#obviously I can't put this in the main BT tag because children don't know how to behave when they see nuanced concepts like this lol

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there is literally no genuine context I can imagine lemon and tangerine being paternal in for a long-term situation (aka, they would never have or raise a kid together, Ever) but as I was reminding myself that the notion of them being parents doesn’t hold water, this angst-ridden and super complicated idea hit me out of the blue where they had a baby together as teenagers and immediately put it up for adoption. 

obviously I don’t think I’m really the right person to tackle this concept in long form, but one of them would have to be trans or pre-transition and it was a complete accident in their mid to late teens wherein they had no business or means to care for a child. there would have been a lot of turmoil of various stripes going on, and I do think it would’ve driven lemon and tangerine apart Emotionally (not physically) for some time wherein they decided to only date other people or not date at all...but then they get older and things change; business opportunities arise and start growing, they formulate their new identities and professional reputation together, and a career as The Twins slowly unfolds. 

15+ years go by. hell, maybe even 18. they’ve had no contact with their biological child this whole time and in different ways it’s privately haunted both of them, but they’ve always known it was for the best given their line of work and the danger they regularly put themselves in.

after the shinkansen job goes off the rails, lemon and tangerine eventually return to london—both a bit mangled and worse for wear, but strikingly alive and temporarily taking a leave of absence from work for an undetermined length of time. and something slowly changes in this new chapter of renewed life where they have a massive row or two and then mutually decide, together, to look for their kid on the sly, thinking the child [now essentially an adult] will want nothing to do with either of their biological parents. little do they know their kid has already been tracking them in the months before they even left for Tokyo to take the White Death’s job. cue the music 👏💥