Thread by @Herms98

Age 764: after some debate, Our Heroes decide not to use their foreknowledge to stop Gero from making his killer androids, because where’s the fun in that? Instead, they begin a three year crash training course. #HistoryofEver

Since getting teleported to Earth from Namek, Vegeta has been freeloading at Capsule Corp, relying on them for room and board, plus advanced training equipment. But his presence there threatens to break up a long-standing relationship…

Bikini isn’t the only one charmed by Vegeta’s distinctive forehead. It seems love might be blooming in Bulma’s brain too. After all, Yamcha hasn’t always been faithful. Or at least that’s what she says…

(Vegeta actually just says that Bulma is interfering with his training, but evidently when working on the Funi Simmons misheardトレーニング/torēningu as 奴隷人間/dorei ningen, “slave human”)

So yeah…according to Trunks, Bulma dumped Yamcha for infidelity. She’s been jealous of his popularity with other girls since the Red Ribbon arc, so this seems to fit…but of course Trunks never got to hear Yamcha’s side of things.

Bulma suggests taking down Gero now rather than waiting 3 years, but Goku thinks it’d be wrong to do so before Gero makes his killer androids. Never mind that Gero was already making androids (and presumably doing other bad stuff) all the way back in the RR days…

Still, apparently we’re meant to believe that Gero hasn’t made the two androids Trunks warned about yet. So, sometime in the next three years Gero will stumble upon a pair of delinquent twin siblings named Lapis and Lazuli. kanzenshuu.com/translations/d…

Their original names are of course never mentioned in the original series (or Super so far), but Toriyama spilled the beans in one of his Full Color Q&As. This same Q&A is the original source for 17’s post-Cell career as a park ranger. kanzenshuu.com/translations/d…

Having shelved his attempt to make a robotic duplicate of his dead son, Gero now uses Lapis and Lazuli for his 17th and 18th forays into the androids arts, restructuring them through mainly organic means, with only a few small mechanical parts. But he doesn’t ask permission first

Gero figured converting people who were already evil into killer androids would prevent further pacifist duds like No.8, but shockingly 17+18 don’t listen to his orders either. So he returns to purely mechanical models, using an old doll for inspiration… kanzenshuu.com/translations/d…

17 and 18’s relationship is clarified after the Cell Games, when 18 reveals they are twin siblings. The kanji used here indicate that 18 is the older sister and 17 the younger brother.

Tomorrow: let’s go camping!