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UNBELIUEVABLE. VEGETA IS IN THE BACKSEAT. Bulma's title is self-contained self-relevant "GENIUS INVENTOR" meanwhile Vegeta is relevant only when relative to Goku, he is "GOKU'S RIVAL." Might as well have just written TROPHY HUSBAND

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I really do mean it when I say that Vegeta is not interested in the affairs of others / what they do with their autonomy. Like when he was just leaning againts the wall witnissing this

I genuinely believe that Vegeta has 0 opinions on this. Why would he need to care about with the children are up to. Goten & TRunks could be kissing on the mouth with toungue and teeth right there in front of everyone in front of Mr Satan and Gokuand Pan and all. and Vegeta wouldn't care enough to even process what he's seeing and bother to look away.

He's the healthiest one here for that

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easily one of the top 10 scenes in dragon ball

#dballz posting #he's like ''okay...''

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PLEASE bro PLEEEEEEAAAAASE

#PLEEEEEAAAASEEEEE :CRYING: :CRYING: #I LOVE THEM ..... #Yajirobe #dballz posting #dballz draws #yajirobeposting

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What do you think theyre talking about

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#:CRYING EMOJI: #Yajirobe #dballz posting #yajirobeposting

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Goten's Misunderstanding

#Son Goten #Trunks Briefs #Truten #dballz posting #dballz draws #goten & trunkz #SEE? SAME RIGID DBALLZ FORMULA ... CAN SPOT IT A MILE AWAY .... #Goten & Palace & Trunkz

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is this anything

#dballz posting #dballz draws #IDK How Im Supposter Tag This Lol. I'll do it Lator #Yamucha Dad Swag Tag

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GOTEN'S WISH ✨

#tumblr's turn for this little number ✨ #goten & trunkz #truten #dballz posting #dballz draws

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YAJIROBE & MASTER KORIN REAL

#yajirobe #korin #karin #dballz posting #yajirobeposting #dballz draws

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FASCINATING DEVELOPMENT.

It's like how when they made Super and then onward to Superhero, they had Goten & Trunks interacting constantly, even thouhg in the original EOZ it seemed like it had been a while since theyve seen each other ...

Becasue THE VIEWERS LOVE IT WHEN BITCHES ARE FRIENDS IN TIMES OF PEACE !

Well now theyre doing it again for Pan & Bulla. The fans have already been saying it, having extrapolated it, even thouhg Pan & Bulla NEVER INTERACTED in DBZ or DBGT.... But once the creators burn throuhg the potential of Goten & Trunks, theyre gonna need something else to milk, so they're SETTING THE STAGE !!!

Happemning Right Now Before Our Euyes. And we're gonna lap it up like dogs

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Chichi yells at Goku a lot but she would never yell at Piccolo. Becasue she deosnt need to. Becasue he would do what she tells him to do the first time. And if she did yell at him then he would stand there and try to be strong but he would just be visibly tense eyes closed sweating ETC clearly just trying to Withstand it. And then afterwards he would open his eyes and be clearly affected despite his best efforts and say "I understand Ms Chichi....."and it would be the first time that Chichi has ever felt Heard in her entire life

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Da sweetest drawing that Dr Dballz has ever produced

#getting reslly into this sketchbook lately. i love being alone somewhere.. AWAY FROM DA STRESS 💖💖 #dballz posting #goten & trunkz #dballz draws

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When Videl was getting her shit kicked in by Spopovitch and everybody was wanting her to just concede, I know that Vegeta was standing there crossing his arms thinking in his head "Nope. Yeah. Yeah absolutely exactly what I would have done. Mm hm. Girl's got a good head on her shoulders. She's got some pride. Gohan should learn a thing or two from her."

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There's really no plainer way to put it but that Goku's love language is fighting.

As in, that's how he communicates, that's how he expresses himself, that's how he comes to understand, that's how he bonds; the pattern of empassioned push-into and push-back. The resistance and deflection, the purposeful direction, the pinpoint strikes.

It's really not a tug-and-pull yin-and-yang dance between two people, as much as it is that each party is BOTH yin and yang. They enter with their own completed prerogatives, and they have a physical argument to test their stance. Each party has their choice of tactic, their own rhythm of when to roll aside and when to spin and strike back and when to dig their heels in and block.

