Hi! You can call me Kal, I'm 25 and nonbinary (they/them) and I love pretending to be pregnant 💕
Some important notes:
- If you don't have any kind of age in your bio or pinned post I will block you. This is an 18+ only zone.
- I'm not really a huge RPer in terms of scenes and stories, BUT I'm always happy to answer asks that act as if I'm really pregnant! It's basically my favourite thing to talk about how heavily pregnant I am and how much the babies are kicking
- all photos of my pregnancy are tagged with #kal.preg
- feel free to reblog and tag/write extra things on my posts, but just know I'll only interact with it if it interests me too
- I may tag posts with #fpreg sometimes but I am nonbinary transmasc and not into any detransition stuff at all. I don't mind stuff like being called 'mama' but I'm not a woman, don't call me one
can we please get some mpreg Ryland Grace and more headcanons?
they stay on the mary with the centrifuge on to help the baby develop as expected, and until theyre able to safely bring grace to erid, but time isnt their friend
Why hello there!!! I've decided to finally release these little doodads I made for the pregnancy/belly freaks in the Paralives community. I've cut these up into three different mods so you can mix and match on what you want!
MOD PACK DOWNLOAD
Initial Notes
To install, place INDIVIDUAL unzipped folders into: C\Users[userhere]\AppData\LocalLow\Paralives\Paralives
You can change the size of your para's pregnancy slider without them actually being pregnant. Open the command console with CTRL + SHIFT + C and type in SetSlider StomachPregnant with a value from 0 to 1 at the end. Case sensitive.
The largest size of the belly is BIG. The idea of this mod is to give people who want a variety of sizes a range they can use by manipulating sliders.
These work on all adult body types!
Known Issues
There is an issue with the pregnancy idle animation that plays when the game detects that your para is a certain distance along in a pregnancy. When messing with the number of visual updates as done in the third mod, this can trigger earlier or later. I do not know how to fix this at the moment so please be aware of this. There is likely something in brain logic that can be edited but I do not have those skills yet.
Along with this, there is a set animation that plays where the para will rub their stomach. I do not have enough animation and modding experience to make multiple animations for the different sizes, nor to alter it in general. Please be aware of this. This is also made more difficult considering there would have to be another animation made for every step of growth, so again, there are things that may be bothersome and I apologize for that! This is directly tied to the visual update phases, which is the third mod.
Certain clothing with accessories on top like added buttons or ties will clip, which sucks but it is what it is. You would have to go in and edit each outfit to appear differently while a para is pregnant.
1-Bigger Belly Morph
Exactly what it sounds like! I edited the pregnancy morph to make it much bigger. It looks a bit absurd at the full size but that kind of is the point.
2-Pregnant Navel Skin Detail
Little skin detail available in the character creator! It automatically matches to the color of the skin given to the para so it works with all tones.
3- Fluid/Gradual Belly Growth
Instead of there being only 2 steps of growth for the belly, the size/slider will update 200 times over the course of the pregnancy! Refer to the bug section as this one does cause the most "visual" problems in terms of animation.
Please enjoy and let me know if anything isn't working!!
Part of why academic preg is so hot is because college campuses are objectively one of the best places to waddle around. You have big bags to carry with important papers that simply cannot be forgotten, so there's always extra encumbrance; since classes adhere to a schedule, you always have to rush from one place to another with no time to lose. Classes can be held in completely different buildings on opposite ends of campus with as little as 10 minutes to get from one to another. All the while, everyone else is also on the move, but since they don't have so much extra weight to carry around, they can afford to take a minute or three to watch you struggle to get from one place to another with a wide gait and pronounced waddle. After all, who wouldn't want to watch? It's beautiful to watch a struggle handled by someone who was so clearly made for it.
Taking a pregnancy test with your long term partner and being too nervous to look yourself so he does and, looking at the two pink lines, tells you it's negative and you go about your life letting him assure you that you must have something chronic, maybe a thyroid issue, but doctors don't listen to people like you so don't even try when you continued to be sick and put on excessive weight until you were on your knees with the head of the baby you were told wasn't there slowly stretching you open.
using contractions to get out of social situations so many times in a row (and to be fair, you're going, like, really overdue with multiples) that when you actually go into labor at a party, no one actually believes you
421.1. A request: The Queen of a nation is about to give birth to the next heir to the throne. Naturally such an event can’t take place in her private chambers, instead she must give birth in a public space, for the court and commoners to see. Bonus points if she has to be restrained in some way.
A Crown for a Queen
A Valiantremnant original
Pre-Story notes: Oh did this prompt ever inspire me. I initially planned on doing a fun little short story, but as I went, I wound up expanding and expanding (lol) until I got to where the story is now. I might do more with this world, but who knows. Now, quick note, due to the nature of this story, it's not very dialogue heavy. I tried to break it up as best as I could, but if I put a ton of dialogue in it, the main character would mostly be talking to herself, and given the setup here, (some dehydration) that isn't really a good idea.
