#''​goku got stronger when he took the weights off also''

[merry-fagoland]

ive been unable to stop thinking about this ever since i saw it

#guilty gear #i guess #cant remember what this was under but it's stuck with me forever #not genshin for once #not my tweets either #''​goku got stronger when he took the weights off also'' #🐁.txt

[the-punforgiven]

"Goku got stronger when he took the weights off also" is a phrase that lives rent free in my mind

#genuinely one of my favourite guilty gear posts tbh #pun's text posts

[spainambriz]

Every day of my life I am thinking about goku got stronger when he took the weights off also

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball Z 250

So you know the Z-Sword, right?    Our only hope of making Gohan strong enough to beat Majin Buu?

Well, what if we just threw a bunch of shit at it?

Like, this cube.

Uh....

Hmm...

All right, let’s back up a bit.   On Earth, there isn’t much time left, and tensions are running high in the Piccolo training camp.    There’s no “I” in “Fusion Technique”.   Well, there’s a couple, actually, but... uh, that’s the whole point!   You need two “I’s” to make it work.    Trunks and Goten blame each other when things don’t go so easily, but ultimately they have to work together in perfect harmony in order to pull this off.

Outside, the gang is playing cards, and 18 is helping Krillin cheat for some reason.  I feel like the animators put a little too much time on drawing 18′s ass in this scene.     

Also, these are Mr. Satan themed playing cards for some reason.

So back to the Supreme Kai Planet.   Goku was impressed with Gohan mastering the Z-Sword in such a short amount of time, and he wanted to test the blade itself.    For some reason, the Supreme Kai decided to raise the stakes by creating (summoning) a block of metal made out of “katchinko”, the hardest substance in the universe.   So it’s his own fault the sword broke.

See?  Even Goku knows it.

Ultimately, the Z-Sword was a victim of its own hype.   The Kais have revered this blade as some sort of superweapon, capable of making a person supremely powerful.   Only it didn’t do anything for Gohan when he pulled it out, and now it’s broken, because Shin thought it was indestructible when it’s not. 

Even so, Gohan did get a lot stronger by practicing with it, but mostly because it’s so damn heavy.    Was this training really so different from other high-gravity/heavy weights traning Goku has done in the past?    Shin thinks that Gohan will get a huge gain from this, especially as a Super Saiyan, but Goku’s fought Majin Buu, so he’s not so sure.

But Shin argues that this is the only way, and then some other guy tells them that’s not true, and they freak out.

So yeah, it’s this guy.   Once, my cable service in 2002 had the international channel for a little while, and I happened to come across Episode 275 of DBZ... in Japanese, without subtitles.   And I had only seen up to maybe... 240?  I don’t know.   I recognized this planet, but they kept showing this old guy and Kibitoshin, and I had no idea what had happened.  It looked like Kibito got smaller and Shin got really old.  

Then I got to this episode, where we finally meet the dude, and he explains that he’s the Supreme Kai from 15 generations ago.   I’m not sure what that means exactly, because I’m not familiar with the Kai’s lifespans or reproductive systems.   Shin addresses him as “honored ancestor”, but I don’t know if that means he’s a direct descendant of this guy or not.  I seem to recall that the Kaioshin live for like millions of years, so this guy would have to be very, very old indeed. 

According to him, he was trapped inside the Z-Sword, thanks to some terrible villain , but not as terrible as Majin Buu.  Apparently he’s been stuck in there for so long that no one remembered, and the sword became legendary for itself, not the guy sealed inside.  

I seem to recall that some 2010′s Dragon Ball lore established that Beerus was the one who sealed the Old Kai in the Z-Sword, which I guess is as good an explanation as any, although it doesn’t seem to fit with this story.    Beerus isn’t exactly a bad guy, and he’s a lot stronger than Buu.  

Goku’s not so sure that this is such an awesome guy, so he fires a little ki blast at him to test his abilities.   Instead, he takes the blast right in the face and collapses.  

Outraged, the Old Kai refuses to use his special power to help them beat Majin Buu.   He won’t even say what it is, so Goku tries to bribe him with porn, because he’s getting a Master Roshi vibe from the guy.

But the old Kai doesn’t bother with porn, because he can just watch real women undressing with his supernatural vision.    Yeah...

So Goku offers to set him up with a real woman that he can fondle in-person.  

Gohan’s like “How the hell are you gonna do that, dad?” and Goku’s like “You’ve got a girlfriend, right?    Just get her to do it.”

And Gohan’s like “I’ll kick your ass, dad.”

So Goku’s like, “Wait, let’s get Bulma to do it.”    And Gohan’s like “This is sexual harassment.”   See, you can talk about how these gags haven’t “aged well”, but they knew this sort of thing was wrong when they wrote it.   I mean, the joke here is that Old Kai is a divine figure, but also a lech, and Goku’s a great hero but completely tactless, but there’s no real acknowledgement that this is a Bad Conversation to have.   Gohan points it out, but no one’s listening to him right now.

Anyway, the deal is struck, and the Old Kai explains that he can amplify someone’s ability beyond their natural limits.    Goku and Gohan aren’t impressed, probably because they’ve seen this sort of thing before with Grand Elder Guru and Korin’s Tower.  

Note that this isn’t just a matter of strength.   if the Old Kai used his power on Bulma, I guess she’d become smarter instead of stronger.    But since Gohan was strong enough to pull out the Z-Sword and lift the thing and swing it around hard enough to break it, then he must be incredibly strong.    And the Old Kai thinks he can make him even stronger, and that must be the basis for the Z-Sword Legend.   

Incidentally, he seems disappointed that it took a mortal to free him from the Z-Sword, when he expected a Kaioshin to do it.   Hey, let’s not forget that it was the Supreme Kai who brought Gohan here in the first place.   It was his idea to have Gohan pull out the sword, and he was the one who suggested chucking that super metal at it.    So without Shin, none of this would have happened.   

So he finally goes to work on Gohan, and he just dances around him in a circle.   This is the “ceremony” part of the process, which takes five hours.     After that comes the actual “powering-up process” which takes twenty hours.   Geez.

But Goku ain’t got time for that, so he’s gonna take a nap.

The Supreme Kai and Kibito might have done the same, except they feel it would be improper for them to ignore the Elder Kai during such an ancient and important ritual.

And Gohan has to be here for this, since he’s the one who needs it.   Look, tough tamales, pal.   Next time train on the weekends, and you’ll do better when you fight the cartoon devil, and none of this would be necessary.

#dragon ball #2019dbliveblog #majin buu saga #gohan #goku #supreme kai #kibito #elder kai #android 18 #krillin #master roshi #goten #trunks #piccolo #dende #mr popo #i was gonna tag majin buu but he wasn't in this one #kind of weird actually

[arkus-rhapsode]

My Hero Academia Chapter 211 Review

Ummm, Early chapter this week. But were on break next week soooo... I guess this is fine. (Note: there has been an edit made to this review to respectfully not spread any misinformation) 

So w e oddly start this chapter with a little character background from Monoma. Apparently he always wanted to be a hero, but due to the fact that his quirk can only copy others, he will have to depend on others which is not what an active hero should have to do. I actually really like this cause its something we ever got from any other 1-B student, the motivation behind their path. It always made them feel a bit more shallow, so I appreciate Monoma getting a scene like this.

Also he now compares himself to Shinsou. How the two are the same is the fact that their heroic aspiration were denied based on their quirk. The difference though is Monoma still made it into the hero program and not Shinsou.

Now this scene, of Monomaa saying that doing unhero like things to those who are more gifted is okay, is likely reflective on the fact that being a hero is also a popularity contest in this world. To stand out and inspire, you’ve gotta be the best, and sometimes to do that, you do some things you might not be proud of. And with a mentality like that, its easy to see why someone like Stain is so pissed at society when it churns out heroes that will willing do un-heroic things. But then you can’t blame Monoma and Shinsou who are just trying to do their best, but given their genetic lottery they have to work harder than most.

But enough of this flashback, we need to cut back to the present where Deku is slowly losing control.

So Deku’s new black energy is emerging from his arm and Deku is quite literally fighting back against is. Monoma wonders if this is a new power to which I’m gonna save my thoughts on this till later.

Yeah Deku, its almost like the plot decided to fuck you over for the sake of this twist that I’m pretty sure no one wanted and that we could just keep to the usual flow of this arc, but no, we had to veer off in this direction because-Okay okay, I’ll save that for later too. I should really speed this up.

So its turns out that black stuff isn’t actually lightning, but more tendrils. Yeah cause that’s what One for All needed, tentacle hentai. Actually with theses black tendrils, now every fan fic writer who made a Deku as Venom AU (yes those exist) has just been justified.

Anyway, Deku releases what looks to be a beam of energy (I honestly can’t tell) and fires it off at Monoma who Deku at least warns to run.

Okay so, first off, good job Monoma. I’m glas we did make a joke out of Monoma being arrogant enough to think he could handle this. Second, what the fuck is wrong with class 1-A. I’m not saying they should act like they just watched a puppy get shot, but their classmate literally seems to be destroying everything. Now you could say that Todoroki did the same thing when he cranked up the heat, but the difference is that fire is a part of Todoroki’s quirk. Black tendrils has never been apart of his power. I know that not every kid in a classroom has to know or care about all their classmates, but I’d be concerned.

Third thing, So it seems OfA really is sentient as its jittering and moving around like it has some sort of self awareness. And finally, Yup. Can’t control your power. After we had come such a long way, you somehow are forced back to square one. I’ll talk about it later as the darkness begins to overflow.

Gotta feel bad for 1-B who just came here for an exercise, now they might die by black energy.

We see the darkness start sticking to objects (wow it really is Venom) and hoists Deku into the air. Yeah, I don’t now is this is something a user of one for all cold do, but boy its a little goofy. Uraraka and Shinsou seems to be the only people who now gives a shit about how this darkness is surging.

We now see this darkness is actually fighting against Deku, smashing him into a wall. All Might, makes a good fucking call and wants Aizawa and Vlad to shut this down. Which I’m sure Aizawa is perfectly fine with. Vlad has also had like no lines this round, like I’d love to hear his commentary.

(Yes, I realize there is an eye looking thing in the darkness, but it took me so long to find that I’m honestly might not even be sure that it is an eye.)

