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Orange smiles and starts zoning out. "It's about the possibilities. They're as endless as the ocean. Who fits, who doesn't? How will it play out?" She continues to stare straight forward.

"What's the point of doing that?" asked Blue, nervously twining a strand of her hair around her finger.

"A pairing of two characters," General Ranger Black Genner answered, coming out of a room connected to the hallway. "Shippers are infamous for pairing up characters that would never actually get together. Not to say that all shippers do this." She glanced at Orange.

Isn't cobalt actually blue-ish in color, as opposed to brown-ish?

For justice, for truth, for putting the correct letters in the correct order!

"Oh! I have a question!"

Pink waved her hand in the air, until the other Rangers looked at her.

"What's a ship??"

"Pink/Blue, huh? Or rather Pink/Cobalt? So many ships!" Orange giggles with excitement and continues eyeing the other rangers.

So, yeah.
I'm here.

Newbie Ranger Excitement Pink grinned at Blue.

"I dunno!" she said. "But Cobalt is awesome, right? So THEY must be awesome, too!"

Characterization Cobalt turns around, just now realizing she has company. "Bwuh? Oh. These?" She holds up a piece of paper that barely has any more space left on it with a wide grin. "Just a character sheet I'm working on. Need to consider and map out every detail about this guy in order to know exactly how to write him authentically." She glances back at her notes. "Oh, of course. He can't go in there because of his chicken phobia. Silly me."

Newbie Ranger Anxiety Blue walked past them, nibbling on her thumbnail. She stopped to glance at Cobalt's notes. "Wh-what are all of these for?"

General Ranger Shipping Orange emerges from behind Cobalt. "Have you thought of the ships already?" She looks at the extensive notes. "Have you? Also, do you like Yellow?"

Um, hi? I'm not sure what to do... maybe I'll just stand over here in this corner... no one else wanted this corner, right?

No, I'm not nervous. Why would you think that?

Special Ranger Characterization Cobalt strutted through the hallway, ignoring everything around her because she was completely focused on writing down lists and sketches and diagrams, muttering things along the lines of "It should be completely natural for him to take this offer" and "No no no, he would never break it, it's a heirloom" while erasing and scribbling. "Why didn't I think of it sooner, she reminds him of his... But why would he... Nah. ... Oh, that's a good one," she speaks with a grin as she proudly added a few arrows to her sheet to connect some words and phrases.

Greetings, fellow masked fighters for justice. Here, have some ridiculously over-detailed character sheets. I have around twenty or thirty of them around. Oh, wait.

scribbles some more information on the margins

My doctor told me I had something called "OCD", but that's just silly. Wait a minute.

frantically adds some more sketches of character arcs

Newbie Ranger Shy Yellow peeked through a peephole in the door. He quickly pulled the door open and hid behind it.

Hi... Hides in corner

It's for large things that need extended amount of time or that would stretch the board out.

This sometimes includes RPs.

That said, there is a dedicated RP community for PPC RP on Dreamwidth.

Newbie Ranger Excitement Pink ran down the hallway, humming the PPR's theme song under her breath.
"I'm gonna be the VERY BEST- LIKE NO ONE EVER WAS-" she warbled, almost an octave off-key. Her pink curls bobbed up and down her as she ran towards the PPR Secret Sanctum.
She smoothed down her bright pink uniform, knocked on the door, and practically bounced with excitement, waiting to be allowed in.

An entire forum devoted to PPC RP? How did I miss this??? :O

is an AVID. AVID. RP'er.

...the edge of the multiverse, Evaltrix Sparklesa watched, waiting. Her shining magical mirror reflected the inner sanctum of the Plot Protector Rangers, showing her the inner movements, right under their foolish leader's... er, petals, without him even being aware in the slightest.

It also showed her perfect golden curling hair, her lovely tanned skin, practiced smile, and crystal blue eyes and her fantastic outfit, which shimmered in the light exuding from her mirror.

It also showed that her bra was sticking out a bit, so she adjusted her boobs a little, before proceeding to laugh. It was elegant, beautiful, and evil.

"They will never guess what I have planned for them and their meddlesome, protective love of canon! I shall take the entire multiverse over and they shall not be able to do a thing!"

