Xel Empire Battle Ratz - Spring

darth_paul on April 20, 2015

Introducing Spring, leader of the opposite numbers of the C.A.R.E.-Givers for the Xel Empire known as the Battle Ratz. The “Bratz,” (Yes, I realize that is the name of a popular line of dolls, but I actually came up with the shortened nickname of the group before the dolls even existed,so it's just an extremely uncanny coincidence, and besides I've also mentioned that it's an unpopular nickname for these characters within their reality, and they prefer to use their full name), are as you can tell by their bios are not aliens of the Xel race, but actually human women that were failed recruits of the C.G.'s who have turned against the Earth in an act of defiance and revenge. Also, just as each member of the C.G.'s has a last name picked at random (no personal politics involved) after a former U.S. president, so do these opposites of theirs (I just thought it would be a neat thing to do when coming up with personal identities for them). However, rather than make the Battle Ratz have codenames that would be opposites to the C.G.'s who are named Faith, Love, Hope, Joy, and Charity, all good feelings and ideals, I opted instead to just name each of the evil gals after the seasons, but since there are five members to equal the number of the heroines, I needed to fudge it a bit and make the bad girls as Spring, Summer, Autumn, Fall, and Winter. (I just used both names for the third season and made them twins.) You'll also notice that I made a lot of subtle design changes to their uniforms to make them similar, but reverse of their heroic counterparts as well in terms of black shirts instead of white and triangles where there are circles on the C.G.'s or vice-verse for example.