#gallick

[thefinalinagirl]

Thought about Gabriela and Mallick using Spanish pet names for each other, and I am feeling so many feelings...

Like, just imagine her calling him mi corazón (my heart) and him calling her mi vida (my life)!! Or her calling him mi sol (my sun) and him calling her mi luna (my moon)!! Or just them both calling each other mi tesoro (my treasure)!!

[dumpsterbabytrunks]

juicing krillin's smooth little head

[lettherebemonsters]

Vivziepop better bring in Adam to the hotel as the asshole muscle guy. Because man would it be funny if nobody took Adam seriously anymore and BAM! Hellboy punch to the face.

[ponponpopcorn]

i think it's canon that goten was trained by chichi and then he also sparred with trunks a lot but i think on the very rare occasion he got some tips and tricks from vegeta.

the first time goten trained w vegeta was like

trunks: aw man i cant play any more my dad wanted me to train today

goten: aw ok

trunks: wait! you can just come along!!

goten: oh wow great idea ya let's do it ya

(flying away) mommy i'll be back by dinner!

chichi: GOTENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNnnnn

(at capsule corp)

Vegeta: Why is he here.

Trunks: AW COME ON!!! it's so unfair if it's just me and you. the power gap is too big!!!!

Vegeta: nonsense. Leave Kakarott's little thing out of this.

Goten: Hi mr vegeta 😃

Vegeta: ...

Goten: 😃

Vegeta: ....

Goten: 😃

Vegeta: Let me show you this move. Heh (chuckles to himself). it's called the "Gallick Gun"

Goten: YAYY YAYY YAYYYYY

[dballzposting]

Vegeta: I just keep telling him over and over that hes a failure. But he wont stop being a failure. I dont understand.

Tarble: Hm. Have you tried hitting him?

Vegeta: I would hit him as hard as I could if I thought that he could handle it! But the boy is too weak! He doesnt even have the constitution to learn our family Gallick Gun.

Tarble: Wow. Maybe you just need to hit him more? Maybe he doesnt feel like you're hitting him enough. You should try to connect with him more by hitting him more.

Vegeta: Oh, I've tried it all, Tarble. But the boy just wont take. His mother thinks that hes doing fine but I see all the wasted potential. I'll tell you - he's lazy, that's what it is. He doesnt care about meeting any sort of standard.

Tarble: Hm. Well, it sounds like you're doing everything you can Vegeta. I'm sorry that your son is such a failure. It must be his human blood dragging him down.

Vegeta: I also blame my wife for cutting off his tail and foreskin at birth. It was just too soon for him. But he also should be able to overcome that by now. The whole thing is a mess.

Tarble: I hear that. I have another idea. Have you tried hitting him even harder?

[duhragonball]

I like to think that part of the appeal of Dragon Ball is the fact these random martial artists keep on taking on world-ending threats, because they are the only ones strong enough to do it. For that reason, do you think Dragon Ball would have gotten as good as it did if none of it's villains could blow up the world?

No, I don't think that would have affected the quality of Dragon Ball.

To be sure, blowing up the whole world is a cool way to raise the stakes. It's awesome how Vegeta tried to ragequit his invasion of Earth, and Goku had to stand his ground because the entire planet would have been destroyed if he didn't try to repel that world-ending Gallick Gun. It's also awesome that Frieza tried to destroy Namek because it was easier than fighting a Super Saiyan. It's awesome that Cell had a self-destruct feature, and the only way to foil it was to take him to a different planet with a smaller population. And of course, it's awesome that Majin Buu just went ahead and destroyed the Earth, and no one could stop him, and the story just kept on going anyway. Those are all big impressive story beats, and Dragon Ball might be poorer without them.

All that said, I don't think taking them out would make the story worse. The Red Ribbon Army arc was great, and the height of their power was that they could probably conquer the Earth with the right leadership and resources. The King Piccolo stuff was great, and the most he could do was to subjugate the Earth and perhaps wipe out its population.

