- Location
- Rockford, USA
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Just one'll do. Struck from the cookie jar, and I'm sure Kakara is deeply appreciative.
Dragon Ball: After the End
Just one'll do. Struck from the cookie jar, and I'm sure Kakara is deeply appreciative.
Khona Moshr
Pink Flamingo Cabal Healer(they/them)
- Location
- Alabama
- Pronouns
- They/Them
I say try one or two updates with you announcing important rolls related to the vote with so much time for whoever has a cookie to say what roll they want it on, the hardiis deciding how much time is enough and when you say what rolls are involved
Close of Business
- Location
- Rockford, USA
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] Worry. Vegeta Vegeta was a monster, we may have gone someplace wrong if we are reminding anyone of him, even the Lady Vegeta.
As I noted in the vote tallies, I've interpreted this as the "take a step back and self-examine" option.
As I noted in the vote tallies, I've interpreted this as the "take a step back and self-examine" option.
Close of Business
You find yourself taking a step back.
This isn't right.
Oh, not yelling at her. A small part of you regrets that, but the greater part is yelling about how out of line she is in the first place and how justified you are in getting angry at her. She had no right.
Nor are you particularly worried about transforming. Sure, it might have been in the heat of the moment, and a product of your own hot temper, but you don't think anybody could have reasonably expected you to stay restrained while she was lecturing you like that. She is not your mother, and even if she was, speaking to somebody like that is just cruel. Or worse, thoughtlessly so. At least her husband hurt people on purpose.
No, you're simply concerned that she's linking your actions to him.
You don't hate Lord Vegeta. Once, you might have thought you did. You would have sung it from the stratosphere, lacing your lungs and throat with ki and letting the noise carry to the other side of Garenhuld and back. But you know better now. Hate is such a strong word. It means a lot of scary things. It means you're willing to do bad things, bad in the way that your new understanding of violence allows you to grasp. And so no; you don't hate him. Not since last summer.
You hate this woman, huddled here in front of you. The only reason you don't attack her on sight, let alone seize the opportunity presented by her sobbing, is because Jaffur has the first claim. It's not like you're having to fight against a constant tide of hate -- no, your hatred is a cold thing, hammered down by half a year of thinking over your reaction to the Sealing, and another year of constant reinforcement, as your home slowly tore itself apart over her actions. You're in no danger of snapping and going after her, simply because you've internalized, down to the bedrock, that you need to keep her alive for Jaffur to kill personally.
If he -- or rather, Jaron -- were to die tomorrow, without his ki to save him, you'd scorch the earth for miles around getting to her.
That probably isn't a healthy feeling for you to have.
You don't care.
And it also grants you perspective. You don't hate Vegeta. You dislike him, and you'll let Jaffur do whatever he wants with him once the boy is released, but against the seething spite you feel for Dandeer, that's nothing. He's an enemy. You'll deal with him, if necessary. But you don't hate him. He's simply...contemptible. Despicable.
And you've just been compared to him.
And even if you don't hate him, Vegeta is thoroughly despicable, and you hate being compared to him. If somebody is comparing you to him -- if anybody is, even her -- you may have gone very badly wrong somewhere.
You haven't reversed your transformation yet. In fact, it's still wholly uncontrolled -- little snaps of electricity occasionally leap out across the walls, and if it weren't for the fact that Lady Vegeta asked for one of the private, soundproofed, ki-shielded rooms for this little talk, you're sure Dad would be in here right now.
You ponder for a moment, and then very deliberately don't reverse it. You merely reign it in, reducing it to a restrained aura of pure, golden light as you bring it under your full control. No electricity involved; not for somebody with any measure of control over themselves for the first level. The second level is supposedly different, but...well, nobody's achieved that in centuries, quite by design.
You've gotten sidetracked. You tilt your head, scowling at Lady Vegeta. She lifts her tear-stained face to meet yours as the storm surrounding you subsides.
"'Vegeta?'" you say, raising your eyebrows. "I haven't touched you."
