Dragon Ball - Kakarot
Kakarot was never found by a kind old man. He never became Goku. Plucked from his planet's destruction, he was raised by the last ruthless remnants of his race: his resentful brother, Raditz, and the merciless Prince Vegeta.
Forged in the crucible of pure Saiyan ideology—where conquest is purpose, weakness is sin, and loyalty is a leash held by the galactic tyrant Frieza—Kakarot's innate power is warping into something terrifying. This is the story of the monster the universe truly feared: a Saiyan raised as a Saiyan.
From a shrieking, destructive infant biting off scouters to a warrior of cold, brutal efficiency, Kakarot learns his lessons not through kindness, but through humiliation, violence, and the searing pain of Vegeta's wrath. Every mission is a bloody testament to his growing power and diminishing humanity, a balancing act between proving his worth to his disdainful brethren and quenching his own thirst for vengeance.
But in Frieza's empire, even monsters are just tools. And tools that break, or dare to dream of being more, are discarded into the cold void of space.
This is a dark reimagining of a legend: what if the most powerful Saiyan was never taught to hold back? The climb to power is paved with broken bodies, shattered pride, and the blood of countless worlds.