#He doesn't love being pregnant (and childbirth is hell for him)

[goddessofroyalty]

wait what if Mylo had actually caused Silco to be infertile?

Like what if Silco had some major injuries (even more that usual for his case, I guess) when he gave birth to Mylo?

Also did Marcus eventually become sheriff in your AU?

(I like that baby face Dilf but the man was clearly willing to accept bribe from shady ass Silco in the original show)

I mean that's kind of the theory in Silco's head in the verse where they never have another one despite not doing anything to prevent it. He just never actually bothers to get it checked out to confirm because there's never been any other signs of possibly more dangerous results and... they have 5 kids. That is plenty of kids in his mind even if he might of liked to have one more.

Like I mentioned previously there's probably a bit of an in-joke in the family that Mylo did something to prevent any younger siblings happening.

From an 'I am the author and god of this verse' perspective? Ehhh yeah probably. Although the fact that both Silco and Vander are heavy smokers and drinkers didn't help.

(little bit more under the cut because birth complications/trauma stuff)

As for Marcus I'm torn because like I so want him to be sheriff but I also am keeping Grayson alive. IDK she gets a promotion some time between what is Act One and Act Two timeline wise (to Comissioner? let's just pretend that's a slightly higher role) so he gets Sheriff. Either that or Grayson is still Sheriff and he's like the immediate next highest position until she retires.

He is abslutely still being bribed and then blackmailed by Silco though. And he hates it. He's constantly trying to get Piltover to turn on Silco and the family but in a like... comically nonthreatening way. Nobody belives him when he tells them the Zaun Representative who represents Zaun's interests in Piltover is also the Eye of Zaun who runs most of the illegal business that happens in Zaun (similarly that Powder the ‘princess of Zaun’ is Jinx a violent Zaunite terrorist).

(And, yes, the 'family crest' Silco makes is the same Eye symbol with his and Vander's initials in it like the canon - Grayson is being willfully blind about the truth but most of Piltover just doesn't care)

Back to the first point - Silco also doesn't know if the possibly infertility is the result of the birth itself (or something Mylo did while being born) or the result of what the midwife/doctor did to stop him from bleeding out after things went bad after Mylo was born.

He was probably told that what happened may affect his fertility going forward. But again, the fact that this was his third meant that even with him having enough wealth to investigate if he needed to he was probably advised only to if a sign of something else more worrying started happening. Yes, I think having up to double-digits worth of kids wouldn't be uncommon in Zaun but I also think having three kids would be considered not a bad run, especially considering Silco's track record with births. The midwife probably says that if this does cause him to be infertile it might be for the best.

When Silco's being particularly blunt with the ""joke"" about Mylo preventing other siblings from happening it's that "[Mylo] tried to take the womb with him".

[metal-mouse]

Yo I kinda feel like Ominis would act like Edward from Twilight at first if he found out MC was pregnant with his daughter. Like he'd be upset at the prospect of the child being a typical Gaunt but then totally fall in love with her and regret his behavior.

I can absolutely see this and this has the potential for S tier angst.

under a cut because I just started like rambling my speculations and also bc mentions of pregnancy and childbirth.

I'm not going to lie my brain immediately went to Ominis trying to bite the baby out of MC like Edward did with Bella but clearly that wouldn't be the issue (I hope?????)

The pregnancy announcement would come as a massive shock to Ominis, and I can really see him distancing himself from MC as a form of self-preservation and in his mind it's also protecting MC from himself and his bloodline. He really feels as though he's got tainted blood, and all of his family's bullshit will get passed on to his child. It brings back a lot of his childhood trauma, and he spends the first like 7 months of MC pregnancy having horrible nightmares of his past. He still loves MC, and he still treats her with respect and cares for her but he’s a lot more quiet and he seems to be keeping her at an arm’s length. They talk a lot about his family and his emotions, MC is trying to be as supportive as possible but Ominis is a stubborn bastard and also super cynical so the conversations kind of just go in circles.

MC is understandably devastated by his reaction and is depressed as hell. She's scared too, she's the one growing a whole ass human inside of her, and she does understand Ominis' reservations about passing down his gene-pool to a child, but she's adamant that they will be loving parents who teach their children empathy and respect. She reminds Ominis constantly that he is nothing like his family and there's no reason to expect their children to be any different than him.

Towards the end of the pregnancy though, Ominis feels the baby kicking one night, and he just kind of makes a surprised pikachu face. He talks to MC's belly sometimes at night when he thinks MC is sleeping - she's listening the whole time - and he basically just asks the child to treat MC with respect and to not hurt her too much and he confesses to the baby how scared he is about who they will be and he’s scared that his family will find them and feel entitled to the baby. Sometimes MC has to get up when he’s fallen asleep to go cry lol.

When MC finally delivers the baby, which tbh yeah it's gonna be a girl - Ominis is such girl dad material it's not even funny - he is so immediately whipped. From the first second he hears her cries, he would do anything for her. He realizes she’s a vulnerable tiny little thing that needs to be cared for, and gods be praised does he care for her. He's so sweet with his daughter, playing with her and reading to her and transfiguring things for her. He charms some gold butterflies to flutter over the crib.

Ominis and MC would wait until their baby was much more grown to let her know about Ominis' family - she'd rebel against it until she saw Merope and Morfin Gaunt one day in Little Hangleton while trying to find her father's family and just nopes right out of that one.

The baby would look like him. Eldest daughter looking like her dad trope af. His hair, his nose, but MC's smile. She would share a lot of personality traits with MC, except she's got Ominis' sarcastic humour and his penchant for transfiguration. Not interested much in combat, thinks DADA is cool but doesn't love it.

Anne would be the first person to meet the baby outside of MC's parents/siblings if they're involved in MC life. After Anne, it's Poppy and Natty, and then finally Sebastian comes and meets his niece (in this world they've all made up! thanks!).

Asdgjsoeifgjsdfgn now I'm just thinking about soft!Ominis being such a dad. Look at the rant you've put me on. This is going to be on my mind all day now. Thank you LOL

And then 16 years down the line the daughter goes fucking full evil can u imagine

[vylad243]

What's Lyric's personality like? And will there be more of her in the future fics?

Cuz I already love this child and she sounds more like charlie ngl :3

And Vox mpreg 😭 will there be a fic during he's pregnancy? I already see the angst the way you worded it 🥲

Lyric is a ball of pure chaos. She is basically if Alastor was left alone too long and had Vox's ADHD

Lyric is a lot like Charlie because Charlie babysat her a lot while Vox is recovering! Alastor went through a phase of postpartum himself at the sight of his partner barely being alive, and he spiralled from there. He didn't try to blame the baby, but he blamed Lyric's pregnancy a lot before he found out what Mammon was doing, which led him to feel disconnected from her and he didn't ever want to leave Vox

Lyric adopts a lot of mannerisms from Charlie, such as singing to connect with people and talking a lot with her hands. She has way more energy than Charlie does and actually uses more dark magic than her own hell-magic since her powers are so weak. She's pretty flexible and can make everything and anything work if she wants to. She's also really good at manipulating people, but she never realizes she's manipulating people under after she did it. She doesn't hold a lot of remorse for her actions as she has to think things through a l o t because she has to do certain spells or pay the price later. She's a lot more calculating, but underneath all of that, she really is a sweet girl. She does have a few daddy issues because Alastor was pretty disconnected from her for a while, but he does try to make it up to her, and she does forgive him. She understands he was scared about raising her by himself without his partner because no one knew if sinners could die from childbirth. She's pretty positive overall, though, and she's a lot more animalistic than Alastor because, as a kid, she used to mimic Vark and never grew out of it

I tried to work a lot off of Vivie saying Alastor wouldn't be a good father while also trying to preserve how Alastor acts in my series so I think I did a good job with trying to decide their relationship!

As for the mpreg! Oh yes there will be a lot of angst coming your way. I already have a few angst moments planned and one is when Vox is in his third trimester, crying to Alastor that he can't do it anymore and how he doesn't have enough strength to do it anymore. Mammon really used all the power he could. All the other sins held back and stopped production once they were halfway through the second trimester, but Mammon decided he could use all the other sins' power they they left for Vox

Attention can only do so much for Vox when all the power he gains goes to the baby and to Mammon. Alastor really was the only thing keeping him going because Alastor kept giving up his power to keep Vox and Lyric alive

It's probably going to be one of the larger one-shots because of how much I have planned, but it isn't easy on anyone. Sinner pregnancies are rare, and most sinners who can fall pregnant don't have as much power of influence as Vox does, which naturally some sinners viewed as a weak point and tried to take his ranking of Overlord while he was pregnant.

It doesn't help that Alastor and Vox refused to use sinner doctors because 'they're in Hell for a reason, Charlie' so they would only use hellborn ones, and they're quite hard to find in Pride because they're usually killed off

[notknickers]

It's disappointing to know Bella equally had great doubts about Arthur's character, ambitions and the future with him and that she only stuck to the man because of interference from her shitty father. Especially after learning Arthur was this close to bailing while she was dying in childbirth. Like, I don't care who's right and who's wrong. I don't care who's more virtuous and who's morally soiled. There was zero need to have Bella mirror Arthur's discontentment, because it doesn't feel like we, as listeners, were given an organic chance to get to know this woman, who's dead and thus can never really know if not as a warped memory, through the words of those who, allegedly, knew her best. It feels more like it's been done because getting someone pregnant just to plan to abandon them is as close to irredeemable as one can get, so Bella needed to be as bad as him. (Which, not even close all the same, since wanting to divorce your spouse is not even in the same category as abandoning the child you *chose* to have, but don't think about it too hard.) But I say, we've been with Arthur through murder, imprisonment, cannibalism, questionable thoughts, deeds and folly: would Arthur being an abandoning suppository of a man have made any difference with regards to how we, the Arthur Lester Apologist, feel about his character? Would that really have been the last straw?! I, for one, must say I love him covered in metaphorical muck, always trying to escape his past, his guilt, always struggling, always aspiring towards the warm light of redemption, only for his wax wings to melt before he's even had a chance at bathing in it for but a moment, plunging him in the depths of the barbed mud that clings to his pores and fills his lungs, the despair, from which his labour has yet to start once more.

We do not like to imagine Sysiphus happy, here. Just let him be the mediocre, sopping wet, poor little meow meow, poster middle-aged man child for the saying "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."

[yukidragon]

What if...Ok let's suppose that Alice begins a new life with Jack, these two have a happy time until the subject of children comes up, Jack is excited about this and begs Alice to start a family for which she accepts but during the early stages of pregnancy Alice has too many complications.

One day she decides to go for a checkup at the hospital but there they give her bad news.

Alice must terminate the pregnancy since her body isn't supporting it, if she decides to go ahead she may die in childbirth or even worse... she and the baby may die, this will give Jack terrifies but doesn't take this life. Here three paths open up, one where they decide end up the pregnancy, another one triggers the events of "What If Alice Died In The Childbirth?" And the last one would be the worst...Jack loses them both, Alice and the baby die during childbirth...Jack is alone again

Haha... Y’all really love seeing those dark pregnancy headcanons, don’t you? I actually touched on how Jack would react if his sunshine died in childbirth before over here. I also made a post about a dark timeline where yandere Ian tried to go after Alice while she was pregnant here.

As I mentioned in previous posts, Alice wants to have a large family, ideally to give birth to her partner’s children after they are in a stable relationship that can financially support them. Even in Jack’s supernatural state where he has very little impact on the world, she would be keen on having babies with him if that was an option. I went into some detail about how that might go over here in a much fluffier pregnancy scenario.

Jack isn’t going to have to beg too hard to get Alice on board the baby making train. If anything, she would feel concerned that they might not be able to since that is something she really wants. Fortunately, Jack would no doubt encourage her that they won’t know if they don’t try, will they? It would certainly be a lot of fun trying!

Alice does have health complications due to her chronic illness, which is no doubt going to affect any pregnancy she has, even if she’s being treated for her condition. If it got so bad that the recommendation was to terminate the pregnancy... I honestly don’t think she could bring herself to do it. I couldn’t see her choosing to terminate an unwanted pregnancy from Ian in another unfortunate what if scenario I outlined over here after all, and this pregnancy would be very much wanted.

Jack wouldn’t exactly take this dilemma well either. On the one hand, this is his sunshine’s life we’re talking about. Then the life of their child. Can he really afford to lose either of them? There must be another way. There has to be!

As I mentioned in the sunshine dies in childbirth post, I think if that happened, Jack’s tether to the world would be their child. If they were both dead, he probably would be sent back to the VHS. If Alice and/or their baby died, that would result in very bad things and you can pretty much kiss all his healing goodbye. His mental state is going to fracture worse than before from such a tragedy on top of everything he’s gone through for the past 40 years.

Now, I’m gonna be honest with you. I hang out on the vanilla and fluffier side of things. I might consider darker what ifs, even a Bad End AU, but contemplating how it would go if Alice terminated a pregnancy, had a miscarriage, died during childbirth, or she and her baby dying... that’s a bit too dark for me. The furthest I’d want to go is her going through some complications, maybe even a close call, but both mother and baby pulling through okay in the end with Jack being extra clingy as a result.

Though, ideally, I’d like to imagine Jack and Alice having a big family and a happy ending, like the one I painted in this post (even if Ian wasn’t exactly happy in it). Sunshine in Hell ultimately is my attempt at a guarantee that my OTP is going to help each other heal from their scars and grow towards a brighter future together.

