it is time we put an end to this. I beg you.”

A silence fell after the queen had finished speaking, Grand Maester Benifer tells us. The lords of the small council shifted awkwardly in their seats and exchanged glances, until finally the king himself spoke up, sympathetic but reluctant. What the queen proposed would be difficult, Jaehaerys said. Lords grew troublesome when kings began taking things that they regarded as their own. “Their lands, their gold, their rights…”

“…their wives?” Alysanne finished. “I remember our wedding, my lord. If you had been a blacksmith and me a washerwoman and some lord had come to claim me and take my maidenhead the day we took our vows, what would you have done?”

“Killed him,” Jaehaerys said, “but I am not a blacksmith.”

“If, I said,” the queen persisted. “A blacksmith is still a man, is he not? What man but a coward would stand by meekly whilst another man has his way with his wife? We do not want blacksmiths killing lords, surely.” She turned to Grand Maester Benifer and said, “I know how Gargon Qoherys died. Gargon the Guest. How many more such instances have there been, I wonder?”

“More than I would care to say,” Benifer allowed. “They are not oft spoken of, for fear that other men might do the same, but…”

“The first night is an offense against the King’s Peace,” the queen concluded. “An offense against not only the maid, but her husband as well…and the wife of the lord, never forget. What do those highborn ladies do whilst their lords are out deflowering maidens? Do they sew? Sing? Pray? Were it me, I might pray my lord husband fell off his horse and broke his neck coming home.”

King Jaehaerys smiled at that, but it was plain that he was becoming increasingly uncomfortable. “The right of the first night is an ancient one,” he argued, though with no great passion, “as much a part of lordship as the right of pit and gallows. It is rarely used south of the Neck, I am told, but its continued existence is a lordly prerogative that some of my more truculent subjects would be loath to surrender. You are not wrong, my love, but sometimes it is best to let a sleeping dragon lie.”

“WE are the sleeping dragons,” the queen threw back. “These lords who love their first nights are dogs. Why must they slake their lust on maidens who have only just pledged their love to other men? Have they no wives of their own? Are there no whores in their domains? Have they lost the use of their hands?”

The justiciar Lord Albin Massey spoke up then, saying, “There is more to the first night than lust, Your Grace. The practice is an ancient one, older than the Andals, older than the Faith. It goes back to the Dawn Age, I do not doubt. The First Men were a savage race, and like the wildings beyond the Wall, they followed only strength. Their lords and kings were warriors, mighty men and heroes, and they wanted their sons to be the same. If a warlord chose to bestow his seed upon some maid on her wedding night, it was seen as…a sort of blessing. And if a child should come of the coupling, so much the better. The husband could then claim the honor of raising a hero’s son as his own.”

“Mayhaps that was so, ten thousand years ago,” the queen replied, “but the lords claiming the first night now are no heroes. You have not heard the women speak of them. I have. Old men, fat men, cruel men, poxy boys, rapers, droolers, men covered with scabs, with scars, with boils, lords who have not washed in half a year, men with greasy hair and lice. These are your mighty men. I listened to the girls, and none of them felt blessed.”

“The Andals never practiced the first night in Andalos,” Grand Maester Benifer said. “When they came to Westeros and swept away the kingdoms of the First Men, they found the tradition in place and chose to let it remain, just as they did the godswoods.”

Septon Barth spoke then, turning to the king. “Sire, if I may be so bold, I believe Her Grace has the right of this. The First Men might have found some purpose in this rite, but the First Men fought with bronze swords and fed their weirwood trees with blood. We are not those men, and it is past time we put an end to this evil. It stands against every ideal of chivalry. Our knights swear to protect the innocence of maidens…save for when the lord they serve wishes to despoil one, it would seem. We swear our marriage vows before the Father and the Mother, promising fidelity until the Stranger comes to part us, and nowhere in The Seven-Pointed Star does it say that those promises do not apply to lords. You are not wrong, Your Grace, some lords will surely grumble at this, especially in the North…but all the maids will thank us for it, and all the husbands and the fathers and the mothers, just as the queen has said. I know the Faithful will be pleased. His High Holiness will let his voice be heard, never doubt it.”

When Barth had finished speaking, Jaehaerys Targaryen threw up his hands. “I know when I am beaten. Very well. Let it be done.”

And so it came to pass that the second of what the smallfolk named Queen Alysanne’s Laws was enacted: the abolition of the lord’s ancient right to the first night. Henceforth, it was decreed, a bride’s maidenhead would belong only to her husband, whether joined before a septon or a heart tree, and any man, be he lord or peasant, who took her on her wedding night or any other night would be guilty of the crime of rape.

Fire and Blood (George R. R. Martin)

1.)

“Their lands, their gold, their rights…”

As if unifying laws didn’t take some of their rights already. But it was necassary, therefore done.

2.)

Alysanne: Perhaps we should stop overlooking rape. It would make life a lot less miserable for the women of the realm and their husbands would be happier.

Jaehaerys: I don’t think that can be done. The Lords would certainly riot.

Everyone, but septon Barth: Yeah, and TRADITIONS!

septon Barth: The Queen might have a point. The gods are disgusted by this practice and we’re civilised people.

Jaehaerys: You’re so right, babe! Let’s do this!

3.)

“Dragonseeds ... It is not a thing to boast of, but it has happened, mayhaps more often than we would care to admit. ...”

...

“ ... Were it me, I might pray my lord husband fell off his horse and broke his neck coming home.”

King Jaehaerys smiled at that, but it was plain that he was becoming increasingly uncomfortable.

I’m sure this guy’s fiercely loyal to his wife.