The only kid!fics or headcanons I accept for Hollanov, when they are having a kid together, are when Shane uses Svetlana or a Japanese oc as a surrogate or has a baby from a previous hook-up with a Japanese woman. And with mpreg, I only ever headcanon their kids as visibly Japanese the way Thandiwe Newton’s daughter Nico Parker is a quarter Black yet looks more biracial than white.
Sorry, but I hate it when Shane is written or drawn as popping out a bunch of white babies. Canonically, Shane is written as being barely Asian. Ilya has to get right up on him to see how much he reassembles his mother, which is why I also get annoyed when people act like Shane would be experiencing a shit ton of racism just based on his looks. Shane’s skills matter a lot, but his proximity to whiteness helps him a lot until racists and homophobes have a “reason” to ostracize him.
Anyway, not the post to get this deep, but I just really like reading about or seeing fan art of non-white characters having cute non-white babies. Shane and Ilya don’t even know that many white women for them to be having white babies, when they can easily ask Svetlana (based on show canon, since book canon Ilya isn’t that close to her), or they hire surrogates and offer Ilya’s sperm with a white donor and Shane’s with a Japanese donor. Or they both go for a Japanese donor, so all their kids are at least half or a quarter white.
It just doesn’t make sense to wash away Shane’s ethnicity, which is what happens when everybody headcanons them as asking Rose for help. Or knocking Shane up. He’s only half Japanese. It’s all fiction, yes, but the likelihood of them having brown/tan skin babies with almond eyes is next to zero, when Shane is described as looking like David expect for his hair color and eye shape. Shane, in the books, is even more white presenting than Hudson, folks, is all I’m saying, so let’s get more creative with their baby making!