In Konur, tradition insisted on a public birth of every royal child. Every. One. It had started over one thousand years ago when a changeling had sought to overthrow the royal line by replacing a newborn heir. Or by supplanting the queen. The exact reasons have been lost to history. But to prevent such a thing from happening with his children, King Okdar had his wife, Queen Anya, give birth where all could see, and all could vow that the child was indeed born to them. The method passed on to their children, and their children. A proof becoming tradition, the site of Queen Anya's labors becoming a great amphitheater. And from then on, every queen, and every princess in line to become queen would give birth in the same place, bound and visible for all. For all to see that the child born was indeed born of the queen, and for all to see the strength of their queens, to see that they had the strength to be the shield of the people of Konur. When Queen Valaina's water had broken that morning, word had immediately gone out, alerting the nobles and visiting dignitaries who had travelled weeks ago for the royal birth. Valaina had married into the royal family, and while she knew of the birthing ritual, she had never seen it before, much less thought that she would be given the honor of going through it herself. The noble houses had similar traditions, but those were usually attended by close friends and family only, nothing like the affair of a royal birth. Once the word had gone out, the royal midwife had arrived, examining Valaina and letting her know that she was only about halfway dilated, and that there would be plenty of time to arrive at the amphitheater. Valaina knew that she should have gone to see it before today, but since the tragic death of her husband, King Helbrun, she had been too busy tending the affairs of state. But now as she entered the vaulted Queen's Entrance of the amphitheater, she wished she had visited at least once. She passed carved statues, each one of a woman. As she had contractions passing them, she paid them little mind, but the odd detail struck out at her as she passed. Some were carved in obsidian, most were done in marble. Some glittered with gemstones, others were plain. Some had objects in their hands, others were empty handed. "Oh gods! Ow!" She groaned, stopping by one of the statues and gripping the edge of the alcove that held it. The contraction that held her now was fierce and made her legs shake with the effort of her womb. "Come Valaina," Marne, Helbrun's aunt called, "You can't well give birth in here, can you?"
Marne was a stuff sort of woman, with very strict ideas of propriety. Ever since the deaths of Helbrun, and both of his parents, she had been appointed by the court to be Valaina's guide into the politics and traditions of the royal family. Politics that she thought she knew from her own family's proximity to the crown, but much of it was new and strange to her. Valaina's own family, the Karroks, had been mired in political scandal shortly after her own wedding to Helbrun, and since his death, Valaina could tell that she was something of a controversial figure. Commoners and nobility alike were torn on whether to side with her or against her. A civil war seemed unlikely, but political difficulty was the norm for her these days. "If... I...GAH! Have to..." Valaina panted. "Tsk tsk," None of that, come on," Marne said, coming to her side and helping her upright, making Valaina gasp in pain as she straightened. She leaned heavily on Marne was they walked to a small chamber at the end of a series of empty alcoves that awaited statues. "Now, that's fine in here, but once you go out there, you'll have to walk alone." "Alone? What?" Marne shook her head, "I suppose with everything else going on, you haven't managed to learn about this ritual, have you?" Valaina shook her head and Marne explained. "You are carrying the heir apparent to the throne, and the birth must be witnessed. You'll be stripped in here and then you'll ascend the plinth and give birth for all to see."
Giving birth for others to see wasn't unusual. She could remember the births of a few family friends, but those affairs had allowed the mothers to wear at the very least a shift to cover themselves. "What do you mean, 'stripped'?" Valaina asked, her voice rising an octave both in fear and in pain, "OW...." "Exactly what it sounds like," Marne said, positioning Valaina in front of the doors, "Now let me help you." Valaina sobbed quietly as Marne removed her robes until she was clad only in her light shift. Marne came around front and wiped the tears out of her eyes. "Now, listen. What I can tell you while we have time is this. As queen, you are the shield of the people, and they must see you endure. You can scream, you can roar, you can cry, but don't beg. Don't ask to be released until you've given birth." "What- released?" "And- you don't know?" Before Valaina could respond, she doubled over with another powerful contraction. They were practically back to back now, and she had almost no time to reset between them. A serving girl entered through a hidden door and murmured something to Marne, who nodded in return and moved to stand behind Valaina. "We're out of time. They're ready for you. Remember, if you are to remain queen after this is over, you must be the shield of the people. Do not beg." Marne lifted the shift off of Valaina, who made one pathetic attempt to hold onto it before letting it go. Marne looked her in the eye one last time. "When I've left, knock twice on the door and walk to the center of the amphitheater. They'll guide you from there." And with that, the only one left in the chamber was Valaina, scared, contracting and in pain. She knocked twice on the door after the contraction was gone, and the double doors swung outward, nearly blinding her with the sudden light.