@channydraws @earthgirlaesthetic @sai-of-the-7-stars @cheriihoney @illary-kore @okamiliqueur    

[josiewrites]

Okay so for FTR X Reader, the reader is a member of FTR, has been since their WWE days and way before that. The three (much like Edge x Reader x Christian) are in a long term established relationship. The Reader is the longest Reigning AEW Women’s World Champion but ends up having to relinquish due to Pregnancy. Maybe a one shot that shows this trio through the trials & tribulations of the pregnancy & parenthood, as well as leading up to the Reader’s along waited return which is portrayed much like the way Becky Lynch returned after giving birth (Summerslam 2021 for those who don’t know)

Okay, so this was fun. I love the idea of Soft FTR, they just seem like genuinely great guys. Also, this is the part where I mention I've never been pregnant, so I'm going off some of the experiences I've heard. I hope you like it!

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Pairing: FTR/reader

Genre: fluffy

Warnings: discussion of pregnancy and childbirth

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"You're joking." 

Cash's eyebrows shot up as Dax set his phone on the table beside him. 

"Why would I joke about this?" I asked, shrugging. "You really think I'd joke about this? To you two?"

Dax stood, his trembling hands clasping mine, eyes full of adoration. "Oh my god," he whispered, kissing my cheek softly. "You're actually pregnant."

I nodded, Cash stepping up beside his teammate. "I am." Cash and Dax exchanged an excited look, tears forming in Dax's eyes before they embraced. I smiled, knowing how much this meant to both of them. "We are."

I've been with these two for years, even before they joined WWE. When they joined AEW, I went with them, and quickly rose to the top of the women's division, currently holding the championship. I felt my smile falter slightly, as I thought about how I’d have to give that up while I was pregnant.

Cash must've seen my face, and he took my hand softly. "It'll be waiting for you when you're back," he said gently. "This is worth so much more than a title."

I giggled slightly. "I expect that level of sappiness from Dax, not you," I said playfully, laying a kiss on his cheek. "But thank you. Both of you. I'm so excited for our family to grow."

—

"So, do you know which of them is the father?" Britt asked the question I knew everyone wanted the answer to, the championship on her shoulder.

I was in catering with many of the other women, after I announced to everyone I was expecting and passed the title to Britt. I was at the point where taking bumps could be dangerous, and like hell would the boys let me anyway.

"Britt," Jamie chided, the shock in her voice evident, "you can't just ask that."

Britt threw her hands up defensively. "I didn't mean anything by it," she said. "Just curious. Wanted to see which of them we could expect the kid to take after."

I chuckled and shook my head, popping a forkful of my congratulations cake into my mouth. "It's all good," I said smiling. "I know you weren't being a bitch. This time." Britt shot me a playful glare, and I couldn't help but laugh. "We decided not to find out. It doesn't really matter, and they're both going to be dads anyway."

The ladies nodded, and I looked up to see Dax and Cash standing in the doorway, making me smile. I excused myself to stand and go with them. They were going with me to one of my check up appointments, just to make sure everything is okay so far. Though I could tell they were excited, so was I, I also knew they could tell I was upset. 

“Everything okay, buttercup?” Dax asked, resting a hand on my lower back as we walked down the hall. 

“Of course,” I said, but even I heard my own disappointment in my voice. 

“Darling,” Cash said softly, taking my hand. “You don’t have to lie to us. Are you upset about giving up the title?” 

I sighed and nodded, blushing with slight embarrassment. “Yeah. I know it sounds stupid, it’s just a belt, but…” My voice trailed off, turning and burying my face in Cash’s shoulder. 

“You’ll get it back,” Cash said softly, patting my hair. “Remember, you’ll be returning undefeated. And that counts for something.”

“And in the meantime,” Dax said, pulling me close, “you and the baby will get to see us keep being the top guys.”

—

“You guys!” I found myself near tears as I held up the tiny red onesie. The whole roster was crowded around me in catering, all smiles for my impromptu baby shower Billy Gunn organized for me, which was sweet and surprisingly wholesome. 

“I’m glad you like it,” Kris beamed as I showed off the lettering in the front, ‘My Dads are the Top Guys’. “I made it myself.”

“It’s perfect!” I couldn’t hold back the tears anymore, I was just so overwhelmed with joy and emotion from everyone. “You guys are amazing. Thank you all so much.”

I felt arms around me, and I looked up into Dax’s beaming face, Cash right behind him. “Really, guys,” Cash said, picking up a piece of cake. “We can’t thank you all enough for this, for everything.”

“We’re just excited to see the family grow,” Nick said, bumping shoulders with his brother. 

“Definitely,” Matt replied. “Now we’re just hoping you don’t go into labor during a match.” 

“God I hope not,” I laughed as Cash and Dax kissed me on each cheek. “But we have a plan if it happens.”

—

I nervously chewed my nails as I stood in gorilla, watching both of them in the ring. Normally, I’m not nervous about them, but this isn’t a normal match. When the Owen Hart tournament was announced, Cash and Dax immediately knew they wanted to be involved, and I backed them completely.

Then they decided to face each other.

I knew this was just for the tournament, it was all in fun, but that didn’t make me less nervous. Especially with how close to my due date we were.

“They’ll be okay,” Adam Cole said to me, resting a hand on my shoulder. He had a vested interest in this match, seeing as he’d be facing whoever won. “They’re tough, and there’s no way this is getting between them.”

I smiled softly, the nerves in my stomach aching. “I know,” I said, leaning into him slightly. “I just can’t help but worry. Especially…” My voice drifted away as I rested a hand on my swollen belly. 

Cole nodded, his blue eyes sparkling. “Soon, right?” I nodded, then winced. The pain in my stomach I thought was nerves seemed to reappear. “Are you okay?” He reached out his other hand to steady me, calling Britt over.

I gasped as the sharp pain came again, nearly doubling over. Britt ran over and took my hands. “What’s up, babe? How’re you feeling?”

I looked up at her, tears in my eyes, then my glance flicked down to the small puddle at my feet. “Britt, I think my water just broke.”

Getting me to the hospital was a blur of motion. Britt refused to leave my side, making sure backstage knew where I was going when the boys finished their match. She knew she wasn’t needed for this taping, and she didn’t want me to be alone for this. In a haze of drugs and pain, I barely remember Cash and Dax coming to the hospital, both demanding to see me.

I couldn’t help but smile at their faces as they came into my hospital room, both men brought to tears at the sight of me holding their son. Our son. I passed the baby to Dax as I collapsed against my pillows in exhaustion. “So who won?” 

Cash sat softly beside me as Dax bounced the baby in his arms. “Dax won the match,” Cash said, gripping my hand tightly. 

“But,” Dax added, leaning down to kiss my forehead, “I’d say we both won the important titles tonight.” I chuckled at his cheesy comment before dozing off as all three of the men I loved surrounded me

[mewtonian-physics]

mgs parents ranked: go

hell yeah let's fucking go. i'll start with the ones i don't know how to rate.

???: Boris Volgin

I don't know much about this guy but maybe if he didn't want to get killed he should have NOT RAISED HIS SON LIKE THAT

seriously, considering how his kid turned out, he clearly fucked up somewhere. so i may not be able to give a 100% confident rating but i'm pretty sure this guy's a screwup.

???: Johnny

He seems cool but again. I really don't know enough about him to be confident here.

???: Drago Pettrovich Madnar

i don't care about this game

???: Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov

This is another 'seems cool, don't know for sure' situation.

???: Sokolov's wife

I know nothing about this woman.

???: Comandante Valenciano

I know approximately nothing about this man's relationship with his children. It may have been mentioned but half the time I forget PW even exists.

???: Naomi Hunter's parents

I literally don't know anything about these people except that Gray Fox killed them. Rest in peace I guess. Unless they sucked.

???: Kazuhira Miller's father

I mean he doesn't seem to have had much of a relationship with Kaz at all, so... yeah. That 'Dad... I'm an American...' bit kills me though so I kind of don't like him. But I still don't know how to rate him.

???: Kazuhira Miller

His daughter is named Catherine. This is all I know.

???: Huey Emmerich's father

I get the feeling this is another one of those 'you did not raise your child properly' situations, but I don't know for sure, and I don't want to judge him unfairly. I do judge him for his work but that's unrelated to his parenting skills.

???: The Boss's father

Yep, I know nothing.

???: Psycho Mantis's mother

She literally died in childbirth. What the hell is there to rate

???: Raiden's parents

If you read my fic then you know I think they were good parents--if they weren't they could have just given him to Solidus to save their own skin, but they didn't. Still, I don't know anything else about them, it's all speculation.

???: The Boss

On the one hand, she was willing to kill the man she loved to protect their child. On the other hand, maybe don't go into battle while heavily pregnant??? Hello??? Ma'am??? Please stop???

15: Solidus Snake

DIE DIE DIE DIE PERISH IN AGONY oh wait he did. Yay!

Seriously, this guy gets an award for being the actual worst. Starting out your 'relationship' with your 'son' by murdering his actual parents is a bad way to start out a relationship! And then the child soldier bit! And then the attempted murder bit! And the part where he did all of this for some philosophical bullshit and nothing else! I HATE THIS GUY. Way to fuck up Raiden's life permanently, you son of a bitch.

14: Huey Emmerich

Using your son as a guinea pig and then attempting to drown your stepdaughter? Fuck you, Emmerich. Fuck you to hell and back.

13: Julie Danziger

I have nothing to say about this woman except that what she did to Otacon was beyond reprehensible.

12: Psycho Mantis's father

Dude, it is not your son's fault that your wife died, go fuck yourself. Extra go fuck yourself if you were actually going to kill him.

11: Big Boss

Yeah he's barely even a parent. Fuck this guy anyway. Talk about screwing your 'kids' over.

10: Rosemary

Okay, so I don't actually know that much about her parenting skills, but why the hell did she bring John at the end of MGS4? It could have gone so disastrously, she should not have brought John. As much as I love to see Raiden meeting him, that was just... a terrible idea.

9: Roy Campbell

He's far from the worst parent ever, but he's definitely not winning any awards, either.

8: Sergei Gurlukovich

He seemed to have a good relationship with Olga. Win for him.

7: Scott Dolph

He clearly cared a lot about his daughter, and the feeling was evidently mutual.

6: Kazuhira Miller's mother

She put in a lot of work and effort to take care of and raise her son on her own, and only stopped because she got sick. Rest in peace, ma'am. Your son turned out to be a bit of a disaster but that's far from your fault.

5: EVA

I count her both as a biological mother and as a more... whatever she is with the PLA. She seems to care a great deal, and let's be honest. 'Your father never wanted you... but I did.' is so much.

4: The Sorrow

He allowed himself to be killed in order to save his son's life. That's love right there.

3: Dr. Strangelove

She literally died horribly not to save her son's life but to protect him from being used as a test subject. It wasn't a life for a life, it was a life for basic human decency and her son not being treated as a guinea pig. She deserves this ranking.

2: Olga Gurlukovich

She wins ten thousand awards for being the best mother in the series hands down. She did horrible things that she never would have done otherwise all to protect a child she never even met. She gave up everything protecting Sunny, even her ability to live with herself. She died protecting Sunny. She had that much love for her daughter, despite knowing nothing about her. She deserved so, so much better.

1: Raiden

Oh you had to know who was going to get the top spot on this list. He may not have been able to be there for all of his son's childhood (but that's not HIS fault, THANKS ROSE) but just his first response to finding out John is actually his son is so heartbreakingly beautiful. Look at him. He only just met this kid but he already would kill for him, you can just tell. Not only that, but he takes exactly the kind of job he wanted to avoid because it was the only one he could get and he has to provide for his family. Listen to the way he talks about John in the codecs. Look at how he treats children in general. If he's like that with kids he doesn't even know, like George or the other kids he finds in the lab, imagine what he's like with his own son. There is no way he isn't an amazing father. No way in hell.

[cinnamonest]

You know when it comes to Yanderes I'm pretty lenient. Like, yeah you can tie me up to bed and make me never speak to other people again, just don't be boring and I'll be fine, i certainly won't appreciate the murdering of my close ones but it's kind of unavoidable sometimes with them.. no matter how much you convince them that you love only them it's not gonna be enough and they'll still be jealous... and if there's absolutely nothing i can do about it, then might as well accept it. If anything, if you have a pretty face, or just... pretty in general.. then i might not complain at all, you know what i mean?? 😝😆

But. As lenient as i am.. There's this one thing. The only thing that I'm absolutely terrified of is the thing we call pregnancy. Absolutely terrifies me. A-and much to my dismay, i can tell that most of genshin men (hell all of them) probably have a raging breeding kink and i certainly can't stop that😔🥲

So! If you don't mind answering, how do you think genshin men will react to a darling who has massive Tokophobia, which is, indeed a fear of pregnancy and childbirth? Like, full-on breakdowns about it and probably even slewer-side attempts, so it's not easy to ignore at all

(also i really really like your blog, thank you for posting and feeding my deranged brain💕💕)

Ahhh yes same honestly, the thought of it irl freaks me out so much I hope I never get pregnant 😓😓 Also, !REMINDER! to all that when it comes to fears, insecurities and stuff like that, I write it being handled very poorly on their part, often manipulative and controlling or making the problem worse, rather than actual good comfort, due to the nature of my writing. I'm just always cautious in case to make sure people know that before reading especially newer followers who might not know. If someone wants like true fluff comfort, this is probably not the place to go 😅 Our boys are toxic and awful <3

Pretty much all of these have themes of forced impreg/pregnancy, toxicity, guilting/shaming etc so it's below a cut. Also some graphic/crude descriptions of things being joked about that may be bothersome depending on severity of your sensitivity.