It's because he's a Saiyan and also because of his upbringing. He grew up with the rhythm of the wilderness, where everything is self-defending and self-righteous; and where everything communicates through subtle fights, those inter-organismic interactions, all utilizing the basic moves of offense, defense, or avoidance.

Different animals utilize different techniques, habits, forces of nature; they fall in different niches in the environment. The rabbit does not want to be preyed on, but if he is caught, he is able to accept this inevitability of present reality with grace; the tiger does not want to be caught, and if he is, he'll size you up and make sure you're worth it before rolling over.

It's driven by instinct and biology, but from Goku's budding perspective, it was no different from how warriors learn and adapt and have the volition to utilize different techniques.

The only other person he knew was his Grandfather, who was one of the best martial artists on Earth at the time, and thus: Goku's early bonding behaviors were ruled by the training he did with his grandpa. This also informed his general understanding of the world at large.

Once Goku started on his epic swag adventure and met new people, he had the capacity to love them all, and he continues to fight for them. But the way he loves his friends is maybe not what people have in their head when they think of deep bonding. He loves them, in a sturdy and firm way, in a "of course I do" way, as upfront and practical as any other observation of the natural world.

It's not deep, raw, or passionate; it's not vulnerable, it's not sustaining, it's not supporting; it's not messy or emotional, it's not blood-red or heart-pink ... Goku just stands with a perfectly straight spine, perfectly secure, and he loves his friends, that's all there is to it! He has fun with them, he enjoys their company, he worries for their well-being ... And he will easily go years and years without ever seeing them. When he does see them, he just picks up where they left off like no time had passed at all.

My point is that Goku doesn't NEED his friends, he does not need to see them or to be with them or to feel their support. You know how humans are social animals and need to interact with others in order to stay healthy and functioning; and you know how Goku isn't a human!

He's a Saiyan, so it's by nature, but it also very much has to do with his lived isolation during his formative years. His roots of stability are in boundless nature, the art of fighting, and confidence in his own body; not in the presence of a community.

When he DOES bond deep with people, as in connect on an intimate level, it's in the context of fighting. That's how he understands them and makes himself understood! Through the language of technique, through the specific combinations of offense, defense, and avoidance.

He routinely makes friends with people whom he originally fights as an opposing party, such as the case with Yamucha, Tenshinhan, Yajirobe, Vegeta ... And he makes a habit out of mercy and requesting teamwork with everyone he fights.

He doesn't take fight to be only an aggressive thing, and he takes to friendly sparring or methodical training really well - thinking very fondly of Master Roshi, Master Korin, Popo, King Kai - and having a DELIGHTFUL time with Krillin when they trained close in their younger days.

Of course, fighting CAN be a purely angry, aggressive thing. But he's always ready to let it Not Be, too. Except in the cases of righteous, seething anger (his battles with the biggest bads who have done much to hurt his friends, planet, and order of the universe), Goku loves it when an opponent wants to hang around and fight again.

It's like how predator animals play with each other by tussling for fun. It's not just when in the pursuit of food do those animals utilize predator behaviors, but it's ALL the time, because they have been endowed by nature to be Of A Certain Make & Model because it helps them to survive, and it's just who they are always. They notice certain things, make certain things out to be important, they are intrigued by certain things, they like to move in certain ways - it's everything about all of them that puts them in their ecological niche.

EXAMPLE: Think about how cats are wired to recognize the visual pattern of a snake and to respond quickly, and that's why they sometimes swat at bananas. Or how they hiss, a behavior that emulates the sound of a snake, but they don't know that, they just get angry and hiss. Or how their eyes and brain are designed to notice and follow Movement, and they find this A.) Important and B.) Intriguing; they often orient toward it. This intrigue is selected for because the movement could be food, but, to the lived experience of the animal, it's also just fun. Cats will play with inanimate objects and rodents all the same.

For comparison, non-predatory birds are wired to find importance in things like color and size and shape when it comes to finding food - and they AVOID movement, taking flight away from rather than orienting toward it like the cat.