She shakes her head, eyes locked on yours. "N...no..."
You think for a moment. The situation flashes through your mind, and you consider the root of it: are you like him?
Finally, you come to an answer, and say, "He transformed, didn't he? Whenever he would hurt you."
She nods.
You let out a little hum, and lean in close, until your aura nearly brushes her face. You stare at her through the golden curtain enshrouding you. "Too bad."
Her eyes widen.
"I won't say I'm sorry for transforming," you say. "I won't wrap myself up in chains and keep this locked away for the rest of my life because it scares you to see it. I'm not sorry. This form is me. Like I'm me. It's me and it's mine, and I don't have to apologize to you for using it. You know, I was worried there for a moment. When you called me by his name, I thought I might really be as bad as him. Just for a second, you hurt me." And it did hurt. A stab right at your heart, because even if you don't hate him, you never want to be him. You've known your life included children since you were old enough to understand what a baby was. You've played with dolls all your life and pretended that they were your eventual little Scion. The thought of hurting them like Vegeta did his son makes you sick. And being compared to that hurt.
Lady Vegeta, however, simply looks terrified at the thought that the Super Saiyan in the room with her feels hurt.
You don't let her react. "But just for a second," you say. "I'm not him. I didn't transform to hurt you; I just did it because I was angry. And there's nothing wrong with that. Just because this form makes me stronger doesn't mean I need to hurt people with it. Just because you're afraid of it doesn't mean I have to be bad." You straighten, look her dead in the eye, and say, "Just because you're still scared and sad about what Vegeta did to you doesn't give you an excuse to act like we're all going to treat you like that."
You can see her making the connection to Jaffur a few seconds after you say that, and a flicker of anger appears in her eyes. But it's leavened with a lot of uncertainty.
Maybe she has something to say.
You don't know, because you're already out of the room.
These private rooms are all in sub-basements beneath the Hall. You walk up the stairs leading out with a measured stride, still shimmering gold.
As you step out through the wall and into the Hall proper, you can see all eyes being drawn to the sense of your ki like a magnet. In a great wave, everybody looks to you. You see some dropping to their knees and fervently muttering prayers, and you mark them as Ancestor Cultists.
"Kakara?"
You turn and see Dad standing there, hand outstretched.
"What happened?" he asks, looking somewhat scared.
Your expression is hard. "We talked."
His expression turns dumbfounded. "About what?"
"Her husband."
And now he looks wary. "...anything important?"
"From her?" You tilt your head and narrow your eyes. "Not a thing."
Fingers to forehead.
vip
You have successfully eroded a bit of Lady Vegeta's certainty regarding Jaffur's Sealing, and in the process gained a lot of wariness from her.
Your appearance at the end of the meeting has driven home to the Saiyan public that you are now a Figure of Importance, and added to your mystique given that they weren't privy to you and your Dad's brief discussion regarding what went down and thus only know that you came out of a meeting with a Sorceress flaring with enough power to turn the solar system into ash. Some think you argued with her. Some think she somehow unlocked some power within you. On average, no change in general opinion, but increased interest, made only the greater by your public silence of late.
Reputation Gained: "Mysterious."
Meanwhile, your own certainty is stronger than ever that you are on the right side. While you worried when she slipped and called you Vegeta, the very act of taking the time to reflect on that worry allowed you to solidify your conviction that you were in the right, and she was in the wrong. At the center of your mind, there is now a comforting whisper that you didn't know you were missing until you first heard it: "There is nothing wrong with me." You are in the right.
Trait Gained: "Convictions."
Convictions: A fearful whisper, let loose by Dandeer Vegeta, made you fear for your integrity and possible likeness to Lord Vegeta. Upon confronting this, you found...nothing. You aren't like him, and your behavior was not out of line. You were in the right, and the knowledge of this has strengthened your faith in yourself. Gain a small bonus to all actions taken in what you believe to be in the service of right.
