#cerealian

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Sketched out a Granolaunch fankid for funsies! Her name is Brekkie (like breakfast 'cause launch is sometimes called lunch and the cerealians are all breakfast food names :3). She's got her mom's personality shifting quirk with a side of special eyes from her dad's side.

[artbybai]

Cerealian Biology Headcanon

#1 Cerealian right eyes have highly-specialized iris muscles that exposes more of their retinas, allowing for heightened sight/visual stimuli reception. This is why their right eyes seem “red”, and why Granolah was able to unlock his full potential after making his wish to be “The Universe’s Strongest Warrior” (hinting that Cerealians are able to exercise such a muscle enough to control such power/heightened abilities at will)

[sho9326]

Retiremos un momento al pendejo de Trunks de la ecuación y dejemos que estos dos sean felices 💓.

/ Granolah x Mai 💚💘⭐, crack ship

La ilustración fue realizada por mi querida amiga "un hamster con muchos oc" (Facebook). (También se le puede encontrar como "Hamsterrrship" en X/Twitter).

[soporine]

くコ:彡 ; CEREALiANGENDER ; a gender connected to the cerealian species from the series 'dragon ball'!

🐚 requested by no one / coined by me ♡ while you're here , remember your daily click for palestine !

[PT] Cerealiangender, a gender connected to the Cerealian species from the series 'Dragon Ball'! [END PT]

Image IDs are attached to the alt text of each image, including the flags & banners!

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Weet drawn for Art Fight. He belongs to Auraisbad.

[radiantraditz]

There was one headcanon I saw about eye colors by @/april-doodles that I really vibe with.

Saiyans either mate for life with one partner or are a part of a polycule, where the offspring are raised by the polycule. But they also could just, have a one nightstand.

Some Saiyan hybrids are late-bloomers, and their tails don't come in until later. Additionally, Saiyan tails could grow back should a Saiyan become "feral" or more "outdoorsy" (similar to how domesticated pigs can become feral wild boars due to a stealth gene).

Super Saiyan 4 is the Super Saiyan myth that Vegeta was referring to back on Namek, and what Raditz was hinting at when he realized Goku cut off his tail and talked about his "true potential".

There were more Saiyan survivors than we realized. Frieza hunted down quite a few down individually. The galaxy is pretty huge.

Based on a comment from Nappa about Saiyan hybrids (while ignoring some of the rather... uncomfortable implications), Human-Saiyan hybrids aren't the only ones to exist. I'd like to think there might be some Cerealian-Saiyan or even Tuffle/Tsfruian-Saiyan hybrids roaming around out there.

Vegeta's mother's name is Eschalot (and is possibly still alive).

Vegeta and Raditz are somewhat unreliable narrators to Saiyan culture. I feel like the average Saiyan was more akin to Nappa, and maybe aren't as aggressive usually.

🫵 Everyone reblog with your favorite saiyan headcanons GO !!!!!

[shy-the-trash-lion]

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[staerplatinum]

BTS as Dragon Ball OCs! Whew, now that I finished their references I can definitely write better. And thanks to them U17 has all four Kais LOL

[unknownersirius]

Hii! Just wanted to say, I really do love your art. I saw you doing oc sketches, so I thought I'd throw mine on the block. Excited to see what you draw next!

Thank you for being interested in my art!

I had too much fun drawing this guy!

[magenta-racer]

Thank you so much! ❤️

Chad Gine strikes, and Bardock goes

Commission done for @magenta-racer of her version of DB Gine with Muesly head and the planet Cereal going bye bye x'D

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More banger doodles

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball Super Manga Ch. 77-80

When I first read this, I was pissed because I’m sick of Vegeta just knowing everything that happened to every Saiyan before they were wiped out.  I mean, he was a kid back then, how would he know Goku’s dad? 

Then I finally remembered Vegeta grew up with Goku’s brother, and it suddenly made sense. 

