Likes:

The Ocean: It's wide, it's open, it's free, it's relaxing. Ryouga is in love with the ocean, and especially with surfing. He grew up in a town along the coast, and the ocean has never left him, even in the middle of Tokyo. The sound of waves crashing along the shore will put him to sleep quicker than any other sound.

Recycle Shops: They're great, because they sell used things, which means that they sell things much cheaper than what you'd get at a regular store. Ryouga loves to comb through them looking for a good deal. He's very frugal. And the things that he buys are always much better than they seem at first, anyway, thanks to Change for the Better. It's like he gives new life to old things.

English: The only class he ever enjoyed in school was English. He was a failure at math and science, but when it came to English, he actually sort of tried a little bit. This is because English is cool. Surfers from Hawaii, California, New Zealand, and Australia come to Japan to surf, and they're cool, so English is cool, too. He has a habit of interjecting odd English phrases into his speech, and goes to conversation school once a week to learn more.

Children: Ryouga has a soft spot for little kids, third grade and under. For whatever reason, they can just break right through his cool guy persona and melt his heart. He turns into a giant dweeb when around little kids, if he thinks nobody is watching. If somebody's watching, he turns more into 'cool older brother.'

Having No Purpose In Life: Ryouga enjoys not having to care about getting into school (for the time being, anyway) or classes or advancing at work. He enjoys being a free radical, which sadly in Japan means he's going to get squashed at some point. While he can, however, he's riding it out. Aligning himself with surf culture is an expression of this.

Physical Sports: Golf is boring. Bowling is boring. The more physically demanding a sport is, the more he's interested in it. Ryouga enjoys the bits of life that are fast paced and give one an adrenaline rush. He's an adrenaline junkie (hi, surfing!) who manages to stay mellow most of the time, unless, of course, he's in the middle of one of his physically demanding sports (mostly in his case American football or surfing, but he'd be willing to give anything really physical and 'beat-myself-up'ish a shot).

Randoms: Dumb nicknames, bathhouses, getting the sand out of your shorts, 7-11, wandering around Tokyo, Japanese pro wrestling, Sports shounen (Eyeshield 21, Hajime no Ippo, Major, etc).

Dislikes:

Fried Food: Working at a kushiage restaurant has spoiled him. The only fried food that he can enjoy is the freshest of fried foods, made with the nicest of ingredients. Anything else, which accounts for a whole lot of Japanese cuisine, just isn't good enough.

Endings: Japan makes a big to do for beginnings of things and endings of things. He's fine with the beginnings, but just utterly loses it at endings. He was one of the many who broke down weeping during High School graduation. And Jr. High graduation. And Elementary. And Kindergarten. He hates ending a job or hobby or friendship.

Being Told What To Do: His love of freedom (as expressed in his love of not doing jack) means that he doesn't like being told what to do. He's okay with it at work, but he chafed, and chafed under his father as he tried to live up to what his father expected, but just couldn't. He's burnt out on being told how to live his life, at least for the time being. If you tell him to change, he probably will not, unless he can see you have very good reasons.

Dating: Hi, total inability to interact with the ladies. Hi, ladies. Hi, blushing and stumbling over words. He fails. He just utterly fails. He manages to make the world's worst compliments, loses his train of thought, and generally makes an ass of himself on the rare occasions when he tries to date. It's sweet, in a terribly sad sort of way. It's a different sort of adrenaline rush for him, one that he does not like.

Stress: Stress really ruins on his mellow. It wasn't too long ago that he lived his life to study, study, study, to become something that he had no desire to be. His life was one giant stress ball. More than ever, he's fallen back on his slacker tendencies and just tries to ignore any and all problems in his life. This will work so well with being a senshi.

Grey Offices with Grey Desks with Workers in Grey Suits and No Windows: Ryouga hates the Japanese office. It's bland and static and never changes and is boring. Ryouga wants something new and exciting, and the office is the opposite of that. Offices suck the life out of Ryouga - he could imagine nothing worse than being stuck behind one for ten hours a day like his father.

Tests: Tests are stressful. They are very rarely about being free to do whatever you want. They're usually about getting the right answers to be able to take another test to, some day, be able to become something down the road that has no immediate gratification. He dislikes them greatly.

