[dbz] I wonder if Videl was angry at her dad for taking credit for Gohan's work? She grew up benefitting from that deceit only to realize her privileged life was due to fraud...
Did she ever talk to Gohan about it? Here's my take as to how that could've gone down :')
[dbz] SSJ is a state originally shown to be achieved through extreme emotion. I don't think you have to feel the same thing when you first unlocked it to do it again, but the initial method probably influences you for the rest of your life...
So get it right the first time :)
[dbz] "I'm sorry if it hurts Chi-Chi and Gohan, but please don't try and resurrect me. Besides, Gohan's a lot better person than I was..."
I think about this line a lot. It shows a lot of self awareness from Goku, y'know?
So have some OOC Goku comics :)
[dbz] Since I tend to draw older Trunks with an undercut and Goten's got that spiky top-heavy mess in GT, I naturally thought Gotenks should get a dumbass mohawk.
Then Vegeta decided to pop in and here we are 😂
[trigun] While looking for a way to help Vash off Knives' arc after volume 7, Wolfwood stumbles upon the wreckage of an old ship... and video evidence of a diary Knives kept during his first year of life. (part1/?)
[dbz] I know DBZ hand waves away recovery time from damage with senzu beans/time skips /whatever, but I wanted to spend some time with Future!Gohan & his arm. What if there was a lack of antibiotics and he developed an infection?
(Also I just really love future Bulma's design XD)
[dbz] I always wondered what caused Videl's shift towards a more passive character from Z to GT. The answer is obviously bad writing, but I thought -- what if it was a traumatic pregnancy? And then I tied it to my 'why Pan never turned super saiyan' headcanon, and here we are...
[dbz] What do you mean learning Jiu-Jitsu isn't your ideal date?? 💪
aka, time for some good ol' videl/gohan fluff 'cause we all need some cute things in our timeline 💕
[dbz] I've projected my daddy issues, so now I gotta out my mom stuff, too 😂
Naw, in all seriousness. Being Chichi must've been so difficult. Raising two kids by herself, anxious, alone... then her loved ones kept getting into impossibly dangerous situations and leaving her.. :(
[dbz] Pan's got the temperament & spirit of a Saiyan, but not the strength...must've been frustrating growing up around overpowered folks.
Imagine Bulla being the Goku to her Vegeta: casually better than her in her area of interest (fighting) 🙈
I wonder if they were frienemies?
[dbz] I used to find Goku's needle phobia amusing until I figured what must have caused it :(
I think his one month hospitalization after Saiyan saga was probably one of the most traumatic events ever for him. Crippled, incapacitated..that must've been Hell for someone like Goku.
[dbz] Most saiyan parents probably didn't give a crap about their offspring. But some must have... I wonder how many quietly mourned their children, lost in space.
[dbz] Further misadventures of Pan as she attempts to learn how to become Super Saiyan! Featuring Bulla the aspiring makeup artist and Gotenks who is quite secure in his masculinity, thank you very much 😂
[dbz] I've always lowkey wondered what the Guardian/God's job is in the DBZ universe 🤔
In other news, I'm done with my IFOM exam so I drew Gohan being done with exams, too 🙌
[dbz] Since Goku already knew some farming in DBS, I figured he must've learned it wayy back when he first married Chichi and needed income. And who better to teach him how to plough a field than the Ox King himself? :)
(Plus a few of my headcanons :3)
[dbz] I really loved Trunks and Goten's friendship as a kid! Seeing them drift apart in GT made me sad... I wonder if Trunks missed him, out there in space?
[dbz] Waaaayy too much dialogue, and the beginning of a plot?? Dun dun dun...
In other news, Bulma is a genius biomechanical engineer+applied physicist, why not throw in a casual honorary medical degree too hahaha 😂
@princessxemnas
This reminds me of the Judas/Jesus pic I drew years ago that later got taken out of context and spread around genuine Christian websites and forums and I was like "oh god should I tell them" 😂🙈
[dbz] Sometimes you can't be the best, no matter how hard you try. And sometimes you're better without much effort... Growing up one way or the other can be hard. But friendship can endure :)
[dbz] Gohan was so strong after Cell's defeat that he couldn't so much as sneeze without causing damage. Riddled with anger management issues & anxiety, the only way he saw out was to suppress his power...
(What Dende locks here is part of what Old Kai will one day reverse :3)
[dbz] Do you remember much when you were four years old..?
