Post by Ziggy on Jun 11, 2011 22:02:46 GMT
Civvie Stuff
Name: Ziggly Grover (No I don't know why he shares his name with a muppet)
Age: 23
Sex: Male
Nationality: American
Occupation: Former Criminal
Species: Human
Celebrity Claim: Milo Cawthorne
Hair color/style: A general brown mess that can only be considered a style in the most general of senses.
Eyes: Dark Green
Description: Ziggy is the last person you would expect to be a Ranger. He's short, thin, not in very good shape and doesn't seem to know what a hairbrush is.
Even worse than his appearance is his manner of speach though. He has a bit of a nervous stuttering speach impediment coupled with an inability to shut up. It's considered a miracle that he survived the Siege of Corinth City, not because of Venjix but because his own teamates didn't beat him to death.
Ranger Stuff
Name: Ranger Series Green Covert Infantry Bio-Suit Operator
Team: RPM Rangers
Morpher /Sequence: Ziggy inserts an Engine Cell into his wrist mounted morpher, extends his arm forwards saying "RPM, Get in Gear!" before flipping the switch at the bottom of the morpher. This directly connects his body into the Bio-Field Matrix that transports the nano-fiber tights and helmet to his person and syncs him to his Ranger powers.
Description of Ranger Form:
Other Modes: None
Weapons:
- Bridge Axe: It's a Big Freaking Axe
- Nitro Blaster: A blaster that turns into a sword
- Engine Cells: used to power the Morpher, Zords and Weapons of the Ranger Operater suits.
- Teleportation: At the expense of a great deal of his energy Ziggy can preform a short range teleport. He only has limited control over the specifics of his destination and if his suit will remain intact upon arrival.
Zord:
- Tail Spinner: A vaugely sharklike Zord on wheels.
Inside Stuff
Personality: Ziggy is a clown, akward, talkative, clumsy, incompetent and cowardly he often comes across as harmless to those who do not know him. That all changes when the chips are all down and he has to step up. While still displaying all of the above traits he truly does care about his friends and the world at large.
Of course as good hearted as he is his mouth more often than not makes him quite a lot of enemies. Even his sort-of-kind-of-it's-hard-to-tell-with-her girlfriend Dr. K at first was quite but off by his attitutude but she gradually softened up to him.
Strengths:
- Bordering on superhumanly good at shadowpuppets or Grinders and Corinth millitary personel are that stupid. It's hard to tell.
- Very dedicated to doing the right thing no matter what it costs him.
- Despite all of his problems Ziggy is insanely lucky as none of them have actually cost him very much.
Weaknesses:
- Mouthy, Ziggy's overactive mouth and attitude has made him quite a few enemies over the years and will continue to do so until the day he dies.
- While surprisingly fit Ziggy has very little actual combat skill having to make stuff up as he goes, this often doesn't end well.
- Due to his immature and simple nature most people have a hard time taking him seriously.
History: Before the Siege of Corinth Ziggy was a hanger on of Fresno Bob's Scorpion Cartel. He was given a chance to prove himself one year after the siege, all he had to do was drive a truck containing smuggled medical supplies from one safehouse to another. His morality got the better of him though since he took the truck and gave the supplies to the Orphanage he was raised in to care for the sickly orphans. To prevent the Orphanage from getting targeted he fled into the desert making the Cartel think he stole the goods and fled to civilization or possibly even to Venjix.
He never made it to civilization though since after two months in the desert he ran into Dillon. After a failed attempt to steal his car he escorted Dillon back to Corinth assuming that Dillon could protect him from the Cartel. This backfired as upon return to Corinth they were thrown into jail due to Dillon's nature as a Venjix cyborg. Dillon was recruited as a Ranger under the conditon that Ziggy be released. So Ziggy operated as the Ranger's and Dr. K's assistant until they began searching for a candidate to be the Green Ranger. They were attacked and to prevent the morpher from falling into enemy hands Ziggy bonded it to himself becoming the Green Ranger. After that he joined the team proper much to Dr. K's dismay but he was instrumental in defending the city and in the end defeating Venjix.
In the aftermath when Corinth no longer needed Rangers him and Dr. K got together, or as close as you can get when you are a super smart shut in and a hyperactive lunatic with several hit contracts on his head. None the less it is quite apparent that they do care for each other. They even traveled to Japan together when Dr. K went to get a job with the SPD.
Anything Else: It's Darkblade, also I'm assuming Corinth is in Nevada or Arizona not Boston as the maps in the show said since it allows for them to have an extensive desert around the city without nuclear warfare.
Sample RP: Dr. K had been out seeing those Cop Rangers for a while now. Ziggy thought to himself as he sat at this Ramen cart a few blocks away from the SPD Robobase. He picked at the food but his heart wasn't really in it he was kind of nervous, after all his Japanese was picked up from dime store phrase books, even if Dr. K got this job he doesn't really belong here but at least Fresno Bob can't touch him here right.
A pair of large tattooed men sat on the chairs next to him. One of them looks down on Ziggy and asks in broken English, "You Ziggy Grover?"
"Um, yeah that's me. Do I know you?" Ziggy asks with a slight nervous smile.
"No, Fresno Bob pays us to kill you." The other says reaching out to try and punch Ziggy. Ziggy ducks under the blow which strikes his friend.
"Come on. We don't want to do this. Look there's a nice bar down the street, at I think it's nice. What do you say I buy us all a round of Sake?" Ziggy says slipping out of his seat as the men pick themselves up and pull tiny usb keys out of their pockets.
Triceratops!
Shark!
The USB keys now obviously GaiaMemories say as they are inserted into the hitmen's bodies transforming them into even larger monsters. Ziggy gulps a little but reaches for an Engine cell for his morpher.
"RPM! Get in gear!" Ziggy transforms into the Green Ranger and charges the two Dopants with the oddly named Bridge Axe.
