Riley Jaye Scott

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> It’s Time To Get Mythical! Mythic Dragon!
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> roll call as the Mythic Force Red Ranger, Mythic Force (Season 1)

> Let's show this spark-plug some REAL power!
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> Riley to the other Mythic Rangers while fighting the Kamen Rider Combat Trial Drone, License to Drive.

> Back to Action!
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> Riley whenever the Rangers return to a battle after being withdrawn., The Mutiny

## Red Mythic Ranger

### Number of Episode Appearances:

N/A
*Full list of appearances*

## Red Mythic Ranger

**Riley Jaye Scott** was the first **Red Ranger** of the 'modern era', officially named as such, as well as the leader of the **Mythic Force Rangers**.

Retroactively, she is also referred to as the **Mythic Red Ranger** or **Mythic Dragon Ranger**.

## History

### **Before becoming a Ranger**

Riley is a reformed childhood bully. When she was a child, she often picked on outcasts, or people she'd consider "geeks" or "nerds". Fortunately, when she was much younger, she'd vowed to change her ways and was determined to become a better person. At age Eleven, she'd started taking Karate classes but it wasn't until her sophomore year in highschool Riley had really understood the discipline and courage within Martial Arts that were required for her to make the neccesary changes in her life that she'd had to. Riley became fast friends with Andrew "Drew" Kim, when they met at the Powerhouse Youth Center.

### **Mythic Era**

Like her fellow future Rangers, she lives in the city of Paragon City and attends East Talos High School. Riley teaches a martial arts class at The Powerhouse Youth Center, a place that Riley and her friends like to work out and hang out in. One fateful day, as Riley had finished school, and headed home for the day, she'd found herself chatting with a group of her friends, Drew, Raya, Kat, Tracy, Ellie, Carol, and Gav, an earthquake began across Talos Island. As the group scrambled to safety, Riley and her friends felt themselves being lifted and teleported along in streams of colored lights. They landed in a pile on top of each other in a strange cave. As Riley and the others examined their surroundings, a mysterious shilouette approached them, stepping into the light to reveal herself as the group's science teacher, Ms. Mason, who was now known to the group as the former Pink Galaxy Ranger. As Riley was taking this all in, an even more strange sight awaited her.

In an energy pillar of blue light, was a huge floating head with a long white beard, who introduced itself as Merlin and explained that Riley and the others had been chosen by them to fight evil and take up the mantle of the Rangers, as the last team, Galaxy Force had fallen. In order to do so, Merlin said they would grant the teens the power to become a fighting force known as the Mythic Force and eventually inspire and lead new generations of Rangers. The further explanation of Mythic Beast Zords and Mythic Morphers threw Kat and the others off, except for Riley. As the group began to step out, Riley lingered; she was a natural-born leader and the idea of her being a sort of modern-day hero appealed to her greatly. Very reluctantly, Riley had followed her friends out of the Command Center.

Once outside the room, and searching for the exit, Riley tried to persuade the others that maybe they should give this a shot. They didn't get too far, as when they'd exited the underground command center through a side hatch that'd opened up into the local park, before their eyes, a group of very strange beings were standing before him and the others. The beings were Mechazoids - A mysterious force's evil henchmen. At first, Riley and the others fought with all their might, but they were promptly defeated.

Realizing they didn't have the strength to defeat the robots, Riley encouraged everyone to use their Power Morphers. Riley morphed into the **Red Mythic Dragon Ranger** for the first time. With these new powers, Riley and the other Rangers made quick work of the Mechazoids. With newfound purpose and duty, and the inability to suppress the grin on her face, Riley quickly told Merlin that she was more than willing to continue defending the world from evil. Thus, Riley became the leader of the Mythic Force and a formidable force of good against evil. When they are not saving the world, teenagers with attitudes chosen by Merlin gather at the Powerhouse Youth Center.

