November really is “re-live everything I obsessed over in Middle School” month😂🩷I’m loving it.
Rewatching Dragonball GT inspired me to redesign my DB OC, Okra, and now their story is slowly coming together in my head. As such, what started as a simple full-body illustration of the character turned into this😭🤣
Okra is the one with blond bangs. They are nonbinary and use they/them pronouns. I decided to make Okra as 2000s as possible, as a nod to the era during which this franchise inspired me. Okra’s story is actually set 500 years after Goku flew off with Shenron at the end of GT.
The two characters in the smaller boxes are Braies (male, pronounced “Braze”) and Chemise (female, pronounced “Sheh-meez.”) They’re siblings and currently running the Capsule Corp empire. They’re also some of the bad guys. All three characters are descended from Saiyans.
Okra’s story starts out similarly to the plot of Logan: they send away for a DNA kit to learn more about their family, as Okra doesn’t remember their parents all that well. The results put them on the government hit list - in order to protect the earth, several powers came together and decided to wipe out anyone with extraterrestrial heritage. Capsule Corp provides the kits used to aid this process.
I’m thinking as the story progresses, Okra will meet new friends in similar situations and form a new generation of Earth’s defenders. Haven’t decided what will happen to the siblings mentioned above yet. They’re protected from extermination due to a contract made ages ago, but who knows if that will last forever…
I’m not sold on the title just yet but there are so many Dragonball series and games and comics and books, it’s hard to pick something unique.
Anyway, let me know what you think! Like Okra, the bare bones of this story came to me when I was a kid: I’m having fun polishing it after all these years!