Unthinking, Videl gripped Gohan's shirt as the argument unfolded about whether or not the young Gohan should face Cell.
We couldn't hear any of this on TV, she mentioned, too absorbed in what was going on to say more.
She could feel her husband grow tense as they spectated and her grip on his shirt tightened, trying to anchor him to reality alongside her rather than slipping too deep into his troubled past.
She pursed her lips, listening silently to the argument, a flame of frustration flickering to life in the pit of her stomach. This was how it happened, how Gohan ended up facing Cell? Yes, Gohan had told her that he went up against Cell because of Goku, but Videl hadn't realized it went like this: with Goku pushing his son into a life-or-death fight with the entire world at stake because Gohan had the physical strength and without regard for what Gohan wanted.
As her husband spoke, Videl realized that she had made the same assessment as he had back when this happened; it didn't seem right that her father in law was weaker than his son in this moment. That fact ran counter to the norm of their lives, the norm of the past ten years they had spent together. Videl knew that Gohan had a deep wellspring of power with no fathomable limit, but he never displayed that power the way Goku did. In the (more or less) peaceful life Videl lived with her husband, it was easy to forget exactly how strong Gohan was, and a part of her was ashamed to realize that.
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We couldn't hear any of this on TV, she mentioned, too absorbed in what was going on to say more.
She could feel her husband grow tense as they spectated and her grip on his shirt tightened, trying to anchor him to reality alongside her rather than slipping too deep into his troubled past.
She pursed her lips, listening silently to the argument, a flame of frustration flickering to life in the pit of her stomach. This was how it happened, how Gohan ended up facing Cell? Yes, Gohan had told her that he went up against Cell because of Goku, but Videl hadn't realized it went like this: with Goku pushing his son into a life-or-death fight with the entire world at stake because Gohan had the physical strength and without regard for what Gohan wanted.
As her husband spoke, Videl realized that she had made the same assessment as he had back when this happened; it didn't seem right that her father in law was weaker than his son in this moment. That fact ran counter to the norm of their lives, the norm of the past ten years they had spent together. Videl knew that Gohan had a deep wellspring of power with no fathomable limit, but he never displayed that power the way Goku did. In the (more or less) peaceful life Videl lived with her husband, it was easy to forget exactly how strong Gohan was, and a part of her was ashamed to realize that.