#firstborns

A witch and a lady make a deal for the lady's firstborn son, in exchange to kill the lady's abusive husband. The lady has twins, a boy and a girl.

They both are actually really great with the kids. Neither kid actually have any complains about their respective mothers. But, the AFAB kid is the oldest and the AMAB the youngest and as time goes on, it becomes very obvious that the ovary haver Does Not feel good being a girl and the non ovary haver decidedly refused to act boy like, and would rather peel their skin off actually.

The witch spread rumours that she actually turned the boy into a girl and is doing experiments on her *insert witchy cackles* (she is kind of trying to do magical version of E)

The bio mom terrified that the witch will take the boy she's raising too, insists that her boy is the second oldest. And if the witch insists on doing experiments on even her second oldest, she can only change their gender and nothing else 👀.

The Baby Trade is extremely frowned upon. It’s generally held that it’s a fragment of a Darker Era That We Have Left Behind. Additionally, firstborns no longer hold the same cultural importance they did when the practice of primogeniture was in full swing, and a child created solely to be used as a bargaining chip has no value at all to the Gentry, who generally want to take things you’ll actually miss - how else will you know you’ve lost?

मैंने यह प्रश्न पहली बार द इकोनॉमिस्ट के पॉडकास्ट पर सुना था, जो एक प्रसिद्ध पहेली पर आधारित था। पहले जन्मे बच्चे स्कूल में थोड़ा बेहतर प्रदर्शन करते हैं और वयस्क होने पर थोड़ा अधिक कमाते हैं। एक पहलौठे बच्चे के रूप में, मुझे इस तथ्य का जितना आनंद लेना चाहिए, उससे कहीं अधिक मैं लेता हूँ, हालाँकि मेरे अंदर का वैज्ञानिक जानता है कि यह केवल जनसंख्या स्तर पर ही लागू होता है। लेकिन मुझे अभी भी पूछना…