Preserver

The Preservers is an organization of diminutives, led by Grayscale. Most of their members consist of ex-Protectors, and they serve as the Protectors' main rivals. Similar to the Protectors, their job is to lend their talents and abilities to Protect weaker individuals and serve the city, though the main difference is their Commander's desires to grow more powerful and overtake the Protectors. Their home base is Gray's Car Wash, which serves as a rival car wash to the Mushroom City Car Wash.
As the Protectors, they are distinguished by their golden wings on the back of their hats, their cape, and the bracelets that don energy blades. In fact, there is little distinguishable elements in attire between the current Protectors and the Preservers, which Grayscale claims to own the right to the original design.
==Members==
This list of official members is organized by descending commanding order.
	Grayscale 	Grayscale is the Commander of the Preservers. She is notable for being the founder of the Protectors, but was exiled from them due to her unethical behavior in her quest to grow more powerful. She is known to be cruel, sinister, and highly sarcastic; she enjoys bullying others weaker than her and often mistreats the lower-ranked members. She has taken an interest in magic and technology, though she is proficient in neither. Her main weapon is a large axe, whom she has no trouble wielding, though due to her being an ex-Commander with Protector abilities inside, she has started to deteriorate and requires glasses to read due to her increasing hyperopia. Her main color is gray.
	Phongik 	Phongik serves as the General of the Preservers, being specialized in weapons of all sorts, and he is currently second-in-command. He speaks in a formal intonation and frequently uses military jargon and postures. While he is second-in-command to Grayscale due to his weapons and knowledge, he is often seen questioning Grayscale's ambitions and ethics, frequently keeping a watch on her, especially if she decides to provoke the Protectors. He is the one who attempts to mediate any conflict between the Preservers and the Protectors. He is known to be a bit paranoid and a neat freak, though he doesn't like to admit it. His favorite color is pink.
	Scatter 	Scatter is a brown Preserver who has aggressive tendencies, believes he is the ideal male character, and can be a bit flirtatious. He believes that females are owed to him and strongly doesn't appreciate a female in positions of power in both groups. Despite this, he has a crush on Grayscale, often sucking up to her and attempts to win her over, despite Grayscale not showing any interest in advancing the relationship. If other characters mention his crush to her, he firmly tells them to shut up. He is very lazy and is rarely seen performing chores; he does not like his job at Gray's Car Wash.
	Cerulambert 	Cerulambert is a large, bulky, cyan-colored Preserver. He is dressed like a Viking and is seen carrying a shield and an axe. Despite his appearance as a lumbering oaf, he is actually more intelligent than he looks and often quips and points out flaws in other people's plans and statements. He is not talkative and lets his actions speak for himself. He often does chores in the car wash without second opinions as he is fiercely loyal to Grayscale, though he frequently fantasizes about going in a battle and maybe crushing some skulls. Finally, he dries a cyan pick-up truck that carries Preserver passengers.
	Crepuscular Beam	Crepuscular Beam is an orange, Chinese Preserver and he is the lowest-ranked member of the group. Despite being an ex-Protector, his fighting skills are extremely lacking, even more so than the weakest Protector, though he performs noncombat roles excellently, such as maintenance. He is a highly timid person and runs to cover whenever there is a threat. In fact, this facet of his personality is the reason that despite personally disagreeing with Grayscale's philosophy and supporting Dark Light, he is loyal to Grayscale due to his intense fear of her and the reason he was exiled alongside the other Preservers.
	Green Flash 	Green Flash is a green, Japanese worker at Grey's Car Wash who has recently been made a member of the Preservers. She first joined after a failed attempt to kidnap Chroma Key. After convincing Grayscale that a wound caused by Mija was actually caused by Ray Trace, Grayscale took some sort of pity on Flash, leading to her employment. Flash generally likes her job and likes her peers, with the notable exception of Scatter. She is highly skilled with computers and even hacking, but probably not to the extent of Discharge.
	Discharge 	Discharge is the newest addition to the team. He is a chartreuse, Ukrainian Preserver who is highly skilled in electronics and serves as the data manager. He is mostly quiet and diligent, and he plans to revamp Gray's Car Wash with his knowledge. He has been supercharged with electricity inside of him due to a currently unknown encounter in his past; it is so powerful, he can induce small shocks to anyone he makes hard eye-contact with, which is one of the reasons he wears glasses (the other is that he is myopic, of course).
==History==
While Grayscale has appeared earlier in dreams, the first mention of the Preservers was in post 7222 by Grayscale, as they had infiltrated the city. Their discovery was known, so the members had to regroup and escape hostility due to Grayscale seeking vengeance on the Protectors for her exile. Once the Preservers were in Grayscale's secret hideout, they planned to set up a new base somewhere. Grayscale first set up a proxy destination that fooled the people spying on her, which was Sarasaland, and then led the Preservers to the Chucklehuck Woods in the Beanbean Kingdom. However, the Preservers were eventually infiltrated in the Beanbean Kingdom as well, where they once again fled to Grayscale's secret underwater base. Eventually, they fled to the moon, where a final battle was fought and led to the imprisonment of them, as well as the draining of Grayscale's powers.
After they had been released from the jail, while some members of the Preservers wanted to reform and build a new environmentally friendly Car Wash to help people out and serve as a competitor to the Mushroom City Car Wash, as soon as Grayscale returned, she has turned the group into a bitter rivalry between them and the Protectors, much to the chagrin of Phongik.
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