To have a Time Machine and go back to tell 12-year-old me that I would be able to produce a fair sketch of Future Trunks here, my first anime boy crush. He wasn’t even known in America yet, as the dub for that arc would not be released in the states for a few years, but we downloaded the Japanese episodes very poor quality and watched on the family computer. Memories of trying over and over again to draw him accurately from JPEG’s that I found on the Internet off of a website called Temple O’ Trunks created by a young lady named Meri who was also into this anime that farmed Japanese web for images of him and other foreign sagas.
A bit more of a personal aside, I have a lot of regrets in this life, but I think my deepest regret is one horrid night when I was going through a particularly wrenching break up. I was throwing as much of myself as I could into the dumpster, literally. I tossed an entire portfolio of all of my pre teen and teenage artwork into the giant bin, and it contained my drawings of Trunks and other faves from the series. Ones I was proud of- Android 18, and Piccolo. Along with drawings of faeries and made up characters created in middle school... That was probably the worst self harm I’ve ever committed. Yeah. If I had a Time Machine that might be the one thing I’d go back and stop myself from doing.