Meet the Human Barbie GQNot so long ago, images of a young girl washed over the Internet. She was impossibly blonde and impossibly shaped, and surely it was all a masterly work of Photoshop. Right? Michael Idov travels to meet with Eastern Bloc Barbie herself and discovers that her world is far more bizarre and twisted than anything in the photos.

Per Barbie's instructions, I enter Kamasutra, a brightly lit Ukrainian version of an Indian restaurant. Imagine a blind date, with all the attendant "Does she look like her picture?" jitters, multiplied by the queasy fear that she does look like her picture. If you saw the pictures I saw, you would understand.

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You would know that meeting Valeria Lukyanova is the closest you will come to an alien encounter. Her improbable looks—the Margaret Keane peepers, the head quizzically cocked like a sunflower too heavy for its stem, the plasticky skin and wasp waist—reached the West when her self- shot home videos began drawing gawkers to You. Tube. The Western media were quick to dub her the "Human Barbie," but Valeria was hardly the first Homo sapiens to willingly make herself look like a doll—she wasn't even the first to earn the moniker: Some tabloid- damaged Brit laid claim to it a few years back. Still, where others had dabbled, she went for broke. However odd her own view of perfection, she appeared to have achieved it. Valeria wasn't in on the Barbie branding.

She preferred to call herself Amatue, a name she claimed had appeared to her in a dream. Most of the Amatue videos were intended to be some sort of transcendental self- help lectures. I'm not sure. Like everyone, I was staring too hard at her image on- screen to actually listen. Was she real—in the sense of existing in the three- dimensional world—or a Photoshop experiment run amok?

Well, Valeria exists, all right. She is seated in the back of the restaurant in her classic pose, preternaturally upright, head cocked. By her side sits sidekick Olga "Dominika" Oleynik, one of Lukyanova's several doll- like apostles. I walk through the restaurant, which is vaguely porny, like everything else in Odessa, and Barbie gets closer and realer with every step. Her brand- new hair extensions, the color of Chardonnay, hang straight down, reaching her nonexistent hips.

Her mouth is frozen in a vacant half- smile; the teeth are small and almost translucent. She's holding a handbag shaped like a lantern. A one- eyed smiling- skull pin perches on her sky blue top, pushed to the side by the veritable shelf of silicone around which her whole body seems arranged. In the flesh—the little of it that she hasn't whittled away with what she says is exercise and diet—Valeria looks almost exactly like Barbie. There might be some Loretta Lux- style postproduction to her photos, sure, but it's not crucial. This is live. This is happening."Hello," she says in Russian, remaining perfectly still.

Her mouth, like in a cheap cartoon, is the only part of her that moves. The eyes, the staring eyes, are the scariest. Part of what I'm seeing is an optical effect brought about by makeup (there is essentially an eye drawn around each eye), but even after I make the mental correction for it, Valeria's eyes remain chillingly large.

The Internet rumor mill claims she has had her eyelids trimmed to achieve this look, which seems unlikely and sounds nightmarish. Evolution has taught us to think of big eyes as beautiful—it's a so- called neotenous feature, implying youth—but tweak that delicate scale just a little and you've got a wraith, or an insect. A living Barbie is automatically an Uncanny Valley Girl. Her beauty, though I hesitate to use the term, is pitched at the exact precipice where the male gaze curdles in on itself. Her features are the features we men playfully ascribe to ideal women; it's how we draw them in manga and comics and video games. Except we don't expect them to comply with this oppressive fantasy so fully. As a result, she almost throws our idea of a supervixen back in our face.

For a while, I just look, which would normally be rude. Here, though, the act of looking feels like an experiment conducted on me. Am I supposed to be attracted, to be repulsed, or to ponder the sexism of that dichotomy? Compared with Valeria, Olga is just a human in a lot of makeup, no more or less augmented than any Miami Beach body, wearing some sort of purple Power Ranger outfit (self- designed, she later explains). I instantly understand why Valeria insists on having her around.

She seems to be there for scale, to subtly underscore Valeria's ethereality. We order food, in a manner of speaking. Kamasutra being an Indian restaurant, there are the usual three chutneys on the table—mint, tamarind, and chile. Valeria gets a carrot juice, then proceeds to upend all three chutneys into it, swirl the result with her straw, and drink. This gag- inducing mix, she explains, is her dinner; she is on an all- liquid diet these days. I don't quite know where to go from there, so I ask about her nails, which feature a complicated pointillist design of pink, lavender, and turquoise.

This is a fractal pattern from the twenty- first dimension," she explains matter- of- factly. It took the longest time for the nail artist to get it right. It came to me in a dream.""Just like your name, Amatue," I add."Yes."When seated across the table from a living Barbie and stuck for topics, by all means go for collegiate bullshit. But Amatue seems to be all about the Eastern philosophy of reincarnation," I say. And the beauty that you embody is very Western. American, even."Valeria grows pensive, which in her case means rolling her eyes slightly upward without changing anything else about her face.