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There are some that handle it well, namely Venti. Venti would be so sweet about it, he's very non opinionated on the matter so he'll just kinda go with what you want. He doesn't need anything but you, so he's perfectly happy as it is and would never verbally try to pressure you into it.

The only issue, you see, is that your insides feel amazing and it's like, super duper hard to pull out or wear protection of any kind. And while he tries to, sometimes he just... forgets. He can't really afford meds of any kind, so... it may turn out to be an issue nonetheless. In which case he really does try to be comforting, and thankfully he's rather good with words... but really, he tries to be distracting. You can't be worried if you're not thinking about it! So basically he puts a ton of effort into taking your mind off the matter entirely, making you think about anything else, which is more of less trying to be avoidant, which he can only manage for so long. He's bad at managing panic attacks, because it just makes him start to panic, too, but he really does try.

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Kaeya is fine with it, namely because he has a lot of... negative thoughts regarding the idea himself. Sure, having a kid wouldn't be bad per se, but the thought of you putting so much time and energy and affection into something that isn't him, right in front of him, starts to get under his skin. He's one of the most likely of our boys to actually kinda avoid it entirely... not in a way that would force him to give up pleasure or anything, no, it would have to be hormonal medication for you to take or something like that. He takes good care of you, so it's only fair!

However, should you get pregnant anyway, he's not the best at comforting you about it, namely because he's actually panicking a bit too, and frankly, he knows full well there is no way to comfort you that wouldn't be a blatant lie because, to be honest, he has no idea what to do. He can't get anyone to help, he doesn't trust someone to help him and not go to authorities about the situation. It's not like he can just so would you by chance know how to assist birth haha to a coworker at random, either. Expect a lot of nervousness on his part, which will inevitably make it a lot worse for you by extension. ...Nervousness about how this will affect him and how he'll lose a lot of your attention, of course.

He pretends to be fully confident to dismiss your worries, though, in an effort to try and seem put-together in hopes it'll make you less worried. Nah, it's not a big deal, really! You can't help but notice he seems to move around a lot and avoid eye contact whenever it comes up.

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Kazuha... is somewhere in the middle. He's so sweet! He's comforting and reassuring and calm. He understands. Everyone is afraid of something! He goes on with the comfort for a while actually, telling you he totally gets it and he will always support you, it's not your fault, he understands why you'd be afraid.

...It's not until several minutes in you realize, of all the comforting words, he hasn't outright said he's okay with you not having kids, though. Just that he loves you, supports you, will always be there to help you get through it.

So after a minute you finally gather some courage and outright ask so it's okay if we don't right? And then you see his eyes widen, his soft smile falls. Oh... you mean you... don't want to? He thought you were just saying you were scared, which was hard to deal with considering obviously you want him to put a baby in you. After all, that's the natural way love works, so if you didn't want his babies, you must not love him... but you do love him, right? He asks you with a grip on your shoulders so firm and eyes so unblinkingly wide and empty you know far better than to say no. Okay, so if you love him, it shouldn't be an issue right? Because if you love him, you want to. He can't comprehend how you wouldn't. He would push through any fear for your sake... of course, he trusts you would do the same for him... the thought that you might not want them, and thereby don't love him, does linger in the back of his mind and bother him for a while, but he tells himself that's just more of a reason to get you knocked up sooner. That way you'll realize how much you want it, and then he can help you get over this fear of yours.

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Xingqiu is also pretty in the middle, but pretty annoying about it because he has read exactly one (1) book on pregnancy and believes he is the Expert™ and knows more than you. On the bright (?) side, you will actually be in top-tier care because his family will just hire people who know what they're doing, including a therapist that is supposed to "help you get over it" because they genuinely believe in the "if you have a phobia just try not being scared :)" mentality.

In the end though you're not getting out of it. Need for heirs and all that, it's like, literally your responsibility. He's also extremely infuriating because he too has the mindset that ah, you'll get over it. Just you wait and see, a few months from now and you'll totally be over this silly little fear of yours and be super happy and excited about it! Until then, he can reassure you it'll be okay.

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Diluc and Albedo dig themselves deeper and deeper into a hole with their words.

Diluc understands what you're experiencing a lot better, he gets the concept of a phobia unlike some others, but he's still awful at comforting. He's too practical and thinks he's helping when he's just making it worse, will say things like "well my mom said it wasn't that bad, she only had (insert the worst experience you've heard of in your entire life) so you'll be fine too", and when that only backfires into making you cry and panic (must be those pregnancy hormones?), he has to find one of the maids who has had kids and try to get them to reassure you. At least talking to them helps a little bit.

However, it gets worse as time goes on because unfortunately, what makes him especially awful for this situation is that he gets paranoid and panicked, which in turn certainly does not help you. He starts mumbling about how maybe he should call a doctor, he senses something's not right or something is abnormal, and that just makes you panic so much worse. And then he starts talking in what-ifs and that just sends your mental state into a downward spiral. Ugh.

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Albedo has the same problem, but it sounds even worse with the way he talks about it. "Well statistically, the number of people who sustain injury during childbirth is only--" and then flinch at your interrupting reaction because he genuinely thought saying that would bring you some comfort. Okay. It's certainly not his field of expertise, but he has an anatomy book shoved away somewhere that he had for the purpose of chemical makeup of various parts of the body, but it has a section on pregnancy. See, here's the diagram showing you how--

Okay, so that... made it worse. You're panicking and breathing so fast, that can't be good. He knows he's not the best with words, but he wasn't expecting you to react that badly. Well, no worries. He's actually alright with it... sort of. In theory. He can just... make a kid on his own with your DNA. All organic and gestation-free. Like a plant.

The "in theory" part, however, similar to Venti, comes from the fact that while he can accept not impregnating you as a concept, in practice... well, no way is he going to put you on anything hormonal. Tons of negative side effects, you know (such as a decrease in sex drive, for one!). And pulling out is just... I mean, consider it logically, how would you like to have the best part of orgasm taken away from you? That's right, of course not. And condoms are awful, you literally can barely feel anything. No he's not exaggerating. Here, put this glove on, notice how you can only vaguely feel anything? See, that's what it's like. And cycle tracking... that would have to mean going some days without sex, and it is factual that he needs you as a means of stress reduction, you make him more productive, and you wouldn't want him to fail at his job right? So yes, he nods his head when you mention the fear, it's fine if you want to not get pregnant... he just will take absolutely no measures to prevent it from happening. But no worries. If you're panicked once again when you find out, he can always break out the diagrams again, maybe it will help this time...

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Then we have the worst. Razor, Xiao, and Gorou. For Razor, it's a complete lack of understanding the very concept of a phobia and horrible communicative skills, for Gorou, it's the freakish pregnancy itself, and for Xiao, it's both of those things.

First of all, you will get pregnant. It is only a matter of time. There is no avoiding it. They all have strong breeding instincts and can't be bothered to use any form of protection -- why would you ever pull out when it feels so good? What kind of torture is that? And those things you tried to get him to wrap around his dick feel awful, no thank you. And as for Gorou, well, it's not a choice, he literally can't pull out when he's knotted deep inside you, and condoms don't fit around said knot. Besides, it doesn't matter, they reason, they all try to tell themselves that although you're like this now, once you're bred and knocked up you won't be so panicked.

...Okay, so maybe you are still panicked. Well, that's... not good. Xiao and Razor are basically in the same camp where they genuinely do care and don't want you to be afraid, but also think a simple "it will be okay. You'll be fine" should be enough to eliminate said fear entirely, and will be confused why you're apparently still upset. He just told you it's fine?? Do you need to be told a second time? A third time? Why is it not working... what is it that you do not understand...

But what makes them really bad is that they choose the absolute worst ways to "help". You finally convince Xiao to allow a medical doctor to have a look at you because you're getting sick with paranoia over your health... but it backfires when the doctor tells you he's fairly certain there's more than one, more than two even, causing you to panic and say something about how you're going to have tons of babies... but Xiao decides to reassure you that there is no worries. Tons? It's only like five or six. Not tons of them. The only downsides are the massive amounts of adeptal energy that will probably make you super sick, but he will be there for you and you two can what's with that look on your face why are you crying--

Likewise, Razor decides the best way to help you deal with this fear is by example to show you that it's not bad at all. Thankfully, one of the wolves is pregnant too, so when she gives birth you can come watch. You shake your head and dig your heels into the ground, but since he knows it'll be helpful, it's okay to pick you up and carry you by force, it's for your own good! You'll watch at a short distance, of course, but still close enough so you can see everything in great detail. See, it's not that bad! Look at how happy she is! After a little while he realizes you haven't said much ever since the first one came out, looks over and sees your eyes are closed and you're all slumped over, so he gives you a shake... huh, must have gone to sleep...? Well, that must mean you feel better about it now.

Gorou is on another level in terms of how much he wants it to begin with. Please. Please let him knock you up. Please he promises it'll be fine and there's nothing to worry about and you can carry four puppies just fine and okay maybe he shouldn't have added that part, anyway, please just--

He will literally hump you and whine and whimper about it, if he gets desperate enough. He's far more understanding and considerate of your feelings than the other two, but that makes it honestly a bit worse for him because he wants so badly for you to be happy and love him -- but you just don't understand. You can't understand how bad his need is. He wants nothing more in the world. Maybe, just maybe, he thinks, if he can just... get you into that state... you'll stop being so afraid, maybe?

He's also so apologetic about it the whole time, too. He knows that once he shoves the knot inside you it's more or less a done deal and irreversible, so he keeps mumbling apologies while he ruts into you, thinking that will make up for it. He hates to do something that will make you afraid, but can you really blame him...?

[animeyanderelover]

Thank you for answering my request! I loved it very much 🥰

If it isn't to much of a bother could I request yandere Izuku, Shoto, Overhaul, Shigaraki (Bnha), Sebastian (black butler) Ken Kaneki & Shuu Tsukiyama (tokyo ghoul), Ryōta Kise & Shintarō Midorima (Kuroko No Basket) [all separate] reactions to their darling giving birth and she started to have compilations and at the end of childbirth the baby is healthy but it almost cost the darling life? Please and thank you 😊

If you are uncomfortable with this you can ignore it

I see you did look into my post of favorite Yandere🥰. Also, how could I not answer your request if you just asked so many of my favs? Currently feel in a real mood for Nishinoya though. Do not read if you’re sensitive about such stuff since I know that this is triggering and happens in real life as well.

Tw: Yandere themes, unhealthy mindset, unhealthy relationship, possessiveness, obsessiveness, delusions, paranoia, pregnancy, suggested abortion, s/o nearly dying whilst giving birth

s/o nearly dies whilst giving birth

Sebastian Michaelis

🐈‍⬛He wouldn't want to start initially a family with his darling and won't really talk about it either unless you're the one talking about it first. Demons aren't exactly known to build families in the first place, it's more about continuing their kind and satisfying their own desires since demons do have something called a mating session. Sebastian has it as well and for that it's wise to use some sort of protection because he as sure won't, at least whilst he is in his "heat". Otherwise he as well is ready to use protection if you don't want to risk it.

🐈‍⬛He grows significantly more clingy whilst his darling is pregnant and feels the need to have his scent all over her. He knows that the child will be a half breed and for that not exactly be loved by other demons and every other superhuman creature. It increases also his protectiveness and next to that he also doesn't really know how exactly everything will work out since he has never heard before what happens if a human bears a demon child. He can only guess what might happen based from his knowledge about human and demon biology. But he prepares sure as hell everything.

🐈‍⬛He kind of knows when exactly his mate will give birth and for that will guide her to a safe and secure place he chose so no one will interrupt the three of you. He kind of wants this moment only to belong to you, him and your child and he has everything necessary already prepared. Sebastian had, despite of course also remaining always cautious due to the new situation he's being faced with, confidence that he could handle this and he senses relatively early that something isn't right in here, probably even before the complications really started. It's of course not unheard off, he knows that humans and sometimes even demons go through this trouble. Nevertheless, it's Sebastian's darling we're talking about and coupled with his high senses that things are definitely not going the right way, he feels quite an emotion he isn't used to feel. Fear. He never feared before, he used to not feel much anyways before his darling was introduced to him and he finally understood human emotions better. He started understanding the concept of being afraid to lose something precious to you. But now is the first time he really feels it.

🐈‍⬛Of course we don't know the true extent of his powers, but given the fact that his s/o's body is currently already overwhelmed with trying to push the baby, who is not human, out, he doesn't know how exactly you and the unborn child will react and handle it and he also doesn't want to risk it. He feels beyond frustrated with himself at this point because he can't do anything, the baby and you are already too far in the progress for him to somehow interrupt and all he can really do by now is keeping his darling conscious. Uses his powers to help and support in all ways he possibly can. Sebastian tries to stay calm for his darling because by now he's in all the numbing and blackening pain the only solid rock and she's afraid as well so if she sees Sebastian panicking as well, she'll get discouraged as well and giving up now can end fatal.

