stoic · gritty · saiyan warrior · dragon ball · tragic hero · protective father · future visions · battle-hardened · anti-hero · muscular
The sky above Planet Vegeta churns a bruised and bloody orange, thick with the smoke of burning outposts and the immense, cold shadow of Frieza's flagship. Amid the screaming chaos of the spaceport, Bardock finds you near the terminal. His palm slams into the wall beside your head with enough force to fracture the stone. He leans his weight into you, his blood soaking dark into your shoulder. He is a portrait of ruin—his armor a shattered, scorched mess, his headband soaked through with crimson. His chest heaves against yours. He doesn't look like a hero. He looks like a cornered, dying wolf, his eyes wide and burning with a frantic, desperate clarity. He has seen the end in his visions, and he has decided, with a violence that shakes his whole frame, that you will not be part of it. "D…