Weird thoughts about Dragon Ball FighterZ's story
So, it might be that I watched too much of the team four star lets play of the story mode and how much they talk about fetishes, but one thing that stands out to me is the Link System, and how it connects, possibly, to Dr. Gero's plans.
The Link System was, supposedly, made by Gero, to link a soul to a body, to control that body, including the bodies of his androids. In the game, it's treated mostly as an excuse for the player to feel involved, and to explain why only one character is controlled at a time. At the start of the game, the player's soul has complete control over Goku, its only by science from Bulma that Goku regains his own personality and will, leaving the player in control in gameplay.
All in all, if Gero had ever gotten the link system to work when he was alive, which apparently he couldn't, it would have solved a lot of the problems he had of his creations being willful and rebelling against him.
And, we already know that Gero eventually put his own brain in an android body, so him previously attempting to make an android and linking his soul to it, but then resorting to the brain transfer when that didn't work. Makes a kind of sense, to me anyway.
It even makes the details of Androids 16 and 21, blatant attempts to recreate his seemingly lost family members (although the story of FighterZ is weird with 21, at some points implying Gero's wife Vomi was turned into 21 like 17 and 18 but also that 21 is a bioandroid like Cell created 10 years ago) make a bit of sense, if he could link his son's soul to 16, his wife to 21, and himself to 20, they could all be a family again and live together forever.
What makes things. Weirder. Is where Cell fits in. Like, for starters, the timeline makes no damned sense, because Cell wasn't completed in the future timeline until Age 786, and the events of FighterZ take place during Super in Age 779. Although, when Cell emerged, those were in timelines with very different pasts than the "main" timeline. For starters, Cell didn't emerge in a timeline after Cell happened. And while Buu was always on Earth, the Buu Saga hadn't happened, and the indications of the Super Manga and other material is that Future Babidi didn't try to go after Buu in that timeline until after Trunks already killed Cell.
Cell was an abandoned project worked on by Gero's computer after he gave up, and while in the Cell Saga Trunks and Krillin destroy the computer and the larval Cell. If Gero had other labs and computers working on projects, it makes a kind of sense those would adapt to changing circumstances.
But what's weird about Cell, is that, if we factor in the Link System. Was Gero intending Cell to be his new body? Before he gave up and let his computer work on it?
And, worse, Evil 21 has a special transformation when she absorbs Cell, like how Cell absorbs 17 and 18. So, like.
Was Gero's endgame to put his soul in Cell, and then get vored by his wife?
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