#spudlings

YEAH ALAN3 SPAWNS 🗣🗣🗣

Daniel is the only child that was conceived by Bob1 and Alan alone. He's the eldest and therefore the one who helps look after the littles. He's also exceptionally smart, reading at an 8th grade level by the time he was 6.

Alan carried four of their ten children (Ethan and Eli are twins). Initially he wanted to get pregnant for the life experience but after having such a positive birth experience, he was more than happy to carry again.

All the girls (except for Delia) seem to mostly have inherited Bob1's looks, whereas the boys bear resemblance to either Bov2 or Alan. (Ethan, Eli and Lucas look mostly like Alan though)

They're pretty mellow and well adjusted kids. There's enough room for all of them to have their own space and they get along pretty well save for the occasional shoving or teasing.

Bob2 is the dad ever. He's always down to play with the kids, carry them around, etc. He loves fatherhood and the fact that his kids look like baby versions of his two favorite guys makes it all the more special to him.

A lot of the kids were born around the same time as their cousins, something that made Jerry slightly nuts. As a result, a lot of them are very close to the cousins who were born in the same yeae as them

YES. EXACTLY.

On that note, I feel like Mark lowkey has a pregnancy kink of his own if not just a general fascination with it. It feels weird and wonderful like a science experiment. He's absolutely having so much fun imagining himself as some kind of scientist/incubator even when he's dealing with the various pains and discomforts that come with pregnancy (those fascinate him to some extent too). Naturally like anyone else, he has days where he feels lousy or gross and everything is against him but even then he still has the attitude of "but this is cool, right? My boyfriend and I are making a specimen together."

And Jerry gained such a massive torrent of euphoria from being able to get him pregnant the first time, so it's almost like a high he's chasing when they do it again. And again. And also again.

This would perfectly explain why/how Arlo came as such a huge surprise to them both. With Jerry not being cis and Mark being on some form of HRT, it seemed like there would be no chance in hell that they'd manage to actually legitimately conceive.

Oh yes! It was a bit of a shock for all three of them but it was the biggest for Alan by far.

He must have spent the days leading up to the discovery trying to find any other explanation for why he was feeling so sick/different because of how firmly he believed that pregnancy was out of the question for him. And of course after finding out, he was hit with a whole wave of emotions, shock being the main one. But I also can't help but feel like he secretly longed to experience pregnancy after watching Bob1 and Mark go through it themselves? Like at the very least he was incredibly curious about how it must feel and the apathetic/sarcastic answers Mark or Bob1 gave when he asked about it just weren't enough to quell that curiosity.

I'll just break it down as best I can here because I DEFINITELY did put thought into this ✨️✨️✨️