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[ Category: Misc OCs ]

| Rebellious woman with a daredevil like attitude and will literally cause problems on purpose while having loads of fun doing so, she'll start fights and still feels like a champ even if she loses!

This is another rando OC I've had for a very long time too who's very good friends with another OC of mine (who I haven't gotten to completely re-designing yet and I seriously need to cuz I love him too) cuz she's more of like his emotional support while also trying to give him a heart attack with the crazy shit she does.

This is Alyssa, and originally she was like a 20 something year old before I re-designed her slightly a year ago, accidentally made her older than intended and stuck with it cuz it actually suits her a hell of a lot more than I thought it would... So she's like in her 50's now and I feel that works a hella lot better for her development!

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Name: Alyssa Species: Human General Personality: Outgoing, confident, troublesome, daredevil, jokester, rough Height: 5ft "5" Relationship Status: Single

Extra Info:

(TW Miscarriage) She got married to a guy she had dated for 10 years, roughly in their early 30's. They tried for a baby, however unfortunately due to health complications of the baby's development she ended up having a miscarriage. Where it took a toll on the both of them they both heavily agreed to get a divorce and go to therapy, they keep in contact as friends now and plan to keep it that way; Alyssa has completely lost interest in relationships and such since and could explain why she has become very rebellious as she got older

She works as a waitress at a small diner up to roughly 4 to 5 days a week with average 5 hours when she's not being a menace to society; Surprisingly enough how she's still got her job after several separate occasions doing time in prison, community service and so on. In the end she's probably just a very good waitress

She's also a biker and loves bikes to hell and back, she's joins a very popular biker gang who mainly go around the city and open up soup kitchens for the homeless; Despite so much trouble, contributing to something like this makes her feel very humble and useful to some things

Loves going clubbing and will most of the time (or always) come out drunk asf; Mainly on weekends of course

She has a personal collections of all sorts of weapons; Custom made knives, tasers, nun chucks and even handcuffs she managed to steal from a police officer before making her escape via a car chase that lasted roughly and hour and 20 minutes before she got caught again. Why they never took the cuffs off of her after that is another question, assumed she must've got them off and dumped them somewhere before coming back for them eventually at some point

She has a good friend who she cares deeply for and will do anything she can to make him feel more comfortable and less anxious doing mundane activities

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I probably have quite a few OCs in my random collection who mostly deal with a lot of traumas, issues and other problems that people deal with on a daily basis.. So I will definitely be tagging said triggers and so on in case it affects people in any way..

Of course not all of my OCs have terrible habits/issues so hoping I won't make too much of a conundrum when I post my others I have coming soon or in need or re-designing.. Ngl Besides the art I have got already, I don't really have all that much to post minus the other doodles and drawings I've done of my previously posted OCs...

I don't always draw many consistently and that sucks cuz I really wanna do more for them if I want to keep a system going on of course.. Oh well..

That's it I guess-

. Alyssa, Art © Me . DON’T RE-POST .

Go, Go- A Power Rangers Review

WI grew up on Power Rangers. It was definitely a campy, over-the-top, poorly acted/written show, but I loved it. So did many. For me, it was essential Saturday morning viewing, right up there with the Batman Animated Series. I watched it from the original all the way through Lost Galaxy. I have no delusions about it; it was bad. But I still love it. 

So, naturally, as I became a writer, I started working in my spare time on my own Power Rangers reboot. I thought that it could be done, and be done right, in a way that wasn’t so campy, but was totally cool. I envisioned something related to the Transformers movies in visual style (I mean, Zords are totally the same as Transformers from a visual standpoint). I even had a casting list in mind, and everything.

Of course, I didn’t have the rights to the series, and I’m still unpublished, and my own books have always been my priority, so my Power Rangers adaptation became a passion project that I’d only dust off and work on when writers block struck. And, of course, as we reach the fifth Transformers film, and the Marvel cinematic universe is in full swing, other studios no doubt began looking for similar properties that weren’t tied down under contracts. And Lionsgate announced a Power Rangers reboot.

This hit me with mixed feelings. I’ve wanted to see a big screen reboot for years, but I also felt I had a good story that I personally wanted to do. I was excited to see what they did, but ultimately, I was disappointed that I wasn’t going to be the one to do it.

But enough about me. What about the movie? I saw it yesterday, and I have some things to say about it. But for a short review, if someone asked me if it is worth it, what would I say? “Go, go!”

