Well it's not A story but a series of stories.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/41329 ... iss-savage
https://www.deviantart.com/yuli-ban/art ... -910139287
What is the Yabanverse? It's a worldbuilding project that's like DBZ meets Warhammer 40k, with a slice of life story on the side (except that SoL story is the main attraction as of this point).
In a nutshell, it's a project I've been tinkering on for about half a decade now, formally since 2017. It was born out of a Dragon Ball Z slice of life fanfiction concept I toyed with for a few months where I asked a simple question: "what if a Saiyan actually came to Earth? And I mean our Earth?" I intended on that being a pretty simple story that would inevitably fade into the dark sides of my mind over time, but it really caught me when I started seriously exploring it more and more and realized a few curious truths emerged. For example, if this person is the only such person to exist on Earth— i.e. no Goku, no Superman, no one else but them— then we as Earthlings are essentially bound to their will. And this has extreme consequences far beyond what I initially thought. In fact, the questions spread beyond my scope and became downright philosophical and pseudo-mythological in nature. Fun!
I also began becoming obsessed with the idea of lore and worldbuilding and VERY quickly realized that I'd have far more fun if I stole the Saiyans out of Dragon Ball and made my own version where I'd have free reign to do as I pleased. Sometime very late in 2017, I formalized that idea and created Yabans.
Yabans are Legally-Not-Saiyans. I'm not going to mince words or even attempt to pretend otherwise. There's no copyright law on the planet that's going to let me get away with this:
It's blossomed a little bit, and I figured that I had to start writing it sooner or later.So...
This thing.
I've been on-off working on this project for several years now but only committed to it about a year ago, right as the pandemic really started.
It's not a comic or anything, more a webnovel/webserial.
After all that time doing things like coming up with characters and plots and lore and backstory, I figured "why not just write the damn thing?" The answer being that it was too fun worldbuilding and imagining things, but I have to actually start work on it some day.
So I made it my intention to start writing this thing, starting today in fact, and to start publishing it as a serial over on RoyalRoad and maybe some other sites starting March 16th. It's just a fun story I'm doing more as a hobby, not anything commercial, as you will obviously see.
The gist of the story is that an ultra-powerful monkey-tailed girl who goes by the name "Sol Yulaan" winds up in the possession of an eccentric man on Earth with various conditions, such as that she is not allowed to kill willy nilly and must respect the sovereignty of Earthlings. The man, a weird young lad named Vicente Xaxalpa, is already living an unusual life close to the periphery of the mainstream, being a murkily-legal underground doctor and self-professed lover of the unknown and mythological despite their fleeting existence. In his life skews a few different paths: one being a somewhat lightweight narco story due to him occasionally involving himself in a particular cartel's business due to his line of work (not that they're his only client; just his least legal) that's really just an excuse to get a use of grindhouse tropes; another being what I hesitate to call "a cast of characters from a kid's show" consisting of his younger cousin and his motley crew of friends that he often has to deal with; and the third being his personal rondo of friends.
Or to put it another way, a Thermonuclear Klingon appears on Earth. A shady, eccentric young man is forced to own her. Hijinks ensue.
One fun side aspect about this is just the silly fact I realized about superhero movies and anime: if these superhumans ever seriously did anything wrong, who would put them in their place?
There is nothing humans can do about Yulaan, no matter what she does.
The same thing could be lobbied at any of the usual capeshit movies from Marvel or DC. Superhumans regularly destroy cities and kill thousands, but the most in terms of side effects that's ever raised is "insurance companies and property rates and occasionally citizens getting fed up." There's probably going to be an MCU or DCU movie in the near future about common citizens revolting against superheroes for casually causing such havoc, and the fact average people can't compare to superhumans, mutants, or aliens will be a missed point.
If a superhuman with the ability to destroy even just a city appeared on Earth right now, and even nuclear weapons could not affect them, human civilization would be fucked— and not for any dastardly plot involving them either.
Human civilization is built around the unstated fact that all humans are equivalent creatures. It doesn't matter the delusions of the traditionalists that some men are better than others— no king is going to survive getting hit by a speeding car. The strongest man who ever lived would not survive a beating from three other people ganging up on him if he was unprepared. The most powerful man who ever lived only had social power; a single gunshot, knife shivving, or poison dart would kill him all the same as the lowliest peasant. No man can fly without technology. No man can punch down a building. No man can run faster than a cheetah. We're all fairly limited apes.
If a superhuman really appeared, all of that goes to shit. We have no contingencies to deal with someone genuinely qualitatively superior to ourselves. If you could destroy a country just by shooting a Hadōken at it and wipe out a whole army with your bare fists, the last thing any Earthly power would do is oppose you. Indeed, most people would reject their governments and idols and give reverence to you, and right there you start seeing the breakdown of society. If you can outthink us a billion times over, how do we counter you? How do we plan against you? We can't, and it's foolish to even try to come up with scenarios where we could. We're like ants trying to fathom a human. If a human kills a ant , do the ant put that human into ant jail? No, they just have to deal with it. No legal framework can possibly exist to handle Yulaan, and to make things maximally hard, there's no one we can call either. Yulaan's the only one. No Goku, no Superman, no Thor, no one. It's just us and our contemporary world with this otherworldly being, and we just have to hope her values are aligned with ours to survive.
Gee. What does that sound like?
Yep. Somehow I even managed to turn a bizarro slice-of-life wuxia-tinged story about ̶m̶y̶ ̶X̶e̶n̶o̶v̶e̶r̶s̶e̶ ̶w̶a̶i̶f̶u̶ a Saiyan ripoff into a mild allegory of the Singularity
Thankfully for Earth, Yulaan isn't some spoiled bratty teenager but instead some esoteric shadowy barbarian with a high level of self-control. To start with, at least...