#[ he'd probably go the way of finding a surrogate mother too ]

[irkimatsu]

You pictured Husk as a husband but how was he as a father? Did he get to become a grandfather and met his grandkids and how was his relationship with his descendants

I do have my headcanons for Husk with children, and unfortunately it's heartbreaking.

In my headcanons, Husk had three daughters with his first wife; the older two were a set of identical twins, and then another girl a few years younger. He doted on those girls, reading to them, performing magic tricks for them, buying them gifts, taking them on trips, even an overseas trip or two... I firmly believe that a happy, well-adjusted Husk would participate in his daughters' tea parties without a single complaint. He adored his girls.

When things were good, anyway... and they weren't always good. Sadly, his girls also had to see the side of him who was rarely home, and who was utterly shitfaced whenever he was home. They had to hear their parents' heated arguments about his irresponsible spending and drinking and the shady debt collectors that keep showing up at the house. Their parents tried to shield them from the reality of their crumbling marriage, but things got really bad toward the end. When his wife walked out with his daughters, Husk missed them terribly, but knew it was for their own good.

(And for an extra side of depression, when I'm really feeling angsty, I wonder how things would go if his youngest daughter died young, especially if it was in a way that Husk could blame himself for...)

He tried to stay in their lives, but the divorce only worsened the problems that destroyed his marriage in the first place. It's not that he wanted to bail on plans with his girls! But he'd stay out too late, get too drunk, completely forget... after a few missed meetings, his wife had enough and stopped him from ever seeing them again, and he knew better than to try to fight it when he'd already screwed up so badly. He never got to see his girls grow up, unfortunately. They probably had children of their own, but he'll never know. Their memories of their father are complicated - they saw when he was a wonderful man, but they also saw when he was an irresponsible wreck - and even if they consider trying to find him as adults, in the end they never do.

I also headcanon that Husk has some other bio kids scattered around the globe as a result of one-night-stands. You go on an overseas trip, why not sample some of the delights, you know? He has no idea about these children. He knows intellectually he probably has at least one kid he doesn't know about, but tries not to think about it too hard. (Might be interesting if one of them turned up at the Hotel and they somehow managed to connect the dots about that charming musician who swept their mother off her feet for a week and then disappeared forever...)

He loved being a father, but fuck, he already screwed it up once. He doesn't need to give any other kids lasting childhood trauma, thanks.

And this is why I'm hoping Crymini is canon and ends up as his daughter surrogate... I really wanna see how that goes! He's no longer the softie he once was with his babies, more of a tough love "it's for your own good" type - and that's not just his own trauma, I think he would have made a similar shift after his darling little angels grew up into rebellious teenage brats. But both sides are still in there.

Imagine this jaded old man hearing a sincere "thanks, dad" and getting a hug from the bratty teenager he's been trying to mentor. Just imagine it. Let your heart melt

[lovefail]

[ another fact about Maurice: he would totally adopt children in a modern au. ]

[keikakudori]

Would Aizen's partner be affected if he fathered children while the Hogyoku is embedded in him, given that it enhances his already immense reiryoku? Can the partner carry a fetus that's growing with immense power?

Hello anon, I've touched on that very concept here and here in previous meta of mine, but I suppose it's time for a more extensive answer.

To answer the first question? Yes, his partner would find themselves affected if he ever found himself in the position of fathering children. His own awareness of his power, combined with the understanding that it was his own power that slowly killed his mother gives him excellent reason to never want children and he's never considered that something he's interested in pursuing. However, putting that aside --

Yes, he knows that his power would very much affect his partner. The only way that he'd even consider fathering a child would be if there were extreme precautions taken to monitor the health of the person carrying the fetus to term and ways their power could be bolstered to deal with the impact that the fetus would have on them and their body. He might even find a way to tie his own power to this person's so they could be supported in that fashion and not find themselves so drained as a result.

If this worked and it was viable that the procedure worked, then that might change things. It might not.

Given that his mother was capable of carrying him, it is possible but his partner would need to be immensely powerful themselves before anything close to the idea of children can come into play. I've spoken about it before and I'll say it again; the list of people who could conceivably be a surrogate for Aizen is very short. On that list is Rangiku, Orihime, Hallibel, Yoruichi, and Unohana, just going by canon. Keep in mind, he wouldn't even consider the idea of having children until well after the ending of the series and Unohana, if we go by canon, is dead. The other three would probably also just say no, outright.

But suppose that one of them agreed, just for the sake of consideration on how this would go.

For the second question? If the person who would become the surrogate had their reiryoku trained for several months beforehand, that would aid them quite a bit when the time came for the insertion of a fertilized ovum. What, you thought that Aizen would do the deed himself? No.

But either way, if there was a way to help tie his power to his partner that they ( and more importantly, the unborn fetus ) could absorb his strength to feed both mother and impending child, then that might persuade him otherwise on having children. Might. It's a strong might.

Naoko was capable of carrying Aizen to term because she had the potential to have been a strong Shinigami; if she had received proper training and lived long enough to get to the Seireitei and become a member of the Goteijusantai, then she could have been a seated officer at least, possibly even a lieutenant. Unfortunately, she didn't live that long. And, undoubtedly, Aizen is likely stronger than the man who fathered him; of course, Naoko was also carrying a child who was a direct descendent of the Soul King so it's hard to say whether or not carrying Aizen's child would be more dangerous or less dangerous.

If there was any chance of Aizen fathering a child on someone, there would have to be extensive work put into making sure that the mother in question will be able to not only survive the pregnancy, but equally that the fetus will not ruin their health either the way Aizen's did with Naoko's. Of course, that would mean that Mayuri and Kisuke would also have to be involved in this entire process, along with Isane, to ensure that everything would be running smoothly and that is a case, it could be argued, of too many cooks in the kitchen. Aizen wouldn't want their help but he's not so proud that he won't say that they wouldn't be useful.