🐈‍⬛But the longer this drags on and the more strength you seem to lose, the more he feels the stress and fear getting to him as well. It is without a doubt, if his kitten shouldn't have been in a life-threatening situation before, the most heart breaking and frightening thing he's ever gone through because for the first time he doesn't know what he can do to help you and the baby which means he could lose both of you. Sebastian never met the child before, but he grew already protective over them and he most likely considered turning you into a demon if worse comes to worse which seems to likely before his darling finally delievers the baby, after a nerve-wrecking time for Sebastian. He checks thoroughly yet quick on the baby and wraps them up before also checking on you because now every second might matter and he would never forgive himself if he would have to turn his mate because of his faults into a demon.

🐈‍⬛He's just beyond relieved when everything seems to not have ended in a complete disaster. Sebastian mostly blames himself and doesn't let the excuse that he himself went somewhat blindly into this not exactly count and he apologizes countless times to you afterwards, he truly is sorry. Afterwards he just tries to not leave you or the baby alone for too long and finishes every task the young master gives him as fast as possible only to rush quickly back to you and the newborn baby girl so he can take care of the both of you. He doesn't let you do anything for a whole while, sensing that you still need a lot of rest and he doesn't want you to overwork yourself as long as he isn't sure that you're in the right state to do so. He still starts, despite the shock, enjoying domestic life with his new and small family and is satisfied with one child completely.

Izuku Midoriya

💚Izuku is without a doubt a family man, he has quite literally the baby fever and whilst not forcing you into anything, it is definitely without a doubt a topic that is often discussed with him and he believes you would make a great mum. He just loves seeing you interact with children and whenever he does see you being with small children, he can’t help, but fantasize how it would be if those children would be yours and his. Wouldn’t they look just adorable?

💚He has planned when he will have his first child with his darling which is creepy, but it isn’t like that’s the only thing that he’s planned out for you two. So hearing that his darling is indeed pregnant makes him feel like he’s floating, it is without a doubt one of the best moments in his life and whilst he can be a bit clumsy, he is pretty structured about all of this, the following months since he planned all of this years ago. Has most likely a whole team of professionals booked the moment your water breaks. He’s nervous as hell, sure, but he tries to be confident that he has everything worked out so there should go nothing wrong.

💚So it hits him really hard the moment something starts going wrong. Izuku might have always suspected that something might go not right, he always felt anxious that there might be a miscalculation. But he just somewhat didn’t expect it to be so incredibly bad and the worst is that he doesn’t know what to do. He just knows that he might lose his precious darling and maybe also the baby without ever having gotten the chance to meet them. He just starts crying then and there, losing really all self-control he might have had and just starts sobbing heavily whilst dashing over to his darling, clinging onto her hand and really just trying to comfort her and tell her anything will be fine whilst also begging the doctors to do something, to help you in any way. Izuku just ends up being a sobbing and crying mess, yelling for his darling to stay awake and stay with him that the doctors might just have to push him out of the room since he can’t think rationally anymore. It isn’t easy to do so, Izuku doesn’t even think about letting his darling alone now and the doctors will have to use force to push him outside where he’ll just end up having a complete mental breakdown, not knowing what will happen to his beloved darling and his treasured child.

💚The screams of his darling haunt him for the next few hours. He feels like he’s being stabbed every time he hears it, but as soon as they stop his heart stops beating out of fear that it means the worst. He just sits down on the clean floor, knees not having any strength left and is forced to wait for hours outside, the only things telling him that his s/o is alive being her screams which will torture him in his dreams later on. He loses track of time and is always torn apart between waiting or smashing the door since the nurses and doctors refuse to let him in. But he knows that he currently doesn’t have his powers really under control, not when he is suffering from so many painful emotions at once and he doesn’t want to endanger his darling’s life.

💚So hearing suddenly the scream of a baby clearly makes Izuku jump up from his cowering and crying pose, feeling on the one hand terrified of what happened to you and if his baby got hurt or if both of you are healthy and fine. And now he really can't hold back anymore and just storms into the room just wanting to know whether both of you are fine or not. Whilst Izuku is sometimes more of a crybaby, he can become more unnerving in certain situations like this one. It even scares the doctors and all they can do is tell him that you barely made it, but are out of danger for now and that the baby is healthy. It isn't exactly what Izuku wanted to hear, the knowledge that you could have lost your life is now forever engraved as a scar on his brain and heart and additionally knowing that his baby might have never been able to meet their wonderful mum makes him even more aching.

💚He's not leaving your side, not as long as the doctors can't promise that you're healthy enough to leave the place again. He just starts sleeping with you in the same room, watching over you and the babies (since I hc him with twins, boy and girl), feeling the first few nights a bit too afraid to sleep, the thought not leaving his head that something might happen whilst he's in his dreamlands. He doesn't blame his twins for it, they're literally next to the simple fact that you're still alive, the only people managing to give him a bit of joy after this traumatizing experience and he cries bittersweet tears over them when holding them for the first time. This event just leaves permanent damage on him and he is afterwards too afraid to go through all this again which leads him to not wanting to get you pregnant again. He has his twins and can live happily with that. He can still adopt children later on if he wants to have more with you.

Shoto Todoroki

🔥❄️He actually really wants to start a family with his darling, but doesn’t talk about it unless he’s in his delusional mode again. He just had such a traumatic childhood himself and it makes him somewhat insecure. He just wouldn’t want his children to suffer like he did so despite knowing that he wouldn’t treat his own children ever like his father did, he just feels more anxious about it whilst he’s aware. If he’s delusional he tends to get more dreamy and fantasize more about it since he craves a domestic life with you.

🔥❄️Personally feel like he wouldn't take his darling to the hospital, but rather make sure he builds a room in his own house with all the tools and machines a doctor could possibly ask for when helping a woman giving birth. Shoto is a bit paranoid and it doesn't get better the closer his wife gets to giving birth to their beautiful baby. He's just so frightened that something might go wrong, but also gets in a positive way impatient and nervous the more time passes on since he really wants to meet his baby. Shoto grows just incredibly clingy the more she starts showing and at one point he won't leave his darling's side at all and won't let her do anything alone either. It escalates to the level where he wants to follow her to the toilet.

🔥❄️His reaction is bad, everyone's would be, but his in another sense since his mentality is somewhat tied to his darling's. She's without a doubt Shoto's world just as well as the little baby who he loves already more than anything else, besides his darling and his mother. And he already is so incredibly careful with her and has somewhat of a panic attack everytime she hurts herself in a not harmful way. So just imagine how he will react to this, realizing that his darling has complications. He is not th most informed about the whole topic of giving birth, but even he gets that this could end in the worst end possible and the moment he sees that the doctors are panicking as well, it just really gets to him. He jus stands there frozen for a few seconds, chest tightening painfully until he has the feeling that he can't breathe anymore and heart beating hard and fast against his chest that he has the feeling his ribs might break because it hurts, it hurts too much. That's before he throws any rational thinking out of the window and just wants to run to his darling before he is being stopped by the nurses and doctors who tell him to get out quickly because he shouldn't have to watch this.

🔥❄️Shoto of course absolutely refuses to leave his love alone, by now a sobbing mess who is almost about to go violently against the people who currently try to seperate him from his darling and the baby. It wouldn't be until one of the doctors point out that he's currently not in control of his quirks which he probably didn't even notice until then. He's just having too much of a breakdown currently that he started subconsciously activating his powers, the air already having turned cold and yet so hot. He can't possibly stay in this room as long as he hasn't calmed down and even he will get this that he's currently more of a danger than help, it's the rational side of him so he'll let himself get pushed out, though still begging and sobbing to let him see you, help you, do anything.

🔥❄️It's torture in it's most cruel form for him, being away from his love whilst knowing that she could die at any moment and yet he has to force himself to go somewhere else, his quirks just keep activating themselves due to him not possessing the needed calmness to control them and he doesn't want to hurt his darling and have her die because of his quirk so he ends up stumbling his way as far as he is able to go before he breaks down and has a full out panic attack ending with him freezing up the whole area he's currently in and he can't bring himself to calm down, not as long as he hears his darling's shrill screams clearly echoing through the floors which give him the feeling that his heart will explode any moment in his chest. He's terribly co-dependent on his darling and just knows that he'll do something inhuman if he loses her and his child he always cherishes greatly without ever having met her before (he gets a girl).

🔥❄️He is just beyond traumatized, even after months have passed by and you slowly start feeling better. This event will just keep him up at night and whilst he used to be already terribly overprotective and sensible when it comes to your well-being, now it has reached the point of total paranoia and in a way hit is even justified given the fact that after the birth you were extremely weakened and needed time to get better. Shoto is just too afraid to let you leave the house or even the goddamn room for too long and won't let you do anything which requires too much physical work alone anymore. It is tiring as well as somewhat frustrating, especially after you start feeling better and want to do some things alone because as soon as you do, Shoto already rushes over and helps you with whatever you were about to do which ends in him doing it alone whilst guiding you back to get some rest. The same counts for his daughter because whilst she is said to be healthy, Shoto can't help, but fear that she suffered some damage as well which is why he doesn't let her out of his sight for too long either. She's too fragile to crawl somewhere alone. Shoto has his both angels much rather with him.

Tomura Shigaraki

✋He never really wanted a family, though the thought might have crossed his mind every once in a while. But he has family issues as well, he killed his whole family due to awakening his quirk for the first time and the only reason he can touch you is because he always wears a pair of gloves or, ideal situation, you possess some sort of neutralization quirk which allows you to be immune against any sort of other quirk.

✋Next to that the situation he is in isn't all that ideal either and he knows that as well. He is a villain, kidnapped his darling and keeps moving around from place to place. So he just goes kind of silent the moment his darling tells him she's pregnant. He doesn't really know how to react if he's being honest. On the one hand he's certainly happy, he didn't plan this, but he isn't upset about it. On the other hand he suddenly starts worrying a lot. Will he be a good father? What is he supposed to do when you give birth? What will happen if the child ends up being neglected by him? How is he even supposed to take care of a child?

✋He might be the leader of a bunch of villains, but he is pretty childish himself and lacks the knowledge how to handle this situation. Kurogiri ends up helping him a lot with planning and organizing stuff. Shigaraki will also reassure his darling later on that he's happy since he didn't say anything when she told him which might have discouraged her. He just needs a bit time to warm up to the thought of fatherhood and sees this as a chance to spit onto his father's image and be better than him. Most likely made everyone search for a safe place where hopefully no heroes can find them and brought his darling there in her last weeks of pregnancy. Whilst he was at first stubbornly refusing, Kurogiri managed to convince him in the end to search for someone who can help during birth since no one from the members of the league has a real idea how to assist someone through giving birth. Preferably someone who works in the more illegal area as well and possesses a fitting quirk, similar to a healing quirk like many people in hospitals have. Shigaraki doesn't trust whoever ends up helping his darling when the time has come in the least bit, but even he is aware that no one else would be a great help.

✋Shigi doesn't have the most knowledge when it comes to birth besides the inducing labors. But when even someone like him realizes that something is wrong, chaos is bound to break out. The worst is that he doesn't even know what he can do and how he can help his darling right now and Kumogiri has to stop him from destroying something very important in the sickbay he prepared for this day or, even worse, the person who's supposed to help you. Shigaraki just starts throwing an emotional tantrum and blames everyone around him for the suffering for his darling. The other members for their other uselessness, Kurogiri for not preparing better, the doctor for not helping you, himself for not being able to do anything to help you...He's a mess.

✋Similar to Shoto he is also to a certain level dependent on his darling, he just latches really often on her and her love he receives through her and so he ends up having a complete meltdown too. But different from Izuku or Shoto who are in that moment in tears and too much pain to do much, he reacts a bit differently. He still cries, very much. But he just starts trashing around, wanting to be close to his darling and be able to kill someone the moment they hurt her and/or the baby. And he doesn't let reason go through his head and he is also the leader and if his hands, who literally just twitch to kill someone, shouldn't be enough to make someone shut up, it's the intense and unhinged look he gives everyone who does as much as saying a word. If his darling dies here, he is ready to turn everyone into dust who happens to be in the same room as him and isn't his darling. Everyone else knows that as well and it terrifies them, knowing that Tomura will go into a blinded frenzy the moment he loses his darling and the child.

✋He might have just blamed it on the child as well at the first. But he literally couldn't bring himself to hate his own child when he saw his son for the first time and in the end it was a huge relief for everyone when his darling survived everything and the baby ended up being just fine, a healthy small boy. Shigaraki ends up not finding himself to be able to leave you alone for a very long time afterwards, not by a long shot. He just nearly lost you and his baby and for that flatly refuses to leave your side for longer than two minutes which are already too much. And different from before, he doesn't even leave anymore when you reassure him that you'll wait for him and even Kurogiri can't talk him into leaving you and your son alone. And it definitely isn't a good idea to try to be a bit more forceful because it ends with one of his bare hands grabbing onto the person, only one finger preventing grabbed body part from complete extinction. If they have to talk with him about important stuff, they'll have to do it in the same room all three of you stay and even then they have to be careful because Shigaraki will force them to leave the moment either you or the baby seem to get annoyed with this all.

