#dromedaverse

Updated (added lore)

19 months along. child is due any moment.

After the poisoning Starswirl pulled several months ago Discord wouldn't take a second chance at being poisoned again he was only 9 months into it by the time Starswirl found out about it and made a twisted effort to stop his child from being born. Discord opted to not eat something or anything he himself didn't make after that and he had begun to get incredibly paranoid and concerned for his daughter’s health wondering if she’d be born with complications despite the doctors telling him she appeared in good health and they performed any medical evaluations they could for him when he was admitted in the hospital though there was no telling if she'd end up with physical deformaties or issues. He had effectively locked himself in his own home for a several weeks after that moment. His friends eventually coaxed him to come out of his house as staying cooped up at home isnt good for himself nor his unborn childs health. He eventually relented. As the months went by it made him grow more anxious and couldn't help but feel some sense of unease when the due date was getting closer. He absolutely wanted her to finally be born and had been looking forward to raising her but with Starswirl causing a ruckus about another "chaos creature" was going to be born and cause havoc made him concered how it would affect him. Ponies in ponyville didnt seem to really be bothered with his presence nor with the child he'd have however he was still widely disliked if not hated by most.

Lol happy fathers day Discord

Instructions unclear nurse on dad. Lil newborn Andromeda doesn’t understand her father lacks the hardware to produce milk and nurse.

Q and A (Updated 2.0)

Decided to rewrite this post with the current lore I've shared for Q&A's which have been very fun to answer.

Main points: Discord and Andromeda: He never actually considered children thinking himself as parent material or even a suitable father. not eveb the faintest idea what hes doing, how to be a parent. He developed massive doubts about being a father.

Had hid the fact he ended up pregnant by magical means for 7 months from the others

Despite his doubts he absolutely loves and adores his daughter. Hes very dotting to her.

Discords living the single father life with his daughter. Extremely protective over her especially with the fact shes the only child he'll ever have in his enternal life and Starswirl attempted infanticde.

Draconequii only ever birth one offspring in their entire lives. Discord being the only Draconequus alive produced his one and only child, Andromeda.

Andromeda has no biological mother. Discord's essentially both "mother" and father to Andromeda as he was pregnant with her. He created her via magic as all draconequii can by a equus-morula that they consume to gestate a baby. He did is "spontaneously"

He didnt really take the pregnancy serious until the physical signs started showing between 6 to 7 months months in when he was forced too.

Discord has commitment issues, more specifically around romance due to a certain ex-girlfriend of his who caused nasty trauma from abuse, using him, controlling him taking advantage of his powers. All of which translated into why it was so hard to maintain later friendships during his redemption arc. As a result he wants nothing to do with romance in the slightest.

Instructions unclear regurgitates his baby when it was time. It wasnt on his bingo card.

His pregnancy lasted 19 months. Draconequus are such an ancient species and magically powerful creatures they're gestation periods are longer than most. He experiences magical shuffled mode, meaning his magic has unpredicted outcomes he doesnt do intentionally. (concept of what I mean)

His cravings were the most out of pocket things ever much like standard cravings. Like a cosmic brownie made of the cosmos and certain meat related things.

Discord has zero intentions to tell Andromeda some old delusional unicorn tried to kill her when she was in the womb.

Starswirl planted the paranoia of other attempts to kill/take his daughter from him since he was so hell bent on it previously. Discord never leaves Andromeda alone or out of his sight nor will he let others near his wheezy baby. If he leaves his home shes strapped to his chest in a sling.

Andromeda was born with Bilateral vocal cord paralysis that made her struggle to thrive after birth she was lethargic and made little noise outside of her wheezy breathing.

Despite being seen by doctors they only alleviated her conditon slightly to a form of Unilateral paralysis the damage was too severe to completely correct. Discord took what he could get. At least she'd survive.

Andromeda mainly has a weak cry or a breathy/wheezy voice quality. A mild stridor; noisy, high-pitched breathing especially when upset. Some minor swallowing difficulties. Discord figured out how to manage and handle her paralysis rather well.

It will later develop into taking frequent pauses while speaking, often breathless after a while of constant talking. Voice straining and vocal fatigue.

She has ferret behavior tendencies; energetic, hyper-curious, high risk activity little kid. She is rather mild mannered and calm most of the time seemingly almost aloof she manages to keep her chaotic ferret like behavior tendencies in check. Just as whimsical and theatrical as her father

Andromeda often makes ferret "duking" happy noises whenever she sees her father she also has ferret behavior; energetic, hyper-curious, high risk activity gremlin. Alternating between wild, playful "zoomies" aka weasel war dance and incredibly deep sleep which has scared Discord more than once especially with her breathing troubles.

Shes also a bit mischievous and likes to stash things and is a bit of an escape artist at times.

Starswirl has made his distaste toward Discord and Andromeda is so garingly obvious, it's no secret of seeing her as an abomination that shouldn't exist. He finds Discord extremely ill-equipped, unfit, unorthodox, and far too irresponsible to raise a child. Starswirl doesn't believe villains can be reformed (especially Discord, Chrysalis, and Tirek). A sort of stuck in the old days and way of thinking. Unable to adapt to the current modern world unlike the rest of the pillars. He attempts to commit infanticde by poisoning Discord when he was pregnant. Starswirl never admitted to it nor was there any solid proof he did it when he did even when confronted.

Starswirl was never truly convicted of infanticde and disappointed the child wasn't a still birth. His behavior is now being monitored by the royal princesses after they visted Discord when his daughter was born

Twilight when she heard Discord had magically conceived a baby she is extremely curious and especially keen on studying him this baby of his and his species as a whole. This is the first ever draconequus to be born in eons.

