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Rated: E · Interactive · Psychology · #2339469

Here I will talk about characters from films, cartoons and TV series and their psychology.

This choice: Future (Mirai) Trunks  •  Go Back...
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Future Trunks, the desire to rewrite the past.

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Future Trunks is one of the most iconic characters in Dragon Ball (The History of Trunks is one of my favorite movies). Son of Vegeta and Bulma, he comes from a timeline devastated by cyborgs, where heroes have fallen and hope seems to be gone. (What makes his universe unique is the impossibility of using the Dragon Balls, for the first time in Dragon Ball, death is truly definitive).

After losing all his friends and his master Gohan, Trunks lives in constant pain and a sense of impotence towards something too big to face.
So he decides to go back to the past, hoping to change the course of events and save the future.

Akira Toriyama has admitted to being influenced by science fiction films and series from the 80s and 90s. The aim was to create a character who represented the hope of a destroyed world, a sort of Warrior of Light in a world dominated by darkness.

Trunks' time travel symbolizes the human will to return to the roots of pain to rewrite one's own history. It is the desire to correct mistakes and recover what has been lost. We find this mechanism in people who have experienced one or more traumas.

Many people who have experienced a trauma mentally return to the past, in an attempt to repair it or take refuge in it, idealizing it. Trunks represents those who desperately try to relive and change the moment of pain.

For Freud: "Man does not want to be happy, but he also wants to keep his pain when it has become part of his identity."
This is why some people choose dysfunctional relationships, feel uncomfortable in silence and are unable to enjoy beautiful things. They don't know how to do it.

Idealizing the past as a perfect moment or demonizing it as the source of all pain are defense mechanisms that prevent us from looking forward.

Sometimes we would like to go back to change the past. But it is not always possible. True strength lies in accepting the pain, learning from it and building a new path, so that you have no more "pasts" to regret.

And you, have you ever wanted to rewrite a page of your past?
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