Randoms: Meals with his father, winter, cleaning, Family Mart, incense.

Hobbies:

Surfing: It's the coolest thing in the entire world. Cool people surf. Ryouga is a cool guy. So, Ryouga surfs. He manages to get out of the city at least twice a month to go surfing during the off season, and that ups to three to five times a month during the summer. He loves the ocean, and he loves adrenaline - surfing combines both.

American Football: This was his club in high school. Everyone must take a club, and there was no surfing club, so he picked the sport that was the most physical, and the least reserved that he could - football was it. He sort of fell in love with it, and plays in a local league now that he's out of school.

Eikaiwa: English conversation classes. Ryouga goes to these once a week, and as he loves English. He hopes, some day, to become an English teacher, but to do that, he'll need to be fairly good at English. He goes to one at a local community center, so he's not going to one of the crazy conversation schools, but instead something a little less structured and formal, which suits him a whole lot more.

Goals: Ryouga has two levels to his goals in life. The first is the immediate. His immediate goal in life is to have a good time enjoying life. He lives very much in the now. He's certain that at some point in the future, he'll get serious, but for now, he's just enjoying things. His long term goal is to be an elementary school teacher - for that time when he settles down (whenever that is).

Good Points:

Loyal: If you are his friend, he will see you through hell or high water. Possibly both. He does not desert the people who he considers to be important to him. If somebody needs him to help out with a project, or they need a place to crash for the night, he's there for them.

Secret Nice Guy: He acts tough and speaks tough but deep down he's mostly a nice guy. The more a person knows him the nicer he'll be around them, unless you're just a jerk to him. However, no matter how gruff he may talk or act, usually his heart's in the right place. He'll tend to stick up for kids and girls who need it.

There in a Pinch: With the exception of work, his schedule is very, very open. If you need a body to move boxes into a moving truck, he can help you. He'll happily rearrange whatever it was he was doing if one of the people he's loyal to needs some help. You could even talk him into not going surfing, but instead doing something for you sometime.

Flaws:

Unmotivated: He'll do things if others ask, but boy howdy, he sure won't do something for himself unless he really enjoys it, or it absolutely has to get done. His apartment is messy, his attempts to prepare for a foreign language school are pretty pitiful, and his laundry tends to get done when he's down to his last pair of clean trunks.

Irresponsible: Expecting Ryouga to do the adult thing is sort of like expecting Chichi to not use electronics or Mujou to not read shoujo. He tends to run away from stressful situations when possible - he will not enjoy getting into battles.

Flappable (for lack of a better term): Two things can generally snap Ryouga out of his cool-guy surfer persona - little kids and ladies. The little kids bit is sort of cute, the ladies bit is really pathetic. With little kids he turns into more of a cool older brother, but with the ladies? He gets flustered and tongue tied if the least hint of relationships flares up, or even if the least hint of 'attractive girl interacting with him' flares up. So, in general, working with a bunch of ladies wearing tiny, tiny skirts, is going to cause him no end of troubles.

Self-image: Ryouga likes himself. He thinks he's a pretty okay guy, though he thinks he could be better. He isn't full of himself, he just considers himself to be average at most things. He seems himself as a good surfer, football player, and kushiage chef, but aside from those things he's pretty modest about his achievements. He can be forward in his mannerisms when with his friends or guys in general, but around the ladies he loses his cool completely and turns into a bumbling idiot when the least bit of pressure hits. He's got a chivalrous streak running through him, though, so if a girl needs somebody to stand up for her, he'll do it (he may look like a fool while doing it, but he'll do it). This would also apply to children. So, if a badguy is attacking ladies or kids, he'll go after them wholehearted (but still not want the fight). Attacking some dudes who he doesn't know? Oh, he'll help but it'll be less motivated.

Deep down, he's basically a sweetheart - a generally nice guy. If you ask him to help out, he will. He's loyal to his friends, extremely, and so if he gets a phonecall at 4am from a surfer buddy who's stranded out somewhere in Roppongi after a night of drunken soapland visits, he'll go and pick the guy up and take him to his apartment, no questions asked. If you are his friend, he probably cares as much for your well-being as for your own. Helping people is generally something that makes him happy, he just tries not to let it show too much. So, once teammates turn into friends, he'll drive them all over Tokyo and be more into the whole senshi thing.

