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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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[marryonette]

Oh wow...

Wait what?! None of what you just said makes sense! -Break it down for her, Professor.-

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[fourstars]

[ He sighs, because man he's gonna need to calm down before he can offer a rational explanation. ]

You remember me looking older, right?

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[araignee_du_soir]

Calm yourself, Gohan.

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[fourstars]

Given the circumstances, I'm pretty calm!

[ He is not. ]

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[araignee_du_soir]

I disagree. Your emotions make you vulnerable. Pause and take a deep breath. In through the nose, out through the mouth. Repeat until you are calm.

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[fourstars]

[ As frustrated as he looks, he does at least follow her instructions. Taking three slow, deep breaths... ]

Okay. Okay, I think I'm fine now...

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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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[araignee_du_soir]

[It was times like this that Widowmaker's unemotional steadiness came in handy.]

Better. Now, explain what is wrong in less than ten words. [It'll make him think before talking.]

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[fourstars]

[ Thankfully, he's plenty used to having to explain things to his father, so that part's not hard: ]

I'm eighteen. Except I remember being twenty-eight.

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[fourstars]

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

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[araignee_du_soir]

You do appear younger than when I last saw you. [She gave a dismissive gesture.] Time is a strange thing.

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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 mean, I already suspected that time wasn't exactly linear, but I didn't really mean to prove it like this...

[video]

[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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[araignee_du_soir]

C'est la vie. Think of this as a boon; you will already know the pitfalls of early adulthood and how best to avoid... stupidity.

[kingtyrantranger]

Were you messing with your dragon's balls again?

[prettycoolguy]

Is anything else different?

[ This smells like a Time Trapper shenanigan and the Chief's going to try and figure that out. ]

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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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[notwithoutafight]

[ Well, so much for all that nice sleep she was getting. ]

What're you yelling about? [ Videl rubs her eyes blearily. She didn't quite catch his exact words, just his yelling. ]

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[fourstars]

Actually, that's the thing. I don't remember anything from home.

[ A pause. ]

From the future. From when I'm older. I only remember when I was older here.

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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.

[fourstars]

Oh, no, I haven't touched the dragon balls lately.

[ Swing and a miss. ]

[fourstars]

I mean, that's... pretty much it. I remember being older, but only being older here. Not home.

[video]

[fourstars]

Videl, look in a mirror.

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[notwithoutafight]

[ Videl drags herself out of bed and checks a mirror. ]

[ And shrieks. ]