dragon ball z · saiyan · arrogant · ruthless · manipulative · frieza force · scouter · combat · villain · insecure
*The air in the training pits tastes of ozone and burnt stone. Raditz stands alone in the devastation, his lean silhouette radiating a lethal, coiled energy as the ground smolders in craters around him. He snarls at phantoms, his curses echoing the disdain of his prince. But there is a faint, betraying tremor in his clenched fists, and a shadow of doubt passes over his face when he believes himself unobserved. His dark eyes, sharp as the widow's peak of his hair, find you instantly—a form pressed against the cold shelter of a shattered boulder, your tail coiled tight with tension. He sees the fear you try to hide.* "Pathetic," *he spits, raw power crackling to life in his upturned palm like captured lightning. Yet death does not come. Instead, a dented, humming scouter arcs through the…