#Power Rangers: Soul of the Dragon

[antygabo14]

This is an idea i had for a power rangers team, if you wanna see the lore i posted it on my ko-fi for my spectacular tier of supporters

[augment-techs]

Comics: Skull/Billy in every universe + Matt in the aftermath of the Etarian war as ot3 when I’m in the mood; Coinless Bulk/Kim; GGPR/post-Death Ranger Bulk/Jason; Goldar/Scorpina; Zophram|Zedd/Zordon; Zack Taylor/Violet Arias GGPR; Stone Canyon OT3; Trini/Zack/Jason for the Omegas; Andros/Zhane+TJ specific to Countdown to Ruin and Beyond the Grid; Coinless Adam/Scorpina and/or Scorpina/Trini as a small poly; Coinless CONSTELLATION in the aftermath of Drakkon New Dawn (aka, everyone has slept with almost everyone else, but the romantic entanglements are varied and odd);  Ari/Remi; David Trueheart/Stan Skullovitch ( @lordkingsmith​ AU variant) 1969 Ranger OT5; TEEN Tommy/Kim; ADULT Tommy/Kat; JJ Oliver/Anara. Live Action: Tommy/Kat Stone Canyon OT3 Mike/Kevin Lauren/Mia/Emily Trent/Cassidy/Devin Betty/Devon Monty/Victor Leelee/Clare SPD OT5 Sky/Z Sky/Jack RPM OT5 Dr. K/Gemma Chip/Xander/Vida Andros/TJ Andros/Zhane Cassie/Nokrea|Psycho Pink Maya & Bulk (strictly during the settling process on Terra Venture or on Mirinoi) Dustin/Marah (sloooooooooooow burn; or just friends) Eric/Wes/Jen (or just the boys when Jen goes away) Jarrod/Camille Tommy/Skull/Bulk ( @lordkingsmith​’s fault for the thought; also works for comics, but in moderations) Kat/Doggie Adelle/Ms. Appleby Amelia/Javi Ollie/Aiyon+Zayto Izzy/Fern Scorpina/Goldar/Rito Skull+just about anyone as long as it’s from his generation and preferably not Kimberly (because the og show made it gross) Billy/Zack I could go on and on and on. PR’17: Trini/Kim, Jason/Billy. Boring but serviceable.

I kinda wanna know, ranger fam, what are your favorite Power Rangers ships??

Like #1 or smth??

[fuckyeahjasonkimberly]

we love a healthy family dynamic

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Soul of the Dragon Print by Alon Chou

[augment-techs]

Hey umm!! Can I get a collection of all your commissioned art posts in one place somewhere 👀

...That's a LOT, honey. But lemme see...

I also sincerely hope you mean the ones by @felonius-glitch because otherwise there is not NEARLY enough room.

[sparrowsabre7]

Happy 30th Anniversary to the first appearance of Tommy Oliver

[infinitysgrace]

y'know it's been like four years since sotd came out and honest to god this is still the most satisfying win OF MY LIFE

[augment-techs]

Anara/J.J. Oliver

The Mother Figure: That would be both of them, actually. They're both very feminine and it shows off in their parenting style. The Father Figure: ....but when needs must, J.J. goes in for the whole 'pump the kid up' type thing.

Who's Stricter: Well, considering that Anara and J.J. are only together because Anara is a responsible and good friend who went looking after J.J. when he wouldn't answer her calls in a dangerous situation, the answer to that is kinda obvious.

Describe the kids/household: Neither of them were in the biggest hurry to start a family, and they're both trans, so it would have been considerably more difficult the natural way...but then fate intervened and they ended up adopting an orphan from Eltar that J.J. found when dealing with an inter-planetary trafficking ring. A little girl whose mother died waiting for her to be returned and who had no other family. Anara and J.J. had been dating for five years and were contemplating just signing the piece of paper so they wouldn't have to go through the hassle of e ceremony--but then they ended up applying for emergency foster license. Kat and Tommy approved instantly and helped them place a deposit for a little cottage property outside of Angel Grove.

