She is however highly irrational and has a lot of complexes about saiyans, she should really be in therapy rather than leading.
Yes, but
we have to deal with her anyway. She's got psychiatric problems? Well, that's why she's a boss-level Communications challenge, not a mook-level challenge. We've already whittled away at her certainty on two separate occasions, maybe we can whittle some more.
Okay this bit is bullshit.
Look at the focus of her spellcasting, she didn't try to preserve him as much as possible she tried to make him love her as much as possible.
You misunderstand me.
...Honestly, I'm not sure it's possible to have a productive conversation about this because people come to the table with very different assumptions about memory, personality, 'souls,' and other elements of what makes up a person's mind in the setting of Dragonball AE.
What I'm trying to get across is that everyone
expected to get the result "Jaffur winds up thinking, feeling, and acting the way he would, if he'd had a normal upbringing, with no abusive father, among people with no powers."
It looks like Dandeer did that, in the process of stripping away Jaffur's memories of being a prince, a Vegetan, and a saiyan. And, yeah, it's pretty obvious that she either poured in a lot of compulsion to love 'Doreen Somerlad,' or strongly reinforced love that Jaffur already had for Dandeer.*
One can argue that none of that changes Jaffur's
personality, as such, in and of itself. A huge extra dose of "I love my mommy!" doesn't turn a person into some kind of entirely different person. It may change their priorities or their willingness to disobey their mother, but
what you do isn't quite the same as
who you are.
At least, it's not inherent to the nature of philosophy and identity that altering a person's priorities, reinforcing some and diminishing others, turns them into a totally different person.
...
This isn't so much bullshitting, or me being ignorant of what happened, as it is a problem of communicating clearly about concepts like identity, memory, and personality.
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*Remember that in Jaffur's descriptive blurb on the first page, it says "your mother is your only solace, she and your little sister." I'm pretty sure Jaffur didn't
hate his mother, at least not prior to the events of the Sealing. Their relationship may or may not have been particularly healthy, relationships in abusive families often aren't even when the abuser is not directly involved. But I suspect that there actually was love there for Dandeer to (wrongfully, very much wrongfully) enhance into a form of compulsion.
They don't behave better if you ignore their mistakes either, especially if their delusions tell them they are doing nothing wrong. The other option does not treat her like shit but it also does nothing to help her or give arguments to convince her.
I think it's safe to assume that if we vote for Kakara to
TRY to persuade Dandeer to let Jaron train, and/or to train in combat techniques, Kakara will marshal the most convincing arguments she can devise, including "Jaron's safety."
[Considers portraying Kakara doing exactly that]
I am sort of surprised that a Oozaru style has not been developed.
Probably because most people have too much trouble controlling their oozaru forms to really develop a disciplined combat "style" with it. Also because you cannot ever, EVER get away with using oozaru form outside the Hall and utterly desolate areas. Because if "giant ragemonkeys with ki powers" ever, EVER got out among the stars, by any means direct or indirect, the Enemy would know the moment he heard of it that there were living saiyans on Garenhuld.
It just seems unlikely that we will ever be as good at healing as Sensi beans already are. Also the lack of possible teachers.
Of course the fact that it was never a listed option for the yearly actions might have something to do with it.
It's under the category of "Study ki talents" or something. Explicitly listed in the blurb as an example of a skill we might learn.
Current prospective Research Projects and their expected outcomes:
Spirit Bomb - we have an entire population of strong ki users, and this is the ultimate "punch-above-your-weight" technique. Hopefully an Enemy-killer!
A bit more hypothetical:
Downside: long period spent standing there in a conspicuously defenseless posture, humming "Imma charging my attack." Need a meatshield to keep the enemy (or Enemy) busy while we charge and fire. Perfect Multiform may help with this. Having Jaffur to help out would ALSO help with this.
Travel to the Otherworld, or the other side of the galaxy - this might also make further transformations safe, in that Garenhuld wouldn't be threatened.
I like this.
BOOO! BOOO!
I wanted history to be recorded as we made it.
Then write it.
I'm just pointing out that turning into a giant ape kaiju is not mutually exclusive with social fu.
Giant Ape Kakara will MAKE you sit down to her tea parties.
The hard part is finding suitable crockery.