She had been reading up on typical pony pregnancy metrics and is comparing it to his blabbing on and on to him about it so caught up in the facts and statistics that she frequently ambushes him with questions, research notes, examinations.

Discord entertained her nerdy research begrudgingly he knows if he denies her she'd just pester him about it anyway.

He later adopts a pony disguise to avoid being seen by Twilight. It works for a several weeks until Fluttershy accidently admited this new pony Twilight's seen around town is actually Discord in disguise now wondering; Will the baby inside change along with him? Does she adapt to whatever he does when he changes forms or is she the same?? What happens when he does various movements like distortion, contorting himself, bending in weird ways, changing forms, transform into various inanimate things.... etc.

Discord's extremely protective over Andromeda ever since she was born. After all the trials and tribulations hes been put through to even have her he wont let others near his wheezy baby especially after Starswirls attempted poisoning and the imprisonment scheme to stall her birth.

Starswirl planted the paranoia of other attempts to cull his daughter since he was so hell bent on it previously. Discord never leaves Andromeda alone or out of his sight, never accepting any sort of baby sitting or assistance from anyone. He was very protective over her after the hospital scare. Fluttershy was the main pony who had noticed this change as she sees him the most out of all of them and was growing concerned, he looked exhausted. He barely leaves his house.

Le phone sketchy sketch. Update to the poisoning attempt Starswirl mcfart face pulls on Discord.

Behold my crap ass story telling. Enjoy.

After the mane six watched Discord turn and leave from the forest in a hurry they all collectively looked at each other wondering what was wrong. Fluttershy was worried about him. Pinkie had then exclaimed that must be why her sixth sense was going off the radar Discords in a troubling situation. Fluttershy then said she was going back to town to find him, When Dash asked where he'd gone off too, AJ sassily snarked with the medical center adding he stated briefly something was wrong with his foal. Rarity states it'd be dreadful if something happened to her. Twilight suggested they shouldn't jump to any drastic conclusions just yet, that perhaps all will be well and they should all go back to ponyville and check the hospital. Something is up and they're going to get to the bottom of it

After sometime they arrived at the hospital they asked the front desk receptionist if Discord had checked himself in. They do find he had been checked in and he's in a room down the hall to the left. The receptionist buzzed them in to the back so they may vist him

Upon finding his room they saw a couple nurses and a Doctor leaving his room before they enter in afterwards. Fluttershy was the first to get to the head of his bed to ask him whats happening, if everything is alright. Twilight asking what the doctors were doing, what they said etc etc. As the rest of them pile into the room.

Discord with a look of frustration an unease says with little enthusiasm and flare "Excuse my sudden departure from this our little friendship activity but it seems to me that I've been poisoned" This information as it was ushered left them all a mix of shock, surprised, concern and worry they had assumed something happened but not poisoning. Everyones looking at each other lost for words.

Rarity pipes up first asking "how do you know you've been poisoned?"

He responded "They did a blood test. Once the results showed they came hurriedly back in to perform an ultra sound. When I inquired It became obvious. It was evident enough that I was poisoned and they were checking on her vitals"

Twilight adds "In my research when I was comparing pony reproduction to his and explaining proper dietary needs for a healthy baby I found that anything that the parent consumes that passes through the bloodstream will obviously pass into the womb as well thus affecting the child."

Discord irritated by this predicament explains "The doctor already stated she's in distress, there's an abnormal heart rate and mild lack of activity. They've already began administering treatment. Though it seems I'm going to be here for a few days for further monitoring"

however he's more worried about how would this impact his baby when she's born, would she even be born, potential deformities or abnormalities, health risks....Fluttershy could tell he's getting increasingly paranoid and attempts to convince him otherwise.

Twilight had began to ponder where during the day did he get poisoned and just who would do it. The only place they all ate at was the cafe. Rarity talking with the others asked "Who in the name of Celestia would be so twisted to target him and his foal?! The childs done nothing"

"Starswirl" he said with such venom in his voice, his eyes turning into slits with a subtle glow for a second as smoke comes from his nostrils. The mane six look at him in surprise this is the angriest they've seen him. Twilight states "Starswirl? There's no way he would be so brazen. We know he voiced his opinions before but certainly he wouldn't stoop so low as poisoning you"

"I mean surely he wouldn't be stupid enough to pull something like this" Dash claims

"Now listen here, you heard him back then implying that we should 'deal' with that foal there before its born. He clearly meant for us to cull that baby" Applejack retorted

Discord lets out a low gutteral growl that left the girls startled they never heard him make such a noise. "Ooohh its him alright. Hes made it known what he thinks about my daughter and my abilities to parent. That crusty blokes made no secret that he thinks she's an abomination that shouldn't exist. I know its him. No one else would dare they're all too cowardly to try anything. Only he'd have the GALL to try me, the lord of chaos! I'll give that moke chaos"

"Discord no dont. You're just playing into what he'd want which is to demonize you further. You'll only give him fuel to use against you and potentially take you from your daughter. We'll handle this. Besides before any of us go accusing him, we'd need evidence" Twilight interjects

Story teaser and part two of: Magic school kinda sucks

Discord telling Andromeda them nepo-baby prejudice nags at school aint shit and she's perfect the way she is dont listen to them. She had told him kids at school ostracized her and maybe it'd be easier if she had a pony disguise that way she'd stick out less and make friends.

Ostracized at the gifted school of magic.

A wee bit of a teaser for future posts when I draw out scenes 👀 there's a lot more to the story than just goofy shenanigans that her father goes through to have her all of that was just a set up building all the way up to main story events.

Its rough being the only oddity in school especially with her fathers former villain track record.