Comment on Messin' With Time by TemBrook
Bulma wanted a hot boytoy actually. It was Yamcha that wanted true love
She wanted "the perfect boyfriend" though I imagine with making such a wish your wording is very important to getting what you want. You may want the perfect boyfriend, but ask for "true love" thinking they are the same thing. They clearly aren't, haha.
Its also translated as "Hot boyfriend", we saw Bulma was pretty fickle and not all in interested in a truely serious relationship at that point
Well yeah, what she wanted was obviously fickle.
How she may have worded it to the dragon is a completely different story.
As far as she thinks, IMO, a "hot boyfriend" or "perfect boyfriend" is basically her true love. Let's face it, if she were looking for less would she really need to go collect the dragonballs? She's after forever, but her only requirement so far is that he's gotta be hot-damn-diggity, because like you said she's pretty shallow at this point. So if she asked for her true love, man she would be in for a surprise.
It's like if you wished to be married to someone. That would happen, but you didn't cover what you may have really wanted, like an actual loving relationship. Your husband/wife may cheat on you constantly or divorce you right away, ya know?
Or in this case, blow up the planet.
Not that I believe in "true loves" in da real world, but what's canon is canon.
As she wasn't wishing for true love, its more likely she would've just gotten a random hot guy that fit her desires at the time.
The real life reason for that hookup was to create Trunks as you can probably guess.
Author intent =/= Character's motivation
I don't get why you need to emphasize that she probably would not have worded her wish that way. This scenario also relies on her never meeting Yamcha, Oolong, Pilaf, etc. Those are way bigger divergences from canon that her wording her wish to ask for her "true love"
She could have also said "give me the perfect man" "give me the perfect boyfriend" "give me the best man for me" etc with many different possible results. Hell, there are probably scenarios where she gets Goku, or like Mr. Satan or something haha.
We'll never know, because she never did directly give her wish to the dragon balls.
I've seen this plot before many times in fanfictions, and its never been good.
I think it would be pretty hilarious with Hercule, but yeah, amen to that statement.
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