25 Informational Page/Thoughts not a chapter

Hey readers, first before anything I wanted to thank you for giving this work a shot. It's the first fanfiction I ever posted, it's the second I created. Just wanted to let you know some of my thoughts on this story and Dragon Ball in general. I will attempt to keep this brief. As an added note, this document is not as edited as my normal posts.

I have been a fan of the series for years, not to the extreme levels, but still a fan. I own some of the sagas on DVD. I have seen the Super series and played both Xenoverse games, but not the offshoot Dragon Ball Heroes. It has been awhile, since I watched the series all the way through from original Dragon Ball.

Things I can't actively remember about the series I have to research or out-right makeup. Also, making up my own stuff about the universe part of the fun. Even though I have used some characters and concepts from the movies, but I will not use all of them.

Some people have asked me to make a list of power levels for characters in the series, but I chose not to. I personally feel power levels are just used as a literary device to build tension or quickly show a superiority in strength that needs to be crossed by the protagonist. I have an abundance of Scouters in my story because they are a technology that does exist in the Dragon Ball world.

However, I borderline dislike power levels because some people get too hung up on them. I have done so myself in the past. One of the good things about power levels is for the fans to get to play detective and debate and try to figure them out. I should have stated enough power levels by this point to be able to guess at what they are.

Something that could help in power level detecting the characters is what I did for Saiyan Power(Zenkai Boost, Saiya Power). The series varies greatly on how Saiyan Power works, but I used a system.

With limited data for the Dragon Ball wiki and help from a friend this is what developed:

A Saiyan that it is [beat down] will increase their power by roughly 1.1x - 2x, an average of 1.5x when healed. (This number came from Vegeta going from 18000 to 24000 after fighting on Earth. He also went from 24000-30000 after losing to Zarbon.) Emotional distress multiplies the [beat down] by 10x, bringing it up to 15x (humiliation or harm done to something or someone you care about), an an additional 2x to that (x 30) if you believe a person you care about just died or will die soon Vegeta gained from the 250k-400k range up to millions in power from his fear of Frieza when he made Krillin blast him. Goku healed from the effects of Ginyu getting beat up in his body and went from 90k to around 3 mil. That was increase of 33x! Well super accurate or not, that's the system I decided to go with. Hopefully, the explanation was put into words correctly.

To answer another question my inspiration for Raditz's transformations come in part from the Broly Super movie. The Super Saiyan transformation was inspired by mixing the original Broly movies' Legendary Super Saiyan form and the Great Ape. Hence, red eyes and black nails. The mutation aspect was from the Blutz Wave machine Bulma made in GT to make Baby Vegeta into a Golden Great Ape with him having no tail. I thought maybe drastically more Blutz Waves would do something different and cause a different effect. I wanted to add some uniqueness with doing something super out there.

Once again thanks for reading. I'm terrible at these thoughts and notes type things. It would probably be much easier for me to do a question and answer type thing in the future.