I don't really read Gohan-centric fics. The vast majority of them seem to be high-school fics, which in my opinion was the least interesting part of Gohan's life, and most of those are terrible.
That said, there's an arc in Break Through the Limit where Gohan and Videl launch themselves into space after the Cell Games (they meet earlier in Break Through The Limit), dragging Zarbon along for the ride (it's a long story) and proceed to rampage through the remains of the Planet Trade Organization.
I recall a Gohan/Erasa fic that had them meeting during the tournament immediately after the Cell Games. It had Majin Videl. I think it was a cracky parody, but I can't quite remember.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariChallenge: Come up with a DBZ Fanfic idea in the style of MK 9's story mode, possibly bleeding into an MKX-style sequel.
My various fanfics.Krillin makes Vegeta sandwiches.
Also, the Spirit Bomb takes energy from the sun.
Not just living things.
Not actually a fic, but I still made something. Hopefully somebody will like it?
Been dying to do a Super Saiyan transformation recently. And it's another chance to workshop my fic that's been stewing in my brain for forever, and bits and pieces of its various sequels.
He looked up slowly at Cooler, the man who'd killed his brother, the man he'd called a friend. And that was his fault, too. Meeting the brother of the man his own brother had killed, the son of the man his father had killed, befriending him, training with him, accidentally telling him the secrets and strengths of his brothers. But had it been an accident? Or had he just been so blind and miserable in his worthless jealousy that he'd wanted his brothers dead? He wanted to ask Cooler why, but he knew why. All Cooler's talk of how he had never cared about Frieza, or his petty revenge, or their empire, had all been a lie. Cooler had wanted his own revenge.
He looked at his brother, Vegeta. Their mentor, Nappa. His...his friend, Tercres. And the binds that crossed their chests in X's, even the one that trapped his own chest and pinned his arms. They were designed to draw on the wearer's own power, designed to hold the maximum output of power they could ever have, and turn against them. It was hopeless. It was all his fault. And after they were dead, Cooler had said he would wipe out the Saiyan Race. One by one, no matter how long it took. And turn every Saiyan colony world into cosmic ash.
Kakarot collapsed to his knees in agony, bitter tears running down his cheeks and dripping onto the cracked, dried earth. Raditz had always believed in him. Always encouraged him. And now he was dead, because of him. Something about that was so...so horribly funny, that Kakarot couldn't stop the single, mirthless chuckle that escaped his lips. But that singular laugh caused something inside Kakarot to unlock, then shatter completely, and everyone stared in wide-eyed confusion at what unfolded next.
The chuckle became a sob, and that became a scream, of rage and agony and sadness and self-loathing, all at once. And as Kakarot threw his head back and screamed his throat raw, his power skyrocketed, and the pain of the binding pushing back against him only furthered his agony, until it burst apart in smoke and fire.
"Impossible." Vegeta muttered, dumbfounded. There was only one Legendary Super Saiyan in TEN THOUSAND YEARS! And he had already done it! So what the hell was Kakarot doing? "What's going on, Nappa??" The old, scarred warrior scowled, blood dripping down his face and through his thick mustache.
"I don't know." He grumbled, squinting in disapproval. "But it's not you, my King." For one thing, Vegeta's scream hadn't sounded nearly so...painful. As if Kakarot were gaining so much power so quickly that it hurt. And while Vegeta had exuded light out of him, Kakarot sucked all the light in from the world around him, like some sort of horrible event horizon, until the only light in the universe seemed to be the ungodly green glow coming off of him.
"K-Kakarot?" Tercres whispered in confusion, tears blinking in her dark purple eyes. What was happening to her dearest friend? This increase in power should be a good thing. But it made her so...afraid.
Kakarot stood, but only because the ground had sunken beneath him, pushed down by the gravity well of his own power, as he just kept screaming. It was the most horrible sound anyone had ever heard. His hair whipped around on the wind, standing on end, glowing an unnatural pale green. Muscles burst out under skin that had suddenly gone pale as well, as he kept screaming, and it kept growing darker. The sky blacked out, and lighting came down from the sky all around Kakarot, turning the ground beneath him to glass. It was as if all of creation was trembling at his power.
Eventually, though, the screaming finally stopped. But the silence was, somehow, worse. Kakarot took slow steps towards Cooler, surrounded by the green dome of energy, the air crackling around him like electricity. Cooler backed away from him, terrified for the first time in his life.
"Y-you're...you're a monster!" Cooler blurted out, breaking out in a cold sweat from the power he could feel rolling off Kakarot like heat from the sun. Normally, Kakarot would have smirked. But his expression seemed to be frozen in a bastardization of a scowl and a sneer.
