#months later i find myself thinking about that man.... noonian soong....................... he haunts me.

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who wants to hear my extremely in-depth soong family headcanon?

i'm going to tell you anyway: 1. all the soongs since adam are clones. adam was infertile and once his "make a cool daughter" plan failed spectacularly, he decide to clone himself and then the family tradition just lived on bc they are all egomaniacs (and infertile). when arik gave up genetics to work on cybernetics, his kids (clones) decided they wanted to go back to genetics, and only did noonian a few generations later track down his work and finish the project.

2. this also explains altan: noonian, alone without his androids and left abandoned on a planet by himself after his android wife ditched him, he decided to clone a son (who hated him and ALSO abandoned him on a planet all alone).

3. noonian soong is a chronic substance abuser to cope with a. life and b. mental illnesses/mental disorders that he refuses to attempt to work on in a healthy matter. he goes through waves of hyper sobriety and deep DEEP detrimental addition.

4. noonian soong and ira graves had a wild whirlwind relationship before noonian vanished with no forwarding address and no warning.

5. noonian went to priceton (dont care if this is refuted in any extended canon (but i don't think it is bc i can't remember his alma mater being mentioned in any of the books)) (also think the idea of him going to school in new jersey is really funny i have no idea why. THE UNIVERSE IS YOUR OYSTER.... "i choose new jersey.") and is where he met ira. he also spent some time being an adjunct professor for a theoretical cybernetics class that all his students kind of dreaded attending bc... well it's noonian.

6. noonian and his father had a massive falling out when noonian decided to pursue cybernetics bc his father was suffering from clonal decay issues and believed noonian should have focused on genetics to attempt to find a cure for him.

7. noonian is trans and NO do not ask me how this can possibly function side-by-side with my clone theory. i do not care. he just is. none of the other soongs are, though (imho. i am also open to the idea of all of them being trans but there is something SOOOOOOOOO transgender about noonian).

8. all soongs have a pathological, impulsive need to be fathers even though they really should not do that ("my children would never kill me" they say, moments before their children either try to or succeed at killing them). it does not stop them.