I finally made the thread! Mostly so I can post stuff about the stuff I'm gonna make! But also cause I'm rereading the series and just bought season one of DBZ on DVD. Aaand season two of DB, so I guess I'm committed to that too.
A thing! I think Vegeta slots in stupid well into Bulma's spot. They got real similar personalities, when you get down to brass tacks. Rich Kid Vegeta is more business minded than a tech head, and his wish is prolly still for immortality, but he's also a prick with no friends, and the end of the quest'll see him making pals and not as livid at his lost opportunities as he'd have thought. He's a skinny little pretty boy, doesn't much care for fighting. Thinks it's for lesser dudes, and is more confident in his ability to bully and intimidate than he should be. Will get into weapons tech as he gets older. Not as brilliant as Bulma was, but he's smart enough and more focused than she ever was, so. Bulma is more smart than she is powerful in any universe. I think she's a brute by necessity, but favors clever solutions and the judicious application of tech to lighten her workload. She's more of a leader than Vegeta was, and would likely try and keep Nappa alive at least. Her wish is probably more "power" then "immortality", because she'd be smart enough to know that living forever wouldn't guarantee her safety or happiness the way power would.
!!! Go for it, man! I've only really thought about the Bulma/Vegeta swap, cause they're so similar in a lot of respects. tbh I only threw Chi Chi in there cause I thought it might be cute. i dunno how much cuter it is then just normal Goku though. Haha, wow, the amount Bulma's tits saw them through their first quest, i wonder how an AU with just Vegeta and Bulma swaped would even work out? Could make Vegeta prettier, and Kame's a desperate enough pervert to go for it, mayhaps.. idk. Early Kame is super skeevy, haha.
still working on it, i got tired yesterday and had to quit. here's the rough sketch: bulma in vegeta's original armor is hilarious to me. vegeta's clothes are temporary, i think. couldn't think of anything sufficiently "yuppie rich boy" so shorts and tshirt as a place holder. i might make him a bit less curvy too. i don't draw guys enough. also, i wonder how it would work out if kame and freeza were swapped as well? how would a human freeza even act?
Human Frieza would prolly be a business type dude, prolly weapon's tech. He's into power, but he was just kinda born into a stupid overpowered race and with a family history of conquest, so I don't know if he'd ever get into fighting as a human. And Kame's not enough of a people person to build an empire. He'd could absolutely be King Cold's shitty disaster child, roaming round the galaxy picking up chicks and getting kicked out of bars, giving his whole clan a bad name.
Also, consider: Lunch in Yamcha's place. Blonde Lunch picking a fight with the crew, gets turned back Blue halfway through, and gets thoroughly thrashed. overhears about the dragonballs, and is like "wow, it really sucks blacking oit and coming to months down the line in some crummy desert with a sackfulla stollen weapons and in the middle of getting beat by a little girl with a monkey tail.I should stick by these guys and maybe persuade them nonviolently to let me wish my split perwonality away". And since Blue is kinda timid and doesn't know how to work a rocket launcher, she gets pressed into summoning Blonde, and maybe tries to communicate a little. and Blonde's got the same goal of wishing Blue away, but they communicate and junk so that they can utilize the other's talents, and sort of start to blend into each other. Like, Blue is more patient and sociable, but Blonde's more pragmatic and can fight and drive like a champ. Blue is not naive or stupid, but kinda passive. She works tjings out quicker than Blonde, but doesn't really do anything with what she's got. could be interesting.