As a ranger, Riley's most defining character trait is her desire to be a good leader, and the pinnacle of what it means to **be** a ranger. When anything goes wrong, Riley is the first of the team to attempt to correct it. Whenever anyone is in danger, Riley is always the first to rally the other rangers to save them. However, her most defining characteristic is also her greatest weakness. Much more so than any other red ranger that had come before her, Riley will beat himself up over the slightest failure. Villains often exploit this weakness in an attempt to gain a psychological advantage over her. Although a Ranger, Riley still keeps up with the life she had prior to becoming a Ranger. Riley got involved in all the extra school activities that went on in Talos Island as well as activities outside of school: food fairs, carnivals, dances, insect collecting, planting trees in the park, burying a time capsule, acting in school plays, and even finding stray animals a home.

After becoming a Ranger, and six years after taking Karate classes, she was already teaching her own classes. She'd grown into a valiant athletic young woman and dedicated martial artist, and shares her martial arts knowledge with her students at the Powerhouse Karate school. During this time, not only did Riley have to contend with evil aliens from space and their robots, but with school bullies as well all of which seemed to take great joy in trying to put Rileydown. They had many confrontations with usually the bully on the losing side. The same group of bullies also enjoys tormenting Drew. Riley offered to teach Drew martial arts and Drew took Riley up on her offer. Riley gave Drew as much encouragement as he could to bolster up his self-confidence.

Riley stays active in many ways. Playing volleyball, baseball, basketball, mountain biking, rope climbing, hockey, scuba diving (where Riley was also a certified instructor). Riley is adventurous and always willing to try new things. and environmentally conscious.

Riley tries her best to be very close and protective of her fellow Rangers, often fitting herself into the protective big sister role over most of them, while trying to have intricate and unique friendships with each member of the team. Riley also has a soft spot for kids, and often assists in coaching middle school or amature neighborhood games. Riley's biggest fear is having the people she's close to be endangered because of her status as a Power Ranger, as a result, she's incredibly picky with who she reveals her identity to.

### **Rangers and Riders**

At this point, Riley had accepted her role as the team leader, and their missions began. Whilst Merlin was still hesitant to discuss the coming threat that they'd assembled the Rangers for, Merlin opted to send them on "peace missions" until the time was right, saving lives in Paragon City and stopping looming threats like Arachnos and the 5th Column. It was during this time that Riley had first come into contact with Clay Harper, a mysterious man who'd taken an interest in photographing the Rangers. It was eventually revealed after bringing Clay to meet with Galaxy Pink, that he and Ms. Mason already knew one another, and that Clay was not just an old friend of hers, but very likely an ex-ranger himself.

Riley and Clay began to share a lot of time together, and while Riley had been hesitant to ask about Clay's past with the Rangers, she gained an admiration and appreciation for him, hoping one day to have him stand with her team against whatever threat loomed in the future. Soon after this, Riley came into contact with The Jade Rangers (- ジェイド戦隊) whilst they were on their mission tracking their own enemy who'd escaped over seas, developing a decent friendship with each of them respectively, and syncing up their Communicators.

Sometime after becoming the Red Ranger of the Mythic Force, Riley and her friends came into contact with a reporter in Atlas Park. Introducing himself as Takeuchi Kazuo, the reporter asked a quick flurry of questions to the colorful new team, nearly catching them off guard were it not for Riley's ability to quickly rebound and act fast under pressure. After the interview had ended, and the crowd had dispersed, Takeuchi Kazuo followed the Rangers for one of their adventures. The Mythic Rangers agreed to take him along, but under Riley's strict orders that they stay covered in safety the entire time. Once the rangers had arrived to deal with the threat, a local 5th Column Cell hiding out in an old warehouse, Takeuchi revealed himself to have abilities similar to the rangers, withdrawing and activating his Driver.

After transforming into the Kamen Rider "R1", Takeuchi and the Rangers were able to work together to handle the threat quickly, and neatly. It wasn't long before Riley had taken a heavy interest and appreciation for R1's fighting style, especially his kicks. Regularly, after meeting R1, Riley could be found practicing over, and over in the local school gym and at the Academy for Heroes, trying to nail and replicated R1's combat prowess.

