I hadn't set an exact date quite yet, but it'll definitely be somewhere in the 2014-15 range. Since no one on 36 Atalante has had a baby just yet and Helen's birth was high-profile enough to warrant even Midnight's attention. Once she saw the kind of attention that 'offspring' got, she decided that it was what she wanted. Of course, Midnight didn't like the idea of being entirely helpless so she advanced her human-form's age by about four biological years.
Part of the inspiration for this is some old stuff I've had kicking around in my brain. A then-girlfriend and I wrote fics together some years back where one of the interesting features was ships that are people and people that are ships - the whole dual-nature thing.
The other part was my second cousins who I got to see over in San Antonio for Christmas. A cousin of mine has three infinitely lovable little girls, and it doesn't help that I like kids in general. I hadn't gotten to see them in a while, but they haven't forgotten me so we had a lot of fun.
Rob: when one of the little gaki has the ability to summon up her ship-form whenever she feels like it (which happens to arguably be the fastest ship in Fenspace) the possibilities are endless...
"Hey Helen! I heard my Mom and Dad talking about something weird happening over on the dark side of the Moon. You wanna check it out?"
*Cackles gleefully*
Part of the inspiration for this is some old stuff I've had kicking around in my brain. A then-girlfriend and I wrote fics together some years back where one of the interesting features was ships that are people and people that are ships - the whole dual-nature thing.
The other part was my second cousins who I got to see over in San Antonio for Christmas. A cousin of mine has three infinitely lovable little girls, and it doesn't help that I like kids in general. I hadn't gotten to see them in a while, but they haven't forgotten me so we had a lot of fun.
Rob: when one of the little gaki has the ability to summon up her ship-form whenever she feels like it (which happens to arguably be the fastest ship in Fenspace) the possibilities are endless...
"Hey Helen! I heard my Mom and Dad talking about something weird happening over on the dark side of the Moon. You wanna check it out?"
*Cackles gleefully*