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Character Info
◎ Character's Name: Bulma Briefs
◎ Character's Canon: Dragon Ball Z (anime)
◎ Character's Age: 44, but she'll tell you she's 38
◎ Canon Point: Battle of Gods
◎ Background/History: Here!
◎ Is the character a hacker and/or do they have a sixth-sense?
Bulma isn't a hacker by trade, but she is a genius that builds and programs her own inventions. There's a very high probability that she will learn to hack robots, devices and potentially the network during her stay in the game. She has no sixth sense.
◎ Personality:
The heir to the largest fortune in the world, Bulma Briefs has never wanted for anything. In her youth this made her spoiled and prone to temper tantrums when things didn't go her way. She's often called selfish--this isn't entirely true, but it isn't entirely false, either. She did seek out the Dragon Balls to have her selfish desires fulfilled, rather than work for what she wanted. However, it was as much about the adventure as it was about her wish to find the 'perfect boyfriend'. As soon as she began dating Yamcha her desire for the Dragon Balls disappeared. Throughout her life she's had a very healthy ego, insisting that she's the most beautiful and intelligent woman in the world. Her vanity isn't entirely unfounded: she is a genius with a knack for invention. As she's matured, she's turned her energy away from adventuring and directed it instead to rearing her son and developing new technology to assist her friends in their battles.
Despite her maturity, her temper hasn't mellowed in the slightest—she's just as likely to shout down someone that has insulted her or her family, even going so far as to slap a god (admittedly, she didn't know Lord Beerus was the God of Destruction at the time) for 'ruining her birthday party'. Those who know her well are intimidated by her temper. Even the perpetually cheerful Son Goku is afraid of incurring her wrath. He even assumes that King Kai is referring to Bulma when he tells Goku that something terrible—Lord Beerus—is on his way to King Kai's planet. Even when she isn't furious she's frequently argumentative, stubbornly refusing to back down when she knows she's in the right.
As temperamental as she is, Bulma tends to be friendly and helpful. She rarely holds a grudge, easily moving past Vegeta's attempts to kill her friends on both Earth and Namek, as well as apparently forgiving Majin Buu for turning her into chocolate. Optimistic and forward thinking, Bulma has been shown to bounce back from tragic events quickly—when her husband dies while under the influence of Babidi, she mourns him briefly before turning her attention to Trunks and Goten's fusion training. Of course, it helps that the existence of the Dragon Balls makes death fairly impermanent. That, and she was angry with him for betraying her trust, having expressed that she isn't entirely certain she wanted him back when Buu was defeated.
While her intentions are undeniably good, Bulma's morality is difficult to quantify. In her youth she had an "end justifies the means" outlook. She deliberately shot Goku in the face expecting it to wound if not outright kill him, and was shocked when he didn't die. She flaunted her sexuality to manipulate the men around her, yet drew the line at sexual acts. She had—and has--no qualms about taking advantage of others' perversion, but has no patience for it when it isn't working to her advantage. As she's matured and taken a less prominent role in events, some of these traits have mellowed. She's still loud and sometimes crass, and occasionally falls back on flirting as a distraction tactic in dire straits, such as when Lord Beerus was about to destroy the world. It didn't work, but hey. The effort was made.
Her morality is further brought into question by the fact that she obviously knows about Vegeta's past and accepts it where many would not. She has not, that we've seen, made any attempts to "fix" him beyond the understanding and support that we have to assume happens offscreen, considering that their marriage appears to work. She has to get him on some level. This indicates a morality that's definitely grey-ish, if not entirely grey.
She is devoted to her family, allowing her son to train with his father without complaint (we can only guess at whether or not an offscreen argument would have been had about this. Personally, I think she was largely okay with it, since it was the most obvious way for them to bond). She's fiercly proud of Trunks and clearly accepts that even half-Saiyans have the drive to fight and improve that the full-blooded Saiyans in her life have.
As for her marriage, well. What can I say? She likes a challenge.
◎ Powers/Abilities:
Genius
While her genius lies in engineering and physics, she has a working knowledge of other disciplines. She recognized Cell's cocoon for what it was, displaying at least a basic understanding of biology, and in the alternate timeline she develops a cure for Goku's "heart virus".
-designed & built a working ray gun at five years old
-fixed Jaco's spaceship within minutes of seeing it for the first time
-designed & built the dragon radar at sixteen. design is so complex and unusual that no one has been able to replicate it
-built a scouter drone to find Goku in Dragon Ball
-repaired and utilized Raditz's Scouter
-built a device that could deactivate androids 17 & 18 based off of Dr. Gero's blueprints
-has engineered improvements to Vegeta's Saiyan armor (multiple iterations)
-designed Gohan's Great Saiyaman Watch & costume
Firearms
-hasn't wielded a weapon in many years. When she was sixteen she was accurate enough with a handgun to shoot Goku in the face. She has also been shown to wield a machine gun, as well as a shotgun in the Dragon Ball: Origins games.
Slap
-hard enough to make Goku wince.
