exitvoid - moving to Gamma and considering canon update

[keepshispride]

Believe it or not, the possibility of being able to return ho- return to Earth for seven years isn't much of a reward. Especially when you would be dragging me back into this disgusting situation regardless. Get a life and leave me to mine, I have no interest on dealing with these fools any longer and having my powers sapped away by a bunch of cowards who refuse to face me properly. If it's a boat or a city makes no difference to me.

[Well... The city shouldn't have as many food shortages as the ship?]

... It should not be necessary to mention that as a selling point. I may not be able to stop you but none of this appeals to me at all, do you understand? Returning to Earth is not nearly enough to compensate for this bullshit!

[Oh, you know you miss Bulma.]

I do not!

Comments

[allendsmeat]

My mun says you have a mustache and you should definitely come back with it because they're awesome.

[keepshispride]

That wasn't necessarily canon!

[allendsmeat]

So what? I bet it was really awesome. [he's picturing something like your hair but downwards]

[keepshispride]

No.

[allendsmeat]

[boo. You are no fun at all] Well I'll see you when you get back, broom guy. Even if you don't have an awesome mustache that you could probably do really cool things with like sweep with your face.

[keepshispride]

How about I sweep the floor with you?

[allendsmeat]

My hair wouldn't make a very good broom. It's too short and not as stiff.

[ace_of_hearts]

Ugh. Tell me about it. I don't know who's more a sadist anymore. Muns, COMPASS, or Impel Down's keepers. And mind you, one of them is literally named "Sadi-chan" for a reason.

My mun agrees with Luffy's mun though.

[keepshispride]

[Vegeta's going back to play happy families with a hot girlfriend and precocious son, don't sympathise with him too much, Ace.]

I'm not growing a mustache.

[keepshispride]

I'm sure I'll manage.

[allendsmeat]

I don't think it'd be very fun. [wsh's his hand through the air] We should go on an adventure instead.

[grimmstyle]

Do you love her? [What that mun said sounded like it.]

[keepshispride]

Don't be ridiculous. Love in a human emotion. [... Not just human, Vegeta.]

[keepshispride]

Idiot.

I think I've had enough adventures for the time being.

[grimmstyle]

[She looks at him thoughtfully for a moment. "human"? But he looks human. Though. So does she, and it can be argued that she isn't entirely that...]

In terms of "love" as interpersonal attraction, four forms of love have traditionally been distinguished, based on ancient Greek precedent: the love of kinship or familiarity, the love of friendship, the love of sexual and/or romantic desire, and self-emptying or divine love. Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of romantic love. Non-Western traditions have also distinguished variants or symbioses of these states. This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships.

[She ends what sounds like (and, actually, is) citing an article from an encyclopedia but keeps looking at him.] You say that none of this applies to you?

[keepshispride]

[Blinks in confusion and stares at her for a moment. Strange girl.]

... No. ["Kinship" makes him pause for a moment, but whatever he has for his son isn't something as pathetic as love. He just has a duty he needs to meet.] I have no need for such weaknesses.

[herplaceinthesun]

You're from Earth? What's that like?

[Earth is very far away from her home. She's never been there!]

[keepshispride]

I'm not from Earth, I merely temporarily reside there.

[grimmstyle]

Why? [It's not that she has idle interest in a stranger; she is curious if this person has been subject to genetical engineering and a feeling like that can be taken out as easily as the emotion of fear, considering that it seems to be so much more complicated than fear.]

[ace_of_hearts]

[Oh. Yeah, dude, he'd trade any day of the week. Torture prison vs. awesome family times? MM-hm.]

I don't really get the big deal. I mean Pop's mustache is awesome, and Vista's has a life all of its own, but most mustaches are stupid. That's why I don't wear one.

[keepshispride]

I apparently grow one in nearly thirty years, but my mundane isn't prepared for such a jump and I have no interest in it either.

[keepshispride]

Because I am a warrior! Attachments like that would only distract from my training. [But, again, he thinks of his son and his words seem said slightly out of habit more than anything else.]

[grimmstyle]

Or further your determination. [She's quite sure that love, of whichever kind, was what made her father go on after the attempted annihilation of her family and the death of her mother. About herself - she isn't sure. Can she really feel like that? Or do other humans just show their feelings more strongly, differently? Is it because ceasing to work out of sadness was never an option nor a culturally imprinted thing for her, or do humans really do that?]

[keepshispride]

My pride is enough for that. [Three years of repeatedly nearly killing himself to become a Super Saiyan support that. Though now that is done with and Kakarot is dead, he really isn't sure what he should be working towards. His pride hasn't done him any favours. Maybe he does need something new to drive him forward.

But what would the Prince of all Saiyans be without his pride?]

[grimmstyle]

[She knows the definition of pride, but it doesn't make much sense in combination with how Vegeta just used it. Maybe he used it differently, or she's missing a link.]

An inwardly directed emotion that carries two common meanings, pride refers either to an inflated sense of one's personal status or accomplishments, often used synonymously with hubris. Or it refers to a satisfied sense of attachment toward one's own or another's choices and actions, or toward a whole group of people, and is a product of praise, independent self-reflection, or a fulfilled feeling of belonging.

[She tilts her head slightly. That is all that she can say about the reason. She wonders what he has to say about it.]