After a few weeks of training and fighting, Riley and R1 came back into contact. R1 had a device in hand that was similar to his Driver, but didn't operate correctly. Assembling the team and R1 to the local park, the team's studying Grid expert Drew got to work near immediately. However, while the team worked, Mikey Ortiz, a boy who'd recently moved to town had caught them and his science teacher working on the device. Eventually accidentally revealing himself to the group, Riley, Kat and Ms. Mason did their best to distract him to cover their identities and the work presently going on with the device behind them. Their efforts were invain, as suddenly the new Driver-type device activated, summoning forth a large Combat Trial Drone. With no choice left, Riley leapt into action against the monster.

With the combined efforts of Kamen Rider R1, The Mythic Force, and the Jade Rangers, the glitchy, experimental robot was brought down. Combining their weapons to make an ultimate power-blaster, the team as a whole was able to take out the drone and complete the Trial. Riley, invigorated by the success decided to give a speech. For a long Riley had not known what to do with her future, or where to go after she'd graduated. The past year had been confusing and incredibly transitional for her, but now with the power and responsibility of becoming a Ranger, Riley was determined to make herself a mark of legend, and embody what it *meant* to be a Red Ranger.

### **The Mysterious Ranger**

Riley had grown confident shortly after her first few times morphing, but after giving her speech several of the Rangers noticed a red figure looming in the distance. As Riley and Jade Red grew closer, the figure seemed to phase further away. Inevitably catching up to them, they'd discovered it was another Red Ranger, but there was something mysterious about them. Almost ghostly, the figure was silent, and simply gave a gentle two fingered salute as the pair approached. Riley could feel something in her chest, building, some sort of magnetic energy calling her forwards towards the figure.

Noting that she'd felt something between them, a sameness and similarity, the figure nodded, outstretching her hand. Riley took the gesture, shaking hands with the mysterious Red Ranger, and feeling a sudden surge of electricity pass from them, into herself. At the instant the "zap" occured, the figure vanished away, leaving Jade Red and Riley to speculate on just what it was that'd just happened, and head back for the team until they could consult the origins of each of their powers.

### **Back to Action!**

After recieving a concerned call from the Mythic Orange Ranger, Kat O'Connor, telling Riley in a panic that she'd been spotted out as a ranger, and to get there as soon as she could, both Riley and Kat made an effort to meet face to face with the mysterious new arrival. This person revealed themselves to be **Sarah Oliver**, the Red Hero Ranger of Earth-2123, and she was in desperate need of help. According to Sarah, a former member of her team, the original Green Hero Ranger had gone rogue, and not only destroyed a majority of her team, but was coming for every morpher and artifact of power in the Multiverse. Having learned of this plot, and the Rangers' impending doom, Riley took a step forwards through her anxiety to take up the mantle of responsibility that she'd need to have to see the Rangers through.

After arriving at the Hero Force **Command Center**, the Mythic Rangers sent an all call signal across the universe to any Rangers that might heed the cry for help. Summoning various teams together, such as The Rabbit Rangers, Remnants of The Hero Force Rangers, Jeido Sentai, and more, the Mythic Dragon secured herself at the helm of the ship. After summoning Merlin through the View Crystal, Riley and the other rangers finally were able to get the audience they'd been seeking, and ask the questions that'd been burning within them since this all started. Through Merlin's explanation of the entity known as AkaRed, Riley was able to gather together **The Council of Red**, cobbling together those blessed by the mysterious red ranger.

### **Evil Space Aliens!**

After the dust had settled, and the teams had begun to plan how to best defend against the looming threat of the Dragon Emperor, Riley, R1, and several other members of Mythic Force found themselves on a peculiar mission: tracking down a runaway sentient toaster! A local restaurant's toaster appliance had allegedly, and quite literally sprouted arms, and legs, and escaped off into the distance! After a brief encounter with the toaster, in which it nearly burned Riley's face off entirely due to her not having been morphed after being spotted by **Harper** **Dawson**, a fellow student of hers at East Talos High, Riley recouped with her team only to be alerted that there was a large monster downtown who's torso resembled the exact same toaster. Somehow, the appliance had evolved into a full sized monster, and it was up to Mythic Force and Kamen Rider R1 to take it down. The team made their way to the site, only to encounter High Praetor Be'Zad, Emperor of the Phantom Cosmos Empire, and the man who'd been responsible for the destruction of the majority of the Galaxy Force Rangers back to finish the job.

