Here we are in Age 1084, almost 300 years exact since the end of Dragon Ball Z. As much as everyone loves GT, for the sake of this canon we're going to pretend that never existed. After several centuries, the generally peaceful universe lost its need for the Z-Fighters. In fact, due to the popularization of Mr. Satan over the Z-Fighters, they've mostly faded from history. However, there are some that know what the times were once like and can tell that this era of peace will soon come to a close. The world is without protectors.

The 250th Budokai World Tournament is just around the corner. A monumental event for the tournament and the people running it. The strongest warriors of Earth will come to duke it out for a special prize unlike any other in the Budokai World Tournament: the seven Dragon Balls. With a prize that good, the tournament is sure to draw a good lot of fighters...

1. Standard forum rules apply. None of that meta-gaming, god-modding, power-playing mumbo jumbo.
2. Due to the combat nature of a Dragon Ball roleplay, it may be difficult to follow rule number one. In order to keep fights between player characters fair, even in spite of power differences, the outcome of the fight must be determined by the two players involved before the fight begins. If the two players cannot decide on their own how the battle will go, I will gladly step in and assist.
3. I am Super-Kami-Guru. My word is law. Respect mah authoritay. If you disagree with something I've done or said, be polite and orderly about it when you confront me. Doesn't guarantee I will change my mind, but it provides the opportunity for it. I'm an understanding and adaptable fellow, but I'm also easily peeved by peasant-like rage.
4. Don't rage like a peasant. Any problems with any other players should be taken care of amicably and privately. Flame wars and debauchery are not welcome, but civilized resolutions are encouraged.
5. While I am always open to ideas, don't expect your ideas to take immediate precedence over whatever may be going on in the IC. Patience is a virtue and if you lack it refer to rule number four.
6. Have fun. I can't really enforce this rule but I figure it will be more self-imposed than anything else on the list.
7. Feel free to ask any questions at any time. Seriously, please do. Asking a stupid question is much better than making a stupid post. Though if you didn't read the OP and then ask a question that is answered in the OP then I will probably break rule number four myself.

*rules subject to change*

*picture here*
*any bits to add to appearance with words here*
Name: (not a difficult one)
Age: (minimum of 5yo)
Race: (human, saiyan descendant, namekian, etc)
Gender: (if it applies)

Power Level: (idle/max)
Stats (the max power level divided into four sections)
Strength: (how hard they hit)
Speed: (how fast they go)
Endurance: (how much they can take)
Ki: (how much energy they have, minimum 250 to fly)

Techniques (a list of fighting techniques at their disposal, use the following technique format for custom techniques)
Name: (easy)
Type: (combination or ki attack)
Description: (describe it)
Required Power Level: (how strong someone has to be to perform it)

Personality: (at least a good paragraph on how they behave)
History: (at least two good paragraphs on their past)
Other: (anything not included in the previous sections)

Humans: The most common race of Planet Earth. Simple in design and function, most humans lack the ability to become legendary fighters. But for the humans that are strong, they have several advantages over other races. For starters, their ki regenerates at a faster rate than the other races and they can use what energy they have with better cost efficiency. As well, they are generally faster learners than the others and often more intelligent, though these advantages can vary (as some human fighters can be really stupid).

Saiyan Descendant: More human than saiyan, this breed of Earthling has an advantage over normal humans. Most notably that they tend to grow stronger faster and benefit from Zenkai. Generally faster and stronger than normal humans, though the difference is marginal due to how little saiyan blood they actually have.

Namekian: Originally from Planet Namek, most Namekians live on New Namek. A very slug/plant-like species. While they are also typically stronger than humans, their primary advantage comes from their amazing recovery ability. They can recover from wounds much faster than the other races, to the degree of growing lost limbs at the cost of some extra pain and energy. Stretchable body and limbs is also a plus, but Namekians generally burn through their energy faster due to their recovery speed and malleable body.