I wouldn't say so. Everyone wants a slim figure. Everyone gets breasts done. Everyone fixes up their face if it's not ideal, you know? Everyone strives for the golden mean.

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It's global now.""But that's a relatively new thing," I reply. The ideal of beauty used to be different.""That's because of the race- mixing."If I had a glass of multi- chutney carrot- juice mix before me, I'd do a bright orange spit take."For example, a Russian marries an Armenian," Valeria elaborates helpfully. They have a kid, a cute girl, but she has her dad's nose. She goes and files it down a little, and it's all good. Ethnicities are mixing now, so there's degeneration, and it didn't used to be like that. Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1.

And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this. I love the Nordic image myself.

I have white skin; I am a Nordic type—perhaps a little Eastern Baltic, but closer to Nordic."I feel like checking my watch. We've gone from nails to eugenics in about two minutes flat. I realize that just like everyone reading about Human Barbie, I had had a simple narrative prepared in my head: A small- town girl grows up obsessed with dolls, etc. Instead, I get a racist space alien.

Valeria innocently daubs her face with powder. I have combination skin," she explains. I get shiny within twenty minutes indoors." In another minute, the last of her dinner goes up the plastic straw. The future Barbie was born nowhere near Malibu.

Valeria hails from Tiraspol, a gloomy city in Europe's poorest country, Moldova. Valeria remembers both her Siberian- born grandfather and her father as very strict and began to rebel at the usual age of 1. Stage one involved dyeing her hair, which is naturally a low- key shade of brown. Valeria went for the goth look first—about the farthest you could get from Barbie.

She wore all- black clothes to accentuate her very white skin. Kids at school began to tease her.

Look, a witch! At 1. She was dismissed from a school choir for standing bolt upright when the singers were instructed to sway; in different circumstances, this budding nonconformism could have brought her straight into Pussy Riot. Instead, she began modeling, small- time stuff, and learned to apply makeup and hair dye in increasingly theatrical ways.

Saiyan Dragon Ball Wiki. Saiyan. Diet. Omnivorous. Carnivorous (Great Apes)Saiyans (サイヤ人じん,Saiya- jin, lit. Saiya people") are a race of extraterrestrials in the anime and manga. Dragon Ball and its adaptive sequels, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Super. In the series, the Saiyans from Universe 7 are a naturally aggressive warrior race who were supposedly striving to be the strongest warriors in the universe, while the Saiyans from universe 6 are protectors. Nearly all of the Saiyans from Universe 7 were obliterated by Frieza before the start of the Dragon Ball series.

The Saiyans play a central role in the series once it is revealed that the protagonist, Goku, is actually a Saiyan sent to destroy Earth. Overview. Name. Main article: Origins of character names. The name is a pun on "Yajin", which means "wildman", and an anagram of yasai (野菜), which means "vegetable".

The suffix, - jin, means "person". Saiyan" is the English transliteration of Saiya- jin. In the Japanese, "Saiya- jin" is pronounced "Sigh- ya- jin", while in the English dubs, "Saiyan" is pronounced "Say- an". All full- blooded Saiyans (such as Raditz, Kakarot, Vegeta, Nappa, Paragus, Broly, or Bardock) have names that are a pun on various vegetables. Homeworld. From one of Akira Toriyama's memos, shows a bit of Planet Plant and the rocky homing areas used by the Saiyans. The homeworld of the Saiyans is Planet Sadala. The planet has a natural gravity that is ten times that of Earth, which helps give Saiyans a greater natural strength than most races.[1] In Universe 7, the Saiyans lived here but their planet gets destroyed by internal discord; in Universe 6, the planet still exists.

In Universe 7, Planet Plant is conquered by the Saiyans after the defeat of the Tuffles, and they renamed it "Planet Vegeta" after their most powerful warrior and ruler, King Vegeta. Saiyans' rocky home as seen in "Goku's Ancestors"At some point, Plant Vegeta was visited by Beerus, who ultimately deemed the Saiyans as a savage race with no chance of improving. He ultimately ordered Frieza to destroy the planet the entire Saiyan Race, who was of a similar mind set as he came to see the Saiyan race as potentially posing a threat to his tyranny. To which, the tyrant when to the planet and completely obliterated from space, taking all but 5 Saiyans (5 to 9 depending on which continuity is followed) with it. Military force. Main article: Saiyan Army. The Saiyans possessed a powerful military, the Saiyan Army (named only in the Funimation dub).

