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@heroicmuses / broly / xx.
“I never thought I’d say it, but you definitely win the Worst Place to Grow Up award. It makes my home look like a walk in the park.” Cheelai shrugged helplessly, hands raised, before they fall back to rest on her hips. No wonder he had never even seen water before.
Ah, he had spoken of those memories. “Like Ba, right? Is he around?” She looked over the rocky, yellowed wasteland as if she might spot him from here.
@handpickedriot / chi-chi It's dangerous beyond belief, being here, held in a roaring Oozaru's fist, but it's GOKU. She has to try. Chi-Chi reaches out and strokes the leathery skin of his jaw, imagining the many times she's touched Goku's soft, occasionally stubbled cheek. "It's still you, Goku," she murmurs, pleading, searching, knowing her husband is still there somewhere inside the great beast. She strokes his jaw again and again. "You'll always be you. Come back to me."
Lost to his bestial rage, Goku had grabbed Chi-Chi out of a sense of familiarity, a faint yearning to hold someone close who he felt a great deal of affection for, and out of a desire to protect her from the rampage he brought down on the mountain side. Trees and stone alike crumbled beneath his temper, and yet he seemed to have enough sense to stay clear of their home and to not crush his wife within his grasp.
There was too much to process, so much adrenaline and energy that he couldn’t contain, and it all had to all had to go somewhere. It left so little room for Goku and each passing moment the Oozaru took over more and more.
Until he felt her touch. A whisper of words followed, calling to him, calming him. Cradled by her care, the great beast’s rampage halted, leaving him to stare, unfocused, into the distance. Slowly, his palm fell open, allowing her to move about freely within its confines. He titled his head and his red eyes focused in on her. There was still so little of Goku there, but he was there.
@heroicmuses / piccolo
Trunks was finally sleeping. Usually well behaved, he sometimes got fussy, as babies did. Bulma was lucky enough that she wasn’t going this alone. Her mom and dad loved to help out and they were more than capable of hiring help. Still, there were a lot of things Bulma wanted to do herself.
If Vegeta wasn’t going to stick around to raise Trunks, she’d make sure he wouldn’t suffer for it.
Showered and dressed for the night, Bulma made her way downstairs in her shorts and tank top to do some last minute tinkering with her latest project. No rest for a beautiful, intelligent woman such as herself.
However, she paused mid way when there was a knock at the door. She opened it, realized it was Piccolo, and smiled.
“Hey there, big guy. You’re here kind of late.” She left the door open for him to enter as he wanted. “What’s up?”
@handpickedriot / vegeta It’s Vegeta, asleep on their bed (Bulma’s, really, because he doesn’t feel right calling it his own more often than not), infant Trunks asleep on his chest. Vegeta stirs and meets her gaze, his own softer than his usual hard stare, as he waits for her to speak first.
It was because Vegeta was so guarded that moments like this made her heart melt all the more. His usual hard features were soft, sleepy, tender even, and their son laid curled against his father’s chest, already in a deep slumber of his own. A few short years ago she had imagined herself marrying Yamcha, now she was still unmarried but had a son and a partner. A man who loved her, even if he rarely said it with his words. It was okay, though, he said it in other ways.
Without a word, Bulma crawled into their bed (theirs; even if they didn’t sleep in it together every night, it was how she thought of it) next to him, giving him a quick kiss before snuggling in.
Bulma knew it was hard for him, though she could only imagine just how hard. He’d come so far though. In a way they both had. She had faith that one day, he’d see that about himself too.
do you think anyone ever looks at goku’s friend group and thinks yamcha used to be an enemy tien and chiaotzu used to be enemies piccolo used to be an enemy vegeta used to be an enemy 17 and 18 used to be enemies buu used to be an enemy if you’re not defeated you will be assimilated into the found family
goku adores his family. on any given day, there’s likely no where else he’d rather be (barring getting some training time in, but even that is more fun when he can train with his kids or even with chi-chi), but on his birthday he especially wants to be surrounded by them and his friends. everything else, what they’re doing and such, doesn’t matter so much to him. though lots of food (chi-chi’s, of course) is preferable. I think he’d love for it to be a big kind of outdoor affair with a lot of food (and he would definitely help cook) that’s near his house so that he’s still within range of his grandpa’s home, because it all means so much to him. plus, easy to sneak in activities like swimming in the river and a lot of space to be loud and rowdy
im gonna watch dbs for the sole purpose of working in cell in place of frieza and no one can stop me
I’m having a lot of feelings this morning about goku. He cares a lot about the next generation and that they grow strong. this applies to wanting gohan to defeat cell and wanting gotenks to defeat buu — actually, he specifically says in buu saga that he wanted gotenks to defeat buu because they’re the ones who are gonna be around when he’s not (as he was only back on earth for a day at the time), and that he held back on defeating fat buu himself as ssj3 because of that. he wants them to grow stronger and tackle these things themselves. but more than that, he believes in them! he wouldn’t put them in these situations if he didn’t have faith in their power, and goku is pretty smart in regards to the battlefield and gauging someone’s power and skill.
but this all became more of a thing for him after the frieza saga. so many horrible things happen up to that point. we have, in short order, (1) goku died fighting raditz, (2) their friends died fighting nappa and the saibamen, (3) his battle with frieza destroyed an entire planet and displaced the namekians, (4) he watched krillin die a second time in his life, (5) he finally gets back to earth, meets future trunks, and learns that the future is horribly ruined partly because he wasn’t there to help
that last part in specific I feel is a lot to take in! it’s not just him who needs to be strong, it’s others too. he won’t always be there, hardships have often come out of nowhere for him and taken loved ones without any warning,
basically...I’m just having emotions over how much goku places an importance on making sure the next generation is taught and grows strong on their own. he wants his kids to surpass him. goten and trunks turning super saiyan at such a young age makes him ecstatic af. sure there’s the bonus of being able to get a thrilling fight with them too but he truly wants them to grow stronger
