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saiyanscholarOOC Information:
Name: Misty
Are you over 15? Yep!
Contact: PM this journal
IC Information:
Name: Son Gohan (preincarnation) / Jeffrey Solberg (reincarnation)
Canon and medium: Dragonball Z (Anime)
Age: 18 (reincarnation), somewhere in his 20's as the preincarnation.
Preincarnation Species: Saiyan/Human hybrid
Preincarnation Appearance: Normal and Super Saiyan. As a young child, he had a monkey-like tail, but it was amputated early in his life and I'm unlikely to Echo it back for reasons detailed in the abilities section.
Any differences: He will be considerably less muscular, owing to the fact that he's spent this whole life being wimpy bookworm rather than fighting planet-destroying abominations. Otherwise, he pretty much looks like the first picture.
Preincarnated History:
Born to Goku and ChiChi about a year into their marraige, Gohan started life as a very sheltered kid. The family lived in the mountains, so he didn't have a whole lot of interaction with people outside the family.
But when he was four years old, his dad took him to meet all his old friends on Muten Roshi's island, and that's when things spiralled downward. Goku's previously unknown older brother Radditz revealed their true heritage as Saiyans and kidnapped Gohan in order to force Goku to return to his roots. With the help of his old enemy Piccolo -- and even Gohan himself, though he was unaware of his own power -- Goku managed to defeat Radditz, but died in the process.
Fortunately, the Dragonballs could grant nearly any wish, including bringing somebody back to life. Unfortunately, Piccolo let this slip to Radditz and he managed to relay this information to his two far more powerful superiors.
So with a threat on the way, Gohan found himself taken by Piccolo to learn how to survive on his own and utilize his powers in battle. Over the course of a year, the two actually manage to become good friends.
When the Saiyans arrived, most of Earth's fighters could do little against them. Even Piccolo, one of the mightiest, died at their hand -- by taking a hit meant for Gohan. The tide of the battle turned once Goku returned to life and arrived at the scene, and with much effort the battle was won.
But there were dead that needed reviving. So the remaining surviving group as well as Bulma, their resident technical genuis, traveled to Piccolo's home planet of Namek, where the Dragonballs originated. Goku stayed behind because he was too injured from the battle to make the trip with them.
But it turned out that the galaxy-conquering tyrant Frieza was after Namek's Dragonballs as well. After a lot of scurrying around and close calls, the group -- along with Vegeta, one of their former enemies, and Goku, who had finally recovered enough to follow -- are forced to confront and defeat Frieza.
And then Namek blew up, but everyone had been transported back to Earth thanks to a wish on the Dragonballs.
Another year passed, and then the group recieved a warning that super-powered cyborgs would show up in three years and wipe them all out, throwing the world into apocalypse mode. So then there are three years of training.
Things didn't go exactly as their visitor had predicted, what with more cyborgs showing up and the appearance of Cell, a genetically engineered creature created from the cells of most of the Earth's best fighters and their enemies.
So. More training, and then came the day that Cell had set aside for a "tournament" to fight and defeat Goku. And fight the two did, but to the surprise of everyone, Goku eventually forfeitted the battle and passed it on to Gohan. Nobody was more shocked about it than Gohan himself, but he agreed to try.
It took a great deal of psychological abuse for Cell to push Gohan to the point where he unleashed his full power. Unfortunately, at that level, Gohan became cruel and sadistic, refusing to finish the fight when he easily could have. This resulted in a panicked Cell preparing to blow himself up and take the entire planet with him. When all seemed lost, Goku teleported him to the land of the dead and was therefore the only one who died in the explosion -- no, Cell hadn't died. He came back to Earth stronger than ever, but with telepathic encouragement from Goku, Gohan managed to destroy him completely.
Fast forward seven years. Gohan was now a teenager, had a little brother, and was starting high-school. He wound up blackmailed into competing in the World Martial Arts Tournament, where the whole debacle that was dealing with Majin Buu happened.
Basically: ancient super-powerful creature was awakened, everybody was scrambling to defeat it. Gohan got taken for training in the land of the dead, came back even more powerful, still failed, then Earth got blown up and almost everyone died. Majin Buu was subsequently defeated in the land of the dead by Goku using the power of all the people on Earth -- the planet and its good people had been wished back by the Namek Dragonballs.
