saarn encouraging nadox to get w derdekeas in a modern au because "lovataar and ion cannot be the healthiest couple in our friend group. a stalker and her victim cannot have the most stable relationship. please"
Not to bother you but I wonder if you have any pregnant Roberta Bumaro hcs...
Or anything about her really...
Just asking you to feed my Brainworms 🥺
I think I already posted some stuff about Roberta being pregnant on my main blog (specifically about cryptic pregnancies, which spawned Saoirse into existence), however I can add some more onto that!
(This is specifically for Saoirse's pregancy development and birth, just saying to prevent confusion.)
(Also I put this under the cut because I realized it was getting too long.😭)
So this was a cryptic pregnancy, AKA she did not know she was pregnant until... I'm gonna say she actually didn't know until she was already in labor.😭 She experienced few symptoms and, due to the way her body is built, barely even had a baby bump. (Most of the baby was hidden inside her, instead of growing outwards like most pregnant bellies.)
For what little symptoms she did experience: nauseoua, headaches, and occasionally being in a bitchy mood for seemingly no reason. As well as "food" cravings for a variety of different metals.
She wasn't completely unaware of these symptoms being abnormal; however, the last thing she thought it could be was pregnancy -- she actually thought it was build up for some kind of transformation that Mekhane wanted her to have. (Specifically due to the weird cravings.)
(Also, she did not have sex any time at all in the months leading up to it. In any other world, this would be grounds to immediately throw out a pregnancy diagnosis (as Roberta did). However, due to the fact that Mekhane wants to make more pieces of herself, she built this mechanism inside Roberta to have the capabilities of pregnancy, without the necessity of having sex. AKA, Roberta was in the same bed with Lovataar, and that was literally enough to get her pregnant.)
Ezekiel was the first to notice something was different, potentially even hearing the baby the moment it was conceived. But when he tried to subtly ask about it, Roberta genuinely had zero clue what he was talking about, and seeing as how she had very little symptoms in the first place, he didn't try to intervene again.
Lovataar was the next person to notice after Roberta snapped at her for seemingly no reason. It's extremely out of character for her to do that (unless you're Ion), so she started keeping tabs on whatever other symptoms she showed. Since there weren't many, she had a wide variety of potential reasons. When she tried to bring her list to Roberta though, she threw it out the moment Lova said the word "pregnant".
Then came the day when she went into labor... I still haven't decided where, exactly, this happened, but I know that I want both Ezekiel and Lova to be there. Roberta, in the middle of whatever she's doing at whatever place, realizes that she's suddenly feeling very strange (and almost in pain). She thinks "oh no, I'm having my glorious holy transformation right now??? In front of everyone???" And so quickly excuses herself to go hide in a closet somewhere, thinking that it can't be worse than her initial transformation from the ichor.
Ezekiel follows her shortly after, because even though he hasn't touched the subject further, he was still very worried. Thus, Ezekiel was the first one to find her going to into labor.
... And he damn near faints once he realizes what's happening, because he might've done a lot of strange things as an engineer, but delivering a baby is not one of them.
(Luckily, Lova is there, and so the baby is delivered without any trouble. Well, except Roberta's emotional scarring, but without any physical trouble.)
I had a cute trunwig fic idea (that I honestly might still write because it seems like it'd be short and sweet) where Hedwig offhandedly mentions how she enjoys arcades, and then for one of their anniversaries, Trunnion saving up the money to go take them to some big arcade place like Dave n Busters or something (even though most of the modern games are definitely heretical technology by Orthodoxy standards).
And Hedwig is so touched by it she almost has a positive breakdown because she's not used to having her interests acknowledged and she legitimately didn't know Trunnion remembered that.
no one can accuse me of AI because I’m hopelessly addicted to posting WIPs and then taking five weeks to actually share the finished product because I’m not only an attention seeker but also a procrastinator