It is not the greatest movie ever made. It is not even the greatest movie I’ve seen this year, or probably even this week. Power Rangers falls somewhere above shitty adaptations like Super Mario Bros. and Dragonball and under Iron Man. It is good, not great. But I loved it.

Overall, it was very well made. And it is a fine start to a larger series. The actors are great, and the chemistry between the “rangers”, arguably the most important aspect of the movie, is spot on. Each of the Rangers are fun to watch, and get their moment to shine. Equally impressive is Elizabeth Banks as Rita, who surprisingly is terrifying. I was not expecting that performance out of her. Brian Cranston is a good Zordon (as good as anyone could be, for a character that is a floating head), and Bill Hader is a much better Alpha-5 than the trailers let on. 

The movie starts (SPOILERS) by showing Zordon’s ship crashing on Earth. As he crawls from the wreckage, past the bodies of his dying rangers (oddly very similar to how I intended to open my version), he hides the power coins in the ground, only to be revealed when those who are worthy are near. He is then confronted by Rita the Green Ranger, who has turned against him (again, oddly similar to what I had planned, except in my version it was Zedd who was the rebellious White Ranger).

Skip ahead to the present, and we meet the five kids. The story is a little contrived as to how they all end up in the same place at the same time to find the coins, but honestly, it is probably way more realistic than it was in the original show. And the rest is pretty straightforward; they get the coins, they meet Zordon and Alpha, they train to fight Rita, etc and so forth.

The movie is funny, and at times campy, but it is actually at it’s best when it is so. It struggles more when it tries to take itself too seriously. Overall it is very well paced, spending most of the time with the “teens with attitude” training and becoming a team, and friends. This is probably the best part of the movie, and I really enjoyed the dynamic between the kids. I almost didn’t want Rita to come in and ruin it all.

Where the movie suffers most, to me, is the third act. While very full of Ranger-y action, it felt a little too fast. The rangers spent most of the movie trying to earn the ability to morph, but when they finally got their armor, they spent only about two minutes fighting in said armor before moving on to the Zords. If this had been my story, I would honestly not have even introduced the Zords in the first movie, except maybe as a tease for things to come (For comparison, in my version, Zords weren’t going to be introduced until the third story, based on Turbo, as they would have been built from the remnants of the Machine Empire featured in the second story, which was based on Zeo). I know, I know, the Zords are an essential part of Power Rangers lore, but for a movie that spent so long on the leads earning the suits themselves, I would have spent longer on them earning these giant machines that can cause as much destruction as the monsters they fight it with. The fight against Goldar should have been as epic as the fights in Pacific Rim, but it just felt too rushed. It almost felt like the third act was fan service more than it was the conclusion of the story, where the bulk of the movie spent time reinventing the Power Rangers, the third act was heavy on classic lines and shots that mimicked the show. It almost felt like they didn’t know how to end this story.

The movie also has a major villain problem. Elizabeth Banks was fandamntastic as Rita. I cannot say enough of how much I really enjoyed her version of the villain. That said, while she was the main antagonist, as per Power Rangers usual, the Rangers weren’t fighting her head on, but instead facing off against her army of rock monsters (Putties) and Goldar. I loved how the Putties were formed from the ground and whatever materials were available. Same went for Goldar, as he was made out of pure gold. However, the never explain why Rita must use Goldar specifically to pull the Zeo Crystal out of the ground (nor do they explain why she wants the Zeo Crystal so bad, beyond wanting “more power”). Is it heavy? Can it only be touched by gold? What happens if she just made a really big rock Putty to pick it up? I know that Goldar served as Rita’s “monster of the week” that the Rangers had to face off against, but given the history that they spent time building for Rita, her backstory and connection to Zordon, I would have much preferred this story to be more of a personal fight between her and the Rangers, and, like the Zords, have her resort to sending more powerful monsters after the Rangers in subsequent movies. Again, not bad, and this isn’t the first movie to have a lackluster villain, but I wish there was more. 