I think it says a lot how the Piccolo Junior arc was such a classic, and yet the stakes were basically the same as the arc before it. Piccolo is back, and if Goku can't stop him then he'll just repeat what he did before. It works. The only real difference there is that Piccolo Junior was stronger and laser focused on eliminating Goku.

Radditz threatened to kill everyone on Earth and sell the empty planet to the highest bidder, which is cool because it goes beyond even what Piccolo had planned for it, which reinforced the notion of Piccolo and Goku teaming up to stop him.

Now you could stop right there, and continue the story with that same limit on "How bad could it get?" and things still work. Frieza planned to destroy Namek after making his wish, so that no one else could use the Dragon Balls, but he needn't have bothered, since killing Guru and the other Namekians would settle that just as easily. Cell's self-destruct could have just been some sort of biological agent that would kill everyone without damaging the planet itself. Kid Buu could have just fought Goku and Vegeta on Earth, though admittedly that's a tough call. You set this guy up as a planet-destroying monster, so it strains credibility that he's stuck on Earth for two days and never goes through with it.

Still, I think there's more to the story than just blowing up planets. Look at Super Hero, where all the major players are much, much stronger than the "planet busters" of Z, and yet it never comes up. Nobody in the story wants to destroy the Earth, so the fact that they can doesn't come into play. Cell Max seems to be nearly mindless, but he also knows how to fight pretty well, so he must have some rudimentary control over his power, which keeps him from wrecking the earth every time he goes berserk. I assume his self-destruct is designed the same way. It's contained to destroy whatever killed him, but it doesn't blow up the whole world because Dr. Hedo isn't as nihilistic as his grandfather was.

"The whole world might be destroyed!" is just a tool, one of many that Akira Toriyama had in his toolbox. The fact is, once he introduced that level of power, he couldn't really raise the stakes much higher. Villains like Buu or Zamasu could destroy every planet, but it basically amounts to the same thing, so Dragon Ball has been on that same level of stakes ever since Vegeta fought Goku for the first time 35 years ago. And if the stories have been all right over those past 35 years, then there really isn't a need to raise the stakes any higher, is there?

Likewise, if he had kept that notion off the table, and the worst Vegeta could do was to render the Earth uninhabitable or something, then we'd have 35 years of that being the worst anyone could do, and I don't think it would make that much of a difference.

To come at it from a different direction, I don't think "villains who can blow up the world" is what made Dragon Ball good. It was already good well before that came into play. And if Toriyama could tell a great story without that angle, then he's no worse off with or without it.

I was thinking the other day about how irritating it gets when fans argue over whether "O.G. Dragon Ball" is better or worse than "Z". They're the same story, after all. It's like arguing over which half of a movie is better. But it struck me that this is a big part of Toriyama's legacy. Dragon Ball is such a classic that fans talk about it like he made two classics and debate which one is the best. That's pretty damn impressive.

I think it proves that there's not some single "special ingredient" that makes the story work. Way back in the beginning, it was made clear that martial artists have a duty to use their special skills to help people, and that's been the through-line of Dragon Ball. Saving the entire planet from some world-busting menace is taking that idea to the extreme, but the idea still works, even if it's just Goku helping a sea turtle get back home, or tackling the Red Ribbon base to wish Upa's dad back to life.

[nochd]

Although -- weirdly -- the word "Gaelic" is pronounced differently according to whether it means "Gaeilge" or "Gàidhlig". When it means Gaeilge it's "gaylick", and when it means Gàidhlig it's "gallick".

starting a collection

[444names]

manx names BUT excluding "h"

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[jadthemagnificent]

Majin Vigita

[earl-of-221b]

I know DBZ and DBS showrunners want to have Kamehameha as Goku’s signature move because it’s cool and fun and flashy, but I wish they’d let the other original DB warriors use it too, because it’s all canon they learned it. Kamehameha is Master Roshi’s move, it’s a Turtle School technique that he taught to all his Turtle School students. The iconic orange gi is in fact martial art’s academy School of the Turtle uniform. Krillen knows Kamehameha. Yamcha knows Kamehameha. Tien isn’t from Turtle School but he actually learned Kamehameha by watching Roshi. Their Kamehamehas might not be as stupid powerful as Goku’s, who taught it to his stupid powerful sons, but they absolutely do know the technique.