This scene... Breaks my heart. This in a nutshell was why I’m so opposed to this twist. After 200 chapters, Deku finally, FINALLY, doesn’t have to worry about hurting himself. He can now catchup with everyone else and it was finally time to show it off, but now. Now its fighting back. One for All is literally making him lose control when there should be no reason for him to. Has Deku master One for All? No. So there was still a chance things would go wrong, but not like this. Why? did it have to be the moment when finally the first year is coming to an end does One for All show that Deku is still not ready.

And Deku’s reaction to this is perfect for this. He’s not thinking about how he should be strong enough to resist this, showing he grew to arrogant and this is teaching him a lesson. No, Deku is sad. He’s upset that after all this time people didn’t have to worry for him. He was now strong enough to fight like Bakugou and strong enough to make 1-B actually consider him a threat, but now... Now he’s lost control.

Now it is possible that this is do to quirk singularity a topic that I’m doing a post on later, but in short it was brought up about like 50 chapters ago and its when a quirk becomes something that humans can’t control anymore. But again, talking about that later.

I’ve heard the possibility that, this darkness is actually One for All in a sentient state. Much like the previously mentioned before quirk singularity. That this is like genes being passed down so long and growing complex enough to the point that they are no longer controllable. Now there have been plenty of theories that have come out about this, but out of all of them, in general they likely relate to this. The darkness is literally fighting back against Deku as sign of his lack of more than 20% control and thus the quirk seems to quite literally be swallowing him whole. It feels like if this is the case, then Horikoshi realized that he made it so Deku was now fully protected from damaging himself thanks to his quirk. But he could just make it seem like Deku was just arbitrarily growing stronger without having any difficulty, so he developed a way for Deku to quite literally fight himself in his struggle. It was no longer limb destruction, Deku is literally fighting so that he has the right to use this quirk to its fullest extent.

If that is the case, I can’t say I agree with it. Look, I’m sure anyone could say that this doesn’t bother them. That this makes it so Deku and One for All are like Naruto and the Nine-tails, Ichigo and the hollow, Asta and the demon, etc. And those aren’t things I’m opposed to and are things that I enjoyed. But this isn’t the same. The monster inside that gives you more power worked for those series because that was their power system and world allowed for that. But MHA, quirks are more similar to Goku and Luffy. Their abilities are what is to be heightened and their second release: Super saiyan and gear two, are derivative of their competence of their biology and their power. And Deku was like that. He has a quirk that has nine generations worth of power in it and to use that power he had to learn how to take more in. His super saiyan was him at one million percent. It would destroy his body, but for a time he could use all that power. But I guess this new problem has occurred and we’ll have to see where it goes.

Anyway, the chapter isn’t done as Uraraka floats up to him.

So Uraraka is holding down darkness Deku and calls out to Shinsou and that’s where our chapter ends. Now, if people remember my FT reiewing days, they’re probably to call this a BS ship moment that defies reality and serves to pander a single fanbase. Well, no. Cause that’s not what this is. Uraraka is doing what a hero should do. She’s trying to save someone in danger, and this isn’t presented as this overtly romantic moment like say Sakura hugging curse mark sasuke, no this is actual danger that isn’t stopping so Uraraka is at risk of getting hurt here.

Now, I’m not saying you can’t take this romantically, I mean there is a lot of evidence that the two like eachother, I’m just trying to say, power of love, isn’t what’s stopping this madness, hell its evident that Uraraka needs Shinsou and his power to try and stop it. So this trope is still being done, but there is some logical weight to the solution.

Post Chapter Follow Up: So I wanna first say, this chapter is really short. Like its about 13 pages and it has very, very little dialogue. I did almost felt like I was reading a Bleach Chapter, but in fairness, this had a lot more detailing and was clearly used more as a way to show the sheer scale and weight of what the hell this thing is. Plus more detailed art, so I don’t thing the bleach comparison is entirely fair.

I am disappointed with the page count, given the break next week, I would’ve really appreciated we ended on more of bang than this. All its done is left me wanting more, but not in a very good way.

In terms of negatives, this chapter has pretty much confirmed team Deku vs team Monoma has gone off rails and that our conflict is going to actually be how do we solve this darkness. Last week, I talked about my thoughts on why I’m not a fan of that as this seems like a transparent way to make deku lose as well as seems to imply that Horikoshi had no real intent on making this fight actually work with their combatants. This not only makes this exercise feel like it will ultimately be pointless, but as I said, it screws Deku out of getting to go plus ultra while everyone else got to show how far they’ve come.

One could say that seems like bias and that the point was to get shinsou to help with the vestiges, but that doesn’t fully work cause there had to be other ways than this to make it so Sjhinsou would have to work. I mean, this was that same problem I had with the overhaul arc at the end. It was gong fine until Ryukyu dropped in with a powerup for Overhaul and then deku had to use Eri like a power-up and it just became a cluster fuck. I’m not against twists mind you, all arcs need them, the one he did with Gentle was great in my opinion, but these twists overall hurt the story cause the story was going great up till now and we’ve entered cluster fuck land.

Now look, I’m not gonna let my own opinions impede my objective view point. This twist was built up to. As we saw with the mark on Deku’s hand as he used One for All in his sleep. The fact his quirk has been feeling funny, and the fact that All Might seemed curious about this. So I can not in all good conscious call this a bad twist, but it is still one I don’t agree with.

Other positives are definitely the characterization. Aside from us getting Uraraka getting to act like a savor, we get some great development for Monoma. My only issue would have to be the timing of it. He doesn’t do much this chapter. You’d think that this would’ve been used before Deku went all darkness on us.

So what will the final verdict be. Initially I was thinking of giving this a below average, but maybe because the more chew on to this, and the more I see others reactions to this, it seems this hits that uncomfortable spot of being up to the reader to tell if they liked it or hated it. And those are always hard because there is a fair amount of good and nothing I can call really bad, but that good really isn’t enough on its own so there is an enjoyment factor that can’t be accounted for. Kinda like Aquaman. So where do I stand on this? well I have to be honest with myself as this is my review and I gotta say.

Final Verdict: 5/10

This is something you need to experience yourself to really tell if you enjoy this twist or not

There is some good action and good character development

The pacing feels rushed and there isn’t enough time to fully show this off satisfyingly

I do like the ending

#my hero academia 211 #my hero academia chapter 211 #boku no hero academia 211 #mha 211 #bnha 211 #deku midoriya #izuku midoriya #uraraka ochako #Mina Ashido #all might #toshinori yagi #neito monoma #shinsou hitoshi #aizawa shouta #class 1-a #class 1-b #sato rikido #jirou kyoka #sero hanata #reiko yanagi #nirengeki shoda #tsuyu asui #all for one #izuocha #dekuraka

[luigis-love]

SOUL MATE WORDS IV

A FANFIC FOR CHICCOLO WEEK 2019

@chiccolofans

CHAPTER 04

MIRRORS

 PICCOLO

 Goku was dead, sacrificed for the well-being of the human kind…

 The namek growled angrily and spat on the dirt below. All of that was no more than a pile of horse´s shit. He knew it, but he was not sure everybody else did.

 Vegeta knew it, and the prince was… well… lost about it.

 Goku was actually gone because he wanted new challenges, a new “life” surrounded by strong warriors to challenge daily. The fact that he was gone, only signaled that here in Earth, warriors were not good enough to give him what he wanted, and the only one that could arouse his need of fighting was his own son, who was not crazy about fighting anyway, and never in a million years would use his full strength against his own father.

 So yes, Goku was gone.

 A quiet sob reached Piccolo´s ears, and his fist clenched, his sharp claws almost digging in his emerald skin.

 That piece of shit…

   CHICHI

 With Goku in the hospital and Gohan gone to space just two days ago, Chichi felt like her life was nothing but a nightmare.

 Her hand started to move to her hip, but stopped in time, going back to the green sock she was sewing, the snores of her husband filling the stillness of the hospital room.

 Destiny has been destroyed, because those… those monsters had decided to arrive to the Earth Planet. Chichi felt her fingers tremble, and she was too slow to stop the needle that pricked her skin.

 With a hiss, the human woman sucked the blood, the metallic taste lingering when her eyes got lost in a blank point.

 Did he suffer?

 Did he die in the first blast?

 Chichi looked at her finger, watching in silence as a new drop of blood slowly formed.

 She felt his death way after the blasts… so, he did not die there… was he crushed? Trapped? Was he awake when he died? Was he unconscious? Or was he one of the victims that were rescued in time but died on their way to the nearer hospital in another city? Was he even there? Or the timing of his dead and the arrival of those monsters was just a coincidence?

 Her eyes were full of tears, and a sob escaped her lips. Chichi bent over and messily cried in her hands. Cried for her soul mate, who died and she felt it, cried because with everything that had happened she never really had time to do it, cried because even when she loved her husband, she wanted to meet him, wanted to know he was happy and not waiting for her…

 And he was gone…

 Chichi cried, and cried, a little bit louder every moment even when she tried to keep it quiet.

 Next to her, Goku kept snoring, a faint smile in his lips with the hopes of getting better and going to a new adventure in the Planet Namek.

   PICCOLO

 He knew her for quite a long time now, and never had he seen her like this…

 Chichi was wearing only black clothes, her eyes had purple bags beneath them, she was losing weight, and her demonic temper seemed to be tamed, like a fire that received a full bucket of water.

 Also, she was pregnant.

 He knew that when a woman was with child, she needed to slow down her activities and take a better care of her so that her health could help her unborn baby, but this woman seemed the exact opposite. She kept going and going and going, and going, her ki lowering a little bit more every day, her face no more than a mask to keep Gohan calm.

 Chichi stopped all of a sudden, her hand flew to the very small, almost unnoticeable bump in her belly. She gasped and held to the wall.

 In a matter of seconds, Piccolo was next to her, holding her with all the delicacy he was capable of.

 Chichi turned around and saw him… and very, very deep below, he saw that inner fire, a sparkle of who she was before so much pain, so many loses… she seemed ready to fight back and tell him to go to hell…

 But her words were different.

 -          Please… don´t tell Gohan.

   CHICHI

 Goku was gone.

 As soon as he was healthy from the hospital he prepared and left. He had no time of course, he had to save their son, and he was going after Gohan, to make sure he was safe. Against the safety of their precious child, she was not worth of some of his time, right?