As of Age 7. 37, the Saiyan Army was under the command of Nappa (also stated only in the Funimation dub), who was its most powerful general.[2] The Saiyan Army was employed under the Galactic Frieza Army, in which the tyrant would use the Saiyan warriors to conquer planets for him. The army employs various ranks based on power levels: the only ranks mentioned in the series are "Elites" and "Low- Class", with the series creator Akira Toriyama confirming in an interview that there are also "Mid- Class" warriors; while almost all Saiyans are low- class warriors, there are only about ten mid- class warriors, and only King Vegeta and Prince Vegeta are elite warriors.[3] This rank is determined by an innate latent battle power, but if their battle power rises greatly afterward, they can be promoted.[3] The military force met its final destruction when Frieza committed his Genocide of the Saiyans, with the force's only survivors being Vegeta, Nappa, and Raditz. In Universe 6, the Saiyans try to protect the universe and get rid of evil- doers.

Because of this, they are known as Heroes of Justice. They also have their own elite unit in charge in protecting their home planet, called the Sadala Defense Forces. History. Universe 7. Origins. The Saiyans are a fighting race who, since ancient times, have lived a violent and inhumane lifestyle, where they attack numerous planets to build up wealth and goods.[4]Dragon Ball GT Perfect Files speculates that Saiyans were originally Great Apes who gained intelligence and took on a humanoid form.[5] The Original Super Saiyan appeared approximately 1,0. Ocean dub) prior to the Frieza Saga, approximately 2.

Before Age, and is described by Vegeta as a Super Saiyan who could only retain his status in the transformed state. He appears to have lost control and gave in to his destructive primitive desires, destroying himself with his own power.[6]The Saiyans arrival on Planet Plant, as seen in Dragon Ball GTA small group of Saiyans eventually found their way to Planet Plant in Age 5. Saiyans predating their conflict with the Tuffles was revealed in the anime, where it is discussed heavily during the Vegeta Saga, as well as in the OVA Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans. It is also a central theme in the Baby Saga of Dragon Ball GT. GT Perfect Files speculate the launching point of the Saiyan's spaceships as being the Saiyans' true homeland itself. During the Vegeta Saga of Dragon Ball Z, King Kai describes the Saiyans as a group of barbaric aliens who shared a planet with a race known as the Tuffles.

The Saiyans lived in the arid wastelands, while the Tuffles lived in great cities, employing advanced technology. Eventually the Saiyans attacked, vowing to conquer the Tuffle's great cities and extinguish the race. This sparked a ten year long war (described in greater detail below).[1]It is revealed in Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans that when the Saiyans arrived on Planet Plant, they were welcomed by the Tuffles. The Tuffle survivor, Dr. Raichi, then describes the horrors of the war in a similar fashion to the one King Kai tells.[7] However whilst explaining, Vegeta states the Tuffles used the Saiyan race as slaves. During the Baby Saga of Dragon Ball GT, Baby described the history of the Saiyans war with the Tuffles in a different manner.

He states that the Saiyans first arrived in mysterious space- pods and attacked the Tuffles in cold blood. He states they were led by Vegeta's father, and upon the rising of the full moon, the Saiyans assumed their Great Ape transformations, completely wiping out the Tuffle race in a single night.[8]War with the Tuffles. Main article: Saiyan- Tuffle war. A Great Ape levels a Tuffle city. King Kai explained the story of the Saiyan race to Goku during the Vegeta Saga. He explains that around Age 7.

The Saiyan Army tried many times to overthrow the Tuffles but were unsuccessful, sparking a ten- year conflict on the planet. Although the Saiyans were bigger in size and physically far superior, they were fewer in number compared to the Tuffles. The Tuffles had a trump card in the form of their technology to read the power levels of the Saiyans and advanced weaponry such as blasters to hold them off. Then, around Age 7. Saiyans were able to transform into Great Apes thanks to the full moon that only appeared once every 1. Watch Capone Online Fandango there. Tuffles and renamed the planet Planet Vegeta after their commanding hero, King Vegeta.

At one point, a Super Saiyan God appeared on Planet Vegeta to stop bad Saiyans, but he failed because of the form's time limit.[9]Meeting other races. The Saiyans and the "Arcosians" meet. King Kai goes on to explain that after their victory over the Tuffles, the Saiyans were approached by the Arcosians. These aliens had money and technology, but their planet was unsuitable, so they hired a group of Saiyans to take over a planet for them; in return, they would share their technology with them. Over the years, the Saiyans also learned how to use the Tuffles' advanced equipment and became smarter and less barbaric, although they still lusted for fighting and destruction. Occupation by Frieza. Main articles: Kanassan war, Invasion of Planet Meat, and Genocide of the Saiyans.

A Saiyan attacking a planet. In Universe 7, around Age 7. Saiyan victory over the Tuffles, the planet was conquered or annexed by Frieza's empire and the Saiyans (like many other races) were drafted to serve as soldiers in Frieza's military under the Galactic Frieza Army.[1.