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A Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Fanfic author. A particularly prolific one, she's notable for demonstrating all the stereotypes about fanfic authors, Power Rangers fans, and Otaku at once.

April Richards provides examples of the following tropes:

Adults Are Useless: More than that, Billy's dad and Kimberly's mom are borderline abusive.
Angst? What Angst?: Kimberly is almost raped by Malcum Brewster's nephew, and what does she do next? Goes over to Billy's house, where Tommy is staying. Coitus Ensues.
Author Appeal: She's also an otaku, and everything has Japanese names. Tommy's also Japanese. Oddly enough, in the Bad Future fic, Tommy's Expy is the only one whose first name isn't Japanese; he's named Alejandro.
Blatant Lies: "My cousin Zedd, from Japan."
Chick Magnet: Tommy. Even Rita wants him.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Malcum Brewster.
Dark and Troubled Past: She's fond of giving them to Tommy.
Did Not Do the Research: There's a Shinjuku in San Francisco?
Draco in Leather Pants: Tommy. Even as the evil Green Ranger, he's Like A Father To His Men. As a good guy, he's easier on the monsters than his fellow Rangers.
- Zedd gets the leather pants-ing, too. He's just Brainwashed and Crazy.
Flanderization: Billy is often portrayed as just starting puberty.
Foe Yay: Rita/Tommy.
Gratuitous Japanese: "Ohayo, Birrii-kun!" is possibly the most painful.
Ho Yay: At various points, Jason/Tommy, Billy/Tommy, and even Zedd/Tommy.
Meaningful Name: She loves them. Usually of the Steven Ulysses Perhero variety.
Our Souls Are Different: They can die, for one.
Race Lift: Tommy is Japanese, most of the time.
Racist Grandma: "It's bad enough that you hang out with that Vietnamese girl. And...that black boy! I'll bet he gets his drugs from Tommy!"
Ron the Death Eater: If you're Jason in an April Richards fic, the best you can hope for is that you'll be a perv or an uncharacteristic Jerkass. At worst, you try to kill Tommy's soul.
Rouge Angles of Satin
Sixth Ranger Traitor: Jason on occasion.
Smoking Is Cool: Tommy tends to smoke in these stories. Because the last thing somebody on whose physical performance rests the entire world needs to worry about is getting winded.
Taking You with Me: In the Bad Future fic, Tommy is the last to die, and he does this.
They Just Didn't Care: You'd expect Kimberly to at least know what -chan means, with the way Tommy slips into Gratuitous Japanese.
Unfortunate Implications: Where to begin?
- She consistently thinks Adam's name is Chung. Park is a perfectly cromulent Korean name, and Johnny Yong Bosch is only half Korean.
- Tommy's more Japanese than most Japanese people. Is there anything non-Japanese in that kid's apartment?
  - Genius Bonus: The sheer amount of rice Tommy eats is hilarious when you consider Tommy's actual ethnic background, and the tendency toward type 2 diabetes.
- Tommy and Kimberly name their daughter Cheyenne, "after his Native American mother".
- Tommy tutors Native American History because even trans-racial adoptees are experts on their ethnic background. Wait, isn't he Japanese?

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-A ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' fanfic author. A particularly prolific one at that, she's notable for demonstrating all the stereotypes about fanfic authors, [[Power Rangers]] fans, and otaku at once.
+A ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' [[Fanfic]] author.  A particularly prolific one, she's notable for demonstrating all the stereotypes about fanfic authors, ''[[Power Rangers]]'' fans, and [[Otaku]] at once.
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 * [[Adults Are Useless]]: More than that, Billy's dad and Kimberly's mom are borderline abusive.
 * [[Angst? What Angst?]]: Kimberly is almost raped by Malcum Brewster's nephew, and what does she do next? Goes over to Billy's house, where Tommy is staying. [[Coitus Ensues]].