A/N: Alright, I had a little fun with this one, and made the Shiba house rules very strict, as well as made all the ranger's parents very, very strict as well. The rangers were allowed almost zero contact with the outside world. The weren't allowed to have friends or anything like that. They were all home schooled and very, very isolated from civilians. All of them lived in the middle of nowhere, and never spoke to anyone who didn't know of the rangers. Meaning, they had spoken to servants and guardians of the Tengen gate and that's about it. So, they have little to no idea about social norms.
I also took the liberty of making the situation with the war a lot more dire. They were on the verge of losing the war for a long time, and the nighlocks were much more tricky and difficult to beat. The rangers had to develop Sherlock Holmes like skills of deduction and observation to find nighlock in a crowd of civilians, because in my story, nighlock had developed the technology to camouflage themselves to look like humans. However, they did not entirely understand humans, and thus could be told apart from the humans by using various signs the rangers had learned to recognize. As an example, they have little understanding of human body language, and would thus either over use it (wild erratic hand and arm motions while speaking,) or under use it (Standing perfectly still with hands at their sides.)
In my increasing the danger and fear of the war, I have also given several of the rangers (Jayden and Mike, as well as Emily to a certain extent) PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). I am by no means an expert on this subject, though I do try to do my research. I am portraying PTSD as I have understood it by reading various articles online and in books, so feel free to correct me about any of the symptoms or causes that I may have misinterpreted and/or misrepresented in this story. In addition, any of the changes of personality in the power ranger samurai characters can be attributed to Post-Traumatic Stress and paranoia created in the rangers by the war against the nighlock. I upped the stakes a lot for this story, so I hope I have been clear in what I have changed from the original plot. Thank you, and I hope you enjoy my story.
Sincerely,
Lisa Smithers