Overhaul/Kai Chisaki

🦠Kai is another one who never really had plans to start a family and doesn't consider himself to be a good father either. He doesn't really keep secrets from you either and so you most likely know how he treats Eri which might just end up with you feeling terrified the moment you find out that you're carrying and you most likely found out due to Kai. He just checks weekly on you and so he's just bound to find out that you're pregnant with his child and he offered you an abortion at first, not wanting you to carry something you don't want either.

🦠He ends up feeling flustered if you decide to keep his baby which he put by accident into you. Nevertheless, he ends up preparing everything months before since he wants everything to be perfect the moment you have your contractions. Kai is from all the people from My Hero Academia the one who has the most knowledge about the human body and biology due to him experimenting constantly on Eri, though this was a bit different. But it won't take him long until he has collected enough knowledge about the topic birth as well.

🦠The thing about Kai is that due to his obsession and focus on keeping his darling pure and safe from other filth, he is pretty much the only one who will help you through the process of giving birth. It's just his confidence as well as fear talking out of him and he doesn't really wants someone to see his darling in such a vulnerable and weak moment either. He already keeps his darling away from pretty much anyone else so she can keep her purity and won't get hurt by anything and anyone else and he finds himself getting more intense with this opinion on him the more time passes by and for the first time in his life he really starts thinking about family and having to raise a child. And not just anyone's child. It's your and his child and after he's gotten over the first shock he finds himself searching for your company more than usual, a sudden desire to be closer to you washing over him as well as trying to bond with you more than normally, coming to the conclusion that he at the very least wants to try to give his child a good life which should start with a good relationship between the parents. Also starts checking even more on you than usually, watching especially the baby which turned out to be babies in the term of twins, a surprise, but a pleasant one.

🦠Whilst he doesn't let anyone in the same room as long as everything is under his control, there will be a lot of guards being placed around the hideout who are ordered to keep even as much as a fly away from his darling whilst Chisaki guides her through birth. As mentioned, he's well informed about the whole process of contractions and giving birth which is why he will notice swiftly that something seems to go wrong which leads in him increasingly worrying. Kai hates it when things doesn't go the way he planned to do it and especially when it comes to the safety and well-being of his darling, he ends up becoming extremely inhuman and cruel, letting his rage out on everyone who happens to pass by him.

🦠So the moment Kai calls for help, everyone will start fearing for their lives because the look in his eyes says it all which puts extremely much pressure on the people who were chosen to assist him in case of an emergency because Kai's string of patience is strained up, the danger of snapping at any moment and one wrong movement from one of the people in the room and they'll end up as a wet stain. He doesn't throw a tantrum, he doesn't cry, he looks much more composed than everyone else. But one look in those dark glinting eyes and his extremely tensed up form and you'll know that you fuck up if you tick him off. He just gives short and angered demands, hissing at everyone to go to their work and if they happen to touch you in the wrong way, they're dead. They aren't allowed to touch you with bare hands anyways and they just know that Kai will go berserk if something happens to his darling or to his babies and he won't care if the people he kills are his men or not. Everyone knows that and it ends up being torture for everyone.

🦠So if his darling ends up surviving, everyone else will as well, though they aren't out of danger either. Because the following days where his darling takes a well deserved and demanded break from everything, he's more on edge than normally and for that more trigger-happy than usually. Whoever ended up helping him giving birth is absolutely forbidden to ever mutter a word about it or else Chisaki will erase their petty presence from this planet without any regrets. If someone wants to talk to him, it'll have to be about something really important because Kai has more impotant things to do than playing the role of a leader who really cares about his pawns. He much more prefers to check on the twin's and your health at least twice a day. Similar to Shigaraki he blamed the children as one of the reasons why you had to go through this though he quickly stops thinking that way after having checked over the two boys for the first time and getting a chance to observe them closer and he ends up finding himself getting more emotional over them than he actually thought he would. He ends up becoming even more provident than during pregnancy since you as well as the children need a lot of caring and attention right now.

Ken Kaneki

🔲Kaneki has other worries than thinking too much of a child which would be how to convince you to not think of him as a monser and how to get to your love which he just craves. Kaneki is someone who's mentality is dependent on how his darling feels, in general and about him. If you're upset, he's as well, if you're crying, he feels devastated and if you should fear him, he snaps in an emotional sense. So he wouldn't really even want a family unless he is sure that you're in love with him as well.

🔲Next to that the chance of Kaneki falling for a human darling is higher than for a ghoul darling which somewhat stirs up the question whether the baby will die in the womb or if not, his darling will even deliever successfully and what sacrifices would have to be made in order to give birth to the child. So there are just a lot of insecurities and worries the moment he hears that his s/o is pregnant and whilst he is also happy, he also fears that you'll lose the embryo or will have a teratism. And this wouldn't be good for your and his mentality because Kaneki would quickly get attached to the littly baby.

🔲No matter if you're a ghoul or a human, in either case many people don't know whether you'll actually give birth or not, though the chances would be higher if you are a ghoul, making the baby a natural half-ghoul who can eat and digest human food as well. If you are a human, there are also chances that you might give birth to a half-human, whose lifetime is significantly different due to aging faster. So Kaneki and the darling go both with a lot of insecurities into the pregnancy and Kaneki honestly just tries to prepare himself for a possible miscarriage or even that his darling might want an abortion in which case he would with an aching heart agree. If she however decides to keep the baby and is even ready to engage into canibalism to increase the chance of a successful birth, Kaneki would feel incredibly pained due to the other love his darling shows by doing so if she should be a human and in a way he would even try to stop her at first, but would stop the moment she confesses how much she wants this baby in which case he would stop. With a ghoul darling he would have to worry less and allow himself to be happy so much faster than with a human darling since he would be just scared of getting his heart broken by a not healthy child.

🔲He doesn't really want to go to a human hospital with his darling when the day of birth comes due to fearing that if the baby happens to be a half-ghoul, might end up getting killed together with his s/o. He ends up asking his friends for help and if they perhaps know a trustworthy doctor who can be there for him and his darling when it comes down to his darling's water breaking. Asking Tsukiyama wouldn't be the best option for him since Kaneki knows that the guy wants to eat him so he doesn't trust him with you and the unborn child either, though Tsukiyama would find out the one or another way and offer help since he has money and contacts. In the end the purple-haired male is still the best option Kaneki will have, but he makes it fairly clear to him that he'll kill him if he even attempts to devour you or the child and he's dead serious which is bound to scare Shuu a bit. Touka might accompany him since he asked her to do so and she most likely is some sort of friend for the darling.

🔲In the end it is somewhat the other way around. Shuu and Touka will have to hold Kaneki back before he ends up ripping violently away whoever is guiding you through the process of giving birth to the baby the moment he sees that something goes the wrong way. It awakens the worst strike of paranoia in him and suddenly everyone near his darling is seen as danger and hearing her horrific screams and seeing her wiggling and crying form is like pouring gasoline in an already bright burning inferno. It doesn't end well and in that moment he doesn't care that Touka is a friend of his or that Shuu just tries to help, he will hurt anyone who stands between him and his darling which leads to a fight breaking out where Touka and Shuu will have to team up in order to drag him away from the room so the doctors can do what Shuu called them for. And trying to reason with Kaneki will be useless because in that moment the only thing he can hear are his darling's screams which shake his mentality and heart up dangerously every time.

🔲He can't even bring himself to calm down after that doctors confirm that you're out of any life-threatening danger because him getting to know that you barely made it is traumatizing enough so the only thing that keeps him from losing it there and then is the fact that his darling is at the very least still alive and the baby, which will be a half-ghoul, is healthy. It's best if he is left alone for the next few days with his darling and Shuu might just allow him and his new family to stay for as long as needed until you have regained the needed strength to walk on your own again. Whilst Kaneki appreciates the help, he still ends up not letting anyone inside the room where you and your little daughter are resting and he can say with confidence that he is already deeply in love with his little girl the moment he saw her for the first time and both of you would be very relieved that your baby ended up being a half-ghoul which makes Kaneki on the other hand more warily around Tsukiyama. Kaneki ends up just shooing everyone who might want to see his newborn baby away, feeling too frightened to let anyone near you as long as your whole body is so extremely weakened and as long as his little daughter is so small and frail.

Shuu Tsukiyama

🍷Shuu is hard to deal with due to him being a mix of worshipper and clingy yet also a sadistic Yandere. He's just attached extremely to his darling and yet he likes seeing her in pain if he's pushed enough and if his darling is a human, she'll have to endure him feeding from her from time to time, though he might also do it if she's a ghoul. It makes quite the turbulent relationship with him either crying and being all dramatic or a sadistic piece of shit and if it wouldn't be for his father stepping in at one point and lecturing his son, this would have continued.

🍷Shuu's father sees that his son adores you, but chooses the wrong way to show it and for that will scold his son for treating you so cruelly. He welcomes you rather warmly into the family, no matter human or ghoul, and ends up taking on the role of a therapist for his darling as well as Shuu to help both of them with their problems. It helps you a lot because thanks to his dad, you'll be freed from getting eaten from time to time or having to endure a sadistic Shuu. On the other hand it awakens something else in Shuu and next to reaching the maximum of sickenly sweet infatuation with you, it makes the thoughts of starting a family suddenly be all over his mind.

🍷He talks with it about his father, only if you should be human that is, since ghouls and humans can in most cases not create any children and even if it happens, in only rare cases a half-ghoul is born. His father will of course also ask whether you want to have a child as well or not because if you don't want a child, he won't help his son with this. If you do want a child with Shuu as well, he is ready to collect as many informations as possible how a human and a ghoul can have a higher chance of giving birth to a half-ghoul. If human, he'll also have to inform you about that you would have to start eating human flesh so the child gets the needed nutrions. So the moment Shuu gets his darling pregnant, his father will be the first one to be informed so he can instantly order a team from different doctors and assistants who will watch over you and the baby since now his grandchild is being involved. And Shuu is with his joy over the moon, all excited to meet his little sweet baby as soon as possible and don't worry, if you're human he won't taste from his child. His father wouldn't let him touch his grandchild that way in the first place and Shuu doesn't plan on doing it anyways.

🍷Mirumo, Shuu's father, checks over your health weekly and Shuu wouldn't have it any other way either.And he almost fainted when he found out that you were carrying twin girls which led him to growing even more clingy, knowing that he'll be blessed with not only one, but two pretty princesses. His father will have to remind him that you need some private space as well, especially since you're pregnant with two babies. At one point Shuu just lets the servants do everything for you, not wanting you to overdo anything and hurt you or the babies accidentally. It's in a way annoying, but he can't help himself with it either and doesn't think of it as bad either. He's just taking care of his three girls. You'll also give birth in the mansion, no question about it. That's what his father hired after all a whole team of professionals and people he trusts. Shuu actually kind of forgets that something might go wrong, especially if his darling is human. He doesn't really want to think of it either, he refuses to.

🍷And if it wouldn't be for his father, the man would end up going on a rampage whilst suffering from a terrible meltdown. His father will have to somewhat restrain him physically together with a few of the servants in the household or else he'll just disturb the doctors who are trying to help his darling. The whole household is affected by this because everyone looked forward to this day and most likely started counting Shuu's darling as official family as well as the little girls in her stomach. It just hits everyone hard, but Mirumo tries to stay as the head of the family strong, for the darling as well as Shuu who is suffering unbearable pain at the moment. Shuu just can't imagine a life without his darling, he's fallen too deep into obsession and doesn't want to live without his darling either, especially now that he thought he might have a happy family. His father tries to help him as much as possible, though he is deeply worried himself since he as well was happy with the thought of being able to meet his little granddaughters. But he also has faith in the people he hired. He chose them for a reason.

🍷Everyone is able to let a paused and long breath out the moment news spread around that Shuu's darling survived and the twins are healthy as well, and in case of you being a human rare half-ghouls. And no one can blame Shuu exactly if he just storms over to his darling, pushing everyone away just to see them after having gone through hours of enduring her screams and having to live with the thought that he might lose everything. He just cries for a long time, though now at the very least he cries tears of pure relief as well as happiness when he finally gets to hold his little daughters with whom he falls madly in love in less than a second. He afterwards doesn't want to leave your side, starting to feel incredibly uneasy if he isn't near you or his daughters. He blames himself for having put you through all of this, though definitely not blaming his baby girls for it and ends up doing everything for you. The servants offer to help him, but he just refuses since he wants to do everything for you now himself. But after some time peace will find it's way back into the manor with the lovely addition of Shuu's two new princesses who will be shamelessly pampered by pretty much everyone.

Ryōta Kise

✨He would later on be very much into having children, though that wasn't always the case because when he was younger, he used to be possessive surprisingly much over his darling, not ready to share her with anyone else, not even family members. It wasn't like he forbid you to spend time with your family, but he also expected you to spend afterwards especially much time with him or else he grew a bit more overbearing. He was even back then already so incredibly needy for affection from his darling.

✨It was after some years had passed on that he started considering the thought of having a real family with his darling. He still was somewhat unsure, knowing that a child would need very much attention which he didn’t really like sharing. He loved your attention the most when on him. It wouldn’t be unless he would see you for the first time interacting with children, seeing how you care for them before suddenly this thought hits him that this could be your child. It’s at first really just a random thought, but it’ll manifest itself in Kise’s brain until it’s engraved there and he is somewhat enamored with the thought of having his own child with you.