When she could see again, the first thing she could see was a ramp leading up from the chamber she was in. As she hobbled up the ramp, having to stop for a moment to let a slightly more powerful contraction pass, she could hear what sounded like thousands of voices. With her heart in her throat, Valaina reached the top of the ramp to see the massive amphitheater filled to capacity. It was late summer, and the bright sun beat down into the stone arena with an almost angry heat. Ahead of her, Valaina could see a raised object. A marble podium of sorts. It might have once been pure white, but age and the elements had stained it. As she grew closer to it, almost drawn in by morbid curiosity, Valaina could tell that a long, streaking stain down the front had nothing to do with the weather marring it. "... Queen Valaina of house Dar!" Valaina couldn't tell what the beginning of the announcement was, but the crowd erupted into a deafening array of both cheering and jeering. Her mostly steady waddling hitched as she had another contraction, and she gasped in pain as she struggled to keep moving forward. She held one arm across her chest, hiding her bare breasts from the eyes of the crowd, the other wrapped around her belly, trying to hide her vagina, knowing now why a midwife had attended to her, waxing her clean before arriving at the amphitheater. The same midwife stood at the base of the stone monolith, which had grown startlingly near. Valaina stopped and the midwife leaned in. "How close are your contractions now?" "They barely give me time to breathe between them," Valaina admitted. The midwife nodded and gestured to a pair of ceremonial guards. They both took one of her arms and guided her to the stone's flat top. Once there, they pushed her down firmly, though not roughly. The action made her heart beat so quickly, it seemed almost painful. "Wait, what are-AUGH!"
As she broke off to deal with the contraction, the guards attached sturdy leather cuffs to her ankles, keeping them close together. Then they pushed her thighs back until the angle was almost painful, attaching thick straps to them as well, pinning her legs fast in place. Then a strap was fixed around her ribs, above her belly but below her breasts, not too tight to breathe in, but too tight to move more than an inch or so. Then, to top it all off, her wrists were strapped above her head. "Grab these," One of the guards said, guiding her hands to wooden handles fixed into the straps. Valaina didn't understand at first, but as soon as the guards stepped away, no longer supporting any of her weight, she understood. The stone was flat, but not level. It wasn't enough of a slope to be a slide, but without support, she would have been hard pressed to remain in place. As it was, the straps began to dig painfully into her chest and thighs until she flexed her arms, supporting her weight by the hand holds provided. As she struggled to find a comfortable place on the stone, she could feel slight wear in it's surface. Grooves dug into the surface, too slight to be see from a distance, but when touching it? She could feel where someone else's, another woman's shoulders had been bound here, where her feet had been braced, where her hips had sat. She had heard about parts of this birthing ritual. but until now, it hadn't seemed real.
As she struggled to move more than an inch, the midwife ascended and stood before her. "My queen. I will perform your last check." Before Valaina could respond to her words, she flinched and groaned as the old woman's hand deftly entered her birth canal. She tried to close her legs against the straps, her hips flexing and quivering as they fought against the unyielding bonds as the midwife reached her cervix and traced it. Nodding, she pulled her hand out and turned to the speaker, descending from the platform. The speaker nodded and turned to the audience of nobles and commoners alike. "The queen is now five centimeters dilated!" The crowd erupted in both cheers and groans. Valaina wondered what they were thinking. Were the cheers because she was well and truly in labor? Were the groans because she had so far left to go? She didn't know, and any thought of figuring it out vanished as she had another contraction. "AUGH! OW OW OWowowowowowOWWWWWWWWW!" Her head, the only free part of her body, thrashed, snapping from side to side, her hair fanning out and covering her face somewhat. She wanted to curl around her belly, to hold it with her hands, despite how little she knew it would do. But even though she knew it was pointless, her arms pulled against the bindings, straining to caress her contracting belly. She groaned and gasped in pain as a new sensation struck her. Not the pressure she knew was to come, but a deep stabbing ache in her pelvis, as if the stone itself were pressing against her. When the contraction was done, she puffed and blew her hair out of her face. The sun, still beating down made being trapped under a tent of her own hair stifling.
As Valaina laid back on the stone, her eyes wandered the crowd. The back, the highest seats in the amphitheater were filled with people who she took to be commoners, though at the distance they were at, it made it hard to tell. Closer in, she could see merchants knights. People of wealth and status. But closer still, in the valley between her legs she could see nobles. Lords and ladies alike, along with their honored guests. Valaina's eyes darted, with focus at first, then worry, then frenzied panic. Her mother. Her father. Where were they? House Karrok wasn't a small house, and given their seats at court, they should have been near the front. but right at the front was the prime minister, a man who Valaina despised. Even though she knew it was someone else, she couldn't help but feel that even if he hadn't been the one to orchestrate the deaths of her husband and the former king and queen, that he still stood to benefit. The only other potential heir to the throne was only a child, and if she had also died that day, he would now be ruling Konur. Her stomach roiled in discomfort from something other than a contraction. She knew she couldn't trust the man, even if he hadn't done anything wrong. Except... except that her parents should have been there. "Where... are... they?" Valaina whispered, making eye contact with the man before she broke into another full throated scream as another contraction wracked her body, "HUUUUUAAAAAAAAAGH!" The prime minister only tilted his head, his eyes flicking to a point behind her, and Valaina knew. He had ensured that her parents were sat behind her, and far away from the center. Nowhere they could be of even minimal comfort to her.
