The Evolution of Cole

**NOTE** : *The page will be written in first person.*

The OC Cole has gone through many changes and evolution ever since day 1. I believe it first started off when I wanted to do sprite animations, my character was first being made off of Sonic sprites. Which I felt was pretty normal. I was oblivious to Dragon Ball at the time so I didn't really have an idea of those kinds of sprites, so I had to customize Sonic sprites for Human style sprites which if I'm being honest, was a 50/50. There wasn't any true development of my simple character, just that it was me with special powers lol. I liked to be realistic with my characters, but luckily those powers only showed in the Dream World, because that's where the sprite animation took place....in my mind against.........Scrat from Ice Age.........yeah I know it's stupid, however apparently on his own Wiki Page it says **he actually eats children**. So yeah maybe there's an actual explanation to that mess.

### **The Birth**

Anyway, his powers were pretty much based off of Sonic powers and other basic powers! His fighting style was just quick and fast attacks that transitioned quite well from one to the next, including improvise. Even with this basic style of fighting he performed quite well. He didn't exactly posses any major techniques like beams and blasts. He did posses the ability to teleport, great speed, and the energy attack he did have was an Energy Punch I made up a long time ago where it could be charged up enough to damage someone in their Super Form to gain an edge [Being how I was not truly aware and into Dragon Ball as I am now, I had no idea of Goku's *Super God Fist* technique]. That's just about the only real attacking technique he had.

The next came his forms! I actually knew of Dragon Ball but I didn't actually know what it was or how things worked! For example, my OCs Super Form was actually *Super Saiyan*. But my Super Saiyan form more or less granted abilities I couldn't do before, and like Super Sonic, I too could power up using the 7 *Chaos Emeralds*. But instead of Chaos Energy it'd be *Ki Energy* it'd be running off of. So he could sustain the form for longer periods of time [But it doesn't make sense, again, no thought went into making this OC at first, I was merely improvising]. The change in this Super Saiyan form was that Cole's hair was a little more of a Super Color like Super Sonic mixed with the golden hair of Super Saiyan and the eyes were Red like Super Sonic. However, I think the only thing the form granted me asides from greater power that of a 100 times multiplier from base [Unlike the normal Super Saiyan where it's a x50 multiplier], was just the use of flight. The first time Cole was seen powering up to Super Saiyan was when he was absorbing a ball of energy from Scrat in the dream world.

The next form I gave him was a Dark Form, which was especially based off of Dark Sonic. It was pretty much the same mechanics as the original Dark Sonic transformation. You provoked him too much or threatened him and he turned into a dark form. His appearance was also the same as Dark Sonic's, everything from his skin and hair turned black except his clothes.

### **Ultimate Tenkaichi Hero**

Many years go by and eventually there came a time when while I had a PS3 I wanted to get a new game, I saw Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Tenkaichi and thought, minus well! That's when I started to learn of Dragon Ball, now granted I wasn't completely aware of how the powers worked out *in-depth* wise. But I at least had a better concept. Before this whole thing I was at least aware of the different transformations of Super Saiyans, such as Super Saiyan 2 and Super Saiyan 3, I don't know if I was aware of Super Saiyan 4 or if I cared for that at the time. As I played through the game, everything started to come together. The powers, forms, and even the story line I began to understand. Ultimate Tenkaichi held a special place in my heart, while sure it's got its share of flaws I consider it to be a good game nonetheless. But I was very surprised when my first Dragon Ball game was also the first Dragon Ball game to allow you to create your own Saiyan Character

This surprised me and it wasn't an opportunity I was gonna pass up on! I believe I made the Hero right after I completed the story line when finally defeating Omega Shenron playing as Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta [During the time I felt it was a little dumb not to include Super Saiyan 4 Goku and Vegeta, as I knew they both were capable of the transformation]. This is where my character begins to undergo a lot of changes. I was still figuring things out, I even remember when I was training under Yamcha learning the *Kamehameha* for the first time and unknowingly equipped it onto my character. It was a little hard playing the game at this point knowing the strength the Hero had at first. I even remember every time I wanted to so much as change my character's look, ***I had to restart the character all the time and start from scratch***. This is because I didn't know how I could change my character at the time without resetting. I remember the first time my character truly became a *Super Saiyan*.

