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dbssh · 2 years

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like obviously vegeta is full of these moments of sentiment between the bullshit but i really do think nothing will ever top brink of death fully given up hope vegeta getting back up to laugh in friezas face when he sees that goku is here. they werent barely even friends.

#red.txt #for someone who talks a lot abt how goku is like inferior trash that one moment where hes like ha! frieza you stupid bitch! this is the #pinnacle of the sayain race! haha!#especially after saying the same thing abt himself not to long ago and being proven so incredibly wrong #its just SUCH a good moment and j think its easy to miss in the face of everything else going on w #vegetas death #but like. MAN #and vegeta in his own way still trying to connect w goku and get him to understand where vegeta is coming from #vis a vis his connection to his people and his family anf his homeworld #and i think thats interesting if u consider frieza as the exemplar of this colonist power #and for vegeta to finally realize he CANT succeed against it alone and that #to give goku the push he needed he HAD to level with him and find that connection between them and try to reach out #and really just be honest with him in the 'i am and always will be a little boy who lost everything'#and for goku to meet him in the middle with 'this was never my home. im not going to be a sayain like you. but i can be a sayain like me.'#was SO good #i think abt gokus response to frieza of i am the sayain from earth! sooo much #because of the way vegeta and piccolo respectively have had these two different perspectives on their heritages #vegeta as someone who loved his culture deeply and had it ripped away from him #vs piccolo who never really had a connection to it in the first place and is only as an adult trying to reckon with #how his people here vs his life on earth interact within his own identity and trying to make sense of that #and goku kind of striking that balance of embracing his lived experience as an earthling #while paying respect to that home and culture he never got a chance to know with burying + honoring vegeta #its SO fucking interesting

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