With the right people, I tend to regard Dragonball RPs as low-stress fun.
I have a bunch of character ideas I'm trying to narrow down. Anyone who's actually played with me will tell you I might even settle on something not even on this list.
- Straight-forward heroic type. Probably former law-enforcement. Likely female. Strong protective sense. Driven. Hard working. Rather standards shounen protagonist main character. Against type for me, sometimes its fun being a simple goody-two shoes.
- Flamboyant Namekian outcast. I don't know why, but the idea of a sort of anti-Piccolo just popped into my head. He used to live among humans. He tells the average non-combatants that he just has a unique condition. He wears wigs and likes tailored suits but hates how they rarely survive city-destroying battles. Sure, Namekians don't need food, but he's a connoisseur of flavored waters and, when he's feeling particularly devious, sugary drinks. He may snark and whine about it, but he comes through when it's time to fight.
- Amnesiac scientist. Likely Female. Vaguely remembers working on something akin to Gero's android projects. May actually be tied to everyone's origins or possibly a failed rival who got caught trying to steal secrets. Ended up being partially mindwiped and experimented on. Retains some relevant knowledge and tries to self-upgrade from time to time through lab work rather than training. If she is a former saboteur, involuntarily converted, I think it would make sense for her to not necessarily have the best specs on an artificial body and seek to fix that herself. Enthusiastic, curious, and sometimes oddly detached in battle, treating it kind of like field research. Somewhat skewed priorities. Any resemblance to Android 21 is superficial. This character would be more pro-active, decisive, ambitious, and less sweet.
While I lean towards the first and third being androids of some kind(the first being like 17 or 18 while the third idea would be more like Gero or 19 initially then upgrade to something like 16 and then maybe either go bio-engineered after a while).
Curious if any of these would be too incompatible with the GM's plans to consider. That would help narrow it down.
I'll be back later.