As the day drew on, comfort became a thing of the distant past. The sun rose, and with it, the temperature. What had started out as a warm morning was quickly becoming a hot midsummer day. "Oh gods..." Valaina said, her tongue feeling thick and dry in her mouth as she lolled her head to the side, seeking a tiny bit of respite from the blazing sun. If she looked down at herself, she could only see her breasts, the top of her belly and the tops of her thighs, but what she could see of herself was that her skin was turning red under the sun. She had spent most of her life sheltered, hiding her fair skin from the sun's rays, but she remembered one day as a younger woman, when her family had gone to the king's summer palace with him and she had spent too long in the sun, and what her skin had felt like then. It felt the same now, tight, hot and far too dry. Her lips cracked as she grimaced, bracing herself as best as she could for the next contraction. "AAAAUUUUUGH! OH GODS! OWWWWW!" She could see the crowd reacting to her as she writhed the few fractions of an inch that she could, some cheering as she screamed, others looking on coldly. She shifted uncomfortably, the strap around her chest digging painfully into the top of her belly. Valaina just could not find a remotely comfortable position, her spine pressed hard against the marble plinth, her hips aching from being pulled back so far, and her hands were growing numb from being suspended above her head for so long. But the worst part was the pressure that would surge every time she had a contraction. It seemed like every time she had one, and she would try to arch her back against it, it was trying to press her flat against the plinth, taking her breath with a sudden, savage strength. And it made her want to push.
She knew that it wasn't time yet. She'd never learned from a midwife properly, but she had been curious and helped when her aunt had given birth when she was nine, and remembered a few lessons. "Now, she will feel pressure and like she wants to push for quite some time, but it will pass with each contraction," The midwife had said, "That will usually mean that she isn't open enough for the baby to come." "But if it's hurting her, shouldn't she push it out?" "Oh dear, no. If she pushes too soon, it will hurt her even more, and maybe even hurt the baby. She must wait until all that pressure stays, even between the pains." On the plinth, Valaina could feel the pressure from each contraction fading away between them, and she knew it wasn't time. She squinted her eyes and looked up at the sun. It must be close to noon now. Based on the bells that had tolled just before she entered the amphitheater, she had been strapped down to the stone for nearly six hours now. What did the midwife say she was dilated? Five centimeters? How dilated was she now? "Am-" Valaina began before breaking off into a fit of dry coughing, "Am I close?" "We cannot touch you until the baby is out," The midwife said from the base of the podium, "But I would say it isn't long to go."
An hour passed. And another. And another. Valaina's skin was an angry red and her mouth was parched. The contractions were starting to slow down, and she could barely keep her eyes open anymore. "Huuuuuuuuuunnnnngggg," She groaned, the full throated screams of agony now too much effort to give voice to anymore. The crowd's mood had shifted too. Mostly everyone who was still present was talking to each other, the dull roar of conversation from around the amphitheater competing with the thudding of her heartbeat in her ears. If she had known how thirsty she would have gotten, she would have spent hours doing nothing but drinking water leading up to the ritual. "Gods, so thirsty," She panted, her tongue feeling sandy as it passed over her teeth, trying to sooth her cracked lips. Her lips were sunburned too, and moving her moth more than it took to pant caused tearing sensations that made her want to cry. She knew that if there was enough water in her body, she might have cried, not just from the sheer misery of what she was going through, but what she knew was to come. If the lips on her mouth felt this bad now with the dryness and sunburn, what would her other lips feel like when she was pushing?
The sun was starting to set when Valaina heard it. Something that always had soothed her, not matter how fiercely they would rage. And she opened her eyes to see if she had imagined the sound, or if it was real. She smiled, her lips cracking as she saw it. There it was, the billowing clouds that had produced the quiet peal of thunder in the distance. At least it would mean that she would be taken down from the plinth. While she loved a thunderstorm, she knew it was too dangerous to be out in one. But as it grew closer and the air grew mercifully cooler, no one moved to remove her restraints. What she did see were amphitheater attendants running around the stands, pulling on ropes and setting posts, erecting awnings and canvas shades to protect everyone who was watching. And she knew. She knew that the only way to get off of the plinth would be to give birth. Another clap of thunder sounded, louder this time, and Valaina didn't find any comfort in it.
The rain began about an hour after the first clap of thunder, fat drops that came in scattered bursts. Despite the stinging pains they caused Valaina's burned skin, she found relief in the chill they brought to her overheated body. And in the drops she opened her mouth to catch. She panted with her mouth open now, feeling drops fall and run into the corners of her mouth, swallowing the cool, crisp rain as it filled her mouth over and over again. She could feel water sloshing in her stomach, and groaned as her contractions, which began speeding back up as she drank, tightened her newly full belly. Now as she looked down at herself, her belly was still an angry red, but now it glistened with a wet sheen as water ran down the taut surface as it heaved and quivered with contractions. Contractions that brought the pressure back again and again, with it fading less and less each time.
"AAAAAAUUUUGH!" She screamed as another contraction clawed at her belly. She didn't know if anyone heard, as a massive peal of thunder echoed across the arena as she screamed. She wanted to move. She felt the pressure digging into her back, right where it met her pelvis, and knew that if she could just get up, even for a moment, she would give birth in minutes. Valaina wanted to ask. She was so close to asking to be let up, but she knew that as soon as she did, the crown was forfeit. Marne told her not to beg, and she wouldn't. She had to be strong. But no matter how strong she was, the contractions seemed to be stronger. Once she had been able to drink the rainwater that now ran into her eyes, and mouth when she didn't want it to, her contractions had gotten closer together than they had ever been. But that wasn't the worst of it. As the rain ran down her back, the smooth worn surface of the plinth had become so slick, she was struggling to stay in place. In the morning, her skin had stuck to it, her own weight being enough to hold her steady, but with the rain, she would slide down, the straps biting into her thighs, chest and wrists being the only things keeping her there. Her wrists cramped with how hard she held onto the handles on the wrist cuffs, but letting them go was a nightmare. She would only about an inch, but it was far enough that trying to find the handles was a nearly impossible task. And it only took a single contraction to learn that loosing her only anchor point, her only control over any of the situation was not something she could endure.