 …..right?

 Chichi arrived to her house exhausted. She opened the door and was greeted by darkness and silence… not exactly what she had planned for her life that long time ago, when she was no more than a stupid little princess.

 There was dust everywhere, and her skin crawled at the mere vision. But she had no energy to clean it; all she wanted was probably a nap, rolled in a cocoon of bed sheets.

 She opened the door and sat on her bed, the weight on her shoulders heavier than the last time she remembered feeling crushed in her hopes and dreams… and this time, there were no words in her hip to provide her with comfort.

 Her eyes landed on the full length mirror in a corner of the bedroom, the one that had witnessed to many times her naked figure while she admired the phrase written in her skin.

 Chichi felt her eyes water.

 There was nothing in her skin, nothing…

 The world became a blur, someone was screaming in blind rage, and a lamp smashed the clean surface of the mirror, shattering it to pieces.

 She had no way to know that somewhere in the universe, her soul mate, with a halo over his head, opened his eyes from deep meditation and touched his clean skin just above his hearth, curious at that feeling that suddenly overwhelmed him without being his own.

 It lasted no more than five minutes, and it would take a whole night for Chichi to realize what she had done, but when nothing more than her cries were heard, the woman laid in the floor, surrounded by chaos, the chaos of her son, her husband, her soul mate, and her whole life, no more than a bunch of shattered pieces of hopes that died a long time ago.

   PICCOLO

  The namekian hissed to quiet Gohan from his happy screaming announcing he was back home from training. The teen looked at his teacher and best friend in wonder, until the tall warrior pointed in the sitting room with a sharp nailed finger.

 Chichi was sleeping on the couch, her jaw hanging down in a much undignified manner, both of her hands resting on her large belly.

 Gohan rubbed the back of his head and smiled stupidly; Piccolo rolled his eyes and pointed up to his student’s bedroom, making then a mimic of reading a book. The semi saiyan´s eyes bulged and rapidly moved his arms up and down in silent complaining, but hard meaningful looks from his master made him quiet and just obey. He made a mocking military salute and floated to his bedroom, caring that his steps would not wake his obviously very tired mom.

 Piccolo smirked when he saw the boy go away. He loved the child, and he was happy to train him (even when the kid was stronger than the namek), but he knew just how important it was for Chichi that her son kept studying, and he was not going to be the one to make her angry because the brat was not doing his part.

 The namek stood closer to Chichi and carefully slid his hands under her back and knees, raising her without any problem. He stood still a few seconds to make sure she did not wake up and smashed him right in the face with a frying pan. But Chichi kept sleeping heavily, a low rumble appearing on the back of her throat at the least than ideal position she was now in.

 He should move, seriously, he should take her to her bedroom and allow her to properly rest… but the namek remained silent and watching her in awe, something inside him stirring and making him feel more afraid than ever.

    CHICHI

 With her fingers covered in small bandages, Chichi dragged the last bag of trash and put it aside next to the house.

 Her fingers were numb, and she was angry at herself for allowing such a childish reaction that made her destroy her own bedroom.

 Because it was stupid, to be honest. Her son was going to be safe, his father was on his way to retrieve him and bring him back. And yes, her soul mate was dead. But that was not a bad thing, he was never going to appear and mess with her family life. That had to count as a win in her book.

 The woman carefully dusted off her fingers with a satisfied smile.

 She walked back to her bedroom and looked at the empty spaces that now surrounded the space. The mirror was gone of course, it surface smashed and the frame tore to pieces. Still, she needed somewhere where she could see herself in the mornings.

 With care, she carried a hammer, a nail, and an old small mirror from the attic. Careful as not to hurt her fingers even more, the managed to put the new mirror on the wall. This one showed from her head to her bust.

 And that was more than enough.

 She took a resolution then and there, to never look at her back again, never to face that empty space where her soul mate used to be.

 It was gone, and she needed to move on.

   PICCOLO

 It was disturbing how easily she fit in his arms.

 The namek walked the stairs silently, still a little bit perturbed with the thing, whatever it was, that was hammering inside his chest.

 Chichi´s right hand had slipped from her belly and now rested against his emerald chest, right above his hearth, and his hearth seemed way too happy to be this close to the female.

 The door opened at his command, no need to use the hands when his mind was powerful enough to move objects without touching them. He looked around the bedroom and felt a wave of sadness wash over him.

 This place was like a tomb, a memory of the times when Goku had been alive and shared a bedroom with his wife. Not that he cared that much about her anyway.

 The namek step closer to the bed and slowly put down the sleeping woman, who stirred a little, a faint smile on her lips when his green hand rested for a second on the back of her hip. He made a calming sound and stood unmoving, again praying to Kami that she would not wake and scream bloody murder when she found him half holding her on her bed.

 Chichi half moved, still smiling and she made herself more comfortable on her own bed. Piccolo said nothing. She was tired. Very, very tired. It was not only the pregnancy, which he knew was a serious and stressing business for human females. It was also that her baby was half saiyan.

 If the new brat ate like the one they already had, then the little cretin was basically absorbing all the energy his mother possessed.

 Too busy thinking and worrying, Piccolo did not stop to realize that inside his mind, when he was not overanalyzing his own thoughts, he had referred to Gohan as “their”.

 There was peace among the sadness now, and the namek wished he could lie next to her and also sleep. From the other room, he heard the faint sound of pencil writing on a piece of paper, and a book being closed.

 He had to go downstairs and wash the dishes… his hand roamed on the round belly, resting above a small bump… a foot perhaps?... the namek hummed calmly without noticing.

 Piccolo did not notice, but viewed from the right angle, the mirror on the wall reflected him there, sitting next to a sleeping woman who seemed to be happier than she had been in a long time. If the mirror had been a picture, it would have been the perfect image of a couple sharing the waiting for their child.

#chiccolo week #chiccoloweek #chiccolo week 2019 #chiccolo #piccolo #piccolo x chichi #chichi #otp #my OTP #alternate universe #soul marks #soul mates #time jump

[dragon-ball-meta]

Ohhh boy... -cracks knuckles- Let’s do this, shall we?