Majin: The pink, elastic race started by Majin Buu. Approximately as common as Namekians on Earth. Majin are known for their ability to take a beating and continue fighting, as well as having a completely stretchable body (unlike Namekians who have limits on that ability). Males are typically large and seemingly fat in nature whereas the females are smaller and thinner, though there are no differences in strength and speed across genders. Though far weaker than the original Majin, this race is typically more offensive than the other races. Due to the method of reproduction, Majin typically have less energy than the other races.

Anthro: While not exactly a species, Anthros are a category of species. Commonly seen in the canon, these are generally the "dog-men" and such. Due to their nature of being mostly humanoid, they can be capable of fighting just like humans or the other races. The most variable "race" of the common races in terms of appearance and abilities. The most common features include furry skin, tails, fangs, and claws. But some Anthros can have natural wings, negating the ki requirement for flight.

Demons/Aliens: Another broad category, much like Anthros. Wide in variety but mostly humanoid. They receive the same benefits are Anthros, though they have even more variability due to the broad spectrum of possibilities for creatures that do not have "normal" origins. Specific benefits will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

The stat system is very simple and loose, for a very good reason. They exist to allow easier comparisons between fighters but they aren't weighted so much that any combatant with a higher power level or higher stat than his foe will automatically beat said foe. As to how the power levels raise, and consequently the stats, it comes from actually fighting and training. After every fight, or sometimes during certain events in the middle of fights, the power level can raise. It is up to the player how to allocate the new stats granted by an increase in power, but it will be up to me (or any co-GM I might choose in the future) to determine the total points received. Even losing fights will increase the power level, though granted not as much as winning. Training sessions and timeskips will also grant points, the quantity also determined by me based on what the character does during that time. At the start, the acceptable power level range will be 200 to 700, with only two characters allowed to have 700. Naturally, the fighters will grow stronger as the story progresses and roles will shift. The weakest character probably won't stay the weakest forever and the strongest probably won't stay the strongest.

This section will be later used to display information on the locations and possible owners of the Dragon Balls. As they are all in one location in the story presently, this hider is relatively useless. But after this first story arc is through it will be more useful to the players.

*stands at 6' 2" tall*
Name: Jack Ryan
Age: 24
Race: Human
Gender: Male

Power Level: 145/360
Stats
Strength: 130
Speed: 130
Endurance: 100
Ki: 0

Techniques
Name: Dragon Ascent
Type: Combination
Description: Jack Ryan's signature technique. After stunning the opponent with a palm strike to the chest, Jack grabs them by one of their wrists and rotates around, tossing them in the air in the process. As they fall to the ground, he jumps up and delivers a powerful kick to their abdomen.
Required Power Level: 250

Personality: Though he is a famous and rich champion, the glory has hardly gotten to his head. While not the most humble person, Jack Ryan is far from arrogant. In fact, Jack is known for being rather kind and even merciful, though not foolish. He is still practical in his decision-making and is effective at preventing emotion from overcoming logic. At the same time, he is a very reactive person and can be quick to make a decision or judgment. While he can sometimes be wrong in the end, he has no difficulty admitting it and learning from his mistakes. While he enjoys fighting and training just as much as most warriors do, Jack also notably enjoys reading fiction novels.

History: Not much is publicly known about Jack Ryan's past. He appeared out of nowhere four years ago and won the Budokai World Tournament, going on to win the same tournament multiple times, becoming the current reigning champion. Before his sudden glory, Jack Ryan was a pupil of Master Quan, who was once famous in his youth. Though he was born to a simple farm family, Jack happened upon Master Quan after the old martial artist passed through his home town. Without waiting for his family's permission, he joined the old man on his journey. The idea of being a powerful warrior appealed to him and his then-fiery nature. Little did he know that the training was more than just how to fight.

From the age of seven until the age of twenty, Jack trained hard. Both his body and his mind. His once aggressive personality reverted to a much kinder and simpler one, which benefitted him in battle. It was the passing of Master Quan that sent Jack Ryan out into the world. First he visited his parents, learning that they were doing terribly financially and their farm was on the verge of going bankrupt. Coincidentally, the Budokai World Tournament was just about to begin. Two birds in one stone, Jack Ryan entered the tournament and won, giving his parents the entirety of his winnings. The second tournament he entered and won, however, he kept the money himself. A sponsorship from Capsule Corp. and two more Budokai championship titles and we are in the present. He lives in an unnecessarily large mansion by himself and makes constant guest appearances on popular television shows. But all the free time he gets to himself is spent reading the newest fantasy novels or training.

