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Letters to Cripto: #54
Dear Cripto,
I don't want SuperCat to die; he's too valuable to all of us, and I know that the public has angered him to the point where he looked up at the sky and screamed, "WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?" Why do I say this? I'm the one that filmed him screaming it, and then posted it as a YouTube short; in record time, it hit over one billion views. (Note that I refuse to use TikTok.) I wrote a letter apologizing to him as well, but I told him in that letter that I would write one to you as well, because my parents knew your grandmother, Chloe Clements, from the fact they attended the same church she died, and made many vital mistakes that she might or might not have made.
Both my parents insisted on taking me and my two brothers, as well as my one sister, to the movie "Deep Impact," because they wanted to punish us for going to the theaters three years earlier to watch "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie." Their intentions were to do this to us in the same year as that film, 1995, but it was 1998 before they could do so because a tornado later destroyed the movie theater as well as other parts of our town, and it took a long time to rebuild because CNG was killing off the construction crews. It wanted a new Kreigland, which meant no movies, no television, no music from the 1950s onwards, nothing! ("Deep Impact," if you're not familiar with that movie, is a disaster film about a comet shard hitting Earth, creating tsunamis that kill people by the millions.)
I don't see how forcing you to watch a movie you don't care about is a punishment for watching a movie you wanted to see against your parents' wishes. Do you? In any case, it was ultimately another arranged marriage gone wrong; I know your boss feels uneasy about that subject.
CNG then killed our parents the next day because this was not a legitimate punishment, and that's when it also turned us into animals. I guess we didn't know what was happening at the time, because it was not until the 2010s where we finally began to discover what that stuff was, why it wanted to eradicate humanity as a whole, and why it had its double standards that led to its ultimate demise in 2022. One such double standard is the fact the gold kind prevented you and your fellow Caticonians from getting hurt by the other colors. (NOTES: me and my brothers had made it to high school by that point, while my sister was in 7th grade. Our aunt and uncle took charge of looking after us after the funeral. And we had spoken to your grandmother many times as well. She was always complaining about you giving up the piano, and thus, abandoning your faith in God. But did you really? I doubt it.)
Thankfully, we were able to reconcile with our parents before they died, and they admitted that they thought the Power Rangers franchise was too violent, and had forgotten about the comedy relief in the form of Bulk and Skull. I think it was all the special effects that did it for them, and plus, being devout churchgoers, they didn't want us dealing with Satanic things such as witchcraft. What is Rita Repulsa? A witch. A very bad one, though; she never seemed to get the hint, did she? As long as she kept making her monsters grow, the Rangers would be there with their Zords. "Why do you put that garbage into your heads when you are supposed to be following the Bible?" Mom and Dad demanded before grounding all four of us for two and a half months and giving us extra chores. (That way, Easter Sunday would be the day our sentence was finished.) "Was there nothing else that was decent? You should have just gone to the park and cleaned it up!" (This is ironic in a way, because the original MMPR did an episode entitled "Clean-Up Club." Needless to say, we did just that the next day, although we didn't incorporate martial arts into doing so the way the Rangers did.)
All four of us: me, my brothers, and my sister, were fans of the franchise, which is why we went to see the film.
Anyways, the fact that I filmed your boss screaming, "WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?", was not to capitalize on his meltdowns, but to show the world how wrong it was of them to tick him off like this. Even superheroes have limited patience, and we should know, because we cosplay as the Power Rangers all the time. The original group, I should say, as the later "Wild Force;" there have been so many different versions over the years. I'm sorry if I ticked you off by doing this, but I wanted to give the world a wake-up call. I can't tell if the American public is genuinely that stupid, or if it is the affereffects of that CNG stuff making them stupid, or even the supernatural forces out there picking up where it left off. Humans are still dying too soon for the wrong reasons, and it's saddening to all of us. The difference is there are no more cases of humans turning into animals.