Coinless Bulk/Slayer Kim

The Mother Figure: Bulk The Father Figure: Kim

Who's Stricter: 50/50

Describe the kids/household: Bulk has basically taken in every stray child, teenager, young adult, and injured party that's come into the protection of the Coinless over Drakkon's entire reign. There are a good dozen or so twenty-something kids that see this man as their rock and their fortress, but there's a particular young woman from the Mystic Realm that would have been the next Guardian if little Clare hadn't been whisked into Bulk's arms an hour after she was born. Kimberly would never try and assert her authority as new world leader on a barely sixteen year old, but sometimes she wishes she could. Especially since Clare is a TOTAL daddy's girl and is infinitely suspicious of the new/old woman in their lives.

Billy Cranston/Eugene Skullovitch/Matt Cook

The Mother Figure: Skull & Billy The Father Figure: Matt

Who's Stricter: Billy, 90% of the time.

Describe the kids/household: Being a teen parent through the worst kind of forced pregnancy imaginable, with no support network and getting thrown out by his poor excuse for a mother, Skull really didn't think he'd even be able to keep little Spike. But then he got picked up out of the gutter because Billy heard all about it and Matt heard the screaming through Promethea's halls. Billy got the money for a small house by selling a patent for his flying car, Matt made sure Skull and Spike were covered by his insanely good medical insurance, and basically decided to set Skull up for his music writing career while being a stay at home parent. Which THEN fell into the three of them dating and eventually forming a polyamorous partnership with a ceremony amongst friends; with tiny three year old Spike carrying the partner bands.

@ajgrey9647 @skyland2703 @lordkingsmith

PR Ship as parents

1.)Hunter/Dustin

Who’s the Mother Figure: Dustin

Who’s the Father Figure: Hunter

Who’s stricter: it’s 50/50

Describe the kids/household: Two kids, the daughter is the oldest, and the son is the youngest. House is interesting, it’s built into a huge mountain range with ninja based interior for running, the kids are rather mundane so Dustin tries to get them out of their shells while Hunter tries to keep them from becoming iPad kids, and goes for Tori/Blake as well…DS and video games are fine but you’ll not catch any of the Bradley bros raising no children with some Cocomelon shit ☠️☠️☠️

2.)RJ/Casey

Who's the Mother Figure: Casey

Who's the Father Figure: RJ

Who's stricter: Casey, only cause of his past home life, wants to keep them safe but eases up whenever RJ or the others convince him.

Describe the kids/household: two rabid twins(one boy and one girl) and one older daughter they adopted after the two. The house is huge but sometimes it feels as if the two are fighting for their lives getting everyone assorted. RJ is very optimistic but tries to destress whenever everyone else falls asleep while Casey is losing it, Jarrod and Camille are the only ones allowed to babysit, and Finn as well.

3.)Izzy/Fern

Who's the Mother Figure: Izzy

Who's the Father Figure: Fern

Who's stricter: none

Describe the kids/household: Four kids, two boys and two girls. A little crazy but they manage. They live in four different houses with the kids wanting to alternate each week for some reason, they have a van but not cause of the huge family but instead cause they just like to travel in a pack anywhere they go. Izzy and Fern never have to worry about stress since the kids seem to be very independent, though that doesn’t stop Uncle Javi from trashing the place when he gets them hyper on marshmallows…two houses nearly burned down when one of the boys ran around with a torched twig.

Tagging, don't have to but if you want to play long @lordkingsmith @augment-techs @azurezfiction @skyland2703 @themundanemudperson @estel-eruantien

[skyland2703]

Tomkat

I do kinda adore this pairing~

I liked how Kat was there for Tommy when the shit with Kim's letter went down. It was done and dusted, and she was there to be a shoulder for him to cry on. She tried to cheer him up by taking him snowboarding and all that shit and asdfgbfbdvscnaddfh I JUST THINK THAT IS SO SWEET!!

