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[fourstars]

WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!

[ The feed comes on to show Gohan's face. Looking younger than he did before, although that absolutely shouldn't distract from his completely bewildered expression. ]

Y-You know, I'm pretty used to a lot of things... but having memories of being older that are still somehow in the past?! That might actually be a first for me, believe it or not!


(ooc: using the time ripple event to age him back down to being a teenager, but i'm having the time trapper give him his legion memories back. tl;dr: he's eighteen again, permanently, but remembers being older. oh, and uh, pretend this is after the plots, obviously.)

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[notwithoutafight]

WHAT HAPPENED? WHY AM I A KID AGAIN?

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[fourstars]

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I'M ASKING!

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[4starsaviour]

Guess that makes it easier. I know I wouldn't be much help for gettin' memories back! [He's pretty good at losing them, though.] Won't that make things weird with Videl, though? [Given how Chi-Chi already reacts to his absurdly youthful appearance, he knows that she'd find it frustrating if Goku suddenly lost ten years, and that's all he has to go on.]

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[marryonette]

Well... I remember thinking you were handsome!

You still are, so it's not much of a difference... -Saiyan's don't exactly age dramatically, Gohan.-

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[fourstars]

[ Honestly the worst part about this is that he can't really fault anyone for him not looking very different. ]

Okay, um... so, I'm eighteen now. Except I still remember being twenty-eight.

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[marryonette]

Did you... hit your head really hard, Mr. Gohan?

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[fourstars]

[ Kill him. ]

No. I did not hit my head.

I know there's not a lot that's different, but I know what I look like as a teenager versus an adult.

And I am definitely not an adult right now.

[mercurypowermakeup]

Memories of being older in the past...but now you're younger....

[She's thinking hard on this. How in the heck is that supposed to happen. You can see the gears turning in her mind.]

That almost doesn't seem possible, but this place seems to have the impossible happen quite often, judging by all of us here.

[prettycoolguy]

Then it sounds like the Trapper, not a medical concern.

[ Be relieved, Gohan. Even though Chief's the one bringing it up.]

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[araignee_du_soir]

That certainly is odd. Perhaps you can still mine a few gems from those memories.

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[fourstars]

There's... at least two things I know I need to check into, if I'm remembering this right.

I need to read up on the book of magic again, since I remember being in charge of that. And I need to... um...

[ Oh god. He and Videl are married in this universe. ]

... Check in on my... w-wife...??

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[fourstars]

Y-Yeah... it will. [ Not just because they were married back home, but because they're married here. After Illum. ]

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[araignee_du_soir]

Oui, you have one of those. I suggest having chocolate and a nice bottle of red wine on hand when you tell her you do not recall your wedding night.

[fourstars]

[ That's completely relative, lbr. ]

I-I'm... not sure that's reassuring...

[fourstars]

I mean, it's theoretically possible. Even if the events are from different points in time, so long as they follow some kind of sequence, it's still technically linear...

... But this was not how I wanted that sort of thing confirmed.

[ He pauses for a moment. ]

... Actually. I think that's it. I don't remember the original sequence, but I remember the current one.

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[fourstars]

[ That brief moment when he wonders if Videl aged down with him, or is still older. ]

... I'm gonna need more than that.

[prettycoolguy]

Isn't it?

[ They've ruled out a possibility! Isn't that great? ]

[fourstars]

I'm not sure how this would affect my memories going back home. It's already affected what I remember from home, so how else would it affect me? How does the Trapper decide what I should keep? Why don't I get a say in that?

... These are a lot of questions that won't get answers. And it's not very reassuring.

[prettycoolguy]

If you retain memories of the future, that's an advantage.

[ This is an upside, see? ]

[fourstars]

They're second-hand though. And it's still technically the past in this universe.

And I'm still not in control of what I keep.

[prettycoolguy]

I think this is going to be a problem you can't solve until we're done here.

[fourstars]

That sounds about right...

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[notwithoutafight]

YOU'RE YOUNGER TOO!

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[notwithoutafight]

Wait a sec...

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[4starsaviour]

Hm... I'm sure you guys'll be able to handle it, though. She got used to Buu, after all! [Though these are very different types of "weird".]