Now, the time of the Budokai World Tournament is upon him. This year the stakes are even higher. He not only will be fighting to preserve his title as the champion, but the prize is to have audience with Shenron and have one wish granted. While Jack has yet to decide on what he would even wish for should he win, he has been thinking plenty on the importance of winning this year. A landmark tournament would give him a landmark victory, eternalizing him in history. The reigning champion, the Dragon Fist, is guaranteed entry to the tournament but his challenge has already begun.
Other: While Master Quan was moderately famous in his youth, his only known pupil thus far has been Jack Ryan. Still, not many people know of Jack's connection the late and great Quan.

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*stands at an impressive 7' 4" tall*
Name: Fenro
Age: 32
Race: Namekian
Gender: N/A (commonly referred to in masculine form)

Power Level: 150/720
Stats
Strength: 200
Speed: 200
Endurance: 220
Ki: 100

Techniques
Name: Demon Wave
Type: Ki Attack
Description: Purple ki is charged in Fenro's right hand. Once sufficiently charged, he thrusts his hand forward, unleashing a powerful wave energy attack.
Required Power Level: 500

Name: Namek Suplex
Type: Combination
Description: Fenro grabs his opponent by the arms, bringing them in for a powerful head-butt. After successfully dazing the foe, he spins them around and grabs them around their midsection. With his strength and Namekian flexibility, he then stretches backwards and slams his opponent either head or neck first into the ground.
Required Power Level: 150

Name: Giant Form
Type: N/A
Description: Fenro expands his body entirely, stretching to gigantic proportions. Reaching over 20 feet tall in this state, his strength is greatly increased. Directly related to the size increase, his speed also drops significantly.
Required Power Level: 700

Personality: Fenro always carries himself with a stern gaze and intimidating presence. Add his size and the fact that he doesn't speak often and it is easy to see why most people are scared of him when they first meet him. His serious nature never wanes and he seems to rarely ever smile, but that doesn't make him a bad person. In fact, his moral compass is rather strong. Fenro simply reserves himself and minds his own business as much as he can. Even then he can't resist helping someone in an emergency situation. Unsurprisingly, he is quite intelligent and insightful, allowing him to read both fights and social situations with astonishing accuracy. Despite his apathetic demeanor, Fenro has a soft spot for small animals that often catches everyone off guard.

History: Born on New Namek, Fenro isn't an Earthling like the majority of the planet's population. He only came to Earth rather recently, in fact. The majority of his life was spent on New Namek. In his youth, he dreamed of being a strong fighter like his father. Due to his father's disappearance after leaving Fenro's egg, he had never actually met this man and only heard his grandfather's stories of his triumphs and glory. With help from his grandfather and the rest of the village he lived in, the young Namekian grew stronger, becoming a competent warrior in his own right. His burning passion and cheery personality were brought to a screeching halt when he was eighteen years old. The day he met his father.

Goliath, they called him due to his size and power. However, Fenro learned that his father was not the warrior he had imagined. The harsh reality was that Goliath was a cruel and evil being that wanted nothing more than domination. He tried to convince his son to join him on an attempt at conquering New Namek, but Fenro's grandfather intervened and persuaded Goliath to leave. Having seen how his idol truly was, Fenro's personality changed. His trust had been betrayed, so he decided to reserve himself to prevent that from happening again. His goal had changed in this process. He had to grow strong enough to defeat his father.

The next years were spent like the previous ones, only Fenro had a different resolve. Now, as a mature adult, his current training methods had begun to slow in progress. He was beginning to stagnate. This prompted his decision to go to Earth in search of powerful warriors to fight and train with. Really, he simply wanted to do anything he possibly could to grow stronger. Upon arriving on Earth, he discovered that the 250th Budokai World Tournament would soon begin accepting entrees. Not only did this give him a chance to get stronger and meet some of the strongest warriors on the planet, the grand prize was all too tempting. The prospect of wishing to become more powerful was more than enough to prompt his entrance to the tournament.
Other: Fenro is unaccustomed to Earth's cultures and geography, making it easy for him to get lost and hard for him to understand how Earthlings go about their everyday lives. He is also somewhat of a technophobe, having little capability in using technology and harboring a resentment for any technology that he cannot figure out how to use.