He believes that things work out for the best in the end - so he doesn't care very much about his future. In this way, he's a giant optimist. His optimism works itself out, though, as a Happy-Go-Lucky sort of attitude, so he doesn't do much with this optimism except glide and when he's around, things usually do turn out better. He's the epitome of laid back, and is almost never serious or responsible.

The thought of having his father's life basically terrifies him - spending 10 hours a day in a box, never seeing your friends or family, never having time off, he hates the thought of it. Sitting at a desk all day long, filing papers? It's too serious, and too boring, and doesn't interest him at all. Being formal and dignified is just not something that works for him, at all. This would cause a lot of problems in society if he wasn't a surfer - they're expected to be laid back and not responsible in any way at all. He's a complete and total slacker. He lives in the moment, and cannot plan for the future well at all. If things are going okay today, then they'll be okay tomorrow, no matter what's coming up for tomorrow. It makes him a wonderful optimist when things are going his way. When things are not going his way, he just gets lost, and doesn't know what to do - because he just doesn't know how to plan for any of that.

He does not do stress. He's lazy and unmotivated and a slacker, and his life is generally created around not having stress. He doesn't handle it well. Tests, dating, the thought of having to settle down, he shuns these things like the plague. Stress gives him the jitters, makes him upset, and basically turns him into a nervous wreck.

The one thing that he's wants to do, eventually, that will involve giving up a large portion of his freedom is becoming an elementary school teacher. He wants to be the cool teacher that everybody likes. He has a soft spot for little kids, and turns into a sort of cool older brother when around them. He's, sadly, not serious enough to be a teacher at the moment, as he'd just want to have fun with the kids instead of teaching them. It's a future goal.

Motives: If he does something he generally does it for one of three reasons. 1. He has to do it to live (eat, drink, clean his apartment, have a job). His job he kind of enjoys, but as to the other ones, he basically doesn't enjoy (most) cooking, but he does it because he has to. Everybody has stuff like this. 2. He's helping somebody. He loves to help people. 3. Its one of his favorite activities, generally surfing or football or shopping at recycle shops. He does very little to better himself, as far as a job or living situation goes, because he doesn't feel the need for that sort of stuff. Anyway, the stuff he has is fine as it is (or it will be soon enough). The thing he values is relationships with people - mostly other surfers in his case, but also his co-workers, and the people who regularly frequent the restaurant where he works.

General Behavior: If you are interacting with him and he doesn't know you well, he's probably going to act cool and sort of aloof. Just a little bit, which is how most surfers act. If you take the time to scratch the surface with him, though, you'll find him helpful and friendly. Still a bit rough around the edges, but helpful and friendly nevertheless. He gets flustered by women easily, and would probably start stammering if someone started hitting on him. He'd still be helpful and polite, but he'd be sort of a bumbling mess as he did it. He's the type of person to help little old ladies with their bags if they ask for it, or if they look like they could really use the help.

His speech is odd, as he's liable to pepper it with English. He doesn't say "totemo" (very) or even "zenzen" which is what the kids all use (even though they're only supposed to use it with negative sentences!). He uses "SUPER MIRACLE." He likes to use his English skills in normal conversations. He's not terribly good at it, though. So, instead of saying "This is very exciting!" he says "This is SUPER MIRACLE exciting!" He'll pepper his speech with other almost-appropriate phrases as well.

One thing that makes up upset and huffy is when people tell him what he should be doing. He loves to help people, but when somebody tells him to apply himself, or get an actual job, or grow up, he gets pissy. This happens on occasion when dealing with cranky middle-aged businessmen on trains and things - he gets defensive. It's his life and he's living it the way he wants to.

Intimate Behavior: Ryouga generally acts the same way around people he knows well. He'll drop a little bit of the surfer 'cool guy' if he gets to know you well, and you're not, personally, a surfer. There are a couple of specific things he does that are different, however.