[evilkitten3]

i've ranted and raved about how much i fucking love vegeta's redemption arc about a hundred thousand times by now but fuck if i'm not down to do it again.

vegeta's redemption is, to me, the greatest redemption arc in any media i've consumed (sorry zuko you don't even come close)

(real quick for people who don't know this about me - i'm mostly a manga fan exclusively, i haven't seen any of the movies, and i've only seen a few episodes of the anime. i also only actually own a single volume of the manga, and you have never seen someone spend this much energy obsessing over a handful of dbz chapters)

vegeta's redemption arc is entirely on accident. not only does he not want to be redeemed for the vast majority of the series, he actively goes out of his way to gallick gun the shit out of anything that would make him look remotely protagonist-y aside from actually technically being on the good guys' side. the story doesn't ever shy away from who and what he is: a self-centered, arrogant, cruel, bloodthirsty, homicidal alien warrior prince who can and will do horrific things to reach whatever his goal happens to be.

during the frieza saga, vegeta spits on the idea that there's anything remotely resembling "goodness" within him- he antagonizes as many people as he can, needlessly and gleefully slaughters people who pose no threat to him, and even after teaming up with krillin and gohan he routinely ends up looking like a bigger piece of shit than the people they're actually fighting (i love the fight with the ginyu force bc as awful as they all are, it's really interesting to see the story take the time to showcase some more positive traits that vegeta absolutely does not have)

vegeta is one of the only characters in early dbz who absolutely nobody fucking likes, and for good reason. two people put up with him, most likely bc they have no real choice, and while they seem to be mostly ok with him, he sneers at the death of one (who died doing something vegeta sent him to do, and used his last breath to get him some pretty damn useful info) and straight-up murders the other, a guy who'd been by his side since he was a child.

then you hit namek and suddenly things start coming together - you begin to piece together why he's such a massive piece of shit 24/7, and the story manages to do this while keeping him pretty damn unsympathetic for the majority of the arc. even when he's crying bc frieza is kicking his ass, it still very much appears to be more about his own ego and getting slapped in the face with the realization that not only is he not remotely as badass as he thought he was, he's only just starting to register to frieza as a mild nuisance.

and then frieza kills him, and in his last moments, with the mortality he was introduced trying to avoid finally closing in on him, we get to see another side of him. we see that his failure to defeat frieza is about more then just his ego (note: it is also very much about his ego; his ego just happens to be built on top of some pretty serious trauma). we see the desperation and most importantly grief that we'd never seen from vegeta before - and that, to be quite honest, we never see in quite the same way again. bc unlike every other villain vegeta's going to face in the future, frieza is the one that's personal. and in this moment he realizes that not only is he never going to be able to defeat frieza, but he never even mattered all that much to him to begin with. frieza is the source of all of his trauma - his grief for his home planet, the people he never really even got to know that well, his daddy issues (that's more in the anime but i do think it's interesting so i count it), his lifetime of slavery, everything. and to frieza, he's never been anything more than a moderately useful, occasionally amusing grunt. frieza has been at the heart of vegeta's desire to achieve strength (outside of just being saiyan - i mean like. directed strength? he's his goalpost, basically), and vegeta has never mattered to frieza as anything other than some annoying kid he owns.

dying like that is bad enough, but then he comes back. he feels the power of a super saiyan (sees it in the anime; in the manga the first time he saw a super saiyan was when trunks showed up, which i kinda like more tbh), and is immediately sent to earth, whereupon he shoves all that feelings crap down as far as he can and gets to taunting the now planet-less namekians about all the people he killed that they didn't bring back.

