User blog comment:Richie Cordelia/Dragonball 30 Day Challenge/@comment-3097771-20120901013716

Day 1:



Easily, my favorite character is Kid Vegeta. I find it remarkable, too, because Kid Vegeta had only 5 minutes of airtime ever. That is quite a bit less than any other significant character. But what he manages to do (well, to me) in five minutes, no other character manages to do in all their countless episodes. He's five years old. He's the strongest Saiyan in existence. He knows it. Frieza knows it. He makes Zarbon feel jealous of a little kid getting attention from Frieza. He is not afraid of Frieza. And let's face it, Frieza saw something in him. Frieza felt threatened enough by the Saiyan race to kill them all, yet he specifically put into place a plan to keep Vegeta alive during this period. I find child prodigies to be quite extraordinary, and Kid Vegeta tops nearly all competition. His confidence and his arrogance, at his age, is just so funny to me. It's like he does not exactly realize what he's doing, or how special he is. But he is not naive. He wants to kill Frieza. He simply goes about it with a child's mind. I can't really describe how cool that is to me. His closing scene, where he learns of his planet's destruction is written perfectly, both scene-wise and dialogue-wise. The way he just bottles up his emotions and denies any sort of mental pain is really great buildup to Vegeta's great death scene in the Frieza saga, where he lets everything out that he went through as a kid. The way his character was written just blew me away, and without it, I would have never come here, and I would have never written any fan fictions to begin with. So I do also appreciate his character for having such an inspirational role. -KidVegeta (talk)