Okay, so let’s back up a bit and go over why Granolah wants revenge in the first place.  About forty-odd years ago the Cerealians were invaded by Frieza’s forces, including a lot of Saiyans.  I think they showed some other aliens in Frieza uniforms, but it’s mainly Saiyans using Oozaru forms.  The Cerealians managed to neutralize the giant ape business, but the Saiyans were still strong enough to kill them all.  There was also a small community of Namekians living on the planet Cereal, and they all died as well.  There were only two survivors: The Namekian Monaito, who inherited the Cerealian Dragon Balls from the village elder, and Granolah, who found refuge in a building with his mother. 

However, Granolah and his mom were discovered by a Saiyan named Bardock.  He probably would have killed them on sight, except they happened to remind him of...

His wife and newborn son, whom he saw recently before this mission.  Turns out Bardock was the one who came up with the name “Kakarot.”

So instead of killing the two Cerealians, Bardock tells the rest of his squad that he’s going to stay behind to take out any survivors.  Then he scans the area and locates Monaito.  He then takes Granolah and his mom to Monaito and asks him to take them in.  Then he leaves, or he tries to, anyway.

Afterwards, Granolah grew up craving revenge on the Saiyans and Frieza, and he must have had no memory of Bardock’s act of mercy.  Monaito’s known all along, and he kept it a secret this whole time, but he’s telling Granolah now because he wants him to stop his attack on Goku and Vegeta.  And as he explains all this, he notices that Goku bears a striking resemblance to Bardock, and that’s when Vegeta explains that Bardock was Goku’s father. 

But wait, if Bardock saved Granolah’s mother, then who killed her?  Ah, well you see...

Shortly after Bardock saved those guys, the Heeters showed up.  They worked as planet brokers under Frieza, so once Planet Cereal was vacant, they started making plans to sell it to the Sugarians.  Naturally, they planned to overcharge the Sugurians and give Frieza a modest cut. 

But then they happened across Bardock, Monaito, Granolah and his mom, and Bardock had to pretend that he was preparing to take Monaito prisoner to cover his tracks.  Elec then shot Granolah’s mom just to simplify things.  This infuriated Bardock, who then attacked the Heeters, which led to a fight with Gas.  Bardock won that day, although Monaito didn’t get to see that part, for some reason.

So why didn’t Monaito tell Granolah about the Heeters?  Why didn’t he say anything when Granolah started working for them? 

Because Monaito knew he’d go off on some half-baked revenge scheme and get himself killed.  This is probably why Monaito allowed Granolah to believe it was the Saiyans who did it, because once Frieza destroyed their home planet, there was no one for Granolah to go after, and he seemed to understand that Frieza was too strong.  But that backfired on Monaito, because once Granolah found out about Frieza returning and some Saiyans still being alive, he... went off on some half-baked revenge scheme. 

Anyway, Elec knew Granolah had talent, and since he never knew about the whole murdered-his-mom thing, Elec thought he could recruit him for his organization.  After that, Monaito couldn’t tell him the truth, because Elec would kill them both.

Anyway, while all this exposition is happening, the Heeters find the Cerealian Dragon Balls and make their wish...

... which is basically the same wish Granolah made at the beginning of this arc, only they asked for Gas to become the strongest warrior in the universe.  And since the wish was granted, that means Gas must be even stronger than Granolah is.

So they fight, and Granolah gets his ass kicked.  Gas’ whole deal is that he uses energy constructs, sort of like Green Lantern but without the ring.  This isn’t a new power he got, it’s something he’s always been able to do, and through much of this battle, he tries to win with the power he had before Elec made the wish. 

Goku comes up with a plan to handle Gas.  He wants Vegeta to eat his senzu bean and fight with Ultra Ego again, but Vegeta left the bean in his armor, which he took off while fighting Granolah.  So first he has to go find it, and Goku will try to hold Gas off in the meantime. 

But Vegeta gives the senzu bean to Granolah instead, insisting that he’s the one who wants revenge on these guys, so it should be him who settles things. 

On his way to fight Gas, Granolah makes up with Oatmeel and puts him back on, assuring the computer than they’re a team.  Awww.

So this is just Gas vs. Granolah, with Goku and Vegeta reduced to spectators.  It’s an interesting choice to say the least.  Gas should have the advantage on power, but Granolah stays competitive for a few reasons.