but at least he can finally be secure in the knowledge that frieza is super dead....ly and here to kill everyone bc goku didn't kill him and also he brought his daddy along and vegeta is still not strong enough to be a threat but now he knows that. also he has to wear a stupid shirt so this time he doesn't even get to die in armor. fortunately another super saiyan shows up (THIS MEANS THERE CAN BE MORE THAN ONE GONNA GO TRAIN UNTIL I EXPLODE BYE) and there are androids to kill and then he can have a rematch with kakarot and finally settle things! yay! he has a one night stand with bulma, knocks her up, goes super saiyan, and arrives back on the battlefield just in time to save goku in the most needlessly dickish way possible (y'know at least piccolo just yelled "I'M NOT YOUR FRIEND AND IT'S NOT A PHASE MOM" and flew off yeesh)

so problem solved, right? nope, wrong androids. also that super saiyan from the future was that kid the woman was bothering him about and is expecting fatherly things from him (there's not even any galactic warlords around to enslave him to so?????), and oh yeah the actual androids are way stronger than him and hand him his super saiyan ass without even really trying. fine he'll go train and get stronger aaaaaaand there's another one.

vegeta's reaction to cell is honestly incredibly interesting to me, and my theory is bc there are three very specific people that cell was made from that vegeta wants to destroy (and prove himself to): kakarot, frieza, and his own past self. but obviously it's not really proving that he's the hottest topic in the badman shirt store if cell isn't at full power, and he's totally not holding a grudge against the android lady or anything but fuck her, if cell eats her then when he beats cell he beats her too.

except oops turns out that was a really bad decision (his true princely domain) and now they're all going to die. by the time the cell games come around, it's pretty clear vegeta knows he's got no chance whatsoever and even hurting cell that much, and unlike with frieza, this time it's 100000% his own fault.

and then cell kills his son, who he barely even likes all that much, in the exact same way that frieza killed him, and something in him clicks at the worst possible moment. in his first attempt at being decent to his kid, he tries to avenge him.... which actually only makes things worse bc gohan cares way more than vegeta deserves so now the only person left who can actually do anything is down an arm.

and this leads to what i think is the second step in vegeta's road to redemption (after trying to avenge trunks) that goes kinda overlooked in the fandom: he apologizes to gohan. i've talked more about the dynamic between gohan and vegeta (easily one of the most interesting relationships in the series to me i won't lie), but for me this is even more notable than trying to avenge trunks bc while an action taken in rage is very characteristic of vegeta, self-reflection and remorse aren't. vegeta doesn't do regret, he does mad, sad (usually smad), and Evil Amusement(tm). but to gohan, he apologizes. and this isn't a mistranslation or an inferred meaning or anything, he actually says he's sorry. which from a normal person would be the bare minimum but for vegeta is an absolutely massive show of taking responsibility for his own actions.

anyway, goku decides not to come back and trunks goes back to his own time so vegeta is left with a choice to make: stay on earth with his actual proper timeline son, or go back into space and do chronoa knows what out there. and hey, it turns out he actually did kinda like the older version a bit, so maybe the younger one will be ok? cut to seven years later, and vegeta has mostly adapted to the repressed looming existential dread inside of him, formed an awkward but still very real relationship with his son, and even ended up turning that one night stand with bulma a few years earlier into an actual relationship. things are going... kinda ok. sure it sucks that he'll never get any real closure on anything but it's not like there's anything to be done about it.

oh? what's that? kakarot's coming back, you say? for a single day to compete in a single tournament in which vegeta might be able to finally deal with all the shit that's been hanging over him for a decade now? that's cool i gET TO THE GRAVITY CHAMBER BOY WE'RE GOING TOURNAMENTING

op already talked a lot about the majin vegeta stuff, so i'll briefly skip to the part where he explodes to scream about symbolism!!!!! destroying the old to make way for the new!!!!!!! burning down your past and taking your mistakes with you!!!!! turning into stone for some reason but who cares it's awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok onto my truest love, the last volume of dbz. here is where everything vegeta has been and done leads up to him firmly solidifying himself not just as a protagonist firmly on the side of protagonism, but as a changed man and, most of all, an ally to goku, friend to piccolo and gohan, husband to bulma, and father of trunks (goten is also involved but i don't really have a word to describe that relationship and i doubt vegeta does either so w/e he's here too just floating around between the others).

