Goddamnit Poptart, you broke the colour formatting again! How do you keep doing that?
*sigh* Which post? I swear, I haven't touched the color on any them...
@PoptartProdigy I was just wondering, which of the movies are canon?
Lessee, off the top of my head...honestly, it's more a matter of which I would
discount. And off the top of my head, I'm not coming up with any. A lot of the movies were outright abysmal, but the concepts were usually good or at least didn't break anything, and this way I can keep the concepts without having to actually watch the movies; net win for me. So, bearing in mind that they lose the canonicity contest to...well, everything besides GT, basically...they're all in.
@PoptartProdigy, I had an idea for a New Tricks: Age-Up. It gives Kakara an adult body for a limited time, granting the bonuses associated with an adult body like increased HP and a greater pool of ki. It's in-line with other esoteric abilities like Four Witches and Multiform.
This is completely silly. I'm going to assume that this was your sleep-deprived brain trying to make the culture you're developing seem more unique. Make it something that makes more sense, like they enforce the rule in support of the House system and to reduce complications in that regard. The idea that they mentally cannot conceive of houselessness is a plain bad one that shouldn't be present. I'd present more coherent points against it but that would feel like arguing why the Winchesters are not in a gay incestuous relationship to a guy who thinks they are, it's just uncomfortable.
Age-Up sounds like something I usually reserve for sorcery, but I'll think about it. The comparison to Four Witches and Multiform is particularly apt.
They live among Garenhulders, they're
aware that houselessness exists. I pick my words very carefully; and here I said that to them, not having a house "
makes no sense." IRL, I have personally spent twenty straight minutes trying and failing to communicate the concept that Far Eastern cultures often use family-given name structures as opposed to the Western given-family. He got it in the end, but because I didn't immediately comprehend that I needed to explain the idea from base principles because the connection just wasn't being made, we spent that much time talking past each other because the idea just wasn't in his world. Similarly, if somebody with no family name (which some cultures do practice) introduces themself by their given name only, everybody in a more Westernized culture will automatically assume that they're simply withholding their family name. "What's your name?" "Placeholder." "Placeholder what?" "Just Placeholder." "Well fine, if that's how you're going to be about it." The person
just said that Placeholder was their only name, but the person they're talking to doesn't have, "has no family name," in their schemas. You need to go
all the way back to the very idea of names to explain the idea to them.
This is what I'm digging into here. The saiyans are aware of houselessness in the same way that (some) Westerners are aware that Japanese names go family-given rather than given-family. But the assumption upon seeing a name -- before they correct themselves or are corrected -- will be in line with their cultural presumptions, that being that names go given-family. In the case of the Exiles, houselessness is the last presumption, and it's not one that their culture provides for. Given that new houses are freely allowed to be formed, what with the population controls removed, there's no reason for people to try and break out when they can instead start their own, so there aren't any saiyans who even
care to challenge that assumption.
Now, I have gone back and edited my post for clarity, because I was intending to imply that the person defiantly splitting off from their house would be accepting of the change. And after all, they've little reason not to; not only is houselessness something their culture doesn't provide for, starting their own house turns them from some random schlub into lesser nobility!
In short, they possess and understand the concept; they simply don't see it relating to them in any meaningful way beyond the intellectual level.
But regardless,
This is completely silly. I'm going to assume that this was your sleep-deprived brain trying to make the culture you're developing seem more unique.
That's not cool. If you disagree with me on something, that's fine. I'm open to debate. But
that's discourteous.
Please don't harm the Poptart! We'll pay the ransom!