Fast forward another ten years, and Gohan was married and had a young daughter. Pretty much full circle, you see.
If you actually want more, thengod help you here's a link for you to peruse.
Reincarnated History:
Jeffrey was born into an affluent family, the youngest of three kids and the only boy. Being the baby of the family, he gets doted upon by both of his parents. It's a fairly normal existence, really. His father works in upper management at a very successful architectural firm and his mother has stayed at home to look after the children and manage the household. No nanny for her kids, no sir. She will be the best, most involved mother.
Jeffrey has spent most of his life just trying to keep his parents happy. After school activities? Whatever mom and dad want. Field of study at university? Yep, whatever they want. No sports because he might get hurt? Okay.
That last bit admittedly just came about because of the incident that caused his first Echo: getting hit in the face with a baseball when he was fourteen years old. It hadn't been a bad injury -- the Echo ensured that -- but after that happened, his parents had put the ban on him being involved in sports. They didn't want their baby boy to do anything that might get him hurt.
He blazed through school, earning top marks at both his private elementary academy and his private prep school. He aced an equivalency test at the age of fifteen and thus now, at eighteen, he's in his third year of studying economics and architecture at LCU. Starting this semester, he's also a TA for a freshman math class. All just like mom and dad want. Safe, secure intellectual pursuits. Nothing bad will happen this way, surely. No, he won't get flung into dangerous alien conspiracies at all!
First Echo: Getting hit in the face with a baseball when he was at bat during a game in gym class; a recurrence of when the same thing happened in his old life. He wasn't hurt badly, but that was because the event echoed back a bit of his durability -- nothing above human levels, but he can take more punishment than a scrawny guy like him should be able to manage. He currently has no idea that anything but the number came to him that day.
Preincarnation Personality:
Gohan is a very polite and soft-spoken person. He's been raised to have proper manners and takes pains to observe them as much as he possibly can. The thought of offending someone bothers him greatly. He's rather quiet, owing to a desire to avoid saying the wrong thing.
Though very shy, Gohan is quite friendly and always happy to be able to make a new friend. Most of his childhood has been spent around adults, though; he's had difficulty relating to other people his age on their level, as much as he wants to.
While he's intelligent and powerful, Gohan has severe self-confidence issues. He never feels as though he's good enough to do what needs to be done and guilts himself over it. Something went wrong? Well, it must have been his fault, then. That's surely the only explanation. At the core, he's a little boy who needs reassurance from his loved ones. He doesn't feel adequate without that reassurance.
But when he's not doubting his power, Gohan is actively fearing it. The idea that he could lose control and harm those he cares for absolutely terrifies him. For this reason, he tends to keep a subconscious leash on his power . . . just in case. Most of the time, he's unaware that he's even doing this; it's pure instinct on his part. He doesn't want to hurt anyone.
Yes, Gohan is a pacifist by nature. It was only necessity that forced him to learn how to fight, and in spite of his natural talent, he only does so when he absolutely has to. His first instinct is to try and diffuse a situation with words. If it's only himself at stake, he'll usually back down in order to avoid making trouble, no matter if he could easily overwhelm the situation with force. But if someone he cares for, or an innocent person is at risk, he'll do everything he can to protect them.
He's a dreadful liar; his hesitance and discomfort at such a thing are easy to see. It isn't that his thinks dishonesty is always a bad thing; he recognizes that sometimes it's better for all concerned to lie about certain things. But there's that nagging bit in the back of his mind that says it's bad manners. And he does so hesitate to be ill-mannered. He can attach himself very strongly to people, and is surpassingly loyal to anyone who earns this attachment.
Gohan is extremely booksmart and tactically proficient. Sadly, however, he has a tendency to be naïve as well. He's not completely trusting, but can be prone to manipulation, particularly of the sort that pokes at his insecurities. He's also kind of a boyscout, always wanting to help out anyone in distress.
As he gets older, he does seem to gain a bit in confidence, perhaps because in peaceful times there had been far fewer challenges to it. However, he's still at a loss as to how to relate to normal people. He's friendly enough, but he tends to come off as a tad odd. He's not even always aware that he comes off that way. Normal people are so weird, man. It's hard to figure out when they'll give you blank stares.
