New Year's Resolutions from Dragon Ball Universe!

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Resolution Thirteen: Seventeen (no pun intended)

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After all these years of purposely avoiding contact with my sister, I think it's finally time for me to formally meet her again. That's the only new year's resolution that I consider to be worth my time.

Sure, I've learned a few things about her life over the years through being inconspicuous. After all, that bastard Gero unintentionally enabled me to be a master spy, as no one, not even the most capable people on this planet, can sense me.

I ain't a stalker, and let's be clear about that. I've just been watching over her, making sure she's safe. Now that I feel the time is right, I'll let her know for sure that I'm still here.

As a result of the information I've gathered over the years, I know that Eighteen and I supposedly went batshit insane in Trunks' timeline and started killing everybody because we were displeased that Goku was already dead by the time we permanently left Gero's laboratory. In our own timeline, however, Goku was still alive after we left, and the game to find him still seemed fun. We truly only wanted to kill Goku, and we could have killed all the Z-Fighters had we felt the urge to do that. But in this timeline, we were much more generous with their lives, and in the end, this paid off through Cell's defeat.

It amazes me how my sister and I, all because of events totally out of control, got the chance to change our lives and be the people we should be, rather than the absolute monsters we were brainwashed into becoming in other streams of time.

I have Trunks to thank, and I hope he will never have to fight Majin Buu all by himself. Yes, it's true that I know a wish was made to cleanse Buu from the memories of most of the people of Earth, but I'm no ordinary human, after all, and my memories of Earth's untimely destruction, especially because of my foolish decision to not join the fight against Buu, fill me with regret. Still, I have to wonder, as Trunks' timeline seemed to have been spared from having to deal with Buu at around the time our timeline did, exactly why this could be.

On another note, I was a bit shocked that of all the people Eighteen decided to marry, Krillin was the lucky guy. Dr. Gero's data indicated that Krillin is a nerd, but even so, he must have done something to win her over.

She didn't fall for that faithless ladies' man Yamcha.

She didn't fall for the otherwise loyal and stoic Tien.

And she didn't fall for the donut-loving Yajirobe.

Krillin is the one for her, it seems. Maybe, after all the emotional hardship she's been through, Krillin's lightheartedness and caring nature seems naturally attractive to her.

Women are difficult to understand, especially women who are cybernetic.

But yes, now would be a good time to enter her life again. I know I've been on her mind, and now that the Earth has been safe from Buu for a while, I think it's time to see her.

Truth be told, I kept away from her for so long because I wanted her to be able to live her own life of happiness, free from the painful memories of having me around as a constant reminder of all the horrible things that had happened to her because of Dr. Gero. I didn't want her to be constantly reminded that she is an android, and I wanted her to feel as she truly is, … a human being.

And there's one development of her life, in particular, that certainly made her feel that way.

While I might have been a ruthless renegade many years ago, I'm looking forward to truly being an awesome uncle.

Have a joyous new year,

Seventeen

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