The story of the teens definitely borrows from movies like The Breakfast Club, but it suffers when it drops this for the more sci-fi elements; for instance, they make a big deal about the fact that Jason has a ankle monitor on, but once Billy is able to deactivate it, it doesn't play into the plot anymore, which is odd, since his dad has been very hard on him about it. Just because it has been deactivated doesn’t mean that he isn’t supposed to be home at a certain time. It would have paid off more if this had been a struggle between Jason and his father throughout the story, and made it more of an impact when Jason rescues him at the end of the movie. But the movie gets right more than it misses. Billy, my favorite character, is somewhat autistic, which I think speaks volumes that you don't have to be the star quarterback to be the superhero, and that even those with disabilities can be heroes (in fact, Billy is the first one to earn his armor). Trini is also possibly a closet lesbian. I've read other reviews that were upset by this, as why not just make her out and proud, but really I think showing her as confused about who she is speaks more to teens in high school, many of whom are struggling with discovering who they are, and many, like Trini, who are dealing with families that refuse to acknowledge or disapprove of their children in these situations. Showing that a superhero faces those same struggles is monumental. We can spend the sequels watch her accept who she is, personally as well as with the Rangers.

As I said, the movie suffered most when it took itself too seriously. I wish they had embraced the source material a little more (which is the opposite of what I had intended to do with my story... maybe it’s a good thing I’ll never get to finish it). It should have been just a little more fun, and a little less grim. And that’s a problem that a lot of movies are facing right now. DC cannot, for the life of them, get the balance between humor and darkness. Everyone is trying to copy the Marvel formula, and no one is succeeding. With Power Rangers, I can’t help but wish they had gone closer to the source material and had more fun with it. Embrace the campiness of the story. Go full on Guardians of the Galaxy with it, and just embrace what makes it silly and unique. When the movie does this, it is at it’s best. 

Also... I want the full rock theme next time, instead of whatever this was. But kudos for using a new version of the song from the original movie. That said, the music for this movie was sort of bland. I mean, by now we’ve heard people say that Marvel has a music problem, and Power Rangers went and hired one of the men primarily responsible for that problem. While Brian Tyler (who did scores for Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, and Avengers: Age of Ultron) is definitely not a bad composer, his score for Power Rangers is a little too generic. If you played a track from it without telling me, my first thought is that it from Transformers or any number of similar movies. Parts of it, to me, sounded like Kick-Ass or Interstellar or Man of Steel or Iron Man, but nothing ever felt original an unique. It never had a moment that felt unequivocally Power Rangers, save for the use of the original theme, which even that felt like it was thrown together in five minutes, and felt sort of out-of-place in the movie when we got it. Don’t get me wrong, I was thrilled to hear any version of the original theme, but since the rest of the movie never even hinted at the theme, it didn’t feel like it was supposed to be there.

In fact, that comes to another criticism that I’ve read in many reviews: this is a reboot that doesn’t want to be connected to the source material. And, to an extent, this is true. To me, the movie is at it’s best when it is reminiscent of the show. Sure, it didn’t need to go full camp with bad dialogue and overly exaggerated reactions, but for the most part the movie tries to reinvent the Rangers into a modern-day, post-Marvel hero story. It borrows a lot of visual ques from movies like Man of Steel. Which means when we get scenes like the Zords charging towards Angel Grove (to the original theme, no less), or lines from Rita like “make my monster grow!” (or really most of anything in the third act) they, again, feel a little out of place. And, again, don’t get me wrong; I loved seeing those moments. I felt like cheering when I saw the Zords charging. But the movie didn’t feel like it had been leading up to a moment like that, and thus it was a little disjointed.

Hopefully, the next installments will do a better job balancing the story. Like I said, I really enjoyed this one, I think it is a great start, but I definitely think they could do better. With the (SPOILERS) tease of Tommy Oliver coming in the sequel, I have high hopes. I also hope the story takes them beyond Angel Grove; I know the television series primarily stuck to the streets of Angel Grove, but given that the movie teased Zordon and Rita’s origins as Rangers, it would be awesome to get to see more of where Zordon and Rita came from. Learn how many ranger teams there are out in the galaxy, if there are any others left, and if not, what happened to them. Learn why Alpha is number 5. Learn what the rangers were responsible for, besides fighting Rita. I think there so much potential for some interesting stories and fleshing out backstories that haven’t been done on the television show. This first movie was a great introduction to what we already know, but updated. Next I want to see something new, and epic. 

So, overall, I really enjoyed this movie. Hell, I’d say I loved it. But I still had some minor irks with it. And honestly, I probably picked this apart more than I would have if I hadn’t been working on my own version of this story for the last few years. I will always feel that this movie could have done more, and could have done some things differently. But I definitely enjoyed the hell out of it, and I cannot wait to see what comes next (in the six planned sequels). 

Extra Tidbit: Since I probably won’t continue working on it, over the next few days I may post some of the designs I came up with for my Rangers series, including costume design and whatnot. If anyone’s interested in seeing such things.