So she clung to the wooden dowels, despite the blisters forming on her hands, despite the contractions that made her want to release them and clutch at her belly, something that she couldn't do. "NooooooUUUUAAAAAAARRRRGH!" She screamed as another contraction tried to rip her apart and crush her all at once. The pressure kept vanishing, not staying like it was supposed to. She wanted to give in, to push with it, but she couldn't make herself. She couldn't force herself to push when a part of her knew it was too soon. It would hurt her. It would hurt the baby. So she panted, wanting desperately to writhe, and tried to lift her hips off of the stone, even a fraction of an inch. The strain onher muscles was making every part of her shake with effort and exhaustion, so she released the attempt, feeling her body slam the mere half inch back into place, jolting her and making her cry out again. But even that couldn't stop her from straining again and again against the restraints, trying to give herself a little bit more room. Just a little bit more...
She didn't know how many times, though how many contractions she strained and arched her body, doing everything she could from mantras to panting, from visualizing to just sheer force of will, everything she could think of doing to stop herself from pushing. But she was loosing. More than once, she caught herself giving in, tiny little pushes that made her belly swell and rise with the effort. She could barely hear anything over the patter of rain, but she could faintly hear excited murmuring in the prominent seating close to the plinth. Nobles and courtiers realizing how close she was to giving birth. If they only knew that she wasn't ready yet. "Make it stop," She begged, looking up at the sky, "Gods, make the pressure stop or let it come out!" There wasn't so much as a clap of thunder in response, only another brutal contraction that made her arch her body again. "AAAAAAAUUUUUGH!"
Eventually, she could hold back no longer. She didn't care that the pressure wasn't remaining, and some part of her didn't care how badly it could hurt her or the baby, her body had gone through enough. She had to push. When the next contraction came, she didn't arch away from it, she curled forward the tiny amount she was able to, and bore down. "HUUUUUNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGAAAAAAARRRRGH!" She bellowed out, the sound being swallowed by both the thunder of the storm and the thunder of the crowd as they all realized at once that she was fully pushing now. And she noticed something else too. Instead of fading away again, the pressure seemed to grow more intense, dropping below the spike of agony in her back and dropping between her hips, making her feel like she was sitting on a saddle. She squirmed, her body slipping on the wet marble as she tried to make the sensation more bearable, and whimpering in frustration as she found she couldn't. But the pressure wasn't fading anymore. Now she could push. She could push! "HuuuuUUUUNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAHHHH!" She screamed as she pushed with the next contraction. Her effort cut off abruptly as a sharp sting made her flinch. It had felt like a pebble had been hurled at her left breast with great speed. She looked and didn't see anything except for a small welt that grew red, even against the burn from the sun. Then she felt another sting, this one on her belly. And another on her arm. It wasn't until one hit her head that she realized. Hailstones. Small ones, only about the size of peas. More than enough to be unbearable.
"OWWWWWWWwwowowowowowowowWOWWWWWWWW HUUUAAAAAAAAGH! OH GODS!" She screamed as she pushed. The hail didn't show any signs of stopping, but at least the stones weren't growing larger as they sometimes did. She had partially expected to be released once the hail had started, but as with the rain, she was left exposed to the elements, rain and hail descending while thunder ripped the sky apart. Much like how the head in her was descending, contractions ripping her apart. One had hit quite near her eye, and she kept both of them shut now, her eyelids turning red with each bolt of lightning that shredded the sky, thunder bellowing in their wake. Between contraction, she shuddered with cold and pain as thousands of tine hailstone pelted her body. Shen she dared to open her eyes to squint at herself, she was covered in tiny welts that ranged from red to purple where she could see, her sunburned skin feeling like it was on fire, and still she pushed. She knew that as soon as the baby was out, she would be taken down, and ushered inside and away from the onslaught. bracing herself, she panted once, twice, and got ready to push once again. "HUUUU-AAAAAAAH!"