When CNG turned us into animals, it made me a lion, while my brothers became a wolf and a bison. My sister became a white tigress. We think this is a freaky coincidence, because "Power Rangers: Wild Force" had not debuted yet. But that's generally the roles we now take on when cosplaying as a result; we used to just cosplay as the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, in the colors red, black, blue, and pink. Now we cosplay as the Red Lion Ranger, Black Bison Ranger, White Tiger Ranger, and Lunar Wolf Ranger, respectively.
Anyway, that's my story in a nutshell. Thanks for letting me write to you. You do us a great service, so please don't stop (and the same is true for all the G-52s, all around the world). We are willing to fight with you to make this world a better place. All I ask of it is to get its act together and cut it out. They're making your organization feel worthless, those ungrateful people!
Matthias Andreas, age 36 (lion, formerly human being)
Originally from Athens, Georgia, USA
Now living in Wildcat City, Kansas, USA
P.S. May the power protect you.
Cripto's response:
Dear Matthias:
I don't get it either. Where's the logic in punishing your kids for watching a film you didn't want them to see by taking them to a different film? However, I personally never cared for going to the movies. (My parents weren't willing to spend the amounts they wanted, especially on concessions. I have always preferred TV game shows to everything else, even as a cub. How did I learn the alphabet? "Wheel of Fortune." How did I learn about numbers? "The Price is Right." I credit the Check Game from that show as teaching me how to write a check in real life. But that's just me. You're entitled to think differently.
Do note that because so many people are asking me about my late grandma (in particular because of those tabloid terrorists running amok), I have to get the boss cat's approval before I write a response to some of these letters. But he did so here, since he himself wrote back to you, and said that he forgives you for filming him. I agree with him; I think you gave the world the wake-up call it needed. It's just a question of whether or not it chooses to pay attention to you. The supernatural forces out there picking up where CNG left off aren't as strong as CNG was, but still stronger than one might think, considering how we are also seeing more youngsters out there proclaiming we no longer deserve to be the United States of America, but instead, we should be the United Empire of Leo, eschewing our Constitution and the rights and freedoms it promises in favor of obeying Leo the Patriotic Lion to the letter, or getting the death penalty as a result. This is enough to make a grown tiger cry; nobody wants this! Leo doesn't want this either! So why do the kids think this is the only way to live? It's not! They're only robbing themselves in the end.
As for Grandma, she wanted to see the end of television as a whole, so she had no idea Power Rangers even was a thing. But we can safely say she would have said it was too violent. I think the special effects and the creepy looking monsters may have done it for her; she said everything that came out of Japan was unbiblical and sinful, showing she had a problem with xenophobia, and she never got out of any WW2 mentality (she was also preaching, "DON'T TRUST THE GERMANS!", but she never had a problem with Italian people, so she didn't complete the Axis). She admitted she thought the world would be better off without that stuff because that stuff is encouraging people to abandon the Lord's doctrine and discipline for their own pleasures. I guess you can be the judge of that.
Yes; it was true that she claimed I was disobeying God by not playing the piano and basically living my life the way she thought I should. If I was, the world wouldn't have survived up to this point. It needs superheroes protecting it as well as the other ways to protect it. If its people don't show gratitude towards that, then that's on them. The people are their own worst enemy; even the supervillains we've fought over the years are laughing their heads off at the general public right now.
Thankfully, she was able to make amends with everybody towards the end of her life, and I will say that, to the day she died, she sought forgiveness from God as well as everybody she had wronged. Sometimes I feel she's rolling in her grave, because all the dirt these tabloid terrorists are trying to dig up on her is false. If she were to come back to life, she'd sue them for libel and win easily, but her preacher often said that if we are to follow God, we turn the other cheek, and thus, we never file a lawsuit with anybody, because that's retailiation. Again, you be the judge.