• Fighters gather at the World Tournament.


• Zabura and Kouta, both spectating, almost fight. Reconcile and return to stands.


• Tournament begins.


• David Mirai defeats Teemo with a knockout in the first match.


• Ultra-Dimension defeats Master Shin Zen with a ringout in the second match at the cost of an eye.


• Chikori is knocked out of the ring by Coco in the third match.


• Jack Ryan is defeated by knockout by Fenro in the fourth match.


• Guls defeats Slapstick by ringout in the fifth match.


• Light defeats Tiny by knockout in the sixth match.

Name: Chikori

Age: 16

Race: Saiyan descendant

Gender: Female

Appearance: Whee. Stands at about 5'4". Due to a genetic quirk, she and her ancestors still possess tails.

Personality: Boisterous and always eager for a good fight, no matter how much bad others believe her to be at it. She is determined to prove that she's more than just a runt, and whilst others in her position might suffer from an inferiority complex her cocky attitude gets in the way of that... Either that or she's just using it to hide behind. Chikori has a short temper and is easily agitated, which is part of the reason why she finds it difficult controlling her ki.

History: There are some people who are born with power. There are some people for whom life possesses no challenge, who effortlessly breeze through anything they try and quickly rise to the top due to their natural, in-born talent. Chikori is notably not one of these people. Born a talentless runt who would put the pride of the mighty Saiyan race to shame, as a child she was always rather clumsy and found ki control a difficult concept to get her head around. Hating how everyone treated her as weak, she began training herself in martial arts, but whilst her technique wasn't exactly bad she still found it difficult to harness her ki, and whilst she grew faster and somewhat stronger she still seemed to be severely outmatched by the rest of her family. Despite this, she's determined to prove that she's no weakling, and that even a runt can make their way to the top. It is because of this reason that she has entered the tournament, and will do as much as she can to prove her true strength.

Power Level: 400. As she has difficulties controlling ki, she cannot mask her power level.

Other: As noted above, Chikori and her ancestors still possess the Saiyan tail. However, she does not know that she can train to strengthen it, and thus has the weakness of becoming temporarily paralyzed if her tail is squeazed too hard. On the other hand, if she was to look at the full moon... As a descendant of Saiyans, Chikori naturally gains a substantial boost to her power level any time she recovers from a near-fatal injury.

Stats

Strength: 125

Speed: 150

Endurance: 75

Ki: 50

Techniques

Name: DYNAMITE KICK!

Type: Combination

Description: Really, it's just a powerful flying kick with a fancy name.

Required Power Level: 0

Name: Landslide Fist

Type: Combination

Description: Utilizing her main advantage, her speed, Chikori launches a barrage of punches so fast they can barely be seen by the human eye.

Required Power Level: 100

Name: Endive Grenade

Type: Ki

Description: An extremely basic ki attack suitable for someone who has trouble using ki attacks at all; it simply consists of a small ball of ki which explodes on impact. Even then, it's not all that powerful and mostly just good for distractions.

Required Power Level: 50

Name: David Mirai
Age: 20
Race: Saiyan descendant
Gender: Male

Power Level: 180/500
Stats (the max power level divided into four sections)
Strength: 115
Speed: 115
Endurance: 100
Ki: 160

Name: Blazing flurry
Type: combination
Description: David uses two hook kicks on his opponent, then he throws them in the air. While the opponent is still in the air, he jumps up as high as he can and cups his hands together and slams them into his opponent's back smashing them down into the ground
Required Power Level: 150

Name: Finger Gun
Type: Ki attack
Description: David holds his thumb and index finger out like a gun and after charging brings his thumb down and launches a small but pretty powerful and fast orange colored ball of ki.
Required Power Level: 200

