#erikh study.

dr. max theyer conceived some sort of way to artificially replicate human gestation and create the human experiments of coeus. he also somehow conceived of a process to ensure that ordinarily, each experiment cannot reproduce—sterility or infertility. (this does not include juniper, as she was not an experiment created by max; she was conceived between drs richard and jacqueline hayes.)

however, in this way and in other ways, the coeus scientists did not consider the existence and genetic complexities of the x-gene/mutants/metahumans. this is why daniel (mutant) and spirit romano had procreative sex and spirit gave birth to stella. it's not great writing on my part. it's absurd and it's medically inexplicable all around. however it's a choice ive made and stick to and we now have a beautiful family that is normal and loving to show for it

meanwhile, as you may remember, erik hallows is the son of charles and spirit hallows in the crowns and shit verse.

this could never happen in any modern/main verse because procreative sex between spirit and charles, or between spirit and any person who's not a mutant/metahuman, would not lead to a pregnancy. and even if it did, which it wouldnt, if spirit told charles that she was pregnant, she would not carry the pregnancy to term, and any reason you can think of for why that would be the case is probably correct. (when spirit told daniel she was pregnant, he was actually baseline decent and made sure he knew what she wanted to do and she knew that he would support her. spirit also had this "i didnt know this could happen and the fact that i am capable of creating life is actually beautiful" mentality that would be prevalent in other circumstances but not determinative.)

ALSO. if spirit in main/modern verse had charles' son, which she wouldnt, she would never name that baby erik. back in the coeus institute, erik eriksson exclusively had spirit call him "Sir." even though she obviously now has erik's ghost to keep her company and could figure out what his actual name is, there are a lot of other ghosts and it's all so complicated. if she did bother to learn his name, she is not so fucked in the head that she would name her baby after him.

meanwhile, in crowns and shit, erik is more of an average flop father than cartoonishly evil mad scientist and child abuser. so spirit is more sentimental and wants to name her baby after him and charles is like OK sure whatever.