At this point I would like to point out that traits follow certain upgrade paths, and that those paths branch towards the end, leading to often radically different outcomes. More than that, what a trait manifests as in one character may indicate little or nothing about how it manifests in another. One man's greatest strength may be another woman's greatest weakness. Compassion, handled differently, can make one a saint or a fool, after all. Why, the desire to help people can lead to stifling tyrannies as much as it can to noted philanthropists.
So, just because you've just picked up the first version of your Dad's second foundational trait doesn't have to mean you'll become blind to the possibility of being wrong. That's solely a function of his own deeply-rooted trauma, and quite a few interacting traits.
So, just because you've just picked up the first version of your Dad's second foundational trait doesn't have to mean you'll become blind to the possibility of being wrong. That's solely a function of his own deeply-rooted trauma, and quite a few interacting traits.
* * *
Year 1 concluded!
As the year turns, your mind falls back on what sensei has told you of the Craft, in your few lessons with him thus far. At your current level of skill there's no controlling when the visions come, so he says, and you're simply lucky you aren't one of the ones bombarded with them every few hours. However, given that you know about the Sight, and aren't fighting it, there is a limited amount of direction possible in what you See.
You are morbidly unsurprised when the merest flicker of attention on your chosen path sends you careening into the arms of a vision, drenching you in vivid landscapes of those...
[ ] ...things that were.
[ ] ...things that are.
[ ] ...things that will be.
(i.e., pick your interlude; pick one, the biggest vote wins); THIS VOTE IS NOW CLOSED.
Read, review, and reply! And most of all, enjoy!
And now I tired slep naozzzzzzz...
*topplethunk*
Oh, dear me, not again. Bedtime, silly Poptart.
*dragging the body off*
Goodnight, all.
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[X] ...things that are.
Personally, I don't think that we'd get much out of the future sight option. Plus, we'd no idea how it came about or how to avoid it. Self-fulfilling prophesies are a thing, after all.
That being said, if we ever get good enough that we can correctly interpret future events, that's pretty powerful. Just a matter of how to get to that point first.
Personally, I don't think that we'd get much out of the future sight option. Plus, we'd no idea how it came about or how to avoid it. Self-fulfilling prophesies are a thing, after all.
That being said, if we ever get good enough that we can correctly interpret future events, that's pretty powerful. Just a matter of how to get to that point first.
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- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] ...things that were.
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Bakkasama
There is always a greater fool
- Location
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Pronouns
- He/his
[x] ...things that are.
Things that will be would be useful for future threat assesment and things that were for context, things that are would be the equivalent of a rumor mill. Whether it shows us the Zenzus, Jaron or another important charácter, it gives us info on what they have been doing this year when we haven't focused on them.
I mean, I could see how future could be useful since it might tell us of things like a revolution in the making (those take time), or the zenzu going to space or some outside threath that would let us prepare early, maybe years in advance. The past visión would let us understand things better and knowledge of people's personalities and motivations is better to manipulate events on a personal level. Right now though, what we lack is info of the world. How do people feel about the sealing, where are Jaron and the Zenzu's, are we good enough at keeping the masquerade, why does one of our Friends stare at us mysteriously? They are all things we could find using yearly actions but that would take a yearly action. So I see it as either saving one action or mystery box the plan them better and at our age I am inclined to an extra yearly action or a bonus to one.
On another note, against what I originally thought, I find myself liking the explanations in bolded letters. Sincé, you know, they feel more like a narrator telling the story of a game rather than simply an explanation of mechanical changes.
Things that will be would be useful for future threat assesment and things that were for context, things that are would be the equivalent of a rumor mill. Whether it shows us the Zenzus, Jaron or another important charácter, it gives us info on what they have been doing this year when we haven't focused on them.
