Could Shenlong sever Kami and Piccolo's bond?

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Re: Could Shenlong sever Kami and Piccolo's bond?

Post by Piccolo Daimao » Sat Dec 24, 2011 4:37 pm

Silver Sinspawn wrote:So it's a quality or quantity thing, revive a bunch of people who died and didn't do shit, or revive Goku and Krillin for like, the 7th time.
Basically. I mean, in terms of the story, Muuri's balls are better than Dende's.
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Re: Could Shenlong sever Kami and Piccolo's bond?

Post by Silver Sinspawn » Sat Dec 24, 2011 5:48 pm

Piccolo Daimao wrote:
Silver Sinspawn wrote:So it's a quality or quantity thing, revive a bunch of people who died and didn't do shit, or revive Goku and Krillin for like, the 7th time.
Basically. I mean, in terms of the story, Muuri's balls are better than Dende's.
Giggity.
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Re: Could Shenlong sever Kami and Piccolo's bond?

Post by Piccolo Daimao » Sat Dec 24, 2011 7:22 pm

Silver Sinspawn wrote:
Piccolo Daimao wrote:Basically. I mean, in terms of the story, Muuri's balls are better than Dende's.
Giggity.
Muuri's Namek balls are probably bigger than Dende's Earth balls.
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Re: Could Shenlong sever Kami and Piccolo's bond?

Post by Silver Sinspawn » Sun Dec 25, 2011 5:32 am

Piccolo Daimao wrote:
Silver Sinspawn wrote:
Piccolo Daimao wrote:Basically. I mean, in terms of the story, Muuri's balls are better than Dende's.
Giggity.
Plus, Muuri's Namek balls are probabaly bigger than Dende's Earth balls.
GIGGITY GIGGITY GOO.
But, is that better?
Harder to hide, easier to find, harder to carry
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Re: Could Shenlong sever Kami and Piccolo's bond?

Post by Piccolo Daimao » Sun Dec 25, 2011 12:54 pm

Silver Sinspawn wrote:
Piccolo Daimao wrote:Plus, Muuri's Namek balls are probabaly bigger than Dende's Earth balls.
GIGGITY GIGGITY GOO.
But, is that better?
Harder to hide, easier to find, harder to carry
No, I don't think so. You can't make a necklace out of them either. But I guess the Earth balls are smaller because it's part and parcel out of the whole searching thing. Daizenshuu 7 says that the Earth balls are as big as baseballs, while the Namek balls are about as big as basketballs. Also, the Namek balls are 10 times as large as the Earth balls.

http://www.kanzentai.com/trans-daiz07.p ... =item#link
Daizenshuu 7 wrote:The ones on Earth are the size of baseballs, but the ones on Planet Namek are about as big as basketballs.
Daizenshuu 7 wrote:These Namekian ones are the original dragonballs. They're 10 times as large as the Earth dragonballs.
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Re: Could Shenlong sever Kami and Piccolo's bond?

Post by Fox666 » Sun Dec 25, 2011 1:01 pm

The diameter of a baseball is 7.5 cm, while a basketball is 24 cm. That's not 10 times... :?
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Post by Piccolo Daimao » Sun Dec 25, 2011 1:55 pm

Fox666 wrote:The diameter of a baseball is 7.5 cm, while a basketball is 24 cm. That's not 10 times... :?
I don't think the staff really cared about the maths. They were probably just making general estimates.
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Post by Fox666 » Sun Dec 25, 2011 2:44 pm

Yeah, but 10 times this? :shock:

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Post by Piccolo Daimao » Sun Dec 25, 2011 5:05 pm

Fox666 wrote:Yeah, but 10 times this? :shock:

http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/h44 ... maball.png
Like I said...they just don't care. It's not as if they took out a measuring ruler to accurately ascertain whether or not it was 10 times than the Earth Dragon Balls.
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Re: Could Shenlong sever Kami and Piccolo's bond?

Post by Silver Sinspawn » Mon Dec 26, 2011 6:46 am

The point is it is big.
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Re: Could Shenlong sever Kami and Piccolo's bond?

Post by CaBrPi » Tue Dec 27, 2011 2:26 am

Here's my take on the deal:

Kami and Piccolo are two halves of the same whole, right? Well, yeah.

But they're also the same being, just different parts of that being inhabiting different bodies, as has been stated before.

So, unless Shenlong can separate different aspects of someone's personality into separate beings, then he cannot do such a thing for Kami and Piccolo. There's really no "bond" there, in the conventional sense. It's not as simple as "If one dies, the other dies, too."

Also, there's no such thing as Namekian "fission". The reason Piccolo ever existed in the first place is because he expelled the evil from his body. There's nothing Namekian about it, just magic/being a god. Boo does the same thing.
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