1) Gas doesn’t want to use his full strength, because he thinks he should be able to win with the power he had before the wish.  That doesn’t work, so he eventually relents and uses his full power, but he wastes a lot of valuable time and energy this way.

2) Gas hasn’t fought much at all in this arc, mainly because Elec always wanted to keep him in reserve as a last resort. We know he fought Bardock decades ago (and lost), so he’s clearly gotten a lot stronger, even without that wish to beef him up, but he lacks experience with this power.  Granolah had the same problem when he fought Goku and Vegeta, but now he’s got the advantage, because he... just got done fighting Goku and Vegeta.  If he can beat those two, he can hold his own against Gas.

3) Granolah has his Cerelian perception, which makes his attacks far more precise than anything Gas can do.  

It’s also possible that Gas’s heart just isn’t in this.  He seems distant from the priorities of the other Heeters.  When he has difficulty fighting, Elec removes the headband of teeth from his head.  The other Heeter wear these like necklaces, and apparently they’re not decoaritive.  Somehow they restrain their powers, and if you remove them, they become stronger, but also go berserk.  Wonder Woman’s bracelets used to work this way.  If she lost them, she’d go apeshit and kick everyone’s ass.

According to Monaito, the same thing happened when Bardock fought Gas forty years ago.  Gas took off his headband thing and transformed into a gonzo monster.  Bardock won somehow, but Gas is far more powerful now, and this time he attacks everybody.  But Elec isn’t worried, because if Gas is truly the strongest in the universe now, then he ought to be able to regain control over himself.

And that’s exactly what he does.  Not sure how he got his clothes back after he hulked out of them, but maybe the dragon gave him the Clothes Beam technique along with all the other upgrades. 

And this brings me to the end of volume 18 of Dragon Ball Super.  Volume 19 won’t be published in English until September, and I don’t want to wait that long, so I guess I’ll have to find the next several chapters elsewhere. So hopefully I can pick this up tomorrow...

Oh, right, Bardock. 

So, Bardock showing up in this arc caused a lot of agitation in the fandom.  I think this was mostly because of lingering frustration with Dragon Ball Minus retconning all the Bardock lore from the 1990 TV special.  That, and there’s also a lot of Bardock Fatigue in the fandom, because the franchise has been shoehorning Bardock into every video game and merchandise possible.  For many, working him into the DBS manga was just another crass marketing ploy. 

Also, chapter 77 marks the moment when Goku finally learns about his father, which is a big deal for the character, but a milestone like that is always going to be controversial, because there will be fans who think the series was better off when Goku didn’t know.  It’s like when Clark Kent told Lois he was really Superman.  You can’t unring that bell. 

I... don’t particularly care about any of that.  For my part, Bardock’s a cool character, and I don’t mind seeing him or his cute wife.  Anything Toei or Shueisha does with Goku’s parents is a fair play in my book.  It’s no different from having Tien or Android 17 show up.  But there seems to be this special status that’s been assigned to Bardock, where he’s either too cool or too overexposed, and that makes him off-limits.  Well, I don’t buy into made-up rules like that. 

I get the sense that there’s this edgelord contingent of the fandom that wouldn’t accept any version of Bardock short of him murdering Granolah’s mom and eating Monaito’s face or something.  I don’t understand these fans, because the “Father of Goku” special is just Bardock getting the shit kicked out of him from start to finish.  Tooru kicks him in the head, then he goes to Planet Meat and Dodoria beats him up, then he flies to Planet Vegeta and dies to Frieza.  How is this guy a badass?  Because he dominated Dodoria’s goon squad?  Well Guldo could one-shot all of them, so why isn’t everyone fawning over Guldo then?

People got mad because Bardock said “tummy”, which isn’t a very badass word to use.  You never hear Guldo say “tummy”, and he’s hard as nails.  My thing is, if you imagine Sonny Strait delivering the line in that cool voice he uses, it sounds a lot more natural.  Yeah, if he said it in the Krillin voice, it’d be goofy, which is why he doesn’t use the same voice for both characters. 

I’d chalk it up to a translation issue, really.  I mean, it’s probably accurate, but the people at Viz should have used different wording.  Sometimes you have to punch up the dialogue, make it sound more like something Guldo would say. 

