[Gohan can tell the pain his other self was feeling. He can tell because he understands what he'd been through, the pain of losing everyone and everything and yet still trying to cling to hope, that a brighter future was out there.
They always say you should try putting yourself in the other person's shoes. That's pretty easy when that other person is just him from another era. He knows exactly how he'd react in that same situation. It's part of why he'd so readily did everything in his power to see Future Trunks' plan through and save his present from becoming that future.
He offers him a grin, a sympathetic one.]
Well, the apple didn't exactly fall far from the tree, you know.
[He knows he's his father's child in the ways it matters most.]
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They always say you should try putting yourself in the other person's shoes. That's pretty easy when that other person is just him from another era. He knows exactly how he'd react in that same situation. It's part of why he'd so readily did everything in his power to see Future Trunks' plan through and save his present from becoming that future.
He offers him a grin, a sympathetic one.]
Well, the apple didn't exactly fall far from the tree, you know.
[He knows he's his father's child in the ways it matters most.]