Nova (Lady Tygry)

## Nova

*This original character originates from Unguarded: A Dragon Ball Z Fancomic by Lady Tygry Comics. The below article uses information from the publicly available website release (non-Patreon) up through Chapter 14, as well as extras from the author's Tumblr. Spoilers will follow and plot details from Patreon-exclusive chapters will be removed.*

In *Unguarded*, **Queen Nova** was the wife of King Cold and Freeza and Cooler's mother. She played a significant role in Freeza's youth from Chapters 1 through 8, attempting to involve herself strongly in her son's life to combat Cold's efforts to train him into a tyrannical force, but ultimately failing after her death in Chapter 8.

## Cast Page Description

*"Gentle and idealistic, Queen Cold is a doting mother, preferring to raise her children herself. After watching one son grow distant as he reached adulthood, she remains hopeful that her Freeza will enjoy the wonders of childhood for as long as possible."*

## Appearance

Nova is a pink-scaled "Final Form" Arcosian with red gems on her head and shoulders. Three red diamond-shaped freckles are featured under each eye. A red gem is also featured in the center of her chest at the band of a bra-like bio-armor structure. She wears a variety of dresses and skirt and blouse combos over the span of the comic. In the early years of her appearances, she wears a golden circlet crown, featuring encrusted white gems, purple cloth over her head, golden "wing" like structures at the sides, and pearl strands dangling by her ears. In Age 720, she instead wears various colors of cloth headbands around her forehead.

## Bio

### Early

Prior to being married to Cold, Nova lived in the Arcosian city of Jardinia as the youngest child and only daughter of her family. Her father was known to travel and bring back flower seeds to contribute to the family's extensive garden (pg. 116), which Nova would tend to along with the servants well into her preadolescence (pg. 94, 114). She was also subject to physical abuse by her older brothers and father, medical scans showing repeated patterns of healed wounds on her body (pg. 113, 144).

Nova is shown to be generally frail in her depiction, suffering many injuries throughout her appearances. As a non-combatant, her power pales in comparison to Cold's and she suffers when he expresses too tight of a grip- something he's capable of doing with relative ease.

In Age 692, at 12 and soon of age (pg. 106), her family receives a missive from King Cold, designating her as one of his bridal candidates. They covertly use this opportunity as an attempt to climb the social ladder and into the royal family's inner circle (pg. 141, 506), her mother rearing her into a proper and complacent lady within a week in order to appeal to the king.

When Cold visits, he notably elevates her above her station and attempts to work Nova out of this formality shell in order to let her express her mind. The two have a discussion over the flower garden, Cold comparing her to a flower that must grow and be bold in order to noticed or risk trampling. He notes to her that she will no longer have to worry about having to adjust herself to other's expectations when he takes her as his bride, firm in his decision, even without seeing other candidates. Chapter 9 suggests that Cold was potentially endearing himself to her (pg. 506).

Nova keeps this secret closely until Cold sends her flowers a few days later, which is quickly misinterpreted as her enticing him. As she is harshly reprimanded physically by one of her brothers, Cold intervenes and takes her away as she passes out. As she recovers, she is taken back to Cold's home palace in the city of Wither and offered a circlet to formalize their betrothal.

### Marriage with Cold

Within two years, Nova is adjusted to her new role as royalty and assigned handmaidens to tend to her. She is most closely tended to by a green-scaled handmaiden with a red gem and dialogue in Chapter 9 suggests that this handmaiden played a somewhat maternal role towards Nova (pg. 505).

A thriving flower garden is planted for her in the courtyard and an abundance of favored flowers are prominently featured around the palace (pg. 571). At the beginning of Nova's "seasons", she and Cold are formally wed and hold a traditional binding ceremony. She is given a rose encased in liquid helium as a symbol of the two's union, but a chemical reaction results in a crack in the glass.

### With Cooler

Nova falls pregnant with Cooler in Age 694, having a strong feeling that she will give Cold a son. At the same time, Cold remains busy with business in his planetary trade work, especially as planets meet his scouting efforts with violence. As a result, Nova is unable to retain her husband's attention and company, resigning herself to write letters of condolence to the families of Cold's fallen troops. After Cooler's birth, Cold shows up after being allegedly "busy", with intentions on shaping the boy into a warrior once he is old enough to train, while Nova is insistent on their son being a diplomat and only fighting when necessary.

As Cooler grows older, Cold complains that Nova has been too soft on him (pg. 801); she insists on him being patient with Cooler's training progress. Eventually, Cold grows too impatient with his minimal development, just as Nova discovers her pregnancy with Freeza in Age 708, this revelation causing Cooler to grow distant. She is very resistant to "letting go" of Cooler to favor the new child, despite Cold seeming to already looking ahead to the child's future.

### With Freeza

Nova is insistent on incubating Freeza's egg herself, despite the availability of assistive technology, in order for the child to see her first and imprint more easily (pg. 12). Freeza is born prematurely (pg. 383) and Nova is very protective of the boy when Cold insists on this child being molded into a warrior early on as well.

As revealed in Chapter 8, Nova begins secretly dosing a young Freeza with a power-inhibiting drug, diazecani, in order to stunt his power's development and impede Cold's intentions (pg. 473-474).

Nova does not permit her son to leave the palace grounds for his safety and attempts to keep him entertained herself, which he soon grows tired of as he grows older. She gives him a flying toy spaceship when he starts feeling lonely, which he ends up losing when it flies too far away. She sets out to search for it with her handmaidens and puts it aside for a worn out from crying Freeza, but eventually forgets to mention it to him.

