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I predict this will be a self-indulgent shippy meditation on power and responsibility but it's honestly hard to predict these threads
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"I think I almost definitely do? In a bit, though. When things have settled down some. Assuming you want them, you should really not have kids you don't want just because I want them. Slave status notwithstanding."

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"I like kids and I'll take really good care of them but you're the one who'd have to bear them. ...or I guess you could just magic them into existence."

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"I guess I could! I'm not actually sure which of those I'd prefer. I think you'll be a really good dad. But if we do have kids you are absolutely required to listen to me read you a bunch of baby care books because I vaguely remember you having a concerning understanding of how babies work."

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"I will listen to you read me baby care books."

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Snuggle.

"What else under the kids heading. Parenting stuff, I guess, but I feel like we've covered most of that already with Zana. Presumably we don't send the kids to formal schooling unless they ask. And we try teaching them to read but don't make a fuss if they can't. Anything you wanna ask about?"

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"Are we going to teach them how to follow the fairy rules or just count on them always being entangled with you?"

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"I think we're going to teach them how to follow the fairy rules but also make sure they spend their whole childhoods entangled with me. ...how do we feel about them watching TV or playing video games or listening to music, I could see an argument for wanting them to be old enough to make informed entanglement decisions before they do that, especially if we're going to mostly make people immortal."

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"I could imagine a kid who wanted to not be entangled with you and run off for a while and it'd be sad if they couldn't because they'd die instantly. ...also it seems bad if all our kids would die if anything ever happened to you."

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"Yeah. Okay. No uncontrolled media access until they're older, even though that's pretty limiting. But we gotta read them lots of books, then, in case they're anything like me and need lots of stories to be okay."

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Nodnodnod. "We can do old movies."

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"Unfortunately also kind of fraught, if we're going to resurrect people? - oh, wait, I forgot debt gets reset when someone dies, I guess old movies should be okay. That's good. 

" - this is also maybe a point in favor of magicking them into existence, it's possible I can create babies that are genetically ours and immortal but lacking fairy debt stuff. I don't know how you'd feel about that."

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"I - I think there are some good things about being a fairy I'd want our kids to get but the debt stuff isn't one of them."

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Nodnod. "Which things?"

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"I think fairies think differently than humans? And I like the ways fairies think. I dunno if I have better words. Uh, it's related to the thing where any of the human mes would've been sad about being your slave, and the thing where it's bad for humans to make them have sex."

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"That makes sense. I don't know whether I can control those things at all but if I did magic kids into existence I think I would only try to change the debt thing."

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Nod. "Then that seems good. - though if they're gonna hang out with fairies it's probably better if they can sense debt."

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"That's true. I have no idea whether I can magically give them my thing where I can see debt but don't track it with other humans, but - if I magic them into existence I guess that's what I'd go for."

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"Seems good.

 

Also I think we should love them even if they suck and can't read and stuff."

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Snuggle. "Yes. Obviously we should love our children no matter how they turn out. Also you don't suck."

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"Compared to the rest of my parents' kids I do."

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"Well, none of them have a goddess who wants to marry them, so think that is debatable."

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Snuggle. "All our kids are gonna be great and if they hate school and can't read and wanna be park rangers when they grow up then that's fine. I guess if they turn into serial killers or evil demigods who rain destruction on the innocent then we will have to put a stop to that. But I think I'll probably love them even then."

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"Okay."

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She scribbles some notes on her paper. "What else. What are people likely to disagree on. - do parents have obligations to their children or do children have obligations to their parents. Or both. And what are they. That seems like maybe an important one."

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