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Breaking God's Law

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Breaking God's Law is a Dragon Ball fanfic written by Experiment318. It can be read herenote  on Archive of Our Own.

Set in a Fallen Angel AU, Vegeta is an angel tasked with watching over part of Earth. However, he is distracted from his duties by one of the humans he watches over. When he's given the chance to meet this human, he takes it despite the consequences.


Breaking God's Law provides examples of:

  • Angelic Transformation: Goku is slated to become an angel after his death, however, the exact process of how this will occur is not specified.
  • But Liquor Is Quicker: While it wasn't Vegeta's idea to get Goku to drink, he still takes advantage of it to try seducing Goku once again. This time it works.
  • Downer Ending: In the end, Goku never wants to see Vegeta again and Vegeta realizes that he became a Fallen Angel for no benefit. Vegeta returns to the mountain where he first came to Earth and waits for the eventual death of his mortal body, knowing he'll be damned to Hell.
  • Fallen Angel: Vegeta and several other angels decide to rebel against Heaven and go to Earth for various purposes. Vegeta's sole purpose is to meet Goku and hopefully get Goku to fall in love with him. It's mentioned that many of the other angels had darker intentions.
  • God in Human Form: Vegeta (and presumably many of the other Fallen Angels) takes on a human-like body after he arrives down on Earth to conceal his angelic form. He has a secondary goal of using this form to gain Goku's trust and affection.
  • Jealous Romantic Witness: In a variation of the trope, Stalker with a Crush Vegeta deliberately spies Goku and his wife having sex multiple times, despite how jealous it makes him.
  • Moment of Weakness: Vegeta listens to some of the other angels plotting to rebel against Heaven. He decides to join them regardless of the consequences due to his obsessive feelings for the human Goku. The narration acknowledges that he wouldn't have done this had he been in a better state of mind at the time.
  • Questionable Consent: Vegeta convinces Goku to sleep with him after being rejected earlier by taking advantage of the fact that Goku had been drinking. Goku isn't completely drunk and protests that he'd be cheating on his wife and breaking the rules of his religion. Vegeta promises him that no one will find out and that God will forgive him.
  • Secret Test of Character: Goku believes he's being subjected to a test of his righteousness by God and/or Heaven. This is not true, Vegeta left Heaven as a Fallen Angel to meet Goku on his own accord.
  • Spurned into Suicide: Implied by the ending, Vegeta allows his newly mortal body to succumb to hunger and/or thirst after being rejected by Goku. He has no reason to stay on Earth any longer and knows only Hell awaits him once his body dies.
  • Stalker with a Crush: Vegeta is an angel tasked with watching over a certain part of Earth, which happens to be where Goku lives. Vegeta develops obsessive feelings for Goku and spends most of his time watching only him at all hours of the day. He also spends his time researching everything he can about Goku's life, relatives, and other people he's in contact with.
  • Sympathetic Adulterer: Goku cheats on his wife, but he is portrayed sympathetically as it is not entirely his fault. A combination of Vegeta using his angelic abilities on him and he and Vegeta having some sort of otherworldly connection are partially to blame. He also greatly regrets his actions the morning after.
  • Transplanted Character Fic: The only evidence of this being a Dragon Ball fanfic is that it stars Goku and Vegeta. Goku is a human and Vegeta is an angel, instead of being Saiyans. The world they live in is much closer to the real world than the Dragon Ball world.


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