Saiyajin Subspecies [Yabanverse]
A basic rundown of the Getabaru and Yaban subspecies of Saiyan. Special thanks to Salvamakoto for this!
Yabans were originally just a sub-clan of overly violent outcasts back in 2016, but then I made them into their own species as "Legally-Not-Saiyans" in late 2017, developing them extensively in their own verse for years until January 2023, when I decided to make them Saiyans again, now as a separate, bioengineered subspecies of the 'Getaba' or 'Getabaru' clan, aka the one we're well and truly familiar with
As such, I don't see them in the same vein as, say, @bahnloopi's species of Sento Saiyans (who would be a fully separate, but natural species of Saiyanthropus if they were in the Yabanverse). Yabans were envisioned more as a "return" to the depiction of Saiyans as barely-above-demoniac kung fu space monkeys, though filtered more heavily through typical wuxia depictions of demons and apparitions, hence their moniker "Demonoids".... though "demonoids" also plays off the sheer boyish 80s machismo. The Yabans, and much of the Yabanverse in Universe 23, is an excuse to indulge in that sort of 80s-ness in various ways.
Of course now that Yabans are part of a DBZ AU worldbuilding project proper again, the question becomes "how do I differentiate them from the Getabaru-Saiyans?" Back when the Yabanverse was an OC work, their genetic engineering was to explain why they were so much like Saiyans.
As such, generally I just use said engineering as an excuse for whenever I need the Kollidorians to be different from the Vegetans.
Obviously the most prominent difference being the bollois— the other inciting reason for the Yabanverse was the thrill of creating such overly macho female characters that are self-justified in universe. After all, we've accepted that both male and female Saiyans were strong-willed warriors, and Saiyan men prefer their women strong-willed and aggressive— and proceeded to never see any actual evidence of this, to the point you could count the total number of pureblood female Saiyans on one hand. Once I had bollois, I may have gone too far in some places...
Probably my favorite fun fact about Yabans though is why they're called Yabans.
I originally intended for "Yaban" to stem from the Japanese word for "savage/barbarian" which was the case throughout 2018.
But around late 2018 or so, I decided to not be such a weeaboo and went with another language, deciding upon Turkish since, at least at that time, I was drawing inspiration from a lot of central and northeast Asian culture and designs for Yabans (before eventually generalizing it and turning them into their own thing)And lo and behold, when I looked up the Turkish word for "wild"
Sometimes, the universe is trying to tell you something— and when it does, you really ought to listen.
