I'm surprised no one has really done a Dads AU yet though I've heard people speculate on ways they might have children, if they decided they wanted some.
I'm thinking it happens kind of by "accident" because the Eridians were messing around with both Ryland and Simon's DNA by combining them in a mishmash of different ways.
Since they had great success with cloning muscle mass to make the meburgers, they decide to try something a little more complicated and start working on different combinations to make an actual human being.
Ryland's biological material likes to cooperate just fine, but Simon's is... weird (courtesy of the blood ocean and radiation).
Eridians, however are determined and they eventually find a combination that produces a viable fetus.
They end up building an artificial womb, which is really just another zinonite cylinder that Ryland calls an egg as a joke. The zenonite molecules are sorted in a way that will prevent any harm done to the exterior of the shell, yet will easily break from enough force caused by the inside. Due to the increased gravity of Erid, average human infants can't properly develope on the planet, so the fetus will need to remain in the egg surrounded by albumen until they're aproximately the physical age of three. By then, it's expected that they will have attained the minimum amount of strength to break the egg on their own.
Ryland and Simon keep the egg in their house so that when the human is ready, they'll be nearby to care for them. It doesn't quite go as planned.
Let me know what you guys think of this and if I should do more art for this AU.
“I want to write a fic about this but I don’t think anybody will be interested in it” ummm hello excuse me ma’am what do you mean you don’t think anybody will be interested in it??? YOU. YOU ARE INTERESTED IN IT???? write it because YOU are interested in it and YOU want to write about it. fanfic writing should always be first and foremost about YOUR enjoyment, not other people’s.
also I don't think parents "these days" are uniquely terrible, I just think neglect is showing up in new ways as technology progresses. today's ipad kid would've been wandering around in a ditch alone all day and night before. parents not wanting to have to deal with children is not a new phenomenon.
“we live in an uncaring universe” yeah dude and I live in an uncaring house. and I shit in an uncaring toilet. but do you touch an uncaring lover? do you comfort an uncaring child? do you guide to sleep each night a cold and uncaring self?
All fossil fuel executives and their collaborators should be held accountable for every single death caused by climate change as if they had murdered them with their own bare hands
everyone's afraid of looking busted everyone's afraid of making mistakes everyone's afraid of looking stupid everyone's afraid of embarrassment everyone's afraid of imperfections because of the damn PANOPTICON that is current society and it's fucking STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