30. HIS DESTRUCTO DISC WAS THE STRONGEST KI ATTACK IN THE SERIES How does that not make sense? You’re starting your list off by not even framing your complaints correctly, as your beef isn’t the attack’s power, but that it’s underused. But even that’s explained. In short, the Kienzan takes up a LOT of energy. To form, to get it spinning fast enough, to throw, takes a bit out of the user. It’s also got several drawbacks, including, but not limited to, being quite loud. People can hear it coming and adjust accordingly. One can make a slightly weaker version they can steer, but that reduces its effectiveness.  Really, the Kienzan is only feasible in certain scenarios, at least until Krillin managed to gain the ability to control it without sacrificing power. 29. HE THOUGHT ANDROID 18 WAS DATING HER TWIN BROTHER Uh... ok? I mean I’m not sure how that ‘makes no sense’ but yeah, he made a mistake. Whoops? 28. HIS BODY MEASUREMENTS Bear in mind a few things here. Namely, that while Toriyama does depict these characters as “muscular”, it’s also lean. So the idea he should be ridiculously jacked is also a bit off. I believe the weight estimate also originally came back when the “Z” arcs started, so there’s that. Otherwise, this is probably one of the only legitimate points on this list. 27. THE REASON WHY HE SHAVES HIS HEAD ...again, how does this make no sense? He shaves his head as a sign of dedication to his practice of the martial arts and because he was taught it aided in the flow of ki in one’s body. That’s explained full well. Just because he ASSUMED Roshi shaved his head doesn’t make this not make sense. 26. HIS ABILITY TO BREAK THE FOURTH WALL It’s a comedy manga at heart. There’s jokes like this throughout. In Goku’s rematch with Yamcha, Goku hits him so hard that he actually breaks one of the borders between the panels and bounces off of it. It’s a thing in the series. Also, Idk why you’re referencing movies when they’re clearly not part of Toriyama’s continuity, but I’m reasonably certain that “lasted a season” was meant in terms of time passed, not “seasons” of a show. Especially as DB never had “seasons”. 25. HE NEVER TRAINED WITH WITH KING KAI Now this is what annoys me about this article. Y’all will take the anime and even movies into account when making this list... and yet with this complaint, you even have a screenshot of where he trained with King Kai in the anime. Yet you say he didn’t do it. Also, “with all the time he spends in the afterlife”? lol really?  24. HIS HEAD DOTS You... you literally explain this in full. How is this something that makes no sense? Literally how? 23. HIS REDUCED FIGHTING PRESENCE IN THE CELL AND BUU SAGAS Again, you explain this in the first paragraph of this entry. Yet you also talk about his activities in both arcs. So... how does this not make sense other than the fact that complaining about it makes no sense? I mean he still has a role, it’s just primarily non-combat. He carried the meat of the story in the Cell arc. 22. HIS BIZARRE CHILDHOOD "A lot of the pasts and families of Dragon Ball’s characters have been shown before (including Frieza's), but Krillin’s remains a mystery.“ Actually, no. They’re not. By and large, we learn very little about the pasts of any of these characters. We have only the vaguest details about anyone not Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, or Bulma, discounting the people we actually see born during the series. Kami’s past, even his name, is a complete mystery. Tien? No one knows his background outside being taken in by the Crane Hermit and training alongside Chiaotzu. This is not uncommon. But we actually do know a bit more about Krillin’s past in that he was raised at Orin, and he was abused. Daily. Frequently. It left him with a complex that lasted well into his adult life. He ran away one day in tears, determined he was gonna prove he wasn’t weak or worthless someday. That’s a good sight more than we’d gotten about most characters til recently. 21. HE NEARLY BECAME AN ANDROID You guys are reaching into arcade path endings from video games. Why am I not surprised? 20. HOW HE DEFEATED GOHAN DURING TOURNAMENT OF POWER PREP This is easily one of the worst offenders on this entire list if only because this is very, very easily explained. Hell, it was the point of them doing it. Gohan was operating with the wrong perspective, that Krillin going one on one vs a powerful opponent would, by necessity, be outclassed and overpowered and thus couldn’t be an asset. He was also under the assumption Krillin had gotten much weaker, unaware he was stronger than ever. Couple these things with both the fact that Gohan himself wasn’t near as strong as he used to be, and Krillin simply out-planning Gohan and beating him by using the rules of the arena against him vs trying to actually overpower him, and Gohan losing there makes perfect sense. Krillin simply overwhelmed all his senses, dropped out of sight and detection, and then simply knocked Gohan off-balance and shoved him out of bounds. Simple. Literally nothing hard to understand about that. 19. HE’S THE FIRST PERSON FROM UNIVERSE 7 TO LOSE IN THE TOURNAMENT OF POWER He’s the first one out because he actually ditched the safety of the group strategy and rushes out to rescue his wife, who was nearly eliminated first herself. He then teamed up with her for a bit and even took out a particularly skilled enemy himself by using his head. Then he was tripped out of bounds because he was distracted by (sadly) rare praise. It happens and it’s not indicative of “strength” or “power” at all. 18. HIS BATTLE STRATEGY AGAINST FRIEZA'S SECOND FORM Lord, here we go. Imma say this again: The Kienzan takes a LOT of energy to form and use. Krillin had just thrown like, twenty of them in a row and then had to run at top speed. The odds of him being able to produce a Kienzan in time are slim to none This is why, upon blinding Freeza, he was yelling for Vegeta (who was still FRESH, mind you) to attack Freeza now. But Vegeta was too paralyzed with shock and fear to act. I’d also like to point out that blinding Freeza wouldn’t have been super effective with an attack that Freeza could easily HEAR coming. He heard it at the last minute even over Gohan’s screams of agony, pretty sure he’d have heard it off to the side where it was just them too. 17. HE LEAVES HIS DAUGHTER IN THE CARE OF KIDS Yes. Apprehensively. At the insistence of his wife, who assured him she’d be ok and could take care of herself. Y’all really tried to use this to imply he’s a bad dad, wow. 16. HIS REGRESSIVE PTSD IN THE FOREST OF TERROR I’m not sure if I’m happy someone finally admitted it’s PTSD (#DragonBallAintDeepBro) or pissed off someone called this “regressive”. Wait no, I know exactly what I am, and frankly... WTF is wrong with you? How on God’s green earth is that Regressive? Are you, by the body of this entry, implying PTSD is a thing that exclusively happens to people who aren’t strong or “strong enough”? Either way, you missed the entire point of the episode, which you simultaneously admit was good character development. A development arc hinted at since the Buu arc really, but really kickstarted back in the BoG arc. The Forest of Terror was never about just strength or ability. Truly, the enemies seen there were only as strong or weak as Krillin empowered them to be by his fear and the ki he poured into them as a result. The point is they were a personification of Krillin’s own fears. His self-doubt and self-loathing. The condition was slowly killing him, his confidence was next to nothing, and it was affecting his life. His job. His family. It’s why 18 gave him the kick in the butt to start training again, to try to regain some of his confidence. It’s why Roshi sent them there; he saw the lack of confidence in the man. He saw his student in anguish, hating himself for not being more than what he was, but also fully believing he never could be. That he just wasn’t good enough. It’s why, even when facing enemies that his rational mind KNEW were weaker than himself, to say nothing of dead, he still panicked. His PTSD was triggered, vivid memories of what they’d done to him, the pain he suffered, came rushing back. And removing it was what finally allowed him to reach into his truest potential, and become even stronger than he’d ever been before. I also love the realistic way the series handled the condition, in that even as he tries to improve himself, he still has moments where it starts to kick in and he has to fight it off, will himself not to lose it. His wife knows it too and takes extra care (for the most part) to not let him slip back into it. But he refuses to allow it to control him anymore. How the hell that’s somehow a negative, let alone something that “doesn’t make sense”, is a mystery to me. 15. HIS "FULL POTENTIAL" THAT THE GRAND ELDER NAMEKIAN GURU UNLOCKED How is this really confusing? It simply allows him to tap into potential, power, that was blocked off. There are many factors that can contribute to it, be it limitations on time, plateaus, mental blocks, etc. The Grand Elder removed those and awaken that potential. It’s why Gohan and Krillin started to make the gains that they did at the rate they did, going from only about as strong as Goku had been on Earth to strong enough to help Vegeta overpower and potentially kill Freeza in his first form. 14. HIS YOUNGER CHARACTER TRAITS Y-you do realize you’re literally complaining about character development... right? Krillin grew up in an abusive environment where he felt he could trust no one, everyone was out for themselves, and that he had to do whatever it took to get ahead and be accepted as one of Roshi’s pupils so he had a chance to be... anybody, really. And yes, over time, between the influences of his friends and general maturing and growing up, he became a very kind, compassionate, and caring individual and a true friend. THAT’S. CHARACTER. DEVELOPMENT. And to present these traits as a “mistake” is to somehow suggest they came later. They were his original traits. 13. HIS BULLET INJURIES DURING HIS POLICE JOB Literally explained in Resurrection F, both the arc and the movie. Emptying one’s body of ki leaves it vulnerable. It should be his instinct to do so right away, but he doesn’t. He’s becoming careless and distracted. It’s part of his PTSD. Hell, Goku’s clearly not getting “that weak” and yet he also  got lightly bruised by a bullet because he didn’t keep his energy up, a sign he was falling out of practice due to his inability to find a training partner, or to leave to a place that would really push him in his training due to work. Also, if one being vulnerable to gunfire means they shouldn’t be a police officer, or any like job where there might be danger... well...  That’s dumb, my friend. 12. HE CAN PERFORM THE SPIRIT BOMB AND KAIO-KEN ATTACK Stop using video games to pad your list! SERIOUSLY! And how does “performing the Spirit Bomb” make no sense? Goku and King Kai both instructed him how to do it, and Krillin’s always been especially gifted at both energy manipulation and learning on the fly. Besides, it’s not as if he knows how to summon said energy himself, just wield and form it. 11. HIS ROMANTIC NATURE NEARLY DESTROYED THE EARTH Hot Take Time: Krillin’s decision not to kill 18 stemmed from general compassion, not just the fact that she kissed him, and his decision would have had NO impact on Cell had Vegeta followed through, done what he was supposed to, and killed Cell. Even if Vegeta, by some bizarre chance, failed? Trunks was there, and just as powerful. There were two people there capable of killing Cell. No, what nearly destroyed the Earth was Vegeta’s VERY conscious decision to actually HELP Cell reach his Perfect Form, something Krillin never imagined Vegeta would be stupid and selfish enough to do. And even then, Krillin told her to get lost and hide, and even offered to help her move 16 so she could. 10. HIS EARLY DISMISSAL IN FORTUNETELLER BABA'S TOURNAMENT ...IT’S A COMEDY AND HE GOT HIS WHOLE HEAD BIT INTO BY A VAMPIRE, WHAT’S HARD TO UNDERSTAND? FFS He’s still weaker than even Yamcha at that point. His quick thinking is also all that saved Yamcha’s ass from getting whupped into submission. 9. HE PASSES AWAY THE MOST... EVEN THOUGH HE’S EARTH’S STRONGEST HUMAN Oh lord here we go... a. He wasn’t at the time of his first death. b. That kinda doesn’t mean much when you have to fight an alien lizard or ancient demon who could dust you with their pinky. This only makes no sense if you utterly ignore any and all context. Vegeta, for example, has actually died just as many times as Krillin now (Freeza, Buu, Freeza again)... and he’s the second strongest in the roster. Goku has also technically “died” just as many times now too (Piccolo, Cell, Hit), as well as Piccolo (Nappa, Buu, Freeza).  Mr. Satan and Bulma have died the least of anyone. Hardly an indicator of power. 8. HE LIVED WITH HIS FAMILY AND MASTER ROSHI IN THE KAME HOUSE It’s housed Roshi, Oolong, Krillin, Goku, Yamcha, Umigame AND Launch in the past. Housing Krillin, 18, a baby/toddler, and Roshi is hardly filled to capacity. That said... they move. They move as soon as they can afford their own home, which is shortly after 18 gets her fall money from Mr. Satan. 7. HIS FUSION WITH PICCOLO I’d just like to state for the record that this is literally complaining about a fun drawing Toriyama did of what Krillin and Piccolo would look like Fused. That is all. 6. HE CAN ABSORB SPIRIT BOMBS AND USE THEIR ENERGY Aaand we’re back to video games. 5. HE’S THE STRONGEST HUMAN ON EARTH Ok now this one? This one is utter BS. Krillin outpacing Tien makes perfect sense since it’s been happening since Tien first appeared. When everyone came back for the 23rd Budokai? The gap between those two shrunk. A lot. Krillin had not only taught HIMSELF how to fly, how to steer energy after firing it, and more, but he’d improved to the point of Piccolo not only using his true power to beat him, but he managed to survive a blow Piccolo assumed HAD to have killed him... and made Piccolo question whether or not he was even strong enough to conquer this world even if he DID beat Goku. When the Saiyans came? Even smaller gap with the exact same time to train. And Tien even had the benefit of having Chiaotzu as a partner, Krillin was off finishing his training solo. And the Grand Elder awakening his dormant potential, as well as the combat experience on Namek, finally sealed the deal. After all, Yamcha was still intently training at that time too, and Krillin surpassed him. Why then is it so hard to believe he could surpass Tien? It also doesn’t help that Tien doesn’t actually train nonstop, despite what anime filler would have you believe. He runs a dojo and a farm to boot. Tien is also demonstrably still weaker than Krillin in Super and lasts longer in the Tournament because he and Roshi are taking cover and surprising targets to knock them out while they’re off-guard. So there’s that. 4. HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE EXCITING FOIL TO BORING GOKU He was created as a rival character to play off Goku and give Goku something to measure himself against. That doesn’t exactly mean he’s meant to be “more exciting”, but to bring an element of entertainment to the series that had been missing, as well as give Goku someone his own age to grow with. Nice dig at the character at the end though. Top notch. 3. HE NAMES HIS DAUGHTER AFTER HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND For the last time: Maron. Is. A. Filler. Character. Toriyama did not create her. Toriyama did not name her. Toriyama named Krillin’s daughter “Marron” because it’s French for “Chestnut”, which is a play on the fact that the first syllable in Krillin’s Japanese name, “Kuri”, also means chestnut. It’s not at ALL indicative of “lingering feelings” for a character that Toriyama didn’t even make, let alone doesn’t appear in his manga or continuity at all. 2. HE NEARLY ALLOWS VEGETA TO GAIN IMMORTALITY Well, it was more or less that or let the kid he’d sworn he’d keep safe die. I don’t really blame him for at least entertaining the idea at that point. An ultimately bad idea? Yeah. But one born of desperation. Hardly the first for characters in this series. And finally... 1. HIS MISSING NOSE ...wow. It’s... it’s a physical deformity. I’m not sure what about that doesn’t make sense? This list was even more of a dumpster fire than usual.

