#magic in Dragon Ball

[sweetescapeartist]

The Origin Of Elder Kai's Great Magical Capabilities

Where did Elder Kai's ability to use magic so well come from? Well, Elder Kai could already use magic very well. But, when explaining how the Potara Earrings work in Dragon Ball Chapter 502, he mentions that accidentally fusing with a witch enabled him "to work magic like the..." then his explanation is cut off.

In the world of Dragon Ball, there is good magic & bad magic. To do the unnatural, such as unlocking power beyond the natural abilities, we are shown that sorcery (wicked magic) must be known. And as shown with the wizard Babidi, his minions were given power beyond their normal abilities through his sorcery.

So, when Elder Kai fused the witch, her knowledge of witchcraft was combined with his own knowledge of godly magic. This granted Elder Kai the unique ability to use his new understanding of dark arts for good in order to give Gohan power far beyond his normal limits.

Godly magic can awaken latent potential.

Wicked magic can grant power beyond natural abilities.

Combined knowledge of good & bad magic can grant power FAR beyond normal abilities.

The magic of the Dragon Gods is beyond wicked magic & Elder Kai's godly magic. This is why Shenron was able to grant power FAR beyond normal limits to Piccolo within a few seconds instead of doing a process that takes 25 hours or more to do. Dragon Gods have the greatest magic capabilities that we have seen so far. I believe it is because as gods, they are beyond good and evil. So their magical knowledge is not limited by what people consider good or bad.

[oldschoolfrp]

How to entertain a cat and an iguana, and an imp in a cage. (Denis Beauvais cover for Dragon 104, December 1985). I love when wizards have anachronistic items in their workshops (look on the shelf just to the right of the crystal ball).

[brila1997]

Krissy Victory 🔶️

[dragon-ball-meta]

It's here. Official title is officially "Dragon Ball: DAIMA". Launching Fall 2024 as a 40th-anniversary celebration. Though the focus appears to still be Shin and Goku traveling to undo this, it appears EVERYONE winds up kids again. And I do mean everyone.

And yes, for those who asked, the Power Pole has returned.

[flagellant]

dont mistake this for sexualizing a teenager but how fucking big are okaruns balls like for real. i could understand if an orb contained both balls. but one each? at that size? bro gets hard in the bathtub and snaps a pic we're gonna get the sequel to the surgeon's photograph alright.

[adventuresofalgy]

Hogmanay is THE major festival in Scotland, and for that reason the Scots are granted an exceptional two days holiday at the New Year, when most of the world is only allowed to rest on New Year's Day, if at all…

That is because the Scots need it…But of course, as a consequence, the residents of Scotland tend to feel a wee bit the worse for wear by January 2nd, and Algy and his party guests were no exception… Only the watchful snowy owl, and Algy's wee friend Twicklewick the rat, were able to stay awake…

Algy had enjoyed a truly fabulous Hogmanay Hootenanny in the great Scottish tradition, thanks to all his wonderful tumblr friends around the world. And to top it all, his very special friend the little green dragon had flown all the way from Patadragonia to attend the party, courtesy of the magic of the wee sprig of cherry blossom, and had brought some of his South American friends to join in the fun (and perform the tango…).

(You can find more of Algy's adventures with the little green dragon in Patadragonia in Algy's archive for late April through June 2021 )

But Algy knew that the little green dragon would vanish again as soon as the party was over, and as he dozed fitfully, in a state of exhaustion, half asleep and half awake, an old, old song, in the rhythm of a waltz, kept drifting through his fluffy brain:

After the ball is over, After the break of morn— After the dancers' leaving; After the stars are gone; Many a heart is aching, If you could read them all; Many the hopes that have vanished, After the ball…

And for any of Algy's friends who may not happen to know this song, which was made especially famous by that turn of the (20th) century sensation Lillian Russell, here is a version performed by the beautiful Alice Faye at the height of her career, in the (not very accurate!) biopic Lillian Russell:

[tylerusagi]

✨🧁Cupcakes🧁✨

Here’s Kirin Goku and Vegeta, also the Kirin Goku design belongs to Gokupolo 🌺🥕 and I did Kirin Vegeta 🥗✨

The reference I used:

[corseque]

made the mistake of clicking on the "for you" tab and saw the worst dragon age text post I have ever seen. It was like "man, I hope Bioware goes back to exploring [idea they thoroughly explored in all 3 games] like they did in Origins. I just know that they're just so obsessed with [idea that has been the main focus of everything from the very first cutscene of Origins]. I'm so sick of it."

This is what 10 years of not actually playing any of the games and playing them in your head is like. 10 years. I think some of you guys need a break. I know it did me some good.

[twipsai]

doodle dump 2: the misc one! featuring splatoon, dragon ball, and some ocs :D

SPLATOON ZONE

1 - grandfest shiver!!!

2 - my Agent 8 and New Agent 3 ocs :D

3 - Gorge doodle trying to emulate the splatoon style

4 - splatband ocs being silly (Hadal and Lag)

5 - my player character doodle

6 - summer nights outfit with Hadal

8 - summer nights Shiver,,, theyre not even my fav idol i just love drawing them ig

9 - PAUL!!!! i drew these right after his new design was shown :D

DRAGON BALL ZONE

10, 11 - GOKU DRAWING PRACTICE YAYYYY drew him as some sonic official art

12 - Goten and kid Trunks! im watching buu saga rn and i really liked their interactions,, bffs!

13 - Gohan and future Trunks cuz i got a little too obsessed with dragon ball whoops

14 - kid trunks reminds me of a cockatoo

15 - traditional doodles from class cuz honestly dragon ball has been infecting my brain its a problem. help

16 - perfect cell

android - 17

18, 19 - this was literally the entire cell saga. it would cut from Trunks going through hell to Goku and Gohan having so much fun training in the hyperbolic time chamber

OC ZONE

20, 21 - Ellie and Mae in a sketchy style i was trying

22, 23 - biamg profile shots except for Will cuz i hate that guy

24 - an oc i havent shown off here, Terabyte!

25 - a miserable Will i drew cuz i dont like him

[jessicameleon]

had a dream that i made a new one page rules light ttrpg system where everyone was a wizard and you had to invent new spells on the fly except every spell name had to be formatted as "____ of ____" and the only strategy was deciding what you think the combination of words did and the gm also had to decide what they did on the fly. no one played it with me but it sounds fun honestly

[speakofshinee]

2min practicing their Dragon Ball fusion ✨️

[moeblob]

Man, today was really rough and really bad and really long and and I just needed my son today. I really needed my son, you guys.

[oldschoolfrp]

And I'm telling you its my turn to ponder the orb (David O Miller shows us how to spider climb, from "Creative Casting: Interesting uses for low-level wizard spells" by Joel E Roosa, Dragon 169, May 1991)

[thedorfmirrin]

Last week I made a physical painting for my moms bday - its of my Aether dragon from FR: Ropa 💙🌌✨🌌💙

[dailycupofcreativitea]

Silly comic based off of that one Simpson's episode 😂🪁

(A little "what if Gohan tried to make super saiyan 2 feel natural like he did with super saiyan 1" except shenanigans ensue)

[theknucklehead]

Here are some female characters known for being blank faced/expressionless.

I don't really know what it is I like about these types of characters, maybe it's because they remind me of myself usually.