Once she was pushing, she thought it wouldn't take long for the baby to come out, but it seemed to crawl along at a leisurely pace down, every tiny movement sending zings of pain through her birth canal as it stretched around the baby. But those were nothing in comparison to the stretching she had feared. The head of the baby eventually made it down far enough that she could feel her lips parting around it. And as she feared, the sunburn that had seared every inch of her exposed to the sun felt a hundred times worse as the burned skin of her vagina began to stretch and spread around the head. It was agony, the legendary ring of fire taking on a whole new meaning as Valaina sobbed through the pain, trying to push hard enough to get the head out. But every time she stopped while waiting for the next contraction, the head began moving back in, hiding away from the chaos and noise of the world. "The... the head! Hail...' She panted, and the midwife called up, making her voice heard over the sounds of the storm. "When the head is out, I will shield it from the hail. Just get the baby out to us." Valaina nodded, her eyes still squeezed shut and she braced herself for another push, panting as she felt the contraction building. "OooooooOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAGH-"
Her efforts cut off and her head fell back as a shock of pain exploded in her calf. Her eyes snapped open and she screamed, her thigh spasming and she writhed, feeling the white hot feeling cut through her concentration. Over her own screaming, she was dimly aware of screams in the crowd, and she knew something was wrong. Time seemed to slow down as she watched a projectile dart across her belly, the head scoring a thin line over her as a crossbow bolt pinged off of the marble, leaving a small chip in the surface and bouncing off, missing her by millimeters. "SEIZE THEM!" A voice commanded, and Valaina tried to turn to look, seeing one of the assailants, crossbow in hand being cut down by men with swords, his weapon clattering the ground, along with several bolts. She heard the snapping twang of another crossbow, and heard someone shout in pain before another scream and clatter told her that another had just been cut down as well. She strained her neck, trying to look down, but the hail bouncing down on her and something new told her what she already suspected. A crossbow bolt as embedded in her calf, the hailstones hitting the shaft with the same speed as the rest of her body, making small shocks of pain radiate up her leg. All of this came to her and faded in a few heartbeats as the interrupted pushing effort seemed to aggravate the contraction, which redoubled it's efforts with savage force. Valaina rallied herself and pushed again, screaming so loudly her throat began to hurt. She had to finish now, there were assassins! She had to get the baby out so she could leave! "AAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! COME ONNNNN!" She screamed, pushing so hard her head began to quiver with effort.
And with a sudden pop, Valaina let her head drop back with a sharp clack against the plinth as she felt he pressure snap back as the head came fully out, and she laid there panting as the crowd cheered wildly. She opened her eyes and looked down to see the midwife moving quickly, holding her hands out over where she assumed the head was. her belly was still too large to see anything below it, so Valaina had to hope she was protecting the head from the weather. The contraction didn't fully let up, easing for a moment, then pulsing back stronger than ever as Valaina pushed again, and felt the baby rippling and squirming as it was pushed out of her belly and into the world.
She was expecting cheering at the completion of the birth, but she still started at the sheer intensity of the crowd's expression of joy. She also didn't care bast the reflexive startle. As she heard the baby cry, she was completely taken in by the sweetness of the sound, the only other sound that mattered being the jingling of keys and chains as the straps were undone. "Oh fuck!" she yelped as she nearly slipped off and hit the ground, but the ceremonial guards caught her as she slipped, and guided her to her feet, the midwife handing her the baby, a girl. She wanted to melt, to just sink down with her baby, but the midwife held her upright. "The ritual is not complete yet. You must walk." Valaina felt her eyes go wide, shivering and barely able to stand, "Walk?" "You must exit as you entered, and then you can rest." Before Valaina could respond, she jerked and screamed in pain once again, her daughter flinching and crying at her expression of pain as the crossbow bolt was pulled from her leg. Valaina turned and looked at the path to the ramp, surprised to see it lit by torches, and dimly wondered what time it was. The path looked longer now than it had that morning. But she had to. For her daughter. For the kingdom. She braced herself, and straightened as much as she could, feeling the umbilical cord pulling at her lips as she did, and found she couldn't get past a half upright hunch. Each step was an eternity, her legs shaking so badly, she was surprised they held her weight, but eventually, she found herself at the top of the ramp and descending to the doors that had been opened once again. It was only a dozen more steps before she was out of the hail and inside the stone vaults of the amphitheater. Once the doors were closed, she felt her legs give out, and she was caught before she hit the floor.
She was bustled into what was called the After Chamber, a large space with a massive soft bed, a warm fire and numerous attendants who helped her deliver the afterbirth and dispose of it. Then, while the baby was being looked over, more attendants began lathering Valaina's body in a thick fluid squeezed from plants into her skin. Their efforts burned and stung, but afterwards, everywhere they rubbed began to feel soothed and relaxed once again. "Aloe," One of them explained, "It will help with the sun burn." Valaina didn't have the energy to reply, even to thank them, she just nodded tiredly, her vision fading in and out. "By what name are you calling your daughter?" The midwife asked as she examined the baby, and Valaina felt her eyes snap open. She hadn't really thought of one, but a name came to her now. Not her mother's name. As much as she loved her mother, she had told her nothing of the rigors of birth. She had no sisters. No aunts who's names she liked. But there was a name, the name of the midwife who Valaina had sit with as her aunt Kalunda had labored, and knew. "Her name is Ainara."
One Year Later
It had taken Valaina nearly two weeks before she was strong enough to leave the After Chamber. She quickly found that it had been built with that kind of time in mind, being fully stocked with supplies and materials to allow such a long recovery. When she did finally walk out of the vaulted entrance, she found a newfound respect waiting for her. Few queens had given birth in such a storm, and none had ever done so with a crossbow bolt in their leg. The bolt in question, along with the one that had narrowly missed her had been presented by the prime minister to her as a gift. It came with a sincere apology for regulating her parents to such distant seats in the arena. And while Valaina was still unable to forgive him for that, she took the bolts in the spirit they were intended, keeping them as a relic in the archive.
