video | you hate time travel

[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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[4starsaviour]

Well, that just doesn't make sense. Do you remember everything from when you were older? [Odds seem pretty good that he's partially responsible for this. Still, Piccolo wished to be younger with the Dragon Balls, so it wouldn't be the first time that he's seen something like this.]

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[fourstars]

Sort of. I remember everything I did here... but nothing from back home.

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[4starsaviour]

...Um... So if I say "Pan", do you remember who that is? [She's undoubtedly been brought up here a few times, but Goku's not sure how that would work.]

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[fourstars]

I know who she is. But I don't know her.

[ Which is another can of worms he doesn't know how to deal with. ]

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[4starsaviour]

That's weird! Could be worse, but it ain't good, that's for sure.

Still, you got some memories of bein' older, so maybe there's a way to get the rest of 'em back?

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[fourstars]

... I'm not sure how much I want them back.

It's... strange. It feels less like I lived it, and more like I'm remembering something I wasn't there for.

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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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[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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[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".]

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[fourstars]

That's um... that's not really the same thing though...?

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[4starsaviour]

It ain't? Huh. It must've been a pretty big change for her, though, an' so's this!

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[fourstars]

I-I mean, you're not wrong? I'm sure Majin Buu was hard to adjust to, but... [ How the hell can Gohan explain this tactfully. ]

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[4starsaviour]

[Clearly, Gohan thinks this isn't the same thing, so he sees no point in arguing about it any further.] Oh well, it could've been worse. At least you didn't go back eleven or twelve years an' you didn't even know her!

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[fourstars]

[ Oh god. ]

I uh... I think it's good for everyone that I'm not eleven right now...

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[4starsaviour]

Yeah, probably! At least you don't have to worry 'bout it.

An' you're okay other than that, right?

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[fourstars]

Oh, yeah, I think so. I mean, I'd like to figure out just what exactly happened, but... I'm not hurt or anything, so that's good.

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[4starsaviour]

Whew, that's a relief! Master Roshi said that I hit my head really hard when I lost my memory, so that can't have been what happened to you.

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[fourstars]

Y-Yeah, um... I don't think time travel was involved with yours...

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[4starsaviour]

That's... wait, that reminds me - I did time travel not too long ago. Remember when the whole city was changing every few minutes? [Probably not, since the entire event was negated with time travel, but Goku can't exactly wrap his head around a concept like that.]

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[fourstars]

... No?