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Sol Yulaan pixel art gif designed by hidorE

"She looks like some generic background Saiyajin mook in a beat-em-up" Yulaan being a generic mook is kind of the point. It's impossible to make a protagonist of a story like this generic FOREVER, to be fair, but the inception of her being completely average to the point of looking like a nobody in a crowd was at least part of the inspiration— Yulaan's a glorified ascended mook to begin with, since she was just a tiny side character I created for the main story back in late 2019 that I just happened to get really invested in.

He did a good job, though I've been meaning to get a higher quality gif made, something more fluid that looks more akin to a 32-bit arcade game

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A Yaban Watches 2 Saiyans, courtesy of Salvamakoto

Yulaan watches more Dragon Ball. The inherent absurdity is not lost on her. But that's why she's doing it. Everyone told her she needed to watch Dragon Ball Z, referencing it the moment she arrived on Earth Prime. So here she is, watching the original Japanese airing. (And don't worry, Zillennial Americans, she does also see the cringily nostalgic FUNimation Ball Z)

What's interesting is that she actually prefers the other two major wuxia/kung fu fantasy shonen anime over Dragon Ball— Hokuto no Ken and Yu Yu Hakusho. Not that she doesn't like Dragon Ball. She just prefers the bloodier and gorier stuff. She's already a Saiyan, even if she's specifically a Yaban rather than a Getabaru like Kakarotto and Bejita.

On Friday after school, there is no fighting ring, and Yulaan instead decides to head over to Chale’s house to spend the weekend there, and the first thing they do after watching Toonami (especially FUNi Ball Z) is decide to head out to Blockbuster. They’re getting pizza, Mountain Dew, Doritos, the whole shebang, and then they’re going to raid Blockbuster. They have to stress to Yulaan they only mean that as slang; don’t actually steal stuff. Kevelnege will hold her to that.

Esmeralda wants to watch Toy Story, and she can do that in the living room while the boys get the upstairs room. Yulaan commits to memory to get her Toy Story; Yulaan herself wants to watch some old grindhouse and adult comedies like Master of the Flying Guillotine and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. But they have to go to Blockbuster first.

I think it finally dawned on me that LMS's first real arc (a slice of life arc within a slice of life story) is essentially made for a tiny handful of Zillennial manchildren geeks who:

Were reasonably young, preferably children between the years of 1997-2004

Indulged heavily in whitebread middle-class Anglo-American pop culture, especially for kids (e.g. Toonami, Pokémon, Blockbuster video, old school Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, pop punk, X-treme sports, etc.)

Are nostalgic enough to care

Aren't put off by the idea of sharing that indulgence in nostalgia with a mook villain archetype from an 80s Japanese children's show

Also enjoyed a particular slice of early internet history

Basically the RebelTaxi audience.

This is, thankfully, the closest I ever plan on Little Miss Savage dancing towards the core of the fire of utter schmaltz trash, mostly just to get it out of my system and maybe make me hate the taste of it going forward, because after this, there's much different stuff happening. Consider this just the "nostalgic Zillennial manchild hook"

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Sister Fellowship

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A covering on the topic of the various kagoras. Vroda kagoras get all my attention because "booba!" No no that's not just it, it's also because placing such a hypermacho culture among females is inherently fascinating to me, so it tends to warrant way more attention, compared to senja kagoras (which are dudes doing bro things, which we see all the time) and the koda kai (which is interesting in that it's enby/hermaphrodites doing motherly "girlboss" things but I've rarely touched on them yet)

A good resource I made on the topic of the nihilistic and brutal female masculinity of bollois and why they fascinate me so much:

"My Five Rules For Fostering Bolloi Masculinity"

Originally way back in 2018, I decided bollois were "hypermasculine" just because they liked fighting and proving themselves in battle, and in retrospect those early bollois were pretty much exactly like the Strong Female Character™ archetype and not the "Literally Men with Boobs" they are now. I pretty much had 100 different rules for bollois for why they Aren't Like Other Girls and are boyish and badass fighting femmes; nowadays, I just have five vague rules that work a hundred times better: "Aromantic as a rule," "No culture of vanity," "No culture of protection," "Lack feral maternalism," and "Have little intrinsic worth"

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10-minute mockup I did, comparing a fairly average woman to a fairly average bolloi. In terms of physicality, they’re fairly similar due to both being mammalian females, though clearly the bolloi is far more robust due to Yabans being built primarily for war, combat, and heavy labor. Whereas women typically tend towards the trim (though mostly due to cultural standards), bollois rarely lack defined musculature. The physiological minutia is out of control, however— the average woman weighs between 130 and 170 lbs, whereas the average bolloi weighs between 1,700 and 2,200 lbs.  Without qi manipulation, a bolloi could never live on Earth in human society! And that’s not even bringing up psychological differences. It’s difficult to quantify aggression, but typically the average woman is about as aggressive as the average man, though she tends to avoid direct fighting more often. The average bollois is also as aggressive as the average nagoi, though she rarely if ever avoids combat. It should be noted that the average Yaban is greatly more aggressive than the average Human.

While women typically quantify femininity among human society, bollois represent masculinity— the gamale yenois instead occupy the feminine strata, while the male nagois coinhabit the even more warlike parts of masculinity.

What most humans are interested in hearing is the sexual difference, which is also suitably stark. The average woman is typically sexually active year round via a menstrual cycle and possesses a middling to high sex drive by primate standards. In contrast, bollois fall more in line with the Yaban standard of rarely being sexually active. What’s more, bollois also have an estrous cycle, during which her sexuality increases from “0″ to “0x2″. If not for the gamale “yenoi” sex reproducing quasi-asexually, the otherwise ace/gray Yaban species would have long since gone extinct.

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“Little Miss Savage” Yulaan as drawn by salvamakoto Set during The Savages rather than Little Miss Savage. She's just arrived on Planet Gorta to avenge her slain brother and has hunted one of the inhabitants, skinning him and wearing his skin as a pelt and even using a vertebra to capture some of her hair. And I needn't mention how she's made use of what's left of him. This particular scene and the events following is what "sold" me on the whole concept of this character, hence why I keep returning to it. It's grindhouse-tier brutal, a stark contrast to the relatively comfy slice of life dramedy of Little Miss Savage. But it wouldn't be Little Miss Savage if the protagonist wasn't literally a primeval savage.

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The Ido Yarboggesh and her symbol

Drawn by EmptySpace000 Meet the Ido Yarboggesh, an ancient Yaban witch. An ex-executioner betrayed by a corrupt lord, Yarboggesh was banished into a mystical wasteland where she enslaved Kollidorian nymphs and cultivated extraordinary wisdom and power over the centuries. She is responsible for the Self King philosophical tradition, a pseudo-fascistic Sith-like Nietzschean philosophy based around the triumph of one's will. She's also responsible for the Dead Gods Society, a black hole-worshipping star cult. As a result of all this, she became a self-described "Ido," a kind of war bodhisattva warlock, and would take those who dared to seek her as disciples to be trained as martial warriors. Yarboggesh lived for 4,000 years and oversaw the great awakening of Yabanity's vril, which awoke the species to casual mastery of qi manipulation, before she was ultimately slain by an unknown warrior. I like to think of her as a bolloi take on white-haired martial arts masters, e.g. Pai Mei.

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Yulaan’s 1+ Up icon, drawn by Salvamakoto

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Sol Yulaan sprite

Drawn and animated by hidorE