Having announced his plan, Be'Zad and his toaster monster, Black Bread, were able to counter Mythic team at almost every turn, that was until several new faces revealed themselves, including Harper Dawson as Mythic Crimson, a mysterious, yet unnamed Rider next to **Kamen Rider Striker**, members of the **Rok Rangers**, and even the mysterious AkaRed Entity taking the form of Galaxy Red, the Red Hero who fell at the hands of Be'Zad many years earlier.

This distraction was enough to frighten the High Praetor back to his vessel, The Almighty Sabre, and allow Riley's team to gain a foothold. Be'zad shot a bolt of energy from his flagship onto the monster, causing him to grow to an immense size, and nearly crush the team with his enormous metallic foot. That was when *the spark* within Riley activated. The power she'd recieved from AkaRed manifested, transforming her Ranger Suit into an advanced version of itself, and granting her the more passive power of the Mighty Dragon Shield, allowing her to take the entirety of the blow, and push the monster's boot back. While the Riders handled the Mechazoid mooks, Riley and Drew were able to summon both of their Mythiczords, and deliver a devastating Draconic Slash to Black Bread's now grown, Kaiju-esque form, ending the battle and saving the day.

## Personality

Riley is self-assured and seldom hesitates. She strives to be respected as leader of the Mythic Rangers and is shown to have some of the best martial arts skills of the team. Riley is a dedicated, strong-willed leader. While she can be hot-headed and tempered at times, she is kind and caring, and very concerned about the well being of not only her respective team of rangers, but everyone around her as a whole. She will do anything to keep her friends and innocents out of harm's way.

## Mythic Dragon

As the **Red Ranger** of the **Mythic Force**. Also retroactively known as **Red Mythic Ranger** or **Mythic Dragon Ranger** (unofficial titles).

### **Powers and Abilities**

#### Powers

* Enhanced Strength (while Morphed)
* Enhanced Durability (while Morphed)
* Enhanced Agility (while Morphed)
* Enhanced Combat Prowess (while Morphed)

#### Abilities

* Karate Black Belt
* Natural Born Leader

#### Weaknesses

Riley's main weakness is her poor reception to her own failure, and hot-headedness.

### Arsenal

* Wrist Communicator
* Power Morpher
	+ Dragonstone Power Ring
* Cross-Blaster
* Dragon Power Sword

#### Zords

* Red Dragon Mythiczord**Legendary Red**
**Without Dragon Shield**

## Relationships

### Allies

#### Rangers

* Mythic Force
	+ Mikey Ortiz
	+ Raya Ortiz
	+ Andrew "Drew" Kim
	+ Carolina Murray
	+ Kat O'Connor
	+ Tracy Harper
	+ Eleanor Fletcher
	+ Gavin "Gav" Chase
	+ Harper Dawson
* Galaxy Force
	+ Ms. Mason
* Jeido Sentai (ジェイド戦隊)
	+ Kaleo Souza
	+ Hisako Ueno
	+ Yume Hayasaka
* Defense Force
	+ Clay Harper
* Kamen Rider
	+ Takeuchi Kazuo

#### Family

* Mr. Scott - Father
* Mrs. Scott - Mother

### Enemies

#### Generals

* Prince Draxxor
* Mythic Violent
* Malitron
* Deathstrobe

##### Phantom Cosmos Empire

* High Praetor Be'Zad
* Dr. Whirligig

## Keys, Aspects, and Edges (Tokyo Heroes, TTRPG)

#### **Keys**

(P)Goal: Riley's primary goal is to become the best possible ranger she can. It's her dream to become the paragon ranger, the quintessential example of everything that a ranger should be.

Benefits: Gain 1 Hero Die each time you get closer to your goal. Gain 2-3 Hero Dice each time you pursue your goal even though it puts you at personal risk. Gain 3 or more Hero Dice if you convince someone else to pursue the same goal.

(T)Cause: Her team's primary goal is to protect the natural magic of the world

Benefits: Once per session you can gain 1 Hero Die by stating the nature of your cause in context. Gain 2-3 Hero Dice each time you pursue your cause even though it puts you at personal risk. Gain 3 or more Hero Dice if you convince someone else to take up the same cause.