I mean, I could see how future could be useful since it might tell us of things like a revolution in the making (those take time), or the zenzu going to space or some outside threath that would let us prepare early, maybe years in advance. The past visión would let us understand things better and knowledge of people's personalities and motivations is better to manipulate events on a personal level. Right now though, what we lack is info of the world. How do people feel about the sealing, where are Jaron and the Zenzu's, are we good enough at keeping the masquerade, why does one of our Friends stare at us mysteriously? They are all things we could find using yearly actions but that would take a yearly action. So I see it as either saving one action or mystery box the plan them better and at our age I am inclined to an extra yearly action or a bonus to one.
On another note, against what I originally thought, I find myself liking the explanations in bolded letters. Sincé, you know, they feel more like a narrator telling the story of a game rather than simply an explanation of mechanical changes.
- Location
- Australia
[X] ...things that are.
Future sight is pointless. We know from the Bardock Special that the future is set in stone and doing anything about it only makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy. Besides, it's not like this power can't give us advance warning of future threats either. If an enemy is coming to our planet to fight a Super Saiyan, it just means we'll see him in transit rather than on our planet.
Future sight is pointless. We know from the Bardock Special that the future is set in stone and doing anything about it only makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy. Besides, it's not like this power can't give us advance warning of future threats either. If an enemy is coming to our planet to fight a Super Saiyan, it just means we'll see him in transit rather than on our planet.
- Location
- Somewhere on Earth
While I know it won't change much, I should point out that Poptart said it wasn't that the future is set in stone, it's just that you can create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which is why most seers work on Seeing the time in between then and now to make sure it won't just happen because of their own actions attempting to stop it, you can still change the future.
Maybe.
I could be misremembering something there.
The Fourth Monado
S U B A R A S H I I
- Location
- Away
[X] ...things that were.
- Location
- Somewhere I shouldn't be
[X] ...things that are.
I vote we totally pop SSJ2 if that's what it takes to get back our husbando.
I vote we totally pop SSJ2 if that's what it takes to get back our husbando.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Hey Poptart, what does Kakara mean by "quite by design"? Are Scions/Lords not allowed to go SSJ2?
- Location
- Somewhere I shouldn't be
Yeah, they've been trying to limit the power of the species intentionally. The original belief is that more powerful ki signatures might attract the Enemy who destroyed Old Earth.
So no SSJ2.
I'm honestly surprised that we are allowed to Master SSJ and use FPSSJ form. The power increase of it over normal SSJ is immense. That said, I can't see the top 6 Saiyans on a planet (former Lord/Lady, Lord/Lady, and Scion x2) NOT training their power, so I suppose that FPSSJ was inevitable is SSJ was permitted.
I'm sure that Ascended and Ultra SSJ (the forms discovered before FPSSJ, used by Vegeta and Trunks against Cell) aren't used any longer (since FPSSJ is known and used instead).
Khona Moshr
Pink Flamingo Cabal Healer(they/them)
- Location
- Alabama
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] ...things that are.
What does FPSSJ mean?
What does FPSSJ mean?
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Full Power Super Saiyajin
Khona Moshr
Pink Flamingo Cabal Healer(they/them)
- Location
- Alabama
- Pronouns
- They/Them
So what is the difference between that and regular SSJ that it gets its own acyonmon cause it's gonna be awhile before I get to the Frezia arc
- Location
- Too Deep in the Midnight Sea
[X] ...things that are.
Kelirapc
The Bright in your Night
- Location
- Kali-Forni
Know what? I'm done. Sorry guys, I'm bowing out on this quest, because I feel like I won't like how this quest will be going. But as of right now, I just don't like the MC anymore. Or just how people are voting in general.
So yeah, have fun or whatever.
KnightDisciple
Love God. Do Right. Fear No Man.
- Location
- Midwest, USA
FPSSJ is, essentially, a Super-Saiyan/Saiyajin who's eked every last ounce of power and efficiency out of the form possible. They can maintain the form for days if not engaged in heavy combat (see Goku and Gohan right before the Cell Games).
I think the "Full Power" basically means we've maxed out our Base and Super-Saiyan 1 power gains.
[X] ...things that are.
ThatGazzer
Minds Eye Bind
- Location
- PNW
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] ...things that are.