◎ Weapons & Other Special Inventory:
◎ Element: Fire
◎ Sense: Sight, because you can't engineer if you can't see.
◎ Seven Character Traits:
[+] vivacious, rational, warmhearted
[-] quick-tempered, selfish, vain
[+/-] stubborn
Samples
◎ First-Person Sample:
misfires all over the place + the most embarrassing moves
◎ Third-Person Sample:
Ostensibly she is overseeing the post-party cleanup, but in reality she's standing at the rim of the crater in her yard, elbow cupped in her hand as she takes a drag from her cigarette. She toes a fragment of concrete over the edge. The massive depression ate away half the pool. As far as collateral goes, it could have been worse, she thinks. Honestly, she's impressed by how little destruction a god titled the Destroyer actually caused, in comparison to just about every other threat to the Earth she's faced. Not a single city leveled. The only casualties: her pool, some landscaping, and a swath of real estate no one was putting to use.
The fighting hadn't even ruined her party in the end. Well, it kind of did, but on the other hand, she should have known it would take the end of the world to make Goku turn up. The guy'd forget his own head if it weren't screwed on. She smiles with fond exasperation and taps the ash off. Seeing him again had been nice.
Even if she did have to deliver some well-deserved slaps. Honestly. She's still a little annoyed about it; how could he watch all of their friends get their butts handed to them and then not even have any ideas? Idiot. But that's Goku, isn't it? Big, goofy, thoughtlessly heroic and inherently lovable.
Not like I had any ideas, either... and I'm a certifiable genius. When push came to shove, the only thing she could think to do was break out the good ol' feminine wiles.
It hits her, then. She nearly drops her cigarette. She flirted with a god. Wow. That's one for the books. Even if it was less with and more at, how many people can say that? Not many. Not many at all.
...and it hadn't worked. She frowns, taking another drag as Oolong's comment runs through her head. She's not that old. She's just... mature. Yeah, that's it. Forget that stupid pig--she's hot and she knows it, and everyone else knows it, too. If she wanted to she could have hundreds of infatuated men following her around, but who has time for that? Not this girl. The ones already in her life are enough of a handful.
"HEY MOM, GOTEN'S STAYING OVER TONIGHT! OKAY?"
Speaking of handfuls... Bulma flicks the butt of her cigarette into the crater. She turns away, taking the paved pathway back up to the house and her unconventional little family. The Earth might have just barely sidestepped being atomized, but some things never changed.
And she wouldn't have them any other way.
◎ Is your character retaining any previous game memories? Nope!
◎ Name: Tee
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Character Info
◎ Character's Name: Bulma Briefs
◎ Character's Canon: Dragon Ball Z (anime)
◎ Character's Age: 44, but she'll tell you she's 38
◎ Canon Point: Battle of Gods
◎ Background/History: Here!
◎ Is the character a hacker and/or do they have a sixth-sense?
Bulma isn't a hacker by trade, but she is a genius that builds and programs her own inventions. There's a very high probability that she will learn to hack robots, devices and potentially the network during her stay in the game. She has no sixth sense.
◎ Personality:
The heir to the largest fortune in the world, Bulma Briefs has never wanted for anything. In her youth this made her spoiled and prone to temper tantrums when things didn't go her way. She's often called selfish--this isn't entirely true, but it isn't entirely false, either. She did seek out the Dragon Balls to have her selfish desires fulfilled, rather than work for what she wanted. However, it was as much about the adventure as it was about her wish to find the 'perfect boyfriend'. As soon as she began dating Yamcha her desire for the Dragon Balls disappeared. Throughout her life she's had a very healthy ego, insisting that she's the most beautiful and intelligent woman in the world. Her vanity isn't entirely unfounded: she is a genius with a knack for invention. As she's matured, she's turned her energy away from adventuring and directed it instead to rearing her son and developing new technology to assist her friends in their battles.
Despite her maturity, her temper hasn't mellowed in the slightest—she's just as likely to shout down someone that has insulted her or her family, even going so far as to slap a god (admittedly, she didn't know Lord Beerus was the God of Destruction at the time) for 'ruining her birthday party'. Those who know her well are intimidated by her temper. Even the perpetually cheerful Son Goku is afraid of incurring her wrath. He even assumes that King Kai is referring to Bulma when he tells Goku that something terrible—Lord Beerus—is on his way to King Kai's planet. Even when she isn't furious she's frequently argumentative, stubbornly refusing to back down when she knows she's in the right.
As temperamental as she is, Bulma tends to be friendly and helpful. She rarely holds a grudge, easily moving past Vegeta's attempts to kill her friends on both Earth and Namek, as well as apparently forgiving Majin Buu for turning her into chocolate. Optimistic and forward thinking, Bulma has been shown to bounce back from tragic events quickly—when her husband dies while under the influence of Babidi, she mourns him briefly before turning her attention to Trunks and Goten's fusion training. Of course, it helps that the existence of the Dragon Balls makes death fairly impermanent. That, and she was angry with him for betraying her trust, having expressed that she isn't entirely certain she wanted him back when Buu was defeated.