Ryouga on a beer buzz. Ryouga only drinks with people he knows well - other surfers mainly, or people from work. Ryouga on a beer buzz loses the timidity around women. If you want to date Ryouga, the only way to do it is to get him drunk. Seeing as how the only other Crisis senshi who is old enough to drink is Muse, this should prove interesting to say the least. He hasn't ended up at a soapland or at a 'masseuse' after walking home from an enkai yet. Though it's a possibility. He tells jokes and finds almost everything hilarious if especially drunk.

Ryouga gives gifts to his friends at random times. However, he doesn't give the sorts of gifts that you're supposed to give. Japanese people are supposed to give expensive presents from expensive stores where the wrapping paper has the names of the store on it. Ryouga buys things from recycle shops and gives them as gifts, it's much more personal, at least to him. Anyway, Ryouga has a knack for finding the best things ever at recycle shops.

Hair: His hair is black colored naturally, but he dyes the tips bright red. He spikes his hair with a lot of wax (a whole lot of wax) up and back in large chunks. He has small sideburns, again scruffy, to go along with the scruffy goatee.

Build: Ryouga is 5'7" and has a swimmer's build on a medium frame. Trim waist and lean legs, but wide shoulders and a fairly thick chest. He's a little more muscular than the typical swimmer's build, because of the football, but not much. He's very tan from spending a lot of time in the sun. Though a surfer he has no tattoos because he likes bathhouses too much.

Voice: Ryouga has a pleasant sounding tenor. His speech is a hair slower than the typical Tokyoite (heaven forbid he ever go to Osaka), and he really rolls his Rs around. He always uses 'ore,' instead of 'boku' or even 'watashi,' except when he's speaking to customers, or his boss (in contrast, Mujou would almost exclusively use boku). Ore is badass and hardcore, whereas boku is nicer.

Clothing: Surfer chic. Either (1) The combination of Engrishy t-shirts (worn in multiple layers in the fall and winter) with gothic lettering, baggy pants with lots of pockets and chains or (2) Hawaiian-style shirts with cargo shorts or swim trunks with sandals. Oh, and ladies, he doesn't wear underwear - he wears swim trunks just in case.

The family moved when Ryouga was 8 to Tokyo. The family moved for two reasons - #1, his father got a transfer to the Tokyo branch of the company, and #2 his grandfather, Ryouichi, died. (Ryouga was named, partially, after his grandfather). Ryouichi was a fisherman, and it was Kazuo's duty as a son to live and help take care of his father. When he passed away unexpectedly (at the young age of 62), Kazuo found himself without a reason to stay in Chiba, so they moved to the big city. Ryouga was fond of his grandfather, who used to take him fishing and swimming at the beach, when he was at home. Ryouichi hated surfers, however, saying that they were lazy slackers who never did anything right. Ryouga used to ask his grandfather if he would like Ryouga if he were a surfer, and the answer was "only a little." He thinks his grandfather was kidding, though.

Ryouga asked this because he looked up to the surfers, and thought that they were cool. They looked like they had fun all day long, and they had interesting hair and wore neat clothes, unlike his grey-suited father, or his grandfather. The move to Tokyo, however, basically removed Ryouga from the surf-culture. Tokyo has a lot of oceanfront, but none of it is good for surfing. Some of the kids in his elementary school made fun of him because of his accent (he rolled his Rs a whole lot back then), so he tried to get rid of it, but it never fully went away. And, once he managed to get lost while on an outing (he wasn't paying any attention at all to anyone else, and hadn't noticed that everyone else had gone around a corner), and never, absolutely never, lived that down. For the rest of elementary school, he was known as lost-boy. However, he got around part of this stigma by having the coolest toys. He had toys that nobody had ever seen before - they looked like things the other kids had, but they could always do something different - superballs that would bounce further than anybody else's, action figures with more points of articulation than you could shake a stick at, a cassette player that could add in voice and sound effects to recordings.