#Krillin #Screen Rant #ScreenRant #DBZ #Dragon Ball #Dragon Ball Z #Dragon Ball Super #DB #DBS #Dragonball #Dragonball Z #Goku #Son Goku #Vegeta #Android18 #Android 18 #c18 #Android Eighteen

[minoraugmentation]

Finally Found (Route 17 Fest Day 5: Reunion)

“Where are we? What is this place?”

“This looks like the Check-In Station to the Otherworld.”

“Didn’t think death would be so...normal. Waiting in line, really?”

One moment, Seventeen and Aki were staring death in the face, with nothing but a flash of pink before them. The next, they were waiting in line to be processed into the afterlife.

The cyborg was surprised, but also amazed. For someone who had never really been involved in any of the world’s disasters up to this point, Aki took everything with Majin Buu in stride. From entire cities being turned into candy to the majority of the world’s population being exterminated by energy, she didn’t break under the weight of it all.

“Honestly, this is kind of a relief.”

“What does that mean, Seventeen?”

He sighed. “This whole ordeal was rough. Never knowing when the final moment would come. I’m glad that, even if we didn’t end up making it out alive, at least we went out together, you know?”

Aki only chuckled. “You’re such a sap now. Six years really changed you.”

“What can I say? You tamed the wild beast.”

“Ahem.”

The two looked up, noticing they were at the reception desk.

“So, Mr. Seventeen, it says here. I remember you, from about seven years ago. How’s life been?”

“You could say it’s been alright.”

“Just alright? How offensive!”

Seventeen laughed. “Relax, Aki. You know I kid.” Turning towards King Yemma, the cyborg continued. “Life on Earth’s been great, honestly. Beyond anything I could have imagined.”

“Great to hear! Some of us were wondering if you’d end up here quickly after the first time, but you’ve really outdone yourself! The change you’ve underwent and the positive things you’ve done are incredible, so we’ll let you keep your body here.”

“And you, Miss Aki.”

“Yes?”

“Well, as the biggest reason for the change in our fine young man here, I’ll make a special exception for you and allow you to keep your human body as well.”

She smiled. “Thank you, sir, but it wasn’t all me. He always had the capacity in him to be good and never once showed otherwise.”

“Correct, but you actually gave him the opportunity to show that good and embraced him. In another time or place, he could have turned out completely differently, but he didn’t. And that’s a testament to both of you and your inherent goodness.”

“So what now, sir?” Seventeen was wondering where to go. Considering they were going to be here for a while.

“Both of you will be heading off to Heaven, but first, somebody wants to talk to you two, if you’ll allow it?”

The couple turned to each other and shrugged. “I don’t see why not. Is it somebody we know?”

“Aki has never met him, but you have, Seventeen. Just step outside, and he’ll be waiting for you.”

The door to the side of the reception desk opened, and Seventeen and Aki stepped out.

“No way. This isn’t real. Is it really you?”

Seventeen couldn’t believe it.

“It’s been a long time, Seventeen. I’m proud of you.”

That deep, gentle voice. The flaming red hair.

Sixteen.

Seventeen couldn’t hold himself back from embracing his brother.

“I missed you so much, Sixteen. Where were you? How have you been?”

“I, too, missed you Seventeen. I’ve been here this whole time, watching you and Eighteen from here.”

“But why?”

Sixteen smiled. “Seventeen, you and Eighteen were always of Earth. You were born as human beings and belong to the planet. The two of you always were supposed to return to Earth and live your life there.”

“But I was not a natural life of Earth. Dr. Gero created me from nothing, to replace the son he lost in war. The son whose death Dr. Gero blamed Son Goku for, creating an ambition that ultimately created me and modified you and your sister.”

“Sixteen, that doesn’t mean you didn’t have the right to return to Earth and live! You, above all, had an appreciation for life and gave everything to protect it. If anyone should have been brought back to life, it was you!”

“But Seventeen, I chose not to be brought back. I asked King Yemma to deny my resurrection.”

Seventeen stepped back.

“You chose to be here?”

“Seventeen, I am not immortal. My cybernetics would eventually malfunction. I would rust, and eventually waste away on the planet, years and maybe decades before you, a superior model, would. Here, I don’t have to worry about when my circuitry will fail, when I will be permanently deactivated. I have an eternity with various creatures around here.”

“Sixteen, I’m not superior to you. I never was.”

“Don’t be so hard on yourself, Seventeen. Dr. Gero originally researched cybernetics and used human experiments to see if he could bring his deceased son back to life through technological means, but he found it was impossible to revive someone who was already dead. By his standards, you are more successful than I ever was. You are someone who can grow stronger thanks to your humanity, while I cannot. But even removing the twisted doctor’s standards, your inherent goodness and humanity make you more than the mere machine you always viewed yourself as.”

“But I would never have found those things if it weren’t for you! You’re the one who taught me these things!”

“Then, Seventeen, I am glad that my spirit can live on through you. Because you have lived out a wonderful life these past seven years, and I am proud of you. Proud that you were my friend the time we were together, and proud that you became a man who protects all life.”

Seventeen knew he was crying. All this time, he had wanted to see Sixteen, tell him how much he had missed him.

“Thank you. I’m sorry that I ended up getting yourself killed. It’s my fault. If I could, I’d listen to you and get away. Maybe then, you’d still be with us.”

“Seventeen, do not blame yourself for what happened to Cell. Eighteen does not, and I do not either. You are not responsible for what happened to me. It is Dr. Gero’s sick, twisted ambition of world domination that led to my end, not you. Until the end, we defied the doctor’s orders and proved that we are our own beings that cannot be controlled, couldn’t we?”

“Yeah, big guy. You bet.”

“And you, who was supposed to be a harbinger of destruction on the planet, have become one of its finest protectors. Your life alone is proof that Dr. Gero can and will never get the best of you. Because in the end, your life has always been your own to choose, no matter what programming he installed.”

Seventeen embraced Sixteen again. “Thank you, Sixteen. I’m glad we finally got to meet again.”

“Likewise. Now, please introduce me to your wonderful girlfriend.”

“Gladly. Sixteen, this is Aki, who I’m sure you’ve seen help me. Aki, this is Sixteen, the friend I’ve been searching the Earth seven years for.”

“It’s finally nice to meet you, Sixteen.”

“The pleasure is mine. Thank you for looking out for Seventeen and giving him a chance.”

She shook her head, smiling. “It’s just as you said. Seventeen’s always been good and had the capacity to do good. I’m grateful that he trusts me: he has every right to be hateful towards the world, but he’s not. And now, he’s the greatest protector.”

“The two of you are wonderful. I am so happy for the two of you, that both of you can bring so much happiness to the other.”

“I can see where Seventeen gets some of his personality from. I can tell that you have the same love for life that he does, or maybe it’s the other way around. You made a major impact on him and helped him become who he is today.”

“And the same to you. His old personality has slowly returned, and Seventeen has become the fun-loving person he always was again. You helped him through a transition period and some of the toughest times he’s had. Even when he told you the truth, you accepted him in a way most would not.”

“I always told him that he’d see you again. Because he always made me believe that my dreams could come true, and so I wanted his to become reality as well.”

Seventeen paused.

‘No matter how unlikely it may seem that you’ll meet your friend again, I know you will.‘

Aki really had wanted his dream to come true for his sake. His dream became one of her own, and she was radiating with joy.

He knew he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. That no matter how long or short their lives would be, that they would spend their time together. Because he loved her, and she loved him. For just being Seventeen, it was enough.

He wouldn’t put it off any longer. Once they were wished back, he’d come up with a plan.

“Seventeen.”

He had been so lost in thought that he had failed to hear Sixteen, who had been calling for him for a while now.

“Yeah, big guy?”

“Please do not live bound to the past anymore. You are free from everything. What happened cannot be changed, and that should not affect how you live moving forward. You are not defined by Dr. Gero’s cybernetics or his ambitions. You live your own life of your own choosing. Your identity is your own. So continue to live out your best life, and continue to be truly happy. Not for my sake or anybody else’s, but your own. Because you deserve happiness, my friend.”

They embraced again. “Thank you, Sixteen. For everything. You’ll always be my best friend.”

“Likewise, Seventeen.”

Sixteen stepped back, smiling at the couple.

“I hope that the next time I see you two will be farther into the future. Live full lives and tell me stories about them when your time comes.”

Grasping his hand firmly, Aki nodded. “We will. Take care, Sixteen.”

A/N: Decided to this reunion, which isn’t necessarily what I would consider the original emphasis for the prompt. I thought about including the one I did for Eighteen and Seventeen already, but that’d make this mega-post even longer than it already is. You can find that in Chapter 1 of Learning to Live on FF (my username is the same as my profile, and it’ll be Chapter 2 overall, as the first is a prologue).

Keep sending feedback, everyone. These are all pretty rough drafts, but I’m glad people have mostly enjoyed them and commented on mutual/differing headcanons!

#android 17 #zoologist #route17fest2k18 #android 16

[tigerlover16-uk]

What do you think is the biggest difference between Frost and Frieza?

Frost is smarter than Frieza.

Frieza is a great villain, but he’s not much of a chessmaster. He got by because he was a born prodigy who never needed to train to be the most powerful being in the universe. He just overwhelmed his opponents and civilizations he wanted to conquer with his sheer power and sending swarms of minions at them.

And while he’s not unintelligent, far from it he can be smart when he needs to be, he does end up undermining himself with bad decisions. Wiping out the saiyans because they might pose a threat to him someday wasn’t a bad idea, for example, but keeping a few of them alive to help do his dirty work is what ended up bringing Goku to Namek, and thus led to Frieza’s downfall. Him playing around with Goku for as long as he did and not killing him first instead of Krillin when he had everyone cornered were also prime example of said cockiness.

