Nostalgia bites me in the ass again!

[amadeupname]

So, as many of you probably know, I used to be a huge - and I mean ginormous - Dragonball Z fan. Still am, a bit, in a "this was my first anime ever, and even though I realize now it's pretty generic and kind of sucks in places, I still love it" way. I still have at least one of my T-shirts, still have the framed Piccolo pic that someone bought for me, still have the posters and wall scroll, still have my action figures (I think -- I might have given them to my brother =X); I still have that idea for my fanfic that I never really wrote, and thank god I didn't because that character was a total Mary Sue.

Her name was Tirana, and she was a Saiyan from goodness-knows-where anymore. She crash-landed on the planet in one of those typical pods that every single Saiyan in existence seems to own at least one of, and Piccolo found her and adopted her. And named her Tirana, which meant "orphan" in Namekian. (Oh! The angst!) And apparently managed to keep her secret from everyone but Dende and Gohan until she was sixteen or so. She tortured Vejita, and Goten, Trunks, and my Stu were all in love with her. Oh, and did I mention that her bangs were naturally pink?

In the first version of the story, a Saiyan named Ramu attacked (and I stole that name from Island of the Blue Dolphins), effectively kicking Piccolo's ass and then disappearing. I took that out later and was going to add it around the fourth or fifth chapter, but never got around to it. He was going to lust after Tirana and try and make her his "Saiyan Queen", like so many other clicheed fics do.

And then there was my Stu, Kiyoshi (an actual Japanese name, woohoo!), who was a Namek who ALSO crash-landed on the planet around the time Tirana revealed her existence to the rest of the DBZ cast. And dear god, did he have an angsty past, where his (rare!) twin brother attacked him and gave him the scar on his left eye. Poor mopey Stu. Anyway, Kiyoshi!Stu decided to take a universal cruise, and his brother followed him, trying to kill him for some reason or another. Did I mention he stayed at Vejita/Bulma/Trunks' house?

Kiyoshi and Tirana became best friends, and I was going to have him eventually get drunk on sake and try and kiss her, or something. Or kill himself. All I know is he was going to get drunk and do something painfully angsty. And Kiyoshi's brother, whose name I forget (it was another Japanese name, it started with an "A" and meant something like "bright boy"), apparently teamed up with Ramu before landing on the planet and trying to kill the Sue and Stu.

I still want to write that fic, and maybe someday I will. After I completely revamp the characters and the storyline, and maybe watch more of the series so I can have SOME continuity. And I highly doubt I'll ever publicly post it, except maybe on this journal.

Anyway, the reason this all came up is because I started looking for JKwok44's Dragon Ball Home Page - Frozen in Time.... I didn't like the fanfiction on there too much, but it had this cool midi on there that I haven't listened to in forever, and I loved it so much. This is it. I really want to find out where it's from -- someone told me it was from Macross Plus, but I don't remember who, and either way I'm still not sure. Anyone out there know?

At that point I was remembering all the fanfics that I used to love, and I tried looking for some of them. I do remember Sarah Slutz's stuff, but apparently her page has been moved and I can't get to the new one. Which really sucks, because I wanted to reread her stuff and see if it was as good as I remembered, or if I was really deluded back then. And I really did like her stuff, too, even if it was about Vejita's Sue sister.

So... anyone know what that song is? And does anyone else want to go on a hunt for old fanfics that probably don't exist anymore?

EDIT: Well, I found her fanfiction.net page! Which apparently has all the stuff I remembered anyway! Woohoo! Now on to look for other stuff >_>;

If you're interested at all, check out her fic The Madness Game, which is what I'm in the process of rereading.

Comments

[maxpegasus.livejournal.com]

Dragonball Z fanfiction can tend to be amazingly gay.

Also, Dragonball's cool, why doesn't anyone ever remember it? - Dragonball Z is alright, but since everything after the Super Saiyan Son Goku incident was something Toriyama was never going to write, and Dragonball GT sucked extreme arsehole, there's more reason to believe that more effort went into Dragonball, the original story of Son Goku's Childhood.

The Jackie Chun/Red Ribbon/Tao Pai-Pai/Tenshinhan/Demon King Piccolo/Piccolo Jr stuff was fantastic, and that's simply a quick summary of the better moments of the entire series.

I own both Dragonball and Dragonball Z entirely in Japanese/Subbed, and I'm looking into the Dragonball Z Jap/Subbed movies... I'm tempted to buy GT, someday, due to the fact I may have been too hard on the English version by Blue Water Dubbing.

... So... Yeah. There's no shame in liking Dragonball, since it has been given a bad name by awful n00bs, there's still no reason to hate it. Anyone is entitled to watch it, and if they prefer eighties buzz words and toned down violence/gore/dialogue/drama, then that is their own problem. Not yours.

The new game, DBZ: Tenkaichi Budokai is about the best game they've done of it, in other news!

ahh ...

[celesma.livejournal.com]

I remember my own DBZ Sue. (wipes away a tear) Good times, good times. As of this moment I'm planning to resurrect her in a fic that involves harassing Frieza, and lots of jokes about how being able to account for your towel at all times makes for one hoopy hitchhiker.

[bowzerj.livejournal.com]

I remember my first DBZ character... I got obsessed with Zarbon (Zaabon? The green dude from the Cell Saga) 'cause he had what was trying to be an English accent and was amazed that other countries decided to show they knew we existed by doing this. So I made up a back history type thing for his people and it ended up being quite terrible until I went back to it a while ago. I basically made the planet a big spherical UK. It got invaded a lot, invaded other places as GRRR!Vengeance a lot later, made up of pretentious people who love to use big words (like pretentious), and eventually blew up.

Which I hope won't happen to my little island.