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Character: Son Goten
Series: Dragon Ball Z
Character Age: seven
Canon: Welcome to Dragonball Z, a world where the guy with the biggest muscles, the biggest hair, or the loudest yelling always wins. Here, all the heroes are martial artists, and anyone who can't lift a Tyrannosaurus Rex with one hand could be considered to be laughably weak. The strongest fighter of the series has died, leaving the care of the world in the hands of the rest of the Z-fighters. Peace lasts for years after our hero has died, during which his youngest son was born. Seems our hero did one last thing before he left...
Son Goten was raised out in the countryside with his mother and older brother Gohan, trained by both of them in the martial arts. As soon as Goten makes his debut, it's painfully clear just how high the bar has become by the time he comes around. Even with everyone becoming stronger as a whole, Goten packs more power than most of the fighters already. But when your dad is Goku, you inherit some pretty awesome power and fighting potential-- even if it's still mostly raw and unrefined. Even so, without the need to save the universe every other week, fighting in general becomes more of a pastime among the fighters. Goten is allowed to have a childhood, so he seems to be a lot more like a normal kid than his brother-- by which I mean he's a basic momma's boy with no attention span who loves to play with animals and eat sweets. Being the youngest in his family, Goten's 'little brother' mentality makes him the perfect lackey. Unfortunately not the sharpest tool in the shed, things tend to work out better when he follows someone else who understands what's going on and then explains it to him, and in turn, he backs them up.
Sample Post:
Today's been a really cool day! I mean, it's been kinda weird too, but it was still pretty cool! I wanted to go out and find my big brother, but I think I might've gotten lost somehow. It's weird, I thought maps were supposed to help you not get lost... maybe I have a broken map, huh. Anyway! I know that he's at a camp-- Camp... Fulfill Your Dreams, yeah, that's it -- and that it's somewhere out here in the woods. I haven't found it or Gohan yet, but I saw all kinds of other things!
At first they were kinda mean-- they didn't help me much at all. There was this grownup, and all I was trying to do was ask him for directions when he growled and shouted at me! It sounded kinda like brains, but I don't look like a brain so maybe I heard wrong... He was all grumpy and stuff, so I ran away from him. Maybe he wasn't feeling good, since he was looking kinda sick and green...
After that I got hungry so when I saw a big lake I thought maybe I could fish and make something, but I went over there to go look and the water was green! I've never seen green water before, but I don't think I wanna eat anything that comes out of it-- I might grow another arm or turn into a monster or something, and I don't wanna do that; I like being me. I saw stuff in the water, though! I was gonna try and get some of it out to look at it, but a fish lady saw me and chased me away! She smelled funny, but in the bad way. Yuck. I wonder if she lives in the lake? Maybe that other grownup ate something from the lake and made him green? I know that'd make me sick and grumpy.
I wish Gohan were here, there're all kinds of neat animals! I just saw a really colorful bird, and I think it was saying stuff. Maybe it's a parrot? I've never seen one of those before! It said some really weird stuff, like "It's over nine-thousannnddd!"... Nine-thousand what, though? Maybe bugs? Haha, that's a lotta bugs! Oh, and there was a funny-looking horse! I've seen horses before, but this one's white and has a horn on its head. I'm trying to get closer to it, but it's really fast. C'mon, it's okay! I just wanna pet you, mister Horsie! I wanna show you to Gohan!
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