And while those events were also just bad luck and he couldn’t have known what would happen, his overconfidence in his own abilities and never bothering to train and gain better control over his full power was entirely his own fault, since it caused him to lose to Goku both times they fought. Not perfecting his Golden Frieza form being the worse offense, it made sense for his character to rush to earth right after gaining all that power given everything we know about him so it wasn’t poor writing, but it WAS incredibly boneheaded of him, even with his back up plan.

It’s Frieza own poor decisions and overconfidence in his own power that constantly gets him screwed over, so while he’s an entertaining and well written villain, easily my favourite, I wouldn’t call him an especially smart one since it took him until the Universe Survival Saga to finally start learning from his mistakes and be more pragmatic.

Frost was in a different situation.  While he was definitely still powerful, he lived in a universe where the general population doesn’t seem to be as weak as the inhabitants of universe 7 outside of the Z fighters and a few gifted warriors here and there. The saiyans are an intergalactic defence force, and if Cabba, Caulifla and Kale are any indication they’re generally much stronger than the universe 7 saiyans usually were before they went near-extinct, their two strongest warriors before the genocide only reached a power level of about 10000 after all. We don’t know anything about the Metal Men, but if Magetta is any indication I bet you they’re a bunch of tough cookies. Namek in this universe apparently has fighters strong enough to compete in the tournament of power.

And of course, there’s Hit the legendary assassin, who Frost already seemed very much aware of when they first shared a scene together. Take all of these people into account, notice that Magetta at least gave Vegeta a much harder time than Frost did in his final form, and notice that we don’t hear or see anything of any family Frost has, so it’s possible there’s presently no King Cold in this universe and thus likely he wasn’t born into evil royalty so would have likely had to work his way up to power from scratch, and it’s pretty obvious that there was no way Frost could have just bulldozed his way through the universe with an army of pirates to conquer whatever he wanted the way Frieza handled things. He’d have faced opposition that could have probably stopped him, or someone would have just hired Hit to take him out quickly.

So, Frost had to compensate for his different circumstances by becoming clever, pragmatic and more skilled in his fighting style and how he handled his planet selling business strategy. hence, he manipulated everything to make himself look like a hero while he was really doing things that were just as horrible as most of Frieza’s antics. Albeit we don’t know if he caused any full on genocides because of how he operated, but Frost definitely left a lot of orphans with his actions.

Frost isn’t beyond getting his hands dirty. He fought pretty fairly with Goku in his assault form and then against Piccolo before both of them started to really overpower them, but Frost usually prefers to go for more pragmatic and tactical maneuvers in his fights. Like how he manipulated things in his fight with Roshi and Vegeta to trap the latter with the mafuba.

And really, it’s hard to argue that his manipulative tactics don’t garner great results. He was around doing his crimes many years after Frieza was beaten and then killed the first time, and he was only found out because Jaco happened to catch him in the act of poisoning his opponents and then Vados straight out told everyone what kinds of evil things he gets up to. And if he’d actually managed to beat Vegeta, keep in mind, CHAMPA WOULD HAVE HELPED HIM GET AWAY WITH IT ALL ANYWAY.

Frost only loses because he rushed in to attack Vegeta (Albeit he didn’t know anything about Vegeta or how fast and powerful he was. If he had Frost would have probably been more careful), and then later in the Tournament of Power because he got too comfortable around Frieza, who decided to give Frost a taste of his own medicine and stabbed him in the back before Frost could react. Both are genuine mistakes on his part, but they’re not overly stupid, they’re just bad luck in one case and momentarily poor judgement in the other.

Frost losing his temper and trying to shoot at Frieza from the stands was probably the only genuinely stupid thing he ever did, and he paid the price for it like he deserved for everything he’d done. But then again, he’d lost everything already before the tournament, and he’d just had his last chance to repair his business and life suddenly ripped away from him by a guy he’d foolishly trusted.

If his team didn’t actually lose the tournament, he could very well have been erased by Champa anyway afterwards for losing if he was in a bad mood, and even if not Cabba and probably the rest of the team wouldn’t have just let him get away scot free. He looked like he was having trouble processing the full weight of what his elimination meant for a moment after being ringed out, and then Frieza made fun of him and his abilities, rubbing salt in the wound. A moment of poor judgement and passion in the midst of realizing his life was truly ruined is excusable, honestly.

Other than that though, Frost always gives off an air of being in control of any situation, and unlike Frieza he’s not normally prone to angry outbursts when he doesn’t get his way. Which is why the one time it happened was significant. Even after Vados revealed he was really a planet brokering pirate, he just took a moment to laugh and gloat about his business strategy and then casually prepared to walk off stage. Because hey, the cat was out of the bag anyway, might as well have fun rubbing his atrocities in everyone’s faces while he could.

Frost may not be the strongest fighter around, but he’s capable of being a genuine threat to much more powerful opponents, including the likes of Goku and Vegeta, through sheer ingenuity, cunning and improvisation. And that’s not something we tend to see a lot of in Dragon Ball villains really, at least the major ones. It’s refreshing to see a villain who’s less powerful than most of our heroes who could still beat them just because he’s smart.

Frost was an interesting villain honestly. I was disappointed that we didn’t get the good version of Frieza we all thought we were getting at first, but in retrospect I’m pretty happy with how his character turned out anyway. It was still pretty fun to watch him, and he was a less conventional take on a alternate universe counterpart than what we thought we were getting, which really is Toriyama’s style when you think about it.

Too bad he died. Ah well, minor Dragon Ball villains rarely last long, at least he left an impact in the time he had. Hopefully he gets revived at the end of the tournament so we can see just a bit more of him in the future, but I can’t complain too much if that doesn’t happen. The way Frost died at least felt appropriate, in the end his downfall came from being manipulated and stabbed in the back by an even BIGGER scumbag than he was whom he thought he could trust. Fitting after the stuff he pulled, huh?

#dragon ball super #frost #frieza #dbs #dragon ball #dragon ball z #dragon ball super frost #dbz

[k18fics]

Oh Brother

Summary: A series of k18 one shots with an over-laying plot. Also featuring GCC, BV, GoVi, and more. Warning: general warning about the rating. Some chapters in this story will contain mature language, violent scenes, and adult situations. It is not recommended for anyone under 18 (not that I can stop you if you choose to read anyways.) I will warn you in advance so you can skip those scenes if you so prefer.   

Disclaimer: I do not own DBZ/S/GT or any of its characters. 

Warning: This  chapter has a scene of adult nature, feel free to skip.

12. Discussion 

It was only five minutes after they settled into bed together that android 18 spoke in that soft tone that told Krillin that she wanted to have a serious conversation.  They were cuddled together with 18 draping her leg over Krillin's thigh and her head tucked under his chin. She placed a gentle kiss on Krillin's chest and said, "I think we need to talk about something." 

Krillin looked her in the eyes but did not sit up until she did. They both sat crossed legged on the bed looking at each other. Krillin nodded and said, "what is it baby?"

"Marron really likes her cousins," 18 said.

Krillin smiled. "Yes she seems very happy."

"It got me thinking that maybe Marron could have a kid around here all the time," 18 said. "You know after 17 and his family move out."

Krillin's eyes shot open. "Wha--you mean..." he gulped. "Another child?"

18 nodded. "Marron could do with another sibling."

"B-but you said you didn't want anymore children..."

18's eyebrows crunched together in anger. "You don't want to have another child with me?"

"That's not what I said!" Krillin said waving his hands, "I'm just trying to understand what you're saying. We have to discuss pros and cons here."

18 calmed down and nodded. "I want Marron to have a sibling."

"Agreed, but do you remember your pregnancy?" Krillin said. "It was exactly planned but Bulma still had to monitor you constantly because of the android parts. It could be difficult like that again."

18 sighed. "It was not a good experience but worth it. Marron is the best thing to ever happen to us, and any other child I had with you would be the same."

Krillin smiled. "Of course. What about finances? I am doing really well in the police force but that is a a large expense to add to everything."

18 frowned at that. "You're right, that is not something I had thought about...and I'm always thinking about money."

Krillin chuckled. "Well it wouldn't be impossible, it'd just be difficult."

"Right."

"If knowing all of this you still want to have another child I am more than willing 18," Krillin said taking her hands. "You and Marron are everything to me and if we can add more to our beautiful family how can I possibly say no?"

"Good because I'm pretty sure I'm pregnant."

Krillin's jaw dropped. "What?"

"My human cycle has not occurred in three months," 18 said. "I'm pretty sure that means I'm pregnant."

Krillin stared at her blankly for a moment before he burst into tears and pulled 18 into a hug. "Oh baby that's so great! We're gonna have another baby!"

18 could feel his excitement through his hug and couldn't help but smile and hold him tightly.

...

*3 months earlier*

(This is probably the part you shouldn't read if you don't like nsfw content)

18 arrived at capsule corp at 9am sharp to pick up her specially made birth control pills. Apparently Dr. Gero had plans for an android army and their enhanced bodies made them both extra fertile so regular human birth control pills were not strong enough to actually avoid pregnancy. Thankfully Bulma was a bigger genius than Gero and enhanced the pills to make them strong enough for 18. 18 usually had to go for a refill every 3 months of so.

She was greeted at the door by young Trunks and Pilaf and his gang. "Hi android 18! Are you looking for my mom?"

"Yes Trunks is she home?"

"She had an emergency in Satan City at one of the factories and rushed out, she asked me to give you this note."

18 took the note and read it:

Dear 18, sorry for not being here something just came up, I don't trust my son with your pills so I sent a capsule carrier over to your house with the pills. It should be arriving tonight. Sorry for wasting your time! See you soon,

Xoxo

Bulma

18 sighed and said, "thank you Trunks."

She took to air and flew towards Chichi's house to pick up Marron from her play date with Goten. She landed in front of the house where Chichi was grumbling in frustration and both Goten and Marron were hollering and cheering.

18 stepped closer and saw that the two children were cheering on a spar between Goku and Krillin. Krillin was wearing just his gi pants. His shirt had been torn off and was lying in the dirt. His muscles were bulging and sweaty and there were scratches and bruises all over his skin. Goku didn't look any better because his gi was completely covered in large weights that were pulling him down.

