#its been rotting in my drafts folder for a year at this point

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Anonymous asked:

Thanks for answering my previous question on Javaans kid. So we got Chance and Jeni as “what if” kids, so how about one more set of Good Guys become parents? Jeimos and Linde. Let’s say after so many years of insecurity and saving up Jeimos has finally gotten their gender transmution, having the male body they always wanted. Jeimos and Linde “celebrate” this achievement by giving their new body a test run. Little did either of them know that Jeimos transmution was a lot more successful then

They first believed! Afew months after the transmution Linde starts developing odd symptoms like morning sickness, bloating, swollen ankles and all that stuff? How do our Icy and Spicy elves react to the pregnancy? How does the crew react? And what kinda parents would Linde and Jeimos make and what would their baby be like?

Anon, you are not going to believe this, but I actually considered this EXACT idea for the series! I never did make up my mind on whether it should happen or not, but a rough draft has been sitting around in my scraps folder for a while. That’s so funny, it’s like you crawled right into my brain lmao

Currently, Jeimos and Linde sort of do have a “child” and that’s Zacry. Zacry is a Zareenite combat robot that Jeimos disassembled and rebuilt to make it more eco-friendly, but as a tradeoff it lost all of its combat capabilities and became childlike in its intelligence. Jeimos may have done most of the work, but Linde was beside them helping every step of the way, so they consider Zacry a joint creation. Jeimos goes so far as to call Linde “mummy” when referring to Linde around Zacry, treating it much like a real child. Because it was “born” from their hands, Jeimos has developed an affectionate sense of parental duty towards it. I think Linde feels the same way, but maybe not as strongly. She doesn’t understand robots and still feels a little uneasy around it.

Now if they had a real, flesh-and-blood child...

This is where Jeimos would struggle because Jeimos doesn’t understand people. They had no siblings or friends growing up, their social skills are poor, and frankly they know nothing about child-rearing. What Jeimos understands is machines, so they do well with rearing Zacry. But I think a living child would stress them out a lot. They’d get overwhelmed easily and push a lot of the parenting duties on Linde.

Conversely, this is where Linde would do quite well. She didn’t have siblings either, but she’s a social butterfly who’s really attuned to peoples’ emotions. I think she’s always wanted to have kids, but was just never in a position to settle down and do so. If she did give birth, she would become very fastidious about raising this kid to the point of going overboard. No playing with toy weapons, that promotes violence! No playing with dolls, it promotes sexist gender roles! No eating junk food, it rots the teeth! Stuff like that. She’d be one of those touchy-feely granola moms who promotes “creativity” but in an ironically stifling way.

She’d probably quit her job as a mercenary to be a full-time mom and give her kid the most normal childhood possible. Of course, living in Drifter’s Hollow, there’s no way “normal” is going to happen. The kid will be surrounded by the Freelance Good Guys, and despite how much Linde tells them not to, they’re going to roughhouse with this child daily, give them junk food and alcohol, and teach them all kinds of cuss words.

I think ultimately, Linde would be a lot like her mother, Riona, and Jeimos would be a lot like their father, Ojio. Ojio was awkward towards Jeimos and shut away in his workshop most of the time, but he did show concern for them and was even willing to risk his life bribing a Damijani doctor to prevent Jeimos from being reported for drug use. Meanwhile Riona was pushy and overbearing towards Linde, but it was only because she cared and wanted the best for her. She worked her ass off to pay for private school just so Linde wouldn’t get bullied for her albinism.

As for how their child would turn out as an adult...who even knows? I can imagine them being rebellious like Jeimos, but more spunky and social like Linde. They’d probably be a bit stuck-up too, and a know-it-all. They’d be genuinely smart, but kind of a dick about it. They’d probably tinker around with their big brother, Zacry, and outfit it with all kinds of crazy mods for fun.

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