I never abandoned my faith God like she thought I did. She just said that because she wasn't getting what she wanted, and while we have discovered she had prayed the prayer of salvation and went to heaven by our beliefs, she still had quite a lot to answer for, since everybody will stand before God and give an account of their lives, whether they end up going to heaven or hell. It's easy to make that assumption, though, because the G-52s originally didn't follow any religions in order to live up to their Code of Conduct, which was protecting everybody regardless of religion, gender, age, status, or whatever. We still follow that rule today; however, with the Third Great Awakening in full effect right now, especially with Christianity's numbers alarmingly rising due to the discovery people made that CNG would not kill them if they followed the religion (and it also didn't kill Jewish people for whatever reason, but it killed everybody else if their religion wasn't one of those two), some of the G-52s began practicing Christianity in order to better their lives, and Super C himself has stated he based the Code of Conduct we follow on the Bible's principles. At the time, it was unconscious. But now, he's revised the Code many times so that it still does this, but at the same time, does not judge people for who they are, where they come from, what they do for a living, what their age or gender is (or status if they are in the LGBTQ+ crowd), or what religion they follow if they do follow one.
Hope that helps; if not, feel free to write back and I'll fix any mistakes. I appreciate you writing to me, and I hope the power protects you, too.
Yours truly,
Nathan Knight, a.k.a. CriptoCat (Cripto for short)
Frontman for the rock band Furry Fury
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Letters to Cripto: #54
Dear Cripto,
I don't want SuperCat to die; he's too valuable to all of us, and I know that the public has angered him to the point where he looked up at the sky and screamed, "WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?" Why do I say this? I'm the one that filmed him screaming it, and then posted it as a YouTube short; in record time, it hit over one billion views. (Note that I refuse to use TikTok.) I wrote a letter apologizing to him as well, but I told him in that letter that I would write one to you as well, because my parents knew your grandmother, Chloe Clements, from the fact they attended the same church she died, and made many vital mistakes that she might or might not have made.
Both my parents insisted on taking me and my two brothers, as well as my one sister, to the movie "Deep Impact," because they wanted to punish us for going to the theaters three years earlier to watch "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie." Their intentions were to do this to us in the same year as that film, 1995, but it was 1998 before they could do so because a tornado later destroyed the movie theater as well as other parts of our town, and it took a long time to rebuild because CNG was killing off the construction crews. It wanted a new Kreigland, which meant no movies, no television, no music from the 1950s onwards, nothing! ("Deep Impact," if you're not familiar with that movie, is a disaster film about a comet shard hitting Earth, creating tsunamis that kill people by the millions.)
I don't see how forcing you to watch a movie you don't care about is a punishment for watching a movie you wanted to see against your parents' wishes. Do you? In any case, it was ultimately another arranged marriage gone wrong; I know your boss feels uneasy about that subject.
CNG then killed our parents the next day because this was not a legitimate punishment, and that's when it also turned us into animals. I guess we didn't know what was happening at the time, because it was not until the 2010s where we finally began to discover what that stuff was, why it wanted to eradicate humanity as a whole, and why it had its double standards that led to its ultimate demise in 2022. One such double standard is the fact the gold kind prevented you and your fellow Caticonians from getting hurt by the other colors. (NOTES: me and my brothers had made it to high school by that point, while my sister was in 7th grade. Our aunt and uncle took charge of looking after us after the funeral. And we had spoken to your grandmother many times as well. She was always complaining about you giving up the piano, and thus, abandoning your faith in God. But did you really? I doubt it.)
Thankfully, we were able to reconcile with our parents before they died, and they admitted that they thought the Power Rangers franchise was too violent, and had forgotten about the comedy relief in the form of Bulk and Skull. I think it was all the special effects that did it for them, and plus, being devout churchgoers, they didn't want us dealing with Satanic things such as witchcraft. What is Rita Repulsa? A witch. A very bad one, though; she never seemed to get the hint, did she? As long as she kept making her monsters grow, the Rangers would be there with their Zords. "Why do you put that garbage into your heads when you are supposed to be following the Bible?" Mom and Dad demanded before grounding all four of us for two and a half months and giving us extra chores. (That way, Easter Sunday would be the day our sentence was finished.) "Was there nothing else that was decent? You should have just gone to the park and cleaned it up!" (This is ironic in a way, because the original MMPR did an episode entitled "Clean-Up Club." Needless to say, we did just that the next day, although we didn't incorporate martial arts into doing so the way the Rangers did.)
