Bell kids
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Bell kids
So, I'm curious about some hypotheticals. I'm not expecting answers about whether things will happen, more whether or not things are possible. So, with that in mind,
If a Bell has a child with a JokerSherlock and doesn't deliberately select the template, is the child more likely to be a Dominique or a Carinna? Does whether or not the JokerSherlock has split make a difference?
Are there specifically JokerSherlock children? If so, could a Miles produce one the way a Tony could produce Sherrykids?
Butterfly has an Edward, and I'm pretty sure that it says somewhere that universes tend not to contain Edwards that do not end up with Bells. But the Cenozoia Edward is the Chee Erek King, so clearly they cannot have biological children. If at some point (in the very distant future) Butterfly and Erek decide to raise a child, and Butterfly wished on the relevant coin to get pregnant without specifying the father (since I imagine someone who had no DNA would be less concerned about a child being biologically theirs or not), would she be more likely to get an Elspeth, who is more relevant to her personal situation, or some bellkid who has a stronger template?
Juliet mentions reproductive cloning as being appealing under the right circumstances. If a Bell ever has a kid who is also a Bell, is Bell jr. be a cousinoid or auntoid to Elspeth, Dominiques etc.
It was mentioned that if you clone a Bell you get a Bell. If two Bells (such as Astrid and Martin, although I'm not sure it's biologically possible in that case) had a biological child, would that child also be a Bell?
If a Bell has a child with a JokerSherlock and doesn't deliberately select the template, is the child more likely to be a Dominique or a Carinna? Does whether or not the JokerSherlock has split make a difference?
Are there specifically JokerSherlock children? If so, could a Miles produce one the way a Tony could produce Sherrykids?
Butterfly has an Edward, and I'm pretty sure that it says somewhere that universes tend not to contain Edwards that do not end up with Bells. But the Cenozoia Edward is the Chee Erek King, so clearly they cannot have biological children. If at some point (in the very distant future) Butterfly and Erek decide to raise a child, and Butterfly wished on the relevant coin to get pregnant without specifying the father (since I imagine someone who had no DNA would be less concerned about a child being biologically theirs or not), would she be more likely to get an Elspeth, who is more relevant to her personal situation, or some bellkid who has a stronger template?
Juliet mentions reproductive cloning as being appealing under the right circumstances. If a Bell ever has a kid who is also a Bell, is Bell jr. be a cousinoid or auntoid to Elspeth, Dominiques etc.
It was mentioned that if you clone a Bell you get a Bell. If two Bells (such as Astrid and Martin, although I'm not sure it's biologically possible in that case) had a biological child, would that child also be a Bell?
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I would consider Ara (Izzy’s clone-to-be) to be an auntoid of all the Bellkids, just like all the other Bells are. Depending on her relationship with Izzy, this would be the case anyway: Sherlocks and Tonies have a more sibling-like relationship, so Tonies would all be uncloid/auntoid to hypothetical Pearlkids
I think Bells are smart enough to avoid having biological children with those who are close genetically (which does not apply to either of the existing two pairs), and neither of the existing two pairs can biologically reproduce without magical (or slightly-advanced-technological) help. I’m curious about the theoretical answer, though.
I think Bells are smart enough to avoid having biological children with those who are close genetically (which does not apply to either of the existing two pairs), and neither of the existing two pairs can biologically reproduce without magical (or slightly-advanced-technological) help. I’m curious about the theoretical answer, though.
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Re: Bell kids
Ara is Izzy's sister, though, not her kid. I was talking about in a situation where a Bell decided to have a kid and did so via cloning.
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Okay, so where the relationship is explicitly defined as more offspringlike and it probably does not include accelerated aging.
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Re: Bell kids
Right.
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Re: Bell kids
We haven't discussed what happens with offspring from a Bell/JS pairing.
A Bell is extremely unlikely to wish a random kid a la Helen, but if one did I'd probably give her the firstborn for her and whoever her primary was. Elspeth's not a weak template per se, you just haven't encountered more of her yet.
If you clone a Bell you get another Bell. The ways Bells construe their relationships to other individual Bells are malleable depending on circumstances and a Bell who cloned herself would probably consider her clone to be her child, but with more of an eventual peer relationship than most Bells have historically achieved with their kids (think a half-step up from Golden + Elspeth).
Results of Bell/Bell non-clone reproduction (no biologically possible cases of which are currently set up) is currently undefined.
A Bell is extremely unlikely to wish a random kid a la Helen, but if one did I'd probably give her the firstborn for her and whoever her primary was. Elspeth's not a weak template per se, you just haven't encountered more of her yet.
If you clone a Bell you get another Bell. The ways Bells construe their relationships to other individual Bells are malleable depending on circumstances and a Bell who cloned herself would probably consider her clone to be her child, but with more of an eventual peer relationship than most Bells have historically achieved with their kids (think a half-step up from Golden + Elspeth).
Results of Bell/Bell non-clone reproduction (no biologically possible cases of which are currently set up) is currently undefined.
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Re: Bell kids
A Bell/JS pairing could plausibly end up with any combination of Bell/Joker kids, Bell/Sherlock kids, Bell/Miles kids if the JS had a highly active inner Miles (so yes the most recent one whose inner Solvei is just about a third primary personality, but no Sigyn who has no Miles whatsoever), or entirely new templates. It's an interesting notion.
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I think a Bell/JS pairing should produce doubletemplated kids, starting with DominiqueCarinna.
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I’m fairly sure DominiqueCarinna is not a realistic combination, and not just because of mismatched moiety.
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Re: Bell kids
Given Carinna's delicacy and Dominique's...herselfness, I feel like a DominiqueCarinna, if she even could exist, would be miserable.
*...Observes situations that produce JokerSherlocks.*
Okay, a Carinna would be miserable regardless. But still.
*...Observes situations that produce JokerSherlocks.*
Okay, a Carinna would be miserable regardless. But still.