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| - In the early hours of July 11, 2014, I watched the Tarble special for the first time. I had held off from watching it (for years) because I very much dislike the Japanese voice actors for Dragon Ball Z (particularly the awful Goku voice). On July 11th, I decided to finally give in and watch it, because I knew that it wasn't going to be dubbed in English any time soon. It was somewhat painful to watch. I had to pause in a few sections that particularly irked me, but I did eventually get through it. Now the main reason I decided to watch the special then was because I wanted to write a story about Tarble. I knew that by the time I had posted Brave. At this point, I knew it was going to be a part of the Black and White Collection, as I had made the Black and White Collection page on June 29,
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| - In the early hours of July 11, 2014, I watched the Tarble special for the first time. I had held off from watching it (for years) because I very much dislike the Japanese voice actors for Dragon Ball Z (particularly the awful Goku voice). On July 11th, I decided to finally give in and watch it, because I knew that it wasn't going to be dubbed in English any time soon. It was somewhat painful to watch. I had to pause in a few sections that particularly irked me, but I did eventually get through it. Now the main reason I decided to watch the special then was because I wanted to write a story about Tarble. I knew that by the time I had posted Brave. At this point, I knew it was going to be a part of the Black and White Collection, as I had made the Black and White Collection page on June 29, 2014, and had also put up an as of then unnamed story for Tarble on the list of forthcoming one-shots. So I watched the Tarble special to help me write accurate dialogue for Tarble, to understand his past, and to get a better feel for his relationships with Vegeta, Gure, and the others. What happened then was that I enjoyed the Tarble special so much that I ended up creating two stories - Yellow, and Prideful Demons Black. They were both influenced from the same event, though they were not going to be about the same things. I had already known that Yellow was going to be about Tarble when he was a kid before watching the special, whereas I didn't even know I was going to write Prideful Demons Black until I had finished the special. I was a bit fearful that I was overreacting with creating two stories after watching this special, so I moved to finish both of them as soon as possible, before I could get bored with them. The name for this story came before I wrote it. I came up with "Yellow" on July 11th, but I didn't start writing the story until July 13th. I knew the name would be in reference to Tarble's perceived cowardice (and perhaps other things - more on that in my comments below). On July 13th, I wrote most of the story from 3:15 a.m. to 5:05 a.m. my time, up to the lines " Still, the Nagamushi pursued him. Still it hunted him.". After that, I went to bed. I didn't know exactly how to end the Nagamushi chase, so I didn't deal with it that night. I came back and finished the story during the evening of July 16th from 6:30 p.m. to 9:23 p.m. my time. I posted the story on this wiki at 9:24 p.m., literally one minute after I had finished my final revisions. This story ended up being longer than I thought it would be. I wanted to finish it on July 13th, but it ended up taking too long to write (and I wasn't even done). Another thing is that this story has a lot of italicized inner thoughts, which makes importing it into source mode here a real hassle. I had to manually go through the story and re-add italicizations. More so than with the other stories in this collection, I tried to be very thematic with Yellow. The name "Yellow" has multiple meanings within the story. The meaning of the great tree is very important symbol throughout. The use of the forest setting as a foil to Tarble's mental state was also meticulously added in. I made some more obvious than others, but there are numerous parallels and symbols and whatnot throughout the story. I think another thing that can be seen is that I put a great deal of effort into the dialogue here, perhaps more so than with any other Black and White Collection story. Tarble's dialogue in his special had a massive impact on how I wrote for him in Yellow. I think it's completely accurate to how he talks in his canon appearance - which it might not have been had I not watched his special before writing this. One final thing I want to talk about is why I paired this story with Lionheart. I had the choice to pair it with any of the three villain stories (Tyrant, Lionheart, and Bluestreaker), but I chose Lionheart because of its thematic similarities to Yellow and the similarities of the two main characters in both stories. Both Tarble and Nappa struggle with grief as it pertains to their species: after Nappa learns that the Saiyan race has been destroyed, he copes by clearing a planet in an extremely aggressive manner, and after Tarble learns who his true father and brother are and is hurt by their accusations of him being a useless weakling, he tries to prove himself in a rather aggressive and reckless way. Both Saiyans almost get themselves killed by trying to deal with their grief in a very "Saiyan-like" way. We can also see the contrast. Nappa is a warrior, so he excels in battle. Tarble is not, so he's forced to flee. We get two sides of the same coin, in a sense. Thematically-speaking, both Saiyans also want to matter; they want to feel like they have a purpose. Nappa loses his purpose when his species is nearly eradicated, so he searches for a new one through the one way he knows how - battle. Tarble tries to find purpose in the same way, though for a slightly different reason. Both Saiyans have a hole inside of them, emotionally, once they find out that their kind is dead. But Tarble is not a Saiyan by nature. He was raised to be peaceful by Gure's father. So Tarble goes through much more of an identity crisis than Nappa. Is he a Saiyan? Should he be violent? Does he need to be strong? He is so influenced by King Vegeta's thoughts about him that he adopts a new, false personality only to please a father he knows is dead and will never meet. There is hopeless desperation in that, but there is beauty too. Tarble just wants to be loved. Nappa also wants to be loved, to have someone console him during his time of grief. There is no one for him, though. Prince Vegeta, being so young and spoiled, is no true companion. That's what forces Nappa to do what he does. In both stories, Prince Vegeta is somewhat of a catalyst, and in both stories, the protagonist suffers as they try to cope with grief and find out who they truly are.
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