(T)Pride: You draw strength from pride in your status as a hero and a member of the team, and you’re invigorated by shows of solidarity and teamwork.

Benefits: Gain 1 Hero Die each time you get closer to your goal. Gain 2-3 Hero Dice each time you pursue your goal even though it puts you at personal risk. Gain 3 or more Hero Dice if you convince someone else to pursue the same goal.

##### **Edges**

(T)Basic Attack

This is a simple, commonly used mode of attack. Unlike Special Attack and Finishing attack it can be used at will, but the character just rolls his base Attack attribute. A Basic Attack can be a weapon—whether a melee weapon, a firearm, or something else—or simply the ability to make effective hand-to-hand attacks. Characters can also have more than one type of basic attack without spending any additional Edges. Without a Basic Attack edge, the character has to either use a Special Attack or attack as though not transformed (see p. 48).

(T)Special Attack

Special Attacks are moderately powerful attacks that heroes can use against enemies. The form that a special attack takes is left up to your imagination, though each hero should have a different variation. For sentai heroes a Special Attack is usually a special personalized weapon, while for magical girls it’s a magical attack spell. Regardless, a Special Attack works like a Basic Attack, but adds +2 dice to the Attack roll. Additional Edges can be added to a Special Attack to make it more powerful; each Edge adds another 2 dice, or 3 dice if the Special Attack costs a Hero Die to use. Special Attacks can be used to try for a finishing attack, but this has to be declared in advance and it has a +1 Target modifier to the roll.

(T)Vehicle Defender

The character has a “super-vehicle.” It affords extra mobility appropriate to whatever kind of vehicle it happens to be, and it can attempt a robot-scale Basic Attack, albeit with a +1 Target modifier. Vehicle Defenders are almost always combined to become a Group Asset Robot (see above).

(T)Finishing Attack

A finishing attack is a step above a Special Attack, a hissatsuwaza (killer move) used to finish off opponents. A basic Finishing Attack adds 4 dice to the attack roll but costs 2 Hero Dice. Each extra Edge spent on a Finishing Attack adds 2 attack dice and +1 to the Hero Die cost. A finishing attack can be used just to wear an opponent down (it still takes off Stamina points), though this isn’t necessarily the best use of it.

Unlike Special Attacks, there’s no penalty for using it to finish off an opponent. A Finishing Attack that scores at least as many successes as the target’s Resistance finishes them off, but every point of Stamina the target has counts against those successes for that purpose.

(T)Robot

Everyone loves giant robots! A robot lets characters function normally in robotscale action (see p. 48). By default a robot has 24 Stamina, Resistance 10, and can do a Basic Attack. Each additional Edge spent on the robot to provide one of the following:

2 additional Edges; Finishing Attack, Special Attack, Special Defense, and Special Power (usually stuff like Special Movement) are typical.

+8 to Stamina

+2 to Resistance (to a maximum of 16)

(P)Finishing Attack

A finishing attack is a step above a Special Attack, a hissatsuwaza (killer move) used to finish off opponents. A basic Finishing Attack adds 4 dice to the attack roll but costs 2 Hero Dice. Each extra Edge spent on a Finishing Attack adds 2 attack dice and +1 to the Hero Die cost. A finishing attack can be used just to wear an opponent down (it still takes off Stamina points), though this isn’t necessarily the best use of it.

Unlike Special Attacks, there’s no penalty for using it to finish off an opponent. A Finishing Attack that scores at least as many successes as the target’s Resistance finishes them off, but every point of Stamina the target has counts against those successes for that purpose.

#### **Special Ability**

Righteous Fury - When there’s a wrong to the righted, you can spend Karma points as though they were Hero Dice.

## Behind the Scenes

### Design

* Riley is inspired heavily by elements of Jason Lee Scott, Tommy Oliver, and Kimberly Hart from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

## Notes

* Riley's birthday is July 31st 2005, which makes her a Leo.
* When asked how often and what kinds of martial arts she practiced, Riley said if she isn't working too hard, she liked to put in two or three hours a day; the styles she'd studied were a very long list which included kenpo, taekwondo, judo, and shinkido, but her favorites were taekwondo and kenpo.