#to all my lovely writers that have contributed so many amzingly written baby fics

[jennifersminds]

the term ‘snort a miracle baby’ is genuinely one of the funniest things i’ve read anon i love u

also gonna hijact this ask a little to encourage whoever wants to write miracle baby abortion fics to do so !! the baby!fics have had a monopoly on the ao3 tags for too long it's time to level the playing field lmao (jkjk no hate at all to the babyfics that have been written, even though it's a frankly absurd amount for characters that are canonically barren i love yall but,,,)

also love the fic idea seven !! 😍

(tw: my opinion)

Although, to be annoying and add a think piece where no one asked for it, (and I am not shading babyfics as a whole, nor any fic in particular. there are many elejah babyfics that I absolutely adore and I am merely a random person complaining on the internet) but my main issue with alot of them is the absolute refusal to acknowledge the characters, specifically Elena's, previous emotional toll and what that would do to her maternal wants or instincts. Not even mentioning that the majority of these fics have Elena as barely eighteen years old.

Keep in mind this is coming from a twenty one year old girl who has never and will never want children in any capacity, I just can't comprehend a version of Elena who is down to be a mother before she's even finished high school. Nor a version of Elijah (or klaus but I don't read too much klena) who's super happy to have knocked up a traumatised teenager, miracle child or not. (this is really making me want to write an elejah version of I'm not your Daydream but I feel like one abortion fic under my belt is already pushing it)

I feel like there's so much to delve into regarding Elena and motherhood, alot of people seem to view her as an established maternal figure in tvd, which just isn't the case. She is forced to mother two grown ass immortals yes, but otherwise the only indication she makes towards motherhood (pre-cure gate, and fuck that) is at the end of season two. During which she expresses she would get to "decide if I wanted kids," where she not being forced to die and turn in the ritual. And adding onto that the fact that any children she does have will potentially be dooming a future descendent to the trials of being a doppelgänger, I just don't think its something she would want as desperately as she's portrayed too. I'd be super on board for a pregnancy fic that has Elena using this want as a simulation of normalcy. That having children is the last truly human desire she can attain, but just jumping in with two feet before she's even graduated... I can't see it.

I also have a whole host of opinions about how Elijah wouldn't actually yearn for fatherhood the way he's portrayed to, (to sum up, he's already a father, and it's ruining him; Klaus)

I don't think I'd have as much of an opinion on this if practically all of the completed full length Elejah fics we have where miracle baby fics, but since they are I am just kinda fascinated by this miracle pregnancy phenomenon. My gut instinct is to blame The Originals but that's kinda my default so who knows...

Anyway, getting down from my soapbox, abort the miracle babies !!

Would you ever write a fic a la NoImKillingBoys’s where Elena snorts a miracle baby? There so much to sort thru with pregnancy and female gender expectations in the tvdverse, but I feel like pro choice isn’t really delved into in many fics much?

if not do you know any similar ones to rec?

Oh!

That is very interesting to me. Because you are very right that there is such an expectation of gender performance in the tvdverse. It's just expected that Caroline will carry the twins because she's a good person and good people have children.

This does give me an idea and it would likely be a one shot but I do like the idea of Elena coming back from the dead to see her last living parent sacrificing his life for her and now she's got a drunk history teacher as a parent figure and oh, also her boyfriend left her to sacrifice himself for his brother. And she's just...exhausted and so done. So she indulges in living in the now with her new life but god she's resentful and angry and petty. She wants to be grateful and be the charming, compassionate girlfriend on a hopeless quest to save Stefan but she can't cause she's so fucking angry that this is her life. Then....her period is late. And it's even later and it's definitely not the stress but maybe her body is weird now cause of the whole being dead thing except after dozens of tests she knows it isn't. She's pregnant and yeah...she doesn't even know the father and she can't imagine bringing a baby into this world. She'd never even really thought about being a parent and especially not now. And she's thinking of all the things she'd been willing to give up when she agreed to be sacrificed and it's hitting her now all the things she'd give up if she goes through with this pregnancy. She's not even thinking about dooming another doppelganger to her fate she's just thinking that she doesn't want to take care of anyone else. She's tired of taking care of everyone else. She wants to live and not for this imaginary baby but for herself. So....when Klaus comes to town she makes a dangerous agreement. He helps her with the abortion and in exchange, she gets to live whatever life she wants. It's risky but if she isn't so convincing about it. It's not another doppelganger he needs after all, it's her. Her blood. Not anyone else's and after all, pregnancy is dangerous. Would he be willing to risk it for the potential of another doppelganger years down the line? One that might not even work with the hybrids. He concedes. She gets the procedure. Elena Gilbert has never felt more free, more alive. She was meant to die in that car crash with her parents and that weight has been hanging around her neck for the last year. And maybe she did die. Maybe she's different now. Because that Elena would have sacrificed everything and this Elena....this Elena just wants to live.

Aaaand I'm back - I think you are right. Pro choice isn't a main theme in a lot of fics and I don't know of many that boldly go where the brilliant noimkillingboys (@jennifersminds) does and write about Elena making the choice to terminate.

The closest I can think of is Baby It's Cold Outside by @katherineholmes because most of the fics I've read have her feeling anxious but mostly uncomplicated about it. It's not as straightforward about snorting (? please feel free to explain this in an ask if you'd like because google was useless...) a miracle baby but the discussions to come up. It's not a given for Elena that she'd carry it and she does consider her options.

That said, if anyone else has any recommendations of similar fics, please comment! I'd love to read them along with anon.