#thinking about a certain spy vs spy comic by Peter Kuper that had to do with White Spy's birthday the joke is on Black Spy

[wolfgang1097]

My own headcanons regarding Spy vs. Spy (Backstory and early years) (Part 2)

Good evening folks, this is Ari. Tonight I am picking up where I left off in part 1, but first I do want to make some specific details and some odds and ends regarding my headcanon for the spies in part 1 first:

-White is older than Black by about three or four minutes. Since I mentioned that one twin (particularly White) was born a couple minutes before midnight, and the other twin (Black) was born one or two minutes after midnight, that would mean that even though Black's birthday would technically be the day after White's, they're still actually a few minutes apart.

-The twins, Black and White, spent the first two and half weeks in the hospital's Intensive Care Nursery and then spent another week in the Progressive Care Nursery due to being about a month and a half premature. They were eventually moved into the Well Baby Nursery by the time they were about a little over a month old and stayed there until they were adopted by their respective parents (which I will get to when I build up to that).

-Black was more colicky than White, even when he was still in the incubator during their stay in the Intensive Care Nursery.

-Black and White's biological parents are deceased. Their biological father was brutally killed in the Soviet Union right before they were born. Their biological mother suffered from a fatal stroke post delivery. This resulted in the twins being orphaned for the first four or five (at the most) months of their lives.

-My more human-looking OC, Phil Dengler, was born only a few days after the twins and spent pretty much the same amount of time in the ICN (Intensive Care Nursery), PCN (Progressive Care Nursery), and Well Baby Nursery as the twins did.

OK, odds and ends over. Let's get down to business shall we?

The twins, Black and White, were taken care of by the hospital's Well Baby Nursery staff until they were about four or five months old instead of being sent to an orphanage on account of how much gentler, caring, empathetic, and tender the nursery and the entire Maternity staff were compared to the local orphanages. Since Phil was also orphaned, the hospital's nursery staff had to take care of him as well. On top of taking care of several other newborn babies in the nursery, the nurses, including the head nurse, all went out of their way to use their spare time (breaks included) to take care of Phil and the twins. Such as bottle feeding them around the clock (due to being orphaned, Black, White, and Phil all had to be formula fed, obviously), changing them, bathing them whenever necessary, and soothing them whenever they got fussy after their needs had been met. This was especially in Black's case as he was the most prone to colicky spells. After every last one of his needs were met, one of the nurses taking care of him whenever he was colicky would gently rub his belly, which kind of worked, yet he'd still let out a distressed whimper. If nothing else really worked, a nurse who was on break or had some down time would let him cry it out in her arms. The assistant head nurse, Kathy (I will get to her at some point in the future), felt particularly close with the twins as well as Phil. One day, she brought in several gowns in three different colors: Red for Phil as well as Black and White for the twins, which made it easier to tell the twins apart besides their ankle bands.

About a month or so after the twins and Phil had all outgrown the "colic stage," there were THREE potential couples all awaiting to adopt them, all of them being fairly different in several ways. This was when the twins, Black and White, were separated from each other.

White was adopted by an elderly, conservative couple in their mid to late 60s, especially the female spouse (White's adoptive mother). White's adoptive mother may have been nurturing, but she was rather uptight, judgmental, orderly, and a bit of a neat-freak, albeit was still open-minded when it came to raising her adopted baby boy. She may have been where White got his pompous, sassy demeanor from. White's adoptive father was also very nurturing and, apparently, more open-minded to parental advice on infant care than his (White's) adoptive mother was, and was very aware that his adoptive infant son is his own person. However, he was a tad senile due to age, thus resulting in him being rather forgetful.

Black was adopted by a liberal older couple, who were in their late 50s or early 60s, at the most. They were both also very open-minded with how to take care of their adoptive infant son and treat him like he's his own person. Black's adoptive father was nurturing, kind, gentle, easy-going, yet goofy, somewhat clueless, forgetful, and a tad clumsy (indicating that he may be on the verge of senility). Black's adoptive mother was very resourceful, cleanliness obsessed (but not to the insane extent of White's adoptive mother), gentle, detail-oriented, sharp, and very intelligent.

The one main thing that both of these couples had in common was that they were never able to conceive a child at all and due to age, adoption was basically their only chance of even having their own children to raise at all while they still can.

As for Phil, he was adopted by a young hippie couple who already had a young daughter named Candace (I'll get to her at some point in the future, as well), who was about three and half years old at the time. This young couple had looked into adopting a second child and Phil pretty much fit in perfectly. Just like Black's adoptive parents, Phil's adoptive parents and older sister were all nurturing, gentle, easy-going, and very open-minded to parenting advice as a refresher as it had been three and a half years since they had last adopted a baby. They were more than willing to treat their newly adopted infant son like he's his own person, just like they did with their daughter.

Anyhow, that's all I have for this part for tonight. Stay tuned for Part 3 sometime in the future. Goodnight everybody. Peace.

I do not claim ownership of any copyrighted content. Spy vs. Spy belongs to the defunct MAD Magazine and the late, great Antonio Prohias. Phillip "Phil" Dengler belongs to me.