Personality: David has only one true goal in life at the moment, namely to make a name for himself as a powerful fighter. He doesn't care about losing some fights as long as he manages to improve his skills. David tends to treat his opponents no matter how much weaker than him with respect, unless they go out of their way to piss him off. When angry he shows the typical Saiyan aggressiveness. Though he tends to be easy going most of the time he does have a tendency to hold grudges

History: Having never known his father David was raised by his fully human mother. It soon became clear that he was a lot stronger than most kids his age, however the extent of his strength remained hidden until he was three years old. He was playing with one of his toy cars when he rolled it under the couch out of his reach, instead of asking his mother to get it for him he lifted the couch with her on it.Fearing that he might accidentally hurt someone, his mother hired a private tutor to home school until he was ten years old.

Having reminded David every day for the past seven years that others weren't as strong as him, she finally trusted him to interact with other children without her supervision. Though there were no accidents, it became clear that David constantly had to restrain himself which caused him a great deal of stress.Eventually his mother found a way to help, she had found out about a martial artist teacher who trained exceptionally strong children and had signed David up for lessons

Other: David's Saiyan blood was diluted enough that he was born without a tail, thus lacking both the weaknesses and advantages it brings.

snow white skin instead of pink
No cape
no gloves
Long dress with the front open, sorta will look like a trenchcoat with a tabard piece.
very small feet
Hair tentacles dyed blue
Cloths are blue/white
pointed, almost clawlike fingers
1.8 meters tall

Name: Light
Age: 23
Race: Majin
Gender: Female

Power Level: 620
Stats
Strength: 285
Speed: 105
Endurance: 200
Ki: 30

Techniques
Name: Void Touched
Type: ki (passive)
Description: Light leeches away the ki of whatever she touches, adding their energy to her own. Does not work on things that don't have ki.
Required Power Level: None, but its power does scale off of ki + strength level. 1/30th of strength, 1/10th of ki (her stats not the opponents) drained per second of her touching them.

Name: Fission Punch
Type: Combination
Description: Light channels crackling dark energy into her fist, dealing a considerable amount of damage to whatever she hits with it. (Basically a physical kamehameha)
Required Power Level: 200

Personality: Light is a smart, observant, playful person who values freedom. She likes to do whatever she wants if it brings her enjoyment, short of serious crimes. Her grip on reality isn't fully there, and due to this she will often play with her enemies unless they show little to no reaction to her playful nature, thus it is rare for her to get serious.Though if she does get serious, she is very good at finding enemy weaknesses.
History: Light is an oddity for a Majin. instead of having the classical cotton candy tinted skin, either pink, green, blue, or yellow, she is pure white. She also has some sort of connection to the abyss, or so people who have fought her mention, noticing their vitality draining away as they fight her. Whether the two are related or not no one knows, not even her, but she could care less, being more interested in the joys of life than petty concerns as to her origin. This includes fighting, which she finds fun, as she is able to push herself as fast as she can go. She doesn't know much about her parents, and other majin look at her with either wonder or disdain, although the other races don't really see her any different from other majin, unless they are familiar with the race itself. Thus she tends to prefer the company of the other races.
Other: She enjoys all kinds of food, not just candy, and can eat a lot.

Shady is noticeably thinner and paler than other members of his race. As a student of the Path of the Violent Savior, his clothes are colored after the Violent Savior's armor. He usually wears a red belt during a fight to keep his tabard from flying everywhere.

Name: Shady
Age: 25
Race: Alien (Plantian)
Gender: Male

Power Level: 50/350
Stats (the max power level divided into four sections)
Strength: 50
Speed: 100
Endurance: 50
Ki: 150

Name: Shady Split Technique
Type: Support Technique
Description: Shady's variation on the classic Multi-Form technique, this ability allows him to split into any number of clones- provided that there is a round power level shared between them.
Required Power Level: 5

Name: Blazer Gaze
Type: Ki Attack
Description: A beam of ki fired from the eyes. Can be a wide-beam effect or a tightly focused beam, but either way it's a fairly weak ki attack that prevents its user from seeing. Oddly enough, the user's power level doesn't seem to affect its strength much.
Required Power Level: 10