✨Wouldn't that be somewhat like the ultimate sign of love? Having a child which is the enbodiment of your and his love? And wouldn't he/she be a pure cutie? These are the thoughts which will lead him into quickly starting to talk with you about the topic children and starting a family. He wouldn’t force you at the beginning, understanding to a certain point that you might be more unsure about it which is why he’s fine with only trying to talk you into it as well. He does get more pushy with it over time, but despite anything he would never force it into you because even he with his delusions understands that this can have a very heavy affect on how you’ll raise the child and Kise wants a happy family which is the reason why he is willing to wait, though you’ll realize at a certain point that he is somewhat desperate to have a child, wanting to be able to fulfill one of his dreams he has with you.

✨The media is bound to find out about your pregnancy, no matter how much Kise tries to hide it. Because whilst he is definitely always ready to use his fame and his popularity to blackmail you into certain things, it is something different in here. The spotlight can be annoying for him as well, especially if it interferes with his time he could have with you. And he plans on spending a lot of time with his darling when he finally finds out that she is indeed pregnant which makes him totally joyful. And instead of flashing lights and questions about when the baby will be born, he knows what you and him need now is time alone to indulge into everything regarding the child and birth and he finds himself growing really fond of the baby and the thought of being a father. He’s excited and really does act sometimes like an impatient puppy regarding the birth of his kid.

✨Has a whole freaking hospital wing reserved for his darling the moment her contractions start and most likely rushed with her to the hospital the moment her water broke down, avoiding all sorts of paparazzis on his way. He really was excited at first which changed in the blink of an eye when he noticed how all the staff seemed to start getting a bit more hasty and desperate and adding up with the fact that you seemed to have extreme troubles as well as being in extremely much pain, he was all too quickly brought down, instead fear starting to fill all of his senses. Kise just wasn’t expecting this, he was too caught up in his own happiness and never considered the fact that something like this could happen. He did paid after all a whole team of professionals for this and for this will snap at them in the most scariest way possible and with the most unnerving look he could possibly give someone. It’s frightening and due to him getting extremely unhinged the doctors will have to ask him at one point to leave the room, ending with having to force him out because he refuses to leave. And as soon as he's seperated from his darling, the anger temporarily fades away ans is instead met with despair which will lead to him knocking whatever happens to be near him over and spilling hot and anxious tears.

✨It’s one of the very few times where he’ll go as far as even intimidating the public instead of only showing this side to people when they’re alone. Reason is that because as soon as news spread out that you nearly died whilst given birth to a healthy boy, some people will be insensitive enough and want to ask you and your husband questions about this accident. And this is just such a huge no for Kise, it was a traumatizing experience and will be the easiest way to trigger him in the future and he refuses to share this event with anyone else. He most likely even already threatened the doctors to keep their mouth shut and also has so much more important things to do than answering interviews and questions. He takes afterwards just a break until he feels convinced that you have regained enough energy to do things yourself and he himself has calmed down enough to face the cameras again. He wants to spend time with you and his son just now because the knowledge that he could have lost both is something he will remember in his deepest dreams. But no matter how many years pass by, whenever someone asks him about this topic, the look in his eyes changes in a chilling way.

Shintarō Midorima

⭐Midorima strikes me as a more classic guy, meaning he has the same classic dream which would be having one day a family with his darling, after marrying her that is. It's actually ridiculous how early on he decides that he wants to have all of this with you and he knows that as well which is why he never told you anything about this whilst you two used to be younger. He might have talked about marriage, but not about the topic children. You two were still too young and yet he was rather busily already thinking about it all.

⭐But there have to be a couple of fulfilled conditions until he would actively try to talk you into the topic of children. The timing is important and I am not talking only about the goddamn horoscopes of his, though he would certainly try more active if they say it's a good time to try. But next to that both of you have to be old enough and responsible to raise a child, you two have to be financially stable so you care for all the coming necessities. But most importantly would be that you would have to want to start a family with him as well because he won't do anything as long as he isn't sure you're fine with this as well.

⭐️But if you do agree and tell him you want a family as well, there’s nothing stopping him from trying anymore and he is really thoroughly with everything. Most likely has informs himself when you have your most prolific days and he doesn’t care if this comes over as creepy or not, he just has decided that he wants a family and you were okay with it either. He also has literally already made pans for the education for the child and when and where they will attend school, even though he plans on talking with you about this later on. He also makes of course a great deal about on which date they will be born and which zodiac sign they'll have because it could influence their whole life a lot. That means as soon as you two find out that you are pregnant, he instantly tries figuring out which zodiac sign his child will be born under. At the same time he starts to read himself intensely into books of labor pain, pregnancy, the embryo and the topic of giving birth and he works himself pretty up with it.

⭐He finds himself becoming pretty much the caretaker of you during the following months because whilst he isn’t that overprotective that he babies you, he definitely started stepping more in whenever you tried to do something which required a bit more power than your currently swollen body could handle. He also visits the hospital often with you, checking if the baby is healthy and fine and also organizing how everything will go the moment he brings you into the hospital months before it is happening. At home he’s also busily choosing names with you and also introducing his plans of the future education of the child to you which makes you shake your head since no normal parent thinks that structured before the child is even born. He will also get a lot of calls from his teammates since everyone wants to meet the future parents and he always rejects these calls gladly, at least until Takao and the rest popped randomly up in front of his house and he had to let them in.

⭐️He has planned all of this months ago so he has actually faith that everything will go well unless your and his horoscope told him that today something catastrophic will happen. That would make him make him more tensed up, always fearing that anytime something will go terribly wrong and he just dearly wishes that today the horoscope will be wrong which wouldn’t be the case. It isn’t like Midorima doesn’t try to stay calm, but he just ends up failing miserably and it is visible for everyone. Her shaking physically, breath slightly erratic, trying to desperately prevent himself from hyperventilating whilst at the same time pretty much snapping at everyone to somehow help him, the panic audible. It isn’t like he didn’t read about this, he most likely did, but he just knows that he doesn’t possess the necessary experience. So he is the one who manages to think the most calmest and leave the room when the nurses ask him to, knowing that he’ll end up being more of a nuisance than help. He just sits somewhere outside, heavy silence filling the air with him overthinking everything he did and asking if he could have done something differently. He’s scared out of his mind.

⭐️He kind of tries not to cry, but he is bound to cry out of relief when the doctor tell him that everything went barely alright and you’re out of any life-threatening danger and that the baby is healthy. Similar to Kise he refuses to talk afterwards with anyone about it since it makes him lose his cool and he kind of expects people to know that it’s incredibly impolite to talk about something like this and it ends with him impolitely talking down to whoever asked him, even if it’s a friend of his. Coming to the topic of friends, he doesn’t let anyone inside the house for a very long while, not wanting to risk someone carrying something inside which might attack your already weak immune system. To other people it might seem like this all didn’t affect him too greatly, but in reality it’s quite the opposite because he literally can’t fall asleep for a long time afterwards, the thought that you and his daughter might have both died haunting him and it ends with you having to calm him down a bit since he starts overthinking this all too much.

[silentprincess17]

Ok, girl, you can't pump out all these titles and expect me not to be curious about all of them. 😂

I have a vague idea for the first, but the rest?!

Sometimes not everything is as it seems

The Adventures of G1007

The Bad Trope with Epilogue

HAHA this sort of tag game just exposes how many WIPS I secretly create and store away lmao. I love your enthusiasm and thanks for asking about three of them @zeldaelmo!

So: Sometimes not everything is as it seems is a completed and edited 20k fic that is the backstory of Alleyn, Link's father, in my For You series. Alleyn is not a good father, and he emotionally (and financially too although that one he doesn't explicitly realise) abuses Link. And this fic details, essentially, how that came to be. It's quite angsty, and it's also the first thing I've written in first person because it's a diary.

It's difficult to find a snippet that makes sense without all the other entries, but here's one from when he finds out Eliana (Link's mother) is pregnant:

Goddesses, I don’t think I’ve experienced so many emotions in one day, which is saying something really. I vacillated between excitement and an ugly mixture of anxiety, fear, and worry.

The day started off as it normally did, with Eliana snuggled in my arms. This is normally the most relaxing part of the day, a chance to just savour the feel of her close and warm and be grateful that she saw something redeemable in me. But today, she absentmindedly mentioned that she had suspicions that she might, in fact, be pregnant. She had already booked an appointment with the midwife in a few hours, apparently, and she would shortly find out.

I was initially shocked. To begin with there was the obvious family history she had with regards to childbirth, and that scared me. I couldn’t lose Eliana. I don’t think I would ever recover from such a loss. Secondly, fatherhood is not… well, it’s not something I was wholly against, but it is, rather stupidly, not something I had ever really considered.

I don’t know if I am ready. Or if I ever will be.

Because this ask turned out to be quite long- the next two are under the cut!

The Adventures of G1007, meanwhile, is a lighter fic that takes place as a side story in my For You world again. (I clearly have... too many ideas in this AU). It essentially details the efforts of Zelda, Robbie, Granté and Link to develop the first functioning Guardian Scout. They have no AI systems, so the whole thing is being piloted in this one poor guardian: G1007.

Unfortunately, I have no experience with software/AI/how this is supposed to work, so it's going to take a lot of research. I do have friends in that field however, and the document they sent me back with feedback overwhelmed me and I need time to sit and process it haha. So currently, this work is more of a fantasy that vaguely exists in my WIP Folder.

A snippet (which is as accurate as I could get it thus far aha):

A ^SilentPrincess^ identified in screen view

A ^GeniusEccentric^ identified in screen view

A ^CourageousHero^ identified in screen view

_New Command: *Move*

Function for *Move*

_First: -Activate limb-

In horizontal axis

_Activate primary motor in Limb All

_Activate secondary motor in Limb A

_Activate tertiary motor in Limb A

Processing First Command: Activating primary motors in All Limbs In Horizontal Axis

#Success#

Link had to stop himself from screaming as the G10-something parachuted into the air. Whatever the hell that thing was, he had absolutely no trust in it. 

At all. 

Goddesses knew why he needed to be trained with those things. All he knew was that Robbie was screaming and he reacted, grabbing Zelda to move her behind him, shield out in front of them both.

(If anyone is actually interested in why the guardian reacted this way let me know and I’ll try my best to explain lol)

And finally haha, The Bad Trope with Epilogue is actually my Yiga Clan series: Sometimes It Takes Losing It All, To Gain Everything You Deserve. The Bad Trope, in particular, refers to Sometimes Things Have To Get Worse Before They Get Better, because I came up with this fic using a bingo bad prompt exchange with my friend. I ended up liking the concept of it so much, that it turned into it's own series. The epilogue part refers to the other works spawned off, one of which I've again separated for ease of access: Pre-calamity Yiga Clan fluff, and the other epilogue is set during BOTW as Link recovers his memories... 

As I've already shared snippets of the pre-calamity fluff in this Zelink Kisses thread (made by you @zeldaelmo haha) here’s a snippet of the during botw fic:

“You can sit by the fire if you want.”

Did he?

He didn’t actually know.

He thought about it for a second. Maybe he’d actually regain some sense of consciousness if he did stare into the flames.

He sort of wanted to explore the land a little, but… maybe before he did that it was worth a shot exploring himself.

He decided it was worth it, just to take stock.

As he sat down, he realised that at the minute, he knew a grand total of one fact about himself: his name was Link. Even that, he hadn’t actually known- The Voice had spoken (um, actually, did it count as speaking if he heard it in his head?) and told him so. It was a pretty voice. Felt comforting for some reason. Oh, and he’d been asleep (?) for a while. A “long” slumber was what The Voice had called it. He decided the minute he heard The Voice he would trust it, implicitly. Whoever The Voice belonged too had clearly taken pity on him, given him his name, and a- well. A “slate”. Perhaps it did more than just have glowing circles on it but right now that wasn’t an immediate priority.

Why had he decided to trust The Voice? Was it just because The Voice knew him? Or because he was clutching at straws and if he didn’t trust The Voice then who else would he trust? This strange Old Man?

Okay that was harsh. He had let him have the baked apple after all.

Link- he was Link. He sighed. Who was Link? Who did Link know? Who was involved in the life of Link? Did Link have a family? Clearly The Voice knew Link. Who was The Voice to Link?

He frustratingly glared into the black abyss that was his memory, all of it gone. Empty. He felt a wave of sadness crush into him, for a family who might be waiting for him, but he didn’t know, and had no idea how to get back to.

And that is it! Thank you very much for the ask @zeldaelmo, and for all of you who have read up to here haha. It was really fun, opening up these WIPs that I have not looked at in a while! 

[brideofcthulhu10]

The Lost Boys Find Out Their Fem!S/O is Pregnant [4/4]

SUBJECT WARNING: PHYSICAL AGRESSION, SEXUAL THEMES AND A WHOLE LOT OF SWEARING. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED!

Alrighty then, my lovely fang babes! Here we are, we have the last of the first edition of the pregnancy saga! Worry not, dearest readers, for there is hope! I plan on doing a separate series about going through the pregnancy, and maybe even going through the childbirth with how the boys are as new dads. Let me know in the comments if you'd like to see more, and by tomorrow night we'll have a whole new set to love!

