VegeKaka Chair Scene by Maetel — Mature Old Web DBZ BL Archive

This restored Maetel archive piece captures the raw, unfiltered energy of early VegeKaka fandom at its most direct. There is no modern softness here, no polished distance, no attempt to make Saiyan intimacy look gentle or easily explained. Everything in the image feels immediate: the posture, the grip, the closeness, the physical insistence of two warriors who never learned how to separate rivalry from desire. Vegeta’s focus makes the dynamic unmistakably his, while Goku’s reaction carries that same overwhelming force he brings to combat, training, and every emotion he experiences with his whole body.

What makes the piece feel especially “old web” is that fearless lack of mediation. Maetel-era DBZ BL often refused subtlety in the best possible way: it trusted power, tension, and instinct to tell the story without apology. Even in a private moment, the balance between them never becomes simple. It stays stubborn, physical, proud, and unmistakably Saiyan. That is what gives the image its historical charm. It is not trying to be elegant. It is trying to be honest about what early fandom saw in Goku and Vegeta: two men whose rivalry was always one step away from becoming something more intimate, more volatile, and more impossible to ignore.

Do you read this piece as pure old-school VegeKaka intensity, or as one of those rare archive fragments where early DBZ BL fandom shows exactly how openly it understood Saiyan rivalry from the very beginning?

Lord Truhan — Saiyan BL Archive curator
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