i've mentioned this a couple times before, but there's actually something the anime does that i think detracts pretty heavily from vegeta's redemption arc, and that's that it centers his agreement to fuse with goku on bulma's death. now there's nothing wrong with that technically, vegebul is great, but the thing is, vegeta's relationship with bulma wasn't ever really a direct part of his growth as a character. they had a one night stand during the three year timeskip, hooked up for good over the seven year timeskip, and the only time anyone really brings up their relationship as anything other than an offscreen romantic subplot is when future trunks confronts vegeta during the cell saga about not trying to save bulma.... at which point he wasn't in a relationship with her and couldn't have cared less regardless (bc vegeta is kind of a butt, not sure if anyone's noticed). so while it's nice that he cares about his wife/gf/partner/sugar mommy, it.... doesn't really fit into his character arc.

in the manga, goku very specifically lists five people to get through to vegeta, in this order: bulma, piccolo, gohan, goten, and trunks. and it's trunks' name that's highlighted and gets vegeta's attention, it's trunks who vegeta agrees to fuse with goku for. for vegeta, this is a repeat of one of the worst moments of his life: his son is dead and it's his fault (somewhat less so this time, but still). and for the sake of fixing this, for the sake of his son, he agrees to fuse with goku, even after learning that this will be permanent, that he'll cease to be as himself forever.

the fusion to me symbolizes the end of his antagonistic rivalry with goku, and the fusion itself represents them finally gaining the understanding of one another they've lacked. it cements them not only as allies, but as comrades. when they de-fuse, goku doesn't hesitate to back vegeta's "let's not do that again" stance in spite of shin's pretty reasonable argument of "any sane person would do fuse again what the fuck is wrong with you two", and they're pretty much on the same page for the entire rest of the manga. what few conflicts they do have are solved almost immediately, and they're conflicts that would never have been resolved at all if they'd come up on namek.

vegeta's whole speech about goku being inherently better than him is set over panels of the goofiest moments of ssj3!goku vs kid buu imaginable, and that only serves to highlight just how far vegeta's come that he can watch this and still see everything that goku is without being blinded by the silliness. he doesn't hesitate to sacrifice himself to buy goku some time, he comes up with the plan to use the wishes to make sure the people he killed come back as well as buu's victims, and most of all, when goku asks him to spare good buu, he does that. there's only one other time i can think of when vegeta has willingly spared an enemy, and ginyu was a harmless frog. buu is very much still capable of doing massive amounts of damage, but when goku says he gets to live, all vegeta asks for is an explanation before consenting.

but the most fascinating thing to me about the whole thing is this: vegeta is still recognizably himself. he didn't lose any pieces of who he was as a person. he's still selfish, still arrogant, still a jerk, still temperamental, still ruthless. but where before those traits were showing in their worst forms, now they've begun the process of being polished into their best selves - his desire to protect the earth is motivated by the fact that people he care about live there, his assumption that everyone has to be weaker than him bc he's inherently superior by virtue of being himself has become a much healthier understanding of his strengths, his asshole-ishness is less homicidal and more like competitiveness and sternness, his temper is significantly more reasonable (not like. perfect but y'know), his ruthlessness has transformed from cruelly tormenting his enemies to having a somewhat cynical worldview and being willing to take immediate and/or harsh actions (killing ginyu immediately, baiting cabba into a proper fight, etc.)

he's still undeniably the same vegeta iv he's always been - but now that man is a better person than he once was. he'll go to hell when he dies and he knows that, but he chooses to do the right thing regardless. in my eyes, that's pretty damn powerful.

If there's one part about Vegeta's arc that I absolutely love, it would be this:

His regression in season 8 was very well done. It wasn't shoehorned in and it made sense. I remember seeing on Reddit years ago people complaining about this specific part of his arc, saying that it made no sense for him to regress the way he did when he was redeemed at this point. But consider this. It makes perfect sense when you factor in one thing: he wasn't redeemed yet. He was still going through his redemption arc by this point.