Like I said, my character went through many changes, I even changed my hairstyle into Goku's for the only reason being that Goku's Super Saiyan hair style was badass, but went back to good ol' Bed Hair instead! I also changed my clothes on the Gi and even to Android 17's clothes and the Gi colors were either based off of my own choosing of colors, or Dragon Ball Heroes as I though the color scheme was nice. Then I started to acquire new techniques. Obviously the Kamehameha being one of them. I also learned of pretty cool techniques, including Final Revenger, Silent Assassin 13, Angry Kamehameha, and more as time progressed on, although *Kaioken* was not one of them. During this time period, I even *STILL* allowed my Super Saiyan form to give me access to techniques and abilities I couldn't perform before, such as great speed and unlocked potential increasing my power further still more than an average Super Saiyan [By this time accepting the fact there was no ascending past Super Saiyan], and even performing the ***Big Bang Kamehameha,*** Gogeta's Fusion Technique.

During this time I had also decided to use the last Hero Slots for my Brothers because I wanted to be nice, but I didn't know techniques for each hero were limited, and I just so happened to pick one of if not the best ones that suited me, as it had most of the techniques I wanted. Though it left an interesting move set for the brothers, however they didn't posses the unnatural Super Saiyan powers like I did.

### **The Human Super Saiyan**

It was also during this time, I had made other plans with my OC. You see, I had a big imagination, not *too* big though. As such I think about scenarios and how things may happen, though some part of me just thinks it's my ego. Anyway, during the time of what I'm calling it the "*Ultimate Tenkaichi Hero*", I had another idea with my DBZ OC, one may even say Ultimate Tenkaichi helped spark a lot of my Dragon Ball Z ideas in the past. I imagined my girlfriend and I would be thrown into the world of Dragon Ball and we'd gather the Dragon Balls and discover how to use *ki* along the way*.* Until we ran into Cell and Frieza, no real explanation as to how they get resurrected, and while Cole put up a damn good fight, he ultimately loses, then they torture my gf [About as bad as Spopovich beating up Videl brutally]. Thus resulting in me, despite being 100% Human, going Super Saiyan and defeating Cell and Frieza dominating them. Still increasing my power further than the normal Super Saiyan. However this time for this scenario, it was either unknown if my Super Saiyan form granted access to abilities I couldn't before, or it simply didn't. At this time I finally had a good understanding of Super Saiyan's 2 and 3. Although for this case, at first I decided to let my OC skip Super Saiyan 2 and go straight to Super Saiyan 3, due to the multiplier for his base Super Saiyan form alone. I should also note at this time, despite being this powerful, I was unaware of the feats performed in Dragon Ball, and so there was no way my OC could destroy a planet.

Although for the most part while I did like this idea, I still stuck with the Ultimate Tenkaichi Hero and whatever I made up with it. Therefore at this time, I still allowed my Super Saiyan form to be stronger than normal and give me access to techniques, powers, and special abilities I could not perform in base form. Pretty much thanks to Ultimate Tenkaichi, Dragon Ball became the next step in my childhood to where I am today. Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Tenkaichi still holds a place in my heart to this day and have been inspired by other artists and even YouTubers who have made Ultimate Tenkaichi videos as I felt I wanted to do the same thing. I continued playing it for a long time until I got the Sly Cooper Collection and Dragon Ball Xenoverse [PS3], however I will not count Dragon Ball Xenoverse in this page as being an evolution for my OC, as I consider it to be merely an imitated Avatar for my OC, and even then the appearance wasn't true to my OC due to the clothes I had to where specifically for the states to lean in my favor.

### **The *"2ruffles"* Era**

This is where everything truly begins to forge together. It started at some point a long time ago when I was still playing a lot of Minecraft. At first it was just playing on a lot of worlds, a lot of servers, a lot of attempts at making projects and what not. But my Minecraft Skin was a little but customized and was modified off of another. It was just a boy [representing me] who had a smile on his face wearing a Spider-Man shirt and having a Captain America shield on my back. I was into those 2 at the time, Spider-Man was my favorite super hero from Marvel but I also liked Captain America. I guess that OC just had Spider-Mans powers with Caps shield lol.

Then this is where things starts to develop. At the time I was back into Sly Cooper after rediscovering it after seeing what looked like a familiar video of a game. But during this time I tend to noticed a skin around a lot from other users that was the skin of a Minecraft YouTuber named : *GoldSolace*. I decided to finally just say, "*Screw it, give me the skin...*", but I didn't go without changes! For the golden ingot on the front of the shirt was replaced to the back, and on the front was a Sly Mask symbol [The Symbol for Sly Cooper, I liked it very much], and I had brown gloves to make it look good. I guess I had Dragon Ball powers as I could still go Super Saiyan and use Kamehameha and the other techniques in the past lol. It was turning from sprites to Minecraft, and I did a lot of Minecraft as I could think of. Some part of me misses that imagination I had long ago, would be really useful now.