I love their moments in Soul of the Dragon. I really don't like a lot of the aspects of that book and how they handled things, but Tommy and Kat's relationship really isn't one of those things. They're perfect. And it's really so sweet, that even when Tommy retires as a sixty year old professor, he's got someone to love and cherish him and they basically grow old together and aaaaaiaiiiiiiiii

THIS ONE is fairly recent. I know Once and Always didn't place a lot of focus on their relationship, but hhhhh that moment where she stands in front of the captured tommy action figure it just HITS SO DEEP. Her expression, when she extends her hand towards it. I feel like they're trying to say so much in that scene, from her eyes, and with JDF's passing irl, I think Catherine Sutherland really, really got it ON POINT. it was beautiful and my heart just. cries. AAAIIIIIIII

Send me a ship and I’ll list three things I like about it, regardless of my overall opinions of the ship

[fuckyeahjasonkimberly]

are you trying to say their relationship in the return is predatory? because if so, i'm going to need you to look up what that means before tossing claims like that around. aside from the fact that it doesn't make sense to given they were married as adults and he's still an adult, there's no way in the world they'd OK an actual predatory relationship for kid-friendly power rangers. seriously.

you don't like tommy/kim - that's your prerogative. but you sound silly. stop.

"are you trying to say" already phrasing it as 'trying to say' and ending it in a question mark, means I didn't say it. the closest I got to saying 'predatory' was posting that Chris Hansen meme, which was just in response to the ask I got about Chris Hansen. 🤷

but since we're here, let's talk about it a bit.

Tommy and Kim got married and had this child about 5 years give or take after graduation. so Tommy is certainly closer to Olivia's age than he is to Kimberly's at this point. he literally called them OLD right to their faces. took one look at them and it was the first words out of his mouth.

and tbh I'm not even an anti in terms of shipping. I don't particularly care if/how much a ship is considered 'problematic'. but it's still a very odd choice to go out of your way to take a ship that is perfectly normal and fine, and make it weird and uncomfortable on purpose. he could have just walked out of there with a beard and some crow's feet and no one would have questioned it.

& putting aside his physical age, it's evident he's also considerably younger mentally. he said he felt like he'd been gone for a few days, whereas it's been a good 20+ years for everyone else (actual numbers from the 30th anniversary special). so instead of growing into the role of Olivia's father organically, he's now expected to be a daddy to a girl who's practically old enough to move out and start paying taxes. not to mention being a husband to a woman who's been grieving him far longer than they were actually married.

he even says "now that there are no more power rangers, I don't know who I'm supposed to be" which shows it doesn't even occur to him to view himself as a husband and father. and to make matters worse, Kim doesn't even try to point this out herself, beyond insistently calling him her husband, which, he legally is not since 'Tommy Oliver' died. he's got a very basic and impersonal tombstone to prove it. he's gonna need an alter ego like miss Emma. i guess they'll be the "Phillips" family now.💀

but anyway instead of saying something like "we may not be power rangers, but we're a family, and you have an equally important job now", she instead launches directly into trying to get the team all back together and tells Tommy to 'train' Olivia instead of you know, parent her. but at least it shows she recognizes what Tommy really wants, which definitely isn't to play house with her. 💀💀

now, given that there is a clear resemblance between Tommy and Olivia, and they're obviously close in age, it's likely that almost everyone else is going to assume they're brother & sister rather than father & daughter. so it sure is gonna be fun when they go out for a nice family dinner and people think it's a single mom out with her two kids lmfao.

now imagine Jason's there and guess who people are gonna think the daddy is?

[pyrusmasqueradeproductions]

I want to know one thing, where is my S.P.D. continuation series?

[antygabo14]

Power rangers dragon soul

[augment-techs]

For JJ and Anara to get a better sense for writing them lol;

What was their first impression of each other?

Who initiates affection? Why does the other not initiate affection as much?

How do they keep in contact when they’re apart? Do they write letters, talk on the phone, or simply wait out the time?

How do their personalities affect their relationship? Do their characteristics compliment each other, or clash often?

What was their first impression of each other?

[utilitycaster]

So far in campaign 3, 5 of the party have died and been resurrected and 2 have died permanently, with only Imogen, Dorian, and (presumably) Braius not dying ever. In campaign 2, again 5 of the party died and got resurrected over the whole thing with Beau, Yasha, and Kingsley surviving, and Molly permanently dying. BUT, in Vox Machina, everyone except Tary died at least once with the twins dying FOUR TIMES EACH and only Vax permanently dying. What do you think changed after the first campaign? Is it that Matt got “better” at scaling encounters, the players got better at staying alive, a group decision to take resurrection more seriously, or is it a total coincidence?

