#lovelypurplefox

[pastel-kaleesh]

You do cosplay? I didn't know that. What characters have you cosplayed as?

I've done Vegeta, Android 17, Nezuko, Kylo Ren, and Ahsoka!!!

[sundove88]

MerMay Adventure Day 9- Goku (Dragon Ball Z) @sugarbear2001 @lovelypurplefox and @plasticoceanpearl

As we approach the waters of West City’s beaches, Goku is basically sunbathing in merman form- wait a minute, are you telling me he just got into this form? Well, that explains the yellow light around that tail of his!

Now, before we go, I think we should check on his rival, aka his highness Vegeta IV, the so called Prince of All Saiyans… but personally, I don’t think he wants to be bothered.

Eh, let’s go check up on him anyways!

Btw, his transformation is under the cut.

Bonus:

“Agh… Triton, what’s happening to my legs?!”

“It’s just my trident. Don’t worry, it’ll be over in minutes.”

“I-If you say so! I can’t feel them anymore!”

“That’s because you’re taking on a merman form.”

[wimbearn]

Taking a break. But, I will be posting something exciting next week on my main blog, lovelypurplefox.

[pastel-kaleesh]

YIPPEE

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@lovelypurplefox

@autoluminescents

TAG GAME!! Make yourself in this picrew and tag anyone you wanna see do it 🗣️🗣️

@cordycepsdrawz @dead-man-walking245 @autistic-mettaton @picklerabbits-sentientfurby @puppix + anyone else!! np, tags open!

[scungledfiles]

Hello! I saw your Animal Crossing gifs! If you aren't busy, can you do my favorite villager, Cube?

!!!

[duhragonball]

Launch?

Give me a character and I will answer:

Why I like them: I think the main appeal to the character is that she doesn’t take any shit from anybody.    The blue version of Launch is pretty passive, but she also knows that anyone who messes with her for too long is going to have to deal with the blonde version.

To go a little deeper, I think there’s an enigmatic quality to Launch that draws people in.   We have no idea why she changes hair and personality when she sneezes, and we don’t know where she came from or what she was up to when she dropped out of the Dragon Ball story.   This sort of ties into something I’ve always maintained about the Vegebul ship: the main fascination lies in how much we don’t know.    The audience is left wanting answers, and has no choice but to invent those answers for themselves.   

I decided to look for information on sneezing in Japanese culture, just to see if I could find some insight into the character.    I had a hunch that there must be some figure of speech about a volatile person changing moods as often as they sneeze, or something like that.   What I found instead was the superstition about a sneeze meaning that someone must be talking about you.    I didn’t think this had anything to do with Launch, but then I found out the superstition goes a little deeper.    If you sneeze once, then someone must be saying something nice about you, but if you sneeze twice, then someone’s saying something bad about you.  

So that might be what Launch is based upon.   When she sneezes, someone must be saying something nice about her, and she becomes nice in turn.   But on the next sneeze, she turns bad, just as someone must be saying bad things about her.    Really, though, she turns the whole superstition on its ear, because of all people, no one’s ever talking about her while she sneezes.   They’re always watching her with breathless anticipation.    

Anyway, I think it’s her lack of a coherent character arc that intrigues people.   You can sort of piece something together, but nearly all of her appearances in the anime are filler scenes, so it’s almost a guarantee that you’ll be putting more thought into it than the writers. That scene where she’s working in a food truck could mean that she’s gotten her life in some kind of order, but with her, there’s really no telling.  

Why I don’t: I find the lack of hard information about Launch frustrating at times.   I feel like there’s some awesome throughline that I should be able to find that would define the character in some profound kind of way.    Mark Waid could figure it out, I bet.   I still need to read his run on Archie.   He probably did some 4D-chess character study on Coach Kleats or something that would blow my mind.    I’m sorry, this is supposed to be griping about Launch and instead I’m griping about how envious I am of Mark Waid.    Uhhhh... I dunno, maybe she shouldn’t be stealing stuff all the time.  

