10-10-2016, 05:05 PM
Lord Zedd was originally to enter the Omniverse as a Power Ranger from the distant past (the ten thousand years ago that Rita Repulsa was always screaming about in the opening credits), sort of a sci-fi secret agent that also happened to be able to to transform into the Red Ranger for his T1, and summon his Zord at higher levels and such. He would have joined the Empire. Through Astral Realm visions and the Dunes Void Quest he would learn that had he stayed in his own realm, he was destined to be corrupted, then betray and murder the rest of his team, as well as assist in imprisoning Zordon in the time warp thing he was stuck in during the show. After being sent to the Underverse (whenever it would happen), he would have slowly been deformed and his mind eroded, and transformed into Lord Zedd, fulfilling his original destiny anyway. After emerging and willingly undertaking a Chaos Emerald quest to purge all memories of his past existence, he would have totally renounced all faction and friend affiliations and been a sort of "at large" evil Prime.
The secretly-Zedd plan was my original alt character idea, last July, but I couldn't bring myself to build up friend and faction relations just to toss them aside, and I never had much of a desire to play as Zedd after the turn as I did before and during, so I went with Matrix instead. Once third characters became a thing, I found it much more appealing to simply start as Zedd and build his own connections from the ground up. The direction and style I'm taking with him is far more enjoyable to me, plus he's different enough from Zack and Matrix, unlike pre-Zedd would have been. And, the whole "hey so can I quietly be a canon character but not say anything until the time is right" would need a ton of communication and prior planning with Greg and Alex, and I never got committed enough to so much as reach out.
I'll probably still explore the ancient Power Ranger turned evil overlord via flashbacks, though.
Also, Matrix was originally going to join the Empire after ducking and dodging them for awhile, but Cinnabar ended up being so much fun that I went ahead and stuck him with that faction permanently, instead.
The secretly-Zedd plan was my original alt character idea, last July, but I couldn't bring myself to build up friend and faction relations just to toss them aside, and I never had much of a desire to play as Zedd after the turn as I did before and during, so I went with Matrix instead. Once third characters became a thing, I found it much more appealing to simply start as Zedd and build his own connections from the ground up. The direction and style I'm taking with him is far more enjoyable to me, plus he's different enough from Zack and Matrix, unlike pre-Zedd would have been. And, the whole "hey so can I quietly be a canon character but not say anything until the time is right" would need a ton of communication and prior planning with Greg and Alex, and I never got committed enough to so much as reach out.
I'll probably still explore the ancient Power Ranger turned evil overlord via flashbacks, though.
Also, Matrix was originally going to join the Empire after ducking and dodging them for awhile, but Cinnabar ended up being so much fun that I went ahead and stuck him with that faction permanently, instead.