Any differences:
Jeffrey takes the shy thing to a different level. His old self may have gone up to somebody new despite his shyness, but Jeffrey won't do it at all unless he really, really has to. He even prefers texting to phone calls, because that way he can get everything right in his head before he says it. Doing that in real time is hard and people can be sort of scary. Yeah, give him the relative safety of a text conversation any day.
He's a city kid this time around, so while his old self was kind of a bumpkin, Jeffrey is a lot more streetwise. He knows the dangers of being too open about certain things, even if his knowledge of such things isn't perfect. So he knows city life, but a street kid he is not, what with that whole wealthy family thing. Mostly, he just knows how to avoid standing out too much when he's for whatever reason in some somewhat sketchy part of town. He'd kind of like to not get mugged or killed or something.
He isn't half so open as his former self. Can't let too much slip right away. What if, what if, what if . . .? He's still a pretty bad liar, but if he has the time to think about things, he's good at equivocating or dodging questions.
And his instinct when anyone is in physical danger or even just getting a verbal beatdown? Abort, abort, abort. What if the threat turns its attention onto him? He can't take that! He feels bad afterward, but he just can't. The best he'd manage is some very timid request for somebody to please back off. Not really the most effective thing.
Abilities: Ahahahaha, oh boy. Well, it's not so much that there are a lot of them, it's that the ones he had put him at the level of stupidly powerful. I will NOT be echoing back the full extent of them, since that would make him grossly overpowered. The specific abilities are:
And all that stuff backs up his intensive hand-to-hand combat training.
Roleplay Sample - Third Person:
It shouldn't have been this way. The city shouldn't have been descending into chaos, people shouldn't be getting horrifying memories and weird super-powers. Especially not him. How did he even fit into this? Sure, he'd kind of like to help if he could, but he wasn't anything special like the other Numbered.
"... Huh." He'd reached into the cereal box he'd been snacking out of in his anxiety to find it empty. Had he really eaten the whole thing in one go? And clearly it had done nothing to alleviate his mood because he still wanted to keep eating. He probably shouldn't, though.
Nevertheless, he set the empty box down on the counter, and opened the fridge. Not much there, actually. Hadn't he just done a grocery run yesterday? Maybe checking his schedule would be a good idea, though he didn't think he'd have forgotten something like that. In the meantime, he opened the freezer and pulled out a pint of strawberry vanilla ice cream. A moment later and he was contentedly spooning it into his mouth while he looked over the schedule on his desk.
... Yep, grocery run yesterday. He should still have had plenty left. Sure, he'd been kind of eating a lot today, but he couldn't have cleaned the house out already, right?
Yeah, right. That hope wasn't lining up with reality; he would have liked to avoid facing the facts on this, but this kind of thing couldn't really be ignored, could it? It was enough to get him to pause in eating the ice cream, regarding the nearly-empty container thoughtfully.
Okay, this was definitely not normal.
Roleplay Sample - Network:
Voice
[As usual, Jeffrey sounds kind of hesitant.] Okay, a couple of things, if they're not a bother to anyone. [Oh how he hopes he's not bothering anyone.]
So I know it's probably minor compared to all the physical changes some of you guys are going through, but . . . has anyone else just started getting really, really hungry all the time? I can't really seem to get full anymore. I looked through past entries and didn't see anything about this, so . . . yeah.
Also, um . . . This is kind of terrible, but does anybody else remember whole planets blowing up? [Nervous throat-clear. Yeah, he's done now. Good grief, why is he even asking this?]
Name: Misty
Are you over 15? Yep!
Contact: PM this journal
IC Information:
Name: Son Gohan (preincarnation) / Jeffrey Solberg (reincarnation)
Canon and medium: Dragonball Z (Anime)
Age: 18 (reincarnation), somewhere in his 20's as the preincarnation.
Preincarnation Species: Saiyan/Human hybrid
Preincarnation Appearance: Normal and Super Saiyan. As a young child, he had a monkey-like tail, but it was amputated early in his life and I'm unlikely to Echo it back for reasons detailed in the abilities section.
Any differences: He will be considerably less muscular, owing to the fact that he's spent this whole life being wimpy bookworm rather than fighting planet-destroying abominations. Otherwise, he pretty much looks like the first picture.