Name: Death Breath
Type: Ki Attack
Description: A burst of flame through the mouth, sustainable as long as he can continue shouting.
Required Power Level: 25

Name: Shady Jet
Type: Combination
Description: Though Shady doesn't have enough ki to fly yet, he DOES have the powerful thrust from Death Breath. Using enough clones, he can form a makeshift hovercraft by shouting downward... subjecting the ground below to Death Breath. More clones give better control, but fewer more powerful clones give better speed.
Required Power Level: 10

Name: Shady Gazearray
Type: Combination
Description: Shady and a number of clones form up and fire off their Blazer Gazes simultaneously, either casting beams over a wide area to hit dodgy opponents, or focusing on a single target to deal more damage.
Required Power Level: 10

Personality: Shady isn't seeking the dragon balls, really- he's seeking the chance to prove himself against the best fighters of a planet. He seeks to prove not the superiority of his style or skill, but rather to test himself in pitched combat. He's usually quiet, but has a very foul mouth. Thankfully for the more sensitive earthlings, he only knows alien curses. He can't stand impostors or anyone who talks about their superiority. He knows he isn't that powerful, and as such he tries to pick his battles carefully- he can't even fly, after all. He makes up for his physical weakness by trying to learn a wide range of techniques and inventing new applications for them. After all, one strong person's Blazer Gaze isn't that strong, but 35 weak ones can do some serious damage.

History: When the Tuffles and Saiyans started showing up long ago, the people of Planet Plant were okay with it. After all, every race needs a place to call home. Then they started building sprawling cities and eating all the wildlife. The Plants realized where this was headed and left the two to their own devices, moving to another planet in the solar system they dubbed "New Plant." Here, they began practicing the martial traditions passed down by the "Violent Savior" who saved their race in a time of great need, vowing to not lose THIS homeworld. Of course, later their original homeworld blew up. They're kinda miffed about that.

Of course, we now come to Shady, son of Ice and follower of the Path of the Violent Savior. Shady's life has been fairly typical for a Plantian monk, composed of learning the traditions of his people and the martial teachings of the Violent Savior. He trained at his father's monastery all his life, until one day it burnt down under mysterious circumstances, later revealed to be because one of the students left the oven on. He decided to move out and perfect his skills in his own way, a decision he regrets immensely because he has no idea how to cook or do laundry.

A few years later, a quirk of galactic society turned up in his favor. Due to its importance to galactic history (what with the rise of the Majin, being the homeworld of many Saiyan descendants, and being a magnet for aliens and other weirdness), news regarding Earth travels fast. The news of the tournament and its incredible prize reached even to Planet Plant. This was AT LEAST 250 years of martial tradition, begging to be tested against the teachings of the Violent Savior, with the prize being the alteration of REALITY ITSELF. So he hopped aboard a freighter ship heading for Earth and decided to enter the tournament... maybe wish for his own dojo or a lifetime supply of food and fresh underwear, he's still not sure.

Without the cloakhi
Normally Guls Namekian appearance is covered up by his hooded-and-veiled deep green bedouin-like cloak and he also wears a sword at his waist.
Name: Guls, the Green Swordsman
Age: 120
Race: Namekian
Gender: None, treated and acts as male

Power Level: 100/650
Stats (the max power level divided into four sections)
Strength: 100
Speed: 200
Endurance: 100
Ki: 250

Techniques (a list of fighting techniques at their disposal, use the following technique format for custom techniques)

Name: Diablo Blade
Type: Ki attack
Description: Guls apparently grips the hilt of his sword then unsheathes it at lightning speed faster than most eyes can track, launching one or more bladelike beams that cut through his opponents at range. Though Guls usually uses his sword as a focus, he can also perform the technique by making slashing motions with a finger or hand.
Required Power Level: 300

Name: Demon's Fang
Type: Combination
Description: Guls moves fast enough to leave afterimages and attacks in an unsheathing strike of his sword, often using his power of flight to strike from odd directions while the afterimages distract his opponent or stretching his arm to give the unsheathing strike a deceptive amount of range. Is actually performed faster and stronger as a series of empty-handed attacks.
Required Power Level: 250