It was obvious that the weights slowed him down greatly and it gave Krillin the chance to actually inflict damage on his considerably stronger friend.

18 gulped. She felt like a dog in heat. Krillin was practically glistening underneath the sun and 18 was drooling at the thought of licking off that drop of sweat that was sliding down his lean torso. She wanted to follow it down to his belly and then lower.

Goku lunged at Krillin with a yell of fury but Krillin caught the fist and delivered a swift kick to his chest. Goku stumbled backwards but was careful not to pass the line of leaves that they had used to create a ring.

Goku zoomed towards Krillin again this time dodging the kick and slamming Krillin in the back. Krillin tumbled to the ground but did not fall out of the ring. He jumped to his feet narrowly dodging Goku's foot that had slammed into the floor right next to where he had been moments earlier.

18 saw a flash in Krillin's eyes and she knew he had a plan. The smirk that crossed his face made her body tremble with desire.

Krillin walked towards the edge of the ring and suddenly dropped to his knees with a painful groan and Goku came at him to finally push him out of the ring. 18 grinned and Chichi cried out, "Goku it's a trick!"

Through all her complaining and whining, Chichi had been silently supporting Goku the entire time. Goku stopped in his track at the words but it was too late, he had already fallen. Krillin leaped high into the air over Goku's head, with both of his feet he hit Goku's shoulder blades. Goku tumbled forward and since he was so close to the edge of the ring he fell right out.

Marron cheered loudly as Chichi said, "Goku how could you fall for that trick?"

Goku scratched his head and laughed, "good spar Krillin. You really got me! It won't be so easy next time."

"I don't imagine," Krillin said giving Goku a fist bump. He turned around and said, "oh hey 18! I wasn't needed at work today so I thought I'd train with Goku then take Marron home. I thought you'd be longer at Bulma's."

Krillin didn't know about the pills he thought they just got together for girl talk or something.

"Bulma had a work emergency," 18 said. "Come on let's go to the lake and get you cleaned up."

"Yeah here's your other outfit Krillin," Chichi said with a knowing look towards 18. "You guys should stay for dinner, I cooked porkchops and filet mignon steak."

"Chichi that sounds perfect!" Goku said salivating.

"Well go shower first, you will not sit at my dinner table all sweaty and gross," Chichi said. "Kids play for a bit more, dinner is almost ready."

"We'll be back shortly," 18 said taking Krillin's hand and tugging him towards the lake.

"I can clean myself up babe," Krillin argued as she rushed them into the woods. "Also why don't I just use the shower in the guest bathroom?"

"Shut up will ya?" 18 said throwing Krillin against a tree. Krillin grunted at the impact but before he could protest 18 was kissing him.

18's breathing was hard and erratic as she shoved her tongue into his mouth and ground her hips against him. It took only moments before she felt his hardness pressing against her.

She slid one hand into his pants and stroked him once. He groaned lowly and gripped her shoulders. "18, fuck, we are, expected at dinner, ah..."

"Then shut the hell up and fuck me."

She backed away from him and pulled her underwear out from underneath her skirt. That was all it took for Krillin to lunge at her like a panther. He slammed her into another tree that creaked loudly at the impact. He raised her up against it and she wrapped her legs around his waist. With one hard thrust he was inside of her.

18 grunted loudly and gripped his shoulders. He started moving his hips hard and fast instantly. His gi pants were pooled at his feet but that did not stop his momentum. He pushed off the ground with his feet as hard as could plunging into her deeper and harder.

18's skin would bruise from the impact if she has been a regular human, but she encouraged him to go faster and harder. He pushed more and more until 18's eyes clenched shut and a cry ripped from her throat.

Krillin grunted and thrust erratically before releasing himself into her.

...

*Present Day*

Bulma glanced at the couple over her desk. "Seriously? Three months 18 and you didn't think to get checked? You know how dangerous it could be."

"I missed a few cycles I thought that happened to females often," 18 said with a shrug.

"Missing cycles? No not at all," Bulma said shaking her head. "It can happen to some women but it is no way normal, especially not for three months in a row."

"So what now?" Krillin said.

"The test results should be in very soon and then we can proceed from there," Bulma said. "If this is anything like your pregnancy with Marron your android parts are going to try to assimilate the fetus to create an android baby. I worked very hard to stop that from happening, so I did create some prototype prenatal pills that can help with that."

"Prenatal pills? When did you do that?" Krillin said.

"After the craziness of your first pregnancy...you know just in case."

"Do they work?" 18 said.

"I don't know, you weren't pregnant to try them out, until now."

There was a beep and Bulma sighed. "Okay the results are done."

Krillin took 18's house nervously as Bulma typed away on the computer reading the results. After a moment Bulma looked at them and said, "the results are positive. Android 18, you are pregnant."

#k18 #krillin and android 18 #krillin 18 #krillin #android 18 #18 #dragonball #dragonball z #dragonball s #dragonball super #fanfic #fanfiction #oh brother #kuririn #juuhachigou

[raoulbathletics-blog]

Rubbermaid Weights, Goku, and a 7 year-4 year Degree

I have always loved fitness; well I have always loved lifting weights.  Fitness involves much more than lifting weights like running. I’ll be honest, I can not stand running, it sucks.  I have a “rep the weights faster” as a cardiovascular ideology. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not hating on runners or endurance athletes.  I actually envy y'all (I’m from the south, I say y'all, don't expect it to change).  With that being said, yes I do admire your capacity for long duration cardio endurance but I also believe a “Man” shouldn’t weigh less than 185 pounds or be beardless. Thats another blog later on. 

As long as I remember I was into pumping iron. When I was a kid I idolized figures such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, The Rock, The Incredible Hulk, and Goku.  Yes, I know the last two or cartoon characters, but a lot can be learned from Goku’s dedication and commitment to training and nutrition.  If you didn't get hyped AF and start beating the shit out of your bedroom walls when Kakarot went Super Saiyan you aren’t even human.  I’m a nerd, so what, I can bench press a Fiat.  Anyways back to my childhood and lifting weights.  To this day I can still remember my first weight set.  It was this tiny little bench with a “barbell” that was the diameter of a broomstick and the weights were these plastic case container like things that were filled with concrete or sand. Pretty much what I had was a weight set made by Rubbermaid. There was even a cap you could unscrew on each one where you could let a little sand out or add some. I loved that damn weight set, I thought it was awesome, but hey I was 9 years old and I was about to be like Arnold (growing up all my friends wanted to “Be like Mike”, I wanted to be the Terminator).  Something about lifting weights and growing muscle has always intrigued me.  I believe my Dad had a part in my fascination with working out.  My dad has always been built, maybe not as aesthetic or as big as my celebrity and cartoon idols but compared to my friend’s fathers and anyone that I personally known my dad was, still is, swole.  My dad was the one to show me what a bench press, bicep curl, and lat pull down were.  Let’s just say he paved the way for me. Now my father showed me the in and outs of the weight room, but my perception of pure brute strength came from my mother and the rest of the Boughtons.  Those Boughtons let me tell ya.  Have you heard of the term “Construction Strong”? Well if you looked up that term in the dictionary, there would be a picture of the Boughton Family.  Now I have never seen my uncle touch a dumbbell but he could pick up an 80 pound sack of concrete in each hand and scale a ladder at the same time, the crazy thing is my mom would be right behind him with another sack a concrete.  You’d think we were a family of vikings, if it weren't  for most of us being vertically challenged and that one tan skinned kid aka me.  The Boughtons are just a solid group of individuals with a tenacity for work, not desk jockeying work, but physical manual labor in the elements of nature type of work. To this day, my 72 year old grandmother still mows 1 acre of grass with a push mower.  The damn thing isn't even self propelled. That’s what I call Functional Fitness; yeah cool “Fran” time bro but can you mix concrete with a shovel and wheel barrow, frame a house or build an award winning Mardi Gras float in less than a week.  I think not. Again being able to lift weights and not call a “professional” to change your light bulb is another blog topic for a later date. I owe a lot to my family and my upbringing for my love of working out. The patriarch of the Boughtons, my grandfather, is who I received my first protein shake.  Now I’m not talking about the delicious whey protein shake you and I are accustomed to today. I’m talking old school; glass of whole milk, 4 raw eggs, and a tsp of vanilla extract-protein shake (needless to say this was my first and last “old school” protein shake). 

I was 15 when Hurricane Katrina hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast (if you are not familiar with this area, the location I am talking about is “The Landmass” between New Orleans and Alabama). Everything was destroyed and we didn't have school for months, so there wasn't anything to do besides to either work out and/or make a little pocket change gutting houses and cleaning debris. Let me tell you, tearing down soaking wet, moldy drywall got old quick. There was a few of us that really got into working out at this time; one of which really got into it, stuck with it and he now has his IFBB Pro Card.  Ready for this, the dude is a VEGAN... Which is not totally unheard of these days.  To compete in the world of bodybuilding it’s 90 percent diet, I don’t care what you say, it is.  So when your food intake is all veggies and you are committed to pumping iron, yeah you are going to be shredded.  

So we all hit the weights pretty hard from sophomore to senior year of high school.  You know you're doing something right when your classmates all claim that you're on roids.  “Nah’ bruh, blame it on genetics, two a days at the gym, copious amounts of grilled chicken breast and the occasional case of Keystone Light. (what, I was carb loading).  I played football in high school a couple of times but I kept getting injured in the weight room due to poor programming and improper coaching on weightlifting technique from my “all knowledgeable coaches”.  I got stronger outside of the football weight room by going to other gyms and doing research on my own.  This is one of the reasons I later finally chose a career path that I’m in now.  

Then came college. I know you’ve heard of “Gaining that Freshman 50″. Well I took it up a notch and gained a whopping 70 pounds after high school.  I was what you called a career student.  I took advantage of everything college had to offer, except the academic part. I didn't hit the books hard until my 3rd freshman year and finally chose a major and stuck with it.  Prior to this I hopped around from engineering, only because my friend was doing it (the same one that is a vegan body builder but I quickly realized that my math capacity was limited to counting by 45′s) to pre law (but at this time I turned 21 and there was no need to use my fake ID anymore), to finally figuring why don't I do something relevant to what I love, Working out.  At this point I was 4 years into a relationship with my now wife and most of her family are educators and coaches.  I stated earlier how often got hurt often in the high school weight room and I wasn’t the only one.  I also had only like 2 influential teachers  in my high school career, (thank you Sheila and Monty G).  So I decided to go into coaching with an emphasis on strength and conditioning with a minor and history.  For people that don't know, if you plan to coach a high school team you'll have to teach a class too.  So I chose another topic that I really like, History, (there’s no way in hell I’m teaching math unless its only kilo to pound conversions or counting plates on a barbell).  I felt like I needed to be in the classroom and in the weight room to positively motivate and inspire kids.  After a 7 year stint in college and over $40k in student loans, I finally received that 4 year degree everyone rant and raves about. Another blog for another time. 