Preincarnated History:
Born to Goku and ChiChi about a year into their marraige, Gohan started life as a very sheltered kid. The family lived in the mountains, so he didn't have a whole lot of interaction with people outside the family.
But when he was four years old, his dad took him to meet all his old friends on Muten Roshi's island, and that's when things spiralled downward. Goku's previously unknown older brother Radditz revealed their true heritage as Saiyans and kidnapped Gohan in order to force Goku to return to his roots. With the help of his old enemy Piccolo -- and even Gohan himself, though he was unaware of his own power -- Goku managed to defeat Radditz, but died in the process.
Fortunately, the Dragonballs could grant nearly any wish, including bringing somebody back to life. Unfortunately, Piccolo let this slip to Radditz and he managed to relay this information to his two far more powerful superiors.
So with a threat on the way, Gohan found himself taken by Piccolo to learn how to survive on his own and utilize his powers in battle. Over the course of a year, the two actually manage to become good friends.
When the Saiyans arrived, most of Earth's fighters could do little against them. Even Piccolo, one of the mightiest, died at their hand -- by taking a hit meant for Gohan. The tide of the battle turned once Goku returned to life and arrived at the scene, and with much effort the battle was won.
But there were dead that needed reviving. So the remaining surviving group as well as Bulma, their resident technical genuis, traveled to Piccolo's home planet of Namek, where the Dragonballs originated. Goku stayed behind because he was too injured from the battle to make the trip with them.
But it turned out that the galaxy-conquering tyrant Frieza was after Namek's Dragonballs as well. After a lot of scurrying around and close calls, the group -- along with Vegeta, one of their former enemies, and Goku, who had finally recovered enough to follow -- are forced to confront and defeat Frieza.
And then Namek blew up, but everyone had been transported back to Earth thanks to a wish on the Dragonballs.
Another year passed, and then the group recieved a warning that super-powered cyborgs would show up in three years and wipe them all out, throwing the world into apocalypse mode. So then there are three years of training.
Things didn't go exactly as their visitor had predicted, what with more cyborgs showing up and the appearance of Cell, a genetically engineered creature created from the cells of most of the Earth's best fighters and their enemies.
So. More training, and then came the day that Cell had set aside for a "tournament" to fight and defeat Goku. And fight the two did, but to the surprise of everyone, Goku eventually forfeitted the battle and passed it on to Gohan. Nobody was more shocked about it than Gohan himself, but he agreed to try.
It took a great deal of psychological abuse for Cell to push Gohan to the point where he unleashed his full power. Unfortunately, at that level, Gohan became cruel and sadistic, refusing to finish the fight when he easily could have. This resulted in a panicked Cell preparing to blow himself up and take the entire planet with him. When all seemed lost, Goku teleported him to the land of the dead and was therefore the only one who died in the explosion -- no, Cell hadn't died. He came back to Earth stronger than ever, but with telepathic encouragement from Goku, Gohan managed to destroy him completely.
Fast forward seven years. Gohan was now a teenager, had a little brother, and was starting high-school. He wound up blackmailed into competing in the World Martial Arts Tournament, where the whole debacle that was dealing with Majin Buu happened.
Basically: ancient super-powerful creature was awakened, everybody was scrambling to defeat it. Gohan got taken for training in the land of the dead, came back even more powerful, still failed, then Earth got blown up and almost everyone died. Majin Buu was subsequently defeated in the land of the dead by Goku using the power of all the people on Earth -- the planet and its good people had been wished back by the Namek Dragonballs.
Fast forward another ten years, and Gohan was married and had a young daughter. Pretty much full circle, you see.
If you actually want more, then
Reincarnated History:
Jeffrey was born into an affluent family, the youngest of three kids and the only boy. Being the baby of the family, he gets doted upon by both of his parents. It's a fairly normal existence, really. His father works in upper management at a very successful architectural firm and his mother has stayed at home to look after the children and manage the household. No nanny for her kids, no sir. She will be the best, most involved mother.
Jeffrey has spent most of his life just trying to keep his parents happy. After school activities? Whatever mom and dad want. Field of study at university? Yep, whatever they want. No sports because he might get hurt? Okay.
That last bit admittedly just came about because of the incident that caused his first Echo: getting hit in the face with a baseball when he was fourteen years old. It hadn't been a bad injury -- the Echo ensured that -- but after that happened, his parents had put the ban on him being involved in sports. They didn't want their baby boy to do anything that might get him hurt.
He blazed through school, earning top marks at both his private elementary academy and his private prep school. He aced an equivalency test at the age of fifteen and thus now, at eighteen, he's in his third year of studying economics and architecture at LCU. Starting this semester, he's also a TA for a freshman math class. All just like mom and dad want. Safe, secure intellectual pursuits. Nothing bad will happen this way, surely. No, he won't get flung into dangerous alien conspiracies at all!
First Echo: Getting hit in the face with a baseball when he was at bat during a game in gym class; a recurrence of when the same thing happened in his old life. He wasn't hurt badly, but that was because the event echoed back a bit of his durability -- nothing above human levels, but he can take more punishment than a scrawny guy like him should be able to manage. He currently has no idea that anything but the number came to him that day.
Preincarnation Personality:
Gohan is a very polite and soft-spoken person. He's been raised to have proper manners and takes pains to observe them as much as he possibly can. The thought of offending someone bothers him greatly. He's rather quiet, owing to a desire to avoid saying the wrong thing.
Though very shy, Gohan is quite friendly and always happy to be able to make a new friend. Most of his childhood has been spent around adults, though; he's had difficulty relating to other people his age on their level, as much as he wants to.
While he's intelligent and powerful, Gohan has severe self-confidence issues. He never feels as though he's good enough to do what needs to be done and guilts himself over it. Something went wrong? Well, it must have been his fault, then. That's surely the only explanation. At the core, he's a little boy who needs reassurance from his loved ones. He doesn't feel adequate without that reassurance.
But when he's not doubting his power, Gohan is actively fearing it. The idea that he could lose control and harm those he cares for absolutely terrifies him. For this reason, he tends to keep a subconscious leash on his power . . . just in case. Most of the time, he's unaware that he's even doing this; it's pure instinct on his part. He doesn't want to hurt anyone.
Yes, Gohan is a pacifist by nature. It was only necessity that forced him to learn how to fight, and in spite of his natural talent, he only does so when he absolutely has to. His first instinct is to try and diffuse a situation with words. If it's only himself at stake, he'll usually back down in order to avoid making trouble, no matter if he could easily overwhelm the situation with force. But if someone he cares for, or an innocent person is at risk, he'll do everything he can to protect them.
He's a dreadful liar; his hesitance and discomfort at such a thing are easy to see. It isn't that his thinks dishonesty is always a bad thing; he recognizes that sometimes it's better for all concerned to lie about certain things. But there's that nagging bit in the back of his mind that says it's bad manners. And he does so hesitate to be ill-mannered. He can attach himself very strongly to people, and is surpassingly loyal to anyone who earns this attachment.
Gohan is extremely booksmart and tactically proficient. Sadly, however, he has a tendency to be naïve as well. He's not completely trusting, but can be prone to manipulation, particularly of the sort that pokes at his insecurities. He's also kind of a boyscout, always wanting to help out anyone in distress.
As he gets older, he does seem to gain a bit in confidence, perhaps because in peaceful times there had been far fewer challenges to it. However, he's still at a loss as to how to relate to normal people. He's friendly enough, but he tends to come off as a tad odd. He's not even always aware that he comes off that way. Normal people are so weird, man. It's hard to figure out when they'll give you blank stares.
Any differences:
Jeffrey takes the shy thing to a different level. His old self may have gone up to somebody new despite his shyness, but Jeffrey won't do it at all unless he really, really has to. He even prefers texting to phone calls, because that way he can get everything right in his head before he says it. Doing that in real time is hard and people can be sort of scary. Yeah, give him the relative safety of a text conversation any day.
He's a city kid this time around, so while his old self was kind of a bumpkin, Jeffrey is a lot more streetwise. He knows the dangers of being too open about certain things, even if his knowledge of such things isn't perfect. So he knows city life, but a street kid he is not, what with that whole wealthy family thing. Mostly, he just knows how to avoid standing out too much when he's for whatever reason in some somewhat sketchy part of town. He'd kind of like to not get mugged or killed or something.
He isn't half so open as his former self. Can't let too much slip right away. What if, what if, what if . . .? He's still a pretty bad liar, but if he has the time to think about things, he's good at equivocating or dodging questions.
And his instinct when anyone is in physical danger or even just getting a verbal beatdown? Abort, abort, abort. What if the threat turns its attention onto him? He can't take that! He feels bad afterward, but he just can't. The best he'd manage is some very timid request for somebody to please back off. Not really the most effective thing.
Abilities: Ahahahaha, oh boy. Well, it's not so much that there are a lot of them, it's that the ones he had put him at the level of stupidly powerful. I will NOT be echoing back the full extent of them, since that would make him grossly overpowered. The specific abilities are:
Enhanced Metabolism: Being half Saiyan, Gohan has the natural ability to become more powerful after recovering from serious injury; the worse the injury, the greater the power increase. This is a passive ability.
Enhanced Durability: But by the same token, he's very difficult to actually hurt unless you're similarly a stupidly powerful being. Fighters in his canon get thrown into mountains and just come out dirty.
Enhanced Speed: Pretty much self-explanatory, here. He's capable of moving at levels the human eye can't detect.
Ki Manipulation: Like any credible fighter in his canon, Gohan can manipulate his ki (life energy). This mostly gets concentrated into blasts of various forms and levels of destructive power.
Flight: Another form of ki manipulation, he can fly through the air without the aid of wings. Meaning that air currents and such don't dictate his maneuverability.
Super Saiyan Transformation: He can access two stages of this. The visible changes are the colour of his hair and eyes shift from black to blond and teal respectively, and in the second stage, there are small discharges of lighting in his aura. But the real effect to to drastically ramp up all of his other capabilities.
Mystic Powerup: This negates his ability to transform into a Super Saiyan, but it ramps his power up even further.
*Full-Moon Transformation: When Saiyans or half-Saiyans still have their tails, they can transform into a 50-foot tall ape by looking at the full moon. This form increases their power by a factor of 10 and they can even fire bursts of ki from their mouths. Some Saiyans have control over themselves in this form, but on the two occasions Gohan is shown doing it, he's mostly mindless.
And all that stuff backs up his intensive hand-to-hand combat training.
Roleplay Sample - Third Person:
It shouldn't have been this way. The city shouldn't have been descending into chaos, people shouldn't be getting horrifying memories and weird super-powers. Especially not him. How did he even fit into this? Sure, he'd kind of like to help if he could, but he wasn't anything special like the other Numbered.
"... Huh." He'd reached into the cereal box he'd been snacking out of in his anxiety to find it empty. Had he really eaten the whole thing in one go? And clearly it had done nothing to alleviate his mood because he still wanted to keep eating. He probably shouldn't, though.
Nevertheless, he set the empty box down on the counter, and opened the fridge. Not much there, actually. Hadn't he just done a grocery run yesterday? Maybe checking his schedule would be a good idea, though he didn't think he'd have forgotten something like that. In the meantime, he opened the freezer and pulled out a pint of strawberry vanilla ice cream. A moment later and he was contentedly spooning it into his mouth while he looked over the schedule on his desk.
... Yep, grocery run yesterday. He should still have had plenty left. Sure, he'd been kind of eating a lot today, but he couldn't have cleaned the house out already, right?
Yeah, right. That hope wasn't lining up with reality; he would have liked to avoid facing the facts on this, but this kind of thing couldn't really be ignored, could it? It was enough to get him to pause in eating the ice cream, regarding the nearly-empty container thoughtfully.
Okay, this was definitely not normal.
Roleplay Sample - Network:
Voice
[As usual, Jeffrey sounds kind of hesitant.] Okay, a couple of things, if they're not a bother to anyone. [Oh how he hopes he's not bothering anyone.]
So I know it's probably minor compared to all the physical changes some of you guys are going through, but . . . has anyone else just started getting really, really hungry all the time? I can't really seem to get full anymore. I looked through past entries and didn't see anything about this, so . . . yeah.
Also, um . . . This is kind of terrible, but does anybody else remember whole planets blowing up? [Nervous throat-clear. Yeah, he's done now. Good grief, why is he even asking this?]