Name: Great Sage Wave
Type: Ki
Description: A technique Guls learned only after coming to Earth. Putting his palms together in an apparent gesture of peace and meditation, Guls charges up energy in a highly concentrated and purified form before thrusting his palms outward and unleashing a powerful wave of bluish white energy.
Required Power Level: 600

Name: Enlightened Fist
Type: Ki/Combination
Description: Using the same technique of charging up highly purified energy as the Great Sage Wave, Guls imbues his fist or his blade with a large amount of energy, then delivers all of it in a single powerful strike. It has the potential to be even more damaging than the Great Sage Wave due to being more concentrated and as it is a simple punch or palm strike it is easy to combine with other attacks provided the energy is charged, but focusing it through a weapon instead of the body weakens it while making it easier to perform.
Required Power Level: 500 with blade, 650 with body.

Personality: Guls was once a feared Namekian warrior who while not cruel or evil desired nothing out of life but a good fight and to eternally grow stronger. However since coming to Earth and casting out his own bloodlust many years ago he has realized there is much more to life than strength and raw power. Now he is much calmer and more relaxed and he can even be very kind at times, though he enjoys cloaking many of his actions in the same layers of zen riddles mysticism as his late mentor. Having learned the value of compassion The Green Swordsman now fights to defend the weak and oppressed across his adopted home of Earth, bringing justice and harmony back to those regions of the world where the cruel and petty-minded would otherwise hold sway. In battle he tends towards craftiness, speed and guile more than brute strength. Although he still enjoys fighting he now desires more to learn about and from his opponents than to defeat them, though he will fight seriously to protect the innocent or vanquish anyone with evil in their hearts.

History: Though born into the Dragon Clan, from a young age Guls desired to wanted to become a powerful warrior. He felt limited by his station and the castes of the Namekians insisting that his was not to be a warrior's life. Irritated by this he left his home planet of New Namek at a fairly young age and wandered the stars looking for challenges and ways to increase his strength unhindered by his past. For years he wandered his way across the universe, picking fights only when they were fair and equal but nevertheless racking up a high body count. When he came to Earth he was no different, setting himself up as a brutal wandering bandit of sorts in order to pick fights with whomever he pleased.

All of that changed however when Guls met a strange old human man who claimed to be the latest master in a line called the School of the Great Sage, Equal of Heaven. Despite thinking the human a weak old fool, Guls was easily trounced and beaten to within an inch of his life in a few short attacks. He couldn't understand how this seemingly feeble old human had defeated him so effortlessly. Guls made many attempts to challenge the old master, all of which proved similarly useless. Finally he gave up and rather than fight the so-called Great Sage, he begged to become his pupil.

The old man relented and began training Guls not only physically but mentally and spiritually. However, Guls proved unable to learn the techniques of the Great Sage school. As it turned out, his many acts of bloodshed had stained him to the point where he was unable to achieve the state of true focus required to learn the techniques. Thus, using a combination of the fission techniques of his Namekian heritage and the methods of the Great Sage, he gave up a measure of his power and excised it from himself along with his bloodlust and evil. After that he was able to truly learn both the Sage's philosophy and techniques. After his training was complete, Guls left the care of the Great Sage and went out into the world to do good works with his newfound power as The Green Swordsman.

Now, many many years later, Guls has decided to try and find pupils to teach as his master once taught him. To that end he entered into the 250th Budokai World Tournament, not to win the prize of the Dragonballs but to find powerful or potentially powerful fighters to take on as apprentices.

Other: Guls is capable of flight due to his high amount of Ki and high degree of control over it after training with the Great Sage. As a member of the Dragon Clan, he also has many noncombat-related abilities such as healing, object materialization, Telekinesis and communication-only telepathy. He may or may not also have a 'brother' somewhere out there with all of his bloodlust and desire for battle, though it's more likely that his evil qualities are sealed up in a pot or a rice cooker in a highly secured area of his home. only he has access to. In addition, although he fights with his sword enough to earn the moniker of Green Swordsman, he is actually stronger without it.