Namekian

An All Male (Kinda), Green-Skin Race

**Namekians**, also called **Nameks**, are a philosophical and sometimes warrior race from the planet Namek. Namekians are able to make Dragon Balls. They are humanoid with plant and slug-like characteristics, including green skin and antennae. The name "Namek" is taken from the word *namekuji*, which means "slug" in Japanese.

## Physiology

Namekians have green skin and antennae. Patches on their arms seem to indicate age; younger Namekians have pink arm patches, while elders instead have a dull orange coloration. Despite having masculine bodies, voices and behaviors, Namekians are actually genderless and can reproduce asexually but can reproduce sexually if there are partners. Due to their asexual existence, any and all Namekians can reproduce by spitting out an egg through their mouth. These young are not genetic copies of the parent, despite what one might expect from an asexual race; rather it appears that the parent has some control over what type of child will be produced. This can be taken to the extreme, with the newborns able to come out mutated and not closely resembling others of their species.

They are unique in that they only require water for sustenance, but they do know what eating means. But some speculate that their green skin allows them to absorb sunlight for energy, yet to be discredited. They have evolved on a world with three suns, with at least one up at all times, and therefore night is also unknown to them. Their physiology grants them a wide variety of abilities, many of them magical in nature; however, since these abilities are mostly seen being used by important individuals and not civilians, it is unknown whether these techniques are common to the species or to the individual. It seems likely that the vast majority of these abilities are restricted to the fighter caste Namekians as opposed to the sage caste, as none of the normal Namekians have ever been seen displaying the abilities when facing a crisis.

## Variations

There are some variations of the Namekians.

### Dragon Clan

The Dragon clan Namekians are the strongest type as they appear to be able to create Dragon Balls. These Namekians can also heal, use magic and create mutated spawn.

### Warrior Namekian

Warrior Namekians are much better fighters than the others and have higher power levels. There are three types: Warriors, Shadow Knights, and Dark Warriors. The Dark Warrior are able to use claw weapons, which grant them access to stronger physical skills than the previous Warrior class. Dark Warriors can additionally learn Piccolo's hellzone grenade, and dragon's punishment, which restores life points based on the percentage of damage dealt. The Shadow Knights utilize axe weapons and can deliver critical, long-ranged "area-of-effect" spiritual damage. Additionally, the Shadow Knight skill, steal life, can rob their enemies of their health and transmit it to them, and can acquire the critical self destruction wave, that sacrifices LP for high spiritual damage, adds an additional 50% of the damage dealt when it hits the opponent from behind.

### Demon Clan/Mutated Namekian

The Demon Clan was the name given to the spawns that King Piccolo produced. However, these spawns are actually Mutated Namekians that were corrupted by the heart of a high class Namekian. Evil Namekians and Elder Namekians are the only recorded types that have produced such beings.

## Racial Abilities

* **Body Flexibility:** Namekian limbs are extremely flexible. They can elongate not only their arms but their legs at will. With considerable effort, they are even capable of growing many times their natural size.
* **Enhanced Regeneration:** Namekians are extremely resilient and are capable of healing themselves and regenerating body parts instantaneously, so long as their brains are intact. Unfortunately this does not amount to complete invulnerability, as it takes an incredible amount of reserve energy to perform this task, and it is actually possible for a Namekian to die with his body more or less intact after battle.
* **Fusion:** Namekians have a form of inverse reproduction where they are able to permanently join themselves with others of their race. For this to be done, one of the Namekians serves as the base and foundation and gains the skills, memories, and many of the personality traits of the other. While there is no definite description as to what happens to the soul of the absorbed Namekian, it has been hinted that it will simply remain within the body until said body perishes or that, at least, the personality and memories are to some extent present within the host being.
* **Increased Lifespan:** Namekians live for long periods, with documented cases of members living to be several hundreds of years old before finally passing on.
* **Healing:** Some Namekians possess the ability to heal others from virtually any injury.
* **Sensitive Hearing:** Namekians' sense of hearing is far greater than that of humans (at least thousands of times greater). The outer ear structure gives them this heightened sense. This can be a double-edged sword, however, as high-pitched sounds such as whistling can be irritating to the Namekian, to the point of causing them pain.

## Pre-Apocalypse

In the Dragon Ball series, the Namekians have suffered a great and terrible storm due to the shift in climate change that nearly drove most of them extinct. Guru, the surviving Namekian managed to repopulate most of the planet and passing his wisdom and knowledge to his children. But in Dragon Ball Z, they faced another crisis. Freiza, the Emperor of Evil, wanted to obtain the Namekian Dragon Balls in order to obtain immortality. The entire population was wiped out until Mr. Popo wished upon the Earth's Eternal Dragon to bring them back to life as the planet was on the verge of destruction.

The survivors ended-up on Earth and stayed for a little while before being wished on another planet. This planet became their new home. Now, the anime and films got conflicted about what happened next but the Namekians live in peace. But in the Xenoverse, many Namekians made their home on Earth and there are now avatars of them.

In the psyche multiverse, many of them went off to explore and create little colonies with their eggs on planets similar to their adopted Namekian homeworld. Worlds with three suns, lots of lakes with no oceans, and plant ajisa trees. Others fight alongside heroes to fend off evil as well as develop their powers. Luckily, none of the avatar Namekians got infected with the parasitic organism that has been effecting other avatars.

## Post Apocalypse

The Namekians haven't changed much but many avatars have been booted out and landed on another planet that have similar conditions to Namek. Although some visit other worlds to represent their species. Others on the other hand decided to be guardians of whatever world they landed on and created the dragon balls. Like the Earth's Eternal Dragon before Dende, the dragons can only grant one wish.