But the day Ainara turned one, she was standing in the square in front of the amphitheater, looking up at a shrouded statue. She didn't know who had commissioned it, but she felt it was Marne. With little ceremony beyond a short speech about the statue's commissioning, the veil was removed. Valaina gasped as she looked at it. She was depicted as a powerful figure, one hand held protectively over her belly, her other outstretched with a crossbow bolt held in her open palm. The statue's hair, her hair, as bound and pinned in place with the other crossbow bolt, and a lightning bolt crossing it. but what caught her breath were the hundreds of small gems dotting her form, and she knew that these represented the hailstone that pelted her through her birth, She felt a tear come to her eye as she looked at it, feeling the phantom pains of both the hail and the crossbow bolt sting her as the crowd applauded and cheered the statue commemorating their queen.
Soul mate marks, but instead of a mark, once you and your soulmate turn 20, you both start swelling up with each other's baby, and once you're due you can't give birth until you've gotten intimate with your soulmate.
🟢 Childhood sweethearts, both excited when they begin to swell up once they're both 20, weeping in delight and relief when they both go into labor with each other's at the same time, just as they'd always hoped they would.
🟢 A young couple, who hit their due date and never go into labor. A scenario that would normally lead to a break-up and heartache, this young couple places bets on who's going into labor first, and spend their free time going out and getting laid, making out with each other, and caressing each other's gravid bellies, while random strangers fuck them senseless.
🟢 A pair of soulmates who have been pregnant with each other's babies so long, they've given up on meeting each other. As they get older and older, they get more pitying looks from whomever they meet, as it's clear their time is running out to find their soulmate. By the time they meet at the retirement community center, they've both given up on giving birth to their little ones. At least, until one night at a community pool party gone wild, when both their waters break in the hot tub. The community rallies around them, helping the first-timers through their labor and reminiscing about their first time giving birth with their soulmates.
🟢 Someone who never swells with child, having accepted their lack of a soulmate a long time ago, enduring the pity of those around them for being destined to be alone. One day, when they've already hit their mid-50’s/early 60’s, they realize they've got a steadily growing baby bump. At first they're elated to have a soulmate, until the horror dawns at how much younger they are. They resign themself to simply be happy to feel their soulmate's child growing and kicking within them, planning on never becoming intimate enough with someone young enough to be their soumate. About a decade later, spent contentedly round with their child, they find themselves falling for their new neighbor. In their 30’s, they're kind, caring, and also heavy with child. One night, after a neighborhood BBQ, their younger neighbor flirtily insists on waddling home with them, and by the morning they're both holding each other up, bellies pressed against each other, while they crown around each other's babies.
🟢 A sheltered person from a controlling bigoted family, who was always taught that a soulmate bond was only between two people, finds themselves swelling up so quickly after their 20th birthday that it's clear to everyone they're knocked up with multiples. Their parents disown the "shameless whore,” and they're left on their own, rapidly becoming so big it's obvious at first glance that they 1) have more than one soulmate, and 2) won't be able to walk on their own for much longer.
🟢 Polycules in various stages of pregnancy. The oldest happily swelling up with one, surprised to find themselves swelling up with another… then another. In the medium age group of the polycule, they find themselves swelling first with twins or triplets, then later on swelling again. The youngest of the polycule turns 20 to find themselves growing rapidly with quints. The others, either groaning when they realize another big baby is beginning to grow alongside the quads already squished in their womb, or if they've already connected with others in the polycule and given birth to their babies, somewhat frustrated that they've just gotten small enough to move around again only to discover another baby growing in their belly.
🟢 Someone meant to find love more than once, suspecting what might happen when they're carrying twins, and their first soulmate is only carrying a singleton. Perhaps they fall out of love and separate amicably, or perhaps their first soulmate tragically passes away. They hold their crying children at the funeral, a hand resting on their belly, not quite sure yet if they're ready to feel the hope their unborn child's kicks want to inspire. Maybe it'll be a few years while their first children are still young, maybe it'll be later once their children are grown and moved out of the house. But even through their grief, they know that someday they'll find love again.
🟢 A couple who have given birth to each other's babies, but both find themselves still full term with a singleton, struggling to take care of two rambunctious toddlers with their gravid bellies, with equally rambunctious unborn babies impatiently kicking away, slowing them down. Once a month, they try to hire a babysitter, get dressed up, and hit the town in the hopes of finding their twin-filled third.
🟢 Sex-repulsed aroace people, who have been told all their lives that only sex with their soulmate can induce birth, happy to stay big and pregnant as long as it means they don't have to have sex. Many are pleasantly surprised to find themselves rapidly going into labor after a deeply intimate conversation with one of their favorite people in the world (who is also in labor with them).
🟢 Soulmates who give birth to each other's babies, and then keep breeding like jack rabbits. They're pregnant so often, that sometimes old acquaintances and distant family members will see them and assume they still haven't found their soulmate yet, only to be startled when their attention is drawn to the small sports team of kids behind them.
🟢 Clubs that try to only hire drink-tenders (because a lot of ‘bars’ in a very pregnant world are non-alcoholic, but offer a space for people to gather, satisfy pregnancy cravings with bar snacks, and maybe find their soulmate) who have found their soulmate already/aren't pregnant, because too many times they've had their drink-tenders go into labor mid shift. Sometimes more than one drink-tender, and once a drink-tender went into labor multiple times in one night.