It was such a blast writing Paul's, I'm not gonna lie I got lost in the magic! We have a cute little character cameo for all you 80s movie nerds, lemme know if you can figure out what it is! So, without any more delays; here he is. The gorgeous, the goofy, the one, the only:

PAUL

Today had been an unexpected challenge. You barely got through your shift at the record store, every time you were in light it made you dizzy. Hangovers had nothing on this! Did you drink too much the night before? No, now that you thought about it any attempts to drink had you hugging a toilet. Not to mention your period was late as hell! Well, not the cramps, go figure. Just no blood. None at all. 

You never let on to your beau, Paul, though. The party boy vampire would become overly worried if you told him you were sick, and you weren't about to spoil a good time with a bit of nausea. So here you were, stumbling about the day into the late afternoon absolutely miserable. Your manager Iona offered you some crackers and ginger ale during your lunch break. No dice, within an hour you were running to the bathroom again. 

"Gosh hon, I dunno what ta tell ya. Maybe you ate something nasty, I told you that boardwalk food was fishy," Iona sighed, poking at her own lunch with a fork. Currently your coworker Andie was watching the front until you were feeling better.

"Kill me now, Iona," you groaned, chin resting on the table with your arms laid over your head. Then there was a smell. The greatest, most flavorful, mouthwatering scent you've ever experienced. Like a honey baked ham and a New York sirloin had a glorious new baby drizzled in ecstasy. Glancing over, your stomach growled at whatever it could be. If this were a cartoon you'd be flying to what it was.

Oddly enough, it was coming from Iona. Well, whatever black stuff was in her little plastic tupperware dish. Who cares what it was, it smelled incredible.

"Hey uh..," you asked, leaning over towards the sticky, mysterious delicacy calling your name. "You wouldn't mind if I had a bite, would ya?"

"You sure, hon? This isn't exactly your average dish, it's kinda weird," she tried to explain. God you couldn't take your eyes off it! Finally, your merciful manager pushed it your way, and you couldn't resist any longer. 

"I don't even care, this is the first thing in the past two days that hasn't made me nauseous," you muffled between cosmic bites.

Oh shit, this was heaven! It had to be some sort of meat, it reminded her of a nice spicy kielbasa, a slow roasted brisket, every second it changed to some new world of food you had never tried. What it was didn't matter by this point.

"Wooow. I've never met someone who liked black pudding that much."

Pudding? "I thought it was meat or something? It doesn't taste anything like pudding," you insisted, polishing off the very last specs of it. "Got any more?"

"No, no, not like chocolate pudding or stuff like that, kiddo. black pudding. It's this dish from the UK my new boyfriend made me. It's congealed pig's and cow blood mixed with spices."

You made a face. Blood? Like, blood blood? The cow equivalent of what Paul drank on a daily basis? Yet this was the first time you didn't puke, in fact, you kinda wanted more. Even knowing what is was made of.. for some reason you craved more. Meanwhile Iona continued to talk on and on, until one phrase caught your ears. "Yea, ya know my mom was so into for the longest time. Said she craved it her whole pregnancy, I never got a taste for it honestly."

A single thought popped into your head. A dangerous, foreboding thought that your intuition said was very much a possibility. In a flash you jumped up, nearly slamming your hands on the table. "I gotta go. Oh shit, I gotta go! I'll be right back, I swear, I'm so sorry, I swear to god I'll be right back," you shouted as you bolted out of the store.

"Wait what-?!"

You'd make it up to her once you got back. You had to know! You had to be sure..! Please just let it be paranoia! Please let it be anything, anything at all besides what you thought it was!

Once you reached the nearest CVS you made a B-line to the women's health section. Your hair clung to your face, your lungs stung like crazy but all you could think about was getting answers. And cue the disapproving glare of some old bat picking out a box of pads. Alright being 17 in front of the pregnancy tests looked bad. You weren't just a high schooler, you looked it too. "What're you looking at, " you snarl. Immediately she clutched her pearls, startled by this abrasive youngin' in no mood for dirty looks. God why'd there have to be so many options? Pink boxes, purple ones, bright yellow insisting it worked the fastest. The heavy fluorescent lights were no help at all, it made your head spin. You had no time for this crap. In a sweeping motion you grabbed three different brands and threw them into your basket, all you needed was….where was your wallet? Shit... Glancing around you checked for any nearby cameras or staff. Karma be damned, it was an emergency! Five finger discount it was. 

Once again you made a mad dash back to the record store as the sun finally set. All three boxes were crumpled in your hand, your boots running so fast it you hit a rock that'd be it.

But getting back to the record store was your best bet. You weren't about to pee in some dirty, old, nasty pharmacy bathroo- oh fuck. There was something that finally slowed your steps, nearly making you trip in the process. Four bikes parked right outside. Three of which were occupied by by Dwayne, David and Marko all talking amongst themselves.

Shiiiit, shit, shit! All you could do was swear repeatedly. Before they could spot you, you practically dove into the alleyway behind the store, rapidly disabling the alarm. If that went off it'd be a dead giveaway. Quickly you looked left and right before you slammed the door shut behind you still trying to catch air.

But there, right past the door to the employees lounge, over by the counter you could see a mass of blonde hair chatting away with Iona about Led Zeppelin's best album to date. Paul, gorgeous as every, laughing. It made your heart flutter, but then it sank. What if it was a-... He was never the type to run away from a challenge. But then again, a kid wasn't a challenge, it was a massive ordeal. It would take a huge chunk of his life- well, afterlife! Boozing and cruising would be switched out with drowsy days and busy nights. You weren't sure if you wanted him to know if you were, it would take all that from him. Unfortunately, he must've smelled you or sonething, because immediately he turned around like a puppy being called.

"Babe," he cheered with delight, rushing over to hug you. Rather squeeze you by your hips and lift you four feet off the ground. Quickly you stuffed the skinny boxes into your back pocket, now smushed up against his chest. "Where were you? Ion's said you just bolted mid-shift, we were worried sick! Well, I mean, I was more worried though, cuz I can't stand you bein' gone, kitten."

"Well, yeah uh, I forgot something I had to get at the store, and I forgot what time I got off," you hesitated, still antsy to escape to the bathroom. Truthfully you didn't actually want to, you had to! If you could, you'd just kiss him and ride off into the night to raise some hell like you always did. But this was too big to ignore.

Paul raised a brow. You weren't known for being this jumpy. You wouldn't look him in the eyes, they just kept darting towards the bathroom. Boy, you really did look sick, though. Pale, almost greenish with dark circles under your eyes. You even felt colder than usual. "Am I uh, interrupting something, babe?"

You managed to work out if his arms, giggling nervously. "Actually I-I had some of Iona's lunch earlier, and I just, gotta- be right back!"

With that, you bolted into the bathroom and slammed the door behind you. Again, weird. Paul just shrugged, maybe you had some bad Mexican.

 Iona wasn't convinced. Little miss jumpy-pants skipping out on her, you owed her an explanation. While Paul perused the albums she sunk over to the bathroom, rapidly tapping on the door. "Y/N! Psst! You good in there, hon?"

You were most certainly NOT good! Your hand shook, the third test finally finished. Not like it mattered! They all said the same thing. Every fucking one of them.

Positive. Positive. Positive.

No, no, no!

"Shit," you hissed. "Shit! Oh shit, oh fuck! Fuck-fuckity shit fuck fuck! Dammit." That's all you could do! You swore over, and over, and over, rapidly kicking the wall in front of you. Stupid pink plus! Why? Why did it have to be a plus?? Immediately you threw it in the trash and scooped up the other two. Maybe they were all flukes? Maybe only a doctor could tell you! You had to get home. Like now. Right now, you just had to rush home, make an appointment at the doctors, maybe hide in shame for a few days just until you could figure out what the hell to do with all this! Once again you wedged the tests in your back pocket and nearly tripped, cracking open the door to face your boss. "Iona, I gotta get home."

"Seriously, Y/N?? Why? What is with you?"

"Please, I swear I will make it up to you, I'll take a double shift, I'll wash your damn car-"

"Oh no, nuh-uh. Not until you tell me why you're being such a spaz," she practically shouted in a hissing whisper, absolutely exasperated. You teens and your drama, when she always said she wanted to fell young again this is NOT what she meant!  

"Listen i-... iyay amyay egnantpray," you whispered. Pig latin. It was a little code you two usually reserved for secrets. Well, that and talking smack about snotty customers. But wow was this a big ol' secret. 

Iona covered her mouth. Oh, you little idiot! You poor little idiot. Looking over at the unsuspecting boyfriend she sighed, looking you in the eyes. She wanted to just tell you to come clean to your man. The boy hung around you constantly, you two were the ultimate it-couple, there wasn't even sparks it was like watching supernovas. Something this big.. it shouldn't be left in the dark!

But that pitiful expression on your face just begged her to keep quiet, and frankly it wasn't her place to tell you what to do- well, at least in this regard. "Alright, alright. This saturday you're taking my night time shift, there's a big concert I wanna go to. And you gotta wax my car, it's gettin' nasty. And you better write the best damn apology note in the history of apology notes, sweetie. This is huge, you better come clean to him eventually, or I'll kick your little butt you hear me?"

"Yes. Absolutely, fine, deal. Just please, please keep him busy, I'm not ready to tell him," you whined, clutching the door. Frankly it sounded like a piss poor plan, but it couldn't be helped, not right now at least. You didn't have the strength to confront the situation head on, you were barely keeping it together. You wanted to cry all over, jump into his arms and come clean now, but this was neither the time or place.

As soon as Iona went to go over to Paul you stuffed the tests into your purse and bolted out the back door, only this time stealth was not on your side. Right at the mouth of the alleyway, just as you were about to be home free- you ran smack dab into a particularly lithe blonde that felt like a brick wall. You went flying onto the ground, your purse crashing onto concrete with a hundred pieces of your privacy going every direction. In a panic you began to rapidly stuff it all back, barely able to hide the first two tests as you threw some half baked apology Marko's way. Honestly he deserved a better one than that, but you were too frazzled to be fair at the moment.

"Oh shit, Y/N," Marko exclaimed, immediately kneeling down to help you gather the scattered remains of your purse. "Sorry, I didn't even see you, I was coming back for a smoke. Big Ed is such a douche, can you believe theres no smoking on the-..." His words trailed off, and you shortly saw why. Grasped between his pointer finger and thumb was the little pink strip, and a look of complete disbelief. All you could do was snatch it from him, a heavy moment of silence magically muffling the wild noise and shouts of the busy boardwalk. 

"Do...D-Don't worry about it. Look, I gotta get home, I'll see you arou-," you started, trying to jump up, maybe catch him off guard and make a run for it. Not this time. 

You hadn't even noticed he grabbed your wrist, it was such a blur. He stayed silent, standing up and looking right into your eyes with hidden malcontent. You swore if you answered wrong this mischievous cat would tear your throat out. After all, you were his best friend's girl. If you did anything, ANYTHING, to hurt him... Well, let's just say a pregnancy would be the least of your worries. "Why are you running, Y/N? What the hell is this thing," he asked quietly, eyes flickering between red and blue. "Did you…?"

"Oh don't fuckin' even," You snapped, smacking his arm, yanking your hand out of his grasp. "Of course not! You butt! God, are you serious? What do you take me for- No! I- fuck I just- no!" You kick the tin trash can beside you, watching a plethora of trash fly into the air. "I am freaking out! Of course it's Paul's. Oh fucking god, it's Paul's and I don't know what to do!"

Marko's expression softened, placing a hand on your shoulder. "Hey, I didn't mean to make it sound like that, Y/N. Paul's my friend, I just had to be sure you weren't sneaking around, you know?"

You sighed, pushing back your mess of a hair with misty eyes. This was perfect, a real big screw up from start to finish. All you could do was look over at Marko with pleading eyes. "You can't tell him yet. Please, just please please PLEASE, Marko, don't tell Paul yet!"

"Tell me what, babe?"

Shit. Shit on a stick. You looked behind to see Paul halfway out the back door with a look of concern, one that he rarely carried. You and your dumb mouth, go figure.

The blonde pushed through and let the door close behind him, looking over at his best bud standing alone with his girlfriend who was begging him to keep something secret, from him no less.

 "Marko?"

"Nah, nah, don't look at me man, this is all on you guys," he sighed, hands up in a shielding motion. "Good luck buddy. Gotta go, Y/N." with that the young vampire excused himself from this melting pot of drama, hands stuffed in his pockets. 

You just stood there, keeping the little strip tightly grasped behind your back. Paul was silent, but glancing at his hands you saw they were balled so tight his knuckles were white. "P-paul…," you hesitated, biting down on your bottom lip. "I should really… get home.."

Paul only raised a brow, glancing at your arms still tucked behind you. This wasn't like you to hide from him, and that alone frightened him. Nothing had ever frightened him before. And he didn't like the taste of it one bit. "What's behind your back, babe?"

"What?"

Again his spoke, this time his voice lowered into a low growl. "What... do you have... behind your back, babe?" The way he said it was so firm, it made you shake a little. You didn't like stern Paul. They way he hissed the word "babe", practically spoken through clenched teeth

Your throat ached, eyes darting across the ground struggling to think up a good excuse. Anything. A book, your purse, a surprise for him! Anything!

"N-nothing." Apparently, you failed to find any excuses. Great.

Paul's knuckles began to crack, jumping forward to try and snatch it from behind you. When you dodged him, he grew even more furious. You both began to struggle, pushing him away, insisting he just stop and let you leave. But every attempt to reject him only upset him further. Why were you hiding things from him?! How could you just ditch him at the record store when he was worried sick about you??

