#problems solved

I was watching rob!!!!!

Gem of a different kind to be exact!!

And there's this bit in the final sequence where Fishlegs goes to get the egg from Mrs Larson

And she's says something about Gustav to Fishlegs (can't remember im so stupid)

But she has a cart with the egg in it and in the cart is a baby and when the cart goes down the great halls stairs she says "My baby!"

Gustav younger sibling!?!?!?!?!?! Od you have anything on this, cause I don't!!

I just figured I'd send this im rolling about this

OH YES OKAY SO!!! I have some thoughts on this topic.

So this baby appears twice this episode, once in the beginning when the Berkians are clammoring for the stone of good fortune. Her mother says smt along the lines of "help my baby, she needs good fortune!" and Tuffnut comments that the baby is really, really effing ugly. Moments later, Gustav's mom offers up her first born (Gustav) in exchange for the stone of good fortune (bit messed up but it's the funniest bit of lore. Just imagine having to tell someone "yeah so my mom sold me for a shiny rock :D". What a party trick)

So the thing is, the baby and Gustav are shown to have different mothers. Then, at the end of the episode, the baby appears again like you described, but this time, with Gustav's mom as her parent. The only reason we know the baby was the same baby, is because Fishlegs comments "tuffnut was right, ugly baby" after saving the baby.

This was a bit of an animation error I think is really funny. The only two explanations for it could be that there just happened to be two ugly babies in town (maybe theyre cousins?), one belonging to the Larsons and one to the other family, or maybe they're just lesbian moms who tried to sell their son to help their daughter. Who knows lmao

In any way, ugly baby appears once more!! In Viking for Hire Gobber names a baby Magnus even tho it's a girl (bc the baby is ugly, is implied) while her parents wanted to name her Hildegard.

Personally I kinda just squash Hildegard and Mrs. Larson's ugly baby together and make her Gustav's little sister. In the au, he's the oldest among four siblings, actually, with Hildegard being the youngest!! There's two other brothers between them, Hallvor and Brynjar. In rob/dob the age difference between the siblings would be 11-12 (Gustav), 9 (Hallvor), 5 (Brynjar), and 0 (Hildegard).

Also I had to check the wiki for this lmao. I knew there was something up with the ugly baby's parentage (cuz i had read it some years ago somewhere lmao) but wasnt sure exactly what it was. In any way, this is all the info i got on that. I literally went :0 when I found out abt the animation error lmao but there's nothing a little headcanons can't fix

I also had to rewatch parts of the episode bc I couldn't remember what exactly happened LMAO

As part of my Reploid Rozen Maiden AU idea, I have Shinku using her time key powers to reverse the Dark Elf’s state to a point before Weil corrupted her. In doing so, she also revives X.

This would be sometime during the events of the first MegaMan Zero game. I imagine Copy X would want to keep the original X’s location a secret, for multiple reasons, meaning there’s no cameras or anything. This means no one knows the Maidens have been sneaking in and out of Sanctum Yggdrasil until its too late.

They only knew about it thanks to Cyber X and him witnessing Shinku use her powers on an accidentally shattered teacup.

The process takes about a week and a half, with Shinku taking off ten years a day. By the end of it, she’s exhausted and collapses to the floor. X catches her before her head hits the ground.