Because of being a bit of a social outcast in gradeschool, he redoubled his efforts during Jr. High to be well liked and popular. He managed to pull this off by being one of the cool kids who didn't do most of their homework and did poorly on tests. Also, he could surf. Though his family moved to Tokyo, they still owned the house in Chiba, and would spend holidays and weekends there on occasion. Ryouga learned the basics of surfing at age 11 from other children his age, from town, who were also learning to surf, and by the time he had gotten to Jr. High a year later, this helped his transformation into a cool kid. Surfing is a very common activity on the Pacific side of Japan, and it's fairly common for children who live near the ocean to pick it up (recycle shops sell used surfboards and equipment for fairly cheap). The fact that, as an only child, his mother indulged whatever whim he had also helped with this.

Jr. High and High School were generally spent in having good times with people, and in spending his free weekends surfing. However, he had to pick club to be a member of - because the alternative would be unimaginable. He decided to pick a 'cool' club to be a part of, so that got rid of the Japanese-themed clubs right away (kendo, judo, calligraphy, etc). He decided to go with American football (because American things are cool!). He ended up really enjoying it - it was physically exhausting, which he enjoyed (he always loved being completely bone tired after surfing), and manly and fun. He was an offensive tackle and defensive end. The only class he enjoyed was English - he liked English because there are a few surfers from Australia and Hawaii and California and New Zealand that come to Japan.

When you're in Jr. High and High School in Japan, you have career days where you go to shadow in some job for an entire week, to learn about the working world (yes, they do this in Jr. High, since education is only compulsory up to that point). A girl who was interested in the cool guy who was a surfer asked Ryouga to come along with her and help her out, and to join her in the career she'd picked (this was in high school). She ended up wanting to go to a kindergarten, so Ryouga, who had no good way to say no, and really didn't have any choices for himself, said okay. His father disapproved, but his mother told him to follow his heart and do what he wanted to do, he was her bright and shining star, etc, etc. Spoiled rotten, I know. Anyway, he did it not expecting to really like it, but he realized that he loved the little kids, and they thought he was cool. He'd never really spent a lot of time around younger kids before - he didn't have any siblings, and no younger cousins - he had always just done his own thing. This is when he realized that kids, with all of their earnest, bright feelings, made him happy - they were so different from the boring, dead adult world his father lived. Ryouga decided, after a week of working in the kindergarten, that this is what he wanted to do. Eventually. Sometime. (The girl, by the way, got a couple of dates out of it, but since being a bumbling idiot isn't cool, she dropped him. Ah, superficiality).

During his final year of highschool his father told Ryouga that it was time he settled down and took some responsibility for himself, so he would need to go to college, get a degree in business, and become a salaryman like he was. Ryouga thought about a life filled with people wearing grey suits sitting at grey desks in grey rooms and said no. He offered to go to college to study to be an elementary school teacher (really, one of the few things he could hope to get into and enjoy). His father told him that it was his duty as his son to do this for him. Ryouga told his father he didn't want to - his father told him that it didn't matter, he was going to college and was going to be a salaryman and live a life of drudgery, just like him. He also insisted Ryouga apply at Keio Univeristy, one of the better ones in Tokyo. Ryouga appealed to his mother. Though Mizuki couldn't get her husband to change his mind about this, she did get him to agree to setting up Ryouga with an apartment of his own in Minato, to be near the college (his family lived almost in Yokohama, and a 2 hour commute to college wasn't something anybody really wanted).

Ryouga failed to pass the entrance exam at age 18 - he hated business and had never been any good at it. So his father enrolled him in a cram school. He hated every moment of cram school, it was nothing but stress. He hated the testing process even more, though, so he went through it to get over the tests. He failed the second time, and had a second year of cram school. He basically spent the entire year a jittery mess. He flunked the test the third time. Finally his father relented, disappointed that his son wasn't going to follow in his footsteps as a salaryman. Ryouga was thrilled that the tests were over and went on total slacker mode. His mother was also thrilled - she only wanted what her little darling wanted, and if he wants to be a teacher some day, well that's respectable. Teachers are government employees, are paid well, and are generally well respected. After Ryouga proved utterly inept at business, Mizuki spoke to Kazuo about Ryouga's dream about being a teacher. She managed to convince him that it's an acceptable alternative, and also that her poor baby needed time to recuperate. (If you do not believe me that Japanese mothers of single-children are not this obsessed with spoiling and coddling their children, go to www.e-obento.com and look at the lunches this woman makes for her single child every single day. The term for Ryouga's mother in Japanese translates to "monster parent." Again, totally serious.)

