Synthesizing children

[novia]

Tom has been quite good at making characters be a perfect blend of their parents.

Kat has the smarts of Donny and the beauty of Anja. In the flashback we saw Anja expressing her powers, but Kat has only seen them in the context of technology. Maybe Kat will come to express some of her mother's powers at some point, even though she doesn't believe in that stuff.

Annie seems to express all of Surma's powers (befriending ethereal creatures, blinker stone manipulation) and looks like a combination of her father and her mother.

It looks like Surma was very playful and fun, like coyote. Antimony expresses her father's seriousness and that allows her to think things through and decide what's right. How would she have been different if Eglamore or Reynardine had been her father?

Recently there has been a big point of making Smitty and Parley a couple. How would their son or daughter combine and express their powers? Right now the two of them can work together to teleport to any physical location. Might their future child be able to manipulate both space and time? Will we see a George Smith from the future in the current timeline?

[Casey]

Personality wise, I think that Parley and Smitty's child would be more like Smitty. I feel like a lot of Parley's personality stems from the fact that she grew up with this big albatross around her neck of being the child of the only guy to defeat the Eugene Gould Psychic Challenge, and being sent off to GC in the hopes that it would cause her to start being all etherical. That's a lot of pressure on a kid. Plus she grew up living with the name George, which visibly bothered her.

Who knows what Parley would have been like if she hadn't grown up with those pressures. Certainly the environment shaped her personality. Their child would not have the same pressures, and so wouldn't turn out the same way. So I think their kid would be a cool character, like Dad.

[strangebloke]

I picture a short girl with brown hair and huge eyebrows.

hahah. Casey's post about the weight of parents is worth bringing up. Wouldn't their child be under huge expectations as well? Hence, I picture someone who is nerdy, but outspokenly so, and is also quite insecure.

[Spike]

Nov 4, 2010 4:13:13 GMT novia said:

Tom has been quite good at making characters be a perfect blend of their parents.

Kat has the smarts of Donny and the beauty of Anja. In the flashback we saw Anja expressing her powers, but Kat has only seen them in the context of technology. Maybe Kat will come to express some of her mother's powers at some point, even though she doesn't believe in that stuff.

Annie seems to express all of Surma's powers (befriending ethereal creatures, blinker stone manipulation) and looks like a combination of her father and her mother.

It looks like Surma was very playful and fun, like coyote. Antimony expresses her father's seriousness and that allows her to think things through and decide what's right. How would she have been different if Eglamore or Reynardine had been her father?

Recently there has been a big point of making Smitty and Parley a couple. How would their son or daughter combine and express their powers? Right now the two of them can work together to teleport to any physical location. Might their future child be able to manipulate both space and time? Will we see a George Smith from the future in the current timeline?

Simtts doesn't manipulate Time, he creates order/manipulates probability.

[Chrome]

Maybe Smitty and Parley's kid would be the kind to manipulate probability in different directions - relative to their moods. Parley's got her mood swings, and her powers directly relate to her mood. Therefore the kid should be able to do a combination of what Smitty and Parley could do: alter probability, and their powers are affected by their emotions (love, sadness, anger, etc).

That child would be very, very dangerous, indeed....

[novia]

Simtts doesn't manipulate Time,

I know that. But time is just an additional dimension of space. Smitt's powers would confer the ability to control the spatial distortion powers s/he received from George.