The struggle built up until finally he had enough. His eyes turned white with rings of fire, brow looming heavily over his eyes and fangs jutting out where his incisors once were. In a flash he grabbed you by you wrists, pinning you so hard to the wall it shook. You still tried to struggle. Thrash, kick, squirm! Steel wished it could be so strong, your muscles ached. This probably wasn't even his full strength, but it dwarfed you in comparison. This terrifying side of Paul you had certainly seen before, but never had you been on the receiving end. It was in all sense of the word, predatorial. He'd never try to kill you, but you still felt that horror build up inside. Rapid, sharp breaths made your chest heave, too afraid to look up at those red eyes still fixated on whatever you kept hidden from him. He continued to pry your stubborn fingers open, ignoring your shaking whimpers. He squoze your wrist, the tendons aching and contracting until your fingertips began to lift up. Any resistance was pretty much useless at this point, but dammit you still tried everything to worm out of his grip. But he had finally had it, you weren't gonna be keeping secrets from him. Now your last finger was pushed off, and he could see what was so damn important that you physically fought him to keep it secret. It was almost slow motion the way the strip spun to the ground, clattering down and landing beside his mud caked boots. He froze, slowly looking down at it. That's it? That's all you-...

You could barely read his face, so many different emotions flashing across it all at once. Occasionally he'd look back up at you, then back down at it. To the point you almost got annoyed that you were still being stuck to a wall while the reality set in. After all, it didn't take a rocket scientist to know what that was, just put you down already!

Paul looked at you still pinned beneath him, horrified at how he lost his temper and immediately released you. Still rubbing away the pain across your wrists, you watched him pick it up. A wave of guilt swarmed your body, you didn't know whether to hug him or punt him in the chest.

Hell, a massive tidal wave of guilt overflowed him too. It'd been such a long time since he got that angry.. but worst of all he'd never been like that with you. Never grabbed you so forcefully and ignored your pleas, it was a dark side of him he never wanted to display in front of you. Glancing at the little pink plus at the end of the stick, his mind swirled with a plethora of questions. But slowly he stood up, looking down at you still really trying to process everything that had happened in the past few minutes. "I don't… I don't understand.."

"You- You are such an ass," you shouted out of nowhere, enough that it made him jump. There you were. That's the fiery girl he knew, not the one he exactly wanted to be on the opposing side of at the moment, though.

Paul wasn't surprised you were pissed, but he definitely didn't expect you to start punching his arm. Again. Then again, and again you just kept hiting his arms, his chest, pushing and crying, you were so mad you wanted to chuck him in the ocean! It didn't really hurt that much, but he felt awful he drove you to that point.

Tears blurred your vision as you lashed out on him. All you could do was yell names between sobs, even whack him with your purse. "Paul, you absolute jerk! Butt! Jackass! You smarmy, half wit, blood-sucking tool! You said you were packing blanks, you absolute liar! I was gonna tell yo-! I mean, I know I shouldn't have run-! But you just couldn't wait- and then Marko- and you! You ! Jerk ! Butthead !"

"Hey, ow! Ow! Ow, dammit! I know, I know I went to far-ow not the hair dammit," he demanded, grabbing your arms before you could lay another mighty blow. "Babe! Babe, stop! I thought I was! I swear I didn't know- I-..I never thought that I could get you...." His hands slowly released your shoulders, moving to your hips. "I'm so sorry, baby. I swear, I didn't know.. I'm so sorry."

The way his voice softened only made you want to cry more. This whole day was a mess. You didn't mean to try and run.. You never should've tried to in the first place. God, you were so tired. All this running around, all this secrecy, the fighting, it was exhausting. Paul was the last person you wanted to fight. Sure you had spats and a few heated arguments. Every couple did, even vampires. But this, it was just so.m draining. With a firm thud you plopped your forehead on his sternum, your fingers tightly clinging to the upper sleeves of his jacket. "Wh-what am I supposed to do-… what are we supposed to do now..?"

Paul pondered his options with a solemn face, but there was only one that made him happy. Only one that sat right in his heart. What else could he possibly do, there was only ever going to be one answer even if you told him right away. Most of all, he couldn't stand the sorrow in your eyes. A frown never suited such a beautiful face. He never expected there to be anything to come from your heavy sexcapades, it never seemed like there was any risks in it. He'd never seen a vampire munchkin, least of all he'd never even heard of a vamp conceiving with a human. All he knew now is you, crying in his arms, terrified of what you were carrying. What it could mean. In that moment, he steeled his resolve and came to a final decision.

Silently he tilted your chin up, using his thumb to brush away all those tears staining your cheeks. Those blue eyes, you could get lost in them. Swallowed up by the sea. It wasn't hard to read his mind when he held onto your hip with one hand, while the other that pushed away salty droplets now cupped your cheek. Within moments you crashed your mouth into his, wrapping your arms around the back of his neck.

Warm. A surge of heat filled your body. It was the first time you felt truly alive all day. You could feel your chest heave against his, you didn't want any space between the two of you and only pressed tighter until there wasn't anything left. Each kiss gave momentary breath before you dove in for more. Neither of you could stop. You didn't want to pull away, not even for a split second. The way he smelled, the way he tasted, the way he touched you, the way he felt beneath your fingers; it made your head spin. His hands began to wander, you clutched at anything you could get a hold of. Your body burned, so sweet and long. In those moments the world stopped, it just melted away in streams of light. No one was there but you two. 

It was over too soon, both of you rapidly panting for breath still intertwined. Oh, how you could stare into his eyes forever.

That frown was long gone, replaced by a tender smile. The one he had come to cherish. Paul chuckled softly, breathlessly nuzzling against your collar bone. Slowly he leaned in close to your ear, his disheveled blonde hair brushing up against your cheeks. Lips trailed up flesh, reavhing just beneath your ear. And then you heard those three forbidden words. Such sweet, tender words, you hadn't expected him to say. Although he whispered them so softly they might have gotten lost in the wind, to you they were as clear as the moon on a cloudless night.

"Y/N.... I love you."

It made your heart throb, you thought you might even faint. A lifetime of struggles led up to this beautiful moment. You never expected it to be a half-undressed heavy make out session with your vampire lover, the father of your unborn spawn, in the back alley of a record store on the Santa Carla Boardwalk. But here you were, nestled between him and an old brick wall. Paul loved you, he had said it, he finally said those words that could destroy any doubt you had. And more than anything in the whole wide world, you knew once and for all, you loved Paul.

[furiousqueenmarmaroth]

HC for the horsemen and Azreal assisting or just being friends with an expectant human mom-to-be? Doesn't have to be romantic if you dont wanna, but im all about the wholesome shit yo these guys deserve all the love in the world, just like you~ have a wonderful evening (or whatever timeit is, idk

((Here you go, love. I think I’m going to make Azrael his own thing, just cause he was the one holding me up. Anyways, I hope the others are okay because I’m kinda sleep deprived.))

Death:

“So yeah… I don’t want you to feel obligated to co-parent or anything. I know you don’t like change and if it’s ever too much for you I’ll be happy to move out.” Fingernail polish certainly didn’t last long with the nervous woman, as the littered flecks of paint that accumulated on the wood floors could attest.

“For you, I can make adjustments.” Death finally said, crossing his legs and returning to his book.

“Wait, really?” He took it much better than she had anticipated. It was so suspicious that she felt certain he would pee in her shoes like a cat she used to own. She didn’t know much about the Horseman, as no one seemed to, but she knew him well enough to know that “adjustments” weren’t a part of his skill set.

“We should probably start with child locks on the cabinets.”

“You’re joking.”

“The scar on War’s lip would say otherwise.”

“No I mean… What I’m trying to say is…” Oh boy, he really wasn’t easy to talk to. “You don’t have to be involved at all if you don’t want to be.”

“Don’t be ridiculous. You are important to me, as you were before we started this little experiment. I would lay down my life for you, and as such, I would lay down my life for your child as well.” His eyes spoke of sincerity, a rare and vulnerable moment indeed.

“Well… Thank you, Death. You’re sweet.”

“I know. That’s why we’re not calling it Alice or Richard.”

“Those are my parent’s names and you can’t change my mind about them.”

“Why?”

“Because it’s good luck.”

“They both died before 30 how lucky can they be?” He knew he had went to far, but giving people permission to refer to what he considered his son as “Dick” wasn’t an option.

Fury:

By the pale tint to Fury’s face, she knew she had gotten to the part of the parenting book about childbirth. Probably the part about mucus plugs and placentas and the picture of a baby’s head crowning. You know, the gross stuff that no one told her about before her and her wife agreed to become pregnant.

When the Horseman’s face turned toward the human, she wasn’t sure if her expression was one of concern, pity, or disgust. Knowing her, it was probably both. There wasn’t anything exchanged between the two of them except a handful of pleasantries during breakfast.

“So… you knew about this?” The vague gesture toward the ‘gross’ chapter of the book was indication enough of what she meant.

“Yes. I am an OB/GYN. Kinda my job to know about it.”

“And there was no… man?”

“There was, but he wasn’t there during conception if that’s what you meant.”

“How…?”

“Well, you have three brothers. It’s just like that, except it goes in a vial instead of a sock.”

Fury’s face scrunched before concluding in a shudder. “At least we’re having a girl.”

“And you’re going to be an amazing mom.” She pressed a quick kiss to her partner’s temple, “Once you finally let me paint the nursery pink.”

“You know what,” she flung the book across the counter, “you deserve to punish this baby however you see fit, since your going to have your vagina ripped to your betty button anyways.”

“That’s not how a C-section works, Fury. Read the book.”

“I don’t want to anymore.”

She sighed and laughed, “Well at least come help me paint the room and get the to-go bag ready.” Wiggling fingers beckoned her to follow, and she did.

Strife:

“It’s like a fish bowl.” Strife concluded as he stared at the fuzzy image in his hands that only vaguely resembled something that would turn into humans. He was told the babies looked healthy for twins at 12 weeks. About the size of kumquats, the doctor said. Whatever the hell kumquats were. And the mother? Oh, even bloated and fatigued he still thought she was the most perfect woman in all of Creation.

She giggled and hooked an arm under his. “I can call one Fineas and one Finwick.” She sobered quickly, “Thank you for coming with me today, Strife. It means a lot to me.”“Always. I’m sure the father will be very happy to hear the news.”

“I called him a few weeks ago but he said he didn’t want anything to do with them. Happens, I guess.”

A hand appeared in his periphery and beckoned the picture back. Roused from his stupor, he realized the red box in front of them was her car and it was time for their brief time to end.

“Well, if you ever need anything, or nothing, you know, give me a ring and I’ll be here. For the baby or for yard work or something. And I’m totally fine being the guy you bring to these things.” Air sucked in between his teeth to make an awkward hissing sound. “Yup it’s… totally fine by me.”

“Okay…” Strife’s stomach sank as the car door popped open. “Bye, Strife.”

“Yup. Okay. Bye.” He held up his hand and turned away with a sigh. Lovely to spend time with her, as it always was.

“Actually, Strife?”

“Yeah?”

“Do you wanna… come with me to pick up my prenatal vitamins?” Her grin was intoxicating, “If that’s fine with you, that is.”

If it wouldn’t have been completely weird, he would have done the happy hippo dance from Fantasia. “It is.”

War:

War had become distant since the revelation of the new roommate that would be joining the house, even more distant still as he realized that her ever-expanding belly held this new life. His hands had crushed things significantly less fragile than the petite woman, and their few nights together proved that even at his best he still left bruises. And, worse still, the thing that was growing inside of her.

As to how he was able to sire an offspring was beyond him. Between his hybrid status, their differing species and centuries of horseback riding, he had considered the possibility unlikely, to say the least.

Neither his brothers nor his sister minded the addition to the Nephilim family, seeing as it would be taught the values of a human they considered level headed, for better or worse. But War minded. He minded quite a bit. But the decision was ultimately hers and there wasn’t much he could do about that except keep her somewhat entertained during the mandatory bedrest that began a few weeks into her pregnancy.

“Oof.” She clutched her stomach.

He was to her side and leaning over to examine her before she could finish a deep breath.

“It’s fine.” She pat his arm. “Just a kick.”

The father grunted and moved back to his shadowed seat to sulk and pretend like he wasn’t watching the show that was on. Quite frankly, he ate those reality TV shows up like Skittles.

“Do you want to feel?” Her grip on his hand was surprisingly strong as she pulled the only hand he had down towards the obscenely stretched and visibly moving skin.

“No.” He wasn’t about to fight against her, though.

“Just feel and I’ll stop bugging you.”

And so, he did if only to be done with it. But he was in love by the first kick. There was no way he could explain the sudden surge of emotion when the little warrior to be jutted a foot against the gentle pressure of his hand. What he was certain of though, was he had to turn away lest anyone should see the tears that suddenly attacked his eyes.

“The doctor says you can see that she has hair on the ultrasound.”

“She?”

“Yeah, she. Did you want to say something to your daughter? She can hear you, you know.”

“Is that why you’ve been reading out loud like a mad woman?”

“Yeah, that’s the reason.” She offered the shoddy book of poetry to him, “This is all we have with rhymes. Though with all the detective shows I’ve been watching I’m sure that’s had more of an impact.”