#I am so attached to the idea of The Teeth I genuinely keep forgetting Ego doesn’t have them

[shannonsketches]

I’m gonna be an ego apologist real quick I’m so sorry fjdjd I didn’t like it at first, but I’m a huge fan of it now because:

Like instinct, the form is highly reflective of its teacher — Vegeta’s purple hair and heavy hairless brow are a direct reference to Beerus’ influence on his trajectory into that form

Ego is not a pretty thing! For Vegeta especially, it’s been a historically ugly and destructive (wink nudge Beerus coding wink) trait that has only harmed him and the people around him, which are things that come back to him surrounding his use of it in the way he attacks Goku for trying to help (that’s Ego, baby)!

On top of that, the form requires harm to be done to Vegeta in order for it to be fueled, so it’s not just destructive, but also self-destructive. Like a callback to Majin Vegeta, seeing Vegeta trying to weaponize a relapse should be scary to witness, and the choice to make him look unlike himself while he’s in that form is a great choice imo.

Having Vegeta’s Ego form be unattractive is really nice visual storytelling for his growth as a person — Even though it exhausts him and even after he’s upset that Goku calls it freaky, he still hops right into it to help the second that strength is needed, which is a great way to display the shift in his maturity and priorities from back when he first appeared, and hesitated to use his Oozaroo form because he thought it was ugly, frightening, and draining.

(4.5?) Vegeta being so put together, guarded, regal, and proud — then letting himself off-leash and getting feral and beastly and Buck Fucking Wild is a perfect foil to Goku’s typically emotionally-driven and reckless style now having to master absolute control over himself the way Vegeta always has. Their forms are very fun ways to show that the things that hold them back are the key to their strength, but they’re also the biggest challenge to maintain.

Goku changing his instinct form to suit his whole and earnest self might serve as a prelude to Vegeta learning to do the same thing at some point! His happy apology to Beerus when he can’t revert back to his villain era self to fully tap that power, but still being able to use it to the point that he can, has really cool potential for him to consolidate his Ego with the more humble, balanced, and grounded work he’s been putting into himself and his training. The “ugly” part has to be bled out acknowledged and worked through first, then it can be healed honed into something more tailored and true, which we already saw him begin to work on in that arc because our geets is a quick and clever boy.

tl;dr: I genuinely really like Ego’s browless freaky face! I think it’s great storytelling and character development (and obviously fantastic for comedy jfjdjd Vegeta immediately getting roasted for and embarrassed by it is everything to me).

MY ONE ISSUE with it is that I wish T&T chose to push it JUST a little further into Beerus/Oozaroo territory and given him

The Teeth™️

feral forms deserve feral fangs im jUST saying

I personally enjoy that Vegeta's vanity lives on in the fact that you won't catch him dead in SSJ3