The point I’m trying to make is that Bardock isn’t some sacred cow, and he’s also not a third rail that the franchise is forbidden from using.  Dragon Ball Super brought back the Mafuba and the Grand Supreme Kai and the guy Zarbon kicked on Namek.  Of course they were going to do something with Bardock.  I’m more surprised that they didn’t just have him time travel to present-day Earth and live in Goku’s house for a while. 

[sho9326]

¡Enloquecimos XD ✨🩷💓💓💓!

🎵✨🩷

Granola x Mai 💚💘⭐

Créditos a la increíble 🫶🏻 @kya-chan 💗💗💗💗💗

[42069memesfordays]

These four have me gripped by my heart, and I cannot help but imagine them in the funniest OT4 ever.

Three Saiyans and a Cerealian.

Brainrot ramblings beneath.

I have Fantasy AUs of them now; sometimes they’re all adventurers, sometimes they’re all knights, sometimes they’re all royalty from different kingdoms, or even the same kingdom. My primary take has Gine as a paladin, Fasha as a barbarian, Muezli as a rogue, and Nion as an alchemist, where they’re all reluctantly brought together and end up bonding over how similar they really are while also finding respect in each other’s differences.

I have modern day AUs where they’re just vibing and not being dead.

I have them as one of the central ships for my Transformers and Dragon Ball crossover on a Discord server I’m part of that’s been going since last April.

They get to be strong enough to do things like break canon MUI Goku from the Tournament of Power over their knees.

Goku has two whole brothers now; three, depending on how solid I am on headcanon Turles to be Nion’s kid somehow.

I’m already thinking of a new modern day AU where they’re all single moms who’d each been with Bardock before and meet up at his funeral; shenanigans happen from there, and there’d also be a B-Plot about their kids all having to learn to get along with each other.

They’d sit on a couch in a massive pile of blankets, sipping on hot chocolate as they watch one of those sappy Christmas movies that Gine picked up; Fasha, Muezli, and Nion probably wouldn’t be wholly into it, but seeing Gine’s smile throughout the whole thing is worth it.

The Transformers x Dragon Ball AU forces them through the worst self-hatred and imposter syndrome conceivable, but it’s all made worth it when they realize that they genuinely love each other in a way that can never be understated.

They try to have a small wedding with just their friends and family, but Bulma, being Bulma, gets way too invested and sends it over the top accordingly.

I have an AU where they’re just office workers and also single moms who find solace in each other as the days go by.

I have another AU where one of them’s just a mortal, the other’s their best friend with a major crush, and the last two are an angel and devil fighting over the former over something petty; it then slowly escalates into all of them genuinely being really into each other through loads of romcom and sitcom type shenanigans.

I have an AU where they’re in RWBY as a major hunter team.

I have an AU where they’re Cybertronians; sometimes they’re all Autobots, sometimes they’re all Decepticons, and sometimes it’s a mix of both, depending on my mood.

I’ve had thoughts about them in Mortal Kombat, where they either become new characters entirely or take the place of Scorpion, Harumi, Smoke, and Kuai Liang.

A Thomas the Tank Engine AU sees them being Gordon’s crew in the modern day, where they and the Number Four have to put up with each other after the latter gets off on the wrong foot with them; their growth comes during a tour across the mainland, where Gordon’s old crew are helping them to finish up the last of their training; this is also a proposal that I have in mind for a co-op project I’m working on in yet another Discord server.

All four of them died without much to them; Fasha and Muezli both did so for the sake of Bardock’s development. Gine and Nion just got wiped out on Planet Vegeta by Frieza.

They’re kinda nothing burgers, and yet I just can’t help but latch onto them like they’re life preservers in the middle of a cold, storm-ridden ocean.

I have many questions that only a select few seem to really care about, but not necessarily as deeply as I seem to; what exactly did Gine and Fasha think of each other? What would Muezli and Gine have thought of each other if they ever met? What would Nion think of any of them, and they think of Nion? What would they think of the others in general? Would it be respect, reluctant or not? Would it be contempt? Hatred? Who knows?

They are my Roman Empire.

They fundamentally mean way too much to me, given that they all died as either background characters, plot devices, or some mix of both.

