Do you think Robin and Nancy would want to be biological parents, adoptive parents, or childfree?
Very loaded question, this one is… I love it.
I’m very conflicted on this because, canonically, Nancy doesn’t seem to want children. However, Nancy is also only with men in the show, and the answer sometimes changes when you go from thinking you would have to have a child with a man to realizing you could have a child with a woman you love.
Like, I know this from experience. I always said I never wanted children before I realized my sexuality, specifically because the idea of carrying a child for a man made my stomach turn. But when I realized I liked women, I realized that I didn’t mind the idea of having a baby with another woman. And when I fell in love with my wife, I realized the idea of carrying a baby wasn’t so bad if it was her baby I was carrying. So then I had to reevaluate what I wanted.
Truth is, I don’t know what Nancy would decide. Part of me thinks she would still prefer to remain childless but part of me thinks she would find she enjoys the idea of raising a child with Robin. I definitely think Robin would be more open to it, obviously after she finds out she could have a child with another woman instead of with a man, but I don’t think it would be that important to her. If whoever she was with, like Nancy, didn’t want children at all, I don’t think she’d necessarily mind it turning out that way either. Very middle of the road, ‘whatever happens happens’ yknow?
But I love the idea of Nancy slowly realizing something in her craves having that kind of family. Of raising a child with the woman she loves. Having dreams of taking care of a little baby with her eyes and Robin’s freckles. And that’s not necessarily something that could happen in reality (unless it’s an AU where one of them is trans), and I think she’d be really surprised about how upset she gets over it.
If they did decide to have a kid I could see them going through IVF/IUI/RIVF in modern times, with either an anonymous donor or with Steve as their donor.
I think at first Robin would be scared about the idea of carrying, after she does a little bit of research and realizes how much can go wrong during pregnancy and childbirth, but then she’d realize their other option would be for Nancy to carry and potentially have these things happen to her instead, and i feel like she would decide she’d prefer to take the risk herself. I don’t think Nancy would necessarily mind the idea of carrying but it probably takes her a while to kind of come to terms with it because she’s spent so much of her life being completely against it. I think she’d become super attached to RIVF, loving the idea of carrying Robin’s biological child, or Robin carrying hers.
I think they’d be very open to adoption or fostering as well. I think I’ve mentioned it on here before but I had this AU idea at one point where Nancy and Robin reconnect in their thirties and Robin has adopted a child, her late girlfriend’s daughter. I also love the idea of Robin and Steve platonically raising a child together, biologically theirs through IVF or adopted, and Nancy joining the picture later on as well.
Basically, I can see all three options for them 🤣 But I definitely think they’d end up being great parents, if they so choose.