If the mirror projected sound as well as the view, she would have drowned out the siren call of the Ranger HQ's most urgent alert.

Hi!!!!! What did I miss???

コンチンウイム の プーロト プロテクタース RANGERS GO!

Calling all rangers!

The continuum needs your help!

The Evilatrix Sparklesa has sent out her minions the GENERICS to cause bad writing everywhere! The multiverse is surely doomed without your help!

Rangers, report to HQ!

Newbie Rank Ranger Team go!

Newbie Ranger Excitement Pink go!
Newbie Ranger Anxiety Blue go!
Newbie Ranger Stubborn Red go!
Newbie Ranger Shy Yellow go!
Newbie Ranger Nonchalant Green go!

General Rank Ranger Team Go!

General Ranger Orange Shipper go!
General Ranger Purple Alter go!
General Ranger White SIer go!
General Ranger Brown Crosser go!
General Ranger Black Genner go!

Special Rank Ranger Team go!

Special Ranger Grammar Gold go!
Special Ranger Characterization Cobalt go!
Special Ranger Spelling Silver go!
Special Ranger Pacing Platinum go!
Special Agent Dialogue Diamond go!





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[For those of you who have no idea what's going on, here's the breakdown: It's a parody RP! Just like the Star Trek one, except this one is inspired by Power Rangers and the general super sentai genre. Pick a role that isn't taken and jump in. I will be playing the role of Evilatrix Sparklesa. Boarders and Agents are both allowed in, and in multiples; but please try to let people pick a ranger role, and don't populate a team by yourself! If they all fill up, feel free to come up with a Sixth Ranger type following one of the styles for the three ranks, or join in on the side of evil!



For those of you not aware of how super sentai show or Power Rangers episodes normally go, it usually goes:
a) characters have some sort of unrelated dilemna
b) characters encounter one of the head villain's plans in action or are alerted to one in action by whoever is their leader/mentor figure
c) characters begin fighting- physical attacks only, no weapons.
d) the monster/villain of the week shows up; the protagonists pull out their weapons, which usually involves long attack names
e) This doesn't work, monster/villain of the week either gets really huge or jumps into a giant mecha
f) Characters jump into their own mecha- these are usually animal themed and shaped
g) Characters are not successful in fighting monster/villain like this separately
h) Characters combine their mecha into a giant fighting robot with a joined bridge/cockpit
i) Awesome robot fight
j) Explosions
k) Heroes win]

I'm not sure who wrote these. I didn't see the author listed on the mission heading, or anywhere on the wiki, so I don't believe I have read this author before. I know I have never read these agents before. This is more negative than I would normally like to be, but I have tried to include the things that I liked and thought were well done.


Notes in parenthesis, while generally entertaining became distracting and brought me out of the story when they were happening in multiple, successive paragraphs. There were a total of twenty of these in this mission. I have a personal bad habit of wanting to make this kinds of statements when I talk or chat. I usually manage to cut them down in chat, you're just out of luck if you talk to me directly, anyway I know the temptation to use these, but they really make the writing look amateurish. If it was perhaps one or maybe even two in the mission, it would probably be tolerable, but twenty is way too many.

I'm not sure how Dee could think that Milask is a pet if he is the same kind of cat as Cat on Red Dwarf was. Cat was very clearly more humanoid than feline.

Dee is really not making a very good impression on me. I think she is trying to be funny, but she is really coming across as unneccesarily mean. It started with continuing on the pet thread after being told several times that Milask is not a pet, asking if he needed a litter box, and just generally not listening to him, and then the comment below, was almost funny. It made me think of the Cat and his wardrobe, but the 'I don't wanna!' whining followed by her stating that being nice is no fun, ruined the funny for me. I like reading about nice people most of the time. At least when it is people that are not nice, I like them to be up front about it. Nume is not particularly nice, but he tells you about it. Orken tries very hard to not be nice, and he also is up front about it. I guess I don't want to empathize very much with characters that are sneakily not nice.

"Great, not only was her partner not of the same species, but he was vain also. The list just went on and on... 'Be nice,' her inner voice admonished. 'But I don't wanna!' she whined. Being nice, or attempting to be nice, was no fun.


"I get the picture," said Milask, putting up his hand in annoyance.

And now we have Milask being short when Dee wasn't being particularly annoying.

