My Favorite Villain Relapse

I look at this in awe...

I will not get a sympathetic ear here, nor will I get an agreement.

But in my opinion this right here is something that I cannot get out of my head. I know that no villain in MLP has the same level of violent impact and sheer menace that Vegeta had when he first arrived on screen in the 80's and in the 90's in the US.

Many here would call him a one dimaensional villain that cared about nothing but to caus eharm for harms sake...

But I see in him a child soldier that grew up still serving the same master, deprived of his home and people watching as all that he knew to be dear was taken away. And he was forced to bid his time to wait until he had the power to take revenge on the very man that took EVERYTHING from him. (That being Lord Frieza.)

Vegeta might have come from a brutal Imperialist society that conquered without mercy, and already trained their children to kill from the moment they draw breath. But in the end this very people were conquered by a society that was worse only by the fact that they did not even have empathy towards their own... The Frieza Force. (Toriyama actually based Frieza on the unscrupulous Real-State Investors of his youth.)

So I see Vegeta and while I know that his early beliefs are wrong, I can't help but admire him.

The reason for this will be seen as offensive to my fellow United States citizen's. But it is because I am Puerto Rican, a man born in an island territory in the Caribbean that belonged to Spain for hundreds of years, and after the Spanish American War belonged to the Unites States. While the U.S. were better, kinder masters to us, at the same time they got more money and opportunity out of us than the old Spanish Empire ever did and all we got where (I admit still pretty hefty but insignificant in comparison) table scraps.

My family lived for generations waiting for the time that people would want true freedom. Only to be disappointed and realize that what Puerto Rico has become.... it does not deserve to be free. (And no, I am not a communist.)

In many ways I am like a Hispanic Huey Freeman. As Huey from the Boondocks is very much critical of the most idiotic attitudes of African-American culture, and blames his own fellows just as much as the white yuppies, Bankers, and 10%ers for his fellows lot in life.

In the end I might have diverged but the point is that in many ways I understand where Vegeta came from with his horrible actions. His ego born from a longing for something that only existed as a dream, his anger at being incapable of obtaining it no mater how much I work and strive.

I get that.

And in a way that is why I loved that moment so much. Precisely because I know what it's like to want to let go and want to do the worst in return that I get to grasp at my dreams again, dreams of either of freedom for my people, or more selfishly in my mind for a chance to be an Astronaut and see the stars, and become the first man on Mars.

Both of the dreams I talked about before here are dead.

In all I want now is to simply write about all the incredible things both horrible beyond imagination and great beyond my wildest aspirations.

In all I want to live in the dreams of my ink and paper and to tell all through the internet these dreams and these nightmares.

To be free if only in my mind.

That is all I want.

And if I can scrape a living through it? Well that would be nice.