Nova is suggested to have a stronger mother-son relationship with Freeza than with Cooler, Freeza having a higher tendency to turn to her company than Cold's.

At an unknown point, Nova is a participant in Cold's secret genetic experiments on an unknown peach-scaled and turquoise-gemmed subject. When the unknown child is set for a scan, something goes wrong with the procedure in a large burst of flame. Details are recorded on one of Cold's genealogy files, but not much of it is shown within the comic before the file is cut off and Nova is left unable to explain.

### Age 713

As Freeza reaches five years old, Nova ends up helpless as Cold ends up more involved in the boy's development. After finding him playing in the fountain after refusing his daily pill (likely diazecani), the boy becomes quickly distracted by the crossfire of Cooler and Cold's sparring and leaving to join the fight, Nova only able to check up on him later in the evening after he has already suffered from a harsh strength assessment by his father.

Once the family travels over to Cold Planet 036, Nova confronts Cold over this influencing, but she is harshly kept in line by her husband delivering a tail swat to her cheek and tightly gripping her wrist and snapping it. After being consoled by Cooler and outfitted with a cast, she discreetly orders a private charter to escape the planet with Freeza in several weeks' time- however, Cold soon notices it and changes the departure date to put a wrench in this effort.

After Freeza returns from his test on Planet Examen, Nova takes a walk with her son in the nearby woods, comforting him after he divulges the details of Examen's explosion. She returns the toy spaceship he lost when he was younger, but he soon sends it flying off again, as Cold insisted he was too old for toys.

In addition to his target practice training with Cold in the mornings, Nova simultaneously adds nightly studying to Freeza's daily routine, teaching him to use the universal common tongue. Later sessions show him being taught subjects such as biology and cultural literacy. At least once prior to a session in Age 720, she has him read "After the Close", a myth about a pallid being born from blood, which Freeza does not enjoy.

Another part of the routine includes travelling to the nearby river and hunting for crabs as a treat, which Freeza recalls in Chapter 5.

On the evening of a full moon, Nova attempts to escape with a sleeping Freeza to meet her scheduled charter. She takes Cold's Saiyan recruit as a bodyguard, only for the soldier to transform into an Oozaru upon spying the full moon when the charter fails to show. While she manages to hold her own for a time, evading the Saiyan's blows as it damages the environment, she ends up hit by a massive punch as Freeza awakens and steps in to cut off the Oozaru's tail. She falls unconscious and undergoes extensive medical care as Freeza grows paranoid.

### Age 720

Following the Oozaru attack, Nova remains residually wounded, requiring a cane to walk and often being confined to her bed. She still holds evening study sessions with her son in the evening, although they are occasionally skipped.

Within her bedroom, separated from Cold's quarters, she is shown to have boxed away many of her mementos pertaining to her husband, including the rose in helium. Freeza also makes a habit of gathering wildflowers for her to brighten the room, as she is often bedridden. He is noted to frequently check in on her, insisting that she'd be lonely and sit in solitude if he didn't.

As recalled by Freeza in Chapter 11, she was not fond of wine and had strong reservations of Freeza acquiring a taste for it at a young age. In an effort to present an obedient side, he complies with her request that he only partakes at formal dinners.

As Freeza checks up on her one evening, Ginyu informs her of him pulling on a young Tsukiryuu's tail as he leaves the Saiyans' welcoming dinner and, after subsequently finding out about him insulting his brother, she forces Freeza to apologize to both Cooler and the Saiyan.

The next day, Nova remains in bed with a sore hip due to the rainy weather. As Freeza brings her a bundle of roses for the room, he recounts his supposed "apologies" and leads her to believe he befriended Tsukiryuu. She is elated at this news, knowing Freeza had longed for a friend and that the Saiyan must also be lonely being off-planet.

Nova is only briefly seen in Chapter 6, noticing Freeza walking with Tsukiryuu in the courtyard, before being reminded of a memory by a bird landing outside the window. In Chapter 7, she holds Freeza's evening lessons, giving him a choice for his literature lesson when he complains and insists on returning to work on his unknown to her plan. She notes to him that she has high confidence in his future when he expresses his feelings on becoming notable enough to be in books.

As she relaxes with some reading in a lounge area, her handmaiden takes notice when Freeza attempts to access her private computer to view one of Cold's data chips. When she enters the room to speak to him, she frightenedly notices that he has a genealogy record open and slams the monitor down to hide it. Before she can explain herself, Freeza insists that she's lying and runs away, firmly telling her he hates her. Nova is unable to catch up and tasks Ginyu with tracking him down. She later meets with Gelid to return the data chip to Cold's collection.

Nova later returns to her room for further reading when Cold enters bearing flowers as an apology for being a "poor husband". He keeps her held in a tight bear hug as they converse, Cold revealing that he knows about her ploy with the diazecani. When Nova attempts to retort, Cold crushes her ribs and tightly grips her throat, causing her to cough up blood in a dying gasp.

### Post-Death

Days after her death, once Freeza finally returns home, an informal final procession is held for her, her coffin surrounded by common yellow weeds as flowers. Only Cold and Freeza are in attendance, Cooler retiring to his chambers after observing the Saiyans' departure to Puranto. Her corpse is sent back to Arcos to be buried on her father's land, so as not to "shame" Cold's land.

Freeza is given more leniency and opportunities to drink wine due to her absence and receives more of Cold's influence in his actions.

## Other Appearances

Nova also makes an appearance as Frieza's mother in Aladayle's "Suburbia 700".