A different baby
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To protect her identity (and her future existence) in her time travel mission, Trunks presents as a man to the gang, in hopes of changing the future for the better. She ends up staying in the past a little longer after warning the gang and giving Goku the heart medicine, in order to make a wish to Shenron.
Addresses canon plotholes and then deviates little by little...
No gender dysphoria (but a lot of confused people). Whole lot of introspection. No one is omniscient.
(Trunks isn't trans, at best she "doesn't identify"; not a ship fic)Concrit is ok!
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- Part 1 of A different baby
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After her first trip to the past, the Machine has recharged and Trunks is ready to go back to help the gang with the Cyborgs she warned them against. Goku is out of commission because he came down with the virus the day of the first attack, there's two (three?) extra Cyborgs... and Trunks' existence in this timeline doesn't match her own circumstances.
What's more, another Time Machine is found. Has another Trunks traveled to this world?Addresses canon plot holes, the original timeline, slow burn of "discovering information", sense of belonging and a whole lot of precious kid Gohan.
(this was edited and completed in February 2023, errors were noticeable enough to warrant a date update)
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- Part 2 of A different baby
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The other Time Machine has been discovered and Cell has appeared coming from yet another era. The monster has started his carnage!
How will our heroes and (still secretly female) Trunks deal with the situation as well as the Cyborgs still on the hunt for a bedridden Son Goku?Addresses canon plot holes, the original timeline, slow burn of "discovering information", sense of belonging (or not!), mistrust and secrets, complex metaphysics and multiverse theories, and a whole lot of precious kid Gohan.
(this part roughly covers the Imperfect and Perfect Cell arcs of the manga, aka from the merging of Piccolo and Kami to the Cell Games)Series
- Part 3 of A different baby
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Cell has been defeated, but not without a hefty price and not without consequences.
The fallout slowly creeps on the gang as Trunks' departure becomes a tangible reality, now the main threat has been dealt with.
Trunks, still hiding her gender from the gang, now faces the uncomfortable truth that the two Cyborgs she'd grown to hate since birth are not bad people. At least not the ones in 767. Not only that, her mission will not be over until she claims complete victory.
Multiple futures are waiting, for them all to find purpose.Series
- Part 4 of A different baby
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After freeing her world from the Cyborgs and killing Cell before he even had a chance to hatch, Trunks finds herself back to the universe she once helped and thought she would never go back to. With her mother, nonetheless.
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- Part 5 of A different baby