🟢 Clubs having medical staff on hand to help people through their labor, and it's become common to have more private, comfier, delivery rooms in the club for the newly found soulmates to continue to bond while they're in labor.
🟢 A polyamorous person, who has multiple soulmates who are not soulmates with each other, who seems to be constantly growing and giving birth, spending their early to mid- 20's full of at least triplets, at their smallest. When they meet each of their soulmates, who mostly are carrying only one to two babies, with only one soulmate carrying triplets, they look gargantuan in comparison, carrying sextuplets at their biggest.
🟢 Soulmates in a will-they, won't-they situationship, who keep skirting the edge of becoming intimate enough, physically or emotionally, to induce labor, but shying away at the last second, with their bellies hanging low on their hips. Constantly feeling practice contractions that border on the real thing, their babies heads so low on their pelvis, threatening to batter through their cervix at any moment, always on the edge of their water bursting, chest leaking milk in preparation to feed their babies. And yet, neither of them manage to realize they're soulmates (for a while at least).
🟢 Someone who's tired of comments on their flat, soulmate baby-less, belly. So they hatch a half-baked, not very thought through plan, to just go out and get knocked up. Their plan works, and they realize, too late, that everyone will be expecting to meet their soulmate after they go into labor, but they still won't have one. Their regret worsens when they discover they're expecting twins. At some point they come clean, and find everyone around them surprisingly supportive, and apologetic for making them feel so pressured they felt they needed to do that. Imagine their surprise, when they give birth to one baby, and the other one stays put, content to stay safe and snug in their womb until they find their soulmate.
🟢 A post-orgy group chat has become quite common, filled with pictures of orgy members holding one (or more) newborns, asking “okay, so whose is it?” It's not considered a very good/fun orgy if there's not a least a few people being fucked into, and through, their labor. A truly great orgy will be the cause of a local baby boom.
🟢 At a high school reunion, the former high school bully waddles over to their also pregnant former target to apologize for how they acted when they were younger. They have a deeply personal conversation about therapy and growth, only interrupted by a strong contraction and their waters breaking at the same time. As if to atone for their actions, the former bully ignores/ tries to delay their own birth in order to help their soulmate through their labor.
🟢 Someone who was pregnant with their soulmates baby for so long, they find they can't stand being empty once they've found their soulmate and given birth. Their reflection looks wrong, their body feels unbalanced, their entire sense of self is off. They demand/beg their soulmate to put another baby in them so they can feel like themselves again.
🟢 Enemies/rivals, startled and angry to find their belly dropping and contractions starting after they have a moment of realizing that maybe they have more in common than they thought. They immediately go back to fighting, which is difficult to do when their cramping bellies are sitting so very low on their hips, and their babies heads have rammed into their pelvis.
🟢 A sex worker whose appeal is that they don't want to know who their soulmate is. They host events and live streams, where they're blindfolded and the attendants are masked, and each of them take turns trying to fuck them into labor. While they have many fans, and many paying attendants, only one is the “lucky winner.” Their soulmate keeps fucking into them while they labor, giving everyone an extra show, as they remain blindfolded as they groan in pleasure and pain. Viewers are treated to the sight of them both crowning at once, the one blindfolded on their hands and knees, moaning about how they've never felt so full, baby in a full crown, driving their hips back to meet their masked soulmates cock in their ass, as they grip onto their hips for dear life and fervently thrust into them to distract from the burning pain they feel as their baby stretches them to their limit. When they take off the blindfold, they're met with the sight of their bruised hips, birthing fluids, two newborn babies crying, one with their umbilical cord leading back into them, the other's umbilical cord already cut, their soulmate already gone.
🟢 Someone who calculates their soulmates birthday down to the exact day, and will only date people with that exact birthday. After so long of trying they give up, eventually having a meaningless fling with someone else, falling in love with them despite knowing they're not their soulmate. They're both suddenly surprised when after a big conversation about feelings, they start to go into labor. Turns out their soulmate was adopted and didn't know their actual birthdate, but now they know their real birthday, and have their soulmate and new family to celebrate it with.
AN: Not a prompt fill, but I wrote something very aro/ace self-indulgent for myself, and I thought it might be worth sharing. I’ve never tried writing anything like this before. I’m just so glad this blog exists.
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You have a special toy. You aren’t entirely sure how it works, but you don’t care. It does exactly what you want from it, and that’s all that matters. It’s a simple process: you insert the toy, your womb fills with some kind of thick gel, and when you’re big enough, you take the toy out and enjoy your belly for some time.
You have discovered that the toy is timed perfectly to match your long commute home from work. An hour of driving, an hour of building up to the most pleasurable nights of your life. You dream of a life where you could use it every day, but you keep it for special occasions. You know there can be too much of a good thing, and you don’t want to spoil yourself.
It’s a Friday evening, and you make a quick stop on the bathroom on your way out of work to insert the toy. It’s not a big thing, only about the size of a tampon. You’re not supposed to get pleasure from it being inside you, but rather from what it does to you. Honestly you think it’s enough. If the toy acted as a dildo as well, you would never be able to use it and drive at the same time.
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