8FOLD/HCC: Journey Into #22 (HCC53)

Andrew Perron pwerdna at gmail.com
Mon May 11 19:47:48 PDT 2015


On 5/10/2015 6:57 AM, Saxon Brenton wrote:
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>       "I know that you're gay, Pop," she interrupted with the exasperated
> voice of children the world over who know that they are smarter than
> their parents but wished that the adults would at least try to keep up.
> "That doesn't change the fact that you need a female to contribute an
> ovum to produce a viable zygote.  And I want to know who she is."

Heeheehee. I like her.

>       Michael frowned at her..  "If you'll keep from interrupting," he
> said sternly, "I was going to remind you that your Dad and myself were
> active superheroes when we were younger and fitter, and one of the
> things about superheroes is that they have weird adventures."
>       "Sorry, sir," she said, briefly cowed.
>       "Right then.  The thing you need to know is that there was a time
> when there was a supervillain with a sex reversal ray gun."

AMAZING. <3

>       "Yes," Michael agreed.  "And before you ask, it was me."  He
> deepened his voice and in his best James Earl Jones voice said, "Luke, I
> am your mother."
>       "Oh Poppa," she said, half giggling and half wearily.

Awwwwwwww. <3 That's a cute relationship. THIS IS A CUTE FAMILY.

>"You see, at that time I hadn't built the someone-else's-problem field
 > generator to conceal the fact that I'd changed."
>       "They're called perception filters these days..."
>       "Bah!  New fangled Doctor Who techno-babble," Michael said wryly.
> "Give me good old fashioned Douglas Adams terminology," he added, not
> quite managing to keep a straight face.

Heeheehee.

>"Well,
> see the thing is that I was hoping that your Dad would take a turn
> bearing a baby.  I thought it would be a good bonding experience.  But
> Peter wouldn't have anything to do with it."  He made a small cough of
> embarrassment.  "I'm afraid we had a bit of a fight about that, and I
> had another 'I'll show you, I'll show you all' moment."
>       And now it was Joanna's turn to roll her eyes.  "Oh Poppa, another
> one?"

Bwahaha. <3 Poor dear.

>       "These are yours," Michael said, briefly showing Joanna pictures
> of herself, both the photographs as a newborn and the ultrasound of her
> pre-birth.  "And these are Geoffrey," he continued, pointing to the
> photographs of a cloning tank with a glass front, where floating inside
> the bluish liquid was a growing mass of flesh at different stages of
> development.  "Isn't he adorable?"

D'awwww.

> I was having an 'I'll show you all' moment.  I didn't use a female ovum.
> I quite deliberately spliced together two male spermatozoa to fertilise
> Geoffrey's zygote."
>       "Oh," said Joanna, who was far more impressed with that than all of
> this cooing over babies stuff.  "Okay, that *is* cool."

It really is. <3 This was rly cute.

> Author's notes:
>       Written for High Concept Challenge #53: 'Gender Defenders',
> stories that deal with some aspect of gender.  In this case, a
> daddy/daughter discussion of the facts of life, made into a farce by
> superhero comic tropes.

Very good. <3 Which reminds me, I gotta post the vote.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, running out of steam


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