Anyway, my power didn't really change much. Just that I'd have a Cane from Sly Cooper as my weapon of choice, and the Dragon Ball abilities from the beginning, however I don't think the bonus Super Saiyan abilities applied to here this time, furthermore Super Saiyan was still the only form her could access. He also had a Gold Sword, but was later scrapped.

### **The True Beginning**

At some point, well I had a mini laptop to do more sprites! However....I couldn't do anymore Minecraft at the time. Although, when I began to get back into Minecraft after a long time. I wanted to change my skin, this you could say was the birth of the beginning of Cole. When I created the character once again, I was going full on Dragon Ball, I had good understanding of the series, powers, and franchise. My OC still being able to go Super Saiyan, however this time. No boosts and bonus, it was the real deal.

When I began remaking my character, I once again tried to stay true to myself. In terms of appearance, but with the outfit I did something differently. Using a Goku Skin I recolored the Gi, the GoldSolace skin was the reference to my color pallet and has been ever since. Black, Grey, and Light Grey, with the wristbands and shoes maintaining their blue color. My hair wasn't really determined, and I still had my blue eyes. However I eventually came up with an idea, the first hairstyle for the base was well....based off of how my Mii looked a long time ago, I remember it so clearly, so I made that my starting point. Yet, despite the hairstyle I still had a Super Saiyan Goku Hairstyle, which he could literally go Super Saiyan in Minecraft.....somewhat.

### **The Hero Arise**

Now one time, I found a ***Vanilla*** Dragon Ball server, where there was models, sfx, transformations, everything. It was in an nutshell the Dragon Ball Super server. But it was in a beta test, it wasn't actually released yet, I just so happened to stumble upon it at the right time. This was the ***birth place*** for Dragon Block C Heroes Arise. It even started in the Beta version. At first, Cole and Cabba [Yes literally Cabba, but not from Super though I was oblivious to this] were gonna start off with Super Saiyan and meet a Majin from the future [Yeah Future Trunks crap LOL]. But it was honestly recorded just for fun.

However as time went on, and I got much stronger on the server as it released [I got stronger up to Super Saiyan Blue]. I actually started to develop not just my OC, but my series. At first, I was calling this series....***Dragon Ball Z Heroes Arise***. I wanted to stay true to the name and the franchise, but years later I was finally convinced to change it to Dragon *Block C*.

My OCs fighting style then quickly developed and his abilities and powers were based off of my imagination. It was a fighting style where I wanted to be ready for anything [Dragon Ball Wise]. Where he was always on guard, never underestimates opponents, doesn't let up, sneak attacks and slips don't affect him, so on and so forth. Though of course if there was a power greater than his then he could still be beat. This was also when I finally decided to give him the *Kaioken* technique. Though I wanted to make it work out differently, for it was based off of a fan-made series which was bizarre yet interesting. I had continued to make many plans for the series, but some plans would change overtime as some ideas sounded better than others.

It was also during this time period when I *did* finally create my Dbz Oc, I had ***limited*** his true strength. I think in my head at the time, the *Heroes Arise* Cole would get stronger up to Blue and so on. But the actual *Oc* would be limited on his strength. For example, the whole Super Saiyan thing, granted I knew nothing of Dragon Ball at the beginning, then to Super Saiyan 3, eventually being convinced Super Saiyan Blue would be good for the taking. I purposely limited my level in power to keep things fair for others. Dbcha Cole wasn't really my official main Oc at the time. But eventually it would grow to the point where I took him for the mantle of my Main Oc and he would continue to grow and evolve over time. Including more moves like *Instant Transmission.*

Also I just could not figure out the design I wanted for my Gi worth a damn. I went through SOOOO many redesigns of the Gi, because then a cooler design would show up....then another, then another, then I'd back track out of the feel or nostalgia....I just couldn't make up my mind! There's about 3 Gis I stuck with for a while till I wanted to remake it again.....I just didn't know what truly fit Dbcha Cole. He still maintained the Black, Grey, Light Grey, Blue, and Navy Blue colors. Eventually I caught onto one where I could settle until a better Idea came along.

Furthermore, in the first attempt at Heroes Arise. Cole had portrayed Goku's hair, but of course I only did it because of the Super Saiyan hairstyle, I didn't actually care for the base hairstyle.....There was also times when I was gonna involve Super Saiyan 4 and the fan-made Super Saiyan 5, but was ultimately scrapped eventually. Which was probably for the best as when the story progressed on it wouldn't have made sense and would have collided with each other. [Ex. Super Saiyan God being stronger than Super Saiyan 5]

*There is more to come as we have not yet reached the limit to this page and it's story......more will be revealed later on when the series progresses.*