With that being said, I fuel planes to pay the bills.  Remember how I said my now In Laws are teachers. Well they also tell me stories of the job.  It’s not the kids that have deterred me from the job, it’s the parents.  I honestly don’t wont to deal with y'all all knowing, ignorant, neglectful, pig headed, selfish A-Holes.  Now I know not all of you parents are like this but there’s a select few that I really don't have the time or patience for.  I give props and thanks to all teachers out there.  You are a group of people that are underpaid and under appreciated for what y'all do and put up with.  

After 4 years and counting in the aviation industry, mortgage doesn't pay itself,  I finally had the opportunity to  live the American Dream.  I am now an entrepreneur that owns his own business, Rah’s Gym in Bay St. Louis, Ms.  I could have easily pursued my dream in an easier way and be a personal trainer at someone else’s gym.  Do you see the problem with that last sentence?  I’ll break it down for you. In order to truly succeed the route should never be easy.  I think there’s a difference between being a personal trainer and strength coach. Lastly, being at “someone’s else’s gym” didn’t sit well with me.  Especially since there weren’t any “gym’s” near me.  Yes, there were health clubs, and fitness centers, and judgement free zones with pizza parties, but there were no gyms.  So with the determination to finally get my Freshman 70 off, oh yeah it’s still there, and an increased limit on my card I opened my own gym.  A real gym.  I have no air conditioning, no smith machines, and a bunch of free weights.  When people ask where my cardio section is, I simply point to the one elliptical and to the road on side of the gym and say “There’s no better cardio than feet to pavement.”  

Rah’s Gym has been open for 8 month’s now and business is good for being the niche, non commercial, mainstream gym that it is.  I’ve learned a lot so far; not just about running a business but about the field that I love.  You know there’s so much more to working out besides heavy singles and curls for the girls.  I know right, who would have thought.  I house all types of athletes at the gym; Functional Fitters, aka crossfitters that don't like to be sued, Body Builders, Power lifters, Mixed Martial Artists, and even Triathletes. 

It’s an exciting time to be in the fitness industry.  People are finally giving a shit about their health and quality of life, and I want to be a part of it. I plan on losing my Freshman 70, are you. 

Lift heavy, run efficiently, and rest often.

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball Z 019

Not a hoax, not a dream, not an alternate reality!   Goku finally meets King Kai in this episode.

Yeah, I’d be surprised too, if I were Goku.

When Goku first got here, he thought the monkey was King Kai, but no, it’s just King Kai’s pet Bubbles.   Bubbles, of course, was named after Michael Jackson’s pet chimpanzee.   I looked him up and apparently he’s still alive, although Jackson had to turn him over to an animal sanctuary in 2003 because he was getting to big and strong to keep as a pet.    I never knew this before.   I had heard of chimp owners getting viciously attacked and losing fingers, eyes, and faces, but I didn’t understand how it ever got to that point.   Apparently the chimpanzees that everyone thinks are cute are just young chimpanzees.    The adults are much bigger and more aggressive, to the point where humans just can’t control them.     At least in the case of Bubbles (the real-world chimp, I mean), it took twenty years for him to get to that point.  

Maybe that’s why people think they can keep them as pets in the first place.    They don’t realize that chimpanzees have such long lifespans.    A cat or a dog might die of old age before getting anywhere close to 20, but a chimpanzee is just reaching adulthood.    That’s nuts.   I’m 42.   If I adopted a baby chimpanzee right now, I’d be in my 60′s right around the time he’s old enough to dismember me and anyone else who tried to come to my aid.   That’s just insane.   No one needs to be doing that, I don’t care who you are.    I’ll bet you a dollar MJ probably waited too long to give up Bubbles, too.   It’s probably more like fifteen years and then you’re in moral peril.   

Like, big cats, that’s another stupid thing.  On paper, they pretty much act like house cats, maybe.   Even if that were true 100% of the time, they’re still huge.   A house cat will claw you for no good reason.   They’re assholes, but we keep them as pets because they’re small enough that they’re not dangerous.   If a lion got a little overeager at playtime, he’d probably disembowel you and not even realize he’d done it.  Oh he might feel real sad about it afterward, but you’re still dead.    I’ve encountered enough sketchy dogs in my lifetime that I wouldn’t want to mess around with anything bigger and less domesticated.  

You know what?   Horses are kind of bullshit too.   People act like they’re totally fine and you can sit on top of one and nothing’ll happen, but that’s insane.   Christopher Reeve knew what he was doing and look what happened to him.   Forget riding them, I don’t trust their giant teeth.   People hold food up to their mouths like it’s no big deal, but I bet a horse could bite your finger off and not even care.   You get stitches and have to re-learn how to hold a pen, and Mr. Ed probably gets put out to stud because “You just didn’t handle him right,” or whatever.   No.   Not me, pal.    I don’t hate horses.    They’re beautiful animals.   Steel Ball Run was great.   I just don’t want to be anywhere near one, for the same reason I don’t want to be anywhere near a minefield. 

Sorry, I got off on a tangent.   My point is that Michael Jackson took Bubbles to Japan for a world tour in 1987, and Wikipedia says Bubbles drank tea with the mayor of Osaka, so I’m betting that had something to do with King Kai’s pet monkey.    But I trust King Kai to have a pet monkey, because he’s super strong and Bubbles seems pretty chill.

Where was I?   Oh, right, King Kai’s super into puns, which seems to be a stable of Japanese humor, probably because there’s so many homonyms in the language.   None of this translates very well into English, which is why the subtitles rely on rhymes instead of puns, or just really, really bad puns.    The Funimation Dub just fell back on corny jokes, like “What’s the difference between a jailer and a jeweler?”   There’s puns incorporated into the jokes, but from what I can tell the Japanese version is strictly into wordplays without setups or punchlines.  

Goku has to fake laugh a lot around King Kai, because he threatens to not train him unless he has a sense of humor.   This is why puns suck, by the way.   Used sparingly, and with great care, they can be very funny, but too many people try to use brute force in place of comedic timing.   “Hey, baby, do you have 11 protons?   Because you’re sodium fine?”   The words “sodium” and “so damn” sound almost nothing alike, but they share exactly four letters, so someone decided it barely qualifies as a wordplay, but we all know that it really doesn’t.   The “joke” is actually that it’s not a very good joke at all, since the setup takes forever to execute, and it telegraphs the punchline, which requires a lot of mental gymnastics to even interpret as a punchline.   It doesn’t provoke laughter so much as a feeling of “Oh, I guess that is vaguely a word play, so it’s mildly clever.”    The real satisfaction of telling this is to irritate people.     You can either laugh at the joke and pretend it’s funny, or you can no-sell the joke and everyone gets a tickle out of how “humorless” you are, when no, it’s the joke’s fault for not being funny.   

What makes King Kai a funny character is that he’s the gag.   Humor is about reversing expectations, like when you read an anime liveblog and the guy starts ranting about how you can’t trust horses.   Goku was sent to train under this guy because he’s like the god of all the Kamis on every planet in the universe.    He’s supposed to be the best possible instructor there is.   Then Goku runs all this way to meet him and all he wants to do is talk about puns.    He sounds exactly like the narrator (or, if you’re watching it in English, he sounds like Goku doing a funny voice, which is also kind of freaky when you think about it.)  

But the biggest punchline is that he’s not even that powerful.  Oh, he’s stronger than Goku, sure, but the Saiyans heading for Earth are still stronger, so Goku will have to surpass King Kai just to stand a chance.   And it took Goku over six months just to get here.   He’s got 158 days to close the gap, and he just wasted ten minutes on a free comedy lesson.   The world is going to end.    But not yet.   One sells watches, the other watches cells.

First thing’s first, Goku needs to get acclimated to the intense gravity of King Kai’s planet.  As small as the planet is, the gravity is ten times that of Earth, which is why Goku is having such a hard time moving around.   But the other Saiyans all grew up on a planet with the same gravity, so it’s just as well that he get used to this now.   King Kai tells him to chase Bubbles around until he can catch him, and once he pulls that off, he’ll be ready to train in earnest.   

Goku struggles at first, but then he remembers to take off his weighted training clothes to make things easier.    He wasn’t even wearing those when he died, so it’s kind of weird that he got to keep them.   

Goku also asks for a meal, since he hasn’t eaten since Princess Snake’s place.  King Kai finds it unusual that a dead man would be hungry, which sort of makes me wonder about all the other Saiyans who have died.   Do they hunger, even without their bodies?   Best not to think about it. 

King Kai tells him to put his weighted gear back on, since it’ll make the training more effective.   Goku isn’t keen on that idea, but King Kai explains to him how dangerous the Saiyans are, and how he’ll need to do whatever it takes to defeat them.

But Goku’s not worried because he’s a Saiyan himself.   That... hasn’t exactly helped him so far, but I like his confidence.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, Piccolo is still training Gohan.    Gohan finally manages to score a blow on Piccolo, so I wanted to make note of it here.   Good hustle, Son.

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In spite of Piccolo threatening to murder his father, Gohan tells him that Goku always used to say that the current Piccolo isn’t as bad a guy as the previous King Piccolo.   Gohan agrees with that sentiment.

So Piccolo gets all tsundere on him.    “I’m totally gonna kill your dad, b-baka!”

Back on King Kai’s planet, Goku indeed manages to catch Bubbles.    Even with the weighted training clothes on.   Good hustle, Son.

King Kai is impressed.   To overcome the gravity in just one day is remarkable in itself.

He even entertains the hope that Goku might be able to master the Kaio-ken technique.   But those beads of sweat on his head suggest that we’re a long way from a guarantee.

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