While her intentions are undeniably good, Bulma's morality is difficult to quantify. In her youth she had an "end justifies the means" outlook. She deliberately shot Goku in the face expecting it to wound if not outright kill him, and was shocked when he didn't die. She flaunted her sexuality to manipulate the men around her, yet drew the line at sexual acts. She had—and has--no qualms about taking advantage of others' perversion, but has no patience for it when it isn't working to her advantage. As she's matured and taken a less prominent role in events, some of these traits have mellowed. She's still loud and sometimes crass, and occasionally falls back on flirting as a distraction tactic in dire straits, such as when Lord Beerus was about to destroy the world. It didn't work, but hey. The effort was made.
Her morality is further brought into question by the fact that she obviously knows about Vegeta's past and accepts it where many would not. She has not, that we've seen, made any attempts to "fix" him beyond the understanding and support that we have to assume happens offscreen, considering that their marriage appears to work. She has to get him on some level. This indicates a morality that's definitely grey-ish, if not entirely grey.
She is devoted to her family, allowing her son to train with his father without complaint (we can only guess at whether or not an offscreen argument would have been had about this. Personally, I think she was largely okay with it, since it was the most obvious way for them to bond). She's fiercly proud of Trunks and clearly accepts that even half-Saiyans have the drive to fight and improve that the full-blooded Saiyans in her life have.
As for her marriage, well. What can I say? She likes a challenge.
◎ Powers/Abilities:
Genius
While her genius lies in engineering and physics, she has a working knowledge of other disciplines. She recognized Cell's cocoon for what it was, displaying at least a basic understanding of biology, and in the alternate timeline she develops a cure for Goku's "heart virus".
-designed & built a working ray gun at five years old
-fixed Jaco's spaceship within minutes of seeing it for the first time
-designed & built the dragon radar at sixteen. design is so complex and unusual that no one has been able to replicate it
-built a scouter drone to find Goku in Dragon Ball
-repaired and utilized Raditz's Scouter
-built a device that could deactivate androids 17 & 18 based off of Dr. Gero's blueprints
-has engineered improvements to Vegeta's Saiyan armor (multiple iterations)
-designed Gohan's Great Saiyaman Watch & costume
Firearms
-hasn't wielded a weapon in many years. When she was sixteen she was accurate enough with a handgun to shoot Goku in the face. She has also been shown to wield a machine gun, as well as a shotgun in the Dragon Ball: Origins games.
Slap
-hard enough to make Goku wince.
◎ Weapons & Other Special Inventory:
- Dragon Radar
- A round rock (formerly the two-star dragon ball)
- 1 pack of slim cigarettes, filtered
◎ Element: Fire
◎ Sense: Sight, because you can't engineer if you can't see.
◎ Seven Character Traits:
[+] vivacious, rational, warmhearted
[-] quick-tempered, selfish, vain
[+/-] stubborn
Samples
◎ First-Person Sample:
misfires all over the place + the most embarrassing moves
◎ Third-Person Sample:
Ostensibly she is overseeing the post-party cleanup, but in reality she's standing at the rim of the crater in her yard, elbow cupped in her hand as she takes a drag from her cigarette. She toes a fragment of concrete over the edge. The massive depression ate away half the pool. As far as collateral goes, it could have been worse, she thinks. Honestly, she's impressed by how little destruction a god titled the Destroyer actually caused, in comparison to just about every other threat to the Earth she's faced. Not a single city leveled. The only casualties: her pool, some landscaping, and a swath of real estate no one was putting to use.
The fighting hadn't even ruined her party in the end. Well, it kind of did, but on the other hand, she should have known it would take the end of the world to make Goku turn up. The guy'd forget his own head if it weren't screwed on. She smiles with fond exasperation and taps the ash off. Seeing him again had been nice.
Even if she did have to deliver some well-deserved slaps. Honestly. She's still a little annoyed about it; how could he watch all of their friends get their butts handed to them and then not even have any ideas? Idiot. But that's Goku, isn't it? Big, goofy, thoughtlessly heroic and inherently lovable.
Not like I had any ideas, either... and I'm a certifiable genius. When push came to shove, the only thing she could think to do was break out the good ol' feminine wiles.
It hits her, then. She nearly drops her cigarette. She flirted with a god. Wow. That's one for the books. Even if it was less with and more at, how many people can say that? Not many. Not many at all.
...and it hadn't worked. She frowns, taking another drag as Oolong's comment runs through her head. She's not that old. She's just... mature. Yeah, that's it. Forget that stupid pig--she's hot and she knows it, and everyone else knows it, too. If she wanted to she could have hundreds of infatuated men following her around, but who has time for that? Not this girl. The ones already in her life are enough of a handful.
"HEY MOM, GOTEN'S STAYING OVER TONIGHT! OKAY?"
Speaking of handfuls... Bulma flicks the butt of her cigarette into the crater. She turns away, taking the paved pathway back up to the house and her unconventional little family. The Earth might have just barely sidestepped being atomized, but some things never changed.
And she wouldn't have them any other way.
◎ Is your character retaining any previous game memories? Nope!
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