All four of us: me, my brothers, and my sister, were fans of the franchise, which is why we went to see the film.
Anyways, the fact that I filmed your boss screaming, "WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?", was not to capitalize on his meltdowns, but to show the world how wrong it was of them to tick him off like this. Even superheroes have limited patience, and we should know, because we cosplay as the Power Rangers all the time. The original group, I should say, as the later "Wild Force;" there have been so many different versions over the years. I'm sorry if I ticked you off by doing this, but I wanted to give the world a wake-up call. I can't tell if the American public is genuinely that stupid, or if it is the affereffects of that CNG stuff making them stupid, or even the supernatural forces out there picking up where it left off. Humans are still dying too soon for the wrong reasons, and it's saddening to all of us. The difference is there are no more cases of humans turning into animals.
When CNG turned us into animals, it made me a lion, while my brothers became a wolf and a bison. My sister became a white tigress. We think this is a freaky coincidence, because "Power Rangers: Wild Force" had not debuted yet. But that's generally the roles we now take on when cosplaying as a result; we used to just cosplay as the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, in the colors red, black, blue, and pink. Now we cosplay as the Red Lion Ranger, Black Bison Ranger, White Tiger Ranger, and Lunar Wolf Ranger, respectively.
Anyway, that's my story in a nutshell. Thanks for letting me write to you. You do us a great service, so please don't stop (and the same is true for all the G-52s, all around the world). We are willing to fight with you to make this world a better place. All I ask of it is to get its act together and cut it out. They're making your organization feel worthless, those ungrateful people!
Matthias Andreas, age 36 (lion, formerly human being)
Originally from Athens, Georgia, USA
Now living in Wildcat City, Kansas, USA
P.S. May the power protect you.
Cripto's response:
Dear Matthias:
I don't get it either. Where's the logic in punishing your kids for watching a film you didn't want them to see by taking them to a different film? However, I personally never cared for going to the movies. (My parents weren't willing to spend the amounts they wanted, especially on concessions. I have always preferred TV game shows to everything else, even as a cub. How did I learn the alphabet? "Wheel of Fortune." How did I learn about numbers? "The Price is Right." I credit the Check Game from that show as teaching me how to write a check in real life. But that's just me. You're entitled to think differently.
Do note that because so many people are asking me about my late grandma (in particular because of those tabloid terrorists running amok), I have to get the boss cat's approval before I write a response to some of these letters. But he did so here, since he himself wrote back to you, and said that he forgives you for filming him. I agree with him; I think you gave the world the wake-up call it needed. It's just a question of whether or not it chooses to pay attention to you. The supernatural forces out there picking up where CNG left off aren't as strong as CNG was, but still stronger than one might think, considering how we are also seeing more youngsters out there proclaiming we no longer deserve to be the United States of America, but instead, we should be the United Empire of Leo, eschewing our Constitution and the rights and freedoms it promises in favor of obeying Leo the Patriotic Lion to the letter, or getting the death penalty as a result. This is enough to make a grown tiger cry; nobody wants this! Leo doesn't want this either! So why do the kids think this is the only way to live? It's not! They're only robbing themselves in the end.
As for Grandma, she wanted to see the end of television as a whole, so she had no idea Power Rangers even was a thing. But we can safely say she would have said it was too violent. I think the special effects and the creepy looking monsters may have done it for her; she said everything that came out of Japan was unbiblical and sinful, showing she had a problem with xenophobia, and she never got out of any WW2 mentality (she was also preaching, "DON'T TRUST THE GERMANS!", but she never had a problem with Italian people, so she didn't complete the Axis). She admitted she thought the world would be better off without that stuff because that stuff is encouraging people to abandon the Lord's doctrine and discipline for their own pleasures. I guess you can be the judge of that.