Childhood trauma can do stuff to your brain, like mess up the order, mess up the contents, mess up the mind. Did I make it up? Did it really happen that way..? Who can say, anyway..
(Gohan doesn't like to think about it).
[dbz] don't mind me, just projecting my own younger sibling insecurities onto fictional characters again~~
naw, in all seriousness. It must've been tough being Goten, surrounded by academic geniuses. I wonder what he wanted to study (if anything). What did he grow up to be...?
[dbz] goku only ever called gohan a coward once, in chapter 238... it was to get him to react (as folks often do to make gohan react) but since goku never apologized in canon I had to make him do it here. and then i thought of pan calling gohan a coward, like the fandom does..😭
[dbz] Set post-GT. Drawn 'cause I was wondering what Goten might have felt, considering his dad had up and left again after one last adventure with Trunks of all people.
(Honestly, I just wanted these two old friends to finally talk to each other again.)
[dbz] When were baby Saiyans picked up again after they were first sent to a planet?? At random, or after a set amount of time, or...?¿
I have to wonder if most wouldn't have simply gone native if no one had come to pick them up...
[dbz] saiyan siblings!!
raditz is the "how hold this squirming creature??" sibling, gohan is the "better dad than actual dad" sibling, and trunks is the "cooler than you or your friends" sibling.
[dbz] I too was once a teenager with emotional dysregulation disorder. But I didn't have planet-destroying powers O.O
Gohan's teenage years were spent studying and bettering his emotional maturity. But he couldn't have done that without first reigning in his explosive power...
[dbz] How the heck was Raditz ever classified as Elite despite being so dang weak? Here's my theory :V
(aka, Raditz is a low class warrior erroneously up-classed and then the Saiyan planet blew up and there was no one around to realize mom’s deception and re-classify him.)
[dmc] i LOVE the fact that Vergil can still turn into V whenever in the special edition of dmc5 and I was wondering what implications that might have in game
(and I love that V looks so much like Eva, too -- if it weren't for their demonic heritage, they'd look more like her aaa)
[dbz] Hey, question. I'm learning about, well, you--King Piccolo, that is-- for history class, and uh, I always wondered-- if it's okay to ask, of course!! Um.
Why did you become so evil in the first place...?
[dmc] vergil no-longer-secretly being a poetry loving goth FUELS me
and also makes me wonder just how much of a DORK he was as a child, and how much dante may have missed seeing that side of him--
[dbz] gohan is 22 when pan is born (HES SO YOUNG ajsktha) so I can easily imagine him taking her to university with him while he did his PhD. Chichi did her best to make them both presentable every day but Gohan flying them everywhere makes them both look perpetually windswept XD
[dbz] Gohan at the end of Cell Saga is one insanely powerful boy. He's sensitive enough that it probably gives him major anxiety...
Enter Dende!! In my hc they were close for a few years after Cell Games, as Dende navigated how to be Kami and Gohan learned how to be Human :')
[dbz] three generations of floof!!
I wanted to distinguish them in my style, so bardock is like, jagged, scars everywhere, starved and ready2kill; goku is airy floofy and rounder, though as an adult he's the tallest and most ripped; goten's the only one who showers regularly lol.
[trigun] forbidden footage (part3/?)
Rem was a badass computer and plant engineer, you can't tell me she wasn't the one who taught him everything he knew about electronics :3c
[dbz] I know Gine's young-looking design is for moe appeal, but what if Gine really was quite young when she had Raditz...? It kinda adds a different tragic flair to it, huh?
Child soldiers having child soldiers... Warrior culture is fucked up.
[dbz] Babysitter Piccolo adventures!!! (he'd never say it, but he actually really enjoys it haha)
pan is a much rowdier child than gohan ever was. but she's still just a kid xD
[dbz] further aventures of babysitter Piccolo and feral child Pan 😂
I like to think Videl's taught her kid lots of styles of martial arts, since, as a full blooded human, she knows strength is not always something you can rely on to win a fight.
[dbz] Goten grows up to be such a wannabe Chad in GT that it made me wonder if he didn't hang out with Yamcha during his high school years. So here's my headcanon for how they first really "met".... both being ditched by their respective Briefs' friend XD;;
bonus!!!:
vegeta is the "i will literally murder you in your sleep" sibling, and tights is the "you're cute I guess but now I know I'M never having kids thanks to you" sibling
[disco elysium] still contemplating 20+ years in the future kim and jean being partners... both of them refusing promotions to remain in the field... revachol's finest, and final defenders...
the last men standing before the end of the world