#flickpin

Carbon doesn't even differentiate Ghost as a special case she sort of just views the whole family as a bunch of people making demands on her, with her sisters being worse because they (selectively) expect her to be emotionally closer and thus available for demands and favors.

Ghost's attitude toward Carbon isn't something Carbon has picked up on, since she's used to it.

Default people isn't how I roll, so here is an assortment of characters who are considered unremarkable sizes for their species (and José for scale)

Luz is a *little* remarkable, he's considered short, but a common kind of short. He's included because I know he confuses people haha. Renwick is more average.

Many Saratoan families view "one-off" pregnancies from unexpected members of a generation (or a family getting a second dedicated mother) as just a bonus - that's less likely to happen if that family plays favorites and makes everything adversarial.

I'm changing Roosevelt's tag to "Roosevelt Cookie Jar" to better differentiate her from the hydras and also I've decided that's her full name

I've decided Magical Matrix Malformation, the thing Peter has, DOES run in families, but in a risk factor kind of way, and that it still happens spontaneously, so what I've said about how if Peter had kids they'd be regular humans is still true, but I'm going to depict the amount of occurrence in families as varying (this is me figuring out the faun lady a bit more while also introducing a little more drama into Peter's life as a freebie)

One day in the far future

Oh definitely. She's not necessarily doomed to never have a companion again, but it's very hard since most Saratoans get their closest friends in childhood/sub-adulthood.

So Flick is in the position of having to figure out how grownup friendship works and how to and when to deepen a connection to someone when the last time she formed a deep friendship bond was when you could just go up to someone and ask to share their crayons.

It's not exactly their ideal, they definitely encourage fathers being involved in their kids care, but stuff happens

She got caught up in the exact sibling/friend relationship drama people have asked about before - he was a "non-breeding" male in her life partner's family, but he insisted he was just taking his time to leave the nest and was totally gonna be with her long-ish term (long for what Saratoans expect of relationships) and he was going to move out and get a job and be there for her if she had a joey so we don't need birth control trust me baby just don't tell anyone yet

He then denied they ever had a relationship (so he could continue to stay home and sponge off his family) and her partner sided with her brother, so Flick lost her best friend in the process. The paternity test (when Rain was big enough for that) just pissed them all off more and they doubled down rather than admit anything.