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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 ALL OF YOUR OCS ALL OF YOUR OCS ALL OF YOUR OCS (xkits outbox is telling me this got sent but tumblr gave me an error messge so Just In Case)

[/PANIC EMOTE] AAAA OKAY I HOPE YOU REALLY DID MEAN ALL OF THEM BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT YOU’RE GETTING

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Do they want children?

Hanami would argue that she already has kids--two or three, and at least one of them is sort of legally hers, if you squint. She will openly admit to being the closest thing to a mother that her nephew is likely to get; even if Mune is not allowed to call her “mom” she was still one of the two people most involved with raising him, and one of her life’s greatest regrets is missing so much of his childhood when she left for Eorzea. Rielle might pitch a fit when Sid refers to himself as her foster father, but she has a much easier time seeing Hanami as a...mom-adjacent figure. (She wouldn’t call her a mom, because she has a bad history with those, but definitely a guardian.) Hanami refers to Rielle as her ward, which is almost true, if you count clandestine death matches as custody battles? Ryne makes the most recent addition to her bevy of pseudo-adopted children, although Hanami is gradually settling herself into the role of, like, an especially maternal aunt, as a counterpoint to Thancred’s bumbling attempts at parenting. Ryne is also the only one of her “kids” small enough to fit into her old clothes from when Hanami was a teenager, and since Hanami thinks knife fighting in sandals is a terrible idea, she’s been on the receiving end of a lot of hand-me-downs. As for biological children...well, maybe someday. She’s getting a little old for it. But maybe.

Haruki would just give you a weird look, because hello, little late for that. Mune is the light of his life, though, even if he’d never really planned on kids. He wouldn’t say he wants any more if that’s what you’re asking, because Mune is a sweetheart and super well-behaved, but he’s also a little clingy, and he can be a handful. Not that Haruki’s complaining! (He’s dreading the day when Mune decides it’s no longer cool to give Dad goodnight kisses.)

Rhela’a would love to have kids someday, although he’s not really concerned with whether they’re his biological kids or adopted. It still bothers him that he doesn’t know who his own father is, and he can’t get behind the wandering Keeper stereotype for himself--he loves family life! In the meantime, he’s the absolute best babysitter you’re going to find north of the Guardian Tree; he loves putting on little plays for the village kids and getting them to play and learn Shroud legends at the same time. He is also determined to be The Best Uncle Ever if his sisters have children.

Elysa has no real interest in kids--they’re fun and cute in small doses, when she can hand them back to their parents as soon as they start getting smelly. Besides, she’s way too busy for that--the Resistance is demanding! And dangerous! Definitely not a good place for little ones. And isn’t she still basically a kid herself? C’mon, she’s not that old. 

Addie is also not especially enthused about kids; she got roped into watching a lot of the younger students when she was force-enrolled into the Conjurer’s Guild, and she hated pretty much every minute of it. She’s one of those people who gets exhausted having to watch after kids, and she could never handle it full-time.

Sjanna would make a way better academic counselor than she would a mother, and she’ll be the first person to say so. Her research is her baby--reviving lost forms of magic is taxing and time-consuming, and she has neither the time nor the patience to deal with kits. She’s not opposed to mentoring younger students, and in fact she was a kick-ass TA back in university, but it’s hard to hold her interest without enough foundations in magical theory to come to her with questions and an actual desire to learn. (For the record, she would find Lunya endearing; she likes people who are more interested in answers than manners, and anyway she got her hands on an actual Sharlayan astromancy soulstone, how the fuck. Sharlayans are such tight-asses; what witchcraft did she even use?)

Tavi would make a terrible parent, and a terrible babysitter, and a terrible aunt, and she likes it that way. She’s never had a desire for kids; she has her crew to worry about, and keeping these dumbasses alive is a full-time job. (She would swear they used to have a proper medic; what even happened to that guy?) She thrives on chaos and risk, and her greatest pastime is poking the fabric of spacetime and watching to see what pokes back. Children are just...a bad idea. Besides, she can only imagine the bedtime stories: oh, you want to know why Mommy has creepy, pitch-black eyes? Well you see, Tavi the Smaller, when Mommy was a hip young lashunta she and her mercenary buddies had their souls corrupted by extraplanar forces of evil, all because they tried to meddle with this creepy doomsday murder corporation and pissed off a god of pain and darkness...

And last but not least, Nahi already has a toddler. The fact that her toddler is four-legged and pink and about the size of a hamster and actually a dragon is irrelevant. She’s like a cat, except she can talk, and breathe fog clouds of ecstasy, and also merge her soul with Nahi’s, and she’s maybe a hundred years old, and also might...be...a fae god? Whatever; it’s fine. Nahi doesn’t do people anyway. She’s perfectly happy with her fae dragon child thing.