Lestallum is every bit the bore she'd assumed it would be, but as spots to lay low go, it's not the worst she's ever chosen. It's more or less an ideal spot for a working vacation; just active enough to blend into a crowd with enough through-moving traffic from travelers to remain unremarkable if she chooses her marks correctly. It's slower business than in a bustling city like Insomnia, and the takes aren't quite as big as they might be in Altissia, but it's enough to keep her content and housed comfortably in the Leville.

The scenery isn't so bad either, Luka decides, taking a long sip of her too-sweet coffee and leaning back in her chair to watch the throngs of people making their way through the marketplace. It's busy enough that she's gone almost unnoticed, which bodes well for the rest of her day, as long as everything else goes according to plan. Lucky for certain pirates, it usually does.

Usually.

So I've been very wrapped up in a long-distance job search/prepping for grad school and definitely didn't realize how close my moving date was.

... turns out it's Sunday!

So, um. My bad, guys, I've been gone and will continue to be gone probably until the end of the month. Apparently when you take me out of school for three months I lose my entire concept of time. I'll be back soon!

[Vacations are awesome, but coming back to bitter cold and no daylight is much less fabulous. That's probably why she's plodding through the snow in the dark, holding her coat closed. ... probably.]

It's too damn cold for this crap.

If any of this is incomprehensible I'm sorry, I've been in the Christmas Cheer tonight in a big way.

FROM NATSUMI:

• Tsukasa gets a carefully put-together scrapbook of his photos, or the ones she likes best, anyway. They may be some of the ones he's thrown out, she's been saving them from the garbage for a while now. There's also photos of their friends here and there -- non-warped ones. I-It took a while.
• Cesare gets a big book of old Japanese folklore with a handwritten note telling him to let her know what his favourites are.
• Ryuusei gets a nice new scarf! Very soft and warm. Even though he's a butt.
• The Shinkengers get baked goodies to share, in a nicely-wrapped box. They may be iced in their colours.

FROM LUKA:

• Emily is the only one who gets a for-real gift (a very classy and tasteful pair of earrings and a couple new outfits. And they are in fact real stones, because Luka is a stickler for quality jewelry).

Everyone else will find things ferreted in with their stuff like they have always been there.

• Gai gets new socks. They are loud, just like he likes.
• Joe gets new baking supplies and a thin leather bracelet.
• Marvelous gets treats, because Captain can't go without food for more than five minutes. ... also some stuff that will get them both in trouble but that's not new.
• Don will find his cookware mysteriously replaced with new (and better quality) stuff.
• Chiaki gets a stylish new jacket since it's cold as balls and you Earthlings are so un-hardy.

If anyone asks she will feign complete ignorance and probably make fun of them for forgetting they owned them.

FROM KOTOHA

• The Shinkengers all get handmade bamboo boxes for their calligraphy stuff. They're carved with their origami animals on the lids -- they aren't perfect but they're not bad, and definitely distinguishable. Princess gets a very generally ornate but pretty box and Genta's is just a hinged box to put whatever he likes in it, since he doesn't do the calligraphy thing.
• Malik and Shaun get baked treats, enough to share with the other Assassinfolk around. ... only some of them are burned. She tried.
• The Gokaigers get color-coded scarves, except for Gai. His is grey (for silver) but it is patterned, because he likes that kind of thing.

[Both posts got unwieldy. New and old go here!]

[Pajamas and clean sheets are nice, but so are fuzzy bedmates. Either way, stretching out and getting ready for bed in this corner of Big House.]

I've done what I could to collect as much accurate information about all of Luka's usual changes in the series and what they're capable of doing. Some of the older series (Fiveman, for example, or Dynaman, and most everything from the 80s) have very little available detail out there and aren't readily available for watching anymore, so some of this is a little incomplete. I'll fill in the gaps as more becomes available.

I've done what I could to collect as much accurate information about all of Luka's usual changes in the series and what they're capable of doing. Some of the older series (Fiveman, for example, or Dynaman, and most everything from the 80s) have very little available detail out there and aren't readily available for watching anymore, so some of this is a little incomplete. I'll fill in the gaps as more becomes available.

( gokai change! )

It's worth noting that this list does not include Gokai Changes of other colours; because it's been shown that any Gokaiger can use any Ranger Key to change into any colour Sentai Warrior as needed (there have been all-red, all-blue, etc. changes over the course of the series) it is feasible for Luka to use any of those at any given time, although she does still tendencially use yellow Ranger Keys. But 35 years of Super Sentai makes it nearly impossible to create an exhaustive list! To that end, I have made the best effort I could to include basic information for each weapon all members of a team have in common and place emphasis on the personal weapon of each yellow iteration.

As Super Sentai began in 1975 and information for the Super Sentai series that aired between 1975 and the late 1980s is much harder to come by, this is not as comprehensive as I would have hoped. As I find more, I will add to this.