I really don't want this to become the "derail and dump on Aaron" thread, but I had a lightbulb pop up this morning.
What exactly is meant by "did nothing but train for 3 years?" Is that during off-time, or like, full on "I spend sun-up to sun down perfecting my art" kind of stuff? I only ask because that brings up the other relevant questions pertaining to the setting: How did Aaron live for those 3 years? Training doesn't pay bills or buy food. Nutrition is a huge, huge part of fitness and if he was starving that would have impacted his ability to train himself. Conversely, if he was holding down a job, that would put his training by the wayside for, you know, surviving.
The Calamity was 5-7 years ago, and wiki says Aaron is 23. So he was 16-18 when the world got blowed up, and went through an intense rebuilding stage. I'm legitimately curious as to how all of the timing shakes out (or if it doesn't, because fitting backstory into a fluid, partially-retconned official timeline makes for a headache). Did Aaron skip out on the laborious process of helping to rebuild his home and/or world in favor of learning how to fight? He's also a fairly well-adjusted, albeit apathetic, human being, which means he wasn't secluded in a forest or something Gohan-style trying to learn his way.
This isn't meant as an EXPLAIN YOURSELF kind of question or post, but it got me thinking about my own characters and their methods, too. Off-screening stuff is a tried and true practice to explain how we know things, but I never really considered how feasible it might've been. It's given me a lot of food for thought.
What exactly is meant by "did nothing but train for 3 years?" Is that during off-time, or like, full on "I spend sun-up to sun down perfecting my art" kind of stuff? I only ask because that brings up the other relevant questions pertaining to the setting: How did Aaron live for those 3 years? Training doesn't pay bills or buy food. Nutrition is a huge, huge part of fitness and if he was starving that would have impacted his ability to train himself. Conversely, if he was holding down a job, that would put his training by the wayside for, you know, surviving.
The Calamity was 5-7 years ago, and wiki says Aaron is 23. So he was 16-18 when the world got blowed up, and went through an intense rebuilding stage. I'm legitimately curious as to how all of the timing shakes out (or if it doesn't, because fitting backstory into a fluid, partially-retconned official timeline makes for a headache). Did Aaron skip out on the laborious process of helping to rebuild his home and/or world in favor of learning how to fight? He's also a fairly well-adjusted, albeit apathetic, human being, which means he wasn't secluded in a forest or something Gohan-style trying to learn his way.
This isn't meant as an EXPLAIN YOURSELF kind of question or post, but it got me thinking about my own characters and their methods, too. Off-screening stuff is a tried and true practice to explain how we know things, but I never really considered how feasible it might've been. It's given me a lot of food for thought.
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