Milask went down on all fours and chased after Harry,

Admittedly, I haven't seen the seventh and eighth series of Red Dwarf, but I can't imagine Cat ever getting down on all fours to chase anything. Whinging about how could anyone expect him to chase anything in a suit like this, would be something I would expect. 'What and mess up this hair?' I can imagine him saying. One of my favorite scenes with the Cat is early on, he has a little spray bottle and he's walking down the halls spritzing everything. "This is mine. And this is mine. And this is mine. And this is mine, too. Oh look, this is MINE." He certainly wasn't pulling down his drawers and using bodily fluids. And that was the thing that made him so funny for me. He was acting like such a cat, while at the same time showing that his species had evolved into something so much more.

COMPLETE CHARACTER RUPTURE IMMINENT!!!!! DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER!!!]

Dee raised her eyebrows: Makes-Things had obviously been watching too much Lost in Space.

I liked this one. It made me smile, and there were no odd agent reactions pulling me back from smiling about it.

"You're not a feline! At least... not right ...now," she said, looking him up and down. Damn tall person (who used to be a cat). Actually... he didn't look too bad as a human...

What is this? The Cat on Red Dwarf was just a catboy, not a shapeshifter. This is really becoming my complete focus in reading this mission. It has distracted me totally away from the badfic and the sporking.

"And ruin my robes? I don't think so. Look, a crease!" Milask grabbed a mini iron from his backpack (who knows what he was doing with it on a PPC mission) and ironed the crease out of the robe.

Now THAT is the kind of reaction I was looking for!

"Chocolate?" asked Dee. "Nothing in this story makes sense and it's better to not analyze it too much." Chocolate is the answer to all your problems. When in pain, have some chocolate.

I almost feel like she has forgotten to be nasty here.Like she might accidentally be being nice without feeling like it is a terrible thing.

This had absolutely the shortest exorcism I've ever read. One whack with a book, and one order, and it's completely over with. I know they tend to be more drawn out now, sometimes too much so, but this seemed anti-climatic...right up until there was another more elaborate exorcism, with the expected author wraith. Which confuses me. Why did they go back to being in-character with one smack, and then have to have the phantom exorcised after that?

The ending scene with the General Store was nice. I was immediately interested in Leto. He's taking pride in the simple state of having things neat and tidy. I can imagine him standing at the counter looking over things in a proprietary manner. Then he goes on with the blurb about the minis not getting along, and the problems it would cause, followed by the feeling of responsibility he feels toward keeping the PPC on its feet by supplying sanity supporting vices to the agents. I've seen the General Store mentioned many times, mostly on the wiki, but I've never read actual characterization of it in a mission, and this was very nice. My agents might visit it now that I've watched this scene as I read it.

Overall impressions: The issues with Milask at the beginning of the mission really, really bothered me. By the end of the mission, these had improved drastically. It almost felt like perhaps, the author was working from a distant memory in the first half of the mission, and then re-watched some episodes of Red Dwarf and began basing Milask's characterization on that. The improvement between what I expected from Milask being a Red Dwarf cat and how he actually behaved was drastic to the point of that it actually made me stop and stare at the story when he did something that would have been in-character for the Cat.

Dee didn't make a good impression on me at first either, and I am not sure that I can easily forget that first impression. With Milask, the issues were more technical, like his species shouldn't look like that, that reaction isn't right, etc. It wasn't a problem with Milask as a character so much as a problem of cognitive dissonance between Milask as written and the statement that he was a Red Dwarf Cat. With Dee, the problem was very much one of her characterization. I found several intances, which I pointed out, where I just didn't like her as a person. When she later behaved without the nasty comments, I was left wondering where they went.

Come to think about it, her nastiness was replaced with nearly unbridled lustiness at about the same time that Milask started acting more like a Red Dwarf Cat. I am now thinking that this mission was almost certainly written in two sessions, probably separated by a good chunk of time. The second session was much improved over the first. To be honest, I never would have finished reading this mission, if I hadn't told myself that I was going to do this concrit piece on it. And if I had stopped, I never would have read that excellent General Store section at the end.

The second half of the mission had me thinking that this agent pair might be worth reading again, and the General Store section clenched it. I will give them another shot.