I don't know what I'm supposed to do
haunted by the ghost of you
Frankenstan AU where the problem isn't bringing Stan back to life, it's to keep him alive. A series of trials to bring him back only for him to agonize for minutes and then die again due to whatever injury he has. And every time he looks at Ford with wide pleading eyes, not understanding what is happening, why his brother is hurting him, why he is being punished.
And Ford just keeps trying, because he can't lose his twin now that he has finally gotten over what happened, now that he is finally ready and able to move on, to be best friends again.
Even though after everything, just the sight of him might be able to terrify his brother even more than Rico.
Guys.. Stan canonically writes fanfiction, presumably posting it to ao3.. I bet that man has got the ultimate author's curse notes
"Sorry I'm late to update guys! Got arrested by the federal government for stealing materials from them to rebuild an interdimensional portal to save my long lost twin brother! But hopefully things will be more consistent now that I'm done saving him!"
"My bad for this being so rushed, currently living through the literal apacolypse!"
"Didn't mean for this too take so long y'all, had to reread the whole fic to refresh my memory after getting my brain wiped to kill the demon who used to date my brother, y'all know how it is!"
Vegeta was actually meant to be taller, but as he was growing up Frieza had starved and locked him in closed spaces from time to time as punishment, or simple amusement, and it affected his growth.
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Lol.
this has probably been drawn before but I did it anyway <3
“He’d never say it out loud, but he lapped that word up, the praise you gave him felt like that of a frenzied crowd when coupled with the same admiration you gave the others.”
“He wanted more.”
Soooo I may have been re-reading a short fic that just updated and like I’m obsessed with how It’s basically these two dorks like wanna kiss each other so bad they also wanna tear each other apart as well (one for scientific reasons the other just cause), but then in the end Cell just gets like a whole existential crisis.
Wanted to doodle this rq while I’m working on the cotl comic, and I actually love how this turned out! :D
So anyways yall should go read it if you’re interested, I highly recommend it! ⬇️
We dont talk enough about the fact that Goku wasnt born strong. Gohan, Vegeta, Broly, Goten, Trunks... all born with innate strength. But Goku... Goku was weak. His entire life growing up, there was ALWAYS someone stronger than him.
For a saiyan to be outmatched by earthlings... ridiculous. But he was. Several times over. Every bit of strength Goku has, he had to work for, train relentlessly for. Its easy to forget because hes so strong now and continiously comes out ahead. But thats the POINT.
Vegeta grew up knowing he was the pride of the saiyan race, born strong, elite, a prodigy. He was hopelessly outmatched by frieza and some of his army, but for a saiyan, vegeta was the strongest (or so he believed).
Because the saiyans put so much belief into power you were born with, power you were destined to have. You either had strength or you didnt. And Goku didnt. So he was third class. His destiny wasnt power, it was weakness.
Its why Vegeta is so constantly thrown off by and therefore obsessed with Goku in the beginning. Because how could someone born so weak be THIS strong? It didnt make sense.
Then we have Gohan, born with incredible hidden reserves of power. Unlike Goku, Gohan was born with potential. His strength was always there. And sure, he had to work incredibly hard to unlock it but its a story arc we keep seeing repeated with gohan. Either its unlocked with anger or someone unlocks it for him (the grand elder, old kai, etc.)
And then Goten and Trunks, both super saiyan by the age of 7. Power came EASY to them. It was as natural as breathing. Goku, Vegeta, and even Gohan all struggled to reach super saiyan. It took a toll. But Trunks and Goten take that power from literal legend and make it a game.
No one has ever had to work as hard as Goku to achieve strength. And you can argue with me on this all day long if you want to. He didnt have hidden powers. There were no hidden reserves, no one to unlock his innate abilities. When he was a child, his unnatural strength compared to human made him special. But for a saiyan, goku was one of the lowest of their race.
Every bit of strength, every morsel of power in gokus body, was built through training. He didnt unlock hidden potentials, HE CREATED them. Its why Goku is the mortal who figures out how to unlock ultra instinct. Because he almost never won a battle purely based off a sheer power, no. Goku had to be smart, needed to be clever. He was forced to hone technique just as much as power, was taught by all his masters the importance of harnessing his mind as well as his body. He grew up meditating, sensing energy, learning not to rely on his eyes, but all his senses. He was training to filter out his own extra unnecessary movements all the way back when he first met Korin and then later again with Kami.
Goku lost fights a lot. All the time. But everytime he lost, he learned. Because he was forced too. Because when Goku lost, there was no backup. He was it. And so he would HAVE to come back stronger, have to find the way to win. Or everyone would be dead.
Maybe its just me but i just think theres something incredibly special about a saiyan labeled as "weak," a saiyan no one bothered to pay any mind to being the first to become legend. He avenged their entire race. That little boy with a tail, born with a power level of 2, became the strongest of them all.
Alright, gn
I’m going to keep pointing out the yonic goblet One for All imagery every time it comes up.
(FYI: yonic imagery is the female counterpart to phallic imagery. Phallic symbols resemble male genitalia, like swords, obelisks, towers, etc. Yonic symbols are objects invoking imagery of female genitalia, often cups, cauldrons, chalices, goblets, wells, caves, tunnels, flowers, fruits, etc.)
One for All and the characters intertwined with it have too many themes surrounding birth/rebirth for this to be a coincidence: i.e.: Yoichi living on past his death, Izuku’s name having a character that can be read as “to be born”, All for One calling himself One for All’s father, all the pregnancy metaphors about One for All, and child Shigaraki tearing himself out vestige All for One, just to name a few.
You know what would be an interesting sci-fi movie? An alien race trying to do a peaceful first contact movie scenario with a non-space-traveling Earth, only to discover that this planet just survived an alien invasion scenario. Double the fun if the first group looks at the Earth after regrouping and immediately knows from the signs which other group of aliens did this, and it's very much a 'dang it, not them again' situation.
The entire rest of the movie is these new aliens trying to coax humans into being friends while we hiss at them from our defenses like an abused stray cat hiding behind a dumpster.