Vegeta wasn't raised to be a family man. He was raised to be a killing machine. He was raised with the idea in mind that he would one day be the king of the Saiyan race. All of that got taken away from him. His belief that he was the strongest Saiyan alive was taken when Goku became a Super Saiyan and defeated Frieza, and again when Gohan became a Super Saiyan 2 and killed Perfect Cell. And then Goku makes the choice to stay dead instead of coming back to life via the dragon balls. So now, Vegeta's one rival, the person who he swore he would one day surpass and defeat is gone for good. So all Vegeta has left at this point is the family he created with Bulma. Something that he most likely never envisioned for himself. So he decides to live a life on earth with her and their son.

Everything seems to be going fine for Vegeta....until the World Martial Arts Tournament happens. And Goku decides to return on this one day so that he can participate. Suddenly, all of the feelings that Vegeta bottled up over the last 7 years since Goku's death comes rushing to the surface. Finally, after all this time, Vegeta could finally prove that he's better than Goku. They even get matched up to fight each other in the tournament! How lucky is that, right? And then this guy happens:

And just like that, Vegeta's chance to fight Goku is now shattered thanks to this new threat to Earth. Instead of his attention being on him, Goku has his sights set on defeating Buu before he can be revived. For the entire time Vegeta, Goku, Gohan, and the Supreme Kai are in Babidi's lair, Vegeta is angry. He's waited 7 years for the chance to fight Goku again, and now that he finally gets the chance to do so, this happens. We see Vegeta's mood get worse and worse throughout the time they fight Babidi's minions, and it's gets so bad to the point where Babidi is able to get Vegeta under his control. Now, as Vegeta pointed out later on, he actually could of fought off Babidi's mind control. But he chose not to. Why? Because he saw how powerful Babidi's minions were while they were under his control. So Vegeta figured he could use some of that power to do this:

Fight Goku without any interruptions. Which is what he wanted from the start. Even though he knew that fighting would give more energy to Buu and thus revive him, Vegeta didn't care. So long as he got to fight Goku. Keep in mind that this is the same guy who let Semi-Perfect Cell absorb Android 18, despite the fact that he knew it could end up being a bad decision. But Vegeta didn't care because he wanted a good fight.

Now there's one line that Vegeta said to Goku during this fight that always stuck with me from the moment I heard it back when I was a kid. When Goku asks him why did he do all of this, Vegeta responds with "Because I wanted him to reawaken the evil within my heart. I wanted him to return me to the way I was...BEFORE!!! I WAS THE PERFECT WARRIOR! COLD AND RUTHLESS! I LIVED BY MY STRENGTH ALONE! UNINHIBITED BY FOOLISH EMOTION!!! But slowly...over the years... I became one of you. My quest for greatness gradually giving way to this life of mediocrity. I awoke one day to find that I had settled down and formed a family. I had even grown quite fond of them. Would you believe, I almost started thinking that the Earth was a nice place to live. Do you understand now, Kakarrot? That's why I needed Babidi! To set me free! By releasing the evil within my heart! He has freed me of these petty attachments. And I have to say it feels pretty good."

That entire speech he gave to Goku summarized PERFECTLY the internal conflict that Vegeta had going on within him. On the one hand, he wants this. He wants to feel strong again. He wants to defeat Goku and prove that he's better than him once and for all. He wants the life of a warrior back, because for so long that's all he knew. But on the other hand, he knows that the way he's going about it is wrong. Like he just admitted to Goku, there's a small part of him that loves the life he made for himself, and that he loves his family, too. Which is why Goku then says to him "Do you really believe what you're saying?". Now, Vegeta doesn't respond to this, but he doesn't have to. His silence is his answer. After that, the long awaited fight between these two begins. And after a while, Vegeta does come to the realization that he fucked up big time, and that he needs to do something to make up for it. Which is why he does this:

He knocks Goku out while his back is turned. Why? Because he wants to fight Majin Buu alone. Because if it hadn't been for Vegeta's desire to fight Goku, Majin Buu probably wouldn't have gotten the energy he needed to be revived. So Vegeta decides to take full responsibility for everything and take on Buu himself. To me, this is when his redemption arc comes full circle, because of his sacrifice. He knows that he can't beat Majin Buu through normal means, so what does he do? Blow himself up in an explosion that he's certain will destroy Buu along with him.