I have a Star Wars AU with them where Gine is a Jedi, Fasha’s a Storm trooper, Muezli’s a bounty hunter, and Nion’s a scientist for the empire before Order 66 where they also get brought together through sheer circumstance and learn to bond with each other; they run away post Order 66 and then end up settling on some random little planet that’s out of the way.

They keep each other grounded.

They feel comfortable enough around each other to regularly poke fun and make jabs at each other, but so help you if you do the same to any of them while the others are in earshot.

Somewhere in the back of my head lies a Dragon Ball Z: Abridged version of my Transformers x Dragon Ball AU where one of their running jokes is that they’re all absolutely unhinged for each other without the other knowing; when they finally do get to know about what the other is like, those tendencies somehow get even worse.

I’m going mad, and it’s great.

[mariacallous]

The first “American” Thanksgiving was held in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621, attended by 90 Native Americans and 50 English Pilgrim settlers. That first Thanksgiving mirrored ancient harvest feasts such as Sukkot, the ancient Greek mid-June Thesmophorian celebration, and the ancient Roman Cerealian rites of mid-April.

The Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving was not an annual event, and did not become an American ritual for more than 200 years. To mark the adoption of the Constitution and the establishment of a new government, President George Washington declared Nov. 26, 1789, a day of thanksgiving and prayer. However, Washington did not renew his declaration. It was not until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln fixed the last Thursday of each November as a “day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father.”

After the Union triumphed, Thanksgiving Day became an even more significant observance in the northern states.

It was in this context that Governor John W. Geary of Pennsylvania, in 1868, issued a proclamation to the citizens of his state urging them to celebrate Thanksgiving. Geary’s proclamation read in part:

Unto God our Creator we are indebted for life and all its blessings. It therefore becomes us at all times to render unto Him the homage of grateful hearts . . .and I recommend that the people of this Commonwealth on [Nov. 26] refrain from their usual avocations and pursuits, and assemble at their chosen place of worship, to ‘praise the name of God and magnify Him with thanksgiving.

While such sentiments were not offensive, some of Geary’s additional words were: “Let us thank Him with Christian humility for health and prosperity,” Geary urged, and he called on Pennsylvanians to pray that “our paths through life may be directed by the example and instructions of the Redeemer, who died that we might enjoy the blessings which temporarily flow therefrom, and eternal life in the world to come.”

The terms that Geary used roused a unified protest from Philadelphia’s rabbis because in the words of America’s first English-language Jewish newspaper, The Occident, Geary “apparently intended to exclude Israelites” from the celebration. By 1868, Philadelphia’s Jewish population was among the largest in any American city. According to The Occident, a week after Geary’s proclamation the “Hebrew Ministers” of Philadelphia “deemed it their duty” to draft a powerful petition in response. Their “solemn protest” was signed by all seven of the city’s rabbis, including Sabato Morais, who later played a central role in establishing the Conservative movement‘s Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, and Morris Jastrow, a Reform leader in Philadelphia. Regarding Geary’s choice of words, the rabbis — regardless of their affiliation — agreed that:

An [elected] official, chosen by a large constituency, as the guardian of inalienable rights, ought not to have evinced a spirit of exclusiveness. He should have remembered that the people he governs are not of one mind touching religious dogmas, and that by asking all to pray that ‘their paths through life may be directed by the example and instruction of the Redeemer’ . . . he casts reflections upon thousands, who hold a different creed from that which he avows.

The rabbis were confident that, in his private capacity, Geary would resent being told by a Catholic priest that, on a national holiday, he should go make confession, or that any other public officer might try to tell him what religious observance he must perform. The rabbis observed:

“The freedom-loving authors of the American Constitution opened indiscriminately to all the avenues of greatness, so that the position now filled by a follower of . . . [Protestant theologians] Calvin or Wesley may tomorrow be occupied by the descendant of Abraham, or, perchance, by a free-thinker.”

The rabbis condemned Geary’s proclamation as:

“an encroachment upon the immunities we are entitled to share with all the inhabitants thereof; and we appeal to the sense of justice which animates our fellow-citizens, that a conduct so unwarrantable may receive the rebuke it deserves, being universally stigmatized as an offence against liberty of conscience, unbecoming a public functionary, and derogatory to the honor of the noble state he represents.”