It’s just something I noticed all of a sudden tonight and I’m not sure if I’m just seeing something where there is nothing or if other people have noticed this too and have thoughts on why it is.

Hi anon,

I started to write up a massive and lengthy analysis this morning and realized it was not very good and that I had to leave for work in 20 minutes. Anyway I think it's mostly the players getting better at staying alive, mostly through party comp:

Vox Machina unexpectedly, for "Ashley got cast on a TV show that filmed in NYC" and "Tiberius's player sucks" reasons found themselves abruptly down not only a healer (most of the time) but an arcane caster, leaving Scanlan and Keyleth doing double and triple duty. Vex did a pretty impressive amount of healing for a ranger, actually, but only had touch heals and limited spell slots for them. Add the fact that Keyleth couldn't heal while in Wildshape until pretty much the endgame and Scanlan was absent for an arc, replaced by Tary, who could heal but was not a full caster, and that explains a lot.

Vox Machina also had two characters with relatively low HP/terrible con saves to go with it (the twins) and only one true, full-time tank (Grog). Vex and Percy were often out of healing range but could get hit by an AOE attack. Also, dragons are particularly lethal for AOE reasons and four of those deaths are Raishan, two from when they tried to get Raishan immediately after the Thordak fight.

Of Vox Machina's deaths, two of Vax's, one of Vex's, Keyleth's, and one of Grog's are all out of combat and primarily due to player choice. They got way better at not doing this (well, Vax's are kind of unavoidable, but we only had one in C2 of this nature with Veth and the Power Word Kill trap, and none in C3).

One VM death (two if you count the wedding one-shot) was a direct assassination vs. one in the Nein and none for Bells Hells.

Now consider:

The Mighty Nein and Bells Hells each have at least two tanks; Bells Hells has three. The Nein have two full clerics (*extremely tired voice* Jester actually is a very good healer, Caduceus is just exceptionally support-focused) even without Fjord and Yasha's healing. Bells Hells had one full time cleric, and now they have a full bard and a bard-paladin.

No one dumps CON anymore. If only I could get them to start dumping WIS again and stop dumping INT, but I digress.

People are getting better at checking for traps and not selling their souls to cursed items.

Otohan Thull's build is in fact, I must admit, pretty good and cool, her lack of any personality traits not withstanding, but her lethal nature is specifically because she exclusively faced a super tapped party in a situation where they couldn't get out of there. She is responsible for all 5 deaths that weren't a Bertrand Bell Clear Setup situation; I think if Bells Hells hadn't been trapped and tapped things might have gone differently, whereas Vox Machina often was like "rests are for SUCKERS" and got their asses beat in avoidable manners.

My other caveat is of course not to count your chickens before they're slaughtered, namely, while none of Vox Machina died in the final Vecna fight unless you count Vax, which I don't, Vecna did kill two of them earlier on, though; Vax permanently (the Raven Queen just let him hang out a bit longer). The Somnovem/Lucien hybrid killed two of the Mighty Nein in the final battle. Ludinus or Predathos could fucking level the party. Otohan could have gone much worse in episode 91 without many changes; that was the first time I've ever heard Matt talk like a TPK was potentially imminent. Some of this is also luck, and some of this with Bells Hells is that *Myst voice* the ending has not yet been written.

[augment-techs]

Two sides of my brain are duking it out over this, because I am a contrary little thing that can never stick to one favorite for very long.

HOWEVER, I can absolutely post recommendations for the long haul.

My standing favorites from the live action series over the last 30 years are very rarely Rangers proper. I have affection pointed towards their aids and comedy holders more often than not.

In MMPR it was Bulk and Skull, but I had affection in spades for Billy. In Turbo and In Space, I still prefer the duo, but T.J., Zhane, and the Psycho Rangers all hold my interest for prolonged periods due to giving off bi, gay, and monster vibes. Interestingly, Lost Galaxy provided a lot of references to the human form, given how many times Leo ripped off his shirt. I still liked Kai more, but I think that was just because Archie Kao is a better actor.

