#no idea why she’s on namek

[cerealforkart]

If I was watching dragon ball as a kid I would have hated Bulma, but since I’m an adult I can appreciate a highly competent woman who kinda sucks

[colorsofinquiry]

Episodes 75-76 of Dragon Ball Super are becoming my favorite episodes because of the role they play for Krillin.

When Krillin is on his job as a police officer, he gets injured by a stray bullet. #18 chides him for getting injured by a stray bullet. Its clear she's worried for him, because she did not expect his durability to get lower. Marron also wonders whether her dad was weaker. This spurs him to accept Goku's decision to spar before they both go to Master Roshi's island like the old days.

This is where we see the issue Krillin is facing. Master Roshi catches on that Krillin is feeling lost. He feels frustrated with his strength and wants to grow, but he had no idea how. Roshi explains that he can feel this in the hesitations in Krillin's punches and footwork. Krillin then opens up about Marron wanting a strong dad, and #18 calling him timid. Its clear that what happened in the episode has impacted him deeply on top of everything he has gone through.

By this point, Krillin has died thrice, plus the enemies they have faced were stronger than he was and he feels like a weakling surrounded by 2 full Saiyans, 3 Hybrid Saiyans, a Super Namek and his own wife, along with the case that he cannot catch up to his best friend. All of this has weighed him down.

This is why I think Master Roshi sends him along with Goku to the Forest of Death. It was more for Krillin than Goku, because Krillin had to confront his fears and face them head on. He himself admits that this is what Roshi wanted him to do. After this, Krillin finally decides to start training again.

That's why these episodes are good, as they give Krillin his desire to become stronger again, and play into his growth.

[bliss-wily]

Ginyu Force Headcanons

A long time coming, several months in fact. I am so sorry to the anon who asked for these. I hope you still see these. As always SFW, I like to keep my blog a safe place. As always, if these overlap with anyone else’s it is simply coincidence. Most of these are pretty darn silly, I have gone with five for each member, plus an extra five for the group as a whole. Who doesn’t love the Ginyu Force, hehe?

Bonyu

Completely no-nonsense, not just with posing. Hence why she left, she needed to be around more ‘intelligent’ minds.

Related to Jeice in some way – maybe cousin or sister. I am not basing this solely on visual clues, she can use Crusher Ball after all.

Given her refusal to pose, had she been on Namek then perhaps the tables may have turned on Goku and Vegeta (well, at least for a little while – of course, the boys would eventually win).

Furthermore, she is likely the most competent when it comes to fighting as she is not leaving herself wide open much like the others had. She would be serious, and she wouldn’t be spending her fights taunting or arguing about candy with her teammates.

She takes every aspect of her job seriously and expects the others to do the same. Therefore, finds Taino annoying for her fangirling over the squadron (if you know, you know).

Burter

I reckon Burter may have the biggest sweet tooth of the entire squadron.

The poor guy is a little scared of women because of his relationship with his mother growing up.

By extension gets a little scared of Bonyu if she shouts or gets mad.

Thinks of the Ginyu Force as his family, worries about for whatever reason combing with the Armoured Squadron.

Absolutely games with Jeice, however, knows when to stop unlike his comrade. The team comes first.

Jeice

Swears like a sailor sometimes – gets told off by Captain Ginyu if he gets caught, Jeice is the youngest for the sake of my headcanons.

Unsurprisingly collects baseball cards.

Has most definitely slacked off to play video games on more than one occasion.

Too cocky for his own good at times. Jeice can also be a bit too openly flirty at the worst possible times.

This boy never runs out of energy and I reckon after Ginyu and Bonyu is probably the smartest. He definitely earned his second in command position for good reason.

Ginyu

A complete romantic should he become involved with someone.

Likely tries to manage any Frieza Force social media seeing as he is such a team player.

Ballroom dancing is a (not so secret) passion of Ginyu’s.

Has a stash of ice cream cake, it’s his favourite snack.

Likely gags anytime he sees a fly now, yes, I’m operating on the idea that he somehow got his body back from the frog. An AU if you will.

Guldo

A little insecure because he’s one of the smallest in size amongst the Frieza Force.

Also, a little worried sometimes that he isn’t worthy of the Ginyu Force as he isn’t as physically strong.

Of all of them, Guldo is the one most likely to find a way out of training, he’s a bit too reliant on stopping time and using psychic abilities.

Would be the one most likely to betray the Ginyu Force in favour of the Armoured Squadron. He’s an opportunist.

Get’s easily jealous if the others become close to outsiders in case he gets replaced.

Recoome

The biggest sweetheart if you get to know him.

I will assume Recoome works harder than the others too. He loves his job.

May act like a dumb brute but there is a brain there which he uses to his advantage seeing as he is underestimated so much. (By enemies anyway)

Treats Guldo the best of all members, he definitely looks out for the smallest member.

Absolutely still partakes in ballet, it has never left him.

Ginyu Force as a Whole

Jeice and Burter are 100% dating. (Simply for my headcanons, I am not forcing this on anyone, I promise.)

Mess with one, you mess with them all. That is a given.

They definitely run some form of fitness club for special training. Likely work anyone who shows up to the bone. They have a reputation to uphold as Frieza’s strongest after all.

In some parts of the universe, they are perhaps treated like celebrities. Parts of the Frieza Force are likely famous, and the Ginyu Force is most definitely one of those parts.

Have absolutely coerced Frieza or other members of the Frieza Force to do silly and embarrassing things on more than one occasion. Some light hearted evil!

[tobiasdrake]

While you’re on the subject of underexplored Dragon Ball trivia, could you tell us something on the Dragon Balls themselves?

Hmm... not sure how much underexplored trivia I know on the subject. I think most of the details about what the Balls are and how they work are pretty well known. But I can go into a run-down.

Originally based on Journey to the West, the core purpose of the Dragon Balls is to provide a sort of miraculous quest of worthiness to their seeker. On Namek, the planet they come from, each one of six Balls, stars 2-7, is carried by the Choro or "Elder" of the village. To make your wish to Porunga, you must visit each village in turn and pass some great test of virtue that the Choro demands of you.

With the final Dragon Ball, the One-Star Ball, resting in the hands of Saichoro or "Grand Elder". He is the final arbiter of worthiness for your desire to receive a miracle from Porunga.

Krillin, incidentally, is the only person during the campaign on Namek to successfully pass a Namekian elder's measurement of virtue rather than taking a Ball by force. For escorting Dende to the safety of Saichoro's home and for having genuinely good intentions for his desired miracle, Krillin is judged worthy and given the One-Star Ball.

300 years ago, after the Nameless Namekian ascended to the lofty position of God, he was able to make Dragon Balls of his own. Though he didn't have the same organized structure that Saichoro put into his Dragon Ball system, the idea was similar: the Dragon Balls would provide a means for people to produce great deeds when in need.

It didn't pan out. The Dragon Bal ls were a mistake and brought nothing but horror to the Earth, and he regretted ever making the stupid fucking things. After Piccolo killed Shenron, God was more than ready to wash his hands of it.

By the time we meet God, it's hard to disagree. Oolong thwarted a maniac's wish for world domination by spending Shenron's world-shaping miracle on a set of women's undergarments before he could make his wish. A jackbooted warlord shot up multiple regions of the world to claim the Dragon Balls because he wanted to be taller. Bulma shot a child in the face with a gun so she could have infinite strawberries. Or a boyfriend. Either/or.

Honestly, infinite strawberries sounds pretty valid for a wish, NGL. Still wouldn't impress God, though.

There's also a piece of obscure Dragon Ball trivia says that the Dragon Balls were once used to successfully make a wish for world domination. This is why the entire Earth is a one-world nation under the dominion of King Furry. I think it comes from a Toriyama interview? But I don't recall the source so take that with a grain of salt.

In any case, God feels that the Dragon Balls were a horrible mistake and it's hard to disagree. The only thing that convinces him they're worth remaking is Goku's nobility. He sees in Goku the great virtue that has thus far been missing from anyone else who would seek the Dragon Balls, and that makes it all worthwhile.

The process of assembling the Dragon Balls is meant to be difficult. However, Bulma's invention of the Dragon Radar more or less trivialized it.

Notably, as a sign of her genius, the handheld radar that Bulma carries around outstrips the competition every time. She's far from the only person ever to make a Dragon Radar; She's just the only person ever to make a portable one.

That huge wall console is the best that the world's most powerful rogue paramilitary organization could manage. And it's still a hell of a lot better than anything Vegeta or Frieza had. They had to track people and hope a Dragon Ball was nearby.

Though I would be remiss to bring up Bulma's invention of the portable radar and not mention that, fun fact, the Radar that we often see passed around throughout the series wasn't built by her. Bulma's Radar was stolen by General Blue.

It's never seen again after this scene. I guess it was probably still in HQ when Goku stormed the place?

No, the Radar Goku finished the RRA arc with and then continues passing along from character to character is actually this one, created by - I shit you not - a cameo guest star from Toriyama's gag manga Dr. Slump.

Having seen the inner workings of the Radar while it was being repaired, Turbo the flying genius baby is able to reproduce a second copy. This copy would become the main Dragon Radar going forward after Bulma's original Radar was lost and forgotten.

Yeah, Dr. Slump canonically exists within the world of Dragon Ball and has directly impacted the story of one of its most iconic elements. However, this Radar still remains Bulma's genius design. She completely obliterated the entire test of virtue concept. I need you to understand that Bulma is the greatest heretic in the history of the universe, and that she and Vegeta deserve each other.

And now she uses Shenron for plastic surgery.

God was right. Earth isn't worthy of power like this. It was a mistake to bring Shenron back.

With some limitations, the great dragon summoned by the Dragon Balls can grant any miracle that is within Shenron's power. The main restriction this places is simple: Shenron or Porunga may not grant a wish affecting a person more powerful than Shenron unless that person consents.

This limitation serves the narrative purpose of explaining why we can't have Shenron pop any enemy that shows up into oblivion, which had been the Muten-Roshi's plan for dealing with Piccolo originally.

Though I occasionally like to joke about an AU where Bulma uses Shenron to solve the Saiyans. Can't teleport them into the sun or something? That's fine. I wish for you to teleport their spaceships into the sun.

No, I know you still can't teleport them even if you teleport their vehicles. That's fine. I'm asking you to teleport only the ships.

And then everyone lives happily ever after. Until about six or seven years later when the Androids kill us all.

But Shenron's and Porunga's power limitations also mean the story can have fun moments like this.

Goku is able to resist Porunga's attempt to warp him back to Earth because he's too powerful for the dragon to move involuntarily. He must consent to the teleport.

Of note: This particular piece of context doesn't come up in the DBS: Broly film directly, but it provides a fun bit of context to its finale.

When Cheelai used Shenron to save Broly, he had to consent to that. He could have told Shenron to go fuck himself and kept fighting instead.

But he doesn't want to. You can feel it just from looking at his face. Gogeta broke Broly's legendary berserker rage. In this instant, staring down Blue Gogeta's Kamehameha, Shenron asked him, "You want out of this, my dude?" And he said yes please. I'm done. I'm ready to go home.

The power restriction is also the reason why Shenron couldn't revert the Twins to normal humans.

But he can pop those self-destruct devices right out of their bodies, no sweat.

The other key limitation that Shenron has is an inability to resurrect the same person twice - Something Goku just sort of throws in as a new rule at the start of the Saiyan arc.

It's interesting to note that it's not specifically a prohibition against repeated rezzes, but against "granting the same wish twice". This never comes up in any other context, but it's interesting to think about.

Good thing Porunga doesn't have that limitation. Like. At all.

Hey, look at that. He was able to bring back Piccolo, Krillin, and Yamcha even though he'd already revived those two before.

Before the Buu arc, it could be assumed that he could raise people twice because those people had previously been raised by Shenron. Different dragon, different wish history. But no. Porunga's just better.

Our bootleg wish-dragon is a pale imitation of the real thing. I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you that. But ours can do multi-rez so suck on that Poru--

Oh, never mind. Muri found out about multi-rez and gave him a tweak. Porunga remains the superior dragon. Of course, he's not the only person to upgrade their dragon. We have Dende to thank for Shenron's upgrades too.

This is a point that I've seen people get confused on. Dende's Shenron grants three wishes like Porunga. However, a multi-rez is so costly that it expends two of those wishes. So you can have three individual wishes or a multi-rez and one other wish.

The language here is super ambiguous, admittedly. It's easy to interpret Dende as saying "If I activate multi-rez then I have to set the limit to two." Like. We can configure Shenron for three wishes OR configure him for two wishes but make it possible to do multi-rez.

But subsequent chapters and authorial statements have clarified the matter. As long as you aren't multi-rezzing, you get three wishes.

It's just. Nobody ever uses Shenron for anything but multi-rez so it rarely comes up. This is not helped by general inconsistency, which Toei is particularly bad about but Toriyama's guilty of too. In the DBS: Broly movie, Shenron inexplicably is back to granting only one!

My dude. What happened to your upgrade? You were upgraded, you defective knock-off! DX

I think he just wanted to get the fuck out of there before Frieza realized he can still make his wish for improved tallness. He grants enough of that shit for Bulma as it is. He doesn't want another person muscling in on it.

This is what his life has come to.

It's also interesting to note that with multi-wish dragons, you can bank a wish if you don't have anything else in particular that you want.

Speaking of inconsistency, they made a multi-rez wish so shouldn't Shenron be down for eight months, not four? Either way, point is that you can cut down Shenron's recharge time by not using some of your wishes. Which makes sense if you think about it, but is more user-friendly than a lot of magical reality-warping macguffins typically are.

Shenron's great about that in general, concerning himself with making sure that the miracle he grants is in line with the intent of the wish, not just the letter. Unlike that bastard Porunga. He knows what he did.

In fairness, that's as much Dende's fault as Porunga's.

That about covers it for the Dragon Balls and their Wish Dragons, I think.

[bitebitesnap]

Something that interests me sometimes conceptually is yanderes.

Now I'm not a fan of them. The obsession, the downright horror vibes-it just bothers me..sometimes. There had been a few times where it's actually been kind of interesting, though it's usually because it's not super involved with making the Reader useless or just prey to be hunted.

But that aside, it's not the point, I was thinking about something.

Goku as a yandere would be horrifying.

And I'm not talking about his power. Technically, Vegeta is within the same range so it's not like it's much different from him going on a rampage. No what I mean isn't so much strength. It's reason.

Let's say Goku takes in what happened with Frieza and puts it to heart. Let's say the anger, the rage of becoming a Super Saiyan boils through to his core and changes him at the root-but also not quite. He's still the silly, goofy sweetheart everyone knows....but not quite.

Being on Namek during it's destruction taught him that he can't just let people go as easily. Just because they could be good deep down doesn't mean anything. If they have the chance, remote as it is, to turn on any of them then it's game over no matter how powerful they are. Maybe they aren't a threat to him, but to everyone else they could be the worst thing alive.

So he can't take that risk. Won't allow it to even take root.

He cuts off Gero before he can even release the other androids. Blasted to bits the minute he saw him. 19 went down too because he wasn't prepared to take the attack at full power.

Sure. A few buildings were destroyed, maybe a few people lost. But that's what the dragon balls are for right? And besides, he could feel the virus starting up so he had to act fast! Don't blame him for doing what needed to be done!

Cell is a surprise but not much more of a challenge either. Poor bastard barely got the chance to get away in his first form, and without the other two androids around to fuel his perfect form he had nothing else at all. Okay so some people got hurt in the fight but it's okay too! Dragon Balls, okay?

And without the Cell games, without his sacrifice...there's not much else to do now, is there? He's got nothing to fight, nothing to worry about. Sure he's got Piccolo and Vegeta so it's not like he's completely bored. Also, Gohan is getting seriously strong! He'd love to have a good spar against him when he gets older!

But....it doesnt'....feel quite right..

With nothing to fight, nothing is threatening his friends anymore. He should feel relieved, happy even.

So why does he feel like something is wrong..? Why does he feel anxious, afraid..almost like something is going to happen.

He kept a close watch on all of his friends, going so far as to intrude into their lives to make absolutely sure they were fine. He'd pop in at any point jsut to 'check in', he said, and when nothing was found and everything was fine he'd pop out. 'See?' He'd tell himself, 'Everything is fine. Don't worry about it!'

But he couldnt'...stop...

Simple check turned into hours long stalking. Stalking turned to obsessively watching over them at all hours, staying awake all night hopping between their homes. He couldn't count how many days and nights he'd been awake anymore. Only keeping track of when the sun rose and fell so he could go back to his home and watch over Gohan and you/Chi-Chi.

But it;s still not enough...! What was wrong!?

Then it happens. An inconspicuous little event that could have been missed by anyone had he not been so deranged by the need to keep an eye out for it.

A simple robbery. Not even a well planned out one, the robber had the bright idea to wander into Bulma's open window to steal a few pieces of her jewelry. It was so one-track and clearly idiotic that even she could have handled it.

But Goku was there. He saw it happen.

Poor bastard had no idea what was going on until he was several miles up in the air, dangling by his throat in the hands of a sleep deprived, wild-eyed Saiyan.

He knew of wars, petty battles between factions for something or another. Some part of him envied the rivalries humans could have with each other without running the risk of blowing up a planet. Being weaker, they had countless other's just like them to fight. No stagnation, always another challenge or threat right among their own.

Being himself, a Saiyan as powerful as he was, Goku never had to look down at them as a danger. His friends were strong, stronger than anyone like this little bug in his hands.

....Weren't they..?

His eyes harden, ignoring the squirming roach.

If they were...then why didnt Vegeta do anything to stop this attempt? Why didn't Yamcha?

Were there other infractions like this? Were they all ignoring it? Just letting it happen, right behind their backs where they could get stabbed just like he was when Frieza-

The crunch happens in the back of his head. His eyes watch the pest's neck flop over his fist but see nothing.

Quiet. It was quiet for the first time in a long, long while.

No noises catching his attention. No anxious energy driving him mad. No wild emotions left unchecked from exhaustion.

He was...calm.

Slowly he brings the body closer. The life force is long gone. No light blinks in the eyes. It's dead. Gone. No threat to anyone.

...Because of him..

And it clicks.

It doesn't matter if Vegeta didn;t get to him, he did. Yamcha wouldn't have fought anyways, he was a coward now and terrified of death.

But because he was here, he did. He caught the bastard. He ended the threat. He saved Bulma.

He saved her from something no one was looking for.

With everyone fresh out of a series of disasters centered mostly around the stars or his past, no one was focusing on the present. How could they? They'd been subjected to it for so long they'd grown numb to it by now. A simple robbery was nothing to them-less than nothing.

They were blind to an enemy they couldn't even think of anymore.

So he clenches the body's neck even tighter. Flesh engorges into a red mass in his palm but he ignores it. Even when the balloon bursts and crimson runs down his fingers. As meat squeezes out into and over his palm, the tongue forced out in a breathless gag.

He was their champion right? The strongest under the sun. The warrior who bested the worst of the universe, the tyrant Frieza, the android's maker, even the warrior built specifically to destroy him. He'd done it all. He'd do it a thousand times over if it meant protecting those he loved.

What was a few, measly little lives of a few bugs that dared to call themselves humans? Did their lives matter, even, if they dared to stoop so low as to be like the monsters he's conquered? Were they lives at all or simply dust under his heels?

The body is flung in a random direction. He doesn;'t care where it lands. His muscles are tight with renewed energy, mind clear and focused on a single, soul driven purpose.

He would protect everyone. He would destroy anything that got in his way. Be the wall between them and total destruction.

He was Son Goku the Saiyan, the warrior, Earth's mightiest protector. But if the Earth itself wanted to turn on anyone he cared about....

Then not even the Earth mattered to him anymore.

[ashe-smash]

the baby talk fic for piccolo

That's not fair

Bulma abuses the dragon balls for plastic surgery

😿

Why can't I have a kid?

Also there surely must be a window of time where there is no danger?

I was gonna say namek would work but no.

Whis may have made a blanket for when bulla was born or moved it while moving her out of bulma,so nevermind

Supreme kai does life, can't he, no wait he just kinda influences it, old kai respects evolution so it might be a problem and it shows that indeed evolution played a part after the first life spark was made by them

So it's not literal from what I'm seeing

I haven't seen daima yet

...super dragon balls? The planet sized ones? I mean if you can get them without a tournament which might kill the universe

if anything, sigh, the cell treatment will have to be done. Different dna spliced.

Dearest anon,

the short answer is: it wouldn’t be a very interesting fic if they just used the dragon balls. They’re a canon dues ex machina.

I’m someone who likes trying to fit my ideas into canon and using the Dragon Balls is just too easy. Not using them is a very deliberate choice.

In the fic itself though? Personally I believe Piccolo does not approve of the nonsense wishes (evidenced by the Superhero movie.) The best course of action would be to tack on their wish with another more “important” wish. Reader also canonically has a different relationship with the dragon balls, she knows they’ve been used to resurrect people, to help people change their lives.

How would Piccolo and Reader feel if they used the dragon balls to create a baby and sometimes within that year one of their friends died? In my mind, they’re always the most worried about Gohan but also the other characters. They don’t want to be the cause of someone missing a year or more of their life.

A big reason Reader wants a baby because of Pan, what if Gohan died and they couldn’t resurrect him. So Gohan has to miss the first year of their baby and Pan’s life?

Secondly, I don’t see Piccolo being someone to ask another being like Kai or Whis or even Dende for help in this situation. Piccolo and Reader don’t even plan to tell Gohan and Videl - their best friends about this anytime soon. He’s very private specifically when it comes to Reader (character).

(Big) Spoilers under the cut

There was a time when Baby Talk might have ended with the first chapter. In the beginning, it was an essentially a fic about reproductive incompatibility (with an undertone of infertility.)

Also if anyone chooses: you can absolutely choose to end reading at chapter one.

I love love love Piccolo and canonically he is an alien that reproduces asexually and as someone who does potentially want to be pregnant and have a baby someday, my self inserting requires some cope.

But also that’s not the fic I’m writing anymore. There’s a reason I put “alien pregnancy” and “oviposition” as tags on the first chapter when that hasn’t happened yet.

Piccolo and Reader will get a baby.

Back before I got into X reader in 2022ish, I used to be into monster fucking fics. I love Piccolo and I’m also a weirdo who loves oviposition and weird alien pregnancy and literal breeding kink that ends in pregnancy. That’s another reason they don’t use the dragon balls: Reader literally says they want Piccolo to get her pregnant, even though it’s not possible yet.

I know the next chapters are taking a while, but this is angst with a happy ending, with a side of hurt/comfort (heavy on the hurt right now). And I do hope readers who have enjoyed chapter one will enjoy the rest of the fic.

It has and will continue to be a labor of love (pun intended), and I hope it will come together satisfactorily. 💚🥚💜

[elisajdb]

Solo Play

Story inspired by art by @ksandraws57

Staying with Bulma's parents while Goku is on his way to Namek, Chi-Chi demands to speak to Goku and learns he is doing more than training on his journey to Namek.

Another day had come and gone and Chi-Chi still had no news on Goku. After a month of spending all day in the hospital with Goku, she takes a break and leaves for a couple of hours to relax and get her mind off the ordeal of her five-year-old son in space and her husband in the hospital.

“You’re bored sitting here,” Goku told her. “Go do that shopping thing you like. I’ll be here when you get back.”

Like Hell he was. She returned with new clothes for Gohan and food for Goku only to find Goku’s confused doctor and nurse, Master Roshi and Yajirobe in the room saying she just missed Goku. Yajirobe gave him a senzu bean and Goku flew off to Bulma’s house where a second spaceship waited to take him to Namek.

Goku didn’t tell me about a second spaceship.

Chi-Chi raced to the Brief compound to learn she missed Goku by half an hour. Instead of going home, Chi-Chi invited herself to stay until Goku and Gohan returned. She waited with each passing day giving her no news of Goku or Gohan. Was he still flying in space? Was he on Namek goofing off with Gohan, Krillin and Bulma?

They are probably having the time of their lives.

Hungry, Chi-Chi went to the kitchen where she heard Dr. Brief and his wife, Panchy. “Goku should be arriving on Namek in an hour or two.” Dr. Brief was heard taking a loud slurp of what Chi-Chi assumed was coffee.

“That soon?” Chi-Chi heard Panchy’s perky voice. She was a bit ditzy but she was a comfort to Chi-Chi through this rough time offering pastries, being a kind ear for Chi-Chi to vent, and chattering about gossip to distract Chi-Chi from her problems. Chi-Chi did stay away from Panchy’s drinks. She had a feeling one glass of those special mixes would have her swinging from the ceiling or waking up in bed with Panchy and Dr. Brief.

“Has he talked to you since you helped him fix the spaceship?”

Talk? Chi-Chi didn’t know Goku talked to Dr. Brief. She didn’t know they have been in communication since Goku left Earth.

Why is everyone keeping everything from me?!

“No, but I have been watching him. He spends all his time working out. He’s made a mess of the ship’s interior.”

He’s seen Goku while I’ve been waiting, cleaning and folding his damn laundry?!  

Chi-Chi stormed into the kitchen. “HOW DARE YOU!!!” Chi-Chi’s voice bellowed so loudly  Dr. Brief burned his hand in the middle of lighting his cigarette and Panchy covered her ears. “I have been here waitin’ for news about my Goku and Gohan for days and you’ve been talkin’ to Goku all this time?!” Chi-Chi yanked the scientist from his chair and shook him. “How dare you keep this from me?!”

Though her husband was being throttled, Panchy didn’t worry. She’s seen it from Bulma enough times to know how to deal with high-strung women in this situation. “Now, Chi-Chi, with emotions high, he had to keep it from you. Goku needs to train to fight those bad guys on Namek. He needs to concentrate.”

“Bad guys?” Chi-Chi wasn’t told of any bad guys. Master Roshi told her Goku got well by a senzu bean and left on a spare ship to Namek. No one told her there were bad guys. “Are you saying my Gohan is in danger and that’s why Goku left so fast without a goodbye to me?”

Panchy put a hand over her mouth. Oops. “I thought you knew.”

“I didn’t!” Chi-Chi had enough of the secrets! “I wanna talk to Goku!” Chi-Chi yelled at Dr. Brief. “NOW!”

Dr. Brief managed to break from Chi-Chi. He smoothed his ruffled lab coat. “Goku’s almost on Namek. You would ruin his concentration. When they are on their way back home, I’ll let you talk to him.”

“NO!!!” Chi-Chi would not be denied. “I wanna see Goku!”

“I’ll take you to that room where my husband talks to Goku,” Panchy offered. “Seeing Goku is just what you need.”

Dr. Brief didn’t think that was a good idea. He remembered his daughter’s warning. “Um, dear, I don’t think…..”

Panchy waved him off. She grabbed Chi-Chi’s hand and led her out of the kitchen. “I’ll be there to keep Chi-Chi calm if she loses it. Once she sees her husband, everything will be all right.”

Panchy left with Chi-Chi while Dr. Brief worried this was a bad idea.

Most of Chi-Chi’s anger melted when they reached the communication room. Panchy’s perky demeanor helped. She gushed telling Chi-Chi she must be so happy to talk to Goku. She was very optimistic things will work out on Namek, Goku will handle the bad guys, Gohan will return home safely, and how they both must return for a visit to have drinks with her.

That suggestion conjured a disturbing image of Chi-Chi waking up in bed naked with Panchy, Goku and Dr. Brief.

The women stepped into a room with a plain desk, a computer screen, a keyboard and a microphone. Chi-Chi wasn’t a wiz on technology but she knew a little about it. She turned the monitor on. She saw Goku standing in the control room of the spaceship. It was a mess. The walls and floors were chipped and riddled with cracks due to Goku’s harsh training.

“Goku!” Chi-Chi called Goku but he didn’t respond. Chi-Chi slapped the monitor thinking that would allow Goku to hear her. It didn’t work. She flipped a switch on the microphone back and forth until she heard sounds coming from the spaceship. “Finally. Goku,” Chi-Chi called again but Goku didn’t say anything to her.

“Alright! I’m ready for Namek!”

“Goku!” Chi-Chi yelled but Goku didn’t answer.

“It seems one way,” Panchy observed.

“It shouldn’t be.” Chi-Chi typed on the keyboard hoping that will open communications. “Your husband talked to my Goku. There must be a way for me to talk to him.”

“Now that’s over with, what should I do?” Goku spoke to himself.

“How about take a shower and get some new clothes?” Chi-Chi grumbled. From how ripped his clothes were, Chi-Chi suspected Goku hadn’t showered and only trained since he left.

“Oh, I know!!” Goku spoke with joy. “I haven’t done that in a while!!”

“I knew it.” Chi-Chi shook her head. “He hasn’t showered.”

“Oh,” Panchy stepped closer to the monitor as Goku pulled off his shirt, “he’s getting undressed.”

Chi-Chi wasn’t surprised. Goku took his clothes off regardless of the room he was in. “Done what?” Chi-Chi wondered. When she saw Goku remove his pants, she remembered Panchy was in the room. She turned to the woman to block her view. “Hey! He’s my husband! You can’t look at him naked!”

“I’ve seen naked men,” Panchy defended her right to look.

“Not my Goku!”

“Oh, what’s the big deal?” Panchy pushed Chi-Chi out of the way. “Goku has the same thing as all men. If you’ve seen one penis, you’ve seen them all and……” Panchy stopped when she saw what Goku was doing on the monitor. “He’s not getting ready for a shower.”

Chi-Chi turned to see what Panchy meant and nearly fainted at what she saw.

Goku, what are you doing?!!!

“How long has it been?” Goku thought as he pulled his shirt over his head. “Before I died.” It was so rare he did it that he couldn’t remember the last time. Chi-Chi was often available to take care of his needs. It was with Chi-Chi that he learned how to do this.

“This next chapter is Mutual Mast���.er” Goku slowly mispronounced, “…..ba.. sion?”

“Masturbation.” Chi-Chi covered her ears. “And don’t say that. It sounds dirty.”

“I didn’t say it. You did it and….” Goku held up the book. “It’s in the sex book.” Goku looked at pictures of men and women pleasuring each other. “I don’t think it’s dirty. It’s helping us do married couple stuff.”

Both were naïve to sex. Chi-Chi thought Goku would know what to do since he is a guy but with him being more clueless than her, Chi-Chi wearing a disguise, bought an adult book. She read to him while both looked at pictures to understand what married people do.

“It says it’s natural to touch each other so it’s not dirty. I don’t think it is anyway.” Goku defended the chapter. “How is this dirty when it’s not dirty when I’m lickin’ ya or ya suckin’ me?”

“Well…. that was fine. We were pleasuring each other. We were making each other feel good.”

“So, what’s wrong with making ourselves feel good?” Goku asked. “I only wanna touch when I think of you. I think of how you touch me with your mouth and hand and I like that feelin’”

When he put it like that, it didn’t sound dirty. Chi-Chi liked she had that effect on Goku. “I like how you feel when you touch me, too, Goku. Maybe we can do this.” Chi-Chi read the paragraphs of the chapter. “It says it can be helpful for us. If we touch and explore ourselves we can show each other where to touch so we can feel good during intimacy.” Reading that eased her apprehension. “All right. Let’s do it.” But she was still hesitant. “You go first.”

“Okay.” Goku didn’t mind being the first to try this act. Goku looked at the pictures of what a man does. It was similar to how Chi-Chi touched him. That’s how Goku began. He wrapped his hand around his length and began stroking it. He mimicked how Chi-Chi caressed him starting from the base and gliding his fingers to his tip over and over visualizing Chi-Chi doing this as she kissed him. “Yeah….” He moaned as the feelings sparked when Chi-Chi stroked him awakened in him as he stroked his cock. “Ahh!” Goku stroked faster. “Uhhhh…. that feels good.”

Chi-Chi noticed Goku’s hand moving faster over his thickening length. She noticed his breath hastening and the soft groans coming from his mouth. “It does?” She didn’t need his answer. She knew it felt good for Goku and it felt good for her, too. Seeing Goku pleasure himself caused a sensation to build between her legs that felt familiar to when Goku licked her.

“Yeah,” he panted. “I’m thinkin’ of how ya suck me… how,” he groaned as he tugged his balls, “how your mouth feels good around my cock.”

Chi-Chi would scold Goku for using that word to describe his anatomy but she was enraptured with Goku pleasuring himself and knowing he did it thinking about her. The carnality of Goku’s act was getting to her, too. She noticed the tips of her nipples poking through her thin nightgown and slickness forming between her legs.

“Come on, Chi-Chi,” Goku encouraged her. “It…. feels good. Touch yourself, too.”

Nervous with a tinge of reluctance, Chi-Chi gave in. She started grabbing her left breast. Goku loved touching her here with his hands and mouth. She squeezed her breast much gentler than Goku but was as detailed as him caressing her skin through the thin lingerie and tugged her stiff nipple to jolt a spark of pleasure through her.

That did feel good. Feeling bolder and encouraged by Goku’s stroking and grunting, Chi-Chi moved her right hand between her legs. This is where Goku gave her the most pleasure. Closing her eyes, she thought of Goku’s tongue licking where her fingers were stroking. As her fingers caressed the lips of her sex, she thought of the many times Goku tugged, sucked and licked them.

“Oh!” Her body jumped at the wild sensations bursting from her. It was as if a bolt of lightning was dipped in a cauldron of carnality and enveloped her body. That felt too good to be bad. Chi-Chi squeezed her other breast and rubbed her fingers faster. She had to get there. She had to endure that feeling again. She moved her fingers to the heart of her arousal, rubbing her slick and hard clit in circular motions, panting as she went faster. She fell against the bed as she felt that familiar exquisite feeling build in her again.

Beside her, Chi-Chi heard Goku’s grunts and the rapid flapping of his hand over his cock. It spurned Chi-Chi to go faster. “Oh!” she let out a soft moan as her fingers slid into her wet hole. She heard Goku beside her but saw him in her mind above her. His shaft replaced her fingers. He drove in and out of her with their hips creating loud smacks. “Oh, Goku… It’s …..ah…..ah…….ahh!”

It came so fast she couldn’t stop herself. Her hips rose off the bed while she cried his name. Her thighs gripped her soaking fingers as the most amazing orgasm washed over her.

Several moments passed before she opened her eyes. She felt so good. “Oh, Goku. That was….” Goku stared at her. He stopped his stroking to watch Chi-Chi touch herself until she came. His hand gripped his thick member which leaked his potent spunk she was slowly becoming addicted to.

His eyes were wild and feral. His nose flared as her sensual scent consumed him. She knew he wanted her badly and she wanted him to take her as hard and fast as he could. She reached for him and that was all she needed to do to have Goku pounce her and give her the best sex they both encountered so far in their young marriage.

Stripped naked and lying on the cracked floor, Chi-Chi knew what Goku was going to do. I can’t believe he’s….. Chi-Chi covered her eyes. She couldn’t look! And yet her fingers spread so she could see.

Goku grabbed his limp penis and began stroking it from the base where his hands brushed his balls to the head just missing his fingers from rubbing the tip.

Has he always been that long? Chi-Chi stared entranced. She knew it had been a year but Goku looked bigger. She knew the training he endured in their year apart increased his body mass. Goku was always in shape but he was not this ripped when he died.

“Oh, my!” Panchy marveled at how quickly Goku’s penis hardened. “He’s a big boy. Chi-Chi, you must tell me how well Goku uses it.”

Panchy’s voice reminded Chi-Chi she wasn’t alone. This perverted woman was watching her Goku get off. “NO!”  Chi-Chi turned to Panchy and pushed her out of the room. “This is between a husband and wife!”

“I’m a wife,” Panchy kept moving her head to see Goku rubbing off.

“You’re not Goku’s wife!” Chi-Chi pushed Panchy out of the room. “Get out! This is private between a husband and wife!!!”

“Uhh….. Chi-Chi!”

Chi-Chi turned to see it was over. Goku laid on the floor panting with a small splash of his semen on his stomach.

“Oh,” Panchy giggled. “Goku is a quickie. I thought with his youth and strength, he’d have more stamina and more spunk.” Panchy tsked disappointed. “It’s not enough to get a real taste.”

“GET OUT!” Chi-Chi closed the door on Panchy.

Chi-Chi went back to the monitor. Panchy was right. It was very soon for Goku to be done and Goku shot out more than that with her! Her body couldn’t hold it all so the sheets were always soaked with Goku’s spunk. How could it be over so soon? The last time that happened was during their first time. It was over so quickly but everything was so new for Chi-Chi then, she didn’t know it was fast.

The first experience energized Goku for more rounds and the more they engaged in sex the more Goku’s stamina and skills increased.  

“Maybe that’s it.” It had been a year. Goku was out of sync. Chi-Chi realized Goku was thinking the same thing as he sat up holding his limp penis in his hand deep in thought.

“That was quick. I hope it’s not broken. Maybe I’m rusty. Easy way to take care of that.”

Chi-Chi slipped in the chair watching Goku rub himself again. His shiny right hand wet from his first round stroked his shaft while his left hand pulled and pinched his balls the way she always does.

“Mmmm.” The deep groan rumbling from Goku’s throat made Chi-Chi grateful she was sitting. “Ya such a good girl…. suckin’ me like that.”

Chi-Chi licked her lower lip watching Goku’s cock grow before her eyes. There was something amazing watching that fun stick come to life knowing what it can do to her. It had her acting in ways Chi-Chi never imagined. She was raised to be a proper wife but Goku and his fun stick, when used, drove her wild. It had her saying and doing things she never thought she would. He can have her screaming for him, begging for him to not stop and to keep driving in her. She’d submit to any position he wanted just so she can have it. She didn’t care if his plowing sometimes hurt. The pain was worth it for the rewarding feelings he gave her.  

It's been so long. Chi-Chi squeezed and massaged her left breast while her right hand went inside her dress and pushed aside her damp panties where her fingers comforted a part of her longing for Goku’s touch for a long and tumultuous year.

A relieved sigh escaped her lips as her body was finally getting nurtured. She held off doing this while Goku was dead. The knowledge they will be together sustained her for a year but watching Goku pleasure himself broke the final resistance in her to give in to the needs of her body.

It felt good to stare and dream of riding Goku’s cock on full display and to dream of taking him in her mouth to suck and lick until his potent cream erupted and cascaded down her throat.

“Ah…. Chi-Chi,” Goku groaned as his hand stroked faster. “Ya suck so good.”

Even though he was millions of miles away, he thought of her and it made Chi-Chi feel she was in the room with him giving him pleasure. “That’s because you taste so good.” Chi-Chi fingered her clit. “Oh, Goku,” she imagined Goku’s tongue in the place of her finger, stroking and nibbling her clit where she rubbed and pinched. “if only you knew what you did to me.”

Chi-Chi.

Goku.

Eyes flew open and their bodies pulsed as something passed through them. Chi-Chi felt Goku’s presence and Goku could feel Chi-Chi. It was impossible. They were millions of miles away but looking at the screen Chi-Chi saw Goku’s eyes were open, too.

Does he know?

Is Chi-Chi watching?

They weren’t physically near each other but they could feel the other’s presence as if knowing what the other was doing. Instead of being turned off, it spurned them even more.

Chi-Chi opened her cheongsam and pushed her breasts out of her bra. Her fingers caressed her skin as she imagined Goku’s tongue licking her firm breasts. Her fingers pinched her stiff nipple but in her mind, she saw Goku sucking, tugging and nibbling her rough tip. “Ah, Goku.” He was here. She knew he was. She couldn’t feel this pleasure with her fingers alone.

She panted as his head kept moving south to nestle between her legs. It wasn’t her fingers spreading the lips of sex and rubbing her clit. It was Goku slipping his tongue softly down and rolling circles over her clit while he sucked her wet folds and cause her hips to rock against his mouth.

“Goku…….”

“Chi-Chi…..” Goku’s hand was back to stroking his penis but he felt Chi-Chi’s warm mouth enveloped around him with her tongue creating the slippery feel of his pumping hands coated from his first release.

“Heh. Ya such a dirty girl.”

That’s cause I’m your dirty girl.

He could feel Chi-Chi there with him, engulfing his manhood with her pretty mouth sucking away while her black strands tickled his thighs. His hand pumped his cock but Goku saw Chi-Chi pushing his cock past her lips and down her mouth until he touched the back of it and reacted with a dreamy moan.

Ya like that?

“Don’t stop,” he groaned feeling that imaginary tongue work his shaft while his left hand grabbed his balls for a firm squeeze.  

Only my mouth can make you feel this.

“Chi-Chi,” his hand fisted at the base of his shaft as he envisioned Chi-Chi swirling her tongue around his pink head and tickling the hole with the tip of her tongue. His chest heave as the air was sucked into his lungs. The intense feeling of his strokes merging with Chi-Chi sucking left him breathless.

Gonna make you cum so good.

“Ya baby! That’s it!” Goku encouraged Chi-Chi as he felt a big one was brewing and it was gonna be good.

Chi-Chi was also getting close. Instead of Goku’s mouth licking her core, Goku’s shaft plunged in and out of her building the heat between her thighs as she bucked in the chair.

That’s right. Take my dick. Beg for it.

Chi-Chi tossed her head left and right as Goku slapped his hips against her as his cock pounded hard between her legs and caused her walls to tremble with each unrelenting thrust. “Give me more.” This is what she desperately missed over the year. Goku pinning her underneath him while he mercilessly smashed her body with savage thrusts.

Want more? Heh. Tell me what I wanna hear.

She hated that word but she couldn’t deny Goku’s request when he made her feel this good. “Fuck me!”

That’s my girl.

Chi-Chi screamed, thrusting back as she felt herself impaled deeply by Goku’s cock. He began to pump her hips with smooth, ardent strokes with each growl of his thrust mixing with her screams. Her muscles tightened around his cock with each delicious, wet smack.

Chi-Chi’s soaking fingers were a blur as they plunged in and out of her core faster mimicking Goku’s imaginary cock as she suddenly gripped it in place screaming Goku’s name while Goku imagined Chi-Chi’s mouth sucking and slurping up and down his length with her tongue gliding against his veiny length. Wild sensations pulsed through him until Goku’s head jerked and his back arched as he screamed Chi-Chi’s name with a lusty groan. A heavy load of his cum fired into the air. The thick and white cream spurted like a fountain splashing his thighs, chest and stomach.

“Huf….. huf…” Goku’s chest puffed as he stared at the ceiling. “Aw, man,” Goku finally said after feeling the strength to speak again, “I really needed that!”

There were no words to describe to euphoric joy of getting one out after a long drought.

“At least I know it still works,” he joked to himself. After his body was left completely broken, Goku wasn’t sure if it would work again. “Chi-Chi will be happy.” The presence he thought he felt with her was gone but Goku was happy and felt very good. “Oops,” he laughed as he noticed his essence across his chest and stomach. “Guess I better take that shower now.”

Grinning, Goku got on his feet and walked out of the camera’s view.

Chi-Chi sagged in her chair feeling sated and slightly exhausted. She couldn’t feel Goku anymore either but her dark mood was lifted. They didn’t talk but what passed between them was enough. With Goku no longer on the monitor, Chi-Chi turned it off, rose from the chair, adjusted her dress and smoothed her hair so her bun was neatly in place. She hummed to herself and walked out to see a nervous Dr. Brief standing outside.

Dr. Brief had been waiting ever since he saw Panchy be pushed out of the room. “How did it go?”

“It was wonderful. Exactly what I needed.”                     

Chi-Chi continued humming down the hall leaving Dr. Brief confused. Chi-Chi’s flushed cheeks and satisfied smile left the doctor to draw one conclusion.

That woman yelled Goku’s head off.

In the security room where one could see cameras filming all the rooms on the Capsule Corporation compound, Panchy sat with her pretty blue eyes rarely open to an empty room and dark monitor.

I knew seeing Goku was what Chi-Chi needed.

[sweetescapeartist]

Honestly, Krillin easily being the most shippable character in DB aside, I really have no idea why he doesn't at least have more Friendship fics? Like he's actually friend-shaped, and so kind and funny. You'd think people would at least make some of those for the warm fuzzies, but no. Even when he plays a "Friend" role in some, he's sidelined to the point of being a background character. Depressing.

Yeah... For some reason, many people don't realize or recognize how great of a friend Krillin is. He gets along best with everyone! His friendship with Goku is awesome because they are more similar than ppl realize except that Krillin is more emotionally intelligent (I say it's due to him being human). His friendship Gohan that had began on their journey to Namek when he was training and looking after the kid. He has alsways been a friend when ppl need him. He even calls Piccolo his friend and Piccolo acts like a total tsundere about it lol. Krillin even understands Piccolo's motivations which reveals how much of an understanding person he is.

He is literally a friend to almost everyone. Even to #16 who was supposed to be their enemy.

Not to mention that Toriyama said he would like to hang out with Krillin because he is the easiest to get along with. (At the moment, I can't find the interview where he says such about Krillin. But he also says he would be friends with Bulma so she can build him cool vehicles lol.)

UPDATE: Found the interview! Link here. Krillin is sensible & the easiest one to be around in Toriyama's eyes.

And yes I agree that Krillin is super shippable!

The most shippable character in DB due to his personality. Many in the fandom as you know just like to give him a different personality to make him look bad. But my man is a great friend, a reliable father & husband, & a good person in general. We really do need more friendship fics along with the ship fics.

[conherofrost]

Opinions on your newer teammates from the Tournament of Power? We've kinda already gathered your thoughts on the older crew

A very interesting set, a bit ragtag in ways given Champa's hastiness in picking them. Can you believe it was only four hours until the main event by the time he told Hit to go pick me up? According to the assassin, he commended my abilities, so why did it feel like I was a desperation pick?

Anyway, the two little Saiyan gal pals of Cabba's- they seemed to steer clear in the opposite direction and I have a suspicion that Cabba gave them some kind of heads up about me. Most the pink one- Caulifla, sorry, I'm asking Hit for clarification on names in real time- interacted with me is she got huffy with me for "staring at her funny"? Easily ticked off, must have been on her period or something.

Kale, however- well, she made Cabba look like a total public speaker extrovert in comparison. Very closed off, seemed like she absolutely did not want to be there, clinging to her... possibly girlfriend? Didn't strike me as much of a fighter but she must have some kind of hidden switch or something. Half expected her to be already on the bench when I got ringed out.

Saonel and Pirina- glad I have someone who can clarify, I don't think I even heard their names- seemed like bottom of the barrel picks from first glance. From what little I knew, Namekians were just peaceful moisture farmers- I had no idea they managed to produce warriors. Namek was never on my radar when I was in business, so no hostilities there. Apparently, from what Hit tells me, they managed to be the last two standing from our universe, so maybe they were good for something.

And Dr. Rota- the only one I was familiar with prior to this tournament. I did mention I visited a witch doctor practitioner for my venomous needles right? Well, Rota's my supplier- I really only see him for adjustments and refills; if I have the serum on hand I can prime my own weapon. I'm not going to narc out his base of operations for trust purposes. At one of my appointments, making small talk, he mentioned his spell proficiency making him a powerful warrior mage "in den alten Tagen" (I swear this man is incomprehensible most of the time). So, while waiting for the Tournament, I off-handedly mentioned I knew a guy- I genuinely did not expect Champa to be that desperate and actually go get him. Turned out he absolutely sucked in the arena and managed to land zero spells.

[namedanarchy]

This is my goodbye to Akira Toriyama, whose creation shaped many people’s childhood including mine. Disclaimer, the characters belong to Toriyama-san. Rest in peace.

Where dreams started

By Hollowed-stars

A sudden sharp pain at the front of his forehead woke him up. The moment he opened his eyes it was gone. He didn’t remember falling asleep on his desk, the papers with still wet ink stuck to his forearms. He pulled them away softly, his arms and hands painted black. He laughed softly and shook his head at his clumsiness. Putting the papers softly on the wood he contemplated his pieces. There was some of the recent Sand Land, some of Dragon Ball with Goku doing a KameHameHa, some of Goku when he was little and was training with Krillin under Master’s Roshi’s cuestionable guidance. He looked a bit further and saw some of Arale’s. He stopped for a second. Why had he drawn this? He hadn’t drawn anything from her or Goku in a long while. His apprentice was in charge of Dragon Ball nowadays anyway.

He went to stand up, but under his foot he felt a wooden cylindrical piece that was painfully familiar. It should be impossible. For a moment he thought about questioning what was happening. He reached down and grasped the tool, eyes falling upon it.

It was his pen holder. The one he loved, the one that accompanied him since the tender age of 14.“Oh how I missed you dear friend.”

Maybe drawing one last time wouldn’t be so hard anymore. He took one of Arale’s drawings and traced on the lines, colored in her colors, purple hair, pink cap, blue jumpsuit. A proud and soft smile formed on his face.

He started on one of Goku and Krillin when they were kids. Then one of Gohan and Piccolo, Freeza and Namek, Androids and Cell, Vegeta and Trunks, Bulma, Gohan and Cell, Majin buu and Satan, Videl, Yamcha, Tien, Chiatzu, Chi-chi and Goten, Roshi, Mr. Popo, Kami.

When he finished, Toriyama-san was exhausted. He took another page, wanting to draw something more even though he didn’t have an idea of what. There was so much to do. His pen hovered over the white page when someone knocked on his door.

“Who’s there?”

The door opened and in came a girl with a cap on her head. Toriyama-san gaped at her, struck.

“I’m sorry to interrupt sensei!” she cried, playing with her fingers.

“…it’s okay.”

The girl smiled brightly, nerves forgotten, she rushed to him and grasped his hand with the pen holder in it.

“Come on!”

“Wait-! Where?”

She looked at him, like she was just realizing something. Her smile diminished some.

“It’s time sensei. They are waiting. And he is waiting just outside!”

Akira Toriyama looked back at his desk. His work was still incomplete.

“It’s completed.”

He turned sharply to her, asked her what she meant.

“It’s completed, your work it’s done. The whole world knows.”

He looked at his desk one last time. He let go of her and walked back. He put his pen holder over the drying pieces, caressing the edges of the papers with the tip of his fingers. Arale was waiting at the door, he followed her. She opened the door into the dark night and just outside stood his friend.

“Hi sensei!” the man laughed a little, giving him a smile he knew too well.

“Hello Goku” he smiled back at him.

He walked to him and stood by him. The door closed behind him, Arale nowhere in sight.

“A glimpse through the past. Can’t go back can I?”

Goku sends him a sad smile.

“There is no Shenlong here to grant that wish.”

Toriyama laughed.

“But,” Goku put his finger mischievously under his nose, Toriyama looked on curiously “I can take you there. Where wishes can be fulfilled.”

Goku gave a sharp whistle.

A golden light came down from the clouds, right towards them. Once it arrived it floated shyly in front of them. Goku and Toriyama laughed at it. They climbed on top of the Flying Nimbus and flew away like a rocket piercing through the clouds and the fabric of reality.

As a new star shines now on the horizon, a flame goes out in the dark. An emerald dragon cruises the heavens softly, leaving a path in the golden clouds. A man of fiction and a man of flesh laugh together, eyes crinkled at the corners, tears wetting eyelashes.

Note: This will be posted on my ao3 account too (under the username Hollow_stars).

[2darklymelanatedstories]

Secret Club : Part 2

(ft Whis&Vegeta&Piccolo)

Special guest : Vados

_

Welcome to the club

Where we like our tea a bit salty...if you know what I'm sayin'

~

"What the fxck is she doing here!!",Vegeta shouted as he pointed at the angel sitting at the antique table, holding a cup of tea with a smirk on her face.

"Can't a lady just come over to enjoy some tea?"

Vegeta turned to Piccolo angrily.

"I blame you for this Namek!"

Piccolo's eyes widened. "What for?!"

"It was your idea to move this outside. Now look, Champa's servant found us. I wonder who else is coming!"

Vados sighed. "Relax Saiyan. I was merely invited by my dear brother. No reason to yell at the Namek for suggesting to have some fresh air. You clearly could use it."

Piccolo smirked. "She's only been here a few minutes and is already better company than you, Vegeta."

Vegeta crossed his arms and scoffed.

"Ah, gentlemen. I see you've noticed we have a guest."

All eyes were on the male angel as he descended from the sky.

"And don't worry, Vegeta. We're in a secluded area. No one will know you like to drink tea and gossip with us every month."

Piccolo stepped in before Vegeta could say anything else. "So why is she here?"

"Isn't it obvious? To vent and eat free food just like you gentlemen do. I mean who can resist Earth food."

"Didn't Beerus wish you guys a planet with the super Dragonballs?",Vegeta questioned.

"Well, their food isn't as good and besides I missed my little brother.",she said with a pout.

"Great, now it's like we're on a female talk show.", Vegeta sighed as he sat down, still not happy with Vados joining them.

Whis huffed. "There's literally three men and one woman, Vegeta. Calm down."

Vegeta gave a harsh chuckle. "No, there's one gay, one woman, one green freak of nature and a powerful prince.",he said earning annoyed glares from everyone else.

"And I thought Champa was an annoying, delusional egotist.",Vados muttered.

"Nope. That goes to Vegeta.",Piccolo said before taking a bite of a muffin.

"Hey! I'm the prince of saiyans. I've killed so many of my enemies that it should be written in the history books!

Piccolo chuckled. "Yeah, it'd be called Psycho Prince, destroyer of lives. Still never managed to kill Goku."

"Come to think of it. Wasn't Piccolo the only person that could kill Goku?",Whis wondered.

Vegeta scoffed. "Pssh, that's not a big accomplishment."

"Seemed really important to you not so long ago.",Piccolo said.

Vegeta slammed the table angrily, surprising everyone that it didn't break.

"Oh shut up, Namek. Acting like you're all that. Like you didn't go fuck Kakarot's wife after you killed him!"

That caused everyone to almost choke on what they were eating or drinking. Whis holding in the tea he was about to spit out.

"NOW HOLD ON A DAMN MINUTE!! I NEVER DID ANY OF THAT!" Piccolo stood up, looming over Vegeta in a intimidating manner. Vegeta just standing up as well, though unable to match to Piccolo's height. "And how would you know?! You weren't even there!"

Vados couldn't help but laugh at the scene. "I thought you all came together to talk shit about everyone else, not to kill each other."

Whis gave his sister a smirk. "We have fun."

Soon after, Vegeta and Piccolo sat back down, acting as if they weren't about to kill each other not so long ago.

Vados returned the smirk. "Well, I'm going to like this club."

Feel free to let me know if there's anything else you'd like them to fight...I mean talk about. Also if I should add other special guests

[gokubrain]

Goddamn it that last post made me think about an au I've had in the pantry where Vegeta has Nothing Left post-Namek so he's just like. Trying to live life on earth and figure out how to exist as something other than a pressured prince or a grown child soldier and he comes to the conclusion that he 1. Loves Kakarot and 2. loves fighting and now he has to like. Make a life from that. Anyway the kakavege spores never go away entirely

wtf sorry i never saw this .. :(

i loove thinking of post namek vegeta i love the idea that he’s like coming down from a manic episode and has to settle somewhere for a little while since he like. doesnt have a job anymore lol..

i think he like. lives with bulma obviously and they date or whatever (ugh) but as a result of that she kind of has to teach him how not to be super boring LMAO she has to show him earthling medias and things like that.. this is why i feel so strongly abt vegeta having weird interests like oldschool nintendo and female rap lmfaoo >_< she taught him how to be human dhsjdhfj

to inject kakavege into it (as i always do) this was also certainly a time for vegeta where he was trying to discover who he really is .. that can be said about his entire characterization thru the entirety of dbz but i think especially here, he’s in his late 20s or early 30s, he’s just escaped a tyrannical rule that he’s been kept under his entire life, and he no longer has planets to destroy etc. his girlfriend is rich as fuck so he doesnt have to work or do anything but train all day really .. and you KNOW that any time vegeta has free time he’s 100% thinking about goku. like nonstop. fighting and thinking about goku, thats what vegeta is up to post namek pre future trunks ^_^

i’m certain he was thinking a LOT about goku’s super saiyan transformation and how he HAS to get to that level or goku will be ahead of him forever and he cant have that, obviously. his goal from this point forward is getting better than goku no matter the cost. post namek is the beginning of the end for vegeta lmfaooo ^_^

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball GT 50

✨GT Stands For Galvanic Twerp✨

Ugh, okay.  Rage Shenron.  Here we go. 

This episode has very little to do and it takes a long time to do it. 

We open on Pan and Goku at lakeside, admiring how the sky and environment seem to have dramatically improved since they defeated Haze Shenron.  Goku reasons that if they defeat the other six Shadow Dragons, then it should restore the rest of the world the same way.  Which... I think was made abundantly clear in the previous episode, which was recapped very thoroughly at the beginning of this episode.  I’d ask why we’re going over it again, but I already know.  Rage Shenron.

Then we cut to the womenfolk back at Capsule Corp?  I guess?  Videl’s sore about Pan running off on her own, so I’m not sure if she knows that Pan went with Goku.  Everyone just sort of restates the situation and hopes Goku’s doing okay out there. 

Then we slowly meander into the plot, as Goku’s team arrives in a town where a Dragon Ball is located.  Pan wants juice, so she stops at a vending machine and really takes her time with it.  They show her putting the money in, and she lingers over the buttons while she makes her selection... just milking this moment for all it’s worth.  Then purple goop comes out of the machine instead of juice, which gives her a scare.

Coincidentally, the only two people left in the town happen to walk by and explain to our heroes what’s going on around here.  This purple slime has been appearing all over the city, “stealing all the electricity.”  Everyone fled the city to get away from it, and this couple is the last to leave.  They give Pan some juice before they go, so I’m glad GT made sure to resolve the “Pan’s Thirsty” subplot.

✨Positivity Page✨ 

Oh, hey, it’s the Dragon Ball Building.  So this is kind of a cool place.  If you’ve ever been to this town, you should check it out.  I guess it’s open to the public?  I mean, the doors aren’t locked and there’s no one inside, so I’m not really sure.  Anyway, there’s this big statue of Piccolo in it.  It’s like ten feet tall, and it looks really old and ratty but you can tell it looked really awesome when it was first made. 

And there’s a bunch of plastic bins full of loose action figure parts.  Like you just walk around and there’s a box with nothing but Perfect Cell arms or Vegeta heads or whatever. 

There’s also a concession stand, like in a movie theater, so maybe they used to show movies there?  I don’t know.  It looks like it hasn’t been used in years, and all the candy in the display case is like fifty years old.  You can just walk around to where the employees would go and check out the popcorn machine and stuff. The weird thing is, you’d think it’s been abandoned, but they have one of those modern soda dispensers, with the touchscreen and you can get like Coke Zero with orange or lime flavor shots.  And there’s a standee of Goku next to it and it looks well-done, but it’s clearly just some fan-made deal.  Anyway, he’s got a real apron and paper hat on him, and a word balloon that says “Have some soda!” And it looks like someone’s taking care of that part of the building at the very least.  I mean, the power’s on in the building.  Restrooms are nice and clean.  

Oh, and on the top floor, there’s this really neat wall mural.   All these little tiles on the wall are arranged to make this cool diorama of Gohan through the series.  His first appearance, his Namek look, SSJ2 Gohan, Great Saiyaman, etc.  The last one is a skeleton, and someone wrote a little caption next to him with a sharpie: “Momento mori.”  Which is Latin for “Remember that you have to die.”  That’s a weird thing to put on there, but I don’t know, the aesthetic kind of works for me.  Also there’s a big water fountain in the middle of the room that looks like it hasn’t had water in it for decades. 

So yeah, it’s kind of neat that they put the building in this episode.  I should go back sometime, see if anything’s different.

✨"Good" "Ideas", Poorly Executed✨

Okay, Rage Shenron.  Tell you what, I should explain the naming system first. 

So far we’ve seen Haze Shenron and now Rage Shenron.  That’s not what they’re actually called.   “Haze” and “Rage” are dub-isms.  Apparently Funimation decided these characters should have their own names, and I’m pretty sure “Shadow Dragon” is a dub-ism as well.  This is my first time watching it in Japanese, and so far Goku just refers to them as “those guys”.  The narrator calls the Dragons by the Dragon Ball they have embedded in their bodies.  Rage is known as the “Five-Star Dragon” or “Five Star Shenron”.  Whatever.

Funimation went a different way with it, probably to make the brand easier to market.  The cute part is that if you order the dragons by their star number, their names make an acrostic:

Syn, the 1-star Dragon

Haze, the 2-star Dragon

Eis, the 3-star Dragon

Nuova, the 4-star Dragon

Rage, the 5-star Dragon

Oceanus, the 6-star Dragon

Naturon, the 7-star Dragon.

See?  They spell “Shenron”.  You might not ever notice this because in the anime, the Shadow Dragons are introduced in no particular order.  I only found out once when I looked them up on the Dragon Ball fan wiki. 

Here’s the thing: It probably doesn’t matter much, because these characters are so stupid and boring, but I appreciate Funimation for making it easier for me to remember which one is which.  Some of the names are a little out-there, but at least I know “Nuova” is the fire guy, even if I don’t understand why he has a ‘u’ in his name.  “Eis” is spelled like that because they needed it to start with “E”, and I’m assuming “Rage” got his name because they couldn’t think of any good “R” names that had anything to do with electric slime. 

And people always crap on the dub.  “Oh, the Funimation dub is the worst!” I’ve seen people say that the GT dub is the worst example of Funimation’s dub problems, which is pretty rich considering Dragon Ball GT sucks so hard.  What difference does it make if the dub sucks or not?  Chris Sabat could have made fart noises for the whole recording session, and it still wouldn’t make this show worse than it actually is.  All I know is I’m watching it in Japanese, and I feel like I hate GT now more than I ever did before.  It’s not that the Japanese version is worse, but it’s just that I’ve peeled back the last possible curtain.  This is the original version that aired on Japanese television in 1996-7, and they didn’t even bother to name these stupid evil dragons, because even Toei knew it didn’t matter.  At least Funimation was like “Hey, if they make an action figure of the little purple chicken dude, it’d be nice if they had a name to put on the blister pack.”

All right, so Rage Shenron.  He’s even smaller and crappier looking than Haze was.  He’s the one controlling the electric slime, so he sics it on Pan and Goku and gives them an electric shock.  It hurts them, but it doesn’t stop them, so he summons all of the electric slime to surround his crappy little body with a giant simulation of himself.

Then he tells Goku that he was created from the minus energy produced when the Dragon Balls were used to resurrect Goku at the climax of the Saiyans Saga. 

Rage then uses his signature only attack, Dragon Thunder.  And he uses it a lot.  I only got four stills of him saying “Dragon Thunder!” but it felt like he said it about 100 times. 

Goku turns Super Saiyan 4 to counter this, and you know, if he had just done this at the start, the fight would have already been over with.  You know, the same way he should have taken out Haze in the last episode?   That whole debacle was supposed to be a life lesson for Goku, and he and Pan even said as much when they beat Haze, but it’s like ten minutes later and they’ve already forgotten.   So Goku tries a 10x Kamehameha, and it doesn’t work because the electric slime surrounding Rage’s body just absorbs the blast and bounces it back on Goku.  For some reason, this forces Goku back into his base form.  I don’t know if he just wore himself out blocking the effects of his own attack, or what. 

So Rage starts making himself even bigger, and Goku tries to get some distance.  But Rage sends out tendrils of electric slime in all directions to pull even more electrical power from the local infrastructure.  He claims to have taken all the electricity in the world, but that sounds a bit  hard to swallow.  Anyway, he has more than enough to kill Goku and Pan, so he catches them in slime tentacles and starts electrocuting them. 

This is sort of like the last episode, where Haze had Goku and Pan dead to rights, but Giru rescued them because he was immune to the pollution.  Well, this time Giru can’t make the save, because he’s more vulnerable to electricity than Pan and Goku are.  So Giru bugged out pretty early into the fight.

So how does Goku beat Rage Shenron?  He doesn’t. It just happens to start raining while all this is going on, and it shorts out Rage’s powers.  He tries to disperse all of his electric slime, but there’s too much of it in one place to separate in time, and he’s too big to seek shelter. 

Let this sink in.  Rage Shenron defeated himself.  This is the final arc of GT, and the big villain gang is supposed to include seven world-ending dragons.  So far we’ve seen two of them, and they both absolutely suck. 

But wait, it’s not over yet.  Pan tries to recover the Dragon Ball, and Rage appears to surrender it peacefully, but it’s just a trick to zap her with slime again, so Goku blows him away with a regular base-form Kamehameha... which he could have just used from the start to save himself a lot of trouble. 

See, the big problem with this Shadow Dragons nonsense isn’t just that the Shadow Dragons suck.  The big problem is that they also make Goku look incredibly weak as well.  Rage defeated himself, so what was Goku supposed to do while this was happening?  That’s right, Goku defeated himself too. He forgot the moral of the Haze Shenron fight, and made the exact same mistake all over again.  Then he tried to overwhelm Rage using Super Saiyan 4 and it backfired, so the worst hit Goku took in this whole encounter was his own finisher. 

We already saw Super Saiyan 4′s reputation take a beating in the Super 17 arc, but this arc takes it to a whole new level.  When Goku resolved to defeat the Shadow Dragons, he insisted on going alone, because he was confident that his SSJ4 form would see him through.  But he didn’t even need it against Haze, and it actually made things worse when he used it against Rage! 

And Super Saiyan 4 ended up being GT’s greatest legacy!  But it’s like this show was desperately trying to make it was weak and unappealing as possible.  This whole episode is a farce.  Goku had so much trouble beating Rage that Rage took himself out before Goku could get his shit together. 

✨Is This Episode Worse than "The Roaming Lake"?✨

Yes. Oh my gosh yes, this is so terrible. 

I’m not sure if there’s any point in doing a “Ten Worst GT Episodes” list, because they’re all so bad, but Rage Shenron has got to be somewhere in that field.  He’s like the bad guys in the Imecka arc back when the show first started, just a complete joke of a threat.  Except Imecka was the first real adventure of the series.  This is Episode Fifty and we’re still doing this idiot-versus-idiot combat.

This is what’s wrong with GT.  It never figured out what it wanted to be, and now the series is almost over, and it shows.  There was never any build to anything, because it keeps starting over with a new dumb premise.  The Rage Shenron right feels like Episode 3 of a whole new anime. 

✨The Blade Braxton Memorial Haiku*✨

Now! Dragon Thunder!

Dragon Thunder! Dragon Thun-

der!  Dragon Thunder!

[straightfacedstrangeness]

Dunno if this is exaggerated in the dub or if she’s like this in Japanese too, but Bulma is CONSTANTLY (I mean approximately every time she’s spoken to him during the Saiyan Saga) yelling at Oolong for being a “coward,” and of course I get defensive because I love him XD And it’s like “You’re asking a guy who probably struggles with ten-pound weights why he isn’t out fighting a guy who could literally destroy the whole planet with a power blast from his hand, lay off!!”

But thinking about it harder…Dragon Ball as a franchise is pretty heavily built on the idea that “anyone can be a hero,” anyone can make the decisive move that saves a life or a whole planet if they’re brave enough to try. Oolong does nothing except act as comic relief throughout the whole Pilaf Saga, but HE’S the one who prevents Pilaf from making his wish to rule the world. Yajirobe hides in fear during the entire battle but then ensures victory over Vegeta not once but twice, first cutting off Vegeta’s tail then preventing him from cutting off Gohan’s. It’s King Kai and Kami, totally removed from the battlefield, who figure out a way to save the people of Namek from their exploding planet. Mr. Satan is a powerless arrogant blowhard but does something significant during the final battle against Cell (I don’t remember what, it’s been a long time since I read/watched it) and then convinces the people of Earth to lend energy to the Spirit Bomb at the big Buu finale. All people who couldn’t win in a smackdown against the big bad guy like Goku can, but who all helped out in a big way using their own skills and courage.

So okay, maybe Bulma’s a little justified in getting mad at Oolong for steering clear of danger…but now I’m gonna get defensive cus I’M a coward who steers clear of danger :’D Leave ME alone, Bulma

[dragomer]

And I don't give a crap that you don't give a crap about Super, that's what happened, that's what is shown and that's it. Your issues with Z are just you filing in the blanks left by Z with a 'Goku is a bad dad' bias which are contradicted by what happens in Super so Super is very relevant.

Goku didn't train 24/7 with Gohan, they still came home to eat, sleep, relax and Gohan kept up with his studies. This isn't Vegeta's type of training of passing weeks inside the gravity chamber.

...You realize Goku didn't go to Namek to train, right? He went to Namek to save GOHAN, Krillin and Bulma / help with reviving his friends.

I got 20 with the ROSAT time + the 15 year until End of Z, at least that's what's said in the manga in my language.

No, it's not telling at all, it's just you failing to register implied information. If Pan and Goten can do it, so can Goku who is faster than them.

'Why did he have to leave?' Because generally masters live with or near their disciples? Like that's pretty classic martial arts stuff and Goku is actually being very generous by not making Uub be the one coming to live with him.

Your doubt are based on nothing but Bias, even in Neko Majin, we see Goku around his family enough to get involved in dealing with minor stuff like a mouse getting the storehouse.

'But after the cell games, Vegeta was always there.' Except he wasn't, the only thing he did for those 7 years is train and somehow avoid holding Trunks in any context.

'Trunks had his father there. Trunks had both his parents at home. Trunks can go to bed at night knowing his dad is at home with him. Trunks can wake up and his dad is there. And he has the opportunity to spend time with his father if he wants. Besides his infancy, Trunks always had Vegeta around.' Literal fanfiction based on nothing. Trunks had to force his way in and get punched in the face to spend any time with Vegeta, he'd go to bed with his dad in the gravity room or on an asteroid and wake up for the next week with Vegeta still away. If Vegeta was around every day, why did Trunks have to use a one time promise to get Vegeta to spend a day with him and Bulma?

1: Goku isn't exactly wrong and him coming back right when Buu attacks kinda prove him right and 2: Bulma is the one who started the idea in the first place, why would Goku doubt her?

How is the argument flimsy when the last 16 years have been nothing but people with personal business with him putting everyone in danger from his POV? Majunior, Raditz, Nappa, Vegeta, all of Namek and all of the Cyborgs and Cell saga are all specifically related to Goku.

Yeah, you seem dead serious about ignoring the actual story and replace it with actual fanfiction about a dude who wouldn't even hold his kid somehow being there 24/7 despite us knowing he was either training or ignoring said kid and confirmed to have an habit of suddenly leaving for months on a whim.

Goten is perfectly happy with his dad ever since he came back from the dead, you say he deserve better while ignoring the literal years of happiness we see with his dad on screen.

You say nobody cares about Chichi's feeling and then proceed to ignore her actually liking her lifestyle and how she and Goku lives while also completely ignoring Goku had her permission to go with Uub while also conflating the obvious implied goodbyes with the audience with what he actually says to his family, which amount to 'I'll be hanging out around Uub's village to teach him, which isn't an obstacle to seeing literally anyone'.

You have issues but they don't seem based on anything that actually happen in the show, all your issues are based on filing in the blanks left by the time skips with the worst interpretation for Goku and the best interpretation for Vegeta while ignoring the sequel that show that you were wrong in how you interpreted all of it.

thank god you have good opinions. ive always said that goku was a shit father and a garbage husband. Sorry tumblr goku fans your fictional husband that was written by a misogynist man in the 80s is a bad dad on paper because of it!!

People are entitled to their opinions. Maybe he's the kind of guy they like. But you have to be objective. As I said, Goku loved his family. He gave his life for Gohan and Gohan and Chi Chi were seen in a nightmarish vision while he fought Frieza I believe. So he does care about them.

But love is not enough. He's missed most of his sons' lives and Chi Chi's feelings seem to be an afterthought for him. He obviously prefers fighting new opponents and going on new exciting adventures than being with his family with slow and boring family life.

Vegeta was a terrible person at first but I said I preferred him as a father because Vegeta was ALWAYS THERE. Trunks' infant years aside. Even if he spent most of the time training, Trunks had a father who was at home and spent time with him (even if it was just training). And after the buu fiasco, I can see Vegeta truly redeeming himself and appreciating his family. You can't tell me Bra/Bulla was not a total daddy's girl. Vegeta and Bulma would have also gotten a lot better after Buu too. They got to grow old together while Chi Chi's husband flew off with Shenron never to return, after being gone for 10 yrs only to return as a kid. Goku is the kind of dad who is fun to spend a weekend with and who makes big displays of love like sacrificing himself. But you can't count on him to be there reliably. Why would I want a father or husband like that who won't even bother calling me while he's gone?

AND don't forget that father of the year Goku saved Satan, Dende and a damn dog over his sons when Buu blew the earth sky high. You can definitely feel the love. What a dad! Vegeta has to call him out for it. Too bad the next episode wiped away the gravity of Goku's choice 😒

As for Toriyama, I am not sure he is sexist. Bulma was the character that started DB and Chi Chi, Videl and 18 etc were strong characters. 18 was the one to put Vegeta in his place, not 17. The only reason I didn't like Videl more was because I hated her father Mr. Satan. Maybe Toriyama was not sure how to further develop them so that's why they were just relegated to housewives at the end. But there are amazing and adequate diverse female characters in the dragon ball series. It would have been nice to have consistently powerful female fighter though anon.

[dragonballwish]

I really don't think Vegeta and Bulma was a great ship. It felt like it was out of nowhere and just done to justify the existence of another Super Saiyan in Trunks for the sake of the whole Terminator reference. I think Gohan x Videl is cute but that their relationship in Z was underdeveloped, which also leads me to question why so many seem to dislike the idea of Krillin and 18 for the same reason? Idk. I think it's weird that GoChi gets so much hate because Goku's "always gone training" and Chi-Chi is "always complaining about it" when we see literally the exact same stuff happen with Vegeta and Bulma and no one questions that relationship at all. I think Krillin is very shippable and think it's kind of bizarre that the guy who's the most caring, least self-focused, and most attentive s/o in the entire cast somehow is determined to be the least-deserving of any romance, even his canon one. I feel like people in the fandom really try to erase Goku and Krillin's bond, between the weird push to declare Vegeta as Goku's "real best friend" and also the weird claims I've seen lately that Vegeta's death on Namek and more recently Meerus' death in the Super manga motivated Goku more than Krillin's death did, to say nothing of seeing people think Krillin has zero skill as a fighter and no real value as a fighter (which has a very, very weird similarity to what the guys who used to abuse him at Orin used to say.) I think that Tien is asexual. Like, canonically, I think he's asexual. I think shipping Piccolo is a bit weird but mostly harmless so long as it's not the weird "cheating" context some like to use. I think we need a Krillin slice-of-life comedy spinoff.

This is a lot to unpack but legit legit I agree with most of it—

Vegebul was pretty random I agree. We saw none of the actual development. I think the fact that Toriyama had initially planned for vegeta to stay dead on namek (or so I’ve heard) might actually play into that. There are only two saiyans of age and so vegeta was really the only one that made sense to have bulma’s bb daddy be … I guess. Like I understand the logic but I agree that it was pretty random. At first it was less of a ship too and mostly like baby daddy vegeta and rich irresponsible mom bulma and they don’t interact ????? In my opinion …. Bulma is kinda a character I’m shocked doesn’t get shipped more randomly since she is the one who canonically is kinda comedically thirsty over hot guys she sees (like zarbon or uhhhh the blue guy from red ribbon army) love that about her though

Hanvi is cosmetically very cute but I won’t lie, I didn’t ship it ever like at all. As a kid I didn’t like Videl and as an adult I didn’t really have any feelings towards her. Gohan is like. I grew up next to him he is my brother.. so I want the best for him … so I don’t know I was always miffed about it but then pan in the new movie finally turned me around I like pan ….. so basically I don’t ship it but I would feel bad to erase son pan from existence in an AU (which I would do anyways sorry)

Uhh gochi haters are *weird* like Fr. I don’t get the hate ??? Like I understand thinking it’s mid and not caring for it or thinking they fit with other people more but other than that there is literally nothing to hate unless you’re jealous ??? Like jealously wish goku was with someone you self-insert better into or something. Because 1. Chichi and goku are both hot ??? 2. They clearly love each other and their temperaments fit each other and they’re both into it. … 3. Everyone complaining probably got into the series years AFTER it was already canon and gohan was born so like it’s all they know why are they so upset ? Makes no sense. The match with vegebul I feel though I can agree that the situations are different especially financially.

Uhm honestly personally I only ship krillin with 18 because they are so obviously perfect and love each other but. I agree so much … krillin is literally the perfect guy and everyone passes over him for what ???? He’s ideal man and everyone acting like he don’t exist .. logically I know it’s because he’s kinda normal in a world of really strong personalities but like. Wtf y’all he’s the perfect character and person and everything in every way.

Having seen my blog and how much I talk about krillin and goku being besties (or at least reblog and talk in tags) I’m sure you can guess my stance on this but. I am SO SICK AND TIRED OF PEOPLE SAYING VEGETA IS GOKU’S BEST FRIEND. KRILLIN IS THE BEST FRIEND ALWAYS HAS BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE. Y’all okay I’ve never seen people say vegeta’s death in namek meant more to goku than krillin’s but like Fr that’s the most incorrect cold turkey take I’ve ever heard of in my whole life Fr. Like ??? Goku was just kinda lookin at him and then buried him with hardly any real remorse. Like obviously he was effected but it was mostly by the “okay so suddenly this is my heritage and I am a saiyan and my whole birth family was killed by this guy huh” and the shock of watching this bastard arrogant bastard cry to his death. I love vegeta but there is no way that made goku snap or anything when goku instantly went ballistic when krillin was murdered in front of him without a trace to take back him. Absolute BS. Also anyone saying krillin has no skill as a fighter can meet me in the streets 💪🤧

Okay yeah okay I also headcanon tien as aroace, actually. I wanna say I think it feels pretty canon too considering everything about where he is in canon like … he disappears for training like a hermit right ? His worldly desires are not present methinks

Piccolo ships weird me out too but actually since they lay eggs and fertilize them too, apparently, they are canonically asexually reproductive beings and therefore I don’t think their genetics would need romance to continue populating? So I just cannot get behind namekian ships or piccolo ships. It doesn’t help that the bigger piccolo ships feel morally gray ? I don’t know

And lastly. You’re right. If I don’t get a wholesome slice of life krillin spin-off I might have to raid the toei offices.

I am so sorry this got so long thank you for the awesome super thought out ask