Vegeta even says in his mind that he's doing this for Bulma, Trunks, and even Goku. Something that I'm pretty sure a lot of us never thought we would ever hear him say. That he's doing something for other people. That he's not doing this for himself. I'm pretty sure that he saw this as his way to atone (hence why this move is called "final atonement" in the video games) but the fact remains that he did it anyway. Sure, we see Vegeta get angry when Perfect Cell killed Future Trunks, but still. That moment can't compare to this one. All in all, Majin Vegeta is the best part of Vegeta's redemption arc and the way how it's written really did an excellent job in wrapping it up.

[the-evil-dead]

ragtag friend group that definitely won't encounter horrors beyond the comprehension of mankind <3

[lettherebemonsters]

Fuck me Hazbin Hotel is bringing back my inner DBZ fan. I mean, Adam's laser beam is literally a Gallick Gun.

[janellion]

not you getting excited to talk to my stupid ass 🥺💕 but uh let's start off sfw.. i just imagine daichi gives the best hugs 🥺 he's all warm and the kind of muscly that's still soft around the edges and i think he sometimes wraps you up around the shoulders so you're smushed into his tiddies or he's got his hands snaking up underneath the hem of your shirt because he just loves skinship to the point that he cannot resist 🥺 calloused palms and soft sighs and what a man what a man 😭 - gallick💕

WHAT A MAN !!! also uh ofc i’m excited silly !! but

YES DAICHI W PHYSICAL TOUCH AS A LOVE LANGUAGE !! he’s so strong and beefy but also SOFT, the kind of muscle that doesn’t feel uncomfortable when you rest your head against his chest or his shoulder

he ofc loves the kind of hugs where he can pull you into his arms and wrap you up in them, but he’ll take any kind he can get

if you’re doing something w your hands like cooking or drawing or drinking coffee, he’ll come up behind you and wrap his hands around your waist

if you’re sitting down somewhere, he’ll rest his arm behind your back or around your shoulders

he loves pulling you into his side, resting a hand around your waist

also: HAND AT THE SMALL OF THE BACK !! idk why but it’s just so sweet and intimate and i KNOW daichi has his hand resting there when he holds the door for you or helps you out of/into the car

ofc if you’re not together he’ll do the hover, but as soon as you give him the go ahead? he always has a hand on you somehow

[dragon-ball-meta]

It's also worth noting that those are considered to be high-level attacks, both for the amount of control needed, as well as the latter two becoming more powerful the more energy you put into them. That's part of why the Gallick Gun may well have been capable of destroying a planet. Rather than use a set amount of energy, it used as much as the user put into it. Would also explain why it took Roshi 50 years to master it, as well as why he could blow up the moon with it.

DID VEGETA KNOW THE KIENZAN?

No, Vegeta doesn't know the Kienzan. There are just similar types of techniques.

VEGETA HAD AN ATTACK LIKE THE KIENZAN:

THE KAMEHAMEHA WAS LIKE THE GALICK GUN:

What happened is that the Earthlings had began to develop techniques similar to what other aliens had already done years before them. This is why Vegeta & Freeza have similar attacks similar to Krillin's Kienzan, why the Crane School's Dodan Ray is similar to Freeza's Death Beam, & why the Kamehameha that Roshi invented was similar to the Galick Gun that Vegeta used.

[dballzposting]

DBS really has Vegeta shining. Awesome nostalgia grab having him refer to himself as a "prince" and using the gallick gun. Epic moment when he had the schnuller. It's so awesome to see him just Exist, ESPECIALLY with Goku, we got a taste of that in Son Goku And Friends Return and it's just so enticing. ALSO. He's a viciously virtuous man now. And that battle with Cabba I will never forget.

He could use some more boobage tho.