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[Dragon Ball Z] If Gohan trained with Vegeta over the seven year gap, how would their personalities have changed?

Thinking back on the time that Gohan trained with Piccolo. By the time they had gotten to the saiyans, they changed a lot with each other's influences. Gohan had become tougher in the wilderness, going from running for his life from seeing a T-Rex to not even being phased by it and seeing it's tail as dinner. On the other hand, Piccolo had gone from disliking him to dying for him. They became the best of friends. Gohan had the ability to touch his heart in one year.

So how would seven years of being around Vegeta have changed them both? Already a guarantee they would both be a lot stronger. Vegeta goes from training alone to having a strong sparring partner who pushes him to his limit, and Gohan has an elite warrior schooling him on his fighting abilities, leading him to become a stronger, smarter, ruthless, and more efficient fighter. But we're focused on the personality aspect here.

Having someone like Gohan can be a positive influence on Vegeta's life the same way with Piccolo. With a lot more time , Vegeta can be more open and less bitter. Seeing Gohan as a young half-saiyan who wants to push himself would give Vegeta a sense of pride in him, instead of disappointment. And this new attitude would extend towards his family as well. Whatever resentment he felt towards Goku's sacrifice would be almost washed away by focusing on training with Gohan.

How I think Gohan could change. Let's face it, he'd be much more different with a new father figure having a big influence on him. Canon Gohan was mainly surrounded by his family. Ox King, Goten, and Chi-Chi. I believe having an strong alpha male like Vegeta around him a lot, his attitude would rub off on him. During those developing years, he can become cockyish but confident in himself. Canon-Gohan would stutter and flinch at a dirty look from Video. This Gohan wouldn't even flinch, and would call her out on it.

What do you guys think? If their personalities were different like I said above, how would it have affected the dynamics in the Bus saga?
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Canon Gohan would **never** spend seven years training with Vegeta.

DBZ Vegeta is, for all intents and purposes, an arrogant asshole who used every single chance he had to screw the other characters up until the second half of the very last arc in the series. There's just no way Gohan would tolerate his stupidity for seven years.

If Gohan wanted to continue training he would just have done so with Piccolo, his true mentor and best friend. Piccolo changed his ways while training Gohan because *he knew* that Gohan and the Z-Fighters were the true good guys. Vegeta never accepted that. He lived under the illusion that everyone around him was wrong and he was right.

Still, if it *had* happened, their personalities would have remained the same. Gohan would never be influenced by Vegeta's vile nature (neither one of his father figures was able to make him enjoy fighting). And canon Vegeta spent those seven years training with his own son, Gohan couldn't do better than Baby Trunks did to change his character.