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Mother: Doctor, with my important duties… I don’t have time to raise a kid.
On a spaceship, a mother holds a newborn baby in her arms. A doctor stands nearby.
Doctor: No problem.
The doctor places the baby in a cart by itself in the center of the room.
Doctor: Now we wait.
Mother: What are we waiting for?
Doctor: Oh, alien DNA, space time portals, bio-engineering, or just spontaneous –
In place of the baby is a young adult wearing the ship’s uniform.
Young adult: Hi, mom!
Mother: Wow, is that really you, umm… I should probably name you.
Young adult: Sure, you can do that after we go on adventures!
P.S. Our bills are paid by our wonderful patrons. Could you chip in?
3ds Fire Emblems be like
Yeah so true.
Well, that was convenient.
Except that adventure part, of course.
YA spec fic authors be like, let’s send our kids on some dangerous adventure.
*sigh* They grow up so fast…
It went way better of what i expected from the first panel…
Yeah, especially if you’re like me and your first go-to is old Twilight Zone plots. I legit thought the kid was a goner…
Not gonna lie, this would be an interesting game premise.
Fire Emblem Awakening and Fire Emblem Fates pretty much do this unironically.
Awakening through time travel and Fates through some interdimensional space where time flows differently. Silas’s daughter even comemnts on the whole fighting alongside your parents thing.
I’ll be honest, it felt _acceptable_ in Awakening because the kids are from a parallel universe and not quite the character’s ACTUAL children.
But in Fates it’s literally “we just had this baby, throw it quick into the time oven so it can mature into a capable soldier for our army!”
One of the many things that took me out of that game.
Fates was a game that never presented its premise as anything amicable or coherent. I feel like we should not expect from a story much that unironically supported Imperialism and only stopped it, when it was already over. It also has white savior elements to it in one story branch and is arguably the worst FE in terms of story by miles. No story in a game can be worse than Fates and if one somehow exists, then I dread to know what it is about.
That was an interesting development. I wonder how often that happens, so the doctor is actually expecting it.
Good one again, Bunny and Chris!
Editor’s note: I’ve removed a comment for trying to spread transphobia by strawmanning gender neutral language.