Favorite episode (scene if movie): I can’t think of anything better than the episode where she’s getting drunk over Tien’s death in the Saiyans Saga.   It’s a great followup to their last encounter, where she wanted him to join her in robbing banks, and he wasn’t interested.   

Death wasn’t that big a deal for TIen in the long run.   He just ascended to the next plane and trained under King Kai, just like how he trained under Kami in the year leading up to the Saiyan invasion.    But for Launch, it’s a big deal, because he’s finally gone somewhere she can’t follow.    And at last, she begins to understand why Tien isn’t interested in stealing money.   

And then... nothing.   She shows up again at the end of the Kid Buu fight, giving zero indication as to what’s happened in between.   What happened to her?   You decide, because Mark Waid costs too much money to hire, and I sure got no clue.  

Favorite season/movie: Probably the Tien Shinhan Saga by default, since her fascination with Tien is probably the biggest character development for her.   And she figures into this weird glitch between the anime and the manga.   See, the manga version of the 22nd Budokai is much shorter, so Launch never leaves the hospital after they take Yamcha there to deal with his broken leg.   You don’t even see her until the final match, where she, Bulma, and Yamcha are listening to the play-by-play on the radio.   But in the anime, the tournament is drawn out over a few days, and she watches all of Tien’s matches in person, and even attempts to murder Chiaotzu.    So it’s a weird deal, which is perfect for Launch.

Favorite line:  Probably the line where she explains what happens to her when she sneezes, since it’s the only concrete evidence that she’s aware of her double personalities.    Blonde Launch sometimes goes “awww, no!” when she feels a sneeze coming on, but that could only mean that she hates sneezing, even without knowing what it means.   But Blue Launch knows she has another self, which means the Blonde one must be aware of this as well.  

Favorite outfit:

It gets no better than the black shirt and army surplus pants.  

OTP: Tien.   There’s so little we know about Launch, so I’m inclined to hang on for dear life to the one thing we do know, which is that she’s very interested in Tien.  

Brotp: None.  Launch is a very solitary character.   She’s the wind.  

Head Canon: Not really a headcanon, but a story idea that I couldn’t really work out, but I thought it might be interesting if Launch’s Launchness was like a physical condition that could be imparted upon other people.   Like, Bulma gets it, and then she ends up alternating between robbing banks and standing around going “Oh my!”  But I wasn’t sure I wanted to reduce the original Launch to that sort of explanation.   “Oh, we know what causes this, and it’s something we can turn off.”   

This may be why I struggle to come up with story ideas for Launch, because my impulse is to try to invent some neat and tidy explanation for Why She Is Like That, but doing such a thing would force me to choose one possibility and exclude any other, potentially better ideas.   

Unpopular opinion: Toriyama forgot about her because there was really nowhere left to go with her at that point in the story.   Once DBZ started, the story became less about Goku’s friends and more about Goku’s family, and Chi-Chi basically took Launch’s spot.   She was introduced as a foil for Master Roshi, and then got a stint as Tien’s love interest, and then the series progressed to the point where Tien and Roshi were both afterthoughts, so of course Launch was going to become even more of an afterthought.  

And this is okay, because this is what happens with supporting characters.   Like I was saying, if she actually stuck around, and showed up in every “All-the-side-characters-watch-what’s-happening-on-TV” scene, I don’t think she’d be as interesting as she is with her long, mysterious disappearances.  

A wish: I hope my next attempt to write Launch goes well.  

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: I don’t really have anything to put here.

5 words to best describe them: Enigma wrapped in a mystery.

My nickname for them:  Ain’t got one. 

[crmsndragonwngss]

Launch for the character ask thing?

