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| - Slaved was the second and (at one point in my mind) final work of my Brady Patrick account. The writing process was simple: I had to write something short, and I had to write something interesting. For that was the purpose of Brady Patrick. It occurred to me almost as soon as I finished Sixth that although my username was KidVegeta, I had made no kid Vegeta-centric stories. Sure there was the first saga of The Forgotten, but that wasn't really Vegeta's story. After picking kid Vegeta as the point for the second one-shot, I began to formulate ideas on what would be a significant moment for him. Though it was never mentioned in canon, I think Vegeta would have tried out for the Ginyu Force, at least when he was young. Of course, he'd lose, because he never got on the team. So a defeat was great to write about, being all angsty and stuff. I found it fun to write it without the reader knowing who it was until the last lines of the story. Of course, after knowing it was Vegeta, re-reading the story made a lot of subtle nuances come out. The play between Zarbon and Vegeta is where the name comes from. Zarbon and Vegeta always seemed to hate each other, and it felt like they were two little children vying for the favor of a relative (Frieza), but with one child (Zarbon) having power over the other (Vegeta). Vegeta's time with Frieza was not a good point in his life, as he had remarked on Namek that Frieza made him evil. So I spent a lot of time making the whole situation awful for him, like everything was conspiring against him. The writing itself went quickly, and I don't recall it taking more than a day or so. I remember talking to Destructivedisk one day, and he was talking to me about Sixth, and I mentioned how I was already almost done with a second one-shot, which was Slaved. Slaved was made without any stimuli; no TV, no music; it was written in silence with my full concentration. I don't tend to do that much, but because of the length, it worked out for this story.
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