“Dandelion
Coffee” Notes
This is actually a very old story, back when Dragonball Z was just coming out on Cartoon Network. Me and my friend Serina (her nickname based on her other favorite anime, Sailor Moon) were extremely interested in Vejita, and she was especially drawn to the unlikely yet surprisingly fitting romance between him and Bulma. We both scoured over a great many fanfictions and Dragonball sites with my brand new (though extremely troublesome) computer, learning more about Saiya-jin (“I THOUGHT the word ‘Saiyan’ sounded funny!”) and finding that secret tales of romance could be formulated about the royal pair, and she determined that we had to make one of our own.
So, fitting in production between the
rigors of school and home life, we two high school freshmen wrote this story
with our very meager knowledge received from the bad dub and a few pages on the
internet. (“Um, it says this guy named Gero makes robots later on. Let’s… have
him make a robot or something.”)
Thus, it is full of grammatical errors and shortcuts, being written by hand between classes. It actually came out as quite a piece of work: 38 notebook pages. We were extremely proud of it at the time, and still are. Though of course I’m quite embarrassed about a few quotes and situations in hindsight. (Vejita: “I’ll have you know I eat freaks like you for breakfast!” * shudder *) Guess we can blame that on the dub and the fact that we were younger.
Serina was the one who came up with the
main ideas, as well as special creative elements, while I was the one who put
it in writing. She was amazed at how I
managed to capture the idea so well on paper.
And so was I. I still can’t
believe I wrote something romantic!!! ME!!! That’s like Hell freezing
over. I have no experience in it, so I
relied on what I knew from movies and stuff and what I thought would work. I guess you readers can gauge just how
successful I was. It sure is more than
I thought I could do, and Serina nearly flipped out, showing it off in awe. Heh.
Fond memories.
So, guess you can find it in you to enjoy
this relic of a story; I’ve improved ever so slightly since then, though I
haven’t had time to collaborate with Serina again lately though of course we’re
still great buddies.
Feedback would be appreciated, so Serina
can again feel proud of her great ideas.
True, the story’s far-fetched and at times illogical, but hey, it’s
still a nice read if you read slowly and take in certain parts.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll hand you a
tissue, then go on a nice long vacation.
Peh. Romance. Yuck. =P
J