Tmw2

[Super Buu]

Hah! I bet you all thought I was lying about the epilogue. Well, here it is.

My personal favourite extract is the following:

?I?ll explain if you sit down,? instructed the Lord, gesturing to a chair.

Super gazed up at his teacher in defiance.

Vine heaved a sigh. ?Don?t be difficult, Buu. Just do it.?

Buu hesitated, looking at the chair next him. Just do it. Had it been Bibidi talking to him, there would have been no contest. Sit or stand. Stand and be ignored, or starved, or electrocuted. What kind of choice was that?

And yet here Vine was, giving him the decision to do whatever he wanted. The monster wanted to say yes, to accept the invitation with open arms. But something got in the way. An image at the back of his mind; the face of Bibidi. That fat, repulsive grin ? brought on by the pleasure of seeing what he wanted to see ? compliance.

Buu?s frustration built up. What could he do? He felt trapped. If he stood, sure, he wouldn?t give his master the satisfaction of getting his own way ? but what way to live was that?

The Lord watched, a frown upon his face. It was clear to see that Buu was troubled. Vine was seeing, first-hand, the one thing that held his student back. It was as if an anchor was attached to the being?s foot, weighing him down wherever he went.

?Buu.?

The monster snapped out of his thoughts, turning to the person who?d addressed him. ?What??

?What?s holding you back?? perused the Lord. ?Why is it that you always have to ignore other people and go your own way? Even if it spites yourself??

Buu?s lips remained sealed, but his crimson eyes bore into those of Vine, as if to say; I can?t. I just can?t.

Vine slapped a hand to his face, dragging each bony finger across his bag-ridden eyes. There were some problems people just had to solve for themselves, and this was one of them. ?Fine,? he muttered. ?You can stand if you want, but I?m sitting.? The Lord promptly sank back into his marble chair, flicking a stray piece of chicken off of his arm. ?Ask me whatever you like.?

Purely for the background on Buu's thought patterns. I never even meant to get into that little complex of his. Like I said to Al/17; beneath that veil of overconfidence, Supes really does have some fucking issues. XD

I'd also like to thank Kibbles, via this thing I wrote months ago, which I was eventually going to post as part of a gigantic 'explanation' for the whole thing. But I'm happy posting just this.

The most important thing about Zanshin is that he never considers himself as the bad guy. He?s not an evil bastard, and he doesn?t do what he does out of spite. The downward spiral from ?good guy with a vengeance? to ?blood lusted zealot? wasn?t immediate. You could see in The Monster Within that he preferred non-violent methods, disarming the mayor?s guards instead of actually hitting them. He was an honourable person. It was what Buu did at the end of TMW1 that pushed him over the threshold, and in that sense SB is actually the bad guy.

KB did an excellent job of portraying Zanshin?s growing superstition and his slowly being overwhelmed by the need for revenge in ?Take Two?. It took over his life until literally all he cared about was avenging his planet. Because he, like many others, believed Bibidi to be lost/dead, he took out his anger on the most obvious source, the vessel of destruction - Super Buu.

The RoSaT was basically a plot device for me, allowing me to accentuate Zanshin?s growth in power and to fortify his mental instability. Since Kami took over the lookout from Dende (who already knew Zan from Monster Within), he was able to trick the kindly old feller into using his room. Then he travelled to Vegeta for the final showdown.

By writing this, I also realised that SB has some definite correlations with myself, which mainly became apparent in this last post. For varying reasons, we both find it difficult to communicate with other people. Boh.

Anyway, just thought I'd say that. As a rough estimate, this has been in the planning/drafting stages for half of my time here at Chubbs. XD Any comments or critiquing would be super-appreciated.

*bows out*