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Post by aisuyu9 on Jan 20, 2021 6:06:04 GMT
What if she was there and witnessed Bra's path of destruction? Would she have tried to stop her? Would Bra have ended up killing her too?
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Post by darrieloni on Jan 23, 2021 14:10:13 GMT
She'd just get the same treatment as everyone who could and should have spoken up against Bra.
Either the spotlight actively avoids her so we can't see someone criticizing Bra, or she starts acting completely out of character and retconning stuff to make Bra look better.
If Bulma was allowed to play a role in the story, then Bra would never have grown to be how she is today. Bulma would have straightened her to fuck out and taught her some manners.
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Post by godjacob on May 1, 2021 19:19:01 GMT
If Bulma was actually an active personality in Bra's life she likely doesn't become what she is. Bulma's entire gimmick as a personality was not taking shit from anyone regardless of their power. There is no way she'd allow Bra to grow up to be the brat we see her as. Which is probably why she isn't around often.
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Post by Son Pan on May 5, 2021 20:43:25 GMT
Nah, Bulma’s tactics not working on a girl with a similar personality as hers makes sense. Bra has both her parents worst qualities. Bra is very similar to teenage Bulma. The attitude, selfishness, arrogance, treating other people poorly, and even hard headed are traits Bulma had a teenager and kept into adulthood that only got toned down once she became a mother. Honestly I can see Bulma’s take no shit attitude being thrown back at her with Bra. Neither one backs down, unlike say Trunks or possibly Vegetto. I think Bulma has an active role in her daughter’s life, but she just can’t get through to her. I don’t think it would be so much out of character, but rather a case of parent who cannot get through to their child who is too similar to them when they were younger.
If Bulma was here in the tournament I think we would have had her criticizing Vegetto for allowing Bra to continue in the tournament after she killed that girl in Bojack’ screw since it contradicted what he told her to do and is rewarding her in ability to control herself. That could have been a good way to seeding more of U16 problems and how Bra’s parents problems with parenting her. Bulma and Bra butting heads because of similar personalities would make sense. I expect Vegetto would brush it aside and think it is funny pot calling the kettle black situation. Bulma’s inclusion might make Vegetto look worse, especially since one of the U16 specials reveals whenever Vegetto gets upset or frustrated he ducks out and let’s other people solve the problem, which frustrated Bulma and lead to Gohan guide Bra on controlling her anger issues. I do agree Bulma likely would have been the one to blame Vegetto for Bra’s problems instead of Gotenks did.
That might be in character for Bulma though. For one Bulma tends to ignore her own faults and blame others. Bulma could think Vegetto didn’t do enough to help Bra since he kind indulges her worse behavior by not following through with punishment, he let Bra continue in the tournament even though she lost her temper, or kind of let’s other people handle Bra, he trusted Gohan would handle things. Bra being Bulma’s daughter even if they did clash all the time it would make more sense for her to think Vegetto killing her is too far regardless of how pragmatic that decision would be. It would certainly make more sense for Bulma to shame Vegetto than Gotenks I think. Bulma can be selfish and not consider people’s feelings like that at times. If we want to get callous Bulma would probably even say the deaths weren’t a big deal because of the Dragon Balls, which our heroes did in the Buu arc where they became indifferent toward death or downplayed it since they had reset button at times.
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