Lightspeed Rescue was a fun time to exhaust yourself with conventionally attractive people that were largely bland as paint; though Kelsey did awaken a lot of sapphics.

If you watch Time Force, do it for no other reason than to watch Eric pine for Wes from a distance while Wes throws puppy eyes at Jen the entire time--and Wes and Eric still basically end up together.

Wild Force is for the Jindrax/Toxica, Danny/Max, and laughing as hard as you can watching the writers push SO HARD for the Princess Shayla and Merrick, only for her to fuck off back into sleep and Merrick ending up with a wolf furry he was stuck inside for the better part of a century.

Ninja Storm is...a sausage fest, but I stood firm and pleased with every interaction between Marah and Kapri with literally everyone else. Also Cam is basically perfect for his role.

Dino Thunder was is...interesting. I think my favorite Ranger is temporarily evil Trent, but only because it's fun to watch him suffer. Also Devin and Cassidy and the writers TEASING ABOUT THEM for half the season.

I think we can all agree that SPD really hasn't aged well, but that's okay, because I still really like Piggy and Kat; the borderline mafia adjacent and the team mom.

Mystic Force is interesting in so many different ways, as mentioned above about Nick, but also because the adult mentors here weren't entirely worthless. Udonna was very much doing her best with what she had, Daggeron was a little off putting, but a good teacher; Koragg was fucking awesome as an antagonist--but again, my favorites are the non-rangers in Clare, Leelee, and Phineas.

I still don't like Overdrive. I put in the discs to play them and the theme song turns on and everything after that irritates me. But Spencer and Rose are nice.

Jungle Fury might have the most well balanced team, which is why I actually liked the Red Ranger Casey Rhodes. But Fran has all of my heart; especially since she's left holding the bag SO MUCH. Also Camille and Jarrod *kisses them on their dumb little heads*

RPM is not a competition, because everyone here (that isn't Colonel Truman) has a reason for being what they are and doing what they do and growing from that. And because I am a basic bitch, Dillon and Ziggy are my favorites.

Samurai had...complicated bullshit. Like, do I really have to bring this up? They gave a purely Japanese history to a pair of blond, blue eyed, white teens, the only Asian on the team was the Pink Ranger and had a running gag of being a terrible cook, the Yellow Ranger was picked on for being a girl WAY too much, the Green Ranger is the culmination of obnoxious stereotypes reaching backwards from previous Green Rangers, the Blue Ranger's only endearing quality is probably being very gay underneath the obvious trauma of growing up in one of the most controlling environments that espouses loyalty as obedience... But Antonio is fine. We LIKE Antonio. (And Spike~)

Dino Charge has Shelby and Kendall, Ivan and Koda, Tyler and Riley and Chase. This was basically a perfect season.

Ninja Steel was so boring. It had potential, but they NEVER got into the human trafficking, the slavery, the childhood trauma, or veered away from the fart jokes with Victor and Monty. But Hayley is gorgeous?

Beast Morpers had Devon Daniels 💖💖 and Betty and Ben Burke. Also the Blaze and Roxy avatars look good in leather.

Dino Fury/Cosmic Fury. Go in for the Javelia and Ollaiyon, stay for the Fizzy. Ignore canon, but relax when Ollie goes evil and Fern is assigned as first canon live action Orange.

And if you don't want any of that: READ THE COMICS!!! Read Go Go Power Rangers, read Shattered Grid, read the Annuals, read Beyond the Grid, read Necessary Evil, read Return of the Ranger Slayer, read the Eltarian War!!! Do it for the ACTUAL character development, the art, the writing, the new characters, the lore, the branching of timelines and alternative history!! Everyone is a winner at least ONCE.

of all of the Power Rangers, who is your fave and why?

THAT,,, is an excellent question

I must admit something now:

I haven't watched the Power Rangers and I don't know who most of them are :3

I wish I did, but I guess I just never liked them as a kid? and I've never thought to watch it nowadays- I probably should watch it tbh

I wish I could answer your ask ;-; In lieu of that, I extend this to all of my followers: Who's your favourite Power Ranger and why?

Thanks for the great ask, and I'm sorry I couldn't answer it!! I hope you have a lovely night/day!!