So would his partner be affected? Yes, probably. Another possibility for reducing his reiryoku would be for Aizen to wear sekki-seki stone for an extended period of time so it could eat away at his power ( though that would not be an entirely viable solution, possibly, unless it was enhanced; I'm fully convinced that Aizen would burn through those kinds of devices from how hard it'd have to work on counteracting his strength and thus they would need to be continually renewed or replaced ) to some degree that would make it more viable for the surrogate to survive.

Aizen's own power wrecked his mother's body and he continued to wither her away over time due to it being uncontrolled, especially when he was asleep. Unlike Toshiro, however, he had no one there to tell him that he needed to learn how to control it. And given that we've seen that it doesn't take a lot of power for those with Shinigami potential to begin having an effect on those around them, you can imagine how much faster it went for him and Naoko since they were located in what was essentially the hinterlands of the Seireitei. If I remember right, it's rare to see Shinigami out in the Eightieth districts. Not unheard of, but extremely rare. Maybe if someone had stepped in sooner, things would be different.

Of course, Aizen isn't interested in having children, generally speaking. The only way in which you'll find him even entertaining the idea is in the failure!verse; most of my other verses just won't see it happening and it will never happen in a canon-compliant setting. If he did decide he wanted a child, then he and Gin would have to talk things out extensively, agree on a surrogate, and ask that surrogate if they'd be willing to help them out. He doesn't want to ruin someone else's health like that. Aizen may not remember much of his mother or their time together, but he remembers how frail she was before she died.

He would not be able to handle seeing someone he knows much more extensively going through that. Not easily, not with grace, not with skill; it would probably unlock a lot of repressed childhood memories, honestly.

[capriccio-ffxiv]

Oh, god, ok

So Illyria was originally a "bah I don't want kids" type. She LIKED kids, but figured The Adventurer Life is not great for them!

And then she met Haurchefant.

And she (naiively) thought "oh wow. I could settle down up here in Coerthas, we could have a few kids, he'd be an INCREDIBLE dad, but we'd have the whole support network of his family & Dragonhead. And MY family is in the Shroud so it's not too far for visits!"

Pretty shortly before the Vault, a) She and Haurchefant proposed to each other, at the same time, with Edmont's blessing (it was cute AF), b) she got pregnant, though she had no idea. It was about two to three months later, probably right around when Ysayle died (accounting for MMO Wibbly Wobbly Bullshit) that Midgardsormer went "THOU ART WITH CHILD BTW"

THANKFULLY, Midgardsormr is/was an old hand at making sure unborn babies survive some absolutely ridiculous Situations. So while mammilian pregnancy wasn't entirely familiar to him, he at least knew about five thousand ways to protect an unborn child. And, in fact, the discussion really did come down to "Ok. Ok. Can we put my kid in an egg. And can you sit on it. Not kidding, I have to go stab your stupid son Nidhogg and that's not something I should be doing while pregnant."

Which is how, while the kid is (mostly) 3/4 Elezen 1/4 Roegadyn (Illy is half Elezen), she hatched from an egg incubated by the Father of Dragons. Illy... feels like that was cheating on her part, but also is like "Well, I didn't have to give birth; tbh I think having a dragon midwife is incredibly dope and more of us should do that."

She was still there for the hatching, and due to the aetheric connection was still able to nurse her daughter. Illyria named her Ysayle; she's got hair like Haurchefant's but eyes like Illyria, and will probably grow up to be unusually tall and swole due to being 1/4 Roegadyn.

Due to, again, unfortunately, being Thee Warrior of Light, Illyria decided to give Ysayle the Younger up to Edmont for adoption, so she's Ysayle Greystone. Just about everyone inferred that this was Haurchefant's daughter -- he was openly polyamorous (and so is Illyria) and in LOTS of relationships, and while he was normally a hell of a lot more careful than his father, well, accidents do happen. Very few people caught on to her being Illyria's daughter, because of the whole very bizarre situation of Father of Dragons as Surrogate Mother. As in, Illyria was never (visibly) pregnant, to most people's knowledge!

People who know: House Fortemps (obv), Alphinaud (he was there), Tataru (you cannot keep secrets from her), Estinien (Alphinaud had to spell it out for him later on tho; he didn't find out till Endwalker)

People who have inferred/guessed but know to keep their damn mouths shut: most of the rest of the Scions, Aymeric, Lucia

Ysayle the Younger is being raised by an absolutely wonderful wet nurse (a woman working in the House Fortemps kitchens who'd recently had a child of her own) and gets spoiled rotten by Emmanelain and Edmont; Artoriel tries to curtail some of this but can't bring himself to because dangit she's so cute ;-; Francel has no idea who the mother is but doesn't care and just wants her to have a good life. So... even if it hurts Illyria terribly to know that she cannot be in the picture for Ysayle's safety, she knows that the kid's in the best possible hands.

Originally, she'd kept hoping that someday, things would calm down enough that she could at least visit and no longer have it be a secret -- hopefully in time for Ysayle not to grow resentful of her mother for not being there -- but then Endwalker and a bunch of other things happened, so Illyria... well, Illyria technically still exists, but that's not who's "driving" right now (it's a shared duty between three different entities, yes, including Esteem).

So... bittersweet. Illyria loves her daughter so much and wants her to have the best life, but knows she cannot be both a mother and the Warrior of Light. The fact that there was literally no way to square that circle is part of the reason for her eventual breakdown.

Feel free to share more details about why! Love reading other ppls character lore! :3