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 rivulet027 asked about why I identify Yellow as my Ranger color. 

This is ridiculous, but. I took that 'what color are you' quiz based on Ellen Brand's color theory awhile ago. And I got Yellow. And I was surpried. But then I thought about it. And thought about it some more. And realized that...REALLY fit me pretty goshdarned well. And I've identified with Yellows ever since.

The actual text from the quiz about this color is as follows:

 Yellows are also considered healers. Unlike Pinks, though, they don't so much want to relieve pain as fix what's broken. This is an important difference, as it explains why Yellows are more able to let people hurt, to deal with the pain and grow from the experience. Not that Yellows aren't compassionate. They are, they don't like seeing people hurt. But they tend to be more concerned with fixing the damage than simply relieving the pain, and they know that sometimes, without pain, nothing is going to get fixed. Yellows are often healers of mind and spirit, and also of rifts between friends. Whatever a Yellow sees as broken, he or she will desperately try to fix.
For many Yellows, this desire to fix things spills over into a fascination with machines and mechanical equipment. Many Yellows are what is known as "techs--" people with mechanical skill, but no creative, inventive streak

And really, doesn't that sound an awful lot like...a therapist?

Seriously, though, it's the balance of the emotional and the analytical that appeals to and resonates with me. Because really, how often do people try to divorce the mental from the emotional? Conceive of reason and feeling as two opposing forces? Even though it doesn't work that way. At all. So yeah, that, and also the bit about wanting to solve problems and fix what's broken. I'm fairly good at turning off this impulse in my work, but in my personal life? Whenever someone I care about has a problem, my gut reaction is "WHAT CAN I DO, HOW CAN I HELP, AND IF I CAN'T, I WOULD VERY MUCH JUST LIKE TO SHOW UP AND HUG YOU TILL YOU FEEL BETTER." Which is of course why I spend so much time lamenting about the fact that teleporters aren't real. Alas.

Also in my own conceptualization of color theory, it's very much the Yellow role to be the mediator/counselor/team mom/source of encouragement type. It's a chicken or the egg thing as to how much of that theory is me and how much is Brand. I talked more about the Yellow role in the color theory post earlier this month, and I'm lazy, so go read that if you're interested.

The other reason I identify as a Yellow is because I have always, always, ALWAYS just liked Yellow Rangers. They are cool people, in general. And of course after 20 years there isn't exactly a Yellow 'type' anymore, but back in the day, back in my formative years, the Yellow Ranger was always the girl who wasn't the stereotypical girly girl. Femininity without being pink. Femininity without wearing a skirt. I was NOT a girly girl in my youth, nor am I one now. And while there are numerous things I respect about Kimberly's character, as a child I could not relate to her. At all. Trini, though, there was someone I could get behind. A badass martial artist with smarts on par with Billy's? Who could be absolutely gorgeous while also wearing clothes that actually looked comfortable? Fuck yes. Trini was the one I wanted to be like. At the first Morphicon I went to, when the female Ranger panel turned into an impromptu Forever Yellow, I actually asked the assembled actresses as to their feelings about yet. And I can't for the life of me remember the specifics about what was said, but it was cool.