Despite this outspoken rabbinical indictment, Geary did not revoke his proclamation, and Pennsylvania officially celebrated a Christianized Thanksgiving that year. As decades have passed, however, Thanksgiving retains even less of its original English Christian origins — other than the turkey and cranberries consumed by the Pilgrims. Today, signs in the windows of butcher shops in Jewish neighborhoods advertise kosher turkeys for Thanksgiving.

Most of American Jewry has absorbed the holiday, shorn of its Christian trappings, and made it a non-religious time for family gathering. In 1868, Pennsylvania’s rabbis expressed what would become the majority American view: Government-declared holidays should— with the possible exception of Christmas — be totally devoid of religious content and that each individual may bring to it whatever, if any, spirituality he or she wishes.

[radiantraditz]

I'm in the mood to talk about DBJ lmao.

I love Frieza, he's the most iconic DBZ villain and a fan favorite amongst many but man, I really wish they hadn't brought him back in Super.

Frieza's an emperor, with many planets, people, and more under his thumb. So what happens to his meritocracy when he's gone? With my WIP, DBJ, which would be my version of events after the Buu Saga, I decided to explore that "what if".

To put it simply, Frieza and King Cold's death would create a power vacuum. Or at the very least, the potential of one. I'll paint the picture.

The tyrant emperor invades a foreign planet outside his jurisdiction in hopes of becoming immortal. He nearly dies to a fighter of a nearly extinct race after losing his strongest fighters, with the emperor being the sole reason for their genocide. Because he's a mutant, his body manages to survive being mutilated and he's transformed into a cyborg and he's even stronger. The emperor, his father who was the former emperor, and an army heads to the home planet of the fighter responsible for almost killing him. No one from the ship returns or is ever heard from again.

Chaos ensues.

Whoever remains of the Frieza Force tries to keep things under wraps, in hopes that the planets that lived under Frieza's iron fist won't learn of this development and attempt to stage a coup. Gossip travels at the speed of light apparently, and things get shaky. Revolts are widespread and contagious, various other mercenaries see Frieza's former planets up for grabs, and rumors of other Saiyans, a clan of Herans, stronger than usual Namekians, and a pissed off Cerealian are lurking in the universe somewhere.

The only person left to inherit the empire would be his son, Kuriza, who's a bit too young (and possibly meek) to ever lead in such a difficult time. Frieza reluctantly had his son asexually, as part of the mutation it couldn't be avoided. Frieza figured his son could be a last ditch effort for immortality; should Frieza fall, Kuriza is to form a squad of soldiers to find a set of Dragon Balls to revive Frieza and grant him immortality. Kuriza had been aware of this fact since the day he started talking.

However, with a good majority of his father's men slain, plans to revive Frieza are put on halt. For now, the royal vizier and the generals suggest Kuriza attempt to save face and clean up the mess his father's death had caused. But he's still a child and can't measure up to fill those shoes.

He gets help from his uncle, Cooler, who Kuriza immediately notices is a bit too eager to be a bug in his ear. Many of Frieza's former men feel Cooler is a much better fit to take over, given his experience and strength. With his resources and warriors, he's able to regain some control.

Kuriza also realizes that Cooler has no plans on finding the Dragon Balls to revive Frieza. Kuriza wasn't too enthused with the idea either, but at least he was somewhat honest about it.

Kuriza doesn't want to be the tyrannical leader that his ancestors and uncle were. Kuriza believes that relinquishing their grip from the planets and returning their freedom to them would be an ideal situation. With Cooler taking charge, and other rogue Frieza loyalists scheming behind Kuriza's back, with his cousin, Firn, attempting to steal Frieza's resources to claim for themselves, Kuriza is all out of options. His hands are tied.

And when one of the Frieza loyalists manages to revive King Cold, Kuriza, Cooler, and Firn are all deer in headlights as the former emperor comes out of retiring with a thirst for vengeance.

And with King Cold's secret last resort, the Z-Fighters need to deal with him quickly: