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Dende no La Croix

PART 2

[midnight-snailor]

Ig for those curious, here are the weapons I think each dbz character ive drawn currently would use in the splatoon au thing I drew

Goku-

Krak on splat roller/splattershot (mainly rollers) He went through using alot of weapons before deciding on the krak on roller. He used to be very indecisive on what he wanted to use.

Vegeta-

Splat dualies (or any dualies in general, prefers using the enperry dualies) he likes being really aggressive, and using dualies help him achieve that. Depending on what he feels like doing, he will use different dualies. He hardly ever uses the dualie squelchers though.

Krillin-

Doesn't participate in turf wars as often anymore, but he often uses Luna blaster. He often did matches with goku as a duo, and would pick a weapon that would be good support for goku's. He also occasionally uses nzap. Plays more salmon run.

Chichi- also doesn't participate very much, but she was a good splatana wiper player. Plays any splatana. She used to be a competitive player, though played less and less after marrying goku. She still plays turf wars occasionally, more often when goku, or her children do.

Yamcha- local tentabrella user, 5 starred v tentabrella though is still figuring out how exactly to use it. He often changes weapons now bc he wants to find a cooler weapon to main.

Bulma- Ink brush player, prefers nouveau over v ink brush. She occasionally uses other brushes and took interest in learning splatanas.

Gohan- Heavy splating deco user. He sometimes plays rollers, but loves using splatlings alot more. Will play any he feels like, but the heavy deco is his favorite.

Trunks- 52 gal user. He uses any of the gal weapons, but occasionally uses dapple dualies if he feels like it.

Goten- splat roller user. He uses any rollers, but also is pretty good with squiffer. His goal is often to be as irritating as possible.

Tien- Splat charger user. He uses any charger, but prefers the regular splat charger.

Bardock- carbon roller deco user. His play style and quick and aggressive, and he often goes for front line weapons when he feels like doing something different. Often plays ranked/anarchy.

Gine- Undercover brella user. She often swaps between v undercover and undercover sorella brella. She'll use any other brella if she feels like it, and also occasionally uses e-liter. She also often plays ranked/anarchy.

King vegeta- Splat dualies user. He'll use any dualies, but prefers v splat dualies.

Raditz- Dynamo roller user. I just think this weapon would fit him. He's fond of heavy hitting weapons, though is still learning how to use them properly. Often swaps between the dynamos.

Turles- octobrush user. He's also grown pretty fond of using the painbrushes, often swapping between them. He's one of those toxic players that taunt after every kill and just mess with people in general. He's also a sore loser. Don't be like him kids

Frieza doesn't play in turf wars. If he DID though he'd use splatana stamper.

Broly(dbs) - heavy splatling user. He'll use any splatling, but heavy is the one he loves using the most. He's still new to turf wars, often playing anarchy with goku and vegeta as they show him the ropes.

Paragus- dualie squelchers user. He found teaching Broly to be frustrating. He was good at fighting and was strong, but he never really took to using the dualies like he had hoped. Man really wanted his son to like his main weapon

Mostly based off of my own headcanons n all that, there'll be more as I think of them but this post is already long enough. If you have questions about the au, feel free to ask!

Idk about the story yet, it's not gonna be 100% a reflection of dbz canon, cause all of it cannot be replicated into splatoon, not every aspect of dbz or dbs will be incorporated either, that'd be alot lmao

I'll also be deviating from splatoon canon n all that as well, just a little tho ^^

Sorry for the word vomit

Already working on what saiyans are, yeah they're octos, but with a twist

Or sumn, still figuring it out.

[umhuhwellthen]

Rise! Leosagi/Leoichi Fankids

All that effort put in to keep the quality and tumblr ruins it

Click for better quality please!

Finally done! Disclaimer: I traced over Leo and Donnie's ref sheet for the poses but the rest is original with expression redraws ignore that I forgot the shadows/shorts on rumi

Rumi

Eldest of the kids(but not of this gen of Hamato)

Looks like a carbon copy of her dad at her age except her legs are bigger and thicker with muscle and resting bitch face

From her rabbit side of the family she got the leg strength, The Usagi Glare, a bit more heightened hearing, that rabbit tick of tapping a foot rapidly in frustration

Leo used to call her Moonlight when she was little

Disaster lesbian

Her mystic is projections(?), She can summon hundreds of swords and swing them around, she can also do clone constructs but it's a quantity vs quality thing, if she wants to confuse the enemy on who the real one is she can only make like 3-4, many to barrage an enemy are all glowy and stuff, like shadow clones can hit but can't really take one

Shuichi

Middle child of both the 'blue branch' of the Hamato clan and this gen

Great singer

Shuichi tail is pretty long for a rabbit tail cuz of turtle gene

My version of Yuichi would not get a grape stuck up his nose for a year

His eldest son on the other hand...

Leo used to call bun Starlight

Think DBZ Goku, nice and dumb as hell, but pretty smart in fights

Has Hamato clan symbol somewhere on her person but miniature to respect both clans they come from

Lightning mystic, can teleport (has hang on to someone to teleport others) and move really fast(DC speedster like)

Sandro

Youngest of this gen

gnc af

I took inspo for his outfit from Casey(Sr.), Karai and tried to incorporate a kimono elements that usagi is always wearing, I put Hamato black and red, his signature color, Donnie's purple and dark purple for the hooded cloak

A family joke is that Donnie 'stole' him from Leo

But he's still a Papa's boy through and through

Leo used to call him his little Jade

I'm thinking either him or Mikey's daughter Elisebeta are Big Mama's heir favorite grandkid(s)

Still undecided on his mystic? Something like Donnie's or exactly, or maybe ice?

Both Shuichi and Sandro can make turtle noises, and have long claws like male sliders, they also hibernate thanks(more like nothanks) to the turtle brumation gene, and they have the third eyelid thing the turtles have that make their eyes pure white.

[roy-dcm2]

DBZ The Tree of Might Reaction

DBZ Movie Rewatch #3, - Tree of Might

[It's T.Hawk in Saiyan Armor]

This one was original named “A Super Decisive Battle for Earth,” which makes sense, because they really do get pushed right up to the edge, like Goku has to resort to the Spirit Bomb TWICE actually, because the first one doesn’t work. The “Tree of Might” is sapping all the life energy from the Earth, so there’s a montage of plants withering and animals laying down to die.

I also really like the Tree of Might as a concept, a parasitic alien tree that destroys planets to produce fruit that makes you stronger. By the way, this is the second ecological disaster in these DBZ movies.

I used to be convinced that I liked this movie, but watching it again. It’s kinda boring. Turles' Minions don’t leave that much of an impression, and they disappear to fight off the rest of the Z-Squad. Goku is in this weird place where he can Kaiohken x10, but can’t go Super Saiya-jin. There’s no really victorious moments. Goku just limps to the finish.

Turles is SOMETHING. He’s not just a carbon copy of Vegeta/ Nappa. He’s pretty grounded for a villain that’s the leader of a squad. He might be a world conqueror, but he knows he’s working his way up. He’s found himself a niche, and has a mechanism to steadily rise to the top. He needs strong allies, and so he does take the time to try to recruit Goku/ Gohan.

I’d say that he should have turned into a Great Ape, but that would just draw more comparisons to Vegeta. However, something that keeps coming up, is the idea that Turles is what Goku would have become, if he hadn’t hit his head. Its interesting that Turtles works with a squad, just like Goku, unlike Vegeta that didn’t tolerate weakness.

[hashtag - this screenshot is not from the movie]

There’s a theme of Nature restoring itself. First with the forest fire at the start of the movie, and then with everything returning to normal once the Tree of Might explodes.

6/10 It is a plain bagel.

[Pour one out for the original Z-Squad. This is the last time they'll pretend to be part of the plot.]

[platinum-iridium]

my bar for good character design on kids in animation is low - just that they look like both parents but not a carbon copy of either. and dbz did a good job on first kids, gohan and trunks. and a god awful job on the second kids, goten and bulla. naruto generally does a good job of this

[hopefromadoomedtimeline]

Unprompted ask but is there any pet peeves you have about trunks, either the character themselves or in the community?

Oh? Hmmmmmm I guess I could share a bit of insight into a few things that peeve me, why not. This is gonna be a bit long, just fyi.

The first and foremost thing being that Present Trunks is more or less shafted by the narrative post-Z in favor of Future Trunks, as it's a little more than just pandering to the fans of F.Trunks and makes it kinda a waste that P.Trunks was created only to be ignored time and time again. I think the most blatant time this happened was in GT, where Trunks had little to resemble his fun loving, challenge seeking, irresponsible self that was a little too cocky for his own good, instead he became a watered down version of Future Trunks: anxious, serious, and constantly attempting to be the voice of reason and failing. And in the GT opening they even gave him a sword that is there for no reason than to say "hey! remember future trunks and how he had a sword??? well this one has a sword too! isn't that cool???" It just made me be disappointed with him, and even though there are signs of his old characterization, it's miniscule (but notable when it pops up). Like, okay, you wanna say GT Trunks grew up and matured, okay, but have him mature that makes him distinct! otherwise the whole point of the two Trunks of Z having vastly different characterization means nothing! Because they have the same personality so apocalypses and deceased friends and family don't change you at all.

And I personally am not a fan of Future trunks being relevant in like, sooooo many games of DBZ. Like, I get it, he's a good character and fun and popular but he either shows up to either be like "hey, I'm here, remember me? I'm important" or "I'm not important and my appearance doesn't make sense but focus on me anyway" Admittedly, I think Trunks in Xenoverse is a good take, like he's a logical option and he's gonna be happy there, which he deserves. But it comes at the cost of having him put in dumb positions that come at the cost of his characterization: Him letting his guard down in the middle of a fight is pretty bad. But the most blatant is in Xeno 1, where he challenges Beerus to fight Demigra only to get folded in a minute and leave you in a 2-on-1, which by the way, it's a decision that caused everything to be endangered when Demigra corrupts everyone in the Time Nest (including him) and leaves them as his pawns! People probably died! Like, if Beerus dealt with Demigra it wouldn't have been climatic, sure, but fuck dude that was just- there was no point in doing it. I still think Xenoverse! Trunks is a good boy, but fuck, he kinda took some dum-dum pills.

Lastly, I kinda actively dislike the way a loud (not necessarily vast) portion of fans see Future Trunks as this "oh badass that could kill anyone bc he's pragmatic, he wouldn't lose bc he's different" like he isn't a flawed character, it becomes borderline mary suing at points when Trunks is very flawed as shown in the Cell saga. He makes mistakes! He overestimates himself! He's lost a countless amount of times! He's not some badass that's gonna insult his allies or family like some people like to think, he's much more than "heheh stabby man go slice" It honestly seems like those people want Namek-Era Vegeta, but for some reason think Trunks is just carbon copy Geets with less ego.

tldr; Future Trunks should be in less, Present Trunks should be in more, and Future Trunks isn't an almighty hyped badass.

[reignbow]

Dragonball Theory Time!

Today’s Subject: Frieza Race Anatomy!

Beforehand, I would like to thank the individual who commented on my last post. I had completely glossed over the biogems as a whole! But the comments talking about how the biogems behave as both temperature regulators and oxygen reservoirs makes so much sense. Thank you!

Now on to my other theories. Last time I did something similar, discussing how the Frieza race’s planet might look based on features of the Frieza Race. This will an extension of that, but focusing more on the anatomy of the Frieza race themselves. Buckle up! This is going to be a long post!

Number One: Bone structure.

This one puzzled me for awhile. After all, they have an exoskeleton, so that could possibly lead me to believe they have no bones.

However, this doesn’t hold up for long. They CAN create bio suits, that is for sure. But it doesn’t mean they have to. Especially in facial regions, I would expect in there to be little to no exoskeleton, and instead normal skin.

Not to mention, the Frieza Race are obviously vertebrates. Their tail movements will tell you that! And they move like they have bones.

Sure, they could have some fancy bones like ones made cartilage or metal or something, but so far there isn’t much evidence here to suggest they have anything particularly special about their skeletal structure! Well, apart from their skulls. Those ought to be interesting!

Number Two: What do they eat?

We rarely see Frieza eat anything. Usually Goku takes up the most mealtime-screen time of anybody due to his insane appetite!

So what does Frieza eat? What about his entire race?

Well, we can make some assumptions based on what we DO see him consume.

We see Frieza drink wine on his ship, we see him lick Vegeta’s blood after Vegeta coughs it onto Frieza’s face, and we see him eat a Namekians Crab in one bite. That may not seem like much, but it actually gives us a lot to go off of!

First of all, Frieza can drink water, as both wine and blood have some content of it. This lines up with the idea of his home-planet containing ice and water, and Frieza likely needs some amount of water to survive.

On the subject of eating things, we see him eat a crab. His teeth as obviously strong enough to bite through the crab’s strong shell, unless he was… concentrating energy into his jaw to make his bite harder…?

This seems random, until you remember that the Frieza Race have shells themselves. Their exoskeleton, or biosuits, presumably to protect them from a sharp environment.

This could mean that animals of Frieza’s homeworld also possess shells to offer the same protection, and the ability to bite through these shells would be useful for the Frieza Race to have in order to eat these creatures.

Keep in mind that the Frieza Race does not likely cook their food on their homeworld. With the already ability to survive the temperatures there, fire would be useless. So their food is probably raw.

But other features give us further insight into their hunting. Take the fact Frieza has never trained in his life. But one of his automatic attacks is to choke an opponent with his tail. This could come from the possibility of larger armored animals on his homeworld, and the possibility that the Frieza Race hunt them by choking them with their tails. Especially if not all Frieza Race are ki users.

Alternatively, if running water exists on their planet, they can use their feet to catch fish, or other small animals. Then they could just bite through the shell to eat them.

Number 3: Tiny Friezas

We know from Xenoverse 2 that Frieza’s species only has a single gender. This isn’t anything surprising, as Namekians work the same way. Namekians litteraly spit the eggs out of their mouths.

But we are never told how that works with Frieza’s race. Obviously Frieza’s family aren’t the only Frieza Race, because in Xenoverse 2, many of Frieza’s Race can be seen in Conton City as time patrollers.

The biggest evidence also comes from one of those time patrollers named Metatts. When his human friend asks him and his Namekian friend why aliens are so ‘darn obsessed with coming to earth,’ he responds with, “hey don’t say that. Frieza’s exploits have caused my people no end of trouble.”

There would have to be more, in order for ‘his people’ to have trouble caused for them.

The biggest guess we can have right now is that they also cough up eggs like Namekians. However, one thing to note is that Namekian eggs are round, and that Nemakians themselves are stretchy, as proven by their abilities to extend their arms.

This would mean Namkian throats can stretch around one of their eggs as they spit it out.

Frieza Race are different. They have never been particularly stretchy. So to compensate for this, their eggs are more likely to be long, like a snake’s egg, to allow the egg to pass through their throat. Only if they spit out eggs as well, though.

On another note, in real life earth, not wacky DBZ earth, we have a few of our own species that reproduce asexually. Some species of lizard. One problem is that they all look the same, due to them all being ‘clones’ of their parent.

Obviously Frieza Race differ a lot in appearance. After all, looking the same as Frieza all the time would be boring! (Although, acting like a carbon copy of him is also pretty mundane. AHEM, ANIME FROST

The Frieza Race therefore must be prone to mutation. Mutations would explain the differences between relatives we see, like Frieza and Cooler’s differing color schemes.

Offspring will bear some resemblance, but are also likely to mutate completely different colors, horn shapes, or vitalities. (Speaking of which, I will be covering vitality next!)

Number four: Vitality

We all know how crazy hard to kill Frieza can be. This has always been attributed to his vitality. Just what is this vitality? It seems to pertain to the amount of injury one could withstand before dying.

This appears to differ wildly, even between parent and child! As Frieza’s high vitality lead him to be able to survive while chopped up in pieces, and even attempt to telekinetically pull himself back together after Trunk’s attack, in the manga. Only dying after being disintegrated by Trunks a few seconds later.

However, King Cold was instantly helpless after being shot through the midsection by Trunk’s ki blast, and maybe even dying.

Again, we also return to Metatts from Xenoverse 2, who has been very helpful in solving multiple Frieza Race mysteries. When taking about their regeneration technology, he mentions that using the regeneration machines, they can even come back from being smashed to mush… as long as they had a high enough vitality!

Assumedly, Cold is not one who could survive in such a state.

Number Five: Aging

If my research is correct, Cold is pretty old by human standards. And he is also very tall. One could assume that much like some lizards, Frieza Race never stop growing.

Then why is Frieza so short? Possibly a mutation or defect that came with his crazy amount of power.

Number Six: Forms

Contrary to some believe, not all Frieza Race have multiple forms. Because most aren’t born with the crazy amount of power Frieza had, and thus would not need any limiting forms. Cold didn’t have multiple forms, and neither do any of the time patrollers seem to.

Then if you go to Resurrection F, Frieza obtains a new form. Known as his golden form.

However, a lot of people seem to forget that it was not gold by default. He explicitly states that he CHOSE that color.

This leads me to believe that Frieza, and others if they need multiple forms, can somewhat create these forms with control over the appearance. Using this logic, the potential of the Frieza Race could far surpass any other race, due to them being able to create new forms each time they needed to contain more power.

Hope you liked this! Feel free to comment any additions, contradictions, or even straight up opinions you have!

[duhragonball]

I'd like to suggest Majin Buu for the character asks. He's a strange dude who stuck around longer then expected, so I'd imagine you have some mixed feelings on the character. I'd say any version of Buu applies, but thats up to you.

Give me a character and I will answer:

Why I like them: Those who know me, know that I am all about that post-Frieza era of DBZ.  That’s why I want Hit to kill him again, because it did wonders for Z, and maybe it could improve Super II or whatever they end up calling it.   I’ve already discussed why I love Cell, but for me, the Buu Saga was not much of a step down.   I came out of the Cell Games wanting more, really craving an epilogue to show how everyone was getting along after Cell’s defeat.   And the Buu Saga gave me exactly that.   

The common criticism leveled against Buu is that he isn’t much on personality.  He doesn’t have the charisma of a Frieza or Buu, but I think that works in his favor, since it gives the good guys more time to work out all their issues.   A big part of the arc was about Goku and Vegeta getting on the same page, and it’s tough to make that happen when the bad guy has his own monologue.   I think that’s why you don’t see much of them together on Namek, or during the Androids crisis.   

I’ve seen Team Four Star compare Super Buu’s absorption forms to sort of a carbon copy of Perfect Cell.    I’m not sure I agree, but 1) I’m not sure that’s a bad thing, even if it’s true, and 2) If you don’t like Buuhan, don’t worry, because he doesn’t stay that way for very long.    Majin Buu has lots of variety, is my point.    No one’s going to love all of his different forms and appearances, but you’re probably going to find a few that appeal to you.    I had trouble picking a header image for this, because it feels like it does a disservice to the character.    He’s so many different things.   He can be cute and cuddly, or vicious and terrifying, or sassy and rude.  

I also like what he represents to the series as a whole.   When he was first introduced, Buu was presented as this instant “game over” for the universe.   If Babidi reawakens him, that’s it, we all lose.   No one can stop him.    But then he breaks out anyway, and the good guys still manage to rally.    He proves too powerful to defeat, but Goku comes up with a plan, and the Supreme Kai comes up with a plan, and the Old Kai comes up with a plan, and finally Vegeta comes up with a plan, and all of them are premised on the idea that maybe we’re not so doomed after all.    Maybe the Z-Fighters are strong enough to pull this off.   And they do pull it off, and somehow turn Buu good in the process.   There’s a very hopeful message in that.   

Why I don’t: Not gonna lie, I find it somewhat uncomfy that Fat Buu survives the conflict and just... stays that way.    I’m not talking about his appearance, mind you, I mean he still seems like the same guy who gouged out Dabura’s eyes, who creeped on that one lady, and seemed unable to stop eating.   

Let me put it like this: When I first watched the episodes where Mr. Satan befriends Buu, I wasn’t entirely surprised, but what worried me was that he cooked food for Buu, and then he’d immediately demand another meal.  The implication, for me anyway, was that maybe Buu couldn’t be reformed, and he would be compelled by an endless hunger to destroy everything in his sight, regardless of how he might have felt about it.  

In hindsight, I think the “can’t-stop-eating” bit was just intended to set up the emergence of Evil Buu.   Once he got that out of his system, he was fine, but it still bugged me, and even Vegeta was concerned about Buu making another Kid Buu someday.   Because no one really understood what Buu was or how he worked, so who’s to say that he could truly shake off the ways of evil?    Also, Fat Buu owes his existence to absorbing two of the ancient Supreme Kais, so it bothered me that they got everyone else de-absorbed but not them.  

But, I can’t say that bothers me too much, since the final episodes of DBZ show that he lived peacefully with Mr. Satan for at least a decade.  Even so, I wasn’t surprised to see Dragon Ball GT merge him with Uub.   I think the urge to write him out of the story was pretty strong.    Notice how Dragon Ball Super has Majin Buu, but they hardly ever use him.   It makes you wonder.

Favorite episode (scene if movie): You know, I think I might go with the one where the Supreme Kai explains Buu’s backstory to the Old Kai.   Pretty sure that one ends with Kid Buu blowing up the world, so it’s got a lot going for it. 

Favorite season/movie: The Fusion Saga is kind of my go-to answer for the best of Buu, but after I rewatched everything last year, I think the Kid Buu Saga make be the better arc.   It’s tough to decide.

Favorite line: When Goku and Vegeta power up on the Supreme Kai Planet to draw Buu’s attention, he senses their ki and grins, saying “Dum-dums!” like he’s so excited that they’re gonna try and fight him again.   That’s in the dub, anyway, but I always liked that this was Kid Buu’s pet name for those two idiots.

Favorite outfit: I don’t think I have a preference, but it might have been nice to see more of this version:

OTP: I guess that female Buu he made so he could have children?   Honestly, the less I have to think about Buu being romantic the better I like it.  

Brotp: Gotta be Mr. Satan.

Head Canon: The Xenoverse games and Dragon Ball Online introduced this whole notion of Buu starting his own race of Majins on Earth.    I’ve been trying to figure out how to work with that in my fanfic, and the main thing that sticks out in my mind is that Buu is the progenitor of that entire population, and I’m pretty sure he’d still be alive at any given time, so it intrigues me that a Majin OC I might come up with could just stroll on over to Buu’s house and say hello.  But I’m not really sure what they’d talk about.  

Unpopular opinion: Killing him off was one of the few smart moves GT made, and providing a means for the absorbed Supreme Kai’s to escape was one of the few smart moves Toyotaro made.  

A wish: If they do another Tournament of Power, Buu should actually be in it.   He can absorb Frieza and that way they can get around the cap on team members. 

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: If they do another big fight, for the love of crap, don’t just have him nap through it.   I just realized he probably slept through the Broly movie too.   Lazy bastard.

5 words to best describe them: That’s the tubby custard machine.

My nickname for them: “You r--” whoa ho-hoooo.   Just kidding.  

[rockysavannah]

Videl vs. Pan! A Bored Burp-Off!

Description:

WARNING THIS STORY CONTAINS: Female Burping.

If you’re not into any of the above things, please do not read!

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This could be considered a distant sequel to 'Bulma vs Chi-Chi! A Baby Shower Burping Contest!'.

Pan and Videl are sitting at home one day, bored out of their minds. After a couple of accidental eructations from the pair, they decide to have a burping contest, with a wager set in place to make it more interesting. Will Videl achieve victory, or will her daughter dominate? There’s only one way to find out.

I hope you like it. Any constructive criticism in the comments section is welcome.

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Originally uploaded back on March 7th, 2017 on Writing.com.

This story was co-written with Jokermask18/JWAPPEL in my interactive.

Since Writing.com basically requires people to need a paid membership in order to do anything on their website, it’s practically impossible for many people to write and read there. Therefore, I’ve decided to post some of the chapters from my interactives onto my other accounts as full-fledged stories so that they can reach a wider audience.

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The Art of the Thumbnail is a blend of two images. (Since no one had drawn this concept...).

Videl by Seiya-Dbz-Fan.

Pan by Krizart-DA.

Text by me and Jokermask18/JWAPPEL.

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Son Videl, Son Pan, and Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, and Dragon Ball Super © Funimation, Toei Animation, Shueisha and Akira Toriyama

(A/N: This is a collaboration with Jokermask18 A.K.A. JWAPPEL.)

Content Advisory! This story contains:

Female Hyper Belching

Taunting

Series: Dragon Ball

Characters: Son Videl, Son Pan

Synopsis: Videl and Pan try to alleviate their boredom by having some gassy fun.

If you’re not into any of the above things, please do not read!

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It was a quiet Saturday afternoon for the family of Son Gohan. The man of the house was out on business, leaving his wonderful wife and daughter to fend off the onslaught of boredom by themselves. The duo engaged in a multitude of recreational activities—watching television shows and movies, playing video and board games, even training—but nothing could keep their interests for more than a few minutes at best. Both were currently lounging around in the living room, Pan lied half-asleep on the couch and Videl was playing with a paddleball. Videl checked the clock and her eyes widened at the time.

“Oh no, it’s almost dinner time!” she exclaimed, loudly enough to capture the attention of her daughter, “I better get cooking!”

“…Huh?” Pan muttered groggily, until the weight of those words truly hit her, “Wait, dinner?! That sounds great! I’m starving!”

The eleven-year-old girl’s sudden burst of energy got a small chuckle out of her mother, “Well, you’ll have to ‘starve’ for a little longer, because it’ll take awhile to make enough food to satisfy your appetite.”

Pan’s lips curled downward, “Can I at least get a soda to hold me over.”

With an approving nod from her mother, Pan moved faster than a normal human could track, seemingly vanishing into thin air for a split second, before returning to the same spot, only with a root beer in hand. While Videl was getting up from her chair and heading for the kitchen, Pan began chugging the contents of her can. The carbonated beverage cascaded down her esophagus before landing in the pits of her stomach, mixing with the boiling green acids that were already dwelling there, and forming large bubbles of gas from the chemical reaction. Pan put her right hand on her belly when she heard a low rumbling deep inside. She felt pockets of air shift around within her tummy, before some of it was dislodged and evicted up a valve at the top of the stomach. Pan barely had time to register what happened before a juicy belch blasted past her lips, catching her by surprise. Videl stopped in the kitchen and turned to look at her daughter, who just sported a look of content on her face.

“That felt good,” Pan commented with a giggle.

“Pan, you should show better manners than that,” Videl reprimanded with a stereotypical parental finger pointing.

Pan scoffed internally, wishing that her mom would loosen up once in a while, like what her dad said she was like as a teenager. Alas, Videl’s acceptance of her role as a housewife had meant that she sacrificed much of her cooler (in Pan’s opinion), tomboyish personality, so it was unlikely to happen anytime soon.

Videl was about to get the ingredients and kitchen ware needed to make a meal fit for a demi- and quarter-Saiyan, but was stricken with a sudden pang of thirst. Wanting to quickly quench it before getting to work, she fished through the fridge and picked out a can of Jetap, before popping it open and spraying some of the alcoholic liquid on her cheeks. Pan snickered at this, while Videl took a large swig of her drink, draining the can in a matter of seconds. Once the intoxicated fluid splashed into her gut, a similar reaction that happened in Pan’s abdominal area occurred here too. As soon as Videl removed the can from her mouth, a beery burp rippled out of it, having the length, volume, and smell to be comparable to her daughter. When the three-second-long eructation ended, Videl’s cheeks lit up in a scarlet flash.

“Ooohhh my goodness! Excuse me!” she apologized with her left hand clasped over her mouth.

There was a period of silence in the house before the juvenile giggling of the youngest Son member promptly shattered it. “Nice one, Mom! I didn’t think… that you had… it in you!” her compliments were intersped by fits of laughter.

Videl’s level of embarrassment continued to grow, “T-that was just an accident, sweetie. I didn’t mean to.”

Pan rolled her eyes and gave her an unconvinced smirk, “Not buying it, Mom. Dad told me how much of a tomboy you were back in the day and I bet that you miss that time.”

Videl widened her light blue irises, baffled at how her adolescent daughter managed to back her into a corner like this. Then, she started to think about Pan’s words; about how her ‘tough girl’ days were when she was at her coolest. But that was just a persona, right? An act that she didn’t need to keep up when she met her high school sweetheart. Without that, she felt comfortable sporting a more feminine appearance, like her wedding gown when she married Gohan, or the red dress and black leggings when she attended Bulma’s ‘39th’ birthday party. On the other hand, her feistier attitude did earn her some respect from her former classmates at Orange Star High School, and she still found some amusement when she thought back to the times that she beat various members of the student body in burping contests. Perhaps it would not hurt to relive some of that glory one more time.

“Maybe… you have a point,” Videl admitted.

Pan’s grin grew wider, “Great, because I’ve got an idea for curing our boredom: a burping contest!”

If possible, the Son matriarch’s eyes grew wider still, “Really? Well, what are the stakes?”

Pan tapped a finger on her chin in thought, “If I win, you order as much food as I want, when I want, for the next three months; If you win, I’ll do all of yours and dad’s chores on top of my own for the same time.”

Videl pondered Pan’s proposition. The risk was great, but so was the reward. After a few moments, she reached her decision, “Game on, young lady,” Videl answered with a smirk that matched her daughter’s, finally regaining her uncouth appreciation for the immature art of burping.

“Cool!” Pan’s eyes shone in anticipation, thinking that this would make for a gross, but fun, bonding experience.

Videl pulled out at least eight more cans of soda from the fridge and divided them between herself and Pan. After all, one needed the right ammunition for this kind of thing. Pan reached for her first one and chugged the whole thing in less than a minute! With a smirk, she then thumped her chest and let out a nasty sounding burp that sounded like it came from a hardened trucker. Videl was actually a little proud of her for that. That is, until she remembered she was looking at her competitor. The daughter of Mister Satan figured her turn was up and attempted to copy her daughter's opening move. Unfortunately, she ended up choking on most of the soda and launched into a coughing fit.

“You're losing Mommy,” Pan taunted in a sing-song voice before belching again. This one was ever bigger than the last, being five seconds long!

Videl's eyes narrowed as her competitive fire was beginning to reignite, “I'm not finished yet!” She began chugging her second soda, this time nearly matching her daughter's former pace. Pan was on her second soda as well, though sipping it in a leisurely fashion. It was clear she wasn't worried and this made Videl all the more angry.

Thumping her chest, the daughter of Mr. Satan unleashed her first real belch in the contest. It was decent, though only half as big as Pan's first attempt. Videl scowled, knowing she'd once been able to do much better. Pan responded with another huge belch that won her the bout and began opening her third can. Videl did the same and managed to start off with a belch that surpassed her daughter's previous attempt! The good feeling that came with that was quickly destroyed when Pan unleashed a belch that blew her mother's hair back! Once again, the daughter of Mister Satan felt oddly proud even as she began opening her fourth can. This truly was a bonding experience.

The contest continued on in this way. Videl had actually started to regain some of her old skill but it didn't seem to help. Pan dominated each bout and only grew cockier over time. “Get ready to order Mama, cause I am hungry!” The daughter of Mister Satan only scowled more deeply at this taunt. She refused to let her daughter win. It wasn't just about what losing would cost her either. Now, it was about pride.

But honestly, Videl was getting flustered. She had to admit that her kid was good. Scratch that, Pan was very, very good. As they went through what was now the seventh can for both of them, mother and daughter soon realized that it was almost over. There were only two cans left and one of them would belong to the victor. It was clear from her grin that Pan believed she knew which one it would be. “Ready to give up?”

But Videl refused. If there was anything left over from the Videl of old, it was that. She wondered, not for the first time, just what had happened to that girl? The tomboy who had dominated boy and girl alike in belching contests since she was seven! She even remembered winning a few farting contests in her time. Looking at Pan, she realized that she missed those times. She wanted them back. It was time for her to start thinking like the old Videl again, but how?

After the duo each finished their seventh can, Pan effortlessly belted out another first class burp. Though it was comparatively less powerful than her previous ones, it compensated with an odor that made the matriarch of the Son household go green in the gills. While Videl, with watery eyes, was coughing and trying to fan away the foul fumes, Pan was looking bored. Sure, she was certain that she would be able to pig out on as much food as she wanted to when this was over, which definitely appealed to her Saiyan nature, but there was another thing that her alien instincts craved: a good fight. Her father had gone on about how unladylike and badass her mother was as a youth, so Pan expected at least something resembling a challenge, just to make her victory feel more earned.

However, right now Videl was not proving those stories true at all. In fact, her burps were barely able to get much reaction out of Pan aside from condescending amusement. Either the stories were lies or Videl had simply lost her edge. In any case, Pan found it disappointing, not simply because of the aforementioned lack of challenge, but because she had a lot of respect for mommy dearest. All of the tomboyish tales about Videl, not just of how she shattered gender stereotypes by utterly decimating sexist boys in belching contests, but also of her beating up bullies and leaping into danger to stop criminals. It helped influence Pan into shaping her personality to mimic the mother that she idolized, both as a tomboy and as a hero.

Meanwhile, Videl’s mind raced to find a way to gain an edge over her daughter. Maybe she could use the Dragon Balls to wish for her old personality back. No, that would seem like a waste to use something so powerful to win such a juvenile event. Besides, what would Gohan say about it when he returned home? Nevertheless, if she cannot do that, then how will the daughter of Mister Satan triumph over the gaseous greatness of Pan? Suddenly, she thought back to what her husband said when he taught her how to fly all those years ago.

He said that you have to focus your energy from your stomach, she recalled in her head. Then, she also flashed back to when she heard Gohan say that his mentor, Piccolo, could fire ki blasts from his mouth, Wait a minute. That’s it! Videl breathed deeply and concentrated hard, gulping down air to fuel her belch. She soon felt a spark of ki in her belly and smiled, Alright, she thought, silently thanking Gohan and Piccolo for not teaching Pan telepathy, I’m on the right track, but I should try to limit how much ki I use. Otherwise, Pan will know what I’m up to and just copy me, then, I’ll be screwed.

And so, the metaphysical energy continued to manifest in her stomach, acting like fire boiling water to produce steam as it stirred up more gas than any normal human ever could. When she felt enough build up, Videl proudly forced out the gas using her ki creating a shockwave that blew away Pan’s orange bandana. When it finished, Videl sighed in relief and giggled at the befuddled face of her daughter.

“Wh-what was that?!” Pan exclaimed.

“Well, Honey, I guess I was just a little rusty,” Videl replied, lips curled up into a smirk.

Pan narrowed her eyes in suspicion. She may be somewhat naïve, but she was not stupid. The daughter of Son Gohan found it weird that her mom could just pull out a totally awesome eructation at the eleventh hour after a series of mediocre burps. In addition, Pan could have sworn that she felt a minuscule ember of ki coming from her mother, specifically in her tummy.

Maybe… The quasi-Saiyan pondered for a moment, before dismissing the idea entirely, There’s no way. That’s just ridiculous. She probably just got lucky, that’s all.

Putting the notion aside, Pan opted to pop open her eighth can of soda and began chugging it. Videl soon joined her and in a matter of seconds, both had completely drained their aluminum canisters of their sugary liquid contents. Pan patted her packed paunch playfully, feeling it press up against and peek out under her shirt. It was an expected result given that eight cans worth of delicious carbonated goodness filled that gut of hers, not including the can that she had taken a swig of before the contest officially began. Videl rubbed her own bulging belly, starting to wonder how this competition would affect her figure afterward. However, she pushed that thought out for the moment, instead focusing on the here and now.

“Well, do you want to start the final bout, little lady?” Videl inquired with a smirk.

“Sure, but you’ll regret it, trust me,” Pan replied, matching her mom’s smirk.

Pan proceeded to gobble down as much precious oxygen as possible, making her abdominal area inflate even more so. She held her breath, and after a while, she was starting to become blue in the face, which made Videl frown in worry. The mother was about to ask if her daughter was all right when Pan decided to unleash her outright abominable eructation right in her face. It was by far her greatest/grossest one in the whole competition. Pan’s oral expulsion of air lasted an astounding ten seconds, actually shattering some of the windows, which Pan had a feeling would come out of her allowance even if she won. However, the smell was again in a category of its own, as the guttural belch blast carried a sickly green cloud of gas out of Pan’s mouth. Said gas cloud was composed of an amalgamation of every food and drink that the Pan had devoured over the past week, which to a full blooded human would have been a month’s worth of nourishment.

“How was that, Mom?” Pan giggled smugly after finishing.

“Ohhh…” Videl moaned, wholly discombobulated, “That was so nasty! I think that I’m going to hurl!” she slapped both hands over her mouth to keep herself from doing so.

Pan giggled even louder, savoring her mother’s disgusted demeanor. Eventually, Videl regained her bearings and threw a piercing glare at her daughter, at which Pan only snickered, “I take it that you didn’t like my magnum opus.”

That straw broke the camel’s back, Screw it, Videl thought, I don’t know if it’s the lingering nausea or seething anger, but I’m going to put this brat in her place, no matter what! That’ll knock her arrogance ass down a peg.

Then, she got into a battle stance, her legs spreading out two feet apart and bending at a 90° angle, and closed her eyes. The quarter-Sayian cocked her left eyebrow, confused. “Uh, mom, what are you doing?”

However, Videl closed her eyes, tuned her  daughter out, and took deep breaths. Pan frowned at the silence, but widened her eyes as she felt something weird happen in her mother. Once again, the daughter of Mister Satan manifested her ki in her stomach, though now it was much larger, to the point that Pan could clearly sense it.

Huh? Why is there so much ki in her stomach? Unless… Pan thought, until her eyes widened in realization, It’s true! She did do it before and she’s doing it now!

As Pan was trying to process the current situation, Videl pressurized the gas in her stomach by charging up ki in order to increase the power of her burp. Meanwhile, a glow formed in her stomach, the heat of her ki causing her to sweat profusely. After a while, she felt a huge burst of energy finish building up pressure in her belly. This feeling made her smile in anticipation.

“Oh, boy, here it comes,” Videl exclaimed excitedly.

“Here what comes?” her offspring questioned.

Videl ignored Pan and used her energy to channel the gas out of her belly. The glow intensified as it, the ki and the gas traveled up her body before entering her mouth, causing her cheeks to bulge outward and filling Videl’s mouth with a light bright enough to make her puffed out cheeks translucent. Then, she raised her head slightly away from Pan to avoid possibly hurting her and became the first person in history to burp out a blast of energy.

“*buuuUUUrrrrrrRRUUUuuuuuuuUUUCH!*”

Suddenly, her mouth snapped open and she belched out a large yellow ki beam, which rocketed past Videl's lips and barely missed the top of Pan’s head on its trajectory through one of the broken windows. The burp itself echoed throughout the house, shattering the remaining windows, and knocking down several books, expensive plates, and other belongings. The duo looked to see the blast vaporize some nearby trees, both of them gawking at the trail of burnt grass and destroyed foliage.

“Whoa, even I didn't expect that,” Videl admitted with a blush.

Pan turned back to her mom, “That… was… awesome! Let’s keep going! I want to do that too!”

Videl paused for a moment, but then chuckled at the absurdity of the situation, “Ok, but the loser gets punished for six months in lieu of three.”

“Deal!” Pan shouted, her eyes shining with enthusiasm.

Both remembered their unfinished cans of soda and grabbed them for the true final bout. They were going to need it!

Once the beverages had been consumed, the empty aluminum husk that previously held them were discarded and Pan began the final bout by pausing to focus her ki then:

“*BRRRRrrrRRRRRUUUUUuuuuUOOOOOOOoo-oooooOOOOOOOrrrp!!*”

A big energy blast shot from her mouth, twice the width of her mother's effort, though it only did a little more damage to the house by burning a few extra holes in the walls.

Videl applauded politely, then sucked in and: 

“*beeeeeeEEEEEELLLLllllLLRRRRRrrroooOOOOOaaAAAAARRRRrrrrrRRRRP!!!*”

She not only managed to outdo her daughter, but shot out a stream of ki balls from her mouth in rapid succession. Pan was forced to jump on top of her chair in dodge in a rather comedic fashion. Videl laughed out loud at this when she was finished and an evil gleam suddenly entered her eye. Turning her gaze towards the ceiling, she forced out a small burp that resulted in a single ball of ki knocking some debris onto Pan's head, the quarter-Saiyan scowling in response.

“Okay Mama, you've had it!

*BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP AAAAATTTTTTTTAAAAAAAAACCCCCCKKKKKKKKK!!!!*”

Videl's eyes widened as her daughter unleashed a huge belch that contained a variation of one of Vegeta's most powerful moves. It packed enough force to blow her through the wall of her home and leave her smoking on the already slightly scorched lawn. Pan laughed at the sight and began jumping up and down in an absurd little victory dance.

“Yes! I win! HAHAHAHA, I am the best!” This bratty sing-song voice awoke something in Videl and she slowly pulled herself to her feet, her eyes ablaze with fury. Pan watched with a mix of confusion and concern as her mother assumed a basic power-up stance and began speaking in grunts, as though she were on the verge of transforming into some new kind of super form. In fact, it wouldn't have surprised Pan at all if that were the case.

Little did the young girl know that during all this, her mother was reliving her past, watching various images of her rough and tumble self flash and the victories she'd achieved flash before her eyes. Everything from belching contests to looking best in a bikini passed her by. They were soon replaced by new images of Pan besting her younger self in all these same events. Other scenes were also included such as a rice eating contest and a farting contest. Every last one filled the Videl of the present with even more rage.

“No! I… Will… Not… lose… to a… little… girl! Even if she is my own daughter!” Pan watched in amazement as her mother's slightly higher than average power level suddenly skyrocketed, her aura blazing to life around her. Videl then bellowed, “Ka… Me… Ha… Me… 

*HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP!!!!!*”

The mightiest belch under the heavens, contained within the signature technique of both the Kame House and the overall Son Family, shot from Videl's mouth. It zeroed in on a horrified Pan and created a great explosion that destroyed the entire house! Pan lay amidst the rubble, somehow only dazed, “You win, Mommy.”

“Oh yeah!” Videl cried out in a rather good impression of her father, “I win! I'm number—oh crap!” The daughter of Mister Satan looked upon what was left of her home and decided to let Pan off the hook: she would need all the help she could get in order to collect the Dragon Balls and restore everything before Gohan got back!

[dragon-ball-meta]

Do you think GT would've been better if it stayed with the premise of goku jr and co. Instead of making goku a kid again? Cause i saw the gt special and other than a few dull moments I enjoyed it and don't really see why people had issues with it

The GT special isn’t quite as unbearable as GT itself because they’re not trying to hyperextend things or depicting people as grossly out of character. Vegeta came to respect Goku and his skills more, but he’d hardly defer to him as he did in GT. Goku certainly was not some bland “mature wise warrior” at any point, yet GT thrust him into that role. The more interesting aspects of GT were in the side characters who were criminally underutilized and sidelined as quickly as possible in favor of Goku, and then again in favor of Goku and Vegeta. Even the last episode of GT didn’t impress, as its view of the future was… well, more of the same, with literal little clones of Goku and Vegeta.With the GT special, this wasn’t an issue. There was no “Vegeta Jr.”, there was no undue empahsis on the past, there were parallels with Goku and Goku Jr but they weren’t clones; Goku Jr was still raised by a grandparent, but grew up in a city, around people, went to school, etc. His personality was, as a result, very distinct from Goku’s; while Goku enjoyed fighting and disliked bullies and tended to confront them when he saw them, Goku Jr doesn’t really care about fighting at all and is quite timid in the face of bullying, thereby not making him a literal “Goku Jr.” but just someone named for his great-grandparent.Because Pan was the sole returning character, and she was actually out of commission rather quickly, the special also had to rely on other characters to push things along. Goku Jr.’s hunt for the Dragon Balls because of his grandma also echoed Goku’s hunt for his Grandpa’s Dragon Ball, but without being a direct carbon copy; similarly, Goku Jr befriending Puck, who was initially a bully to him, also has a certain resemblance to Goku befriending Krillin, but is, at the same time, a very different scenario due to the lives and personalities of those involved.  It also, due to scaling down in power, allowed for them to sort of explore the native Mystical aspects of the Dragon Ball Earth, whereas GT had gone full Sci-Fi. They’re not going all-in on what they THINK made DBZ more popular, but rather exploring a proper “return to roots” rather than just making Goku small.I do find it interesting that it aired after an episode that almost felt like a pseudo-finale in Episode 41 right before they leaped into the Super 17 stuff, with almost a month passing between those eps. It also seems to imply that Goku simply passed away, rather than the whole “Imma ride off with the Dragon and legit absorb the Dragon Balls and maybe fuse with Shenron for some reason” bit.Ah well. It’s a pretty good little special, honestly, even if one never watched the rest of GT. In fact, I’d recommend it over the series easily.

[stillinaincrad]

Through the Looking Glass

I have been feeling like am in a rut lately when it comes to anime, because it feels like it’s been so long since anything has really captured me. I mean, sure there’s one or two every season that I enjoy, and every once in a while something impresses me more than I expected it to. But it just feels like it’s been too long since something reached into that place that not everything permeates and am left with a lifetime of symbiosis with it. And lately, I’ve been wondering why....

The first, and most obvious would be, hell - am old! I’ve been hording everything I could get my hands on since I was a little kid in the 90s, and maybe I’ve just hit saturation point after 20+yrs of it. It’s possible, sure. Maybe I’ve just seen too much, and there aren’t that many original ideas left. But I don’t really believe that, or - more accurately - I don’t want to believe that. I hate boxes and divisions and hierarchies when it comes to creativity, because that means that some ideas aren’t great just because they aren’t new. How many times has the same story been regaled, but in a new way with new angles and perspectives that make it astounding because you weren’t ready for that approach? I still start every new show hoping it is something fantastic. So, saturation isn’t it. 

OK, then, so maybe it’s content? I mean - when I started to love anime, it was still weird and niche and abstract. I think anime was deliberately weird as shit to separate itself from what I just mentioned. It wasn’t normal, and it wasn’t supposed to be. And, a lot of people used to treat it that way. Sure, it was cool to like DBZ (even though I never have) or Naruto, but Akira? You must have a serious dark side because it’s messed up and doesn’t make any sense. Robotech? You must be a space nerd (was totally ok with that, btw). Oh, and heaven forbid there was any nudity, even brief - Elfen Lied was “porn” and you only watched it for the tits, right? But now it’s more popular, and more widely accepted, and more and more fluff shows are being made every single season that cater to younger, lighter audiences, and more of them. Less psychology, more recreation. I think there’s definitely something behind that, and moreso the underlying cause. 

I think that I came into this world at the perfect time - anime was just catching on here, and people began to understand that you could tell an amazing story through animation, and that by stretching that story over more than one episode, even an entire season, viewers would be more apt to be engaged and personify the characters more than if it was just ‘the monster of the week’ or single-story episodes like all our shows always were. I really feel like the era of about the mid-90s to the mid-00s is the time when many of the most profound anime ever made came out, because people were still pushing boundaries and seeing what would be tolerated or given value to, so you ended up with these crazy, insane, amazing  stories that not everyone would have come up with, and there was nothing else like it out there. There were more one-offs. There were more chances taken. There were more new tales to tell. 

But that era was also anime’s boon. Why? Because just like western entertainment, when one idea takes off, then others make an idea just enough like it that others will watch it. How many times have you heard ‘oh, if you liked X, then you’d love Y’, and it’s always because they are so similar. Anymore, there are sooooo many carbon-copies every season, because it worked once, and worked well, so it should by reason work again. And it does, but never to the same magnitude. So while I don’t think I’ve just seen too much anime as a whole, I definitely think there is something to be said for saturation as it applies to one singular idea or one singular yarn spun too many times over without any personalization or opus applied to it. 

And that’s where I feel like I’m at. There are titles every season that I follow and enjoy, but I don’t go back to them all the time and watch them over and over like I do the older ones. There’s new titles every season that make me feel something, but it’s been so long since anything has felt like a part of me like so many of the older ones. There’s more quantity every year, but I feel like that’s really the point of it anymore - no one is nearly as concerned with making something great, just make... something. 

And I’m not saying there isn’t worth in that, creating visual art is a venture I’ll always be behind. Part of my love for anime is seeing how a studio draws it’s characters, the OSTs they use to kindle emotional responses, and the attention to detail that goes into those aspects that often have nothing to do with the writing at all. I have always struggled with character art, which is one of the reasons I love it so much - when you can appreciate all the work that goes into creating ANY anime series, good or bad, there is a gratitude that can be cultivated from just that alone.  

But it’s been such a long time since anything has been anything more than that to me, and it’s bittersweet. I want to see the genre continue to flourish and more and more people enjoy it, but for me the greatest joy is the enrapture of a truly great anime show - the writing, the art, the music, the emotion, ALL of it being done so well that at the end you can’t imagine it being any better... and it’s just been a long time since I’ve felt that. I miss it, and I want it again. 

So, I don’t know if there’s something wrong with me or something wrong with anime, but it’s just not what I’ve wanted it to be for at least 6-7 years straight now. But, I’ll always be waiting. I’ll always be ready. And I’ll always be on the edge of my seat for the opportunity that the next one I start will be just that.

And I’ll always hope it is. 

[gammaspectrum]

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1 / 13 / 2019 ||  1 / 13 / 3305

A Carbon star and a DBZ white dwarf star (according to EDSM this is one of only 8 such white dwarf stars known in the game).

An absolutely stunning place to stop for the day.

[ao3feed-vegebul]

by Starrcrossrose

Neo-West has grown and evolved wonderfully, thanks to the science of Capsule Corps. and their many other branches spread across the world. The city is thriving and all is safe. Or, so it seems. Bulma knows that the Dark Alleys were built for the seedy and greedy, but she never knew to what extent. Once she was old enough to understand, she made a choice; she would bring down the Dark Alleys, and more specifically "The Icejin", for good. +++ Vegeta's mind is usually only set to one thought. Survive. No matter the cost, no matter how much you want to stay down, get up and survive. It had gotten him this far, so it shouldn't fail him now. All he cares about is working back what is owed to The Boss, to Frieza, in order to set his family free. +++ Both paths collide as the two race against time, monsters, and machines. After all, the Dark Alleys were built for people like them to die.

Words: 7971, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, DBZ - Fandom

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: Multi

Characters: Son Goku (Dragon Ball), Chi-Chi (Dragon Ball), Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Bulma Briefs, Frieza (Dragon Ball), Zarbon (Dragon Ball), Raditz (Dragon Ball), Nappa (Dragon Ball), King Vegeta (Dragon Ball), Dodoria (Dragon Ball), Jeice (Dragon Ball), Guldo (Dragon Ball), Recoome (Dragon Ball), Burter (Dragon Ball), Piccolo (Dragon Ball), Son Gohan, Tenshinhan (Dragon Ball), Krillin (Dragon Ball)

Relationships: Bulma Briefs/Vegeta, Chi-Chi/Son Goku (Dragon Ball)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Cyberpunk, Futuristic, Neon - Freeform, Future Fic, Science Fiction, mercenary, Hacker, Engineer - Freeform, Androids, Robots, Aliens, Neo West, Capsule Corp, Icejin, Sci-Fi AU, altered carbon - Freeform

[animeshoessss]

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[cosmicmewtwo]

tagged in a thing by @dokkan-dont-stop !!

Name: erinn

Gender: female

Star sign: virgo. i know, i’m not happy about it either.

Height: 5′5

Sexuality: bi

What image do you have as wallpaper: some trippy fanart of my fave book. 

Have you ever had a crush on a teacher?: yes lmao

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?: wandering through the irradiated, scorched ruins of civilization, fighting people for fuel and clean water. i’m wearing a cool skull.

If you could be anywhere else right now, where?: somewhere warm. this winter bullshit???? OVER IT

What was your coolest Halloween costume?: my saiyan costume was fun, but pro tip: wearing gloves to the club is a nightmare, do you have any idea how hard it is to pay for drinks when you’re dealing with slippery canadian bills and can’t feel your fingertips??? 2/10 would not recommend, what the FUCK is vegeta thinking

What’s your favorite 90s show?: i was literally raised off the simpsons

Who was your last kiss?: my ex. yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have you ever been stood up?: mmm no that would require being invited to places lmao

Have you ever been to Las Vegas?: no but i’ve always wanted to. something about a neon hell city in the middle of a desert is just.... #a mood.

Favorite pair of shoes: my brown leather boots

Favorite fruit: blueberries

Favorite book: i guess i technically already answered this, but Blindsight by Peter Watts. it’s an absolutely bonkers first contact story that hits just the right blend of hard sci-fi & horror---i really haven’t been able to find anything comparable.

Stupidest thing you’ve ever done: my entire college career was just a single, continuous thread of incredibly stupid decisions.

Hogwarts House: ravenclaw

Average hours of sleep : 5-7

Blankets you sleep with: just a couple blankets, usually i keep the heat on in my bedroom while i’m sleeping so i never get too cold

Favorite Bands: idk i’m not really invested in any particular bands

Favorite solo artists: same as above i guess

Song Stuck in My Head: mambo no. 5 played three times at work today and it’s fucking haunting me. what deeply cursed algorithm is generating these playlists?? i seriously imagine a hateful Skynet-style AI sitting in a cold server room somewhere, ruminating to itself, “what do human consumers want to hear in a drug store on a bleak sunday night??? MAMBO NO. 5, ETERNALLY.”

Last movie I watched: annihilation. god, i wish i had had this movie’s OST to listen to while i was writing contamination because it’s fucking eerie as hell

Last TV show I watched: i watched a few episodes of altered carbon before losing interest.... not really sure what i expected considering i pretty much hated the book??? 

Why did I create my blog: i was thirsty for dbz content and somehow i washed up on the shores of the Blue Hellsite  What do I post: in this house we shitpost about dbz

When did I create my blog: christ, idk 2010 maybe?

Do I have other blogs?: i have a dumb sideblog where i dump all my ~aesthetic bullshit (warning for lots of blinky/flashy gifs)

Do you get asks?: yes!!! i love asks!!!

Following blogs: 675

Favorite colors: grey and green

Lucky numbers: 14, 49

Instruments: i have 0 musical skills whatsoever

What am I wearing?: pants, a blouse, and a blazer. still in my work clothes!!!!

Dream Job: the job i have now, but with functional fucking software and a decent IT department  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dream trip: fuck it, let’s do it!!!! let’s just go to vegas!!!!!

Favorite Food: seafood. 

Nationality: canadian

Followers: 524

Reasons for your url: i chose this stupid screen-name when i was like 11 on a pokemon message board and i just never stopped using it

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