[Looking at her over his shoulder again, with that sort of face that just says "really?" But he'll lay back down into her palm again, thinking that over.]
I... well, ah - first, as a Grim Reaper... I cannot have kids in the first place. Grim Reapers are sterile - we're incapable of reproduction. Which is for the best, as we're created when a specific type of human dies and joins our ranks. And we already have too many child Grim Reapers running about, I wouldn't want to see naturally born ones, as well.
That said... I also frighten children merely by existing in their vicinity. Often to tears. I've yet to meet a single child below the age of, oh, twelve? That wasn't immediately on the verge of crying just from being in the same room as myself.
[...]
All this to say - I have, yes. While I was alive, I thought about it often. It would have been my duty, as an heir to my family's name.
To not have children would have been to kill my family's lineage. Which... wouldn't have been allowed. I likely would have had a marriage arranged for me, by the time I was twenty...
[Congrats on finding something unsexy and only mildly unpleasant, Eva --]
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[Looking at her over his shoulder again, with that sort of face that just says "really?"
But he'll lay back down into her palm again, thinking that over.]
I... well, ah - first, as a Grim Reaper... I cannot have kids in the first place. Grim Reapers are sterile - we're incapable of reproduction.
Which is for the best, as we're created when a specific type of human dies and joins our ranks. And we already have too many child Grim Reapers running about, I wouldn't want to see naturally born ones, as well.
That said...
I also frighten children merely by existing in their vicinity. Often to tears. I've yet to meet a single child below the age of, oh, twelve? That wasn't immediately on the verge of crying just from being in the same room as myself.
[...]
All this to say - I have, yes. While I was alive, I thought about it often.
It would have been my duty, as an heir to my family's name.
To not have children would have been to kill my family's lineage. Which... wouldn't have been allowed.
I likely would have had a marriage arranged for me, by the time I was twenty...
[Congrats on finding something unsexy and only mildly unpleasant, Eva --]