"No." Kakarot said plainly. "I am a God." He finished, looking straight into Cooler's soul, with dead. White. Eyes.
First fic, which was sorta mentioned a couple pages ago: Bardock talks to King Vegeta, convinces him to have all the Saiyans stand together and shoot their lasers up into the sky when Frieza tries to blow up the planet. Bardock attacks first, putting him at the front of the beams when the Saiyans attack, sorta sacrificing himself for the Saiyan people. Gine is by his side. In a debt of gratitude, King Vegeta takes in Bardock's sons as his own.
Twenty years out from under the shackles of Frieza's empire, the Saiyans have grown from their barbaric, warlike culture into their own form of society, with its own arts, trade, traditions, and even colony worlds. Think less Sparta, more Athens or Rome. Kakarot, Vegeta, and Raditz have all grown up together. Kakarot is still mostly Goku, bright and positive and full of energy. Just less...stupid. But he's always doing crazy things to try and make himself stronger and gain his father's approval. Like picking fights with people way outside his station, getting into trouble and giving the king a headache. Vegeta is still...mostly a douche, but not a psychopath, the idea being that being around Kakarot has softened him, made him a lighter, better person. Think Loki and Thor, but a world where Loki is the heir apparent. And Raditz is mostly the straight man to their adventure-based shenanigans, or shenanigan-based adventures. Add Nappa as grumpy schoolmaster/drill sergeant, and Tercres as a random female saiyan that admittedly I never put much thought into. >.>
ANYWHO, first fic would be a bit of space adventures with the three brothers before King Vegeta would come in and save their butts, some arguing with his sons, and then to try and help them mature and gain an appreciation of what they represent as princes, he takes them to his next meeting with the Galactic Federation. While there, hey, guess what, Frieza. He's a cyborg now. And he brought his dad and the Ginyus. And he wants to kill everyone. Badda bing, badda boom, good guys are winning (King Vegeta even kills Cold!), but Frieza pulls the "I am not left-handed" bit and kills King Vegeta. Vegeta goes Super Saiyan and blows Frieza right the fuck up. Everyone is happy except Kakarot, who realizes that he will now never, ever catch up to Vegeta.
Second fic: Set a few years later, Vegeta is the King, Kakarot has become estranged, constantly leaving the planet, once to do training to learn techniques to catch up to Vegeta, but eventually that just devolved into throwing himself into certain death, but without the dying, basically abusing Zenkais. Kinda like Vegeta in the original timeline. And even that just kinda devolved into hanging around in cantinas and not giving a shit about anything. Raditz comes by, they argue.
Enter Cooler, in a Revenge of the Sith-Esque "I can give you the power you seek" sort of scene. Cooler takes Kakarot back to his planet, they train, kinda become bros, Kakarot thinks they're just talking when Cooler asks about his family, Cooler is plotting revenge. Kakarot leaves after a while, Cooler goes to Namek. Vegeta gets a note from the Federation about a Frieza-like Space Armada forming on Namek. Everyone goes "The fuck is Namek?" because Namek has no technology, and no way to communicate with the Federation, so it's basically a myth. Saiyans go there, Kakarot tries buddying it up with his best friend Cooler. Cooler starts killing people. Vegeta starts to turn Super Saiyan, Cooler throws the harnesses at everybody. Kill Raditz.
We have the scene from above, but less expository. Kakarot kinda steamrolls over Cooler until Cooler transforms, but then still...kinda steamrolls him, growing not only stronger, but more sadistic and unhinged as the fight goes on. Kakarot kills Cooler and frees everyone, but doesn't power down. It looks like him and Vegeta are gonna throw down, until Kakarot sees the dead body of Raditz again and breaks down. Cooler killed the Namekian Elder, so the balls are inert until they select a new one.
Kakarot says that he has to leave and can never come back, because his new power makes him too dangerous. Vegeta agrees, but mostly because he feels threatened. Kakarot peaces out, taking his space pod out into the universe until it burns up all his fuel, crash landing on a random, backwater, war-torn planet called...Earth.
Subsequent fics would deal with what the fuck has happened on an Earth with no Goku, Vegeta's rise to even greater power with the complete destruction of the Eisjinn line leaving a vacuum and his descent into true Vegeta bastardom, Kakarot on Earth, and eventually, Kakarot and Vegeta's final showdown.