Another detail about predatory animals: when hunting, they require the element of resistance to stimulate their predatory instincts. This has the advantage of steering the animal away from already-dead-and-possibly-contaminated prey, and toward still-alive-and-delicious prey. This is why the freeze response works in deterring predators; because when the prey isn't moving and fighting back, the predator doesn't feel stimulated enough to hunt. Who knows what animals feel, but the lived experience may be a sort of disgust or repulsion; a definitive avoidance.

At any rate, cats find a lack of movement and a lack of resistance Boring, which is why your cat loves to chase the string toy you just yanked away from her, and why she gets bored when you stop.

My ultimate point is that that's what Goku is like, as a Saiyan, as a mountain boy, as himself.

It's no surprise that his ONLY goal in life is fight. So it's not bizarre to think that through this is how he comprehends and connects with others.

Since this is the case: I honestly think, that on some level, he has loved every opponent he has ever faced. Even Freeza, who introduced him to the purest and most earnest form of righteous rage - Goku hated him more than he had ever hated anybody; but I think that he still loved him as the living, fighting being he was. It's an undercurrent of love that comes with the territory whenever Goku fights, whenever his body gets to move and express himself in that way; and that LOVE I think is the source of his strength. Fighting for anger or other corrosive emotions dirty your soul in the long-term. Goku loves to fight, and has loved deeply every opponent, even if only at the most basic and required level - but he loved, and he loves, and that's why he's the greatest. It's an expansive, nurturing, positive force that he brings into the world.

He loved his grandfather. He loves Roshi and Krillin and all the rest. He loves his sons, and he bonds with them when he trains them, because it's through this that he comes to understand their deepest ways; and he's honored to do so, and he's proud of them beyond measure.

Chichi has long since been out of the ring, but I think that the most vivid memories that Goku has of her are when she is yanking on his ear or slapping him for his ignorance. Like how the cat attaches importance to patterns of movement, Goku attaches importance to such physical engagement; and he retains those impressions for longer.

What he has with Vegeta is the realest shit right down to their bones and shared Saiyan physiology, and it's imperative that they continue to fight each other for forever.

So I guess my point is that if you want to bond with Goku: you'll have to come at him a bit, and offer meaningful contact, and when he comes at you, never roll over like a possum - actively resist, dodge, and strike back.

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Dragon Ball pairings that nobody really ships even though they're not that weird or outlandish or anything it's just that nobody cares and there are better options out there evidently

- Goku & Krillin (They are BFFs and that's enough for a hoard of people to ship Truten .......... IS IT BECAUSE HE'S BALD????)

- Launch & Tenshinhan (This is canonically at least one-sided but TBH they're a horrible match but I think that it just takes a lovely soul to make it sing. There's a sweetness to Nice Launch x Tenshinhan specifically, they're both so mild mannered that I think it could work. But I think that no one gives a crap about either of them is why you rarely see it)

- Tenshinhan & Goku (....swag. Kind of cheeky and based. I could make an AMV.)

- Krillin & Bulma (Maybe Krillin is too smart idk..... OR IS IT CAUSE HE'S BALD?????)

- Goku & Yajirobe (they had a fun little adventure together and that was sweet and they kind of want completely opposite things out of life but I think you could make it work ... They go fishing together and sit in silence for hours and hours and at the end Goku kisses him on the lips and Yajirobe knows that he's gotten himself into some hot water and he never ever ever ever ever says anything about Goku's wife or how if Goku is able to go behind her back like this, then he sure as hell could do the same to Yajirobe. Or actually that might be the first thing he says. "Where does your wife think you are?" every time Goku shows up at Korin's Tower. Goku can still ride Kinto-un so maybe it's not that bad idk)

- Gohan & Shrapner (People love gratuitous gay shit and they love Gohan so why isnt it a thing where people draw locker room fanart of them or something. Is it because we all have better things to do)

- Videl & Erasa (^ again is it becasue we all have better things to do...)

- Gohan & Shin (I've seen it before and shut up right now. It could work. I'm telling you it could work. The vibes are off the charts. It's an aesthetic bomb)

- Chichi & Piccolo (PLEASE bro PLEASE we need MORE 😭😭 Chiccolo nation is DYING hit like if you're a true Chiccolo Fan)

Feel free to add more

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