Yes; it was true that she claimed I was disobeying God by not playing the piano and basically living my life the way she thought I should. If I was, the world wouldn't have survived up to this point. It needs superheroes protecting it as well as the other ways to protect it. If its people don't show gratitude towards that, then that's on them. The people are their own worst enemy; even the supervillains we've fought over the years are laughing their heads off at the general public right now.
Thankfully, she was able to make amends with everybody towards the end of her life, and I will say that, to the day she died, she sought forgiveness from God as well as everybody she had wronged. Sometimes I feel she's rolling in her grave, because all the dirt these tabloid terrorists are trying to dig up on her is false. If she were to come back to life, she'd sue them for libel and win easily, but her preacher often said that if we are to follow God, we turn the other cheek, and thus, we never file a lawsuit with anybody, because that's retailiation. Again, you be the judge.
I never abandoned my faith God like she thought I did. She just said that because she wasn't getting what she wanted, and while we have discovered she had prayed the prayer of salvation and went to heaven by our beliefs, she still had quite a lot to answer for, since everybody will stand before God and give an account of their lives, whether they end up going to heaven or hell. It's easy to make that assumption, though, because the G-52s originally didn't follow any religions in order to live up to their Code of Conduct, which was protecting everybody regardless of religion, gender, age, status, or whatever. We still follow that rule today; however, with the Third Great Awakening in full effect right now, especially with Christianity's numbers alarmingly rising due to the discovery people made that CNG would not kill them if they followed the religion (and it also didn't kill Jewish people for whatever reason, but it killed everybody else if their religion wasn't one of those two), some of the G-52s began practicing Christianity in order to better their lives, and Super C himself has stated he based the Code of Conduct we follow on the Bible's principles. At the time, it was unconscious. But now, he's revised the Code many times so that it still does this, but at the same time, does not judge people for who they are, where they come from, what they do for a living, what their age or gender is (or status if they are in the LGBTQ+ crowd), or what religion they follow if they do follow one.
Hope that helps; if not, feel free to write back and I'll fix any mistakes. I appreciate you writing to me, and I hope the power protects you, too.
Yours truly,
Nathan Knight, a.k.a. CriptoCat (Cripto for short)
Frontman for the rock band Furry Fury
Cripto's fifty-fourth letter.
Super C, G-52s, etc. © me and me alone
Deep Impact (1998 film) © the following:
Production companies: Paramount Pictures
DreamWorks Pictures
Amblin Entertainment
The Manhattan Project
Zanuck/Brown Productions
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
(North America)
DreamWorks Pictures
(International)
Power Rangers franchise © Saban Entertainment, Hasbro, and everybody else who owns the rights, and adapted from the Super Sentai franchise; that franchise belongs to Shotaro Ishinomori (as creator), Toei Company, and Bandai. The 1995 movie © Saban Entertainment, Toei Company, Fox Family Films, and distributed by 20th Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios).
Go Go Power Rangers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM1nXm4e3oM (as performed by the Power Rangers Orchestra; this arrangement appears in "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie."
Rita Repulsa's best bits from MMPR: The Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBvFbkq35ZA
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (TV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTh2Aj3gPqI (episode 1, "Day of the Dumpster")
Super C, G-52s, etc. © me and me alone
Deep Impact (1998 film) © the following:
Production companies: Paramount Pictures
DreamWorks Pictures
Amblin Entertainment
The Manhattan Project
Zanuck/Brown Productions
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
(North America)
DreamWorks Pictures
(International)
Power Rangers franchise © Saban Entertainment, Hasbro, and everybody else who owns the rights, and adapted from the Super Sentai franchise; that franchise belongs to Shotaro Ishinomori (as creator), Toei Company, and Bandai. The 1995 movie © Saban Entertainment, Toei Company, Fox Family Films, and distributed by 20th Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios).
Go Go Power Rangers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM1nXm4e3oM (as performed by the Power Rangers Orchestra; this arrangement appears in "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie."
Rita Repulsa's best bits from MMPR: The Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBvFbkq35ZA
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (TV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTh2Aj3gPqI (episode 1, "Day of the Dumpster")
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