Garfield Brooks



Garfield Brooks is the current Cerulean Hourglass Ranger, born in Universe Gamma.

Character History
Garfield never knew who his father was. He was raised by his mother and Gramps in London, doing well enough in school and entering the RAF at age 18. Shortly after his promotion to Flight Sergeant, however, Venjix began his attack on Earth. Garfield's squadron was assigned to protect London, and his plane was shot down during the Battle of Canary Wharf. In the crash, broken glass from his visor flew into his eyes, blinding him, and he probably would have died if his friend Rory hadn't found him and dragged him to an evacuation ship. From there they fled to Spain, Morocco and then Cairo, Egypt, where they and their squadron were put on a truck to Corinth City. But they never reached it.

An Akra ship attacked the convoy they were in, kidnapping everyone and dividing them up as Hosts, White Akra centers, and Drains. Garfield, being both blind and disfigured, was locked away to have his life force drained, where he met Xanthe of Aquitar. The two managed to escape, and found the morphers of the deceased Toppled Hourglass Rangers. Garfield took his first, and the pair fled through a portal. As they were still in Universe Gamma, the nearest Akra was in Corinth City, and Garfield spent the next month learning to cope with his blindness in the guise of Blue RPM Ranger Flynn McAllistair.

Garfield and Xanthe tracked down and isolated many Akra Hosts, leaving them for Time Force to pick up and take care of. One, Zack's cousin Curtis, delivered an offer from the Akra Queen to restore Garfield's eyes and let him go if he joined them, but Garfield never answered. Along the way, they encountered Detra Heusa, Xanthe's adopted Earthen-KO-35'an sister, then the Amaranth Ranger. When one of the Akra, Klaw, attacked and stabbed Garfield, Detra was able to heal enough of his wounds with her tears so that he could survive. Then she revealed that she was an Akra Host herself, giving Garfield one final chance to switch sides. Xanthe attacked at this point, driven into a near-berserk rage by all the mind control, drug withdrawal and deception she'd been put through, and Garfield had to intervene to keep her from killing the Host. Blindly, Xanthe turned on him as well, and afterwards, she left through her own portal. Receiving a visit from the three Time Force officers collecting all of their defeated Akra, Garfield was restored to strength, and began hunting Akra solo.

By himself, Garfield did well enough, finally reuniting with Xanthe (and meeting another Hourglass Ranger, Isinia Cruger) when they tracked the same Adaptible Akra to her origin. The three of them were soon brought to Northside, with a little push from the Akra Queen, and attacked the Mesozoic Rangers. After the misunderstanding was repaired, the two teams began working together. At this point, Garfield proposed to Xanthe, who turned him down.

Garfield participated in the final battle against the Akra Queen, fighting well enough, and was as confused as anyone when the Queen was killed by Xanthe's telepathic attack. When he discovered her catatonic afterwards, his first reaction was denial, and then simply holding her. He accompanied her back to Aquitar, where they were both treated with Eternal Falls water.

The treatment worked, somewhat, and Garfield's vision began to return. It often faded, though, and he had to take the water almost constantly to maintain even hazy sight. He visited Xanthe every day and talked to her, trying to get a response. Eventually, as he adjusted to semi-vision, he found out that there were still rogue Akra loose in the universe, and he and Isinia began picking them off one by one. After several months, Xanthe addressed him by name, and the Aquitians began feeding her old memories back to her.

Personality
Garfield is a calm person, though with a dryly snarky, sarcastic side and a lot of common sense. He is optimistic, but not at the cost of being realistic.

Arsenal

 * Punjab Lasso


 * Hourglass Revolver


 * Portal Pointer


 * Pocket Dimension

Appearance
Garfield is Caucasian, 22 years old, with sandy blond hair, a goatee and mustache that are varying levels of messy. Before the crash, his eyes were hazel. The accident gave him three scars on his face, one bisecting his right eye, one crossing his face from left brow to right cheekbone, a third running down his forehead and beside his nose. Detra's tears removed these, leaving his eyes clouded but exposed. He has a wiry build.

Trivia

 * The Punjab Lasso and its special attack, the Phantom Noose, are homages to the Phantom of the Opera, whose preferred weapon was a Punjab Lasso.