>Remilia is from an age where not every child was assured of reaching
>adulthood. Hell, Flandre almost didn't. Of course, it could be argued
>that she still hasn't yet, so six of one. But even back in the 1700s,
>when Remilia lost track of the outside world, child mortality was
>appalingly high.

True, that's a good point. I kind of wonder now if, having heard about his five grown children, she assumes there must have been others who didn't make it.

(As for Flan, she's about as close as she'll get, which is good enough for government work, particularly now that she's out of the swamp mentally. :)

>It could also be that Remilia is thinking of the truly long term,
>given she's taken an immortal as a fiancee; who's to say that 20 or 50
>or 100 years from now, her husband might not long to hear the
>pitter-patter of little feet in the house once again?

The funny part there is that if she was paying attention to that part of his life story, then she should realize at some point that every single one of his existing kids was the other party's idea. He's not against them and he loves the ones he has, but in 400-odd years he's never been the one who said, "You know what, let us procreate." :)

>He and Kei
>didn't contemplate them at all for almost three centuries after
>getting married.

Technically, they didn't bother actually getting married until Kate was already on the way, but, yeah. (Ties into that whole thing from Nocturne Historique about how they didn't get around to not being teenagers until the Corporate War.)

>Anyways, if Gryph really wants children with Remilia, I'm sure 25th
>century technology is up to the task. Vampires and Detians are both
>"human+", and matching up the genes shouldn't be that difficult,
>especially since they have Flandre as an example of a vampire with
>Detian blood.

(nod) There are a few different ways the problem could be tackled in the 2400s, ranging from dropping both genomes into a big enough computer and redirecting the output to a biosculpt tank, to (theoretically, with an adept enough arcanobiologist in play) adjusting things so that they can potentially get it done the old-fashioned way.

(Alternately, they could adopt. That would involve more paperwork and less lab time. :)

Heck, in a magically active world, even in the 1940s they might not be completely out of luck, but they'd have to know the right people. Either way, it's not likely to be an issue right away, but it's a conversation they ought to have at some point, anyway.

(All that said, I do have to admit that within about five minutes of writing the part in Act III establishing that vampire women can't have children, the bit of my brain that likes to make trouble for me was casually remarking, "You know, if they had a daughter, she'd have to be called Victoria. And she'd look like this." :)

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