Give me a character and I will answer:

Why I like them

She’s a character I don’t think about much, but I do like her and I wish she appeared more often. I like how sweet blue Launch is, but I adore loud, brash, strong women, so I really like blonde Launch. I like how funny she is, I like her accent, and I like how she takes no shit

Why I don’t

There’s really nothing I don’t like about her lol

Favorite episode (scene if movie)

That part in Z where Tien and Chiaotzu are training and she just shows up at their house and cooks food and demands attention 😂😂 I wish I had that kind of confidence lol

Favorite season/movie

Whatever saga the above scene is from (the Saiyan saga? I forget)

Favorite line

The lines from the above scene. Sorry I don’t give specific lines on this question. I have terrible memory and I don’t wanna go back and look for them 😅 also, I remember approximately nothing from Dragon Ball (the original series) because I was a little kid the last time I saw it lol

Favorite outfit

This one, I guess. I thought she looked cute in it when I saw her in the Buu saga

OTP

Okay, I know everybody likes Tien/Launch, but consider: Nappa/Launch

Brotp

I don’t have one, but can you imagine if she and 18 were besties?

Head Canon

When Akira Toriyama forgot she existed, she 100% was out taking down crime syndicates, running crime syndicates, toppling governments, robbing tombs, and just taking over the world in general as blonde Launch

Unpopular opinion

Probably my OTP for her tbh 😂😂

A wish

That she appeared more

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen

That something terrible happens and she dies and no one thinks to bring her back

5 words to best describe them

Sweet, ferocious, driven, kind, and pretty

My nickname for them

None, just blonde Launch and blue Launch like everybody else

[raditzxsthighband]

Yes I read my own fics 🫠

I'll tag: @vegeta-bananabluish @bloodpatternblue @renaikari @lovelypurplefox @serenitysaiyan

can i make a tag game is that allowed??

i am currently obsessed with

listening to this

watching this

playing this

reading this

add four pictures and tag your mutuals :)

i’ll start

yes i am obsessed with reading my tumblr feed what about it.

@nicknelsonblog @a-nerdy-bi @butterfliesareamyth @shy-sapphic-ace @ticcywhaleshark @sillylittlecheeto @zaddyazula @shortgaything plus anyone else

okay go.

[lunurivelvet]

Your art is so cute! 💗 Keep up the good work!

Oh my gosh, thank you!! You’re very kind! Hope you are doing well!

[cardcaptorkatara]

Hello! I love your art and your blog layout <3

Thank you so much <3 :)

[totally-addicted-to-twice]

I notice you post Launch and Bulma a lot, so I want to ask, which do you prefer? Bulma or Launch?

Honestly? Bulma.

[raditzxsthighband]

I want some now! Ty for the tag @degenerate-otaku

I'll tag: @lovelypurplefox @dbzebra @vegeta-bananabluish @bloodpatternblue @renaikari @polkapan

Thanks for the tag @someguywriting

If you feel like knowing what toast you are @beanifred @westernmeowmeow @meme-streets @khazadspoon @violasmirabiles @cigarette-room @marcotardelli @bidonica @edflet @anxiouscowboy @sissi-n2 @angel-eyes @very-lost-hobbit @seminaxo @yumepedia @maureenkpliskin @depressed-sasuke @phantomoftheparadise0002

[pokemonfanthings]

I just want to say... have a great New Year.

Yo you too🎉✌️❤️

[october-freakin-gale]

I just want to say... have a great New Year.

Thank you so much! Happy new year to you too!!!

[elvenpixiex]

Your art is amazing! Do you take requests? It's hard for me to find a blog that does requests :(

Hi!! Let me start off to say that I’m really sorry for the wait, I didn’t receive this til just now (thanks a ton tumblr....)

And thanks so much, really means alot that you say that!🤍🤍 And I’m reeeally sorry again...but I’m not taking requests at this time TvT do hope you find one that does! Best wishes to you lovely🤍

[hol-hot-wholesome]

Understood.

OKAY!

So it was @lovelypurplefox that wanted the City hunter Kaori jacket.

Signal Boosting!

You know…. I really wished I had this jacket that Kaori from City Hunter wears. It’s too cool and I couldn’t find a similar looking one irl 😥