ARE WE TALKING PAN???? God pan has so much character potential. Like in any direction you take her, being a “3rd generation hybrid” leads to so much to work with
pan is absolutely fascinating to me, just from a purely scientific viewpoint. bc there are so few saiyans left that it’s almost impossible to draw a solid conclusion about the whole species (and the ones that are left were all outliers to begin with)
but then you have the gohan and pan, who are especially interesting, because generally male hybrids are infertile - if a lion and a tiger have a kid, the female liger might be able to reproduce, but all male ligers so far have been infertile. but pan is living proof that that’s not always the case - gohan is quite clearly not infertile, pan quite clearly happened.
all of that leads to even further revelations about the saiyans - like it kinda implies that saiyans aren’t actually that far removed from humans.
moreover, the relatively short known history of the saiyans and the only race we know they associated with before getting involved in planet-theft (the tuffles) could lead to some pretty interesting implications.
anyway this is a really roundabout way of saying that pan’s existence could lead the gang to discover that saiyans and humans are so compatible bc the tuffles just abducted some primates and genetically modified them
given that the earliest known saiyans appear a little under a thousand years bg (before goku), and assuming that if they’d had enough time to establish themselves then they’d been around for a few thousand years prior to that, it’s completely possible that the primates in my theory were early homo sapiens or possibly archaic humans of some form, along with some other strands of hominid, which is where the tail and ōzaru form come from.
it’d also explain certain other inaccuracies or improbabilities away, such as saiyan tails jutting straight out of their lower backs instead of where a regular tailed creature’s would be, implying a relocated tailbone or rearranged vertebrae. it could also explain why so many aliens exhibit behaviors that don’t really make sense for non-earthlings to have - the tuffles carted them across the universe, and humans are naturally curious creatures so they just. interacted with people.
granted, there’s not really any canon evidence to back this theory up, but i’ve been thinking about it for a while now and frankly all i truly need is access to wikipedia and an imagination.