The intent behind making Vegeta a classic Super Saiyan and Kakarot closer to a Broly-type form was to make everyone's powerups unique. For example, when he's reintroduced after being revived, Raditz will have trained with King Kai. And since he'd have been dead longer, he's learned higher levels of Kaioken. On Earth, Krillin will have unlocked the State of Nothingness, Tien is a reluctant cyborg of the Red Ribbon Nation, and Yamcha is...a werewolf.
I admit, it's overly ambitious and will probably never be finished, but it's just nice to get it all out of my head and into some physical reality.
My various fanfics.You know, it strikes me as incredibly unlikely for Kakarot to grow to be anything like Goku. Goku grew into who he was due to the influence of Gohan, Roshi, and Kami (as well a brain damage making him forget his mission). Having him raised by Saiyans, even upper class ones who have somehow discovered art (which strikes me as really, really unlikely) would probably result in someone more like Raditz.
Vegeta's personality difference could be easily justified as being due to actually being raised by his family instead of on the battlefield. Again, I don't see Kakarot being Goku enough to significantly influence him out of being canonical Vegeta.
I'm having a hard time seeing any of them growing strong enough to challenge Freeza or Cold. Goku only got to that level of strength due to a combination of training in gravity ten times that of Planet Vegeta, abusing the crap out of zenkais with senzu beans, and unlocking the legendary transformation of his race when his best friend died in a manner he thought was permanent. No gravity machine + no King Kai training + thinking Freeza is dead = significantly weaker monkeys. Keep in mind that Vegeta was considered an extremely powerful Saiyan back when his power level was 20,000. Goku didn't go Super Saiyan until after his power level hit 3 million.
Goku was never programmed with a mission, tho. He was sent to Earth not to destroy it, but to escape the destruction of his homeworld, Superman Style, because DB Minus is Toriyama's way of ripping off Superman even more.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariGohan's super dorky costume is the best thing that happened to Dragon Ball Z, period.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariI really like the way Videl got a costume in Wrath of the Dragon.
I like how Goten is basically the only other person to think the costume is cool.
I think it's all fantastic.
I mean.
Yeah, I don't like the sound of that
. Takes all the fun out of everything.
edited 10th Apr '15 11:33:19 AM by unnoun
A lot of people try to play Gohan as if he were some dark, brooding loner with a chip on his shoulder the size of a planet and with barely contained hatred of his father.
They also like to portray him as someone who likes fighting and who would continue training without an incentive.
Which is why in that kind of fic you also have Gohan beating Vegeta of all people in fights.
If Vegeta and Gohan had fought at the start of the Buu saga, Gohan would've lost and he would've lost horribly.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari...On further retrospect, yeah, that fic doesn't make a lot of sense.
Guess that's what happens when you barely retool an idea you've had since High School.
A little depressed now, actually.
My various fanfics.So I was watching the latest TFS plays Xenoverse...
"Trunks. Demigra's escaped. Bring me five heroes with attitude!"
"Supreme Kai of Time, you can't mean-"
"Yes, Trunks. We must use the Dragon Balls to summon... Teenagers!"
Go Go Future Warriors!
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari- is now feeling guilty for writing story where Gohan in high school is part of it*
Although the high school part is very minor to the plotline. It's pretty much just to show how, if people knew what Gohan was capable of, they still wouldn't like him. Or at least, some people wouldn't. Because ordinary people would naturally be jealous of his power.
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!There's nothing wrong with writing a fic that takes place when Gohan is in high school. It's all these fics that are about nothing but him going to high school that are irritating. Yes, Gohan went to high school. No, we do not want to read a fic entirely about his high school life. That goes double when Gohan is not recognizable as Gohan due to bad writing.
edited 11th Apr '15 9:43:57 PM by Hyp3rB14d3
The sad part is that a lot of them just want to write a high school fic and totally forget about the fact that, well, Gohan is practically a Physical God compared to the humans surrounding him.
Also, can I say it?
I fucking loathe the Frying Pan gag. Hey, dumbass writers, want to know something? NOTHING IN THE WORLD CAN SCRATCH GOHAN'S FUCKING SKIN. A frying pan wielded by a woman millions of times weaker than him... Well, Gohan just ain't even going to feel it.
Then again, this is the same people who think a needle can go through Gohan's skin. Gohan could be hit right in the nose with a Tsar Bomba and the very most it'd do is maybe singe his clothes and hair. If it even does that.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariI dunno, he might not be THAT invulnerable when he's not paying attention. I still can't get over the fact that the fate of the world was screwed because Gohan failed to catch an earring.
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!

It suddenly occurs to me that I haven't yet asked for any recs in this section.
So lay it on me. Anyone have quality dope starring Krillin or Gohan? It can be shippy, it can be actiony, I don't even care.