He got a job as one of the chefs/barmen in a kushiage (fried foods on sticks) restaurant, and he started attending English classes in the afternoons - he convinced his father (with his mother's help) to let him take a couple of years off, and then try and get into an education school to be able to teach. He figures that the tests for being smarter than a 6th grader will be easier than the ones for one of the top business universities in Japan. He'll find out when he gets there in a couple of years.

Current Situation: Ryouga has a one-room apartment (16 tatami, quite large as far as these things go) with bath and toilet in Minato, near Keio University. He goes to an English conversation school Wednesdays in the early afternoon. He works from 6pm until 1am in a kushiage restaurant in Shinjuku - he fries tiny morsels of food on sticks, incredibly fresh and delicious - from Wednesday to Sunday. Shinjuku is a pretty big night-area of Japan (the Tokyo municipal government offices, a yakuza district, a nightclub district, several medical and science universities (and some prestigious general colleges, too), a red light district, Tokyo's biggest gay district, and the busiest train station in Japan, all in the same location.) so he's kept busy pretty much all night long. On Mondays and Tuesdays he likes to go back to Chiba to go surfing. On Sundays he plays American football at 10am, with a football club (his team is the Devil Bats Eagles) that has 4 teams that rotate between practicing and playing against each other.

He has a van, so now he can take his board and other surfers around to go surfing. He doesn't just have to go back to his hometown to go surfing, he could go other places now! Wow! It's a 2002 Toyota Succeed. It has a surprising number of features for a van that's supposed to be a basic "delivery van." It seats five people (CRISIS SENSHI ROAD TRIIIIIIIIIP).

Appearance: Species - Aosuji-ageha or Graphium sarpedon. Strophe is a swallowtail butterfly with an almost entirely black body except for a set of sky blue stripes on her wings. If she were pinned to a board for display (let's hope that doesn't happen!), the blue stripes would run vertically down her wings. She is a lovely butterfly, though common enough in Japan that she doesn't stand out. Click for photo.

Personality: Strophe has the personality of someone's English-literature professor (or in Japan, the Classical Studies professor) whose spent a little too much time in the sun. She's nice and kind, but a little absent minded. She's the sort to point out literary devices in speech, or real life ("I'm a butterfly! What a lovely little metaphor for the soul.") She's very fond of her charge, and she means to tell him that he needs to train more, but she keeps getting distracted by things. They make a lovely couple - he's too lazy to train, and she's too forgetful to remind him to train.

Transformation

Phrase: "Delta Crisis Power, Make Up!"

Sequence: Ryouga calls out his transformation phrase, and holds his henshin stick in his right hand above his head and to his left. He then waves it a little across himself, forming a lower-case delta, viewable not to himself, but anybody watching (hopefully nobody is though). It leaves a glowing green δ in the air for a moment, before it breaks into shards, which constantly change shape, and enlarge to fully cover his body in a glowing, amorphous blob. It dissolves away a moment later to leave him in his fuku, hand behind his head and a dumb grin on his face, usually.

Introduction Phrase: "The weight of the world is buoyed by evolution and new birth. I am Sailor Delta! Change your ways or I'll change them for you!" The last two lines of this is said in absurdly plain and lazy Japanese. He usually says this with a sheepish grin on his face. He thumps his chest when he says "Sailor Delta" with his right hand, then points it, open, at the offending target for the next line. He curves his fingers back towards himself when he says "I'll change them." Of course, all of this supposes that his target isn't a scantily clad female. If it he, he'll probably gulp out half of the words and the rest will be gibberish.

Fuku

Sailor Collar: Dark green, with the requisite two white stripes around the edge. He has a woggle (yes, that's the real name for the thing, I was a Boy Scout) over the knot in the middle - it's a silver cylinder, with an enamel lower-case delta done in Columbia blue.

Shirt: He wears a white, short-sleeved sailor shirt.

Belt: Columbia blue, the belt buckle is the same silver as the woggle, with the lower-case delta in dark green this time.

Pants: Dark green, sailor pants (just a little bell bottom to them, per the standard).

Shoes: Columbia blue skater shoes - like Vans. The laces are white, but because the bottoms of his pants cover most of the shoes, all you can see is the fronts of the shoes, and the soles (which are white).

Accessories: He wears a wallet with a double wallet chain on his right side. It's the little bit of his personality that comes through. The chains are silver, like the other bits of metal In his fuku. The wallet is leather dyed dark green, with the lower-case delta in blue. The wallet and chain contain two important things. First, some amount of change (hahahaha, get it, change, and he's the senshi of evolution, hahaha), he never ever gets bills, and he never gets more than around 600 yen or so - just enough to buy everyone on his team a delicious sodapop beverage from a vending machine, on good days. The amount, and specific coinage, changes with each transformation. The second item is the most important, and it's on the chain. There are two little charms that hang off of the chain, little silver babies with green diapers. These are the catalysts for his attack.

Attacks

Name: Banzai! Baby Bomb Bakuhatsu! (Hurray! Baby Bomb Explosion!)

Effect: Delta yanks one of the two charms off of his wallet chain with his right hand, clutches it tightly in his fist, brings it up above his head like he's going to throw it, and calls out the name of his attack. Bolts of green light shoot out from the spaces between his fingers, and he then tosses the charm, now glowing green, at his target. When the baby charm hits the target or the ground, there's an explosion of, well, talcum powder (extra hilarity when used on Talc!) of about 5 feet in diameter. It could hit 3 people if they were standing close together, though more commonly it would only hit one or two. The explosion causes very little damage, it's mostly a loud noise and a rush of powder filled air. The talcum powder cloud settles after a moment, leaving the targets covered in baby powder. And also babies. So many babies. Whatever living target that was covered by the baby powder is now host to faintly glowing, spectral green babies (yes, this means if he hits a tree it'll be covered in babies, too). The babies are all crying, loudly, and cling to the person's clothing, hair, and appendages. They generally wail, and slowly crawl all over the target's body. These are not real babies, you can see through them, but they feel as heavy as real babies.

Restrictions: Can be used up to two times, and then he's out of baby charms to use. He's a decent shot (he wasn't a quarterback but he does play American football), but if you see him throwing a glowing green baby charm at you, if you're good at running, or you have some way to prevent yourself from getting hit by the baby powder (a shield, a blanket) you'll be okay.

The babies cannot be affected by physical objects, so if you pull a 'stop drop and roll' you're not going to squash the babies off of you, and no amount of shaking is going to remove them. Energy attacks can remove the infants, and a magical shield or ward could knock them off. Also, super secret, but the babies can be put to sleep by singing a lullaby and gently swaying or bouncing for about ten seconds. However, in the middle of battle most people aren't going to think about doing this, or have time to do this. Sleeping babies don't cry or move around, and weigh only a 1/4th of what they did when they were crying. The babies will disappear on their own after about a minute and a half. If Delta only gets part of you in the explosion - like just an arm - then only the arm will have babies on it. This affects both friend and foe.

Special Power: Change for the Better (aka, "Hey, look! A button!")

Things change around Ryouga. Objects alter themselves, and evolve new functions if they spend enough time around him. He cannot seem to do this with living things, or even things that were once living (food, for example), but instead with manmade objects. The chances of him evolving a tree - none. Evolving a plank of wood - slight. Evolving a baseball bat or door - more likely. Ryouga's cellphone is 4 years old - it takes better pictures than most high-end digital cameras, acts as a GPS system, can watch TV on it, and little holograms of the person he's talking to pop up and 'talk' with him, if he's ever taken a picture of them with his camera (and has that function on). He buys absolutely everything used - because it always turns out better after a few weeks. Now, he can't make broken things work (though he could make them better, so that if they ever were fixed they could do some pretty awesome stuff). As a senshi, this is heightened greatly - changes don't take days, but seconds. Right now he has no control over how things change - maybe he'll get something useful for combat, maybe he won't. He could not pick up a book and say "I bet this shoots a freeze ray," and have it shoot a freeze ray. Whatever the change is, it tends to be helpful to him in some way, though, both in and out of senshi form.

Chaos Crisis © Minty.
Ryouga © Chris.